AC/DC close the Power Up tour with Dave Grohl singing “Highway To Hell” at MetLife Stadium
Eighty-nine shows since May 2024 and a twenty-one-song finale in New Jersey. Of the tour’s two stops in Spain, neither was in Catalonia.
Leila Abdul-Rauf – Andros Insidium
The sixth solo record from Vastum’s guitarist, on Ishtar’s descent: thirty-seven minutes of drone and trumpet, with harsh vocals on two tracks only.
Dave Bass – Trio Nuevo, Vol. 3
Third volume in three years from Dave Bass’s trio with Tyler Miles and Steve Helfand: a Bach toccata, a seldom-played Monk and three contrafacts.
Nite Bjuti – minwi
The second album by Candice Hoyes, Mimi Jones and Val Jeanty, cut live at NUBLU in New York in May 2023 and released three years later.
George Garzone – Themes for Good Friends
Cut at Van Gelder Studios with Randy Brecker, Luis Perdomo, Santi Debriano and Jeff “Tain” Watts, and closed with a tribute to Michael Brecker.
Stephan Thelen – Fractal Guitar 4
The fourth instalment of the series Thelen began in 2015, cut across eight cities from Bucharest to Krefeld, with Eivind Aarset on all eight tracks.
Judit Neddermann and Momi Maiga release “Mou-te”, with a video you navigate with your eyes
The song is driven by the Catalan ALS foundation Miquel Valls and the video moves with your gaze, the one movement many patients keep in the late stages.
Laura Cox releases her first live album on 20 November, cut at Le Trianon in Paris
“Trouble Coming To Paris: Live At Le Trianon” captures the 10 April show at Le Trianon. It comes as a double LP and as a CD with Blu-ray, both limited.
“Rubber Soul” returns remixed by Giles Martin, with twenty takes and three unheard home demos
The special edition came out on Friday with new stereo and Dolby Atmos mixes, the original mono and the Capitol US version. The big box runs to sixty-eight tracks.
DIIV share the video for “Trillions”, the third advance track from “ZIRP!”
The album is out on 30 October through Fantasy, eleven tracks produced by A. G. Cook. It’s the band’s first since “Frog In Boiling Water”, from May 2024.
The Smashing Pumpkins put “The Aeroplane Flies High” back on vinyl, thirteen years after the last time
The five-LP box arrives on 18 December through UMe, as a standard set and on coloured vinyl. It collects the expanded editions of the five “Mellon Collie” singles.
Comeback Kid share “Yesterday’s Gone” with Incendiary’s Brendan Garrone, from “Chosen Hell”
The track comes from the album they release on 6 November through SharpTone, with the Incendiary singer guesting and a sleeve that was built by hand in Melbourne.
Rancid open the “…And Out Come The Wolves” vault with a record of unreleased demos and live takes
The box holds two LPs and four seven-inches, including an unreleased 1995 New York show. Pre-orders are open and the label places it in January, with no day yet.
Bastion Rose close the run-up to “Blue Rising” with “Supernatural” and are already recording the next record
The Indiana band put out the last track before the album, due on 15 January, and confirm they are back in the studio with David Bottrill for what comes after.
Metallica open their Sphere residency with “Battery” and close it with “Master Of Puppets”
“Life Burns Faster” began on Thursday in Las Vegas with sixteen tracks and runs to 13 March 2027, with different setlists on Thursdays and Saturdays.
London coroner puts Phil Campbell’s death down to multi-organ failure after two liver transplants
The inquest at St Pancras sat on Friday, six and a half months after the Motörhead guitarist died. The coroner says nothing suggests it could have been prevented.
Maika Makovski – Live-Palau!
Twenty-one tracks from the twentieth-anniversary show at the Palau, with the Quartet Brossa, Rosenvinge, Anni B Sweet and Howe Gelb, and eight songs from that night left out.
Epica – Live at The Symphonic Synergy
Twenty tracks and two hours of the 2024 Amsterdam show with orchestra and choir, already issued on Blu-ray inside “Aspiral” and now arriving digitally without the video.
Butcher Babies – Nightbloom
Ten tracks of three and a half minutes and the first album without Carla Harvey: Heidi Shepherd out front alone, Howard Benson producing and half the record already out on video.
Agriculture – The Spiritual Sound, Live in Europe 2026
Seven of the ten tracks come from the Roadburn set and the other three from Glasgow, Milan and Cologne: a live record stitched together from four rooms, and it shows.
The Neil Peart memorial at Lakeside Park gets the go-ahead: two bronze statues and a million dollars
St. Catharines council has approved the plan: $800,000 for the installation and $200,000 for maintenance. The work is expected to take about a year.
Bernard Allison previews “Time Traveler” with Larry McCray ahead of “Loving You” on 16 October
The guitarist brings in two guests on six strings, Larry McCray and Matthew Mwangi. It is his first album in four years.
Juan Chiavassa cuts a piano trio with Kikoski and Kozlov to go back into Roy Haynes’s world
The Argentinian drummer opened pre-orders today for his second Whirlwind album. Both of his sidemen played in Roy Haynes’s trio.
Electric Valley cut “Echo” live in the studio and release it on 6 November through Small Stone
The Madrid stoner-doom trio return five years after “Tapes From The Galactic Tavern” with seven tracks recorded live at Estudio Brazil.
Epica release the orchestra-and-choir concert they played in Amsterdam in September 2024
Twenty tracks recorded at AFAS Live on 20 September 2024. It is digital only and comes with a video of “Consign to Oblivion”.
The Clash release the 1982 compilation that only American radio stations ever had
“The World According To The Clash” was pressed for US radio DJs ahead of “Combat Rock” and has never been on sale. Eleven songs, out on 13 November.
Kim Deal releases the first orchestral concert of her career on 13 November
Eighteen songs recorded at the Barbican in London on 1 March 2025, with twenty-five musicians and the Shards choir, and a concert film directed by Cuan Roche.
Talking Heads reissue “Fear of Music” with two 1979 concerts that have never been released
The box arrives on 13 November with the remastered album, the Boston and Passaic shows, an unfinished outtake and the 5.1 and Atmos mixes on Blu-ray.
Palaye Royale release “Amsterdamage” on 22 January and say they would have split without it
The sixth album comes out on Sumerian and was written in 2025, the year after their mother died. The European leg in March has no Spanish date.
Greta Van Fleet release “Palace For The People” on 9 October and the 2027 European leg skips Spain
The fourth album arrives through Republic Records with thirteen tracks. The “Into The Beginning” tour covers fifty-nine cities between February and July 2027, and none of them is here.
Hollie Kenniff & Kazuma Okabayashi – The Last Bright Place
Eight tracks and thirty minutes of four-handed ambient between Tokyo and the United States, six of which had already come out as singles.
Ross Margitza – Discovery
Eight of his own compositions for piano trio, with a string quartet on four tracks and Joel Frahm on the first: forty minutes of held pulse.
Maiah Wynne – Into The Waves
Envy of None’s singer reaches her second solo album: twelve tracks cut on a laptop in hotel rooms, with Alex Lifeson on two of them.
John Holden – Thresholds
Seventh album from the British composer: seven thresholds, four guest voices and, for the first time, every instrument played by him alone.
Hippotraktor – Annihilist
Third album from the Mechelen five-piece, and the third with exactly seven tracks: thirty-eight minutes, the shortest of the three, with Loïc Rossetti guesting.
Steven Wilson previews “On Chapel Slope”, the second track from “Requiem for a Village”
Steven Wilson releases “On Chapel Slope”, the second preview of “Requiem for a Village” (out 6 November), with a video directed by Mike Bennion.
Annicke Shireen releases her first solo album, “Delirium”, on 13 November
Ten tracks moving between alternative rock, metal, synthpop, folk and grunge. The first single, “Come To Light”, is out with a video.
Lustmord and Dave Lombardo release “The Pulse Of Atoms” today and share a third track
The album is out on Ipecac. “It’s the sound of planets dying or of stars being born,” they say of it. “It’s not rock and roll.”
Dissimulator release “Artifice Dissolves” today, the Montreal trio’s second album
Out on 20 Buck Spin, two years and eight months after “Lower Form Resistance”. The band draws on Chthe’ilist, Atramentus and Beyond Creation.
Buddy Guy has a new album coming in 2027, produced by Steve Jordan with Kim Wilson guesting
The guitarist’s team has named the producer and part of the band, but no title and no date. He turned ninety back in July.