Julie Slick And Tim Motzer Team Up For Ambient Album

February 7, 2026

If there are musicians who are equally adept in experimenting in solitude, with consistently impressive results, and in bouncing their ideas off like-minded performers, Julie Slick and Tim Motzer belong to this elite category of creators. Both of them have solo records and both of them love teamwork too, being part of various bands, including, respectively, THE CRIMSON PROJEkCT and PAKT; more so, these artists collaborated previously – but never as a self-sufficient two-piece unit, which was exactly what they went for recently.

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Robert Plant Plans An EP With Fresh Cuts

February 5, 2026

While most of releases prepared for Record Store Day are vinyl versions of albums previously issued on CD, replicas of what was issued on vinyl back in the day, or vinyl extracts of what has been part of box sets, Robert Plant, always in innovator who hates to seem and feel stagnant, decided to offer his followers something completely new, albeit done in the vein of 2025’s “Saving Grace” album which the veteran laid down with his new band and fellow vocalist Suzi Dian. It’s an EP that, as its predecessor in the Englishman’s discography, features cover songs.

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Entire Output Of HEAVEN & HELL Gets A Box Set Haven

February 4, 2026

No matter what BLACK SABBATH fans expect from Tony Iommi to tackle next in terms of the band’s reissue programme, the release of "Anno Domini: 1989-1995" package, which included most of the Tony Martin era’s material, should have warned them that waiting for expansions of “Master Of Reality” or “Born Again” might be a little bit pointless. Indeed, what will arrive on March 27th doesn’t have anything to do with the gaps in the veterans’ box sets line: titled “Breaking Out Of Heaven: 2007-2009” and spread over four CDs and a Blu-ray, with seven-LP version offered too, it’s an entire output of HEAVEN & HELL.

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DR. STRANGELY STRANGE Expand Their Second Album

February 2, 2026

Produced by Joe Boyd and with artwork designed by Roger Dean – but, first of all, filled with great tunes – DR. STRANGELY STRANGE‘s sophomore effort, “Heavy Petting” from 1970, has long since become acid-folk classic. It saw a fair number of reissues, yet another one, prepared for a April 24th release, must be of special interest to the Irish ensemble’s fans.

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Clive Nolan Announces New Chapter Of “Alchemy”

February 1, 2026

A great conceptualist, Clive Nolan may occasionally work with literary sources, yet it’s the story of his own character, Professor Samuel King, the British composer keeps returning to. Having introduced the intrepid explorer on "Alchemy" in 2013 and extending the saga with “King’s Ransom” four years later, as well as bringing both installments to stage, Nolan is launching what can possibly become the series’ final chapter now

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