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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STATUS QUO’s First Boogie Period Gets Boxed

April 24, 2026

Two years have passed since STATUS QUO issued the “The Early Years 1966-69” collection that, as fans assumed, was a standalone dive into the British ensemble’s psychedelic era, yet they were wrong, because July 3rd will see the release of another five-disc box set that picks up where the old one left off and moves the narrative into the band’s boogie period.

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Claire Hamill Celebrates Anniversary Of Her Debut With New Record

April 23, 2026

This year marks 55 years since Claire Hamill released her first album, the star-studded “One House Left Standing” that demonstrated the English artist’s strengths as both singer and songwriter, and could there be a better way to celebrate the anniversary of her debut than picking up where it left off by offering a new record with a more mature view of the same perennial themes. Titled “A House Among The Trees” and scheduled to arrive on April 25th, it also continues the path of 2022’s "A Pocket Full Of Love Songs" and “Troubadour” from 2025.

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