THE DAMNED Released Gangbuster Debut Single ‘NEW ROSE’ Today 40 Years Ago

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Top singles from the past

22 October 2026

British punk pioneers THE DAMNED were the first
UK band to release a single, LP, and to tour the US.

That gangbuster debut single was NEW ROSE, released via the notorious
and legendary label Stiff Records (“If it ain’t stiff, it ain’t worth a fuck”).

It featured on their smashing first LP DAMNED DAMNED DAMNED
Unquestionably one of the best punk albums ever.

“Is she really going out with him?

I gotta a feelin’ inside of me
It’s kinda strange like a stormy sea
I don’t know why, I don’t know why
I guess these things have gotta be
I gotta new rose, I got her good
Guess I knew that I always would
I can’t stop to mess around

Like a brand new rose in town
See the sun, see the sun it shines
Don’t get too close or it’ll burn your eyes
Don’t you run away that way
You can come back another day”

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Still damned after all these years – Photo by Turn Up The Volume – Lokeren, Belgium 2025

EELS – Mark Oliver Everett Still Hasnt’ Found Happiness On His New Album ‘COOKIE HAPPENED’

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22 October 2026


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Band: EELS
Who: The beautiful Los Angeles freak and
singer-songwriter Mark Oliver Everett‘s combo.

Album: COOKIE HAPPENED
His 16th.

The title was, as he claims, inspired by
Sesame Street’s Cookie Monster.

Everett: “All of this will be forgotten. Every joy, accomplishment and hardship
will one day become so irrelevant it will be as if none of it occurred. But as the
great philosopher of our times, Cookie Monster once said: “Me no cry because
cookie is finished. Me smile because cookie happened.” This will all be forgotten.
But isn’t it still a beautiful thing that it happened?”

UNCUT (British magazine): “An album as light
and easy as its sentiments are droll and knotted.”

TUTV: Everett had to go through several family tragedies throughout his life, and
it seems as if he hasn’t processed them entirely yet. His records often refered/refer
to his confused state of mind, though his cynical approach to life, survival, and
the human condition seems to comfort him.

This new opus is most notable (again) for its laid-back and feel-good musings,
at least sonically. It evokes a romantic moodiness breathing through his crooner
vocals, but you’re never quite sure with Mr. E’s whimsical mind-wandering. Moony
music for cosy fall/winter ponderings about then and now.

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BOB SEGER – His Centerpiece LP ‘NIGHT MOVES’ Came Out 50 Years Ago Today

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Significant longplayers from yesteryear

22 October 2026

Detroit-born rock legend BOB SEGER (81 now / 18th albums) released his
triumphant LP NIGHTMOVES on 22 October 1976, today 50 years ago.

It was his 9th longplayer and the first that credited his backing band,
the Silver Bullet Band, although they only perform on five of the nine
songs on the album. The other four features backing by the Muscle
Shoals Rhythm Section.

It peaked at #8 in the US and #12 in Canada.

Rolling Stone said: “Night Moves is the breakthrough he needed, a stellar introduction
to this beautiful loser who finally connects with a mainstream audience. He sounds like
Rod Stewart and write lyrics like Bruce Springsteen. Classic rock ‘n’ roll.”

Singles.

– MAIN STREET –

– NIGHT MOVES –

– ROCK ‘N’ ROLL NEVER FORGETS –

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Canadian Sensation ANGINE DE POITRINE Unstoppable – New Tour Dates 2027

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21 October 2026


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Mysterious and experimental, Canadian wackadoos ANGINE DE POITRINE
(French for angina pectoris. A severe pain in the chest and left arm, caused
by heart disease) featuring (cuckoo aliases) Khn de Poitrine (guitar/bass) and
Klek de Poitrine (drums) became a stunning sensation overnight with the
release of their 2nd jaw-dropping LP, Vol. II, last April.

Suddenly, all their tour dates sold out in no time.
And everybody – press, social media, TV – wants
a piece of them.

2027 looks like it will be their year too.
They just announced new tour dates.

PRESALE/TICKETS

Last September on US TV for the first time with
new slam dunk Zugzegk (‘rucksack’ in English).

VOL. 2 on Spotify
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THE CRAMPS’ Legend LUX INTERIOR Who Would Have Turned 80 Today About Meeting POISON IVY

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21 October 2026

Erick Lee Purkhiser aka Lux Interior (October 21, 1946 – February 4, 2009) would have
turned 80 today. He and his future wife, Kristy Marlana Wallace aka Poison Ivy (73 now), formed The Cramps in 1976. They were married for 37 years.

Image on top: Cover of their ‘Off The Bone’ album.

SPIRIT GHOST – Boston’s 60s Inspired Garage Rockers Titillate With New Sticky Tune ‘DUNGEON CRAWLER’

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Daily electricity to charge your batteries

21 October 2026


Photo by Lizzy Mceleny.

Band: SPIRIT GHOST
Who: Boston garage rock outfit, spearheaded
by singer-songwriter Alex Whitelaw.

They have, hitherto, released 4 albums, with this
year’s Ordinary People as the most recent one.

Track: DUNGEON CRAWLER
New single that will feature on their upcoming
6-track EP, dubbed Dark Magic. Out on Jan 27th
via Happen Twice.

Whitelaw: “The song is about feeling trapped in circumstances that
make people increasingly exhausted, disposable and powerless.”

TUTV: Back to the garage rock 60s, folks. Jangly guitars, tambourine, simple
drum beats, echoing vocals, and pa-pa-pa harmonies on the chirpy chorus.

Sickly sticky tune.

Let’s roll.


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LAMBRINI GIRLS – Razorblade Punk Turbine Unleash 2nd LP In January 2027 – Info & 4 Tracks/Clips Here

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21 October 2026


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LAMBRINI GIRLS, the two riotous razorblade girrrrlzz – vox/guitarist Phoebe Lunny and bassist Lilly Macieira – from Brighton (UK) with an insatiable appetite for mass moshpits and kicking political, right-wing asses, rose to fame like a crazed comet in the past few years.

Following, last year’s ferocious punk debut LP, Who Let The Dogs Out,
they went from dusty clubs to big venues, all over the Western world.

Now they have announced their follow-up longplayer.
It’s named NO REFUNDS and will hit the streets on
January 15, 2027.

Tracklist and pre-order info here.

Press info: The follow-up to their acclaimed 2025 debut Lambrini Girls return with
a darker and increasingly more urgent record for a world that, in their own words,
“got even worse”. The band are keeping up an undeniable momentum with their
potent strain of scathing social commentary and barbed humour.

‘No Refunds’ confronts a litany of modern horrors, from genocide and fascism to the rise
of AI, reproductive rights, and the descent into the grubby basement of the ‘manosphere’,
all whilst expanding the sonic world that made Lambrini Girls’ debut so memorable.

Industrial punk sits alongside moments of pop-adjacent immediacy, angular basslines
and unexpected vulnerability, with the duo pairing their most confrontational material
with the dark humour and wit that has become synonymous with the duo.”

– SPILT –
LG go acoustic and mellow.
No kidding!

– THE BASEMENT –
Industrial sledgehammer.
No kidding!

– CULT OF CELEBRITY –
Combustible commotion.

BANG BANG BANG.
Ballistic banger.

TOUR US

UK/Euro

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Cover Of New Album By Aussie Synth-Pop Vets THE AVALANCHES

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For your eyes

21 October 2026

Band: THE AVALANCHES
Who: Synth-dance-pop
veterans from down under.

Active: Since 1997

Album: BAD MEMORIES
Their 4th in 29 years.
Lazy bastards.

TUTV: The album sounds quite passé. It’s overcrowded with samples,
crazy little voices, and kickstars. Sometimes it works, sometimes it doesn’t.

Artwork: The cover features a cartoon-like, futuristic, and nostalgic illustration
including an anthropomorphized iPod and a floppy disk. It aligns with the album’s
themes, which revolve around memories, nostalgia, and the influence of the modern world of technology and consumer culture.

It was designed by Australian artist Jonathan Zawada.

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A Song For GRAM PARSONS At The TROUBADOUR

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20 October 2026

Legendary country & rock star GRAM PARSONS (1946-1973), who passed away
at only 26, following a drug and alcohol overdose, will be inducted, posthumously,
into the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame on November 14th.

Ahead of it, November 11, a cast of big names such as Elvis Costello, The Black Crowes,
and Emmylou Harris will pay tribute to Parsons at the by-now historic Troubadour club
in West Hollywood, CA. The evening is announced as ‘A Song For Gram Parsons’.

Website Troubadour

Photo on top: Cover of ‘Gram Parsons – Solo Years’ LP