RAWLS ROYCE – Punching Canadian Punks Nail It With New Alarming Haymaker ‘WOE, TORONTO’
Daily electricity to load your batteries
26 October 2026
Band: RAWLS ROYCE
Who: Punching punks from Toronto who fuse melodic hooks,
anthemic choruses, and beer-soaked gang vocals with political
subject matter.
Track: WOE, TORONTO
New single.
“This is a song about the many struggles of living in Toronto, told through the lens
of the malaise of the Great Depression era. Not unlike today, the 1930s were a period of widespread disillusionment with the political, social and economic conditions of the city.
The protagonist dreams of running away to Spain to fight fascism in the Spanish Civil War. However, the Mackenzie-King government passed the Foreign Enlistment Act in 1937 making
it illegal to do so.”
TUTV: These Canadians point out, rightly so, that the traumatic shock of the great American depression of the 30s, which led to a global economic drama, seems to be
back today to haunt humankind once again. History repeats itself, not always for the
good, as we know.
They wrote a harsh haymaker, as powerful
as a Rolls Royce, about their impressions.
Roasting riffs fly around, bass and drum work tightly together to pump
up the pressure, exuberant vocals add oil to the fire and the clamorous
chorus doubles your bloodstream’s pace. Imagine Green Day and Blink-182
running amok together.
Enough detonative racket to awake the neighborhood, so you’d better
go to your basement and listen to this detonative racket in there, to avoid
problems with the police.
SUEDE Frontman BRETT ANDERSON About The Band’s Next Record
23 October 2026
It’ll be their 11th and the follow-up to 2025’s ‘Antidepressants’.
Photo on top by Turn Up The Volume.
Lokerse Feesten, Belgium – 7 Aug 2026.
BLACK DOLDRUMS – London’s Dark Psych Duo Release Their 3rd Album On November 13th – Info & 4 Singles Here
26 October 2026
Band: BLACK DOLDRUMS
Who: Dark psychedelic outfit formed by Kevin Gibbard and Sophie Landers
in London, who produce a contemporary form of gothic post-punk.
Renowned British music monthly UNCUT described their sound
as: “A fierce combination of post-punk, reverb, drone and melody.”
New album: REPETITION COMPULSION
Their 3rd one.
Album artwork
The record is the final chapter of the State of Mind Trilogy. A three-album
exploration of the psychological forces that shape identity, memory and
human connection, which began with their 2022 debut Dead Awake
followed by 2024 LP In Limerence.
At the heart of it all is the creative and personal partnership between founding
members Kevin Gibbard and Sophie Landers, whose relationship forms both the
emotional foundation of the record and the lens through which its themes are
explored.
Gibbard: “The songs are either about
Sophie, for Sophie, or inspired by her.”
Pre-order info & tracklist HERE
Singles/clips below.
– COMPULSION –
– ECHOES –
– WAITING –
– REPETITION –
All 4 on Spotify
Happy 75 To Funk Master BOOTSY COLLINS
26 October 2026
Funk master BOOTSY COLLINS was born
William Earl Collins in Cincinnati, Ohio, on
26 October 1951.
Happy 75!
He rose to fame along with James Brown in the early 1970s
before joining the fabulous Parliament-Funkadelic collective.
Collins established himself as one of the leading names and innovators in funk
music with his driving basslines and humorous vocals. He later formed his own
P-Funk side project known as Bootsy Rubber Band.
He has released, so far, 25 albums, with Album Of The Year #1 Funkateer
as his most recent one, released last year.
Watch this utterly cool video – Bootsy and a kids choir – below.
LORDS OF ACID – Belgian Electro-Trash Turbo Finally Back With 24-Hour Party Stompers On Their New Album ‘MUNDO BIZZARO’
26 October 2026
Electro trash & clash turbo LORDS OF ACID was formed in Antwerp, Belgium in 1988 by Maurice Engelen, artistically known as Praga Khan. Their first longplayer appeared in 1991.
With different lineups over the years, the Lords became one of the most influential acts
to emerge from the hard-edged electronic dance music scene of that era. Adopting and adapting underground club culture aesthetics from the off, they blended techno, acid house and industrial music with provocative lyrics on themes of sexuality, drug use and hedonism.
Carla Harvey, formerly co-vocalist of American metal troublemakers
Butcher Babies, is the new acid voice/face. She joined in January 2025.
New Album: MUNDO BIZARO
Their 1st in 8 years and 7th overall.
It’s now out digitally.
CD/LP follow on 9th Nov.
Nooo, don’t shoot
TUTV: Nothing new under the sun. Don’t expect Lords Of Acid to reinvent the techno
wheel that made them notorious when they came to party hard, back in the 90s. They
still deliver their familiar, e-cstatic energy, freaky-disco anthems, and loads of bizarre dancefloor stompers. All served with explicit and witty flavor.
Harvey‘s dominating voice is a perfect match, adding extra pizzazz to the manic electro trash mix. Ravers, clubgoers, and other night owls will be thrilled with all this new 24-hour
acid party extravaganza. Raise the roof, dance freaks.
Key singles.
– DREAM BOY –
– ICH WILL NUR DAS –
STREAM/BUY
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Tour Dates US
MICHAEL KIWANUKA – British Singer-Songwriter Enwraps With New Whole Souled Album ‘FUDGE’
Reveries for the laziest day of the week
25 October 2026
Promo press
Artist: MICHAEL KIWANUKA
Who: Singer-songwriter from London (UK), much praised by critics
and fans. He won the prestigious British Mercury Prize in 2020.
Album: FUDGE
His 5th.
In the summer of 2025, Kiwanuka suffered a haemorrhagic stroke caused by
undiagnosed high blood pressure; he underwent emergency surgery, months
of intensive care and many more months in rehabilitation at a medical centre
in Hampshire (London), where he remains today.
Kiwanuka: “I want to tell people why I haven’t been around. Everyone can relate to pain and struggle. That’s one thing all humans have in common. So I’m just sharing mine with the world,”
NME: “This album is both an unexpected gift and a deeply poignant glimpse at the creative state before a life-altering moment. Drink it in, let it warm your soul, and be reminded how lucky we are to have an artist like Kiwanuka.”
TUV: Three names popped up in my mind when listening to Fudge.
Motown, Marvin Gaye, and Nat King Cole. It’s indeed a Soulful Sunday.
Cover Of Upcoming Debut LP By Hefty Canadian Punks PISS
25 October 2026
Credit: Subpop Records
Band: PISS
Who: Hefty, genre-bending punks from Vancouver, B.C. Combining punk, poetry, sound collage, performance art, and visual art, the band creates a multidisciplinary body of work that blurs the line between personal and political.
Debut Album: YOU MADE ME / SKIN ON LINEN
It’ll hit the streets on October 30th. More info
and tracklist here.
Artwork: “The artwork and the accompanying aesthetic, including imagery and poetic motifs regarding clay, bodily impressions, and memories, reflect the record’s themes of youth, trauma, and systemic violence.
NME says: “With their searing performances and their powerful, upcoming
debut album, the Canadian four-piece shine a stark spotlight on the trauma
of sexual violence.”
TUTV: Smashing, trashing, and crashing
iconoclasts on a maddening mission.
TAYLOR SWIFT 20 Years Ago At 17
25 October 2026
Gorgeous cover of her debut album
20 years ago, on 24 October 2006, at the age of 17, global star TAYLOR SWIFT
released her self-titled debut full-length. 3 years earlier, only 14, she had signed
a record deal.
Swift wrote, no less, than 40 songs for the album, 11 of which made it onto the record. Seven songs were co-written by Liz Rose, who became an important collaborator and formed a lasting working relationship with Swift on later albums.
The album mixes country and pop seamlessly and
displayed her alluring voice for the first time.
BOB DYLAN – The 1976 ROLLING THUNDER REVUE Recordings On 39 CD Box Set
24 October 2026
All of the professionally recorded shows from the second leg of BOB DYLAN‘s
legendary Rolling Thunder Revue 1976 will be available in a 39-CD box set from
November 6 on.
The tour included numerous musicians and collaborators. The purpose of the tour
was to allow Dylan, who was a major recording artist and concert performer, to play
in smaller auditoriums in less populated cities where he could be more intimate with
his audiences.
Full tracklist and more details HERE.
Pre-Order HERE.
A standalone 3LP set of the complete Fort Worth, Texas
performance from that same tour will also be released
on November 6th.
Tracklist and pre-order info HERE.
Back in 2019, devoted Dylan fan and moviemaker Martin Scorsese
made a documentary of the tour, composed of both fictional and
non-fictional material.
