Category: live


Both solo and with The Monkees – and various permutations thereof – Davy Jones spent decades on the road sharing the music he loved all over the world. While a Monkees setlist would be painstakingly constructed, the solo Jones was far more freewheeling, incorporating new and old songs and crossing genre lines with abandon. Now 7A Records celebrates the late singer’s legacy with a new live compendium.
Let Me Entertain You: On the Road with Davy boasts two dozen concert recordings spanning 1979- 2003 from venues in the United States, United Kingdom, and Japan. Entertainment was in David’s bones: the Manchester native had been entertaining audiences since his youth. As a teenager in Great Britain, he’d appeared on…

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Recorded during his summer 2026 run of outdoor UK shows, which brought together a phenomenal band and a setlist spanning the songs that have defined Weller’s musical journey, in performances widely praised by fans and press alike. The album brings together classic tracks and much-loved favourites from across Weller’s remarkable catalogue, spanning The Jam, The Style Council and his solo work, alongside a cover of the Curtis Mayfield classic, Move On Up. Talking about the live album, Paul said: “We hope this live recording gives justice to the experience that we and the audience felt on these tour dates. We all felt they were very special shows – all of ’em! This recording is straight off the sound board. All real, all true, more power, more love.” Reviewing Weller’s…

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There are live albums that document a band at a particular moment, and then there are those that feel like the closing statement of an entire era. Newly Sentient Being belongs firmly to the latter category. Capturing the final concert of Swans’ “Big Sound” era, this monumental release brings together more than two and a half hours of music that sound less like a farewell than the last transmission from another dimension.
For fifteen years, Swans developed an increasingly immense musical language built on repetition, volume, tension and transcendence. Newly Sentient Being brings that journey to a powerful conclusion. The performance constantly shifts between passages of almost heavenly beauty and brutally physical eruptions of sound…

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Following a four-year hiatus as a solo artist, Todd Rundgren relocated from the US East Coast to California to record and release the album ‘Nearly Human’ in 1989. The album was the result of live studio sessions involving a host of musicians. To promote the album Todd embarked on an extensive US tour with one of the early highlights being a memorable performance at The Ritz in New York City in August 1989.
The concert was Todd’s first performance in New York for two years and featured a ten-piece backing band. The live set featured classic tracks such as ‘Love In Action’, ‘Real Man’, ‘Can We Still Be Friends’ and ‘Hello It’s Me’ along with contemporary material from ‘Nearly Human’. The concert on the 6th of August…

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Continuing the series of archival live albums documenting German experimental rock legends Can at their mid-’70s creative peak, Live in Arles 1975 captures a set recorded in August of that year at an amphitheatre in Southern France. As with other volumes in the series, the tracks are numerically titled, as the group mainly improvised in concert, though they often touched on riffs, ideas, and rhythms heard in the songs contained on their studio albums. Also like some of the other live releases, it sounds like it was sourced from private fan tapes rather than professional recordings, but the energy of the musicians’ performances mostly makes up for the murky sound quality. The group sound strong and energetic as soon as the record button was pressed…

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One aspect of the obsessive fascination surrounding Joy Division is the scarcity of their music. Though they were technically active under different band names as early as 1976, the finalized lineup of the group played under the name Joy Division for less than three years, becoming one of the most influential and game-changing entities to ever shift the tides with just two studio albums. In this brief time, the band played somewhere in the neighborhood of 120 or so live shows, which have also played into their legacy. Innumerable bootleg recordings and a smattering of above-board releases have cobbled together as much footage as possible of the band’s extremely limited time on stages, hoping to uncover a better picture of what made them so important.

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Even though Orbital had hit the Top 40 of the British singles chart several times by the time they took the stage at the 1994 Glastonbury Festival, they were still largely popular among ravers rather than rock fans or the general public, and some people still got them mixed up with the group that did “Little Fluffy Clouds.” That all changed when their set took place, especially since Channel 4 was providing extensive television coverage of the festival, giving British home audiences their first taste of live electronic music, and subsequently opening the door for the arena-conquering success of acts like the Chemical Brothers, Underworld, and Faithless. Orbital returned to the Glastonbury stage several more times, and the compilation Live at Glastonbury 1994-2004…

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Summer Magic 1985 is a 20CD collection featuring seven previously unreleased concerts from the legendary band’s 20 Years So Far tour.The Dead’s magic in the summer of ’85 was plentiful, and the large box will include all three of the band’s 20th anniversary concerts at Berkeley, California’s Greek Theater (6/14-6/16/85) which kicked off the tour, as well as dates from Saratoga Performing Arts Center (6/27/85); Hersheypark Stadium (6/28/85); and Merriweather Post Pavilion (6/30/85).
All of the gigs were recorded by the Dead’s longtime sound engineer Dan Healy and mastered for this release by David Glasser at Airshow Mastering. Typical for the Dead sets of this magnitude, it’s a lavish affair with original artwork by Marcos Alvarado…

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Before his death in 2012, American singer/songwriter Terry Callier experienced a career resurgence in the U.K. where he was championed by artists ranging from Paul Weller and Beth Orton to Massive Attack and Michael Kiwanuka. BBE’s Live Peace is drawn from two intimate live performances from the period at The Yardbird Suite/The Underground, both in Leeds, in 1998 and 2001, backed by his Family Band: guitarist Jim Mullen, keyboardist Chris Kibble, drummer Nic France, bassist Dave Barnard, Brazilian percussionist Bosco D’Oliveira and saxophonist/flutist Gary Plumley. The shows were taped by Martin Dixon who created desk reference cassettes. They were restored using AI-assisted audio tools and assembled by Greg Boraman of Impressive Collective.

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This short but very sweet eight-track vinyl release represents one of the milestones in the career of the least typical of British punk bands. Though they’re generally classed as post-punk, the Fall were technically more “parallel punk,” having formed in 1976, and not under the influence of the Sex Pistols or Ramones, but the Stooges and Can. For many bands of the era, the spartan recording conditions and strict timetable of the BBC studios where sessions were recorded for John Peel’s radio show were a challenge, but for the Fall this was actually a step up or, more typically, a step sideways. 1978 turned out to be the band’s year or at least a fairly strong start – they had made their only studio recordings to date, the Bingo-Masters Break-Out!

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The CD features the full concert remixed and remastered from the original multi-track master tapes and restored to its original running order and released for the very first time.
Includes live versions of the hit singles ‘New Song’, ‘What Is Love?’, ‘Hide And Seek’, ‘Pearl In The Shell’ and ‘Like To Get To Know You Well’ plus Howard’s previously unreleased version of the Xmas favourite ‘Ding Dong Merrily On High’, sung to the backbeat of his hit single ‘New Song’.
This ‘restored’ live in concert performance by Howard Jones is being released on DVD for the first time.
Also includes a version of the track ‘Human’s Lib’ featuring Howard’s full spoken introduction entitled ‘The Story Of Ruth, David and Dennis’.

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Recorded last year in Los Angeles, Ghosts of American Psychonauts finds Will Oldham reworking five of his best-loved tracks (including ‘I See A Darkness’) and a handful from 2025’s ‘The Purple Bird’.
Oldham had an impressive ensemble with him for this one. Of course, his regular tourmates Thomas Deakin and Jacob Duncan were present, but it’s the guests that make this one special: London May on drums, Patrick Shiroishi on sax, Emmett Kelly on bass, Ryder McNair on piano and Dv DeVincentis on sax. Even ‘The Purple Bird’ producer Dave Ferguson shows up to sing John Anderson’s part on ‘Downstream’. And although the new tracks are good to hear in a more casual format, a hop, a skip and a jump from Nashville…

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Experience the full force of Grateful Dead at Merriweather Post Pavilion on June 30, 1985 with Merriweather 6/30/85, a previously unreleased complete live performance. Originally part of the Summer Magic 1985 limited 20-CD boxed set, it’s now availabltreet.
Sourced from the original Sony F1 tapes, the album was mastered by Grammy Award-e as a 3-CD set and limited edition 4-LP set.
It’s a vital snapshot of the band in peak summer form, featuring favourites including Sugar Magnolia, Cryptical Envelopment, and what many Dead Heads call the finest ever take on Shakedown Swinning engineer David Glasser and produced for release by Grateful Dead legacy manager David Lemieux.

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Crescent City jump blues pianist Mitch Woods does it all by himself on his latest release, A Night in New Orleans, recorded live at the Snug Harbor club during the 2026 New Orleans Jazz & Heritage Festival. He sings, tells stories, and, most importantly, plays boogie-woogie piano to entertain the crowd.
You can hear their enthusiastic response as he hits the keys, but they never throw him off his stride. Indeed, the opposite is true. They inspire him to play faster and harder. As he notes during his rendition of Louis Jordan’s “Choo Choo Ch’boogie”, he doesn’t have a drummer. His audience must supply the rhythm for his energetic melodies.
Singing and playing solo allows Woods the flexibility to cover a wide swath of the Big…

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The Tunnel of Love Express tour is marked by changes: the addition of a horn section for the first time on E Street since 1976 (save for a few dates in 1984 including August 19 and 20); the billing of Bruce Springsteen featuring the E Street Band; and where those seven musicians were positioned on stage. In retrospect, none seem material in terms of lasting impact.
Perhaps the most significant change in 1988 was Springsteen’s public embrace of adulthood and its inherent and often private complexities, explored so movingly on the tour’s namesake album, Tunnel of Love. Much of the yearning and pining romanticism found on Born to Run, Darkness on the Edge of Town, and The River gave way to starker realizations (“When you’re alone…

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Just two years into their subtle takeover of radio, MTV, and concert stages across the globe, The Cranberries played a surprisingly intimate show in 1994 at London’s Astoria II. A recording of the set was recently discovered and is being released for the first time. The show finds a band that had just released their (soon-to-be massive) debut with a follow-up on the way (1993’s Everybody Else Is Doing It, So Why Can’t We? and 1994’s No Need to Argue). Despite still being a relatively young band, they played that show with the confidence many groups take decades to develop.
Coming off a series of massive gigs in the U.S. o, opening for Duran Duran, playing to a crowd of around 1,000 at this London gig must have been just as jarring as their leap from small…

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With the release of his first-ever live album, Daniel Donato is experiencing a genuine full-circle moment. What began as a fledgling music career busking around his hometown of Nashville, TN, Donato quickly found his footing as a regular performer among the litany of legendary Music City venues. Most notably, Donato became a fixture at Robert’s Western World, an intimate space that abuts Nashville’s iconic Ryman Auditorium, where the prodigious guitarist honed his generational musical talent over the course of nearly 500 performances and spent countless hours after those shows dreamily staring up at the Mother Church of Country Music.
Fast forward to August 22, 2025, exactly ten years to the date of his final show at Robert’s,…

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Exactly 30 years after Soul Asylum’s legendary 1993 MTV Unplugged session – recorded at the height of the band’s fame – the Minneapolis alt-rockers returned to their hometown to once again strip things down and go acoustic.
The performance captured that night wasn’t a song-for-song recreation of their early-’90s set, but it was very much conceived in the same spirit: an intimate, unvarnished look at a band and a songbook now carrying three more decades of history.
Three years later, the band is giving the album, MPLS Unplugged, captured from that Minneapolis show, a proper release. Frontman and rhythm guitarist Dave Pirner is the sole remaining member from the Grave Dancers Union era of…

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