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Little Feat has been making the rounds in Nashville this week. On Tuesday the group made its Grand Ole Opry debut. The band performed three tunes that evening, with Maggie Rose joining in on “Willin’” and “Dixie Chicken” before stepping offstage as the group closed things out with “Let It Roll.”

Last evening, Little Feat’s Last Farewell Tour made its way to the Ryman Auditorium. The first set opened with “Fat Man in the Bathtub” and included such classics like “Let It Roll” and “Time Loves a Hero” along with newer material from the group’s  2025 studio album Strike Up the Band, such as “Shipwrecks” and “Midnight Flight.”

When the group emerged for the second frame, a number of notable artists joined in. Maggie Rose reunited with the group during “The Weight,” “All That You Dream” and “Cadillac Hotel.”

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On October 9, Nonesuch Records will give wider release to the new EP from Robert Plant and Saving Grace with Suzi Dian.  All That Glitters… originally came out for Record Store Day but will now be available via digital formats as well.

In 2025 Plant released Saving Grace, which teamed him with Dian and a collection of players from the English countryside. The musicians are collectively drawn to folk and Americana music, which they cover on the EP. The sections include two traditional tunes “The Blackest Crow” and “Two Coats,” along with Gillian Welch’s “Orphan Girl,” and Bert Jansch’s “Poison.”

The group will likely explore this material on their Up the Sharp End US tour, which extends from September 18 to October 15. The complete itinerary appears below, as well as a visualizer of  “Two Coats.”

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British rock band Muse have changed their social media handles following the launch of Meta’s new AI agent, also called Muse, sparking an unusual clash between one of the world’s best-known rock acts and one of the tech industry’s biggest AI products. The band previously operated under the straightforward @muse handle on Instagram and Facebook, but now directs fans to @museband on Meta’s platforms. On X and TikTok, the group has also adopted variations including @MusetheBand, further distinguishing its online […]

Ferry Corsten reveals lesser-known production aliases from his early career, including Elektrika on Tsunami and A Jolly Good Fellow on Blue Records.

Ferry Corsten reveals forgotten aliases including Elektrika and A Jolly Good Fellow

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In early August Sierra Ferrell released her first new music of 2026. Ferrell who is currently on the road with her Heavy Petal Tour then offered the surprise drop of  “Trying to Love You.”

She has just followed it up with another new tune. Ferrell wrote “Pair of Dice” with Melody Walker, offering hope in the face of adversity. She is joined on the track  by producer Gabriel Kelley (bass, drums, piano, Wurlitzer, B-3, guitars, congas, percussion), Luke Munday (banjo), Billy Contreras (fiddle) and a choir of Kalen Nash, Aslyn Nash, Hannah Marie Kelley, Gabriel Kelley, Bekka Bramlett, Oliver Bates Craven, Geoff Saunders and Josh Rilko.

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Surf music was famously invented in the early 1960s by Dick Dale, a Lebanese-American kid from Boston. Dale’s big hit, “Miserlou,” was adapted from a Mediterranean folk song, and he played his guitar like an oud, which he’d learned from his uncle, with staccato verve. Dale turned up the reverb, employed non-Western scales, and included the celebratory Jewish tune “Hava Nagila” in his repertoire. More than a half-century later, New York guitarist Jon Madof and bandmates Yoshie Fruchter (bass) and Nate Rappaport (drums) make surf rock sound all kinds of new on the power trio’s debut album, Netzach (Eternity), which transforms the oceanic sounds of surf into something deeper, heavier and edgier.

Madof is probably best known for his band Zion80, a stunningly innovative concept ensemble that blended the polyrhythms of Fela Kuti’s afrobeat style with the baal teshuva balladry of controversial American rabbi Shlomo Carlebach. The Jon Madof Trio, however, is a stripped-down, amped-up take on radical Jewish music tradition that emerged in Downtown New York during the 1990s. It’s also probably fair to call Madof’s guitar sound the latest in a lineage that also includes the late, great Israeli guitar improviser Yosi Piamenta.

Netzach opens with Madof improvising an unaccompanied introduction to “Achdut” (unity, harmony), a rolling and tumbling synthesis of surf and associated styles extending from Brighton Beach to Tel Aviv. Madof employs a wide array of effects throughout the album, which also touches on jazz, epiphanic balladry, and the off-kilter “afrobeat” of “A Pure Heart.” Fruchter and Rappaport respond to Madof’s instrumental storytelling like the longtime cohorts they are. The album might reach its apotheosis in “The Beautiful Six,” which suggests a klezmer mosh pit replete with ancient gnarl. Madof and company demonstrate that surf music was never as simple as might have thought, and that it can still roar like the waves. Netzach is a significant contribution to the Tzadik label’s ongoing commitment to exploring Jewish musical culture in novel manifestations.

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Stream new releases from This Is Lorelei, Alex G, Haruomi Hosono, and Sylvan Esso

Listen to the indie rock titans’ respective takes on “Barstool Blues” and “Like a Hurricane”