WEEKLY ENCORE: Your Must-Read Setlist
Here's a look at this week's top headlines.
Relix Daily
November 08, 2025
November 8, 2025
OBITUARY
Donna Jean Godchaux-MacKay, who sang with the Grateful Dead from 1971 to 1979 with vocal contributions that helped define concert staples like “Playing in the Band,” “The Music Never Stopped,” and others, adding a soulful, emotive lift, has passed away. A statement announcing the singer’s passing on Sunday, November 2, was shared by Grateful Dead publicist Dennis McNally.
NEWS
Khruangbin have released The Universe Smiles Upon You ii, a surprise re-recording of their first studio album, celebrating the project’s 10th anniversary. A decade to the day after the pioneering psych-funk trio shared its groundbreaking debut, the revisited version documents the crystallization of its eclectic musical tastes into a singular, genre-defying sound and style. With a new sequence and subtle changes throughout, the band expressed their current perspective, reflecting on their origins to chart a course forward.
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Featuring The Beatles’: Revolver. Released in 1966, this album includes classic tracks like "Taxman" and "Eleanor Rigby," showcasing the band's innovative approach to songwriting and studio experimentation. The striking cover art, a collage of faces and colors, reflects the album's exploration of new musical territory and its lasting influence on rock music. This Shadow Box Float frame creates a stunning 3-dimensional effect by placing your album on a pedestal within a shadow-box frame. The style allows the artwork to appear floating inside a deeper-set frame. The pedestal sits on 4-ply white mat board and allows for a 1.5" border from the artwork to the inside of the frame.
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Radiohead returned to Madrid’s Movistar Arena last night for the second night of their long–awaited reunion tour. The legendary avant-rock quintet promised a different show for all 20 dates on their first tour in seven years, and Tuesday’s hit-packed kickoff charged high expectations for their follow-up; on Wednesday, the band set a high bar for the run ahead by swapping out more than half of their setlist, including two tracks they hadn’t played in 16 years.
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Dive deep into Pearl Jam’s evolution, from grunge pioneers to global icons, through vinyl, art, and archival storytelling. Featuring Rearviewmirror (Greatest Hits 1991-2003) on vinyl. This is a two-part compilation album by American rock band Pearl Jam, originally released on November 16, 2004, through Epic Records. The album's two discs are both devoted to different sides of the band's catalogue: Volume 1, the "Up" side, contains the band's heavier rock songs while the Volume 2, the "Down" side consists of slower songs and ballads. Both discs are in chronological order, with the exception of the last song on Volume 2 which is regular show closer "Yellow Ledbetter."
FEATURE
When Cyro Baptista first arrived in America from Brazil, he would often busk in the streets of Manhattan to help make ends meet, including next to a nut cart in Columbus Circle. Now, over four decades later, the percussionist and consummate collaborator staple is being feted directly across the street in a far grander setting, New York’s famed Jazz at Lincoln Center. Dubbed Cyro Baptista at 75: A Banquet for the Spirits, the two-day event will take place on November 7 and 8, nodding to his singular career that has included work with the likes of Paul Simon, Herbie Hancock, John Zorn, Laurie Anderson, Medeski Martin & Wood and David Byrne, as well as his own Beat the Donkey.
NEWS
FloydFest~Daydream has unveiled its initial artist lineup, slated to perform during the occasion’s imminent celebration of live music on July 22-26, 2026, in Check, Va. Building on the festival’s two-decade foundation of premiere performances, the headliners for the upcoming event have been announced, along with early-bird ticket offerings.
NEWS
Jerry Garcia’s custom-built Tiger guitar is expected to hit the auction block. The axe, made by luthier Doug Irwin and used from 1979 through Garcia’s last public performance at Chicago’s Soldier Field on July 9, 1995, is reportedly part of a sizable lot of esteemed and historic items, owned by the late Indianapolis Colts owner, Jim Irsay.
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In what has become a lauded Halloween tradition, Billy Strings staged a spectacle at the CFG Bank Arena in Baltimore on October 31.
