Sharp Little Bones – Step Up! Get Down!
Seventy minutes from the house trio at Nottingham’s Peggy’s Skylight with Tony Kofi on tenor: Rhodes, bass, drums and a very clear idea of how a groove should move.
Jespfur – Iftangible
Ten tracks and thirty minutes of electronics, lo-fi and shoegaze about having nowhere to live. Jesper Vervoort says the record was building the home while he made it.
Deafheaven – At Work in the Fields of the Bomb
Three tracks, twenty-three minutes and a twelve-minute-forty-seven closer. The surprise EP on which Deafheaven get closer to black metal than they ever have.
Wolfbrigade – Howl from Underground
Twelve tracks in thirty-one minutes, their twelfth album, and the first in a decade they haven’t produced themselves: Lawrence Mackrory has sharpened the crust without softening it.
RAM – Against
Eleven tracks and forty-two minutes, seven years after “The Throne Within”. The Swedes drop the metaphysics and write about being pushed until you refuse.
Greta Van Fleet – Palace for the People
Thirteen tracks and fifty-eight minutes, three years after “Starcatcher”, with Mike Elizondo producing. The record where the band answers the charge of never changing, and doesn’t quite refute it.
Science Fair – Sugar in the Morning
Anna Ueland puts away the synths and the singing and sits at the piano with a Norwegian quintet of trombone and tenor sax. Nine tracks, and the first is a Mort Garson cover.
Møster! – Bolts
Five tracks and forty minutes cut in four days at Duper Studio: the Bergen quartet’s seventh album, with two members of Motorpsycho on guitar and drums.
Ran Blake – Voices
Nineteen pieces for solo piano, from Puccini to Al Green by way of “You Are My Sunshine”: the Springfield pianist, now ninety-one, records for Tzadik.
Labor of the Negative – The Triumph of Time and the Disillusioned
Black metal with a horn improvising inside it: six movements of “Epoché”, an interlude wedged between the fourth and the fifth, and thirty-four minutes all told.
Drowning Steps – The Bravery of a Tireless Mind: Book One
Five tracks and thirty-seven minutes from the Brazilian duo, with an opening piece of fifteen minutes and forty-nine seconds and three of the five songs sung by guests.
Stick Men – Let’s THRAK Again
The trio’s first studio album in ten years is dedicated to King Crimson’s “THRAK” and comes in two complete mixes: same material, two different running orders.
Ruf reissue Alastair Greene’s “Trouble At Your Door” on 13 November, remastered by the engineer who recorded it in 2013
The album was a 2014 Delta Groove release. Sean McCue, who recorded it in 2013 in Santa Barbara, has remastered it, and the edition adds two tracks from the same sessions.
David Byrne and Daniel Pemberton release “Let Me Sell You a Dream”, the song that closes Alex Gibney’s Elon Musk documentary
The song closes MUSK, Alex Gibney’s documentary, which opens tomorrow in New York and Los Angeles. Byrne wrote it using phrases Musk has used himself in interviews and statements.
The sixth SGAE Tete Montoliu Jazz Prize is decided on 4 and 5 November at the Teatro Central in Seville
Four works out of the 56 entered are played at the Teatro Central on 4 and 5 November. The competition hands out €11,700 and has carried the Barcelona pianist’s name since 1999.
Dark Horse release Joe Strummer’s first known recordings, the 101’ers ones, on 20 November
“Joe Strummer 003: The 101’ers Years (1974-1976)” is three CDs and 48 tracks: studio, basement tapes and live recordings restored by Paul Hicks from the original cassettes. A double LP is out too.
Mariusz Duda turns Lunatic Soul into a quartet and announces an album and a first tour for spring 2027
Mateusz Owczarek (Lion Shepherd), Michał “Fox” Król and Michał “Malina” Maliński (Hey) complete the line-up. Until now Lunatic Soul was a studio project and had never played live.
Rwake release on 13 November the live album they recorded the day after “The Return of Magik” came out
“Built From Stardust” captures the 15 March 2025 show at the Revolution Music Room in Little Rock, the day after the studio album appeared. Six tracks, out on Relapse on vinyl and streaming.
Trivium release “Crown In The Grave” on 20 November, their eleventh album and the first with Alex Rüdinger on drums
It comes out on Roadrunner with Josh Wilbur producing and Jacob Hansen mixing. It is the first album made at The Hangar, the band’s own room in Orlando, and the first with Rüdinger as a member.
Krupka Trio – Hymns in a Jazz Mood Vol. 3
Twelve Norwegian hymns arranged for piano, saxophone and double bass, with no drums: the third volume of a series Ulf Krupka’s trio opened in 2014.
Gustavo Viríssimo – Reflexos
The Porto Alegre guitarist’s first album: eight pieces of frevo, baião and samba cut in two to six takes, with an unplanned acceleration left in.
Co Streiff – Russ Johnson Quartet – Oracle
Eleven days of a 2023 European tour edited down to six tracks: a quartet with no harmony instrument, Gerry Hemingway on drums and a sixteen-minute block at its centre.
Giant Sky – III
Erlend Aastad Viken, of Soup, closes the Giant Sky trilogy with eight tracks cut in 2024 and a guitar from Mogwai’s Stuart Braithwaite on the final song.
Mother of Millions – T
Seven years without a keyboard player and an anti-war record built on Whitman, Dickinson, Elytis and Ritsos: the Athenians fill the gap with strings, choir and spoken word.
The Fierce and the Dead – Regional Theatre
The Londoners’ fifth album is the first with a full-time keyboard player: ten songs that don’t reach forty minutes and trade the long build for the chorus.
Igorrr play seventeen European shows between March and April 2027, with Secret Chiefs 3 and Fange
From Aix-en-Provence on 13 March to Strasbourg on 4 April, by way of Istanbul, Sofia and Bucharest. Nothing in Spain, and the support acts sit out the opening night.
O.R.k. add eleven November dates across the Netherlands, the UK, Czechia, Slovakia and Poland
The quartet built around Colin Edwin and Pat Mastelotto are still touring “Firehose of Falsehoods”, out on 21 March 2025 on Kscope. The calendar has nothing in Spain.
Enter Shikari drop “Higher Ground” unannounced, their first track since “Lose Your Self”
Rou Reynolds says he wrote it during the sessions for April’s album and finished it over the spring and summer. The European arena tour starts on 3 November in Hamburg.
Darkest Hour premiere “Warrior”, second preview of “Suffer Divine”, out on 30 October
Thomas Mignone directs the video and guitarist Mike Schleibaum places it between “Raging Bull” and the clip for “Mama Said Knock You Out”. It is the Washington band’s eleventh album.
Caspian trail “Far Country”, the last track before the self-titled album of 16 October
Second and final preview of the sixth album by the Massachusetts band, with a short film by Luke Webster Brown and Elijah Sussman. The European tour starts the day before and skips Spain.
Shuteen Erdenebaatar releases “Bright Folk” on 20 November, her first record with the new quartet
The Mongolian pianist plays with Nils Kugelmann, Simon Comté and Amir Bresler, with Jakob Manz guesting. The first track out is “Do You See the Stars I See?”.
“Reign in Blood” turns forty and Slayer are putting out a vinyl full of red liquid on 20 November
The album came out on 7 October 1986: ten tracks in 28 minutes and 58 seconds. Sound Of Vinyl has the new pressing exclusively, and neither price nor run size has been announced.
Aerosmith return to the stage on 29 October and 1 November at the Hollywood Bowl, with twenty-odd guests
“California, Dream On: Aerosmith & Friends” is two nights with The Black Crowes, Run-DMC, Heart, Slash, Sammy Hagar and Tom Morello. The band last played on 9 September 2023.
Radar Festival moves to a former steelworks and opens its 2027 bill with Textures, Arcane Roots and Conjurer
30 July to 1 August at Magna in Sheffield. The headliner, announced earlier, is Mick Gordon, playing the “Doom” soundtrack in full for the first time.
The “Zoot Allures” fiftieth anniversary box arrives on 4 December with five CDs and a 1976 Paris concert
Zappa Records and Universal put in what was meant to be the 1976 double LP, the old mixes, and two CDs of a Paris show from March that year.
Miles Okazaki is putting “The Monkathon” online for free, five hours of every Thelonious Monk tune on guitar
On 10 October, the day Monk would have turned 109, he opens a site with a permanent link. It is 66 songs in a row, no notation and not a word spoken.
The Lost Quintet’s 1969 Copenhagen concert comes out on double vinyl on 27 November
Columbia Legacy is putting it out for Record Store Day’s Black Friday, in a limited edition. The quintet is Wayne Shorter, Chick Corea, Dave Holland and Jack DeJohnette.
Konvent release “Firesky” on 6 November, five tracks on Napalm Records
The second single is the title track, with a guest vocal. It is the Danish band’s first record since “Call Down the Sun”, from March 2022.
Dennis Pepa, founding member of Death Angel, has stage 4 duodenal cancer and has launched an appeal
He was diagnosed in February 2026, having just lost a job of twenty years. He is asking for $150,000 for an immunotherapy in Mexico the centre has yet to approve.
Down release “Volume V” on 20 November, nineteen years after “Over The Under”
Nuclear Blast has put out the second single, “The Myth”. The album was cut at Anselmo’s home studio through 2025, with Keenan and Windstein tracking guitars together.