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Art Ensemble of Chicago – Kabalaba: Live at Montreux Jazz Festival (2025)

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January 10, 2026

One of several recordings issued by the Art Ensemble’s own label and the only one to document the group as a whole, Kabalaba is a live, 1974 performance at the Montreux Jazz Festival by the same augmented band (with the addition of Muhal Richard Abrams) that recorded the superb Fanfare for the Warriors album for Atlantic. While not as heady as that release, Kabalaba offers a typical example of the Art Ensemble’s live concerts from around that time.
There are several percussion interludes and solo horn features interspersed among stronger thematic pieces such as Theme for Sco, which gets an energetic workout here. Roscoe Mitchell produces an especially acerbic solo alto piece, Improvization A2 [sic], all gnarls and bitter…

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Fanny – Rock and Roll Survivors: Live Opera 1974 (2025)

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January 10, 2026

As the name implies, Fanny were an uncompromising, take no prisoners, no holds barred, rock ‘n’ roll outfit who tried to grab the music business by the scruff of the neck and squeeze it dry in the early to mid 1970’s. The fact that they were women didn’t seem to bother them… but it certainly bother “the business”.
Formed by sisters June (guitar & vocals) and Jean (bass & vocals) Millington in the late 60’s and signing to Reprise Records in 1969 they were joined by Alice de Buhr (drums & vocals) and Nickey Barclay (keyboards & vocals) to record debut, Fanny (1970), and follow ups, Charity Ball (1971), Fanny Hill (1972), and Mothers Pride (1973), before June and Alice jumped ship triggering a move to Casablanca Records in 1974.

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The Rolling Stones – Live & Sessions 1963-1969 (2025)

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January 9, 2026

“This is our last concert, ever. And we’d love to do you for now on our last concert ever…” After the words peter out, a ragged, yet blistering, five-minute version of “(I Can’t Get no) Satisfaction” explodes from the stage. Show over, The Rolling Stones leave Hawaii’s Honolulu International Center to…what?
It’s not as noteworthy a stitch in rock’s rich tapestry as David Bowie’s 3 July 1973 announcement at the Hammersmith Odeon that “not only is it the last show of the tour, but it’s the last show that we’ll ever do.” Or even George Harrison’s “that’s it, then. I’m not a Beatle anymore” comment after playing San Francisco’s Candlestick Park on 29 August 1966 – what turned out to be The Beatles last-ever (conventional) live show. But it was unequivocal. On 28 July 1966, Mick Jagger told the audience…

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The Flaming Lips – Yoshimi Battles the Pink Robots: Live at the OKC Zoo Amphitheatre (2025)

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January 8, 2026

Few bands feel as tied to their hometown mythology as The Flaming Lips, so it makes perfect sense that their full-album performance of Yoshimi Battles the Pink Robots would eventually circle back to Oklahoma City. Recorded on August 30, 2024 at the Zoo Amphitheater, this release captures a band revisiting its early-2000s peak with both affection and a steadier, lived-in sense of timing.
After an introduction by the mayor of OKC thanking the band for their contribution to the city, the Lips launch into “Fight Test,” which establishes the tone immediately. The rhythm section sits heavier than on the studio version, and Steven Drozd’s keyboard work gives the song a low, steady hum that pushes the chorus forward. “One More Robot / Sympathy 3000-21” follows with a gentle lift…

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Emma Tricca – Prisms of Winter: LIVE in London (2025)

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January 8, 2026

Emma Tricca’s Prisms of Winter is an intimate recording — a collection of twelve stripped‑down live recordings that feel less like a performance and more like a whispered conversation between artist and listener. Recorded in London’s backrooms and scattered studios, the album is suffused with a quiet magic, and the kind of intimacy that makes you lean in closer, as though Tricca were singing directly into your ear.
This is Tricca at her most vulnerable and poetic. By paring back the arrangements, she exposes the bare bones of her songs — the words, the voice, the guitar — and in doing so, reveals their timeless strength. The immediacy of the recordings creates a sense of closeness, as if each track were a secret shared in confidence.

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Rahsaan Roland Kirk – Vibrations in the Village: Live at the Village Gate (2025)

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January 6, 2026

In November 2025, producers Zev Feldman and George Klabin’s Resonance Records released two unissued live recordings by Rahsaan Roland Kirk. Vibrations in the Village: Live at the Village Gate is the first, captured live in 1963. The tapes were cut for a documentary soundtrack about Kirk’s life, which was never made. The tapes survived for more than 60 years in the care of engineer Ivan Berger. When Feldman received them, he initially contacted saxophonist James Carter who, impressed, made the case for release. Feldman then contacted Kirk’s indomitable widow Dorthaan Kirk (whose wonderful liner essay here is titled “My Life with Rahsaan”); she enthusiastically approved.
Recorded over two nights in November 1963, Kirk used three different pianists:…

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Rahsaan Roland Kirk – Seek & Listen: Live at the Penthouse (2025)

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January 6, 2026

In November 2025, producers Zev Feldman and George Klabin’s Resonance Records released two unissued live recordings by Rahsaan Roland Kirk. Seek & Listen: Live at the Penthouse is the second. A double disc, it was recorded in 1967. Kirk’s band included pianist Ron Burton, bassist Steve Novosel, and drummer Jimmy Hopps in 11 selections. The set opens at the tail-end of the rowdy “The Jump Thing,” then gives way to Burt Bacharach’s and Hal David’s “Alfie.” Burton embellishes Kirk’s gorgeous tenor lines with graceful elegance as the rhythm section walks behind him. “Mingus-Griff Song” is an original. At over 12 minutes, this band fires on all cylinders. Whether Kirk is playing tenor, manzello, stritch, flutes, or whistles, his creative intensity is total. Tenor sings…

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Les Rallizes Dénudés – Jittoku ’76 (2025)

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January 3, 2026

There’s J.D. Salinger, there’s Thomas Pynchon, and then there’s Takashi Mizutani, founder, singer and guitarist of Japanese psychedelic rock giants Les Rallizes Dénudés. How and why could someone so obviously gifted, perhaps even touched by the divine, remove themselves from a world that not only inspires their art but adores it? This question plagued some of the most dedicated and maniacal record collectors in the world, the deepest heads with the most fried and obscure psych rock platters, until 2021 when The Last One Musique and Temporal Drift opened the floodgates and let the music stream forth. It’s curious to think that if Mizutani had emerged from hiding before his death in 2019, perhaps he might have enjoyed the exposure, much in the way…

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Chat Pile – Live at Roadburn 2023 (2025)

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January 2, 2026

Before Chat Pile took on sold-out tours and widespread critical acclaim, they played Roadburn 2023-their biggest show to date, in front of a packed room of 3,000 on the festival’s main stage. Fresh off the release of God’s Country, the Oklahoma quartet brought their suffocating, sludgy noise rock to Tilburg for their first-ever European performance, delivering a set that felt like a milestone. The bleakness, the anguish, the raw absurdity-it all scaled up effortlessly, proving that Chat Pile’s chaos could consume any audience, no matter the size.
The set was recorded by the Roadburn staff and later remixed by the band’s longtime engineer, Jared Stimpfl, capturing the full weight of the performance. The result is something both…

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Untethered – Grasping for the Moon (2025)

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January 1, 2026

The Philadelphia collective Untethered embraces what its drummer Grant Calvin Weston calls “spontaneous creative composition,” which is another way of saying that the music the quartet plays is fully improvised. You could say that the group is making music from thin air, but that discounts the years of experience its members have spent listening, growing, and inventing.
So the air is quite thick, actually, teeming with countless elements from which their groove-oriented music draws. Weston, of course, is a deeply seasoned marvel, a musician who at 17 became a member of Prime Time, the paradigm-shifting electric band of the legendary saxophonist, composer, and thinker Ornette Coleman. He has gone on to work with…

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Arthur Russell – Open Vocal Phrases Where Songs Come in and Out (Live 12-20-85) (2025)

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December 30, 2025

…features 9 tracks of unedited live performance, including pieces that became parts of his seminal ‘World of Echo’ album.
It is testament to the astral, prolific talent of Arthur Russell that two decades after the first reissues of his archival material garnered widespread acclaim, crystals of such high quality are still being unearthed. 2023’s Picture of Bunny Rabbit and 2019’s Iowa Dream hinted at the depth and breadth of what remains unheard in the Arthur Russell Archives, but it is perhaps surprising that it has taken so long for a high-quality live recording to see the light of day. 2020’s Sketches for World of Echo: June 25 1984 Live at Ei and 2021’s 24 to 24 Music Live at the Kitchen both went some way to unravelling the enigma,…

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Bruce Springsteen – Tower Theater, Upper Darby, PA 12/31/1975 [50th Anniversary Edition] (2025)

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December 28, 2025

2025 mix by Jon Altschiller.
As we enter 2026, who could have imagined the Bruce Springsteen Live Archive series would be entering its twelfth year? The first show in the series, Apollo Theater, March 9, 2012, was released in November 2014; remarkably, 100 more have followed, expanding Springsteen’s live recording canon into territory once exclusive to the Grateful Dead.
Tours from 1975 on are represented in that 100, with many covered in depth. Frustratingly to all, a few gaps remain, limited by technical challenges (#freetherisingtour) and tape availability. But the Archive series is open-ended: new sources and playback breakthroughs remain ever possible.
For this year’s holiday release, we revisit…

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VA – Rock the Plaza: Concert to Save the Historic Plaza Theatre in Palm Springs (2025)

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December 27, 2025

It takes a lot of time, money, and dedication, to restore anything of historical importance. And the Plaza Theatre in Palm Springs, California was just the type of venue that required these three key ingredients. Opened to the public for the first time in 1936, this classic Art Deco building was the site of many grand events over the past 100 years.
And so it was on November 11, 2022, spearheaded by Brian Ray (Sir Paul McCartney’s guitar gunslinger for the past 20+ years), a gala fundraiser was held to restore one of Palm Springs’ most treasured landmarks, the historic Plaza Theatre.
Ray and his co-musical director Spike Edney (Queen, Clapton, Elton, Aretha) put together an all-star band to back the four headliners for the evening’s show. And what headliners…

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Osees – Live at the Broad Museum (2025)

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December 24, 2025

Osees have released their new live album, Live at the Broad Museum via Deathgod Records. Album captures a dynamic live performance at The Broad museum in Los Angeles. The record features extended tracks that highlight the band’s improvisational energy, including a standout 22-minute jam, “I Got a Lot.” Unlike their tightly structured studio recordings, this album explores krautrock-inspired grooves, hypnotic rhythms, and experimental soundscapes, showcasing the band’s versatility and adventurous live presence.
The album is mixed by frontman John Dwyer and mastered by JJ Golden, emphasizing the raw, immersive quality of the performance. Critics praise it as a document of Osees’ live power, capturing moments of spontaneous creativity…

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Henry Now – Then Again (2025)

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December 23, 2025

November 1978. Henry Cow disbands after a decade of music that redefined the boundaries of experimental rock. November 2022. Four founding members return to the stage. Not to look back – but to improvise the present. Fred Frith (guitar, violin, electronics), Tim Hodgkinson (keyboards, saxophone, lap steel, electronics), Chris Cutler (drums, percussion), John Greaves (bass, vocals): the original core reunited under the name Henry Now. The key is in the name – as Clive Bell noted in The Wire, this is not a nostalgia project.
No scores. No prepared material. Only the instinct honed over fifty years of sonic exploration. For many, the music of Henry Cow represented a transformative listening experience…

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David Gilmour – The Luck and Strange Concerts (Carpe Diem Edition) (2025)

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December 19, 2025

…includes the full live album, plus four additional tracks.
To celebrate his 2024 sold-out Luck and Strange tour, David Gilmour is releasing his third solo live album, titled The Luck and Strange Concerts. Gilmour was feeling reinvigorated this tour as he played the new album in its entirety, along with a host of his Pink Floyd classics.
The live album offers up 23 songs captured from various dates throughout the brief tour, during which Gilmour played only 21 concerts in Rome, London, Los Angeles, and New York. The compilation release is designed exactly as the show was presented with the songs played in the same order. The album’s pristine audio is part of Gilmour and company’s appeal, as every note…

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