We still have a couple months until Fenne Lily releases her Big Picture followup Win Win. The Brooklyn-via-UK singer-songwriter has unveiled compelling previews with “Uh Huh” and “Thank You Sorry,” and now she’s sharing the exquisite single “Sleeping.”
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Produced by Rock & Roll Hall of Fame inductee and Grammy Award-winning drummer Matt Sorum, the 2,000-copy collector’s edition benefits Adopt the Arts Foundation while preserving an unforgettable night of legendary performances.
Rock & Roll Hall of Fame legends Paul Rodgers and Geezer Butler are honored on Sound & Vision Live, a limited-edition all-star double vinyl album recorded during the inaugural Palm Springs Sound & Vision Awards at the historic Plaza Theatre on March 2, 2026.
Today (August 12), Adopt the Arts Foundation announced the release of Sound & Vision Live, along with the official pre-sale and details for the Sound & Vision Live Record Release Celebration & Concert Film Screenings, taking place Sunday, September 13, 2026, at the Plaza Theatre in Palm Springs.
The recording features performances by Paul Rodgers (Free, Bad Company) and Geezer Butler (Black Sabbath), joined by an all-star lineup including Corey Taylor (Slipknot), Lzzy Hale (Halestorm), Glenn Hughes (Deep Purple), Nuno Bettencourt (Extreme), Charlie Starr (BlackBerry Smoke), Phil X (Bon Jovi), Steve Stevens (Billy Idol), Matt Sorum (Guns N’ Roses, Velvet Revolver), Robert DeLeo (Stone Temple Pilots), Stevie Salas (Mick Jagger), Mike Mangan (The Cult), and Paul Ill (Alicia Keys).
Every participating artist donated their time and talent in support of Adopt the Arts Foundation and its mission to restore and sustain music education in underserved public elementary schools.
“I never went into that night thinking we were making a record,” said Matt Sorum. “I originally had the show recorded and filmed because I wanted to preserve the experience for myself. But when I listened back, I realized we had captured something truly magical—the energy in the room, the performances, and the spirit of all these incredible artists coming together for the kids. Through Experience Vinyl, we had an opportunity to turn that moment into something people could hold onto while raising meaningful support for music education.”
The initial pressing will be limited to 2,000 double-vinyl albums, priced at $99.98. Sound & Vision is available to pre-order here.
Of the total pressing, 250 Plaza Theatre Collector’s Editions will be available for the September 13 Record Release Celebration. Pressed on color vinyl, these collectible editions feature artwork unavailable on the standard online release.
The remaining albums will be available exclusively through Experience Vinyl, with the official pre-sale beginning August 3, 2026.
Experience Vinyl is donating its services so that proceeds from album sales directly benefit Adopt the Arts Foundation. Philanthropic supporters also provided the funding necessary to mix, master, and complete the album and companion concert film.
“Experience Vinyl is about preserving the moments in music that deserve to live beyond a single night,” said Seth Frank, Founder of Experience Vinyl. “From the performances to the purpose behind them, Sound & Vision Live is exactly the kind of project we want to help bring into the world. We are proud to donate our work and platform so that proceeds directly support Adopt the Arts and help provide children with access to music education.”
The album was recorded by Kemble Walters and Miguel Sosa, mixed by Walters at Goodnoise Studios in Palm Springs, and mastered for vinyl by Grammy-winning mastering engineer Howie Weinberg and Will Borza.
Internationally acclaimed photographer and creative director Glen Wexler created the album artwork and liner notes. The deluxe package features archival photography, original artwork, and extensive liner notes celebrating the performances and the enduring legacies of Paul Rodgers and Geezer Butler.
The project was made possible through the generous support of Executive Producers Jackie and Joby Pritzker and Co-Executive Producers Dale Lawrence, James Malachowski, and Sam Senigaglia.
More than a celebration of rock history, Sound & Vision Live helps create the next generation of musicians.
Founded in 2012 by Matt Sorum and Emmy Award-winning actress Jane Lynch, Adopt the Arts Foundation restores and sustains music education in underserved public elementary schools.
Today, the Foundation serves more than 4,000 students annually throughout Los Angeles and the Coachella Valley by providing music instruction, instruments, curriculum, teacher support, artist mentorship, and meaningful performance opportunities.
“Every artist who stepped onto that stage understood why we were there,” Sorum said. “We came together to celebrate two legends, but the real encore is every child who discovers music because of this record.”
Sound & Vision Live Information:
Format: Limited-edition all-star double vinyl album
Pressing: Limited to 2,000 copies
Price: $99.98
Pre-Sale Begins: August 3, 2026
Record Release Celebration: September 13, 2026
Online Availability: Exclusively through Experience Vinyl
Beneficiary: Adopt the Arts Foundation
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These days, one of the few obvious ways that a band or an artist can level up and achieve a new measure of mainstream fame is by getting booked as a musical guest on Saturday Night Live. When Geese or Dijon or, hell, Sombr makes an SNL debut, that’s a sign that they’ve reached a new pinnacle. Even if people hate them, they at least notice them. For many years, a guy named Brian Siedlecker has booked every musical guest on SNL. No longer.
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All but the most blindly optimistic Deep Purple fans had given up hope of the band ever reuniting with former guitarist Ritchie Blackmore. But it looks like that’s exactly what is going to happen after Blackmore took to Instagram to drop the bombshell that he was planning on joining Deep Purple onstage at the hard rock veterans’ gig in Wantagh, New York tonight (August 12),
“I sent my A.I. pigeon to [Purple singer] Ian Gillan in Portugal, where he lives at the moment,” Blackmore said. “And I said, How would you feel about if I got up just for an encore? Just one of the songs. I don’t want to intrude. And I said, No pressure – just kind of [for] old times’ sake.’ I’m 81 now. So he seemed to love the idea, put it to the band, got a thumbs up, and it looks like we might be doing that.
If Blackmore makes good on his promise, it will be the first time he’s played with Purple in more than 30 years. The two parties have been bitterly estranged since the guitarist quit following a gig in Helsinki in November 1993, during the tour in support of that year’s aptly titled The Battle Rages On… album. The subsequent decades have done little to thaw icy relations between Blackmore and the rest of Purple, making a potential reunion one of the most unexpected about-turns in recent decades.
Blackmore’s history with the band he co-founded in 1968 has been turbulent, to put it mildly. He quit Purple for the first time in 1975, expressing his disappointment in the funkier direction the group had gone in with the previous year’s Stormbringer album. Following a successful reunion of the fabled Mk II line-up in 1984, old tensions between the guitarist and Gillan resurfaced, prompting the latter to leave in 1989.
After a stint with ex-Rainbow frontman Joe Lynn Turner that saw the band’s fortunes decline, Purple’s label suggested that Gillan – who had relaunched his solo career to little public interest – rejoin his former bandmates. Neither Blackmore nor Gillan were happy with the suggestion, but both agreed to attempt to patch up their differences.
“Ritchie is not someone you make up with in a conventional sense,” Gillan later said. “We’re both stubborn bastards. He’s a genius. I’ll always respect his talent, just don’t ask me to go on holiday with him.”
“You’ve got to know Ian to figure out what his personality is,” Blackmore said in 1997. “It takes a while because he’s an astute man, very clever. He’s got this strange psyche; a strange obnoxious side to him which is a side I don’t like.”
They managed to park their dislike of each other long enough to record The Battle Rages On…, which was finally released in July 1993 following a painful 10-month gestation period. The critics were sniffy – it’s subsequently been dubbed ‘The Cattle Grazes On’ – and the public weren’t interested.
Neither man was happy with the situation, viewing the recording of the album (eventually titled, with deliberate irony, The Battle Rages On…) as a necessary evil. It was apparent that both of them would rather be anywhere than spend time in the other’s company. Stateside sales of just 50,000 meant an entire 20-date North American tour was pulled. Purple finally hit the road in September 1993, kicking things off in Italy. Soon afterwards, Blackmore decided that enough was enough.
“I’d sent them a letter, within two weeks of getting on the tour, saying that I was leaving,” he said in 1997, adding that his decision was prompted by the failure to promote the first single from the album, Anya. “That’s what started the ball rolling for me to be pissed off with the whole thing.”
Purple kept the forthcoming split secret from the public, but behind the scenes Blackmore fumed. At the Birmingham NEC on November 9, things soured. To the guitarist’s annoyance, the gig was being filmed. He took umbrage at the fact there was a cameraman between him and the audience, and refused to join the band as they began opener Highway Star, leaving them to play it as a four-piece. After being told the cameraman had gone, Blackmore was persuaded out in time to play his solo – only to spot the offending lensman on the other side of the stage.
“I ran around to the guy with the camera, picked up a glass of water and threw it in the lens so then I knew he had to back off,” Blackmore recalled. “And, sure enough, he did, but I was so angry because the whole thing was such a fiasco.” The gig was recorded for posterity on the live concert film and album, Come Hell Or High Water, released 11 months later.
The guitarist’s commitment to the band had clearly waned by the time he played what would be his final show as a member of Deep Purple, on November 17, 1993, at Helsinki’s 8,000-capacity Jäähalli. Gillan later admitted that a bitter row followed in the dressing room, adding only that what happened there was “deeply personal”. “The problem was that Ritchie thought that what the band had was down to him – but it wasn’t,” he did offer. “He was only a fifth of it.”
The band recruited US hotshot Joe Satriani, who was enlisted to fill in on a six-date Japanese tour at the end of 1993. Satriani was only a temporary fill-in – the guitarist’s spot would be taken full time by former Dixie Dregs man Steve Morse and, subsequently, Northern Irish hotshot Simon McBride.
And Blackmore? He relaunched Rainbow before turned his attentions to the medieval music he loved. Deep Purple, it seemed, were buried deep in his past, never to be revisited – until now.
“It’ll be good to see the old guys again,” he said of his mooted appearance with his former band. “I just thought it might be an idea to let a few people know, cos I think a lot of people would like to see that. So hopefully my guitar stays in tune, and I can play whatever song is going to be played.”
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He didn’t indicate that he was no longer a member, despite his reported firing.
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Roger Taylor is gearing up for album number seven. The Queen drummer, songwriter and singer has announced Violence Insane in a Beautiful World, due out Sept. 18 via Columbia Records.
The record’s second single, “I See You Now,” arrives with a companion video, streaming below.
The song had its first spin on Vernon Kaye‘s BBC Radio 2 show earlier today, opening with the line “We’ve been together for some time now, through all kinds of weather, but we’re still dreamin’.” Taylor explained the inspiration behind it: “It’s a love song. It’s really about my wife. We’ve been together for quite some time, and I think when you really get to know someone, at first you really don’t see everything about them, but when you really get to know someone, it’s, ‘Oh, I see you now.’ That’s it.”
The video itself, shot in elegant black-and-white, comes courtesy of Taylor‘s wife, Sarina Taylor, working alongside longtime collaborator Simon Lupton. The one splash of color in the frame is Taylor‘s bright red hi-tops.
Violence Insane in a Beautiful World is Taylor‘s seventh solo album dating back to 1977, and his first since 2021’s Outsider, which cracked the Top 3 and earned strong reviews across the board. He’ll support the release with a run of U.K. dates in September.
The album isn’t built around a single narrative, but Taylor said it does carry a consistent thread: “There is a theme, you know, it’s in the title really, what a beautiful world we live in, don’t fuck it up. There seems to be all this insanity at the moment. The violence in the world seems to be as bad as it ever was, at any point, and certainly in my lifetime. It’s just horrific, a lot of insane violence. And we do seem to be fucking up the world, plastics in the sea, you know, and all these awful wars everywhere and hatred born of different religions.”
Despite that grim framing, Taylor said the record ultimately lands somewhere hopeful: “It’s a beautiful world, you know. And kindness is very important, I think, it seems to be forgotten quite a lot. So, that is basically the sort of underlying theme.”
Taylor wrote, produced, sang and played nearly everything on the album himself, aside from a cover of “Jealous Guy,” which he called “one of the greatest, ballads ever written.” He got extra help from longtime collaborator Joshua J. Macrae, members of his live band, and, on three tracks, the Ndlovu Youth Choir out of Limpopo, South Africa. On working with the choir, Taylor said, “I was really happy when I became aware of this amazing South African choir, who sing in Zulu. They’re just wonderful. They did the most incredible cover version of “Bohemian Rhapsody”, and it’s fabulous. I couldn’t believe it when I saw it. So we suddenly had the bright idea of asking them to sing on some of the tracks, which they did, and I think it’s transformed those songs. It gives them a whole new dimension. I’m really thrilled with their work on that.”
There’s also an odd bit of cosmic timing tied to the album’s cover art. While Taylor was finishing the artwork, the Artemis II mission, en route to the far side of the Moon, ended up photographing Earth from a distance, and according to Taylor, the Queen fans working at NASA in Houston reportedly thought the timing felt like “definitely kismet.” Taylor described the concept behind the cover: “Well, the cover is really the story of the lead song, which is “A Beautiful World”, and it’s really an old idea, but in a way, it’s just written from the view of an alien in a spacecraft literally orbiting the world and thinking how beautiful it is. On close observation, he sees there are problems, there’s infection, all the violence and horrors that occur, and then there’s a list of all the great things about the Earth. It’s really rather strange because it was done before we got those wonderful pictures from Artemis II.”
He continued, “NASA approves! They’re very nice people. We’ve been there. Obviously. Brian knows them very well. We went whilst we were on tour in Houston. We had a fantastic tour of the whole NASA site. It’s quite something just to be sitting in the control room with all these guys and screens, and they’re actually talking to the space station, controlling it. Yeah, hell of a thing.”
Taylor‘s solo output has never shied from politics, and tracks like “Chump” continue that streak. Asked whether he feels optimistic about where things currently stand, he didn’t hold back: “To be honest, no, with Nigel Garage (sic) looming, no. My wife says she’s leaving the country if he gets in, and I don’t blame her. It’s like Trump, really. You can’t believe how popular he was. I’m not sure he’s quite as popular now; people are finally coming to their senses, but I can’t believe how popular Farage, who is intrinsically a horrible man, is, but he’s a populist, demagogue, politician appealing to the lowest sort of ideals.”
Musically, the album keeps up Taylor‘s longstanding habit of jumping between styles rather than sticking to one lane. “I like the idea of eclecticism,” he said. “I like the idea of different things, you know? I mean, the great example being The Beatles. I always thought that their albums were very eclectic, especially the later albums from Revolver onwards. You never knew what the next track was going to be, and it was totally different to the track before it. We always tried to do that in Queen. We tried to make a lot of different things and fearlessly tread where no sane man would. Yeah, I think people are really going to like the surreal stuff.”
The supporting tour kicks off in Newcastle on Sept. 21, with early ticket access going to anyone who pre-orders the album. Taylor‘s touring band includes keyboardist Spike Edney, drummer Tyler Warren, multi-instrumentalist Tina Keys, bassist Neil Fairclough and guitarist Christian Mendoza. The run continues through Edinburgh, Birmingham, Manchester, Swansea and London’s Roundhouse, a venue Taylor has played before, back in 2011 as a guest of Foo Fighters.
Taylor has spent more than five decades as one of the driving forces behind Queen, one of the most commercially successful bands ever to exist. Along the way, he’s helped push more than 300 million albums, leaving his stamp on songs like “Bohemian Rhapsody,” “Under Pressure” and “Another One Bites the Dust,” while writing hits including “Radio Gaga,” “A Kind of Magic” and “These Are the Days of Our Lives,” among many others.
Taylor formed Smile with guitarist Brian May in 1968. Within three years, that lineup had morphed into Queen with the addition of singer Freddie Mercury and bassist John Deacon, launching one of the most influential runs in popular music history.
Taylor‘s songwriting and playing left a mark across all 15 of Queen‘s studio albums. He kicked off his solo career in the late 1970s, eventually putting out six albums under his own name plus three more with side project The Cross.
Queen‘s story got the big-screen treatment in 2018’s Bohemian Rhapsody, on which Taylor served as co-executive music producer. The film went on to gross close to $1 billion worldwide, making it the highest-grossing music biopic ever made.
In 2011, Taylor and May brought Queen back with singer Adam Lambert, launching a string of major international tours that continue to this day. He’s balanced that ongoing work with his solo career, including 2021’s well-received Outsider. Taylor received an OBE for services to music in 2020.
More recently, Taylor and May put together a Collector’s Edition reissue of Queen‘s 1974 album Queen II, featuring a new 2026 mix along with unreleased studio audio, outtakes, demos, live tracks and radio sessions.
Music aside, Taylor has plenty of other interests. Queen‘s 1975 track “I’m in Love with My Car” doubled as a nod to his lifelong car obsession, one he’s indulged through an extensive personal collection over the years. He’s also been a dedicated sailor since the 1980s, owning a series of yachts and sailing everywhere from the Caribbean to full round-the-world routes. More recently, he’s taken a hands-on role with Queen Côtes de Provence Rosé, another extension of his taste for the finer things.
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Look, it’s not their fault. Claud, the Brooklyn-based indie pop singer-songwriter, has nothing to do with Claude, the AI chatbot that’s currently helping drone-bomb Iran or whatever the fuck. Claud has been making music since 2018, while Anthropic introduced Claude in 2023. In any case, Claud shouldn’t have to change their name because the other one, the one with an E, is the one that sucks.
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Performing songs from all of their albums.
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