THE CURE Started Their European Summer Tour In Spain – WATCH THE FULL CONCERT
Last night THE CURE at the Primavera Sound Festival in Barcelona, Spain.
The setlist was packed with a ton of career-spannig hits.
Watch the full concert. Great quality.
INCHEON PENTAPORT ROCK FETSIVAL In SOUTH KOREA – July 31 / August 3
THE CLAYPOOL LENNON DELIRIUM Color Psychedelic Rainbows On Their 3rd Album ‘THE GREAT PARROT-OX AND THE GOLDEN EGG OF EMPATHY’
6 June 2026
Band: THE CLAYPOOL LENNON DELIRIUM
Who: Outlandish duo, composed of bassist/vocalist Les Claypool,
member of Primus, and guitarist/vocalist Sean Ono Lennon.
Album: THE GREAT PARROT-OX AND THE GOLDEN EGG OF EMPATHY
Their 3rd LP. A concept one with a 24-page original comic
book created with longtime collaborator Rich Ragsdale.
Story: “Set in the once-glorious land of Cliptopia, where a sentient A.I. known
as Cliptron and his army of robots are resourcing everything, then turning it all
into Clipnex brand paperclips, the album follows young artist Hippard O. Campus Jr.
as he rebels against his father, Hippard Sr. (owner of the CLIPNEX corporation and
creator of CLIPTRON).
With help from salty sea-dog Colonel O’Coren, Hipp embarks on a fantastical adventure
to stop Cliptron’s cold, chrome heart from converting the world, humans included, into paperclips.”
Hipp’s quest leads across the sea to the Isle of Lucidity, where the all-wise Ministry of Manatees guide him to the Great Parrot-Ox, whose Golden Egg of Empathy is the only
thing that can bring understanding and emotion to Cliptron.
Claypool: “The album was over three years in the making and was the most labor intensive recording I have ever been involved in. The results are something Shiner and I are very proud
of. A relevant concept piece accompanied by a colorful, phantasmic comic book.”
Lennon: “The record is a cautionary tale of what could be in store for humanity if we continue to favor machines over men. It is a tale of a technocracy eclipsed by paperclips; a young man destined to unravel the fabric of his father’s folly, and a sacred feathered Goddess (played by WILLOW), who holds the egg-shaped key to their future.”
TUTV: Lucy in the sky with diamonds? Well, sort of. This unusual pair take you on a trip where they treat you with a mix of 60s dream pop, prog-rock, and rainbow psychedelia. Mind you, it’s an accessible record to go eight miles high to, but it goes a long way, 1 hour and 2 minutes, and the fictional story in play isn’t a simple one to get hold of.
En route, this retro-addicted duo play round elaborated poppy tunes that are dressed
up with yesteryear orchestrations, and plenty of space for Claypool’s bass extravaganza.
After a couple of spins, I’m not sure yet if this is a bad, good, or very good LP (certainly not a delirium one). I know that doesn’t make sense, I suppose. But yes, I’m confused, so I’ll get back to my headphones and see what happens this time.
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Amazing Album Artwork – Cover Of Debut By New York’s Electro-Goth Act MAKES MY BLOOD DANCE
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6 June 2026
Band: MAKES MY BLOOD DANCE
Who: New York-based act producing an exciting
hybrid of electro-goth, pop-metal and electronic
dance music.
Album: #Z3R0 2 LGHT $P33D!
Read: Zero To Light Speed.
It’s their debut and features serrated guitars and dance-floor synths locked in
a frenetic embrace, vocals that move from operatic power to breathy seduction,
and basslines designed to rattle both club subs and metal venues alike.
MMBD’s sonic palette evokes a post-apocalyptic ballroom and is a
bold statement of intent from a band that refuses to be predictable.
Utterly cool, glamorous, showy and inventive artwork.
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BELLE AND SEBASTIAN – Scottish Dream Pop Masters Released Their Debut Album ‘TIGERMILK’ Today 30 Years Ago
Significant longplayers from yesteryear
6 June 2026
Scottish dream pop collective BELLE AND SEBASTIAN released their
debut LP, called TIGERMILK, on 6 June 1996, today 30 years ago.
It came out through a small Scottish label, ‘Electric Honey‘, on a limited release of
just 1,000 copies. It sold out quickly, but it took 3 years to re-release it properly
and sell over 120.000 units.
The album is named after an instrumental that did not end up on the record.
All of the songs were written by Stuart Murdoch between 1993 and 1996, and
originally performed solo on the Glasgow open mic circuit.
The LP’s cover photograph was taken by Murdoch and features his girlfriend
Joanne Kenney, who also appeared on the cover of the Dog On Wheels EP.
Pitchfork wrote: “Tigermilk is proof that pop can foster a community
without catering to elitism or attempting to be one-size-fits-all.”
TUTV: Start of a long, successful career for
the melancholic and romantic pop masters.
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WIDOWSPEAK Offer Vivifying Dream Pop ‘ROSES’
6 June 2026
Band: WIDOWSPEAK
Who: Vivifying dream pop friends from Brooklyn, NY.
Guitarist and vocalist Molly Hamilton and guitarist
Robert Earl Thomas.
Album: ROSES
Their 7th.
Press info: “An record called Roses would be concerned with romantic gestures.
Across the ten tracks, intimate spaces and stages of love are captured with a nostalgic, vaseline-coated lens. Candles burn inside red glass as lovers get close in a leather booth.
Celebrity headshots gaze down like angels in a restaurant. Elsewhere, carnations are pressed in a black book and dancers pull each other close. Widowspeak is a band that
riffs on big emotions without being too self-serious. The sweetness, even silliness, of an extended limerent phase that becomes as all-consuming as a pulpy trade paperback.
Cars and their drivers serve as a way to talk about codependency. If music can simultaneously be naturalistic and noir, saturated and lush, that is Widowspeak.
They’re a band that knowshow to set a scene.”
Far Out Magazine says: “Conjuring dreamy, folksy nuggets from life’s unassuming
corners, Widowspeak herald a charming return, delicately rippling with slowcore
ambience and a touching songcraft that carries Roses a respectable distance.”
TUTV: OMG, I’m lazy today. If I say that this record sounds like Mazzy Star backed
by Neil Young on acoustic and electric guitar I guess you know what to expect.
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SEASICK STEVE – The Seasoned Blues Man Hips And Hops All Over The American Idiot On Upcoming Album Stomper ‘BAD THINGS’
Daily electricity to load your batteries
5 June 2026
Renowed blues addict SEASICK STEVE (born Steven Gene Leach 75 years ago in Oakland, California) will release his 14th LP, baptized The Last Season Of America on September 18.
Press info: “In 2024, Steve and his wife Elisabeth took a road trip across America where
he witnessed the poverty and divisiveness in the context of the upcoming election.
They were in a New Orleans club where a house band leader welcomed two
Belgian musicians on stage by saying “welcome to the last season of America”.
It led to a deeply personal, heartfelt reflection on the state of
his home nation with a new protest record in the truest sense.”
So far, the man shared 3 tasters, with BAD THINGS
as the one I can’t stop listening and cheering to.
Here’s a semi-live version (studio verion + some enthousiastic fans in the room).
Steve raps like the best on this irristible hip-hop stomper that wipes the floor
with that American idiot in the White House.
Shake your booty, folks, to the funky beats.
JESUS AND MARY CHAIN Half WILLIAM REID About EDDIE VAN HALEN in New Interview
THE AFGHAN WHIGS Will Launch Their 10th Album ‘SOFT CONTROL’ In August – Info & Its 3 Singles Here
5 June 2026
Photo by Royal Cream
Cincinnati‘s rock bigshots THE AFGHAN WHIGS fronted by general Greg Dulli, celebrate their 40th anniversary as a band. They’ll share the milestone with their fans on the road (1st leg already done) and with a new album, their 10th.
It’s named SOFT CONTROL, and it’ll hit the streets on August 21th. Pre-order info here.
Press info: “The new album is testament to the old David Bowie quote, where he describes aging as “an extraordinary process where you become the person you always
should have been.”
By now, the volatile years of band leader Greg Dulli’s youth have been substituted with a wry and self-aware satori. The edge and sensitive temperament remain but the unchecked infernos of ego and rage no longer threaten personal immolation. And Dulli’s vocals are simultaneously the strongest and most delicate that they’ve ever been.
The album captures The Afghan Whigs’ unique ability to conflagrate stab you in your
nose bone guitars and cubist refractions of soul and R&B. There is a reconciliation of loud volume and somber reflections, living life with joy and purpose while keeping one eye on the clock and remaining aware of the absurdity. ”
Greg Dulli: “I’ve worked hard on my inner peace. I was an angry young man, and it fueled
my art, ambition and my drive. I wouldn’t change anything because I can’t. But as I got into photography and other art forms, I realized that I’m not in competition with anyone, including myself. Now, I know what I’m doing and there’s a quiet confidence that comes with being able
to back it up.”
Ahead of the LP’s launch, the Whigs offered us 3 singles (thus far).
– HOUSE OF I –
As Dulli described the track
‘an uptempo banger’.
– DUVATEEN –
Dulli: “When I finished “Duvateen it felt like my life passing before my eyes.
The references to the teacher chasing me down the hall reminded me of my childhood. Digging a hole was an obvious allusion to a grave. I’m at a precipice in life where I can look behind and clearly see the forest of my youth, but I can also see the path to the other side. And it’s going to inform what I do for the rest of my days.”
– JUNGLE ROUX –
Vintage ardent AW passion.
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RADIOHEAD Released 2nd Experimental Electro Album ‘AMNESIAC’ Today 25 Years Ago
Significant longplayers from yesteryear
5 June 2026
RADIOHEAD followed their electro experimental album Kid A
a year later with the equally synth exploring full-length, their 5th,
named AMNESIAC on 4 June 2001, today 25 years ago.
As with Kid A, Amnesiac incorporates influences from electronic
music, 20th-century classical music, jazz and krautrock.
The LP debuted at #1 in the UK and #2 in the US.
By October, it had sold, over 900,000 copies,
worldwide.
Rolling Stone: “Between arena tours and Number One albums, Radiohead want to get away from it all. Not a week in Goa or a summer in Provence but a more complete escape: oblivion. The songs on Amnesiac contemplate suicide, divorce, paranoia and mysterious disappearances, and the music follows them into the ether.”
Turn Up The Volume: Many thought that Thom Yorke and co would commit commercial suicide with this album and its twin brother Kid A (released a year before). I have no idea how many copies it sold. What I do know is that 25 years after it troubled many Radiohead fans, Amnesiac still sounds nothing less than amazing.
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