Ricardo Formoso – Electric Rebound
A Galician fusion quartet with no bass player: the electric piano takes the low lines and Formoso’s flugelhorn carries the tune. Forty-four minutes you won’t find on any platform.
Oh Hiroshima start eleven European dates on 15 October with Barrens, and none of them is in Spain
From Warsaw to Hamburg in eleven days, touring “And The Dead Tree Gives No Shelter”, out on 5 June. Sweden’s Barrens join from the 20th.
Hypno5e share “Trame Noire”, the title track of the album out on 6 November
It is the third advance track, after “Lost Fires” and “Molecular Angel”. Five tracks on Pelagic Records, produced by Emmanuel Jessua and mixed by Chris Edrich.
W.A.S.P. cancel the Carteret show on the night and KK’s Priest play the headline set
The New Jersey venue announced it on 3 October in a three-line statement. No reason has been given and the tour carries on in Montreal on the 5th.
A documentary follows Orbit Culture through Summer Breeze and Niklas Karlsson goes over the band’s thirteen years
“Offstage with Orbit Culture”, by Scream Dudes, covers line-up changes, burnout and the labels that never wrote back. The band plays Sant Jordi Club on 13 November.
Deafheaven play “Hunter” for the first time in Chicago, from the EP they call the heaviest thing they have done
It happened on 2 October, on the North American tour with Mastodon and Alcest. The EP has no title and no date, and physical copies were on sale at the show.
Turnstile make their “Saturday Night Live” debut with “Birds” and an “I Care”/“Dull” medley
The 3 October episode was hosted by Dakota Johnson. According to Consequence, no hardcore band had played the show since Fear in 1981.
Devin Townsend explains he went back on stage after losing money on “The Moth” and splitting from his partner of thirty-six years
He said it on the “Sixty Scales And The Truth” podcast on 29 September. The acoustic Metamorphosis tour reaches Salamandra on 10 October.
Floor Jansen releases “Hytress” on 15 January and says she does not want to copy what Tuomas Holopainen writes
Twelve songs on REVAMP Music and Warner, her second solo album after “Paragon”. The European tour in January and February has no date in Spain.
Geezer Butler joins Jack Black’s band at Tom Morello’s festival to play “War Pigs”
Jack Sabbath opened with “Mr. Crowley” and “The Wizard”, with the sons of Tom Morello and Scott Ian on guitar and bass. Butler came out for the third.
Digba Ogunbiyi – Stay Still
The Nigerian pianist sets Yoruba names and dirges next to bebop, with talking drum and voice. The meeting happens more at the album’s surface than in its harmony.
Tommy Muellner – Solitary Moon
Twenty-eight years after his first album, the Chicago pianist returns with fifteen tracks and ten dedications. The playing is impeccable; the thread holding them together is biographical, not musical.
Adam Bałdych European Quartet – Endless
Violin, bandoneon, piano and bass recorded without an audience in a Polish concert hall. Bałdych alternates a low-tuned Renaissance violin, and almost the whole album is duets.
Rob Harrison – Overflow
Z Machine’s saxophonist records an album about water almost single-handed, with glass bottles and water percussion. Two of the eight tracks are the same piece reversed, and that doesn’t hold.
Fistfights With Wolves – Sea Shanties For Future Sailors
The San Diego sextet fits chamber music, math rock and jazz into nine tracks and thirty-four minutes, with two voices that never stop. That’s also the one thing they can’t vary.
Molstone – Master Of Illusion
Molstone’s first album arrives twelve years after the band formed, written by the man who sang on the first two Flamborough Head records. Dutch neo-prog with craft, and with a catalogue feel.
The two Wilco men behind The Autumn Defense bring “Here And Nowhere” to Reus on 18 October and Barcelona on the 20th
John Stirratt and Pat Sansone play seven Spanish dates, two of them in Catalonia: the Festival Accents in Reus and the Antiga Fàbrica Estrella Damm with Delicatessen.
The Christmas record Steve Lukather cut in six days with Eddie Van Halen, Steve Vai and Slash reaches vinyl twenty-three years on
“Santamental” returns on 7 November on CD and digital, with vinyl to follow. It dates from 2003, had gone out of print and had never appeared on digital or vinyl.
The sampler The Clash sent to US radio in 1982 goes on sale for the first time
“The World According to The Clash” is out on 13 November with eleven remastered tracks. The 1982 promo had never been put on sale.
Mike McCready and Matt Cameron play “Loud Love”, “Outshined” and “Spoonman” with Taylor Momsen at Tom Morello’s festival
Three Soundgarden songs at Merriweather Post Pavilion on Saturday 3 October, with the band’s original drummer and Pearl Jam’s guitarist. Morello joined them.
Forty-seven songs against the deportations: Kathleen Hanna, Tom Morello, Jello Biafra and Ad-Rock on a SoundsGood compilation
“Contra-ICE Vol. 1: ICE OUT” came out on 2 October. The money goes to the day labourer network NDLON and to Unión del Barrio, and Lalo Alcaraz drew the cover.
Disillusion lose their guitarist and their keyboard player: Ben Haugg and Freddy Ruckert are out, and the announced dates stand
Haugg had been in since 2016 and Ruckert since 2018. The band say the decisions were a long time coming and that every announced show will go ahead.
Joe Bonamassa on the AI-generated blues artist: “Should those artists be in the same category as living people? No”
He said it at the Crossroads Guitar Festival in Austin, asked about Eddie Dalton. His line is between using the tool and competing on the same chart as a living musician.
Kent Carter, the double bassist who backed Steve Lacy for almost twenty years, dies at 87
He died on Wednesday 30 September in Juillaguet, in the Charente, where he had lived since 1991 and ran an artists’ residence with his wife, the dancer Michala Marcus.
Sass Jordan dies at 65, two weeks after stepping away from everything for an illness that was never named
She died on Friday 2 October surrounded by her family. In September she had cleared the rest of the year for a “serious medical condition” that was never specified.
Voivod cancel all ten US dates and say they can’t commit to new ones
The run was to open on 8 October in Youngstown with BAT supporting. The band cite a family health emergency and offer no timetable for a return.
Libor Šmoldas Quartet – Sorry, Miles!
The Czech guitarist plays the tunes Miles Davis put his name to without writing them, plus four originals. The premise reads better than it sounds, but “Richard’s Regret” earns it.
Hermetic Science – The Lost Jazz Tapes EP
Four standards cut in a single take in March 1996 by a marimba, bass and drums trio, forgotten for thirty years and found while remastering the band’s first album.
Odd Logic – Mortal Heirloom
Ninth album from the Tacoma one-man band: six tracks, forty-three minutes of melodic progressive metal, seven years after “Last Watch Of The Nightingale”.
The Tirith – Quetzalcoatl
Fourth studio album from the Loughborough band who were called Minas Tirith in the seventies: twelve tracks, sixty-nine minutes of hard rock with keyboards, nearly all of it mid-tempo.
Hats Off Gentlemen… It’s Adequate – Parallel Lives
The British band’s ninth album stacks spoken-word verses, metre changes and bass flute into a record about mental wear, and closes on nine minutes of consolation.
Mike Patton brings Mondo Cane to Mexico and opens the Cervantino festival today
On 1 October at the Palacio de Bellas Artes, with orchestra, choir and Mariachi Gama 1000 for the encore. Today he plays Guanajuato to open the 54th Cervantino.
James Blood Ulmer’s memorial brings the “Tales Of Captain Black” rhythm section back together in New York
Vernon Reid was musical director of the 29 September service at Saint Peter’s, with David Murray, Marc Ribot, Jamaaladeen Tacuma and Denardo Coleman. Ulmer died on 3 June, aged 86.
Induction re-cut “Gods Of Steel”, this time with Kai Hansen on vocals
Guitarist Tim Hansen puts his father, of Helloween and Gamma Ray, on a song from “Love Kills!”. The October tour takes Barcelona’s Kilmara along.
Fear Factory’s singer says he tried to sound like Burton C. Bell on “Roboticist”
Milo Silvestro talks about the first track with the current line-up. The album has ten songs, comes out through Nuclear Blast and still has no date.
Imminence release “Axis Mundi” and the January European tour skips Spain
Eleven tracks through Sumerian with Henrik Udd and Drew Fulk. The tour with August Burns Red covers nineteen announced cities between 8 January and 6 February, and not one is in Spain.
Quiet Riot have a new singer: John Torra, 23, picked from an open call with seven hundred entries
First show on 1 October in Oklahoma, fourteen songs, with Rudy Sarzo on bass. He replaces Jizzy Pearl, who left in July.
Molly Hatchet record their first album in sixteen years, “Lost Horizon”, at Abbey Road
Twelve tracks cut in Studio 2 at Abbey Road, the first album since “Justice” in 2010. Not one member of the band’s original line-up is still alive.
Slash releases “Flying Blind” on 26 February and the 2027 tour stops only in Vitoria
Twelve tracks through Gibson Records, produced by Michael Baskette in Florida. The only Spanish date is the Azkena Rock Festival on 17 June.
Bruce Dickinson says the new solo album is finished and that he will tour in 2027
Recorded at Dave Grohl’s Studio 606 in January and February, with his son Austin guesting and five videos shot in Nevada. On Iron Maiden he will only say there are surprises.