The Big Beat Bulletin — Sunday, July 26, 2026

Tony Banks, Peter Gabriel and Mike Rutherford at AIR Studios, 2026

Reissue Watch · The Story of the Day

Genesis go back to the beginning: 'From Genesis To Revelation' gets a definitive box-set overhaul

Genesis' 1969 debut From Genesis To Revelation is getting its most thorough treatment yet this October — a 5-disc 4CD/Blu-ray box, a double-vinyl set, and a remixed-and-remastered 2CD — all signed off by original members Tony Banks, Peter Gabriel, Anthony Phillips and Mike Rutherford. The centerpiece is a new stereo mix by Stephen W Tayler that pulls the young band's playing out from under the album's famous orchestral wash. The box then piles on the original mono and stereo LP mixes, singles, and a full disc of 1967–68 demos — four previously unreleased, including "Visions Of Angels" — alongside Dolby Atmos and 5.1 mixes, a 68-page book, and studio footage of Banks, Gabriel and Rutherford reviewing the mixes at AIR. For a DJ, it's a rare excuse to spin pre-fame, pastoral Genesis and trace a prog giant all the way back to its acoustic roots.

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Rock

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New Single · Video

The Commoners run 'Runnin' Blind' — a swaggering, organ-fueled first taste of their 2027 album

Canada's Commoners open the campaign for their third studio album with "Runnin' Blind," a retro roots-rock burner built on blazing guitars and driving organ, complete with an official video. Guitarist Ross Hayes Citrullo describes the feel as "running full speed down a dark road and trusting you'll make the turn before it's too late," while the band traces the lyrics to years of hard road life. The single also lends its name to the group's 12-date UK tour this November, with Gypsy Soul labelmate Spencer Mackenzie along for the ride. A high-octane opener for a rock set that likes its soul with grit.

Blues

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New Single

The Zac Schulze Gang unleash 'Hellhounds On My Trail' — a live-wire blues-rock band on the rise

Kent trio the Zac Schulze Gang cut loose on "Hellhounds On My Trail," a live-in-the-studio blast of blues-rock, classic rock and punk they first learned to play at the Rory Gallagher Festival in the Netherlands. Written by Tony Dowler and steeped in the Robert Johnson legend, it captures a band with real momentum — UK Blues Awards' Best Emerging Blues Band in 2024, Young Artist of the Year in 2025, and better than 250 shows a year. This fall they cross the Atlantic as special guests of Samantha Fish and Tab Benoit. Cue it loud and let it build.

New Single

Jovin Webb tips his hat to Delbert McClinton on 'Every Time I Roll the Dice'

Louisiana blues belter Jovin Webb takes on Delbert McClinton's "Every Time I Roll the Dice," the third single from his Blind Pig sophomore album Son of a Sinner, due September 18. It was produced in Nashville by multi-Grammy winner Tom Hambridge — who once drummed with McClinton himself — and leans into Webb's big voice while dropping a harmonica solo right where the original put one. It follows "Gunpowder & Lead" and "Pray for Me" on an 11-track set blending blues, gospel and Southern rock. A soulful nod from one roots great to another.

Weekly Roundup

Blues Rock Weekly: a Bernie Marsden live album with Bonamassa, plus Ghost Hounds, Eliza Neals and more

Blues Rock Review's latest weekly rundown is a full plate: a new Bernie Marsden live album featuring Joe Bonamassa, alongside fresh music from Ghost Hounds, Eliza Neals, The Zac Schulze Gang, The Commoners and Jovin Webb. It's the quick way to scan what's landing across the blues-rock world this week in a single sitting. Good raw material for a programmer piecing together a new-releases segment.

Jazz

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Out Now · Reimagining

Nicholas Payton and Butcher Brown remake 'Kind of Blue' and 'A Love Supreme' at once on 'A Supreme Blue'

Trumpeter Nicholas Payton joins Richmond collective Butcher Brown to take on two sacred texts in one go — Miles Davis' Kind of Blue and John Coltrane's A Love Supreme — arriving in the centennial year of both giants. Rather than embalm the classics, the band runs "So What," "All Blues," "Acknowledgement" and the rest through house, neo-soul, dub and hip-hop, trading cool restraint for groove and texture, with Payton's vocoder even intoning the "A Love Supreme" mantra. All About Jazz calls the result "as ambitious as it is contentious," with liner notes from Davis-and-Coltrane historian Ashley Kahn. Bold, divisive, and built for a late-night set that wants to start a conversation.

Country Rock

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Album News · New Single

Mo Pitney breaks a six-year silence with 'Happy Hour' — new album finally slated (for 2027)

Country traditionalist Mo Pitney finally has a new album on the books, his first in six years — though in classic Curb Records fashion, fans must wait until March 2027 to hear it in full. The lead single "Happy Hour," written by Adam Wright and Clint Daniels, flips the after-work ritual into something more reflective, with "Fiddle Around" and a Jake Worthington duet also out now. Saving Country Music frames it as a welcome second wind for one of the genre's most gifted, unhurried voices, all fiddle, steel and honky-tonk phrasing. A grown-up, traditional-leaning cut for a Sunday afternoon.

On This Day

July 26 · Birthdays

Mick Jagger turns 83 — the Rolling Stones' frontman and rock's definitive showman, still strutting after six decades. Drop "Gimme Shelter" or "Tumbling Dice" and let the birthday boy work the room.
Roger Taylor turns 77 — Queen's drummer and the pen behind "Radio Ga Ga" and "A Kind of Magic." A "Radio Ga Ga" spin practically introduces itself on a radio station.
Bobby Hebb (born 1938) — the Nashville soul singer-songwriter who wrote and sang the eternal "Sunny." Three minutes of pure sunshine to warm up a summer morning.
Gary Cherone turns 65 — Extreme frontman (and, briefly, Van Halen), voice of "More Than Words." The easiest sing-along you'll cue all day.