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The Top 10 album chart is published each week via our radio Facebook page and announced every Sunday on Get Ready to ROCK! Radio (Assume The Position, 22:00 GMT). Compiled by Jason Ritchie.
ABBA release a 50th anniversary edition of their ‘Waterloo’ album on April 5 via Polar Music International. The reissue will include a limited edition box set of three vinyl singles originally released in 1974.
Anvil release their new album ‘One And Only’ via AFM Records on June 28.
Armored Saint release a Four Tops cover in June digitally via Metal Blade Records and their new album is expected in 2025.
John Cale has announced a new album, ‘POPtical Illusion’, which will be released through Double Six/Domino on June 14.
Can release ‘Live In Aston 1977‘ on vinyl, CD and digitally on May 31 via Mute and Future Days.
Category 7, a new band featuring guitarist Phil Demmel (Kerry King, ex-Machine Head), guitarist Mike Orlando (ex-Adrenaline Mob), vocalist John Bush (Armored Saint, ex-Anthrax), drummer Jason Bittner (Overkill, Shadows Fall) and Exodus bassist Jack Gibson, have signed a deal with Metal Blade Records. They release their debut single on May 2, with an album to follow in the summer.
D-A-D will be celebrating their 40 years together with the release of ‘Greatest Hits (1984-2024)’, which will be released via AFM Records on May 10.
The Eternal release their new studio album, ‘Skinwalker’, on June 28 via Reigning Phoenix Music.
Evergrey release their latest album ‘Theories Of Emptiness’ through Napalm Records on June 7. Ahead of this they have released the single ‘Falling From The Sun’.
Fu Manchu release their latest album ‘The Return Of Tomorrow’ on June 14 via the band’s label At The Dojo Records.
Rhino Music release a 3CD/3DVD ‘Bursting Out: The Inflated Edition’ from Jethro Tull and it will be released on June 21.
Leprous release their eighth studio album ‘Melodies Of Atonement’ in August via InsideOutMusic.
Lindisfarne release a new three-disc box set, ‘Brand New Year: The Mercury Years 1978-1979′, through Cherry Red Records on May 24.
Pat Metheny has announced that he will release his latest album, ‘MoonDial’, through BG Records on July 26.
Bill Nelson will release a new solo album, ‘Powetron’, through his own Sonoluxe label on May 5.
Deko Entertainment release ‘Nektar – Journey To The Other Side – Live At The Dunellen Theatre June 10, 2023′ on May 10.
John Oates will release his latest album ‘Reunion’ on May 17.
Orange Goblin release their latest album ‘Science, Not Fiction’ on July 19 on Peaceville Records.
Phish have announced their 16th studio album, ‘Evolve’, which is released on July 12 via JEMP Records.
Powerwolf’s new album ‘Wake Up The Wicked’ is released on July 26 on Napalm Records.
Sunburst will release their new album ‘Manifesto’ via Inner Wound Recordings on June 14
Tyketto plan to record their new album later this year for a release in 2025.
UK Subs release a live album, ‘The Last Will And Testament Of UK Subs’, through Cleopatra Records on May 3.
Voyager release a 4CD set entitled ‘The Early Years’ on June 21 via Season of Mist. It covers the band’s albums between 2003 and 2011.
Newly announced UK tours (2024 unless stated):
the Blockheads (May), Joe Bonamassa (Sat Jun 15 Basingstoke), Boston Manor (Sep), the Commoners (Jul), the Cult (Oct, Nov), Dream Theater (Oct 20 London), Godsticks (Jun, Sep), Gun (Dec), Lindisfarne (Apr-Dec), Mammoth VH (Jul), Duff McKagan (Oct), Motionless In White (Feb 2025), Public Service Broadcasting (Oct), Tyketto + Little Caesar (Sep), Tyla’s Dogs D’Amnor (Jul), Midge Ure (Nov, Dec),
Upcoming (Gigs – UK)
Newly announced US & European tours (2024 unless stated):
Aerosmith (US), Pat Benatar (US), the Black Keys (US), Cancer Bats (AU), Chevelle (US), Clutch + Rival Sons (US), Alice Cooper (US), Deep Purple + Yes (US), Dream Theater (US), Drowning Pool + Saliva (US), Extreme + Living Colour (US), Foreigner + Lita Ford + Loverboy (US), Fozzy (US), Greta Van Fleet (AU, NZ),Heart + Cheap Trick (US), Marko Hietala & Tarja Turunen (EU), In This Moment + Ice Inch Nails (US), Leprous (US), the Lonely Ones (US), Motionless In White (EU 2025), Public Service Broadcasting (EU), Smashing Pumpkins (US), Chris Stapleton (AU, NZ), the Struts (US), Underoath (US), Paul Weller (US),
Upcoming (USA/ROW)
AC/DC sold over 1.5m tickets on the first day of sales for their upcoming UK & European tour.
Postponed/cancelled gigs & tours
The Steel Woods have announced they will disband after their tour dates this year. Their US dates remain unaffected, however, they will no longer be supporting Blackberry Smoke on their autumn dates in the UK & Europe.
A new documentary about the Beach Boys will air on Disney+ on May 24.
A documentary on Air Supply is in the works. Entitled ‘All Out Of Love: The Air Supply Story’, it is scheduled to air in 2025 to mark the band’s 50th anniversary.
‘Moments That Shook Music: Kurt Cobain’ is a one-hour documentary by Touchdown Films that’s told exclusively through rare archive footage, some of which has never aired on British television before. It forms the centrepiece of an evening’s tribute to Kurt Cobain on BBC Two on Saturday 6 April – 30 years and a day after Kurt Cobain’s passing aged 27.
Erik Grönwall has announced he is leaving Skid Row, “The main reason being that it’s proved difficult to prioritize my health and full recovery as the lead singer of the band.” Halestorm’s Lzzy Hale (pictured) will front the band for their next four gigs.
Bruce Springsteen has become the first non-British songwriter to become a Fellow of The Ivors Academy. He will formally receive the honour at this year’s Ivor Novello Awards in London on 23 May.
The Hold Steady are to publish a children’s book called ‘Stay Positive’, based on their song of the same name.
KISS have sold the rights to their music catalogue, brand name and intellectual property to Swedish company Pophouse Entertainment Group AB for a reported $300m.
Music retailer Rough Trade has announced that its new Liverpool store will open on 18 April, just in time for Record Store Day on 20 April.
John Farnham’s memoir ‘The Voice Inside’ with Poppy Stockell is published on October 30.
Disney+ will air ‘Let It Be’, director Michael Lindsay-Hogg’s original 1970 film about the Beatles, on May 8.
Steve Dawson, a founding member of Saxon, and the band’s bassist between 1975 and 1986, has been jailed for six years for historic child sex offences.
Anthrax has announced that, due to personal reasons, bassist Frank Bello will not be able to accompany the band on its upcoming South American tour. Filling in on those dates, as well as two U.S. festival shows in May, will be Anthrax founding member and original bassist Dan Lilker, marking his first appearance with the band in 40 years.
Vocalist Dave Moras has left Hell In The Club.
Singer songwriter Mark Spiro, who wrote songs and produced for many artists including Julian Lennon, Bad English and Cheap Trick
Drummer Gerry Conway, former member of Fairport Convention, Steeleye Span and Jethro Tull
Co-founder and bassist of Ultravox, Chris Cross
Firehouse vocalist CJ Snare
Max Werner, former vocalist and drummer with Kayak
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NESTOR Victorious
Hailing from the vibrant music scene in Sweden, NESTOR take you straight back to the golden age of rock music, wearing influences ranging from Bon Jovi and Aerosmith to Journey and Foreigner on their denim sleeves.
They’ve shared stages with Alice Cooper, Def Leppard and Europe and were even supported the legendary KISS in Stockholm on their 2022 stadium tour.
Having formed in 1989 NESTOR re-emerged in 2021 with their debut album ‘Kids In A Ghost Town’. Their latest album ‘Teenage Rebel’ is due for release on 31 May via Napalm Records.
RENDEZVOUS POINT Don’t Look Up
Norwegian progressive metal masters Rendezvous Point have released their new single ‘Don’t Look Up’, out now via Long Branch Records. The track marks their first new single in five years.
Fuelled by their collective love for hard-hitting, in-your-face music that seamlessly blends punchy rhythms with soaring melodies and atmospheric undertones, the five-piece around Leprous drummer Baard Kolstad, keyboardist Nicolay Tangen Svennæs (Ihsahn, Bernhoft, Emilie Nicolas), singer Geirmund Hansen, guitarist Petter Hallaråker and bass player Gunn-Hilde Erstad, embarked on a journey of creating music that was meant to explore the limits of progressive metal and traverse into uncharted territory.
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