#live-album

#live-album

Concrete Waves is the first in a new series by Werkdiscs capturing improvised musical conversations between two avant-garde icons, Actress and Suzanne Ciani.

I moved to Chicago in September 2024, the year I released The Past Is Still Alive and hit the road with a new band - a group of musicians recommended by my front of house/production manager, Johnny Wilson. Everyone had ties to the city, and had been playing together in the DIY scene for over a decade. Since then, we've traveled the world together, becoming family, playing the best shows of my life.

The bumper crop of archival material is drawn from the Toronto band's six-show stint behind the May album Who Will Look After The Dogs?, which took them to successively bigger hometown venues-each with a place in the band's own lore-joined by guests including Jeff Rosenstock and Nobro.

Recorded at one blistering London live show in April 2024, Libertine collaborated with Chilean guitarist Eva Leblanc, reimagining tracks from Libertine's back catalogue including ones from her time singing with 1970s anarcho-punk pioneers Crass. Produced by Crass founder Penny Rimbaud, it treads a path between performance art, experimental music and earth ritual; with her strident operatic tones, Libertine sounds like a soothsayer foretelling an apocalypse.

MC50 - the touring band featuring late MC5 member Wayne Kramer alongside members of Soundgarden, Faith No More, Fugazi, and others - have announced a new live album titled 10 More, set for release December 5th. The recordings were captured during a 2018 tour celebrating the 50th anniversary of the legendary proto-punk band MC5, on which Kramer was joined by Kim Thayil (Soundgarden), Brendan Canty (Fugazi), Billy Gould (Faith No More), Matt Cameron (Soundgarden, ex-Pearl Jam), and Marcus Durant (Zen Guerrilla).

The album was recorded throughout select dates on Gilmour's 2024 tour in support of his most recent studio LP, Luck and Strange. Not only does it contain performances of tunes from that album, it also features a few songs from his 2015 effort, Rattle That Lock, as well as a number of Pink Floyd classics, including "Wish You Were Here" and "Comfortably Numb."

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Empty Country, the newer project of former Cymbals Eat Guitars leader Joseph D'Agostino, opened for fellow Stereogum-beloved rockers Los Campesinos! back in May at the Brooklyn Monarch.

Rich recalls being introduced to Page by Robert Plant, after the Black Crowes had toured with the Led Zeppelin singer. 'A couple years later, we were in London... and we just hit it off like that.'