GENE LOVES JEZEBEL Reissues Classic Concert In Its Entirety

November 17, 2025

For a band who have been doing the rounds for close on half a century now, GENE LOVES JEZEBEL can’t boast an appropriate number of onstage albums, and there was only one released in the Welsh group’s first – and, arguably, finest – decade, “Glad To Be Alive” from 1986, issued hot on the heels of a Nottingham show it documented. The problem was that recording saw the light as a limited edition and had only six pieces out of the seventeen the ensemble performed on March 17th, so a new version seemed long overdue. Finally, a CD variant will arrive on December 31st.

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CONEY HATCH – 14/10/2025 – The Redwood Theatre, Toronto

November 16, 2025

While the emphasis “better late than never” idiom usually falls on the rock ‘n’ roll-appropriate second and fourth words, it’s the first that CONEY HATCH load with importance in 2025, the year when the Ontarian ensemble finally went not only for the expanded, 40-anniversary reissue of their eponymous debut, but also for its concert interpretation in acoustic form.

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Chick Corea’s Last Concerts To See Physical Release

November 15, 2025

When Chick Corea passed away on February 9th, 2021, our world became a much poorer place, and hearing in what a great form he was only four months prior to leaving this mortal coil should be extremely poignant – and listening to how it was will be possible – properly, on CD or vinyl, as opposed to the streaming option now – on February 27th, 2026 upon the release of the late genius’ “Forever Yours: The Farewell Performance” album.

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SOFT MACHINE Call On Fans To Hop On New Album’s Fun

November 14, 2025

For any other band apart from BLACK SABBATH to name their new work after its place in the ensemble’s studio discography, or for the number of its tracks, would be quite tasteless, as CHICAGO proved time after time. However, when SOFT MACHINE decided to bestow the title of “Thirteen” on a platter which will be released on March 13th, 2026, it could only mean further return to form the band have never lost anyway, to the mental and creative place where platters like “Six” and “Seven” used to exist. Laid down as a quartet of John Etheridge on guitar, Theo Travis on sax, Asaf Sirkis on drums and Fred Baker on bass, it also features Daevid Allen, the group’s founding member who didn’t appear on any of their official records but joined them for a session in 2001 whence his parts came,

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Nico’s Rare Art-Rock Collaborations See A Box Set Treatment

November 13, 2025

As controversial a figure as she was, Nico blazed a remarkable trail through the world of art-rock, and not only with VELVET UNDERGROUND but also with quite a few other great musicians, including Kevin Ayers and Brian Eno as well as, which was less documented, TANGERINE DREAM. Only a few of those collaborations saw release outside of bootlegs, yet there’s a new box set now, issued on November 7th, that gathers a lot of previously unheard material – of limited appeal yet interesting nonetheless.

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