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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Dave Mason Passed Away

April 22, 2026

The great Dave Mason died on April 19th, one month short of hitting 80, and hitting various marks and hurdles has always been his thing. Back in 2015, the veteran told this scribe, when asked about his career arc, “Hopefully, I haven’t hit the highest point. And lowest? There really hasn’t been one. You just go and do what you’re doing”: and that’s as fine a summary of what the English artist used to do as it gets.

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Kenny Wayne Shepherd Revisits, Not Reissues, His Debut Album

April 20, 2026

It never feels good when an artist re-records their classic album from scratch, as such an approach speaks volumes of creative stagnation at play, yet this rule doesn’t apply when the blues come calling. Kenny Wayne Shepherd‘s first platter “Ledbetter Heights” felt like a breath of fresh air back in 1995, because the 18-year-old musician demonstrated a great depth of vision in his chosen genre, but the genre in question requires a real maturity, which is tied to a person age. That’s why, perhaps, Shepherd decided to mark the three-decade anniversary of his debut with a new version of the same set.

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