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Angine de Poitrine's huge year continues with the win of Canada's Polaris Music Prize 🔥

ADP won Canadian Album of the Year for 'Vol. II.'

The duo also won best Canadian song of the year for “Fabienk." They are the first Polaris recipient to ever win both awards in the same year.

Well deserved?

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City kid Karina Rykman will celebrate the release of her second album, 'Late Checkout,' with a string of NYC performances this week—beginning tonight, September 23rd, with the first-ever concert inside Zabar’s, the iconic Upper West Side grocery store that’s also the exclusive retailer of the bassist’s tie-dyed “BabKarina.”

Tickets for the extremely limited-capacity Zabar’s were snapped up instantly—much like the initial run of the Karina-branded babka, which the appetizing store introduced last year and continues to sell online. [Translation for non-New Yorkers: babka is a sweet, rolled loaf that originated in Eastern European Jewish communities and remains ubiquitous in the five boroughs; an appetizing store is a store that sells “food that generally goes with bagels.”]

“One of my earliest memories is being in a stroller pushed by my mom in the Zabar’s aisles and Ray, who is still there to this day behind the smoked fish counter, handing my probably 3ish-year-old self a sample of smoked salmon,” Rykman told Live For Live Music last year. “Zabar’s is my favorite institution in the world, and the idea that the BabKarina took off like this and could be a mainstay in the store… forever? I’m honored.”

One of the things we all love about Phish is their ability to surprise. That effect was in full force on this day in 2000, when the band took the stage at the Allstate Arena in Rosemont, Illinois. The Vermont four-piece opened the show with the debut of “Come On Baby, Let’s Go Downtown,” a tune originally written by Danny Whitten (the original guitarist for Crazy Horse) and made famous by its appearance on the 1975 Neil Young album, 'Tonight’s The Night.' To date, after its debut on September 23rd, 2000, Phish has only ever played it one other time—a week later during the group’s performance at Verizon Wireless Amphitheater on October 5th of the same year.

Fortunately, you can watch a video of Phish debuting their cover of “Come On Baby, Let’s Go Downtown," which built through to a nicely jammed rendition of “The Moma Dance,” at the link in the comments, along with their performances of "Halley's Comet" and "Stash" as well.

After four decades as one of Baltimore’s best-known independent music venues, The 8x10 is getting a new look—and a new ownership group. Following a summer renovation, the 300-capacity Federal Hill club will reopen October 9th with performances by Tom Hamilton Band and Illiterate Light.

Read More 👉 https://liveforlivemusic.com/partner/baltimore-historic-8x10-october-reopening-preview/

Charles Bradley was 63 years old when his first full-length album, 'No Time For Dreaming,' was released via DapTone Records in 2011. Despite its title, the old school soul and R&B vocalist had spent much of his life chasing dreams, including his dream of putting out a record and performing for packed audiences night after night. These aspirations were what kept Bradley going during what was often a very difficult journey to stardom.

At the age of 14, Bradley witnessed a James Brown concert at Harlem’s Apollo Theater that inspired his love for music and convinced him to develop a stage presence based on the Godfather of Soul’s performance style. That same year, he ran away from his impoverished Brooklyn home and began a 40-year struggle with hard work, heartbreak, and occasional homelessness. Yet through it all, he had love in his soul and music on his mind.

Beginning in 1967, Bradley began working side gigs as a James Brown impersonator. It’s a role he would take up—off and on—for the next 45 years, whether he was living in Maine, California or New York. It’s also what he was doing, under the stage named Black Velvet, when he was discovered by Daptone Records co-founder Bosco Mann in 2002. After impersonating James Brown for decades, this chance encounter finally gave Bradley the opportunity to develop his own sound in earnest.

The next few years were a whirlwind for Bradley, who put out a variety of singles while backed by Daptone-affiliated acts like Sugarman & Co., The Bullets, and Menahan Street Band. The record label’s dedication to preserving the funk, soul, and R&B styles of the ’60 and ’70 made it the perfect home for Bradley, and these early efforts brought some newfound attention to the late-blooming singer. However, it was 2011’s 'No Time For Dreaming'—with its breakthrough single “The World (Is Going Up In Flames)”— and the acclaimed 2012 documentary 'Soul of America' that piqued America’s interest in Bradley and quickly turned him into an in-demand act.

Unsurprisingly, audiences loved Bradley’s old school sound and his powerful stage presence. While his three albums are a delight, live performances were where the magic really happened, and Bradley made sure to perform as much as possible during the last few years of his life. Whether he was backed by the Menahan Street Band or, later, His Extraordinaires, the singer always managed to wring every ounce of feeling from every note and every movement. With each breath and each step, Bradley displayed a lifetime’s worth of agony—and a lifetime’s worth of love—all at once. For older fans, he offered a throwback to a bygone musical era. For younger fans, he offered a fresh take on an old-school sound and a respite from the trappings of modern music. For everyone, he offered his heart and his soul.

Sadly, Bradley was forced to call off his tour after he was diagnosed with stomach cancer in the fall of 2016. He was briefly able to return the stage for a number of shows but, a little over a year after his diagnosis—nine years ago today—Bradley passed away at the age of 68, having relished every moment in the limelight that eluded him for most of his life.

While we won’t get to see his infectious smile on stage anymore, his music will always be here for all of us. Perhaps more importantly, his story of struggle and eventual success will inspire countless others to keep their eyes on the prize and love in their hearts no matter what obstacles come their way.

After reconquering the world with a reunion tour last summer and quickly selling out their initial batch of summer 2027 world tour dates, brothers Liam and Noel Gallagher have extended next year’s global Oasis tour with four additional dates in previously announced markets. The tour now includes 42 stops in North America, Continental Europe, and the U.K.

New additions to the sold-out tour, produced by Live Nation and SJM Presents, include extra shows in Munich, Germany (July 6), Rome, Italy (July 26), and Knebworth, U.K. (September 25, 26). The update also shifts the previously announced dates of the group’s Paris, France run from July 23 and 24 to July 20 and 23 due to “railway engineering works near the venue on July 24.”

Unfortunately for U.S. audiences, the 2027 tour will predominantly focus on the U.K. and mainland Europe. As it currently stands, the only U.S. stops on Oasis’ 2027 tour are at Foxborough, MA’s Gillette Stadium outside Boston (August 10, 13, 14) and Las Vegas’ Allegiant Stadium (August 20, 21, 24).

The tour will kick off with five nights at Celtic Park in Glasgow, Scotland (May 21, 23, 25, 28, 29) followed by an 11-show run at Etihad Stadium in the band’s hometown of Manchester, UK (June 4, 6, 8, 11, 12, 15, 18, 19, 22, 25, 26). After that, Oasis will head to Europe for shows in Munich (July 2, 3, 6), Barcelona (July 10, 11), Amsterdam (July 16, 17), Paris (July 20, 23), and Rome (July 26, 29, 30) ahead of the U.S. leg.

Following the shows in Las Vegas and Foxborough, Oasis will cross the pond for a couple of shows at Ireland’s Slane Castle (September 4, 5) and the band’s historic, six-show return to Knebworth in Hertfordshire, England (September 11, 12, 18, 19, 25, 26). The 125,000-capacity Knebworth was the site of two legendary 1996 Oasis shows that were the subject of a documentary and live album in 2021. Another separate Oasis documentary, Supersonic, presents the 1996 Knebworth shows as the pinnacle of the band’s rise to ubiquity. Per The Guardian, at the original 1996 dates, “the band played to 250,000 fans – just one tenth of the number who applied for tickets, estimated at the time to be more than 4% of the entire British population.”

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Today, Space Bacon has announced its new album, 'Chaos Game', due out October 23rd. The Brooklyn-based jamtronica quartet has also offered the first taste of the nine-track collection with lead single “Computervision.” The band will celebrate the album’s arrival with a hometown release party at Brooklyn Bowl on October 23rd, which will also serve as their final show of 2026. 👾

Read all about the forthcoming album, stream the single, and buy album release party tickets here: https://liveforlivemusic.com/partner/space-bacon-new-album-chaos-game-lead-single-computervision/