Former RAINBOW Musicians Pay Tribute To The Band

April 16, 2026

This year has seen a resurgence of interest in RAINBOW, possibly because a new box set, spanning the first two years of Ritchie Blackmore’s band, was released recently, so it’s only fitting that a new tribute album to this ensemble is about to delight those who like such things. Still, even those who don’t might find the multi-artist collection titled “Ride The Rainbow” interesting, because it seems to be the first project of the kind to feature no fewer than five former members of the group: four out of five vocalists who served with the outfit – Graham Bonnet, Joe Lynn Turner, Doogie White and Ronnie Romero – as well as bassist Bob Daisley and keyboard player Don Airey.

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Is This The Revival Of ASIA?

April 14, 2026

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Jerry Garcia’s “Reflections” Sees Anniversary Reissue

April 12, 2026

Back in the mid-’70s, Jerry Garcia was on a roll, touring and recording both with the band which bore his name and GRATEFIL DEAD. No wonder, then, that the half-century expansion of the latter collective’s "Blues For Allah" is to be followed soon by a reissue of his next venture. 1976’s “Reflections” was the American master’s third solo album, one he said explored the same groove as the DEAD venture preceding it and one featuring the ensemble’s members, because he had dismissed JERRY GARCIA BAND, including Nicky Hopkins, after a few tracks were laid down.

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ANEKDOTEN Expand Their Debut Album With Demos

April 11, 2026

Six studio opuses released over three and a half decades may not seem to make an impressive legacy, yet it’s always been quality, rather than quantity, that ANEKDOTEN valued from the start, and there’s hardly a progressive rock aficionado out there who’s not familiar at least with the cover, if not musical content, of this Swedish ensemble’s first longplay. Issued in 1993, “Vemod” remains a firm favorite with many of their chosen genre’s followers, and the band’s 35-year anniversary is a great excuse to revisit the album.

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THE ALARM Put Out Mike Peters’s Final Album

April 10, 2026

It’s a story of spiritual triumph, of struggle and perseverance, of optimism and loss. When THE ALARM started work on their new record, the Welsh ensemble’s singer Mike Peters knew he was about to die, and still he hoped experimental treatment could make cancer go away, if only for a while. What Peters didn’t know was how much he would be able to create between chemotherapy sessions, yet Mike somehow managed to preserve his ideas for posterity and to flesh them out into proper songs which documented that fight for survival. Within a year from his diagnosis, he was gone, though, leaving this world on April 29th, 2025, and now the work he dedicated so much of his precious time is ready to be issued.

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