Canadian blues and roots musician Brother Ray Lemelin has released “Raw,” the fifth studio album from his band The Matinee Kings. The eight-track record includes seven original songs and a cover of a tune written by Lloyd “Tiny” Grimes.

Lemelin, who has performed across Canadian blues festivals and venues since the 1980s, has previously recorded with artists including Billy Branch and produced four earlier albums with the late guitarist Tim Williams. The Matinee Kings lineup on “Raw” includes Kelly Kruse on drums and vocals, Howard Schmenge on Chapman accordion, and Daniel Wilton on bass.

“Raw” is available now on Apple Music.

Based on a press release provided to Music Industry Weekly by Sarah French, gmail.com.

A Million Reasons, billed as the final completed studio album from outlaw country artist David Allan Coe, is set for release October 16 via F3 Entertainment/Symphonic. The 11-track project was recorded in 2017 through Average Joes Entertainment, spearheaded by Colt Ford with production from Noah Gordon and Lex Lipsitz, before being shelved and later acquired by Ken Madson in 2022, who oversaw the album’s completion following Coe’s death in April 2026 at age 86.

The title track, written by Jim Moose Brown, Shane Grove, David Wade and Erik Westfall, references Coe’s 2015 federal guilty plea in Cincinnati on a charge related to obstruction of IRS administration, according to the announcement. A music video for the song, incorporating footage of Coe revisiting the Mansfield Reformatory in Ohio where he was once incarcerated, is scheduled for release in early November.

The album also includes a newly recorded version of Coe’s 1975 hit “You Never Even Called Me By My Name,” which the label says reached No. 8 on the Billboard country chart and has been cited on best-of lists by SiriusXM and Rolling Stone. That track was released September 6, what would have been Coe’s 87th birthday.

Based on a press release provided to Music Industry Weekly by Jason W. Ashcraft / JWA Media, jwamedia.com.

U2 and Live Nation have announced the Carnaval De Luz Presents: The Greatest Show on Earth World Tour, launching February 23, 2027 in Mexico City. The run, in support of the band’s forthcoming 16th studio album Carnaval De Luz, also includes dates in São Paulo and Buenos Aires with support from Beck, marking the only Latin American stops confirmed so far. Additional European and North American dates, including a planned return to Ireland, are expected to be announced in coming weeks.

The announcement arrives alongside a new single, “The Greatest Show on Earth,” co-written with Brian Eno and the third song released from the upcoming album, which is due November 13, 2026 and produced by Jacknife Lee. The accompanying video was directed by Anton Corbijn and shot in the California desert.

The tour marks U2’s first stadium dates since the Joshua Tree Tour concluded in Mumbai in December 2019, a run the band says drew nearly 3 million fans worldwide, and follows a 40-show residency at Sphere in Las Vegas. Tickets go on sale via a U2.com subscriber presale starting October 19, with general on-sale beginning October 22.

Based on a press release provided to Music Industry Weekly by Maya Sarin, LiveNation.com.

Toronto jazz vocalist Ori Dagan releases his fifth album, “Live in the Market,” on October 23 via G-THREE Records, followed by a release concert at Toronto’s Heliconian Hall on October 24. The record, Dagan’s first live album, was recorded before an audience at Kensington Sound in Toronto’s Kensington Market and features a trio of Stu Harrison on piano, Brandi Disterheft on bass and Ben Wittman on drums.

The eight-track collection reinterprets jazz standards including “All of Me,” “Autumn Leaves” and “It Don’t Mean a Thing,” drawing on influences from Ella Fitzgerald, Sarah Vaughan, Billie Holiday and Dinah Washington. Dagan said the album is also a tribute to figures who shaped his musical development, including bebop vocalist Sheila Jordan, with whom he recorded a duet in 2017.

Vezi Tayyeb recorded and mixed the album, which was produced by Leonardo Dell’Anno with Greg Gooding as executive producer. Dagan, a Grand Prize winner of the John Lennon Songwriting Contest who placed as a Rising Male Vocalist in the 2023 DownBeat Critics Poll, will perform the release show with pianist Harrison, bassist Michael Herring and drummer Norbert Botos.

Based on a press release provided to Music Industry Weekly by Eric Alper, thatericalper.com.

Beck has released a video of the first live performance of “Ride Lonesome,” the title track from his album of the same name, recorded May 7 at the Sydney Opera House with the Sydney Symphony Orchestra. The performance features longtime band members Jason Falkner on bass and vocals, Roger Joseph Manning Jr. on piano and vocals, and James McAllister on drums, with an orchestral arrangement credited to Beck and his father, David Campbell, conducted by Nicholas Buc.

Beck has also been confirmed as a support act for U2’s The Greatest Show on Earth World Tour 2027, marking his first time sharing a stage with the band since the 2017 Joshua Tree tour. He is set to appear at U2 shows in Mexico City, Sao Paulo and Buenos Aires between late February and late March 2027.

Beck is currently touring North America in support of Ride Lonesome, with dates running through mid-November including stops in Toronto, Boston, Philadelphia, Brooklyn, Washington D.C., Atlanta, Nashville and several West Coast cities. According to the announcement, his Brooklyn Paramount show on Oct. 23 and Asheville’s Thomas Wolfe Auditorium date on Oct. 28 are sold out.

Based on a press release provided to Music Industry Weekly by Jillian Condran, nastylittleman.com.

Los Angeles-based alt rock collective MASHA. and the Fam have released “New Normal,” a single frontwoman Masha Alexis began writing in 2015 in Baltimore following the death of Freddie Gray and spent nine years completing, according to the announcement.

Alexis says the song’s arrangement evolved significantly over time, eventually incorporating a 15-piece horn section recorded in Cape Town with William Haubrich of the South African College of Music, after she heard a horn-heavy arrangement by Brass Against. The band describes the track as moving from anger and frustration in its first half to a theme of communal healing in its second.

The current MASHA. and the Fam lineup includes Alexis on lead vocals and keys, Pedro Aquino on guitar, Servio Maldonado on bass and Kyle Dombroski on drums, along with a rotating group of additional collaborators. The group formed in Baltimore before relocating its base to Los Angeles, and the single is out now across streaming platforms.

Based on a press release provided to Music Industry Weekly by Eric Alper, thatericalper.com.