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The record industry titan guided Houston from a young star to worldwide phenomenon. But their story together was not without controversy.

Deep Purple have released another new single from their upcoming album Splat! The supercharged Guilt Trippin’ envisages a conversation between God and Charles Darwin, the pair sharing a pint or two as they reflect on how things on Earth have not exactly worked out as intended.

“The song starts, and I’m in the studio,” says Gillan. “I don’t have any words for it yet. So I just start screaming. It was the pure joy of yelling it.

“I vowed when I was 40 that I’d stop screaming by the time I was 60. Now I’m looking back and thinking, ‘Whatever happened to that?’ So we’ll give it a go.”

Guilt Trippin’ follows the release of first single Arrogant Boy in May, and Diablo earlier this month, and is accompanied by a video in which a fly and a sycamore-seed spaceship embark on a wild ride through an increasingly surreal landscape.

Splat!, which is produced by regular collaborator Bob Ezrin, will be released on July 3 and is available to pre-order now.

Deep Purple’s 2026 world tour is currently on the road in Europe, with North American shows scheduled for August and September. Further European dates follow, climaxing in a run of UK shows in November. Full dates below.

Ian Gillan has also just announced a series of spoken word dates. The Talking Gib’rish UK tour will commence on April 28 next year at the Bournemouth Pavilion, and come to an end on May 29 at London’s Cadogan Hall.

Deep Purple are on the cover of the new issue of Classic Rock, which is out now. Inside, they talk about the making of Splat!

Also available is the Deep Purple X Classic Rock bundle edition, which includes the new issue, a numbered print and a set of postcards, and Splat! on double yellow vinyl.

Deep Purple tour dates

Jun 24: Mönchengladbach SparkassenPark, Germany
Jun 27: Coburg Open Air, Germany
Jun 28: Ulm Klosterhof Wiblingen, Germany
Jul 04: Gredos Músicos en la Naturaleza, Spain
Jul 05: Pamplona Navarra Arena, Spain
Jul 09: Málaga Starlite, Spain
Jul 10: Cádiz Tío Pepe, Spain
Jul 16: Pisa Summer Knights, Italy
Jul 17: Este Music Festival, Italy
Jul 19: München Tollwood Festival, Germany

Aug 04: Raleigh Red Hat Amphitheater, NC
Aug 08: Clearwater The BayCare Sound, FL
Aug 09: Hollywood Hard Rock Casino, FL
Aug 12: Wantagh Jones Beach Theater, NY
Aug 13: Mansfield Xfinity Center, MA
Aug 15: Halifax Scotiabank Centre, NS
Aug 17: Laval Place Bell, QC
Aug 18: Toronto RBC Amphitheatre, ON
Aug 19: Ottawa Canadian Tire Center, ON
Aug 21: Detroit Pine Knob, MI
Aug 22: Salamanca Seneca Allegany Casino, NY
Aug 24: Indianapolis Everwise Amphitheatre, IN
Aug 25: Highland Park Ravinia, IL
Aug 27: Prior Lake Mystic Lake Casino, MN
Aug 29: Winnipeg Canada Life Centre, MB
Aug 31: Calgary Scotiabank Saddledome, AB
Sep 02: Abbotsford Abbotsford Centre, BC
Sep 04: Lincoln Thunder Valley, CA
Sep 05: Mountain View Shoreline Amphitheatre, CA
Sep 06: Highland Yaamava Theatre, CA
Sep 08: Chula Vista North Island Credit Union Amp, CA
Sep 10: Las Vegas Planet Hollywood, NV
Sep 11: Long Beach Long Beach Amphitheater, CA
Sep 12: Sparks Nugget Event Center, NV

Sep 29: Sofia 8888 Arena, Bulgaria
Oct 01: Cluj BT Arena, Romania
Oct 02: Budapest Laszlo Papp Arena, Hungary
Oct 04: Bratislava Tipos Arena, Slovakia
Oct 05: Vienna Stadthalle, Austria
Oct 07: Prague O2 Arena, Czechia
Oct 08: Lodz Atlas Arena, Poland
Oct 10: Belgrade Stark Arena, Serbia
Oct 11: Skopje Boris Trajkovski Arena, Macedonia
Oct 13: Athens Telekom Centre Arena, Greece
Oct 16: Zurich Hallenstadion, Switzerland
Oct 17: Milan Unipol Forum, Italy
Oct 19: Barcelona Sant Jordi Club, Spain
Oct 22: Paris Adidas Arena, France
Oct 23: Antwerp Lotto Arena, Belgium
Oct 25: Copenhagen Royal Arena, Denmark
Oct 26: Stockholm Avicii Arena, Sweden
Oct 28: Oslo Spektrum Arena, Norway
Oct 29: Gothenburg Scandinavium, Sweden
Oct 31: Leipzig QI Arena, Germany
Nov 01: Hamburg Sporthalle, Germany
Nov 03: Dortmund Westfalenhalle, Germany
Nov 04: Berlin Uber Arena, Germany
Nov 06: Frankfurt Festhalle, Germany
Nov 07: Nuremberg Arena, Germany
Nov 09: Amsterdam Ziggodome, Netherlands
Nov 10: Strasbourg Zenith, France
Nov 12: Bordeaux Arkéa Arena, France
Nov 13: Nantes Zenith, France
Nov 15: Lyon LDLC Arena, France
Nov 18: Newcastle Utilita Arena, UK
Nov 19: Glasgow OVO Hydro, UK
Nov 21: Birmingham BP Pulse Arena, UK
Nov 22: Manchester AO Arena, UK
Nov 24: London Eventim Apollo, UK
Nov 25: London Royal Albert Hall, UK

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Editors have announced their eighth studio album, Surface, Echo & Sound, and shared its latest single, “The Rush.” The 11-track record arrives on October 30, 2026, via Play It Again Sam, marking the band’s first full-length since 2022’s EBM, made with Benjamin John Power, aka Blanck Mass. Following April’s “Call It In,” the new single arrives with an official video filmed in Tokyo and directed by Henry Ehara.

Where EBM drove Editors further into electronic weight and industrial motion, Surface, Echo & Sound began with the band stripping the process back. After three albums largely shaped in the studio, they regrouped in the summer of 2025 and returned to the practice-room method of their earliest days in Stafford: facing one another, playing the songs together, trying different arrangements, and allowing the material to change in real time.

Frontman Tom Smith brought a collection of acoustic-based sketches to the sessions, following the pared-down approach of his solo album There Is Nothing In The Dark That Isn’t There In The Light. The band developed them on an unassuming industrial estate in Gloucestershire, not far from Smith’s home.

“It was a very productive summer,” Smith says. “The sun was out for the most part, we were in greenest Gloucestershire, not far from where I live, on this innocuous little industrial estate—it was pretty much the opposite of being in Berghain!”

“The Rush” is imagined as a bar-room conversation between two people drinking, talking about life, and reckoning with its ascents and collapses. At its centre is the temporary shelter found in another person’s company—a recurring theme for Smith, whether that comfort comes from friends, lovers, or family.

Smith plays mandolin on the track, one of the textures giving Surface, Echo & Sound its warmer, more organic core. Guitarist Justin Lockey, who recorded and produced the album, says the instrument is not being employed as a folk flourish.

“It’s not used in a folky kind of way, but it brings a warm element that can spike through anything in the mix,” Lockey explains. “A lot of the rhythms come from the mandolin and the acoustic as much as they do from the drums.”

On “The Rush,” Editors reconnect with the melodic post-punk of The Back Room and An End Has a Start, threading a trace of Johnny Marr-like jangle through the song’s driving groove. The mandolin contributes to that bright, chiming texture, locking with the acoustic guitar and drums beneath Smith’s resonant baritone. When the chorus arrives, it opens into the kind of soaring, cinematic release that defined those first two albums.

Ehara’s video puts that weight directly into the body. A red-haired woman and a man in a bald-headed prosthetic mask travel through Tokyo with a red suitcase between them, veering between dance, argument, support, and collapse. They spill across Shibuya’s famous scramble crossing, ricochet through a green-lit public bathroom, squeeze into lifts and taxis, make a call from a payphone, lie side by side on a bed, and eventually wander into a darkened cinema. There, after watching a fragment of black-and-white Japanese film, they climb in front of the screen and dance inside the projector’s white circle.

Shot with soft grain and handheld instability, the film turns neon streets, tunnel lights, traffic, and closing doors into a succession of thresholds. The suitcase begins to resemble portable emotional baggage, while the performers’ choreography makes intimacy look both romantic and rebellious. By returning to the crossing near the end, the video closes its loop: the city keeps surging forward, and the two figures keep trying to move through it together.

Watch the video for “The Rush” below:

Surface, Echo & Sound will be available on CD, cassette, black vinyl, transparent green vinyl, and an official-store-exclusive blue pearl vinyl, alongside digital editions and merchandise bundles. Editors are also scheduled to play festival dates throughout the summer of 2026 before undertaking a European, UK, and Ireland headline tour in early 2027.

Surface, Echo & Sound is out October 30 via Play It Again Sam. Pre-order or pre-save the album here.

Surface, Echo & Sound Tracklist

1. “Surface, Echo & Sound”
2. “Call It In”
3. “The Rush”
4. “Rescue”
5. “Shadow”
6. “Real”
7. “Happiness”
8. “Much Love”
9. “Butterfly Wings”
10. “Seriously”
11. “The Hills We Died Upon”

Editors will spend the remainder of 2026 playing festivals and special appearances across the UK and Europe before launching an extensive headline tour in January 2027. The run includes major arena dates at Amsterdam’s Ziggo Dome and Antwerp’s AFAS Dome, followed by a UK and Ireland leg that concludes at Southampton’s O2 Guildhall on March 12.

Editors Tour Dates:

2026

• July 3 — Crystal Palace Park, London, UK
• July 9 — The Warehouse at Villa Park, Birmingham, UK
• July 12 — Cactus Festival, Bruges, Belgium
• July 19 — Splendour Festival, Nottingham, UK
• July 25 — On The Beach, Brighton, UK
• July 31–August 2 — Low Festival, Torrevieja, Spain
• August 7 — Lokerse Feesten, Lokeren, Belgium
• August 8 — Suikerrock, Tienen, Belgium
• November 14 — Inside Seaside Festival, Gdańsk, Poland

2027 — Europe

• January 26 — Le 106, Rouen, France
• January 27 — La Cigale, Paris, France
• January 29 — La Riviera, Madrid, Spain
• January 30 — Auditorio Roig Arena, Valencia, Spain
• January 31 — Razzmatazz, Barcelona, Spain
• February 2 — X-TRA, Zurich, Switzerland
• February 3 — Alcatraz, Milan, Italy
• February 4 — Boćarski Dom, Zagreb, Croatia
• February 6 — SaSaZu, Prague, Czech Republic
• February 7 — Zenith, Munich, Germany
• February 8 — Gasometer, Vienna, Austria
• February 10 — Stodoła, Warsaw, Poland
• February 11 — Columbiahalle, Berlin, Germany
• February 12 — Den Grå Hal, Copenhagen, Denmark
• February 14 — Palladium, Cologne, Germany
• February 15 — Rockhal, Esch-sur-Alzette, Luxembourg
• February 16 — Felsenkeller, Leipzig, Germany
• February 18 — Ziggo Dome, Amsterdam, Netherlands
• February 19 — AFAS Dome, Antwerp, Belgium
• February 20 — Inselpark Arena, Hamburg, Germany

2027 — UK and Ireland

• February 28 — Vicar Street, Dublin, Ireland
• March 1 — Ulster Hall, Belfast, Northern Ireland
• March 2 — O2 Academy Glasgow, Glasgow, UK
• March 4 — O2 City Hall, Newcastle, UK
• March 5 — O2 Apollo, Manchester, UK
• March 7 — O2 Academy Leeds, Leeds, UK
• March 8 — Rock City, Nottingham, UK
• March 9 — The Prospect Building, Bristol, UK
• March 11 — O2 Academy Brixton, London, UK
• March 12 — O2 Guildhall, Southampton, UK

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Today, legendary Melbourne punk rock band Bodyjar release their new single Sound Of The Stereo, another catchy, anthemic punk rock classic from one of the best to ever do it in Australia or the world, for that matter. Regarding the new single, guitarist Tom Read states, “Being in my late 40’s and having 3 boys, […]

Deep Purple frontman Ian Gillan has announced his first-ever spoken word dates. The Talking Gib’rish UK tour will commence on April 28 next year at the Bournemouth Pavilion, and come to an end on May 29 at London’s Cadogan Hall.

“I am quivering with anticipation at the prospect of embarking on my first-ever public speaking engagements, The Talking Gib’rish Tour, in April/May 2027,” says Gillan. “I’ll be covering a lot of ground, from my early days in Hounslow to whatever might have happened on the latest world tour with my beloved Deep Purple, and maybe something funky in between.

“After 65 years on the road, there will be stories about some of the fascinating and sometimes magical events and people that I’ve encountered along the trail. It’s going to be a blast!”

A ticket presale will kick off at 10am UK time tomorrow (24 June), with the general sale beginning on Friday at the same time. Full dates below.

Gillan’s solo dates are in addition to Deep Purple’s ongoing world tour, which is currently in Europe and heads to the US next month. The tour returns to Europe in late September and climaxes with a run of UK dates in November.

Deep Purple’s upcoming album Splat! will be released on July 3 via earMUSIC. The album is available to pre-order now. A video for the band’s latest single, Guilt Trippin’, has just been released.

Deep Purple are on the cover of the new issue of Classic Rock, which is out now. Inside, they talk about the making of Splat!

Ian Gillan: Taking Gib’rish UK Tour 2027

Apr 28: Bournemouth Pavilion
Apr 29: Ipswich Corn Exchange
Apr 30: London Union Chapel
May 01: Cardiff New Theatre
May 02: Tunbridge Wells Assembly Hall Theatre
May 05: Glasgow Pavilion
May 06: York Barbican
May 07: Newcastle Tyne Theatre & Opera House
May 08: Edinburgh Queens Hall
May 09: Manchester RNCM Theatre
May 12: Leicester De Montfort Hall
May 13: Coventry Warwick Arts Centre Theatre
May 14: Birmingham Town Hall
May 15: Nottingham Albert Hall
May 16: Hayes Beck Theatre
May 19: Basingstoke The Anvil
May 20: Bath The Forum
May 21: Guildford G Live
May 22: Folkestone Leas Cliff Halls
May 23: Aylesbury Waterside Theatre
May 24: Bristol St George’s
May 27: Sheffield City Hall, Memorial Hall
May 28: Liverpool Philharmonic Hall
May 29: London Cadogan Hall

Deep Purple tour dates

Jun 24: Mönchengladbach SparkassenPark, Germany
Jun 27: Coburg Open Air, Germany
Jun 28: Ulm Klosterhof Wiblingen, Germany
Jul 04: Gredos Músicos en la Naturaleza, Spain
Jul 05: Pamplona Navarra Arena, Spain
Jul 09: Málaga Starlite, Spain
Jul 10: Cádiz Tío Pepe, Spain
Jul 16: Pisa Summer Knights, Italy
Jul 17: Este Music Festival, Italy
Jul 19: München Tollwood Festival, Germany

Aug 04: Raleigh Red Hat Amphitheater, NC
Aug 08: Clearwater The BayCare Sound, FL
Aug 09: Hollywood Hard Rock Casino, FL
Aug 12: Wantagh Jones Beach Theater, NY
Aug 13: Mansfield Xfinity Center, MA
Aug 15: Halifax Scotiabank Centre, NS
Aug 17: Laval Place Bell, QC
Aug 18: Toronto RBC Amphitheatre, ON
Aug 19: Ottawa Canadian Tire Center, ON
Aug 21: Detroit Pine Knob, MI
Aug 22: Salamanca Seneca Allegany Casino, NY
Aug 24: Indianapolis Everwise Amphitheatre, IN
Aug 25: Highland Park Ravinia, IL
Aug 27: Prior Lake Mystic Lake Casino, MN
Aug 29: Winnipeg Canada Life Centre, MB
Aug 31: Calgary Scotiabank Saddledome, AB
Sep 02: Abbotsford Abbotsford Centre, BC
Sep 04: Lincoln Thunder Valley, CA
Sep 05: Mountain View Shoreline Amphitheatre, CA
Sep 06: Highland Yaamava Theatre, CA
Sep 08: Chula Vista North Island Credit Union Amp, CA
Sep 10: Las Vegas Planet Hollywood, NV
Sep 11: Long Beach Long Beach Amphitheater, CA
Sep 12: Sparks Nugget Event Center, NV

Sep 29: Sofia 8888 Arena, Bulgaria
Oct 01: Cluj BT Arena, Romania
Oct 02: Budapest Laszlo Papp Arena, Hungary
Oct 04: Bratislava Tipos Arena, Slovakia
Oct 05: Vienna Stadthalle, Austria
Oct 07: Prague O2 Arena, Czechia
Oct 08: Lodz Atlas Arena, Poland
Oct 10: Belgrade Stark Arena, Serbia
Oct 11: Skopje Boris Trajkovski Arena, Macedonia
Oct 13: Athens Telekom Centre Arena, Greece
Oct 16: Zurich Hallenstadion, Switzerland
Oct 17: Milan Unipol Forum, Italy
Oct 19: Barcelona Sant Jordi Club, Spain
Oct 22: Paris Adidas Arena, France
Oct 23: Antwerp Lotto Arena, Belgium
Oct 25: Copenhagen Royal Arena, Denmark
Oct 26: Stockholm Avicii Arena, Sweden
Oct 28: Oslo Spektrum Arena, Norway
Oct 29: Gothenburg Scandinavium, Sweden
Oct 31: Leipzig QI Arena, Germany
Nov 01: Hamburg Sporthalle, Germany
Nov 03: Dortmund Westfalenhalle, Germany
Nov 04: Berlin Uber Arena, Germany
Nov 06: Frankfurt Festhalle, Germany
Nov 07: Nuremberg Arena, Germany
Nov 09: Amsterdam Ziggodome, Netherlands
Nov 10: Strasbourg Zenith, France
Nov 12: Bordeaux Arkéa Arena, France
Nov 13: Nantes Zenith, France
Nov 15: Lyon LDLC Arena, France
Nov 18: Newcastle Utilita Arena, UK
Nov 19: Glasgow OVO Hydro, UK
Nov 21: Birmingham BP Pulse Arena, UK
Nov 22: Manchester AO Arena, UK
Nov 24: London Eventim Apollo, UK
Nov 25: London Royal Albert Hall, UK

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I won’t ask for your heart
But if you leave it here, I’ll hold it ‘til the end times
And in a hundred years, I think they’ll try to read your fleshless palms 

On Hollowing, the beautiful new track from Omnihell, Julian Ash treats devotion as a room one enters quietly, knowing the floorboards may give way. The title suggests subtraction, a person being scooped out from within, yet the song moves with surprising grace: gentle guitars, analogue warmth, and a vocal set high enough in the mix to feel almost conversational, as though Ash has stepped close to say the private part aloud.

Hollowing belongs to the tradition of love songs written after innocence has become an unreliable witness. The lyrics circle a figure admired for beauty and intelligence, someone whose composure cannot keep pain from showing. Ash’s speaker asks for little and offers much, promising care without ownership, permanence without possession. The romance is tender, but it also has the chill of an archaeological site: bodies gone, palms read after flesh has vanished, intimacy measured against the absurd patience of time.

“I would describe it as a love song,” Ash says succinctly.

Musically, the track feels dream-drunk without growing vague. Its guitars carry the soft jangle of The Smiths around Meat Is Murder, with a touch of Belle and Sebastian and The Sundays in the way the melodies seem to lean toward brightness while keeping one hand on the bruise. Ash’s voice brings another charge: earnest poetry, ringing strings, and an incredibly tender delivery that recalls Ian McCulloch around Candleland, with a faint trace of the later Horrors in its poised romantic gloom. There is even vocal flutter here that might make Morrissey jealous. The arrangement never overplays its sadness. It stands squarely, almost politely, while the ache accumulates.

The song has a peculiar charge from its emotional double exposure. One hears anguish, certainly, but also the straight-faced joke delivered without a blink, the kind of grim little aside that keeps a person from collapsing under the weight of feeling. Ash’s singing is gorgeous in the old-fashioned sense: carried by melody, unguarded yet controlled, bright enough to cut through the room without raising its voice. Beneath it, the track keeps its pace with understated

Listen to Hollowing below and order the single here.

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Chelsea Wolfe has given a release to a pair of new singles in “The Dark” and “Death Is Not The End“. The experimental folk doom artist teased this new music with a partnership with Heretic Parfum. According to a press release, these two new tracks represent the start of a new chapter, which will result…

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