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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YES Ready To Release “Aurora”

April 8, 2026

That a fresh album from YES – a follow-up to the ensemble’s quite impressive “Mirror To The Sky” from 2023 – would be called “Aurora” has been known for some time. Now, however, it’s confirmed by the appearance on the Internet of the record’s cover artwork and various pack-shots, which also give a hint at what the platter’s tracks are.

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Steve Hillage’s SYSTEM 7 Issues First Studio Album In 11 Years

April 6, 2026

Always in flux, SYSTEM 7 – an experimental outfit steered by Steve Hillage and his wife Miquette Giraudy – may have released concert recordings over the last decades, yet there’s not been a studio offering from the British ensemble for quite some time. Yes, 2018 saw them issue "Café Seven" where new cuts shared space with numbers from the same musicians’ alternative projects, but the band’s previous full-length work hit the shelves as far back as 2015, when “X-Port” introduced the listener to the former GONG members’ fresh material. This is why it’s so heartwarming to learn they’re ready to present a platter titled “Flower Of Life” on April 17th.

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