Legendary country and pop icon Anne Murray is being honoured with the can’t-miss concert event of the year. The Music of My Life: An All-Star Tribute to Anne Murray is coming to The Opry House on October 27 with a star-studded lineup of performers including Trisha Yearwood, Martina McBride, k.d. lang, Kathy Mattea, Lorrie Morgan, Pam Tillis, Larry, Steve, and Rudy Gatlin as the The Gatlin Brothers, Natalie Grant, Michelle Wright, Shenandoah, Collin Raye, Victoria Shaw and many more, with additional appearances by Nashville Predators GM Barry Trotz, iconic country singer Brenda Lee, and the legendary Randy Travis.
Anne Murray is a global music icon whose signature voice and time-honoured music have defined a career spanning over five decades. A trailblazer in pop, country, and adult contemporary music, she has sold over 55 million albums worldwide, surpassed 1 billion global streams, and paved the way for artists such as Céline Dion, Shania Twain, k.d. lang, Alanis Morissette, and Sarah McLachlan.
Murray is one of only four female solo artists to win the Country Music Association’s ‘Album of the Year’ between 1967 and 1990 including Loretta Lynn (1971), Olivia Newton-John (1974), Anne Murray (1984) and KT Oslin (1988). She has toured the U.S. for over 40 years and performed to audiences across the UK, Australia, New Zealand, Europe, the Pacific Rim, and home country Canada. Murray co-hosted the CMA Awards alongside Willie Nelson, Kris Kristofferson, and Kenny Rogers, and delivered enduring hits such as “Could I Have This Dance” from the Urban Cowboy soundtrack, which topped the U.S. country charts.
Her career has been recognized with four Grammy Awards, three American Music Awards, three CMA Awards, and a record-breaking 26 JUNOs. A Companion of the Order of Canada, Murray is honoured with stars on the Hollywood Walk of Fame, Nashville’s Walkway of Stars, and Canada’s Walk of Fame to inductions into multiple Halls of Fame in both the U.S. and Canada—cementing her legacy as one of the most celebrated and influential artists both musically and philanthropically.
The Drive-By Truckers will release The Definitive Decoration Day on November 14, 2025, via New West Records. The 4-LP box set features the 15-track album remixed by its original producer David Barbe, remastered by Greg Calbi, and cut at the legendary Abbey Road Studios in London, UK. The new collection includes the previously unreleased double album Heathens Live at Flicker Bar, Athens, GA – June 20, 2002, as well as a 40-page, full-color book featuring never-before-seen photos and artwork, as well as a new essay written by Drive-By Truckers’ biographer Stephen Deusner, author of Where the Devil Don’t Stay: Traveling the South with the Drive-By Truckers. Originally released in 2003, the album garnered widespread critical acclaim, with Pitchfork saying Decoration Day is “one of the more ambitious records of the (very) early 21st century” and one that “further confirms the Drive-By Truckers’ status as the most poetic and insightful Southern rockers in existence today.”
Today, Uncut Magazine premiered the newly remixed and remastered album version of “Sink Hole” alongside the previously unreleased live version of the song featured on Heathens Live at Flicker Bar, Athens, GA – June 20, 2002. Loosely based on the 2002 Oscar Award-winning short film The Accountant—directed by Ray McKinnon and starring Walton Goggins—the song tells the story of a struggling farmer fighting back against a banker foreclosing on his family farm.
Decoration Day was the Drive-By Truckers’ first album with Jason Isbell, who joined the band in late 2001. It features the DBT standards, “Sink Hole,” Marry Me,” “My Sweet Annette,” and Isbell’s first songs with the band: “Outfit” and the title track. “The legacy of the band has definitely grown,” says Isbell, “and there’s a new appreciation for the Truckers and especially for that era of Decoration Day. Without them you wouldn’t have the kind of work being done by MJ Lenderman and Wednesday and Waxahatchee and a bunch of other acts. I can hear the Truckers in all that music.”
Heathens Live at Flicker Bar, Athens, GA – June 20, 2002 is a stripped-down, acoustic performance from the band’s hometown, recorded a year before Decoration Day’s release. The previously unreleased album is a rich, historic document in the band’s evolution and a holy grail for their fans, featuring the band performing several of these songs for the first time ever. Says Hood, “We decided that it would be fun to go play an acoustic late-night show at the tiny Flicker Bar, less than a block away from our beloved 40 Watt Club. We ended up playing a set that included all but one song off of our new, but still unfinished album. I didn’t even know until recently that there was an existing tape of the show. This is a beautiful document of our band at a very crucial and joyous moment in time. I’m so happy that it exists.”
Decoration Day remains an incredibly influential album in the Drive-By Truckers’ catalog, one that has connected with new generations of artists and fans. Karly Hartzmann of Wednesday says, “Decoration Day reminds me that a song can be a piece of advice, a grudge, a suicide note, a bargaining for mercy, or a veneer over the rot. It’s music that delivers the bad news but kisses the bruises it leaves.”
Craig Finn of The Hold Steady says, “Decoration Day was the Drive-By Truckers’ three songwriters firing on all cylinders—alternately thoughtful, pissed off, charming, surly and often hilarious. I marvel at this record. It’s a true American classic.”
BJ Barham of American Aquarium adds, “This is, without a doubt, one of my desert island records. Without DBT’s Decoration Day, there is no American Aquarium. Long live DBT!”
The Definitive Decoration Day follows the band’s deluxe edition of their album Southern Rock Opera, originally released in 2001, as well as The Complete Dirty South, originally released in 2004. It will be available across digital platforms, standard black vinyl, and as a 3-CD set. A limited olive color vinyl edition will be available at independent retailers, and a limited to 150 blue-and-burgundy-swirl color vinyl edition will be available at Seasick Records in Birmingham, Alabama. In addition, a special, limited-to-300 HeAthens red-and-black vinyl edition will be available at local participating retailers in Athens, Georgia, and for pickup at the New West Records’ Athens office. A limited-to-1,000 burgundy color vinyl edition is available for pre-order NOW via NEW WEST RECORDS.
The Definitive Decoration Day Track Listing:
The Original Album Remixed & Remastered:
1. The Deeper In 2. Sink Hole 3. Hell No, I Ain’t Happy 4. Marry Me 5. My Sweet Annette 6. Outfit 7. Heathens 8. Sounds Better in the Song 9. (Something’s Got to) Give Pretty Soon 10. Your Daddy Hates Me 11. Careless 12. When the Pin Hits the Shell 13. Do It Yourself 14. Decoration Day 15. Loaded Gun in the Closet
Heathens Live at Flicker Bar, Athens, GA – June 20, 2002:
1. Flicker Heathens (intro) 2. Do It Yourself 3. Careless 4. The Deeper In 5. Sink Hole 6. Hell No, I Ain’t Happy 7. Marry Me 8. Outfit 9. Heathens 10. My Sweet Annette 11. (Something’s Got to) Give Pretty Soon 12. Your Daddy Hates Me 13. Decoration Day 14. Loaded Gun in the Closet 15. Panties in Your Purse 16. TVA 17. Uncle Frank 18. The Living Bubba
Kansas City based rock band World Engine just released their first record of the year and their first full length album, Coded Names. The eight-song record mixes loud guitars, spacey synths, and straight-from-the-heart lyrics, showing off the group’s love for both old-school rock and modern sounds.
The album opens with, “Cerebellum”, a song that starts with the sound of wind and radio static before the full instrumentation carries it onward. The song has plenty of energy, setting the mood for the album right away. Halfway through, “In the Rain” makes its entrance. It starts with the sound of falling rain, then bursts into huge guitars and powerful vocal work. The song has a grit that fans of guitar driven rock will love. The closer, “Step Away,” eases things down with a sentimental feel that sends listeners off on a good note.
World Engine formed in 2020 and includes singer Tristan Clemons, guitarist Zach St. Denis, drummer/keyboard player Alex Brezik, and bassist Callum Duncan. They first made noise with their EP Orbit, and now Coded Names takes things up a notch. Producers Justin Mantooth and Andy Oxman helped shape a sound that’s bold, and full of life.
“We attempted to make something for everyone and blended many genres to fit our own sound” the band says. They accomplished their goal and have delivered an album uniquely their own.
Ray Charles long out of print “Love Country Style” is set to be reissued by Tangerine Records on October 24th. Founded by Ray Charles in the 1960s, Tangerine Records is proud to celebrate the 17x GRAMMY Award-winning singer, songwriter, arranger, producer, and pianist’s singular legacy with the Tangerine Master Series, a new slate of reissues highlighting Charles’ best-known music alongside classic records long out of print, and ready for rediscovery.
Each album has been restored and remastered under the direct supervision of The Ray Charles Foundation, painting a vivid new portrait of an artist and icon whose impact continues to expand and inspire.
The Tangerine Master Series continues with today’s release of Charles’ long-overdue reissue of 1963’s milestone Ingredients in a Recipe for Soul, available now at all DSPs, on CD, and vinyl for the first time in more than half a century. A top 10 stew of jazz, soul, and pop standards highlighted by the GRAMMY Award-winning, top 5 hit, “Busted,” as well as the top 20 favorite, “That Old Lucky Sun,” Ingredients in a Recipe for Soul made it abundantly clear that by the 1960s, Ray Charles didn’t so much ignore genres, but had become a genre unto himself. Bootlegged across Europe for decades, this is the first and only legitimate reissue of this essential album on vinyl – as well as its first appearance on CD since the 1990s – now fully restored and remastered with the full cooperation of the Ray Charles Foundation
Ingredients in a Recipe for Soul follows the Tangerine Master Series’ recent release of a newly remastered edition of 1974’s Come Live With Me, a blend of pop and gospel-infused soul that sees Charles demonstrating his unmatched versatility available now at all DSPs and on vinyl for the first time in over 50 years; a CD edition arrives on Friday, September 26.
Next up in the Tangerine Master Series is 1970’s out-of-print classic Love Country Style, available for the first time since its original release, on Friday, October 24.
A fan favorite that’s one of the finest examples of Charles’ crossover work, Love Country Style is the most soulful of his country records, as well as arguably the album that’s the most connected to the current sound of today’s country superstars. The album finds Charles once again embracing his love for the genre by delivering heartfelt renditions of songs by Mickey Newbury and Jimmy Webb with his signature blend of soul and sophistication. Backed by lush gospel-tinged arrangements, songs like his iconic version of “Ring of Fire” and “Don’t Change On Me” (which hit the top 20 at R&B as well as the overall top 40) highlight Charles’s unrivaled ability to transform country standards into something unmistakably his own. Out of print since its original release more than 50 years ago, Love Country Style now finally returns, fully restored and remastered in cooperation with the Ray Charles Foundation.
“Love Country Style, released in June 1970, drinks deeply from the country music well of genius, but is as rhythm-and-blues-rooted as it is in the countrypolitan idiom,” writes author/DJ/cultural critic Ayana Contreras in an exclusive essay penned expressly for this new reissue. “[The album] draws from top-shelf country material from ‘Ring Of Fire’ (written by June Carter and Merle Kilgore and popularized by Johnny Cash) to ‘I Keep It Hid’ (penned by Jimmy Webb, known for his classics ‘Wichita Lineman’ and ‘By The Time I Get To Phoenix’). Both tracks are nothing short of revelations. In his hands, ‘Ring Of Fire’ is cast as a chorus of half-breathless seduction well-suited for an isolated mid-century modern motel somewhere in the high desert of the American Southwest.
“Charles went on to release four more well-received country albums during his career…And although Modern Sounds Vol. I was nominated for Album of the Year, and Charles went on to ultimately win 17 GRAMMYs in his lifetime (in rhythm & blues, gospel, and pop), a Country Music-specific GRAMMY win eluded him…. Love Country Style remains as a testament. The album embodies Charles’s ability to cross genres with ease, weaving country traditions into his R&B and gospel sensibility. In doing so, he left a lasting imprint on the soundscape of American popular music.”
East London’s own multi-hyphenate artist and rapper Kojey Radical releases his sophomore album, Don’t Look Down, via Asylum Records UK/Warner Music UK. Stream the album here.
The project boasts an impressive roster of collaborators, including Ghetts, Bawo, MNEK, Dende, James Vickery, Planet Giza, Cristale, Benjamin A.D, Col3trane, SOLOMON, Victor Ray, Jaz Karis, and Chrissi. 16 tracks long, Don’t Look Down is a musically rich and deeply introspective reflection on the shifting tides, lows, and joys that have passed through his life since his emergence into the public eye.
Set among an arresting musical backdrop, brimming with soul and vivid instrumentation, is a story of loss and renewal, hedonism and celebrity, fatherhood and friendship. Sonically, the album provides the most experimental and eclectic music of his career, with influences ranging from golden age Hip Hop to disco, grime to Indie, Jazz to Ska. Together, these strings combine to give a pertinent insight into Kojey’s inner world, and a timestamp documenting the feelings, emotions, and experiences that arise when many reach the milestone of their 30s. Out of this personal, poetic rumination emerges something universal, a human story of losing your way and the journey to find yourself again. A relatable journey of reaching the milestone of your 30s without having life all the way figured out.
“I wanted to make this album more personal and more honest, we have to be able to accept that the messenger has flaws and all,” says Kojey. “So if I can’t give you me from a real perspective, as someone who hasn’t got it quite all the way figured out, then how are you supposed to trust me?”
For Kojey, Don’t Look Down captures the last few years of scaling professional and musical heights, and how that climb reshapes a person’s outlook and relationships. Success brings both the fear of falling and the fear of climbing higher, knowing how much there is to lose. Rooted in the shift that followed the enormous success of Reason to Smile (2022), the album reflects the transition into one’s 30s, when old anchors slip away and life reshapes itself, forcing you to find solid ground again. This tension threads through the record. On “Rotation” and “Life of the Party”, he wrestles with internal doubts: “I live in the fear of starting again and again… I don’t know who to trust / I got too many friends, being the life of the party,” he sings over Swindle, Ashton Sellars, and Emil’s production. “Conversation” deepens this theme, opening with a whisper: “Sometimes you’re too afraid to find out the party continues even after you leave.” He likens it to stepping out for air only to realize the sun is rising and the world has moved on, relationships too. Fatherhood emerges as one of the album’s most defining threads. On “Life of the Party” he reflects, “My little one just turned four, he look just like me / His mama pray he don’t grow up just like me.” On “Curtains”, he admits, “I hate that I hold onto trauma, twinning with the traits that I got from my father.” His son’s voice surfaces in recordings throughout, and the closing track “Baby Boy” with fellow East Londoner Ghetts brings the theme to a powerful close. Across four and a half minutes, he shares the joys and anxieties of fatherhood, hopes for his son, and reflections on the history that shapes their bond.
To accompany Don’t Look Down, Kojey has been sharing a short film with intimate audiences over the past few months. The piece stitches together three music videos-Rule One featuring Bawo, Conversation, and Baby Boy featuring Ghetts-into a seamless cinematic journey. Subtle cameos of album tracks “Expensive” and “Everyday” also slip into the narrative, enriching the experience with unexpected layers. Directed by Relta, the project grew from Kojey’s desire to reintroduce care and artistry into the music video format, inspired by the striking visuals he grew up watching. When offered the chance to make a standard video, Kojey resisted convention. Instead, he turned to Relta to craft something more ambitious, something that transcended the typical format. Shot almost entirely within the confines of four walls, the visuals capture both real-life moments and the intimacy of the album itself. The result reflects Kojey with disarming honesty, no bravado, no ego, just truth. Resonating deeply with audiences, the film explores themes of co-parenting, life after the party, self-reflection, and the fear of failure.
Acclaimed Americana roots band Rose’s Pawn Shop return today with their brand-new single, “Darken My Door”, a haunting blend of 70s blues/country grit, driven blues guitar, and the band’s signature fiddle-fueled fire. The track captures both the raw energy of their live shows and the seasoned storytelling of frontman Paul Givant, balancing urgency with reflection as it pushes their sound into bold new territory.
The song is the latest preview of American Seams, Rose’s Pawn Shop’s fifth studio album, produced by Grammy-nominated Eric Corne and recorded live-in-the-studio at Robby Krieger’s Love Street Sound in Los Angeles. Across the album, the band leans into their folk and bluegrass roots while embracing the amplified crunch of rock & roll and the reflective spirit of country songwriting. “Many elements of American Seams harken back to earlier Rose’s Pawn Shop,” says longtime bassist Stephen Andrews, “but we still found new territory to broaden our sound… tapping into some ’70s blues/country vibes on tracks like ‘Darken My Door.’”
For two decades, Rose’s Pawn Shop have evolved their version of modern-day American roots music. Formed by Givant in Los Angeles, the band began as a bluegrass-inspired outfit with punky tempos and rock & roll energy, before expanding their palette with the sweeping sonics of folk and country. Their hard-touring reputation has carried them from the fishing villages of Alaska to desert roadhouses and festival stages across the U.S., while earning praise from outlets like Rolling Stone (“a blast of 21st century pickin’-party music”) and GQ (“knee-slapping bluegrass-y twang”). Now celebrating their 20th year together, Rose’s Pawn Shop continue to stitch together the patchwork of American music with authenticity, grit, and heart.
Today, Candid Records and Chick Corea Productions released the CD and LP formats of the double live album Trilogy 3. In 2020, National Endowment for the Arts Jazz Master and jazz icon Chick Corea hit the road with his powerhouse trio of Christian McBride and Brian Blade, embarking on what would be Corea’s final tour. Produced and recorded by Bernie Kirsh, and mastered by Bernie Grundman, the recordings from those shows have been released as Trilogy 3, the third installment from this extraordinary group. The vinyl format is a double-disc LP in a gatefold jacket, and both the LP and CD feature personal liner notes from Christian McBride and Brian Blade.
With years of collaboration to draw from, nine-time GRAMMY-winning bassist Christian McBride and four-time GRAMMY-winning drummer Brian Blade bring a profound musical connection to their work with Corea. On Trilogy 3, their long standing partnership fuels a dynamic, ever-evolving soundscape that elevates the art of the jazz trio to new heights.
Following the critically acclaimed Trilogy (2013) and Trilogy 2 (2018) albums, which each earned two GRAMMY Awards including Best Jazz Instrumental Album, Trilogy 3 marks yet another milestone for this celebrated ensemble. The release brings together live performances from their February-March 2020 tour, cut short by the onset of the pandemic, capturing the trio’s extraordinary interplay and artistic brilliance. The album features fresh interpretations of jazz standards by Thelonious Monk and Bud Powell, alongside Chick Corea compositions, and a vibrant take on Domenico Scarlatti’s “Sonata In D Minor.”
Widely regarded as one of Chick’s most acclaimed ensembles, this trio has consistently pushed the boundaries of jazz with technical brilliance, playful camaraderie, and deep emotional resonance. Trilogy 3 invites listeners to join these masters on a journey through music that is both timeless and groundbreaking.
Tracklisting: SIDE A 1. Humpty Dumpty 2. Windows SIDE B 1. Trinkle Tinkle 2. You’d Be So Easy To Love SIDE C 1. Ask Me Now 2. Scarlatti: Sonata in D Minor K9, L413 Allegro SIDE D 1. Spanish Song 2. Tempus Fugit
Half a century to the day since its original 1975 release, Pink Floyd have announced the 50th anniversary edition of their era-defining album Wish You Were Here. Out December 12th via Sony Music, Wish You Were Here 50 gives fans an exciting new perspective into one of Pink Floyd’s most iconic and best-loved records. The 50th anniversary edition features multiple discs of rarities – at the core of this special collection are six previously unreleased alternate versions and demos presenting Pink Floyd’s eighth studio album in a brand new way that demands repeat listening.
Wish You Were Here 50 will be released in multiple formats including 3LP, 2CD, Blu-ray, digital and a Deluxe Box Set. The digital release includes the original 1975 album, featuring a new Dolby Atmos mix by James Guthrie, whose work with Pink Floyd dates back to 1979’s The Wall. It also includes 25 bonus tracks made up of nine studio rarities, and 16 live recordings captured by the renowned bootlegger Mike Millard at Pink Floyd’s Los Angeles Sports Arena concert on April 26th 1975, now receiving its first official release. The live audio has been meticulously restored and remastered by Steven Wilson. The Blu-ray edition also gives fans the chance to see three concert screen films from the band’s 1975 tour, plus a Storm Thorgerson short film. The 3LP and 2CD formats include the original album and the nine studio bonus tracks. The Deluxe Box Set includes all 2CD, 3LP (on exclusive clear vinyl) and Blu-Ray material, plus a fourth clear vinyl LP, Live At Wembley 1974, a replica Japanese 7” Single of Have A Cigar b/w Welcome To The Machine, a hardcover book including unseen photographs, a comic book tour programme and Knebworth concert poster. Exclusive 50th Anniversary Merchandise along with Limited Edition product releases will also be available at PinkFloyd.com.
To celebrate the album announcement, a previously unheard early demo recording of “Welcome to the Machine” originally titled “The Machine Song” is released today. Shorter in length than the epic original, “The Machine Song (Demo #2, Revisited)” gives fans an exciting preview of what to expect from Wish You Were Here 50. Other studio rarities to be released include “The Machine Song (Roger’s demo),” the first home demo of the song that Roger Waters originally brought to the band, a previously unheard instrumental mix of the track “Wish You Were Here” showcasing David Gilmour’s pedal steel guitar, and for the first time, a complete “Shine On You Crazy Diamond (Pts. 1-9)” that joins together the two halves of the song, newly mixed in stereo by James Guthrie.
Wish You Were Here has been a mainstay on all-time greatest albums lists for decades. The multi-Platinum-selling #1 hit record was Pink Floyd’s first to reach the top of the charts on both sides of the Atlantic, becoming the band’s fastest selling album. In 1973, The Dark Side of the Moon had taken Pink Floyd from a hugely successful breakout British band to one of the biggest rock groups on the planet. Wish You Were Here was the band’s powerful response to their newfound global fame.
Featuring the multi-part eulogy to Syd Barrett “Shine On You Crazy Diamond,” the hypnotic “Welcome To The Machine,” the scathing “Have a Cigar,” with its immortal line “Oh by the way, which one’s Pink?” famously sung not by Waters or Gilmour, but by non band-member Roy Harper, and the essential title track, Wish You Were Here is undoubtedly one of the most important album releases in the history of popular music.
The record’s themes of absence, isolation, transience, and comment on the insincerity of the music business are embodied in the iconic album artwork. The visual puns developed by Storm Thorgerson and Aubrey ‘Po’ Powell at Hipgnosis remain instantly recognisable visual statements today.
Remembering that time, Aubrey ‘Po’ Powell said:
“In the 1970s, album covers were equally as important as the music, because the cover helped to sell the record. Record stores would carry 10,000 different images in album sleeves, so what we were doing had to look different and stand out amongst the crowd.
I remember turning around to Storm and saying, how are we going to set a man on fire? Because there was no digital way of doing it in those days. He said, Po, you’re just going to have to do it for real. That was it.
One has to remember that Pink Floyd were the only band on EMI and Capitol Records who had the rights to the creative – in terms of album cover – besides the Beatles. That’s why we were allowed to do what we wanted. It was brilliant. Just the same way that Pink Floyd were a very inventive band at the time, so were Hipgnosis. We were determined to keep that abstract, enigmatic image alive and hence, we were able to do that for Pink Floyd.”
In 2025 the ardent support and fascination surrounding Pink Floyd’s music remains. The newly restored version of their groundbreaking 1972 film Pink Floyd at Pompeii – MCMLXXII stormed box offices around the world, with the live album debuting at #1 on the UK Albums Chart, marking the band’s first UK chart-topper in eleven years and the seventh in their career. The film was praised by critics and audiences the world over, with The Guardian describing it as a “mesmerically peculiar portrait of a band on cusp of greatness.”
50 years since its release, Wish You Were Here sounds as resonant and vital as ever, and in reaching this milestone deserves to be celebrated anew. This special anniversary edition allows fans, for the first time, to delve deeper into a pivotal moment in Pink Floyd’s history.
A new featurette takes us inside the grueling prep of Glen Powell for Edgar Wright’s The Running Man. Paramount’s November 14 release reimagines Stephen King’s dystopian tale with grit, muscle, and a cast stacked with heavy hitters.
