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By Ralph Greco, Jr.

Yes, Anika Nilles is killing it. Yes, Alex Lifeson and Geddy Lee seem to be having so much fun, flashing smiles and playing expertly. The filled-out sound with keyboardist Loren Gold adds a whole other dimension to the live performance. The band is rolling through some great songs, hits, and deeper cuts, both. And full disclosure, I haven’t attended — nor will I — any of the shows.

Is this Rush?

I know we are happy to see Alex and Ged back on the boards. So many fans either wanted to hear Rush music live once again (me included) or see these classic rockers for the first time on what they are calling their Fifty Something Tour. I get the attraction. And again,  Anika Nilles is aces. She seems to be having so much fun, and from what I have heard and seen online, the crowd, not to mention Geddy and Alex, are so supportive, loving her every fill and snare snap. But for a band like Rush, a three-piece all of their lives, and Neil Peart having been such an integral part of the trio, as well as such a distinctive player, maybe one of the best rock drummers ever, without his presence and feel, is the band fans are racing to see on this new tour Rush?

Even the most casual fan knows the history here. Rush was all but done as a touring band, managing one last go-round on their R40 Tour in 2015. Then when Peart passed away in 2020 (really, that was so inconvenient of him!), there was truly no hope (at least in my mind) of ever seeing Rush live again. Geddy Lee had even said when the band ended, it was only Rush with Neil Peart in it. “But…” he added, “we will be playing 40 Rush songs. So what the fuck should we call it? Iron Maiden?” So now we have this four-piece lineup on this Fifty Something Tour.

And again, I ask: Is this Rush?

Nobody can damn Geddy Lee and Alex Lifeson, friends since they were 13, wanting to play, and again, it seems from what I have seen and heard, they still can, pretty much. And surely people want to see them still play, if evidence of tour ticket selling is any indication. And one can argue that Anika is just a hired hand, just like so many other hired hands in multiple classic bands using their original name going out with replacement members — The Who replacing drummer Keith Moon with Kenny Jones, even making albums with him, and the Stones producing what will be two albums sans drummer Charlie Watts, plus they have toured and the rumor is they will again.

Again, it’s been done before and I get it.

I just read Phil Ehart’s autobiography (see the review here), and a great read it is. But I disagree with the great Kansas manager and drummer in his view that his band still has legitimacy, filled as it is now with substitute musicians, playing concerts as Kansas, since it is, as Ehart says, the music that most matters. I’m paraphrasing Phil Ehart slightly, but that’s mostly his point on the matter.

To me, though, it is not only what the OG’s played but how they played, their very essence, if you will, their ‘feel,’ that makes the tunes. So, while the mighty Ms. Nilles might be able to replicate a Peart drum fill here and there, and she surely rocks hard, youthful exuberance aside, she does not possess the unique stuff that made Neil Peart Neil Peart, stuff that is so evident in Rush’s recordings and live sound.

I’ll save the last word of this probably less-than-popular opinion of mine from the great rock and roll movie, 1989’s Eddie & The Cruisers II: Eddie Lives! In the film, saxophonist “Hilton Overstreet,” played by Anthony Sherwood, says to “Eddie Wilson,” played by Michael Kevin Paré, “The way a man plays — he’s born with it; like fingerprints. He can hide under another name. But he can’t disguise the way he plays.”

Just like Geddy Lee, Alex Lifeson, Anika, you, me…and surely Neil Peart, a musician, painter, writer, what have you, can’t disguise themselves, their “fingerprints” are all over what they produce. And Neil Peart’s fingerprints, his Neil-ness, are all over Rush’s wonderful oeuvre, recorded and live. The band touring as Rush presently has Anika Nilles’ fingerprints on their live drumming and great as she is, she ain’t Neil Peart.

And I ask again: Is this Rush?

 

They were also announced as the openers for a U.S. tour with thrown, Norma Jean & BOLTCUTTER today.

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A series of two-night stops have been booked.

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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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