Rare Carla Bley Live Set Is Out

May 3, 2026

One of those venerated jazz masters who wasn’t averse to crossover, Carla Bley, who passed away in 2023, left behind an impressive discography and a prominent trail across an array of rock records, including works by Nick Mason and Jack Bruce, and quite a few concert recordings. Her first stage document was out 1982, and there were more platters released in the wake of “Live!” – only those followed in the later part of the same decade, which is why “Joyful Noise (Live In Hamburg 1984)” that’s just been issued is of major interest to all of the late lady’s fans.

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Clapton, Wood, May And Gibbons Guest On Steve Cropper’s Posthumous Album

May 2, 2026

Steve Cropper‘s sudden passing on December 5th, 2025 brought to attention of many the magnitude of his influence on the world of music, and it’s a little wonder that the title of the album the guitarist was working on at the time of his death references the most famous number bearing the master’s playing – and co-written by him: “(Sittin’ On) The Dock Of The Bay” from Otis Redding’s catalogue. This album is ready for release now, and it features quite a few prominent guests, so listening to “Watching The Tide” which will be issued on August 28th should be mandatory.

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Out Now: Robert Fripp’s “Exposure” Sessions With John Wetton And Phil Collins

April 30, 2026

It’s impossible to overestimate the influence Robert Fripp‘s “Exposure” has had on a multitude of artists since its release in 1979, and the amount of work which went into that album was immense, as the massive “Exposures” box set demonstrated back in 2022, although it didn’t include the earliest sessions for the guitarist’s masterpiece. While most of the issued opus got recorded in New York, the initial sketching of it took place in London’s Basing Street Studios where Fripp first approach the material in the company of his former colleague John Wetton, whose parts would be discarded in the final product, and another old friend, Phil Collins, who stayed on. And now those early tapes are out.

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SUPERTRAMP’s “Crime” Concert Gets A Hi-Res Upgrade

April 28, 2026

It wasn’t before they issued “Crime Of The Century” in 1974 that SUPERTRAMP became a household name and the songs from this platter – first and foremost “Bloody Well Right” and “Dreamer” – became ubiquitous. The British band didn’t wait for a long time to take the record on the road, but they spent a few months after its October release in the Old World and flew Stateside in April of 1975, saying goodbye to home audience on March 9th with a show at London’s Hammersmith Odeon. There, the group played not only their fresh album in its entirety, split in two sequential parts, and adding a few pieces from the yet-to-be-out “Crisis? What Crisis?” to the set which was filmed for posterity and has never been officially available. Until now.

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Robyn Hitchcock Addresses The Confusion Of Our Times

April 27, 2026

“It’s a rockin’ dismalia record for rocking dismal times!” is how Robyn Hitchcock describes his new album. Titled “The Confuser” and planned for release on July 24th, the English musician’s fresh affair – that he also characterizes as a jangle rock LP – was laid down in Nashville with local players and seems to be picking up where 2024’s "1967 - How I Got There And Why I Never Left" left off, only this time there are ten originals, rather than covers, so it can also be perceived as a follow-up to “Life After Infinity” from the previous year.

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