Marianne Faithfull: "Eye Communication: Live at The Wax Museum" Black Friday release

An unreleased Marianne Faithfull concert will be released as a 2LP (1800 copies worldwide) on Black Friday (November 27). Eye Communication: Live at The Wax Museum was recorded in Washington D.C. on October 2, 1983 and features songs from Broken English, Dangerous Acquaintances and A Child's Adventure. They could have included a couple of filler tracks fro Side D from another show from that tour instead of "an etching in Marianne’s handwriting of an excerpt from William Blake's poem The Tyger, which she recites in Eye Communication."

Side A
1. Times Square [4:53] 2. Tenderness [4:05] 3. Brain Drain [5:58] 4. Blue Millionaire [6:00]

Side B:
1. Guilt [6:28 2. Falling From Grace [3:37] 3. Eye Communication [4:28]

Side C:
1. Working Class Hero [6:48] 2. Rising (MF Fernando Saunders) [7:25] 3. Broken English [5:57]

Side D:
Etched

» mariannefaithfull.org.uk

Swansea Sound: On Our Own

Jangling pop quintet Swansea Sound have written a bittersweet song about a beloved live music venue that got demolished to make room for office spaces. Suffice to say that new building now sits empty, after the jobs got automated. On Our Own is not a downer, but also a call to get back to businness and keep art alive, which is needed and can be a lot fun too. It is a track from their forthcoming album Pre-post-truth.

Phish: New Year's Run at MSG 12/30-31/2026 + 01/01-02/2027

Phish takes over NYC's Madison Square Garden again for a four-night New Year’s Run (12/30-31/2026 + 01/01-02/2027). January 2 marks their 100th show at the venue:

Request tickets now through Monday, October 12 at Noon ET → tickets.phish.com. Tickets go on sale to the general public October 16 at Noon ET. Travel Packages go on sale tomorrow, October 8 at Noon ET.

» phish.com

Spygenius: Rhizomania!

British melodic power pop band Spygenius are starting with a clean slate as one of the acts on the brand new collaborative label Canute Records, a no-budget outlet for three bands who are not en vogue, but persevere in crafting music for people who can appreciate intricate songs and tongue-in-cheek humour. Their new album Rhizomania! is filled to the rafters with their signature '60 psych-pop sound with a seasoning of New Wave.

Plenty of wordplay, with references to famous tracks by Love (Alone Again, Orwell and the Electric Light Orchestra (Mr Blue Sky Thinking Blues), but all smarty pants shenanigans aside (like including a song about Cnut who was king of England, Denmark and Norway in the 11th Century, it is first and foremost a celebration of songwriting as an art form. The trick is to make it sound so easy and effortless, but where many have tried and failed miserably, Spygenius pushes all the right buttons at the right time and in the correct order.

King Crimson: "1974 Massey Hall, Toronto" Black Friday release

Another King Crimson concert from 1974 will come to vinyl for Black Friday (November 27). After the release of Live - Penn State University 29 June 1974 for Record Store Day earlier this year, the show at Toronto's Massey Hall on June 24th, gets an outing as a 200g 2LP (1500 copies worldwide). This show first became available as a 2CD in 2011. It contains an early version of Starless and improv elements that would pop up later in One More Red Nightmare.