Stereophonics retrospective 'Tune! Ultimate Collection '96-'26' drops this month

Scheduled for Nov. 20, 'Tune! Ultimate Collection '96-'26' by Stereophonics will be available on 3LP 180g black vinyl, limited edition 3LP 180g colored vinyl, 2CD and digital formats. Each physical edition includes one of five exclusive lyric art prints, randomly inserted at packing, making every copy a unique collector's item.

PRE-ORDER HERE

Speaking on the release, singer/guitarist Kelly Jones said:

"I wanted to make an up-to-date compilation. I wanted all the big songs in one place. If you look us up streaming - there it is, your introduction to Stereophonics. Easy to find for the die-hard fans of decades. And easy to find for the new fans I seen in the front row this last few years on the arena and stadium tours worldwide. I get blown away when young twenty somethings and teenagers from all walks of life come up to me on the street telling me how they discovered the band and what the songs mean to them. I equally get blown away when people tell me they’ve seen the band thirty plus times. This album is for them. Tune after Tune! This not for marketing. This is not for the charts. This is for music lovers and this is for people to get a glimpse at the catalogue of songs we have worked hard at for decades. I personally discovered a lot of my favourite bands through compilations. There’s a lot of music to find. This is just an appetiser. Songwriting is an important thing for people. It offers hope to know that someone else has had that beautiful or fearful or uncertain experience in life and make people feel less alone. It’s always been about moving forwards and standing the test of time for me as a writer. Being honest and being vulnerable and telling the truth. Big love and thanks to you all and enjoy the collectors vinyls too, they’re stunning."

Stereophonics' enduring success continues to grow, with the band coming off another U.K. No.1 album in 2025 - their ninth U.K. No.1 album overall. Across a 30-year career, they have sold more than 10 million albums and 10 million singles worldwide.

30 GOLDEN TICKET PRIZES TO BE WON WITH U.K. PRE-ORDERS FROM THE OFFICIAL STORE, INCLUDING A ONE-OF-A-KIND STEREOPHONICS VINYL JUKEBOX To celebrate 30 years of Stereophonics, fans who pre-order ‘Tune!’ through the Official Store in the U.K. will automatically be entered into an exclusive ‘Golden Ticket’ competition, with 30 prizes available - including one grand prize and 29 runner-up prizes.

The grand prize is a one-of-a-kind Stereophonics-branded vinyl jukebox, with the winner announced via a special golden vinyl edition of ‘Tune!’ sent directly to them. The 29 runner-up winners will also receive exclusive prizes created especially to celebrate the band's 30th anniversary.

RELEASE FORMATS:

● ‘Tune!’ - 3LP 180g Black Vinyl

● ‘Tune!’ - 3LP 180g Marble Colored Vinyl - D2C Exclusive

● ‘Tune!’ - 2CD Digipack

● ‘Tune!’ - Digital

‘TUNE!’ TRACKLIST:

Side A
1. Dakota
2. I Wanna Get Lost With You

3. Have A Nice Day
4. Maybe Tomorrow
5. There’s Always Gonna Be Something

Side B
6. C’est La Vie
7. White Lies
8. Fly Like An Eagle
9. The Bartender And The Thief
10. Mr Writer

Side C
11. A Thousand Trees
12. Local Boy In The Photograph
13. Just Looking
14. Graffiti On The Train
15. Indian Summer

Side D
16. Vegas Two Times
17. It Means Nothing
18. Song For The Summer
19. Handbags And Gladrags
20. Geronimo

Side E

21. All In One Night
22. Seems Like You Don't Know Me
23. Hurry Up And Wait
24. Pick A Part That's New
25. Step On My Old Size Nines

Side F
26. Superman
27. You're My Star 28. Do Ya Feel My Love?
29. Traffic
30. Mr And Mrs Smith

Concert Review: Psychedelic Furs, Gary Numan in Riverside, Calif.

A pair of influential music acts who emerged from London’s post-punk scene in 1977 and became synonymous with the new wave movement teamed up for a single show in Riverside, Calif.

Psychedelic Furs and Gary Numan drew a large crowd to the Fox Performing Arts Center. Singers Richard Butler and Numan let the music do all the talking during their respective sets on Wednesday night.

Originally scheduled to tour SoCal last spring, the Psych Furs had to postpone shows after co-founding bassist Tim Butler underwent triple bypass heart surgery. It was great to see him back onstage, still the epitome of cool in those trademark dark shades, often moving to both sides of the stage like his brother.

2026 is the 40th anniversary for one of The Furs’ signature tunes – “Pretty in Pink” (though it actually made a bigger impact at college/modern rock radio than pop stations). The classic film soundtrack was reissued in limited edition color variants to mark the occasion.

Before The Fox concert began, I overheard a male Furs fan describe how his custom made t-shirt sported a replica photo of a concert ticket from when he saw the band at Riverside’s Raincross Square, just a short distance away, in 1984. Toward the front of the stage, an older gentleman sporting a sparkly red lame jacket could be seen dancing to the pre-show music.

Launching the solid 75-minute set with “Love My Way” (a song that holds special resonance for the LGBTQ+ community), Psych Furs immediately had fans standing and swaying to the luxurious sound led by keyboardist Amanda Kramer.

There was a noticeably stronger sonic dynamic in play during rocking Eighties tunes like the driving “Mr. Jones” and wiry “President Gas” (with political-tinged lyrics that still hold true decades later). Much of that elevation could be attributed to drummer Frank Ferrer, recently back in the Furs fold for the first time since the 2000s, having done a long stint with Guns ‘N Roses. 

Also, Peter DiStefano (Porno for Pyros) joined the always sturdy Rich Good on guitar last year. The former did some impressive E-bow work on the ebullient “Heartbreak Beat” and frenetic first encore “India.”

Highlights included the simmering “House” (a #1 alt-rock radio hit in 1990), an entrancing “The Ghost in You,” and hypnotic “All of This and Nothing” (where Richard Butler played some cowbell). As for “Pretty in Pink?” Since the passing of longtime saxophonist Mars Williams in 2023, the band basically leans more toward the moodier original arrangement from 1981’s Talk Talk Talk.

Gary Numan’s opening hour-long set was mesmerizing. Shrouded in dim, shadowy lighting, the darkwave music legend cast an ominous vibe straight away with “Halo” and the slinky, Middle Eastern-influenced “The Gift.” 

Clad in black, with arms wrapped in straps, Numan and his three-piece band mostly stuck to material from the past 15 years not necessarily known to casual fans. Still, Numan threw them a bone in the form of best known 1980 hit “Cars” and the herky jerky “Metal” off #1 UK album The Pleasure Principle. Numan frequently twisted his body in various positions and gestured dramatically during the performance, totally immersed in the music.

Psychedelic Furs and Gary Numan will appear at Darker Waves Festival in Huntington Beach on Saturday.

Coachella Festival 2027 Lineup and On Sale Announced

Coachella Valley Music and Arts Festival returns to the Empire Polo Club in Indio, CA for two weekends set for April 9 – 11 and April 16 – 18, 2027 with Dua Lipa, Tame Impala, SZA, Daddy Yankee, Madonna, Phoebe Bridgers, Don Toliver, Zara Larsson, Weezer, Dom Dolla + many more.

Passes go on sale Friday, November 13 at noon PT on coachella.com. Ready to buy now? You can purchase your passes today when you bundle with a Hotel Package. Official Hotel Packages that bundle festival passes with local lodging and transportation are available now for Weekend 1 and Weekend 2.

YouTube returns in 2027 for its 15th year as the exclusive livestream partner for both Coachella weekends on the official YouTube channel. For more festival information and updates, visit www.coachella.com.

Album Review: 'Dreamworld' by Professor and the Madman feat. Damned, Adolescents Members

With The Damned scheduled for SoCal concert appearances this week in San Diego (Nov. 13), Huntington Beach (Nov. 14), Santa Ana (Nov. 15), and Los Angeles (Nov. 17), it's a good time to remind local fans that Professor and the Madman - the side project from classic Damned era drummer Rat Scabies and bassist Paul Gray - have a new album out.

Alongside lead singers/guitarists and keyboardists Alfie Agrew (the Adolescents, D.I.) and Sean Elliott (Mind Over Four, D.I.), Professor and the Madman released its fifth studio album Dreamworld on LP/CD/digital via Fuller Tone Records over the summer. The cover art is a nod to The Beatles' Revolver.

Dreamworld is a great effort from the music veterans who first gained prominence from being part of either the London or Fullerton, Calif. punk scenes during the 1970s/80s. The new songs marked the first time the members recorded in the same room and part of the album was tracked during a single day at Abbey Road Studio 2 in London.

The piano-led title track is a highlight which boasts a jaunty mid-1960s vibe (think: '90s power pop band Jellyfish or more modern act The Lemon Twigs), complete with layered 'ba ba ba' vocal harmonies. Professor and the Madman also impresses with the effusive early Who-type energy (more layered harmonies) of "Tolerant World." The buoyant baroque pop-leaning "Brand New World" is about aliens from the future trying to save a dying Earth by building a new planet.  

Another dose of blissful, harmony-laden power pop arrives with "The Light." The same holds true for "Nuclear Boy," a terrific and well-chosen cover of 20/20's European single from 1981. It is propelled by driving electric guitar work and rapid-fire vocals. 

Elsewhere, a dense "12 Strings and Tambourines" delves into psychedelia, while the dreamy rocker "Adams Street" (inspired where Agnew grew up in Fullerton) contains an impressive falsetto vocal and freakout guitar. There's even a brief Beatlesque reprise of the title track.

  

Purchase Dreamworld at Bandcamp.

Sound & Vision Live Record Release Celebration and Concert Film Screening This Month at Plaza Theatre in Palm Springs

Adopt the Arts Foundation's Sound & Vision Live Record Release Celebration & Concert Film Screenings, originally scheduled for this past September, will take place on November 22 at the Plaza Theatre in Palm Springs. All previously purchased tickets will be honored.

This event follows the Sound & Vision Awards benefit concert held last March.

The feature-length Sound & Vision Awards Concert Film has performances honoring Rock & Roll Hall of Famers Paul Rodgers and Geezer Butler, and notable collaborations. The film also includes exclusive rehearsal footage, behind-the-scenes moments and commentary from Musical Director and Producer Matt Sorum. 

Each screening will be followed by a live Q&A with Sorum and a special guest to be announced.

Guests will also have opportunities to purchase the official Sound & Vision Live Collector’s Edition Double Vinyl, shop exclusive event merchandise and bid on select auction items benefiting Adopt the Arts.

WHEN
Sunday, November 22, 2026
3 p.m. — Community Screening

A special presentation for Palm Springs Unified School District students and families, featuring a live performance by the Changels Honor Choir. Complimentary tickets will be distributed directly through PSUSD.

7 p.m. — Gala Screening & Record Release Celebration
VIP doors open at 5:30 p.m.

The VIP experience includes:

Hosted cocktail reception
Reserved premium seating
Concert film screening
Live Q&A with Matt Sorum and a special guest
Choice of a commemorative Sound & Vision hat or limited-edition event poster
First opportunity to purchase the Plaza Theatre-exclusive vinyl edition
Early access to event merchandise
General admission doors open at 6 p.m.
General admission includes:Concert film screening
Live Q&A with Matt Sorum and a special guest
Access to purchase the collector’s vinyl album and event merchandise
Opportunity to bid on select auction items benefiting Adopt the Arts

WHERE
The Plaza Theatre
Palm Springs, California

TICKETS
VIP: $150
General Admission: $25

Purchase tickets through Ticketmaster

PLAZA THEATRE-EXCLUSIVE VINYL
A limited run of only 250 Plaza Theatre Collector’s Editions of the Sound & Vision Live Double Vinyl will debut at the November 22 celebration.

Pressed on colored vinyl and designed by Glen Wexler, these special editions feature artwork unavailable on the standard online release.

The complete album pressing is limited to 2,000 copies. The standard edition is available for pre-order exclusively through Experience Vinyl, with proceeds directly supporting Adopt the Arts Foundation.

Pre-order the Sound & Vision Live Double Vinyl

Every ticket purchased, album sold and auction item won helps provide children with access to quality music education through Adopt the Arts.

Adopt the Arts currently provides year-round music instruction, instruments, curriculum, teacher support, artist mentorship and performance opportunities to more than 4,000 elementary students in eight underserved public schools across Southern California.

Pink Floyd's 'Animals' gets box set treatment for 50th anniversary

The 50th anniversary edition of Pink Floyd’s 'Animals' is being released in multiple formats and a deluxe box set on January 22 through Sony Music. It features rare and unreleased music, alongside unseen photographs. 

Animals 50 will be released in multiple formats, including a Deluxe Box Set, 1LP, 2LP, 2CD, Blu-Ray Audio and digital. The Deluxe Box Set contains 3 LPs: the original 1977 album, the 2018 Remix (remixed by James Guthrie), and a disc of five rarities that includes an unheard Roger Waters track titled ‘Young Nicholas Jon’ and previously unreleased early versions of ‘Sheep’ and ‘Dogs’. 

There are 5 CDs mirroring the LPs, plus a 2-disc set of the May 9, 1977 Oakland show recorded live at the Oakland Coliseum Arena by a then 19 year old bootlegger, Reinhard Hohlwein, and the 1-disc Blu-Ray, which includes all of the above audio with the 2018 Remix being available in 5.1 and Dolby Atmos.

The Deluxe Box Set also features a 64-page hardback book comprising new sleeve notes from New York Times best-selling author Jonathan Lethem, an interview with Reinhard Hohlwein, and an excerpt from Hipgnosis’ Aubrey “Po” Powell’s memoir about the making of Animals’ album art. 

The 1LP contains the original 1977 album in orange and sandstone color variants. The 2LP and 2CD sets contain the original 1977 album plus rarities, as does the digital release, which also features the Oakland show.

The first of the suite of rare and unheard music is ‘Sheep (Original Radio Edit)’; a four and a half minute, promo-only edit made for radio in 1977, which has never been commercially available until now, is available to listen to here. Watch the visualizer here.

Discussing the creation of the album art, Roger Waters says: “I’d driven past Battersea Power Station every day going to and from my house in Clapham. I guess I just loved the building. I liked its symbolism that it’s a power station and that it belches smoke, so there’s something menacing about it. It’s got four phallic chimneys, and it looks like an upside down table. And there were four people in the band that had been turned upside down. It seemed like a really cool place for a pig to fly.”

Speaking on Animals, David Gilmour says: “The mood in music was changing in ’77. Punk music was hitting everything and I suspect that had a little bit of an influence on the way we were working on the Animals album. I mean it’s quite an aggressive, stripped-back album. It was moving away from the sort of soundscapes that we had on Wish You Were Here. This album is more in your face and more rough and ready. And definitely the lyrics are a lot more aggressive from Roger. We had a lot of fun making it.”

Nick Mason says: “There were all sorts of differences beginning to surface within the band but in some ways Animals was a remarkably cohesive enterprise. The big thing was the development of Britannia Row. Britannia Row was this building we’d bought some few years before in which we’d actually started building our own recording studio. We tried to design the studio in such a way that any of us could operate it and all the trunking was labelled clearly so anyone could plug in a set of headphones without someone else having to do it for us.”

Earlier this year saw the release of 8-Tracks, a new official compilation project, featuring eight essential classics selected from the band’s 1971-79 era. This followed the 50th anniversary release of Wish You Were Here becoming a Top 10 charting album across the world, signaling Pink Floyd’s second #1 release of 2025 in the UK, Germany, Italy and Switzerland, 50 years after it first topped the charts. Seven months prior, the cinematic release of Pink Floyd at Pompeii - MCMLXXII became a Top 10 Box Office hit, and the accompanying soundtrack album earned the band’s first UK #1 album since 2014’s The Endless River - their final studio LP.

Pre-order Animals 50 here.

Track listings:

Deluxe Box Set 

5CD

CD1: Animals (Original album)

CD2: Animals (2018 Remix)
CD3: Rarities
CD4: Live from the Oakland Coliseum Arena, 1977 Disc 1
CD5: Live from the Oakland Coliseum Arena, 1977 Disc 2

3LP
LP1: Animals (Original album)
LP2: Animals (2018 Remix)
LP3: Rarities

Blu-Ray
Animals - Original Stereo Mix (1977)
Animals - Remix: Stereo + 5.1 + Atmos (2018)
Rarities (Stereo Mix)
Live from the Oakland Coliseum Arena, 1977

Digital

“Disc 1” - Animals (Original album)Pigs on the Wing 1
Dogs
Pigs (Three Different Ones)
Sheep
Pigs on the Wing 2

“Disc 2” - Animals (2018 Remix)Pigs on the Wing 1 - 2018 Remix
Dogs - 2018 Remix
Pigs (Three Different Ones) - 2018 Remix
Sheep - 2018 Remix
Pigs on the Wing 2 - 2018 Remix

“Disc 3” - RaritiesDogs - Early Version, Rough Mix*
Sheep - Original Radio Edit*
Sheep - Early Version, Rough Mix*
Studio Jam*
Young Nicholas Jon*

“Disc 4” - Live from the Oakland Coliseum Arena, 1977Sheep (Live)*
Pigs on the Wing 1 (Live)*
Dogs (Live)*
Pigs on the Wing 2 (Live)*
Pigs (Three Different Ones) (Live)*
Shine On You Crazy Diamond (Pts. 1-5) (Live)*
Welcome to the Machine (Live)*
Have a Cigar (Live)*
Wish You Were Here (Live)*
Shine On You Crazy Diamond (Pts. 6-9) (Live)*
Money (Live)*
Us and Them (Live)*
Careful with That Axe, Eugene (Live)*

* never before officially released

''Animal,' the new album by Ryan Adams, drops early next year

Ryan Adams' new album 'Animal' is slated for February 12 on his own PAX-AM label. The first single, "Amethyst", is out now, and the album is available to pre-order on vinyl, CD and digital.

Animal is an almost entirely solo record. Adams played drums, bass, guitars, piano, synths, percussion and harmonica himself, and wrote every song. He produced and mixed the album with Dror Mohar, who also engineered it.

Longtime friend Daniel Clarke adds synths to "Jesus Christ", "Animal" and "Jesus H", and Hammond B3 to "Soon", where J.C. Khul's saxophone carries the coda.

Animal follows a prolific run of PAX-AM releases and the 25th-anniversary re-imagination of his debut Heartbreaker in 2025. Fans can expect a run of exclusive vinyl variants and bundles at ryanadamsanimal.com, with further singles and visuals to come before release.

Track list:

Doesn't Mean S**t
Amethyst
Remember Us
Pass Me By
Jesus Christ
Animal
Automatic Heart
Soon
Jesus H
Outsiders In