Meshell Ndegeocello previews «Synonym» with a Bob Dylan cover sung with Bill Callahan and Chris Thile
Meshell Ndegeocello previews ‘Synonym’ with a Bob Dylan cover sung with Bill Callahan and Chris Thile, ahead of its 2 October release on Blue Note.
Ministry announce «Hate To Go», the album that closes the band, and preview «Singularity»
Ministry announce ‘Hate To Go (Take Out Or Delivery)’, their farewell album, and preview ‘Singularity’, its third single.
N8NOFACE debuts on Stones Throw with «Tomorrow’s World», produced by Dave Sitek
N8NOFACE debuts on Stones Throw with ‘Tomorrow’s World’, produced by Dave Sitek, featuring Hudson Mohawke, Angélica Garcia and Nick Zinner.
Brainstory announce «Shoebox Days», the EP that closes the chapter of their Long Beach studio
Brainstory announce ‘Shoebox Days’, a seven-song EP marking the closure of their Long Beach studio, out 13 November on Big Crown Records.
Graveyard premiere «Tongue Tied» video, second preview of the album out on 9 October
Graveyard premiere the ‘Tongue Tied’ video, second preview of ‘Fever’, their seventh album, out 9 October through Nuclear Blast.
Emma Ruth Rundle releases «These Killing Times», recorded with a full band and on her own label
Emma Ruth Rundle releases ‘These Killing Times’, her sixth album, recorded with a full band on Errant Child, the label she runs herself.
Columbia reissues the complete Miles Davis and John Coltrane recordings, 1955 to 1961, on 6 November
Columbia reissues ‘The Complete Columbia Recordings 1955-1961’, the Miles Davis/John Coltrane box set, on 6 November, in the centenary year for both musicians.
Ozric Tentacles release «Harmonic Mind», their seventeenth album, on Kscope
Ozric Tentacles release ‘Harmonic Mind’, their seventeenth studio album, on Kscope: six tracks recorded at the members’ own home studios.
Anthrax release «Cursum Perficio» and premiere the video for the title track
Anthrax release their twelfth studio album, ‘Cursum Perficio’, and premiere a black-and-white video for the title track, directed by Don Argott.
Russian Circles reissue «Guidance» with reworked cover art ten years on
Russian Circles mark ten years of ‘Guidance’ with a reissue featuring reworked cover art, arriving around 11 December through Sargent House.
Grave Digger release «Faces Of Pain» on 15 January and open tour with fifteen dates
Grave Digger’s ‘Faces Of Pain’ arrives on 15 January through Reaper Entertainment, followed by a fifteen-date ‘Legends Never Die Tour ’27’ across Germany and Switzerland.
Blue Note releases anthology of contemporary Chinese jazz on 23 October
Blue Note Records China releases ‘Now’s The Time’, a six-track anthology of contemporary Chinese jazz from Beijing and Shanghai musicians, on 23 October.
Gary McCracken, Max Webster drummer and the voice of «A Million Vacations», dies at 75
Gary McCracken, Max Webster’s drummer and co-writer of ‘A Million Vacations’, has died at 75. He also recorded ‘Battle Scar’ with Rush alongside Neil Peart.
CBC to air Neil Peart documentary on 23 September, after Toronto premiere
CBC’s ‘Neil Peart: No One’s Disciple’, which premiered in Toronto with Geddy Lee and Alex Lifeson present, airs on 23 September within ‘The Passionate Eye’.
Guim Cifré, the driving force behind JazzSí’s reopening, dies in a motorcycle accident in Barcelona
Guim Cifré, who was bringing back Barcelona’s JazzSí Club this weekend, has died in a motorcycle accident aged 34.
The Ocean unveil «Milk Of My Dreams» with Thorsten Quaeschning of Tangerine Dream
The Ocean’s «Solaris», with a largely new line-up, follows a rescue ship fleeing the ruined Earth of «Holocene».
The Pineapple Thief release «God Knows» and play Sala Apolo on 12 March 2027
Barcelona’s Sala Apolo is the only Spanish stop on The Pineapple Thief’s 2027 tour behind «Far and Wide».
«Back to the Beginning», Ozzy Osbourne’s final concert, hits cinemas 28 October
The film of Ozzy Osbourne and Black Sabbath’s Villa Park farewell show, with Metallica, Guns N’ Roses and more, gets a limited cinema run.
Dungeon Serpent break five years of silence and sign to Profound Lore
Dungeon Serpent’s «Lamentations Of The Shadowkingdoms», their first for Profound Lore, adds live drums to their melodic death metal.
Symphony X’s founding bassist returns with his own record twenty-seven years after leaving the band
Thomas Miller’s Lazarus Effect reunites him with former Symphony X bandmates Michael Romeo and Michael Pinnella.
Eivør releases «Tungl» on 16 October, presenting it with two nights in Tórshavn and one in Reykjavík
Eivør’s first record for Nuclear Blast, «Tungl», is previewed by «Spøkilsir / Revenants», with a European tour skipping Spain.
Gates Of Kiev debut 2 October with four tracks, forty minutes and a name taken from Emerson, Lake & Palmer
Dutch trio Gates Of Kiev’s self-titled debut was mixed by White Willow’s Jacob Holm-Lupo, with «Silhouette» as its first video.
Thy Catafalque record with a real drummer for the first time across thirteen records
Tamás Kátai’s Thy Catafalque break from programmed drums on «XIII: Sárga erdő», filmed in the same woods as their first video 25 years ago.
Midnight release their first live record, recorded at two sold-out Hollywood shows in May
Midnight’s «Satanic Attack Live!» revisits «Satanic Royalty» in full plus five extra tracks, recorded on its fifteenth-anniversary tour.
Rick Wakeman dedicates a track to Bowie on his new record, fifty years after playing piano on «Life on Mars?»
«Bowie’s Vision», from Wakeman’s «Return to the Red Planet», pays tribute to the man whose «Life on Mars?» he once played piano on.
Fucked Up close out twenty years of zodiac cycle with «Year Of The Rooster»
Fucked Up’s «Year Of The Rooster» closes their twenty-year zodiac cycle, with guests spanning American hardcore and beyond.
Epica will celebrate twenty-five years with orchestra and choir, with the only Spanish date in Madrid
Epica’s orchestral anniversary tour «The Symphonic Synergy» skips Catalonia, with the sole Spanish stop in Madrid on 10 October 2027.
200 Stab Wounds set a date for «Lowest Form»: 19 February 2027 via Metal Blade
200 Stab Wounds’s «Lowest Form», produced by Arthur Rizk, is out 19 February 2027, previewed by «Pangs Of Conscience».
«RAW & ROCK» brings twenty-one photographers’ concert photography to Calàbria 66
The group show «RAW & ROCK. Capturing Moments» runs 19 September to 10 October at Espai Veïnal Calàbria 66 in Barcelona.
The conversation between David Lee Roth and Alex Van Halen is now up, their first joint appearance since 2015
Roth and Alex Van Halen reunite on stage — for a TEDx talk, not a show — for the first time since 2015.
Bosco Sacro set a date for their second record: «Inhabit» is out 6 November
Bosco Sacro’s «Inhabit» was recorded live over seven days in Tuscany, out via the Ufomammut-linked Supernatural Cat Records.
Saturna release «Light and Shadow» on the 17th and present it on the 25th at Laut
Barcelona’s Saturna release their sixth record, mixed by their own drummer, and play it live at Sala Laut on 25 September.
Blue Note reissues Nat King Cole’s «After Midnight» in the Tone Poet series
The 1956 record that brought Cole back to piano trio format, with a rotating guest on every session, gets a 180-gram Tone Poet reissue.
Mother of Graves preview «The Silent Weight Of The Stars» and set a date for their third record
Mother of Graves’s «The Light That Keeps Us» is out 16 October via Profound Lore, with Dan Swanö mastering and guesting on vocals.
Anciients re-record «Humanist» fifteen years on, two weeks before playing Barcelona
Anciients re-record their 2011 track «Humanist» ahead of a European tour stopping at Razzmatazz 3 on 13 October.
Steve Hackett brings his Genesis repertoire to Paral·lel 62 in November 2027, tickets on sale Friday
Hackett’s «Best of Genesis & Solo Gems» tour stops only in Madrid and Barcelona in Spain; tickets open Friday at 11am.
Söndörgő release «In Residence at Müpa», featuring three Snarky Puppy musicians and the Balanescu Quartet
Söndörgő’s Budapest residency across folk, classical and jazz nights becomes a record, with guests from Snarky Puppy and the Balanescu Quartet.
Cheetah Chrome, guitarist of the Dead Boys and Rocket from the Tombs, dies at 71
Tributes from Duff McKagan and his Dead Boys bandmates for Cheetah Chrome, a founding figure of American punk.
Tony Iommi explains he turned down a final Black Sabbath record with the original line-up
Iommi tells Classic Rock he passed on producer Andrew Watt’s pitch for one more Sabbath album after «13» (2013).
Johan Längqvist hospitalised, misses Candlemass’s London show
Candlemass played London Metalfest with a guest vocalist after singer Johan Längqvist was hospitalised following a medical emergency.