The Fat Angel Sings

After seven years away, Radiohead returned to the stage at Movistar Arena in Madrid, Spain, to kick off a 2025 European/U.K. Autumn tour. The night’s show saw Radiohead perform in the round in the middle of the arena, something the band has not done since opening for Ned’s Atomic Dustbin in 1993, (though offshoot The Smile has played in the round in the past few years). Thom York, Jonny Greenwood, Colin Greenwood, Ed O’Brien, Philip Selway, and new touring percussionist Chris Vatalaro started the show surrounded by a circle of billboard-sized translucent video screens wrapped around the stage. The screens projected distorted video feeds of the band members and obscured them from full view for the first 25 minutes of the show, before raising skyward at the start of “Ful Stop”, the sixth song of the 25-track show, functioning as live video monitors for the rest of the evening.

In an extensive pre-tour profile the band stated that each show will have a unique setlist, whittled down from a master list of 65 songs. Radiohead spanned practically its entire catalogue, skipping its 1993 debut “Pablo Honey” (and its smash hit, “Creep”), but touching on everything else, from 1995 follow-up “The Bends” (“Fake Plastic Trees”) to its last new album, “A Moon Shaped Pool” (“Daydreaming”, “Ful Stop”). The band also paid particular attention to 2003’s “Hail to the Thief” (“2 + 2 = 5”, “Sit Down. Stand Up.”, “The Gloaming”, “Myxomatosis”, “A Wolf at the Door”, “There There”), a few months after surprise-releasing an archival album with live performances of the album tracks recorded from 2003–2009.

Perhaps a nod to the band’s newfound popularity among a younger generation, Radiohead opened the show with “Let Down”. The “OK Computer” track recently saw a viral resurgence on TikTok, catapulting it to #1 on the U.K. Indie singles chart 28 years after the album came out. Shortly thereafter, the band also played the first version of “Hail to the Thief” “Sit Down. Stand Up. (Snakes & Ladders)” since Coachella 2004,

Radiohead | Movistar Arena | Madrid, Spain | 11/4/25

Setlist: Let Down, 2+2=5, Sit Down. Stand Up. (Snakes & Ladders.) [1], Bloom, Lucky, Ful Stop, The Gloaming. (Softly Open Our Mouths in the Cold.), Myxomatosis. (Judge, Jury & Executioner.), No Surprises, Videotape, Weird Fishes/Arpeggi, Everything in Its Right Place, 15 Step, The National Anthem, Daydreaming, A Wolf at the Door. (It Girl. Rag Doll.), Bodysnatchers, Idioteque
Encore: Fake Plastic Trees, Subterranean Homesick Alien, Paranoid Android, How to Disappear Completely, You and Whose Army?, There There. (The Boney King of Nowhere.), Karma Police

Previously unissued performance from 1988 by the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame inductee featuring tracks from across his storied career. Mac Rebennack, widely known as Dr. John, changed the course of popular music starting with his 1968 debut, “Gris Gris” and pushed it further with each new album, infusing his recordings with exciting new directions and influences while throwing off hits like “Right Place, Wrong Time” and “Such A Night” in his wake. We are fortunate that the music continued to pour out of him until the world lost him in 2019—five decades after we’d first been hoodoo-ed.

The Estate of Dr. John and Omnivore Recordings are pleased to present “Live At The Village Gate“, a previously unheard performance (unless you were lucky enough to be there), recorded on the evening of March 1988. The set features classics like “Mess Around,” “Georgia On My Mind,” and “Mardi Gras Day”—and even a crowd request for “Mama Roux” from his aforementioned debut album, “Gris Gris”—all, of course, played to perfection.

With mastering and restoration by multiple Grammy-winning engineer Michael Graves, “Live At The Village Gate” also includes new and informative line notes from The Second Disc’s Joe Marchese. It’s over 90 minutes of prime, live Dr. John, and as he says, “Let The Good Times Roll.”

Experience “Live At The Village Gate”.

Warren Zevon’s final concert, recorded August 9th, 2002 at the Edmonton Folk Music Festival, double LP available for the first time at your local indie store for Record Store Day/Black Friday. Luckily, 2025 Rock and Roll Hall of Fame inductee, Warren Zevon left us with a treasure trove of nearly four decades of incredible songs and performances. Neither Warren, nor his long-time band member, accompanist, and friend Matt Cartsonis, nor the 14,000 people in attendance at the Edmonton Folk Music Festival knew this would be Warren’s final concert—it was just another great performance from an exceptional songwriter and artist. “Epilogue: Live At The Edmonton Folk Music Festival” offers you the chance to experience it for the first time, or relive it if you were there.

Featuring Warren on guitar, harmonica, and piano, with Cartsonis adding guitar, dulcimer, fiddle, harmonies and more, the pair run through classics like “Werewolves Of London,” “Poor Poor Pitiful Me,” Lawyers, Guns And Money,” and “Play It All Night Long.” The set also features a performance of the song “Dirty Life And Times,” only ever played twice! The pair found room in the set to pay tribute to Canada with a cover of Joni Mitchell’s “A Case Of You” and the traditional, “Canadee-i-o.”

Available on double black Vinyl (with etched fourth side) for Record Store Day Black Friday 2025, Epilogue: Live At The Edmonton Folk Music Festival has been mastered and restored by multiple Grammy-winning engineer Michael Graves and Jordan McLeod of Osiris Studio with Matt Cartsonis. Cartsonis also adds poignant liner notes about the performance, and insight into his musical relationship and friendship with Zevon.

Luckily, 2025 Rock and Roll Hall of Fame inductee, Warren Zevon left us with a treasure trove of nearly four decades of incredible songs and performances. Neither Warren, nor his long-time band member, accompanist, and friend Matt Cartsonis, nor the 14,000 people in attendance at the Edmonton Folk Music Festival knew this would be Warren’s final concert—it was just another great performance from an exceptional songwriter and artist. “Epilogue: Live At The Edmonton Folk Music Festival” offers you the chance to experience it for the first time, or relive it if you were there.

“Epilogue: Live At The Edmonton Folk Music Festival” is a gift from a truly legendary singer and songwriter. Play it all night long, indeed.

“Once in a lifetime the power is ours, but we’d rather stare at our phones,” Grammy-Award winner Aoife O’Donovan sings on the first verse of her new single “Over The Finish Line.” Written by O’Donovan shortly after the murder of George Floyd, “Over The Finish Line” reflects on the state of the country and reminds listeners of our civic duty to vote and fight for positive change. The poignant, wistful track features Luke Reynolds on pedal steel and Tony and Grammy-Award winning musician Anaïs Mitchell, marking one of Mitchell’s first releases since the well-received opening of Hadestown in London’s West End. 

Aoife O’Donovan’s new solo album “All My Friends” is inspired by the evolving landscape of women’s rights in America over the past century. O’Donovan infuses the experiences of the Suffragettes, who fought for the passage of the 19th Amendment and paved the way for their daughters, with her own experiences as a modern woman who wants to build a future for her own daughter. The project – O’Donovan’s first self-produced album – features a number of special guests including Anaïs Mitchell, Sierra Hull, Noam Pikelny, Alan Hampton, Griffin Goldsmith and more.

Most of the songs on the album grew out of two commissions O’Donovan took on – from the Orlando Philharmonic where she now lives, and the FreshGrass Festival in her native Massachusetts. Following performances with both institutions, O’Donovan continued to explore the themes that would become “All My Friends” in full.

The legendary Young Fresh Fellows took one day off their hectic touring schedule to head to Wilco‘s Loft studio in Chicago. The band got Grammy winner Tom Schick behind the boards and some legendary guests across the album, including Neko Case, John Stirratt of Wilco, Morgan Fisher of Mott The Hoople, Jonathan Segel of Camper Van Beethoven, Jenny Conlee of The Decemberists (accordion, harmony vocals), Mark Greenberg of Eleventh Dream Day (vibraphone), Peter Buck of R.E.M. (12-string guitar), and Dave “Max” Crawford of Poi Dog Pondering (trumpet). This finished record, “Loft”, has never been released before and is finally seeing the light of day for the Young Fresh Fellows‘ 40th anniversary.”

Seattle Legends the Young Fresh Fellows released new album “Loft” as a 2025 Record Store Black Friday exclusive but it’s not getting a proper release on March 27th via Yep Roc. It features appearances from Neko Case, Peter Buck, and more and here’s “Three Gasconading Saints” which frontman Scott McCaughey says was his suggestion to Jeff Tweedy when asked to give a potential album title.

Kurt Bloch – guitars Scott McCaughey – vocals Jim Sangster – bass John Perrin – drums Joe Adragna – saxophone

Rock and Roll legend Robert Plant, the former frontman for Led Zepplin, is covering traditional folk in his latest album, “Saving Grace,” and touring the U.S. with his band to support the album. Here’s Robert Plant with “Higher Rock.”

Robert Plant performed on CBS Saturday Morning to talk with Robert Costa and his touring band performed a Saturday Session set with Saving Grace—vocalist Suzi Dian, drummer Oli Jefferson, guitarist Tony Kelsey, banjo and string player Matt Worley, cellist Barney Morse-Brown the set came from the Capitol Theatre in Port Chester, New York.

They performed three songs from their new album, “Saving Grace”—”Higher Rock,” “It’s a Beautiful Day,” and “Everybody’s Song.”

“CBS Saturday Morning” co-hosts Michelle Miller and Dana Jacobson deliver two hours of original reporting and breaking news,

“Secret Love” is the finest expression yet of the profound friendships that created Dry Cleaning. Here, frontperson Florence Shaw, guitarist Tom Dowse, drummer Nick Buxton and bassist Lewis Maynard take their place in rock’s avant garde, catalysing the Reaganite paranoia of early 80s US punk and hardcore with the dry strut of Keith Richards, stoner rock, dystopian degradation, playful no wave and pastoral fingerpicking, while Florence’s delivery, meticulously calibrated to her bandmates’ soundscapes, asserts her in a lineage of spoken-word artists stretching from Laurie Anderson to Life Without Buildings’ Sue Tompkins. Producer Cate Le Bon likens the impression of listening to walking through a city; these 11 songs might also arrive like distinct images in a gallery.

Dry Cleaning have announced the new album, “Secret Love”, which will be out January 9th via 4AD. The album was produced by Cate Le Bon and recorded at Wilco’s Loft studio in Chicago. “Being in a room with them and hearing that vitality and life force that exists between them all, it’s such a unique expression,” Le Bon says.

The first single is the album’s opening track, “Hit My Head All Day,” a slow strut with dubby post-punk bones. “The song is about manipulation of the body and mind,” singer Florence Shaw says. “The lyrics were initially inspired by the use of misinformation on social media by the far right. There are powerful people that seek to influence our behaviour for their own gain; to buy certain things, to vote a certain way. I find it hard to read people’s intentions and decide who to trust, even in everyday life. It’s easy to fall under the influence of a sinister stranger who seems like a friend. We took a playful approach to the song. At one point it had harmonica on it instead of a vocal. At the demo stage we were inspired by There’s a Riot Goin’ On by Sly and the Family Stone.”

‘Cruise Ship Designer’, the second single to be taken from ‘Secret Love’ (released January 9th) is out now. The video for the track features Lewis Maynard at The Ivy House in Nunhead. 

To celebrate the single announcement, an outstore tour during the release week of ‘Secret Love’ will take place at the following venues in the UK. Ticket bundles will be onsale from 10am UK on Wednesday 12th November.

9 January – BRIGHTON, UK, Chalk (Resident) 
10 January – LONDON, UK, Rough Trade East 
13 January – BRISTOL, UK, Strange Brew (Rough Trade) 
14 January – LEEDS, UK, Brudenell (Crash) 
15 January – NOTTINGHAM, UK, Metronome (Rough Trade)

“Secret Love” is a singular, career-defining statement, coming after debut “New Long Leg” (2021) and “Stumpwork” (2022) and will be released on 9th January 2026 via 4AD Records.

Snocaps performed on The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon last night (November 18th), marking their late-night debut and first show ever. Katie and Allison Crutchfield christened their new indie-rock project with a live rendition of “Coast,” from their self-titled debut album. 

Just a few weeks ago, the twin sisters and past bandmates Katie and Allison Crutchfield unveiled Snocaps, their new band with MJ Lenderman and Brad Cook, and they surprise-released their deeply satisfying self-titled album. Snocaps have a very limited number of live shows coming up, and then Waxahatchee and MJ Lenderman will head out on a bigger co-headlining tour next year.

Musical guest Snocaps performs “Coast” for The Tonight Show.

Last month, Snocaps with a surprise-album released in full. Their recording line-up on that LP includes Allison and Katie Crutchfield sharing singing duties and playing guitar, Lenderman handling drums, Cook—Waxahatchee’s longtime producer—on bass, and a handful of others contributing backing vocals or small parts. It’s the latest side-project by the twin sisters, who played together in P.S. Eliot and Bad Banana before starting their bands Waxahatchee and Swearin’.But Snocaps’ first-ever live performance wasn’t in front of the people who fought to get tickets to those few live shows. Instead, it was a one-song set on Tuesday night’s episode of The Tonight Show.

Geese are the first act to play Nigel Godrich’s From the Basement series in almost three years. In a new episode of the iconic live-in-studio music series, the New York band, led by Cameron Winter, ran through a nearly 35-minute set of songs from the new album “Getting Killed”.

Following its original run from 2006 to 2009, Godrich relaunched From the Basement in 2022. The series has since featured performances by Idles, Caribou, and Squid. Prior to Geese, Godrich’s last From the Basement guest was Nilüfer Yanya.

“Getting Killed” came out in September. Geese recently shared a music video for the album track “Au Pays du Cocaine” and stopped by the BBC Radio 1 Live Lounge, where they covered New Radicals’ 1990s classic “You Get What You Give.”

This set includes recordings of tracks from Geese’s album “Getting Killed”

Setlist: 0:00 Trinidad 5:14 Husbands 10:03 Islands of Men 17:35 Half Real 22:07 100 Horses 25:44 Au Pays du Cocaine 29:55

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Singer-songwriters Haley Heynderickx and Max García Conover make good on the promise of their 2018 EP, Among Horses III, with the spry, conversational folk of follow-up What of Our Nature. Written on opposite coasts and recorded, straight-through and direct to tape, in Vermont, the album is imbued with the spirit of Woody Guthrie, whose writings the pair studied as they dreamt up the inquiries into colonialism, generational identity, and commercialism that comprise the album.

Haley Heynderickx and Max Garcia Conover return with another set of gorgeous Folk songs this time inspired by the life and music of Woody Guthrie.

released November 21st 2025

All songs written and performed by Haley Heynderickx and Max Garcia Conover.