Old Rock Stars never die, and judging by Lost In Hollywood Again, they never fade away either. A 77 year old Graham Bonnet is testament to that. Recorded in the legendary Whisky A Go Go, on Hollywood’s Sunset Strip, in August last year, Bonnet and band give it their all.
Raw and raucous, you can taste the sweat as it drips from the venue’s ceiling. You can hear every voice in the crowd whooping and hollering as they give it up for each song. Bonnet is clearly welcome here. In reality it’s unvarnished proof of Graham Bonnet’s phenomenal voice. Ok, it’s lost a little of its lustre over the years. But he still climbs the upper slopes and delivers with vigour and indeed, soul. More than that, every note is weighted with a flinty edge of “Look, I’m still here” defiance.
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By the mid-’60s, European touring had become a routine familiar to many of jazz’s most well-known practitioners. Thelonious Monk was already over two decades into his career when he began to visit Europe in earnest. Europeans were excited to experience Monk and his storied personality, often focusing as much on his appearance and idiosyncratic behavior ahead of the music.
The release of Bremen 1965 finds the legend on his second tour to feature stops in Germany with his seasoned quartet featuring his longtime saxophone foil, Charlie Rouse, along with bassist Larry Gales and drummer Ben Riley. Bremen, Germany was the second stop on the quartet’s world tour, which would include much of Europe, Australia, and Japan. The recording was made on…
Konk If You’re Lonely: Fat White Family live at Konk Studios is the latest instalment in the Domino Documents series, an album featuring Fat White Family’s most incendiary moments recorded live in one day at London’s Konk Studios. The Fat White Family cast has forever been a revolving door of interesting and lively characters, each iteration brilliant in its own right, but they have never sounded better than on the 13 career-spanning tracks that make up Konk If You’re Lonely.
Fresh off the back of the trio of triumphant “Counter-Vortex 360°” shows at London’s Colour Factory in December 2024, the band decamped to Konk Studios to get the set down for posterity’s sake. What emerges is a document of a band at the top of their game, oozing swagger…
Live at the Bayou showcases some of the earliest live performances from Bad Brains, and pre-dates the band’s 1982 self-titled debut. A snapshot of the band’s burgeoning beginnings, these previously unreleased recordings from 1980 and 1981 recorded at The Bayou in Washington DC, were captured between the band being unofficially “banned in DC” and relocating to NYC – a historically significant time in the band’s career. This is the first non-jazz release by the newly formed Time Traveler Recordings.
Record Store Day habitues have known and loved producer-archivist Zev Feldman for the almost exclusively jazz projects he has drawn out of secret archives for Resonance and other labels focused on that genre. But he’s always sworn he was…
Live at Smoke is the last of the living birthday celebrations for the late, great drummer, Al Foster. These celebrations had been ongoing for more than a decade, and fortunately, the 2025 session was recorded on January 18 and 19, 2025. Foster passed away on May 28, 2025, before the music could be released, but Foster did hear the final mixes. Foster leads a top-shelf quartet for this last celebration. Saxophonist Chris Potter, who was very close to Foster, was a regular at these celebrations. Joining him were the acclaimed pianist Brad Mehldau and renowned bassist Joe Martin.
Foster has a history with many of the greats, from Sonny Rollins to Miles Davis. Accordingly, the set list includes compositions from Rollins and Wayne Shorter as well as a piece each…
The new live album from MC50, capturing the unrelenting energy of the 2018 world tour that reignited the spirit of MC5 – one of rock’s most radical and influential bands.
10 MORE extends MC5’s legacy with a high-voltage document of the MC50 lineup led by MC5 founding member Wayne Kramer and featuring an all‑star ensemble of rock innovators: Kim Thayil (Soundgarden), Brendan Canty (Fugazi), Billy Gould (Faith No More), Matt Cameron (Pearl Jam) and Marcus Durant (Zen Guerrilla).
Recorded live in Seattle, WA, Cincinnati, OH, and Hamburg, Germany, 10 MORE roars through MC5’s most iconic songs — including ‘The American Ruse,’ ‘Call Me Animal,’ ‘Rocket Reducer No. 62 (Rama Lama Fa‑Fa‑Fa),’ ‘Looking at You’…
The 2012-2013 Wrecking Ball tour marked the start of the current incarnation of Bruce Springsteen and the E Street Band. It was the first without late, great founding members Danny Federici and Clarence Clemons, and the tour served in part as a eulogy to those fallen heroes.
The passing of Phantom Dan and the Big Man also triggered major changes on stage: Wrecking Ball featured an exponential expansion of the E Street Band, ushering in a horn section, backing singers, and a percussionist — a blueprint still in use when Springsteen returned to the road in 2023 and retained through the last concert in Milan this past July.
Given how many new musicians were involved, it’s remarkable that the 2012-13 tour…
The ongoing retrospective of the late John Wetton’s live recordings lands in the 1990s, during the time he was plying his trade as a solo artist. This 10-disc set, which presents eight shows from that decade in either remastered or revised form, is a treasure trove of material recorded in Japan, Italy, Poland and the Netherlands.
While there are inevitably repeated songs across such a wide-ranging set of shows – especially the most crucial pieces from his work with Asia, King Crimson and UK – there are plenty of variations in performance and arrangement, and Wetton is in fine voice throughout.
Asia’s ‘Heat of the Moment’ pops up in every show, of course; but often in rearranged form, while Crimson’s ‘Easy Money’ regularly…
This time, the performances took place during 2024-2025 and recorded at venues across Europe, United States, Canada and on Cruise To The Edge, which explains the post-fixed ‘Live Around The World‘ part on the new album, Are We Nearly There Yet?. BBT aficionados will recognise the title as it is a line from the song Last Eleven, which also gave its name to the band’s latest successful studio album, The Likes of Us – the first with the new line-up, featuring vocalist Alberto Bravin (PFM) and keyboardist Oskar Holldorff (Dim Gray). The resultant series of shows included the Zoetermeer Boerderij, with the two shows scheduled featuring: on Saturday, the band played almost the entire new studio album, while on Sunday, they played iconic songs from the band’s rich history.
Recorded live in Spain during Loreena McKennitt’s summer 2024 tour of Europe, Live in Madrid is an audio vérité soundboard recording of a complete 20-song show from that tour, captured in stereo directly from the mixing desk located in the venue front-of-house. Other than the mastering and editing work needed in order for us to offer the listeners an optimum listening experience, this album comes as close as you can get to the live performance as it sounded at the “Noches del Botánico” festival on that balmy Mediterranean night.
Live In Madrid contains the entirety of 1994’s The Mask and Mirror performed in sequence, plus over an hour of fan favourites drawn from across the range of Loreena’s catalogue of studio recordings.
The new Jason Isbell album, Foxes in the Snow, offers an opportunity to appreciate his considerable gifts as a singer, songwriter, and guitarist in a fresh way. It’s his first solo acoustic album and his first that he recorded in New York — in just five days no less at Electric Lady Studios in the West Village.
In February, Isbell played two sold-out shows at the Beacon Theatre, blending the new material with fan favorites from his years with The 400 Unit and the Drive-By Truckers. Each night ended with a carefully chosen cover: a haunting rendition of Bon Iver’s “Best/Rest” on Friday and a tender take on John Prine’s “Storm Windows” on Saturday.
A few days later, during a conversation with WFUV radio, Isbell opened up about the making of the album and the beautiful old guitar that…
The saxophonist Pharoah Sanders was often described as an enigma of jazz, once famously characterized as “a mad wind screeching through the root-cellars of Hell.” That “mad wind” is absent on Love Is Here: The Complete Paris 1975 ORTF Recordings, but the enigma remains. This pivotal album captures Sanders stretching out, away from his Impulse! Records contract, exploring a sound that moves beyond late-stage John Coltrane and places a greater emphasis on tone, melody, and lyrical expression.
Recorded live at Maison de la Radio’s Studio 104 in Paris on November 17, 1975, this set is a crucial document that bridges the gap between his turbulent free-jazz explorations and the meditative tranquility of his later work.
Culled from previously unreleased recordings from Swedish television and radio archives, Golden Flower: Live in Sweden presents Yusef Lateef leading two different quartets in performances in Sweden in 1967 and 1972. Always commanding on both tenor sax and flute, Lateef is in excellent form on both dates, with each showcasing a different side of his artistic character. While Albert “Tootie” Heath is the drummer on both sets, the 1967 material, recorded at a club date in Stockholm, features Swedish musicians Palle Danielsson on bass and Lars Sjösten on piano. This half of Golden Flower tends to be smoother and more straight-ahead, with Lateef and his group cruising through a cool take of “Straighten Up and Fly Right,” the playful and even silly inclusion…
This Christmas, the First Lady of Folk Kate Rusby gifts her fans something truly special – an exclusive and limited run Double-CD titled 20 Christmas Is Merry, a celebration of two decades of magical festive music.
20 Christmas Is Merry features 17 stunning live tracks recorded at several venues over the last five years. The live recordings range from the anthemic soundscape of ‘Glorious’ to the gentle, exquisite beauty of ‘The Frost Is All Over.’ Every performance glows with the spirit of a Kate Rusby Christmas. The recordings capture that unique magic – the feeling of being at home with friends around the fire, a glass of mulled wine in hand, basking in the glow of music that feels both comforting and transcendent.
Alongside the live tracks, there are five…
Available on vinyl, digital and compact disc formats for successive late 2025 Record Store Days, Warren Zevon’s final live performance, recorded Live at the Edmonton Folk Music Festival, joins 1980’s Stand in the Fire (issued in expanded form twice) and 1993’s Learning to Flinch, as sterling examples of how the late singer/songwriter so artfully transposed the unique traits of his original material to the concert stage.
Epilogue is a clear, if not exactly resplendent, depiction of the man’s persona. Hearing the slight but tangible gusto Zevon injects into “I Was in the House When the House Burned Down” makes the comparatively muted opening of “Lawyers, Guns and Money” seem like a deceptively ingratiating opening to this roughly…
Memento Mori: Mexico City is the counterpart to Fernando Frias’s Depeche Mode: M, an artistic endeavour of a film that explores the music of Depeche Mode and the profound appreciation of death that permeates Mexican culture. Interspersed with poetry, Mexican legends and stirring sequences that ruminate on mortality and impermanence, Depeche Mode: M documented Dave Gahan and Martin Gore’s series of concerts at Mexico’s enormous Foro Sol Stadium in 2023.
This release packages up the Depeche Mode: M film with a complete Foro Sol concert, containing 23 masterful live versions of Depeche classics like ‘Enjoy the Silence’, ‘Everything Counts’, ‘Just Can’t Get Enough’ and ‘I Feel You’, as well as tracks taken from their most recent album,…
The Paris show from June 1976 had never been officially released in full before, so having a polished, band-sanctioned video of it, from the heyday of the band’s European 1976 tour, is a major archival win.
As part of the 2025 Black and Blue reissue, audio (both studio and live) comes with a new mix and remaster, making old material feel more immediate. Even live material reportedly benefits from improved clarity and better balance.
The concert captures the band in a transitional but energetic phase. Tracks like live versions of “Hand of Fate,” “Fool to Cry,” and “Hot Stuff” benefit from raw but spirited playing. One reviewer notes that the live concert “will thrill you even if you own the previously released live album.”
Live God is the new live album from Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds. It’s a stunning testament to the transcendent Wild God Tour, which wowed audiences across the UK, Europe and North America, and which travels to Australia and New Zealand in 2026.
The tracklist includes performances of songs from the acclaimed 2024 studio album Wild God, as well as mind-blowing versions of catalogue favourites, such as ‘From Her to Eternity’, ‘Papa Won’t Leave You, Henry’ and ‘Into My Arms’.
…Cave described the shows as “an antidote to despair”, with longtime drummer and percussionist Jim Sclavunos agreeing that “this tour seemed distinctly more embracing of a love of life”.
“‘Transcendental’ is too pretentious a word,…
Dream Theater celebrate their 40th anniversary with a special live release Quarantième filmed during their 2024 European tour, their first to feature Mike Portnoy back in the band after over 13 years.
Recorded in Paris at the Adidas Arena, the tour saw the band debuting a track from their latest studio album ‘Parasomnia’, as well as classic tracks from throughout their career, including ‘Metropolis Pt. 1’, ‘Hollow Years’, ‘Octavarium’, ‘Pull Me Under’…
“From the moment we announced our 40th anniversary tour, we knew it would be a very special event for both the band and our fans and must be captured. With this release, our performance in Paris is presented so beautifully in both stunning audio and video and really encapsulates this momentous occasion for all to enjoy”…
Released exclusively for Record Store Day Black Friday 2025, Avon Calling! captures the band in full flight, raw and raucous at 1994’s Phoenix Festival. The set finds Carter firing through classics like ‘The Only Living Boy In New Cross’ and ‘Sheriff Fatman’, fresh cuts ‘Let’s Get Tattoos’ and ‘The Young Offender’s Mum’, alongside a cover of Buzzcocks’ ‘Everybody’s Happy Nowadays’.
Equally revered and despised in their native England, Carter the Unstoppable Sex Machine has been on the cutting edge of the U.K.’s dance-pop scene since their first hit single in 1989. Instead of following the disco-derived pop songs of the Pet Shop Boys, Carter relies more on the underground club/dance scene, bringing such techniques as spoken word samples, drum and riff samples…