Graham Bonnet Gets Lost In Hollywood One Last Time

October 15, 2025

There’s a lot of myths surrounding Graham Bonnet, yet all of them get laid to rest when the singer hits the stage, and that’s what he and the rest of GRAHAM BONNET BAND, first of all bassist Beth-Ami Heavenstone and guitarist Conrado Pesinato, ne and do quite regularly. Today, they are back in Great Britain, but on August 29th, 2024, the ensemble roamed the planks of Whisky a Go Go in Los Angeles – the place immortalized in a song by one of the veteran’s former groups. No wonder, then, that the live album recorded there and then is titled “Lost In Hollywood Again”: a CD/DVD package of it and a standalone Blu-ray will be out on December 12th.

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SNARKY PUPPY Reunite With METROPOLE ORKEST

October 14, 2025

Never driven by their popularity, SNARKY PUPPY haven’t been too creative recently, following 2019’s “Immigrance” not with another studio album but with a series of live releases, including 2022’s “Empire Central” which featured new material – and that’s the approach the American band applied to their forthcoming platter, titled “Somni” and scheduled, apparently only on vinyl as of now, for November 21st.

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Mavis Staples Bemoans And Admires The State Of Our World

October 13, 2025

To call Mavis Staples a voice of a generation would mean to hugely underestimate her cultural significance. For one, this artist’s career encopmasses more than a single peer-group lifespan, and then, her influence not only on music but also on a civil rights movement, and even if we focus solely on songs these have crossed genres and styles with ease, their only constant remaining the veteran’s voice and personality. Still, the last platter she issued was 2019’s “We Get By” – written and produced by Ben Harper, and though Mavis’ contributed to "Here It Is: A Tribute To Leonard Cohen" in 2022, fans have been eagerly waiting for her next solo offering. And soon the wait will be over.

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THE WATERBOYS Return To Dennis Hopper’s Realm

October 12, 2025

When THE WATERBOYS released the “Life, Death And Dennis Hopper” last April, it seemed that one hour would be enough for the Scottish ensemble’s dive into American cinematicity, yet they created too much of Western-landscape-exploring material to use within a single platter’s context, star-studded or not. As a result, December 5th will the a companion record issued, called “Rips From The Cutting Room Floor” and featuring tracks that didn’t fit the original narrative.

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DURUTTI COLUMN Expand Their Debut For Anniversary Edition

October 12, 2025

Starting out as a real band, DURUTTI COLUMN arrived at their first album as a one-man operation, guitarist Vini Reilly working with producer Martin Hannett and roping in a rhythm section to flesh out the grooves for tracks the two concocted. Still, the initial low-key affair titled “The Return Of The Durutti Column” proved to be much loved, highly influential and, four and a half decades down the line, often listened to by many a connoisseur. That’s why the 1980 album’s expansion which shall soon see the light of day seems like a great reason to admire it afresh.

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