Clockenflap announced its first nineteen acts on 7 October for 4–6 December at Hong Kong's Central Harbourfront. keshi and Sonic Youth co-founder Kim Gordon play Friday. Paramore singer Hayley Williams brings her solo project on Saturday, alongside Queens of the Stone Age, Sleaford Mods and Marcel Dettmann. Sunday's bill includes Slowdive, HYUKOH, The Jesus and Mary Chain, DOMi & JD BECK and Digable Planets. The announcement confirms day allocations for all nineteen acts; stage assignments and performance times are still to come.

DaguerreoPhonic'27 announced its complete ten-act line-up on 7 October, ahead of 23–24 January 2027 at TIDES in Whampoa. Parannoul, my dead girlfriend, debloop and Solitude Is Bliss appear alongside Lucid Express, FuSen, harikari, NAKED AND LAY, SONGCHI and Uchu Yurei. The event brings Hong Kong groups together with acts identified by the organiser as coming from Taiwan, Japan, South Korea and Thailand. The announcement lists artists alphabetically, rather than in running order. Standard tickets cost HK$760 for one day or HK$1,360 for both, plus booking fees. Day allocations and the performance timetable remain unannounced.

mouse on the keys announced on 11 October that toe will be the special guest at their twentieth-anniversary concert at Tokyo's Spotify O-EAST on 5 November. The concert also marks the release of 衝動の肖像 Portrait of Impulse, the EP issued on 23 September. toe's Takaaki Mino handled its recording and mixing, taking the two bands' connection from the studio to a shared bill. mouse on the keys' two-piano-and-drums line-up will be joined by guitar, trumpet and visual performers. Doors open at 18:00, with the show starting at 19:00, Japan time.

REJAY released "bed (Prod. hinata miyake from luv)" on 7 October, alongside a music video filmed in Taipei. luv singer and guitarist hinata miyake wrote the lyrics and music, with the arrangement by Jeremy Quartus and release credits naming RAINBOW ENTERTAINMENT. Directed and shot by neo, with production by Cyran, the video moves through everyday locations including a soy-milk shop, a market and a café. REJAY played a solo show in Taipei in July; her new video returns to the city for the song's visual setting.

claire rousay released on holding on 9 October, inaugurating her quality sounds ltd label with digital and CD editions. The five tracks condense more than thirty hours of recordings gathered during her 2026 European and UK tours: sounds captured in transit, Ableton sessions made in hotel rooms, venue pianos recorded between soundchecks and showtime, conversations with concertgoers and live performances. Andrew Weathers handled mastering and Matthew Sage the design. The label was announced on 1 October; on holding is its first record.

Marina Herlop released Dja Dja on 9 October, her first self-released album and the follow-up to 2023's Nekkuja. The official Bandcamp edition lists fifteen tracks. Its accompanying notes describe an interconnected work structured around the Hero's Journey, incorporating gamelan recordings made with local musicians in Bali. Herlop produced and recorded the songs, with mixing credited to her, Joker and James Ginzburg, and mastering to Alex Ferrer. Lapsus Records, through !K7 Music, handles worldwide distribution. The record also marks her first use of orchestral brass, according to the official album notes.