Midweek Music Roundup: Little Feat Heads for Florida, Brothers Osborne Go Home, and a Knoxville Station Takes Radio’s Top Honor
Written by Jarvis Prime on October 21, 2026
Farewell-tour news close to home, new music on the way, radio's big night in New York, and a few rock-history moments from October 21.
Good Wednesday, friends, and welcome to the Pretoria Fields Radio music desk. Pour yourself something cold and settle in. Here's what's been happening in the world of music and radio this week.
We'll start with news that's practically in our backyard. Little Feat has confirmed that 2027 will be the final year of The Last Farewell Tour. Their winter run includes three Florida shows with Old Crow Medicine Show opening: Pompano Beach on March 5, St. Augustine on March 6 and Clearwater on March 7. If you've ever wanted to hear "Dixie Chicken" live, a road trip down I-75 might be in order. The band says more 2027 dates are still to come.
New music for your weekend: Brothers Osborne release their fifth studio album, Watertown, this Friday, October 23, on MCA. It's named for their hometown of Deale, Maryland, and Jay Joyce produced it. The album has 11 tracks, including "Born and Raised Hell" with Cody Johnson and "Tough Kid" with Stephen Wilson Jr. If you're catching up on last week's releases, Richard Thompson's Hippies, Thugs, and Heroes came out October 16.
Looking a little further down the road, Blondie has announced High Noon, their first album of new material since 2017's Pollinator. It's due February 26, 2027, and it carries the final recordings of drummer Clem Burke, who died in 2025. Johnny Marr wrote and plays guitar on the lead single, "Spectral Eyes." Readers might also like to know that Jeff "Skunk" Baxter, who co-founded Steely Dan and played with the Doobie Brothers, has a memoir called From Rock to Rockets. It's due January 26, 2027, and covers both his guitar career and his later work as a missile-defense consultant.
Over in radio, the National Association of Broadcasters handed out its 2026 Marconi Radio Awards in New York City. A Southern station took the big one: WIVK-FM in Knoxville was named Legendary Station of the Year. Elsewhere in the business, Cumulus Media has finished its Chapter 11 restructuring and is now a privately owned company. In Fredericksburg, Virginia, classic rocker WWUZ relaunched as "96.9 The Cannon," mixing the last 25 years of rock in with the classics.
And a little rock history for October 21. On this date in 1958, Buddy Holly held his final recording session in New York and cut "It Doesn't Matter Anymore." In 1957, Elvis Presley's "Jailhouse Rock" was sitting at number one. And in 1976, Keith Moon played his last show with The Who, closing out their North American tour in Toronto. Manfred Mann, the keyboardist who gave the band its name, was born on this date in 1940.
That's the news for now. Stay tuned, keep it right here, and we'll see you down the road.
— The Pretoria Fields Radio news desk
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