“Are you ready for what’s next,” asks Mike Peters, frontman of The Alarm, in his brand-new song, Next, that is now available via digital platforms. “Words cannot express the joy of leaving the hospital after a long stay on the wards, especially when it means you have regained your health,” he says, referring to the previous year of hospital visits, chemo treatments, and life-threatening pneumonia brought on by the relapse of his leukemia, which was initially diagnosed in 2005. While the single may signal that he’s newly energized from a healthy prognosis and ready to return to what he loves best, the fact is that Peters never stopped doing either of those things. Writing new music and performing it live to the hospital staff while undergoing me...