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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Dave Whetstone Calls On FAIRPORT Camp On Fresh Platter

April 5, 2026

He didn’t only play with such FAIRPORT CONVENTION offshoots as THE ALBION BAND and WAZ! and the band members’ solo projects – Dave Whetstone composed several songs for the mothership per se, songs that landed on "Gladys' Leap" and a few other albums. His own discography, however, seems rather short, which is why it’s immensely satisfying to see the veteran release a fresh record on April 10th, titled “Winding To You” and featuring his old friends.

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NEKTAR Prepare “Magic Is A Child” For Expanded Reissue

April 3, 2026

1977 seemed to be a strange year for NEKTAR, who had parted with one of the ensemble’s founders, singing guitarist Roye Albrighton, and had, for the first time ever, to deliver a record with a line-up different to the one which created their previous six albums. Still, “Magic Is A Child” – a platter the band recorded with Dave Nelson at the fore – turned out quite impressively, what with Larry Fast’s keyboard contributions and the foursome’s confidence firm enough to let Robert Fripp’s six strings on “Train From Nowhere” go on the shelf for a few decades. And now, that platter, anticipating its 50th anniversary, is getting a deluxe treatment within the group’s reissue programme.

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