Formed in 1968, Deep Purple is considered one of the pioneers of heavy metal. Alongside Led Zeppelin and Black Sabbath, this English group makes up one third of the “unholy trinity of British hard rock and heavy metal,” and in 1975, they were listed in the Guinness Book as the world’s loudest band. Ultimately, the duel between Ritchie Blackmore’s sinister guitar work, Roger Glover’s thundering bass, Ian Paice’s kicking drums, Gillian’s screaming vocals, and Jon Lord’s neo-classical approach to keyboards gave the band its distinct sound. There have been several lineup changes over the years, but this grouping is generally considered the original
Olivia Rodrigo has announced the details of her third full-length album, due for release just as Summer starts.
It’s set to be titled ‘you seem pretty sad for a girl so in love’ and will be released on June 12 via Geffen Records. Pre-orders and pre-saves are available right now from right here.
The record was produced by Daniel Nigro, who also worked with Rodrigo on her 2021 debut ‘SOUR’ and 2023’s huge ‘Guts’.
The artwork looks a lot like this:
It will be Olivia’s first new music since ‘Guts’ was released, an album that showcased her love for brash riffs, scrappy production and brisling anger, heavily influenced by her love of bands such as Paramore, No Doubt and Hole.
The era garnered support from some of the greats, from Avril Lavigne thanking Rodrigo for reviving rock ‘n’ roll, to Jack White calling her a “very cool, very real lover of music” and “talented musician”, and The Cure’s Robert Smith joining her on stage during her headline set at Glastonbury for a run-through of ‘Friday, I’m In Love’ and ‘Just Like Heaven’.
Breakbeats in a Bleachers song? That’s what I think I’m hearing at the outset of “the van,” the latest from Jack Antonoff’s band’s forthcoming everyone for ten minutes. The grandiose orchestral sample, the killer repeating drum fill — it’s the closest to a rap song I’ve heard from Antonoff, even if the end result is…
As far as we know, MJ Lenderman is still technically a member of Wednesday, though he stepped back from touring with them in early 2025. I’m sure a lot of factors went into that decision, but two main reasons come to mind: The runaway success of Lenderman’s 2024 solo album Manning Fireworks, and the fact that his long-term relationship with Wednesday bandleader Karly Hartzman had ended. With new live guitarist Jake “Spyder” Pugh in the crew, Wednesday’s tour schedule is still absolutely popping off — including a night at Madison Square Garden opening for Bleachers this September. And last night at the Roadrunner in Boston, they managed to pull off what I think is a really good April Fool’s joke by opening with a snippet of Manning Fireworks‘ title track.
Terrible news: Bo Lueders, guitarist in Harm’s Way and co-host of the Hardlore podcast, has passed away. The Hardlore social-media pages announced Leuders’ passing this afternoon. No cause of death has been reported, though that Instagram post urges people struggling with depression or the urge to self-harm to find help. Lueders was 39.
Turnstile have shared a statement following the arrest of their former guitarist Brady Ebert who is facing charges of second-degree attempted murder and first-degree assault. The incident in question involves the father of the band’s frontman Brendan Yates.
Ebert split with the group in 2022 and, as Rolling Stone reports, the band have shared in a statement that the former member allegedly “used his vehicle to run over Brendan’s father [William Yates], causing severe physical trauma.” They add that Yates survived and “has successfully undergone surgery, and we’re hoping for the best possible outcome in his recovery.”
They continue, “Turnstile cut ties with Brady Ebert in 2022 in response to a consistent pattern of harmful behavior affecting himself, the band, and the community. After exhausting every available resource to support his access to help and recovery, a boundary ultimately had to be set when healthy communication was no longer possible and he began threatening violence.”
“In the years since, his baseless tirades have continued in public. We never addressed it. We chose to protect his privacy and the circumstances around his departure, even when he did nothing to be deserving of that protection. Over the past few months, his threats only escalated further. … We have no language left for Brady.”
According to court documents, police responded to a report of a pedestrian struck on Timberlake Drive in Maryland on March 29. William Yate’s daughter, Ering Gerber and her husband Christopher Gerger were getting their kids from the car to go into the house when Ebert drove up to their house “honking his horn and yelling obscenities.”
William Yates can be seen in a neighbour’s security video coming down the driveway of the home to warn the couple that Ebert was approaching the house in his car. The documents say, according to this local news outlet, that “Ebert swerved toward Yates in the driveway, who backed up to avoid being hit and threw a rock at Ebert. Ebert backed up into the driveway before making a sharp turn to hit Yates before making another turn towards Erin Gerber and her 3-year-old son before driving away. Yates was severely injured on both of his legs.”
Ebert was a co-founding member of Turnstile in 2010 and was present with the group through to their mainstream breakthrough ‘Glow On’ before departing in 2022. His follow-up project, The S.E.T., released their debut EP, ‘Self Evident Truth’, in March, although he was fired from that group earlier this year.
Eric André is bringing back his musical project Blarf. Film Scores For Films That Don’t Exist, the follow-up to Blarf’s 2019 debut album Cease & Desist, is out in May. The title is quite literal. Taking inspiration from composers like Ennio Morricone and Vangelis, the actor-comedian — who studied upright bass at Berklee College of…
