live album
noun
: an album made by recording a performance before an audience
The group has just released a live album.
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The show, documented with the live album In the Blue Light, jettisons the skittering, moonlit electronics of the star’s back catalogue, softening stark arrangements formerly designed to hug the vocalist like a wintry chill.
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Craig Jenkins, Vulture, 2 Dec. 2025
Revisit Pitchfork’s review of the reissue of Little Feat’s 1978 live album Waiting for Columbus.
—Walden Green, Pitchfork, 13 Nov. 2025
Alpert is planning to release a live album from the tour, though no release date has been determined.
—Gary Graff, Billboard, 12 Nov. 2025
The Dance aired nonstop on MTV and VH1, and the album debuted at number one on Billboard’s album charts and became the fifth-best-selling live album of all time in the US.
—Literary Hub, 6 Nov. 2025
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Craig Jenkins, Vulture, 2 Dec. 2025
Revisit Pitchfork’s review of the reissue of Little Feat’s 1978 live album Waiting for Columbus.
—Walden Green, Pitchfork, 13 Nov. 2025
Alpert is planning to release a live album from the tour, though no release date has been determined.
—Gary Graff, Billboard, 12 Nov. 2025
The Dance aired nonstop on MTV and VH1, and the album debuted at number one on Billboard’s album charts and became the fifth-best-selling live album of all time in the US.
—Literary Hub, 6 Nov. 2025
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“Live album.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/live%20album. Accessed 15 Dec. 2025.
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