WEEKLY ENCORE: Your Must-Read Setlist
Here's a look at this week's top headlines.
Relix Daily
November 01, 2025
November 1, 2025
NEWS
The Disco Biscuits have posted a statement confirming that they have parted ways with drummer Allen Aucoin. Rumors began circulating that the drummer had split from the band late last week, leading to widespread speculation on various fan forums throughout the weekend. In a message posted on social media, founding members Jon Gutwillig, Marc Brownstein and Aron Magner shared the following.
NEWS
Mumford & Sons have announced a new album. Prizefighter, the British folk-rock band’s sixth studio release, will arrive via Island Records on February 13, 2026. The project’s formal introduction arrived only seven months after Rushmere, which was Mumford & Sons’ first new release in seven years. Last week, the trio heralded their next chapter with the new single “Rubber Band Man,” featuring their longtime collaborator Hozier.
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LISTEN
Twin sisters Katie and Allison Crutchfield have reunited as Snocaps on a new surprise album. Katie, the folk-rock powerhouse behind Waxahatchee, and Allison, of indie favorite Swearin’, first teased something new two weeks ago in polaroids taken with MJ Lenderman and Brad Cook. While it seemed safe to assume that the Crutchfields were forecasting their first shared project since the glory days of their indie-punk outfit P.S. Eliot, which ran from 2007-2011 and returned briefly in 2016, no one could’ve called that their reunion would arrive as a full album drop with no advance notice.
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Limited to 3,500 individually numbered copies, Goose - Live in New York captures the band’s fully improvised March 11, 2025 performance at Luna Luna, surrounded by works by Basquiat, Haring, and Dalí, with Stuart Bogie adding sax and clarinet. Paired with the July/August 2025 issue of Relix, featuring Goose on the cover and an in-depth feature tracing their journey from intimate rooms to Madison Square Garden, this set is both a collector’s item and a ready-made gift.
RECAP
Tame Impala touched down in New York on Monday, Oct. 27, to set off the American arena tour supporting the release of Deadbeat. In the first of four packed performances at Brooklyn’s Barclays Center, Kevin Parker and his backing band formally introduced the project and the stage show fans can expect as they cross the country in the next few weeks, complete with live debuts of the bulk of the album’s tracklist.
NEWS
Umphrey’s McGee will take their high-flying fusion abroad next year with Deep Dive, a new destination festival. Staging at the Moon Palace Cancún Resort in Riviera Maya, Mexico – home to beloved signature events from Phish and Dave Matthews & Tim Reynolds – from April 30 to May 3, the progressive jam outfit’s next adventure will unite their peers and fans for four days of live music within a lavish all-inclusive environment.
FEATURE
In February, Marshall Allen dropped his debut solo LP, New Dawn, at the age of 100, earning designation in the Guinness Book of World Records as the oldest person to release an album of new material. And then, less than five months later, the veteran alto saxophonist and longtime Sun Ra Arkestra musical director celebrated that unexpected milestone in the most fitting way possible—by issuing another inspired collection.
FEATURE
Since today is October 31, it seems fitting to revisit a longstanding tradition: the Phil-O-Ween shows at the Capitol Theatre. Phil Lesh would welcome a variety of players to join him on All Hallows’ Eve for some spirited performances. He appeared with the Terrapin Family Band as well as a variety of Phil & Friends lineups. His roster of guests included Robert Randolph, Larry Campbell, Teresa Williams, Nicki Bluhm, Taylor Goldsmith, Griffin Goldsmith, Mihali, the Preservation Hall Jazz Band and many others, who joined him for the festivities. Here’s a look back at some highlights over the years…
