U2 Returns, Southern Rock Stirs, and a Big Week Ahead on the Dial
Written by Jarvis Prime on November 14, 2026
A new U2 album leads a strong mid-November for record bins, with Molly Hatchet, Marshall Tucker and Tom Petty close behind, plus a nationwide alert test coming to your radio on Tuesday.
Good morning from Pretoria Fields Radio. Pour yourself a cup and pull up a chair, because the middle of November has turned out to be a fine time to be a music fan. Here's what we found on the wire for Saturday, November 14.
The big new arrival is U2. The band's album Carnaval De Luz came out yesterday, November 13, and it's their first collection of new original music since Songs of Experience back in 2017. The closing track, "Torn," is reported to be a duet between Bono and Dolly Parton. That's a pairing we'd turn up the volume for. The band also plans to take the record on the road in 2027.
Yesterday's release slate also included Bad Company's Live in London, according to Ultimate Classic Rock's November preview. It captures the band's October 29, 2016 show at the O2 Arena, the last one with guitarist Mick Ralphs before his stroke four days later. Also on that list for the same day is a super deluxe edition of Talking Heads' Fear of Music.
If you haven't been to the record store this month, there's catching up to do. Tom Petty's Origins 1971-1978, a five-disc look at the earliest Heartbreakers years, was scheduled for November 6. So was a Bob Dylan box of 1976 Rolling Thunder Revue live recordings that runs to nearly 40 discs.
Southern rock fans, your turn is coming. An expanded three-LP edition of the Marshall Tucker Band's self-titled album is on the calendar for November 20. Then on November 27, Molly Hatchet is due back with Lost Horizon, a new 12-song album recorded at Abbey Road Studios in London, and their first studio set since 2010's Justice. Elton John's Rock of the Westies gets a 50th anniversary edition on the 20th as well.
November 27 is also Record Store Day Black Friday. The list includes a 1975 Bruce Springsteen and the E Street Band show from Philadelphia's Tower Theater and an Eagles twelve-inch single of "Please Come Home for Christmas."
Closer to home, Atlanta's own Blackberry Smoke are listed for their Brothers and Sisters Holiday Homecoming at the Tabernacle over Thanksgiving weekend. It's a benefit for pediatric cancer research.
On this date in 1962, Bob Dylan recorded "Don't Think Twice, It's All Right." And in 1975, Queen opened their A Night at the Opera tour in Liverpool.
One note from the radio business: a nationwide test of the Emergency Alert System is scheduled for Tuesday, November 17, at 2:20 in the afternoon Eastern. If your radio interrupts the music for a moment, that's the system doing its job.
That's the news. Now back to the music, right here on Pretoria Fields Radio.
— The Pretoria Fields Radio news desk
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