Boston
Boston, the band of guitarist and engineer Tom Scholz, with one of the best-selling debut albums in history.
Rock clàssic
Els clàssics del rock —rock clásico— que van obrir el camí abans que el gènere es ramifiqués en el progressiu, el metal o el punk: de les grans bandes dels seixanta i setanta a qui encara en beu directament avui. Tótum Revolútum Press hi recull ressenyes, novetats i concerts.
Foreigner
Foreigner, the Anglo-American classic rock band behind anthems such as “I Want to Know What Love Is”.
Bad Company
Bad Company, the British supergroup of Paul Rodgers (Free) and members of Mott the Hoople and King Crimson.
Free
Free, the British blues-rock band known for “All Right Now” and the forerunner of Bad Company.
The Who
The Who, one of the great British bands, pioneers of the rock opera with Tommy and Quadrophenia.
Led Zeppelin
Led Zeppelin, one of the most influential bands in the history of rock, disbanded after the death of John Bonham.
Deep Purple
Deep Purple, one of the great founders of hard rock, with “Smoke on the Water” as a universal anthem.
Rory Gallagher
Rory Gallagher, an Irish blues-rock guitarist, a benchmark for live performance and unadorned simplicity.
Dixie Dregs
Dixie Dregs, Steve Morse’s instrumental band, a fusion of country, jazz and progressive rock.
New Trolls
New Trolls, the Genoese band known for Concerto Grosso, the fusion with a classical orchestra by Luis Bacalov.
Steely Dan
Steely Dan, the duo of Donald Fagen and Walter Becker that brought the harmonic sophistication of jazz to studio-produced rock.
Uriah Heep
Uriah Heep, one of the founding bands of British progressive hard rock in the seventies.
Family
Family, the British band with Roger Chapman’s vibrant voice and a reference point of late-sixties progressive rock.
The Nice
The Nice, Keith Emerson’s band before Emerson, Lake & Palmer and a pioneer in fusing rock and classical music.
Procol Harum
Procol Harum, the authors of “A Whiter Shade of Pale” and pioneers in bringing classical music to rock.
Alan Parsons Project
Alan Parsons Project, the production and songwriting duo of Alan Parsons and Eric Woolfson.
Asia
Asia, the supergroup of John Wetton (King Crimson), Steve Howe (Yes), Geoff Downes (Yes) and Carl Palmer (ELP).
Styx
Styx, the band behind “Come Sail Away” and one of the key American progressive rock and AOR bands of the 1970s.
Kansas
Kansas, the band behind “Carry On Wayward Son” and a benchmark of 1970s American progressive rock.
Barclay James Harvest
Barclay James Harvest, one of the classic British symphonic progressive rock bands of the 1970s.
Little Angels release the “Big Bad & Back EP” on 6 November, their first new material in thirty-two years
Five tracks cut live in a room at Chapel Studios with the classic line-up, mixed by Mike Fraser, the man behind Aerosmith’s “Pump” and “Permanent Vacation”.
Europe – Come This Madness
Europe’s twelfth album lands nine years after Walk the Earth, produced by Tom Dalgety and mixed by Mike Fraser: eleven tracks, forty-one minutes, nothing over five.
Crossbone Skully release “Condemned To Rock N’ Roll” on 29 January, with Mutt Lange again as executive producer
Fourteen tracks on earMUSIC, the second album from Tommy Henriksen’s project. The new single is “Riding With Angels”, after “Thunder Love”.
Robin Trower releases “Shine”, ten songs on which he plays guitar and bass and handles the production
Out on Friday through Provogue, with Richard Watts singing and Chris Taggart on drums, and a lyric video for “Faith”.
Blackmore says the idea of playing with Deep Purple again came to him in bed, and that he asked Ian Gillan by email
The guitarist explains how he came to walk on, in a thirteen-part interview with Now Spinning. It was his first with Deep Purple since 1993.
“Chester Rose”, the album Alice Cooper and Dick Wagner never got to record, arrives on 30 October sung by Maryann Cotton
Twelve tracks about a rock star turned serial killer. It is the last released recording to feature Dick Wagner and Steve Hunter together.
Clutch release “Wasted Lands” on 22 January, the first album Machine has produced for them since 2015
Twelve tracks cut at the Doom Saloon in Frederick, with banjo for the first time on a record by the Maryland four-piece and producer Machine back.
Wesley Stace – One Last Heist
Stace leaves folk-rock behind for the groove of the CTI records: eleven songs arranged with David Nagler, from mambo to samba, cut at Studio 1935 in Philadelphia.
Asia premiere the “Arcadia” video and “Indigo” lands on 6 November with John Wetton’s last songs
It is the band’s first studio album since “Gravitas” (2014) and it carries two final compositions by John Wetton, who died in 2017.
Motörhead put out a forty-year-old “Orgasmatron” on 6 November, with a new Cameron Webb remix
The fortieth-anniversary edition carries the remastered original mix, a new remix built from the stems and the complete 1986 Friday Rock Show session.
Pye Dubois, the Max Webster lyricist who wrote the first “Tom Sawyer”, dies at 77
He died on 15 September at his home in London, Ontario. He wrote the lyrics to every Max Webster album and to four Rush songs.
Square Wild – Otherling
Eleven tracks of debut from the Manchester quintet, swinging from vaudeville to a shot of NWOBHM without asking: energy to spare and no thread running the whole way through.
Arthur Brown – Nature
Eight tracks and thirty-five minutes with Dan Smith on electronics. At eighty-four, Arthur Brown returns to his usual dislocated cabaret with a shorter record than he tends to make.
Ian Paice posts the drum take for «Arrogant Boy» exactly as it came out of the studio
Six minutes of fixed camera on the drum kit, from the first single off «Splat!», on the Deep Purple drummer’s DrumTribe channel.
Warren Haynes – Dreams & Songs: A Symphonic Journey
Sixteen songs from the Allman Brothers, Gov’t Mule and the Grateful Dead with the Asheville Symphony’s sixty-four players, recorded in 2019. The orchestra wins out wherever the jam used to be.
A hand injury keeps John Norum out of Europe’s Swedish TV appearance, a week before the new album
A hand injury keeps John Norum off Swedish TV’s ‘På Spåret’ with Europe, a week before the band release ‘Come This Madness’.
Rival Sons head into the studio in January and don’t expect a new album before the end of 2027
Rival Sons will start recording their new album in January, guitarist Scott Holiday says, with no release expected before late 2027.
Bad Company release «Live In London», the last show they played with Mick Ralphs
Bad Company release ‘Live In London’, recorded at the O2 Arena in 2016 — the last show Mick Ralphs played before the stroke that ended his touring career.
Graveyard premiere «Tongue Tied» video, second preview of the album out on 9 October
Graveyard premiere the ‘Tongue Tied’ video, second preview of ‘Fever’, their seventh album, out 9 October through Nuclear Blast.
Gary McCracken, Max Webster drummer and the voice of «A Million Vacations», dies at 75
Gary McCracken, Max Webster’s drummer and co-writer of ‘A Million Vacations’, has died at 75. He also recorded ‘Battle Scar’ with Rush alongside Neil Peart.