Guardian Music — The best of your comments on the latest films and musicWow. The very idea of orchestras and pop musicians sharing a stage is enough to reduce some people to apoplexy. Take JohnBorstlap's response to Maddy Costa's article last week on that very subjec... more info

Guardian Music — Arena, ManchesterIn 1969, Deep Purple recorded the loftily titled Concerto for Group and Orchestra, which tends to be regarded as either an innovative fusion of rock and classical music, or an epic, pretentious folly: one of the key inspirations behi... more info

Jam! Showbiz Music, Canada — The highway stars of Deep Purple are truckin' back to the great white north. more info

Guardian Music — One of the amazing things about the Queen frontman was that he successfully evaded the rock world's gaydarHard rock and "sewing" seem incongruous bedfellows. Nevertheless, if you were a headbanger in the 70s and 80s, chances are you spent more than a... more info

Metal Injection — We started this show talking about Rob's new gig as an on-air host on Sirius XM Liquid Metal. He talked about his first day on the job, and running into Justin Bieber. We spent some time discussing this news report about vodka tampons. Who's in? We a... more info

Guardian Music — Maggoty realises how much fun Uncut could be if it ditched the blokeyness. Meanwhile, Word magazine seems to have been the victim of an anarchist art prankThere are some sentences you just don't often come across. For example: "Have you observed the ... more info

Guardian Music — Before they became committed to hair metal, Whitesnake made a decent effort at combining soul and hard rockWhere do you start when detailing the problems with Whitesnake? That terrible, terrible name? The sometimes truly appalling album covers? The h... more info

Totally Fuzzy — Whitesnake are an English rock band, founded in 1978 by David Coverdale after his departure from his previous band, Deep Purple. The band's early material has been compared by critics to Deep Purple, but by the mid 1980s they had moved to a more... more info

Totally Fuzzy — Live At Montreux 2006: They All Came Down To Montreux is the first live release by English hard-rock band Deep Purple's mk VIII lineup. This concert was recorded in Montreux, during 2006 Rapture of the Deep tour. Besides a DVD release, the conce... more info

Here Comes The Flood — photo: Christie Goodwin Hard hitting blues rockers Black Country Communion were on tour in Europe in the Summer of 2011. Three shows in Germany (Hamburg, Munich and Berlin) were filmed with 14 HD cameras. Live Over Europe sees them playing up a sto... more info