U2 Announce New Album And Premier Red-Hot Rockin’ Single ‘SILENCIO’

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24 September 2026


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Irish giant stars U2 have just announced details of their upcoming album.
It’s their first in 9 years, following Songs Of Surrender, which was actually
one with reworked versions of old songs.

The new LP is titled Carnaval De Luz and is set for
release on November 13th. Pre-order info HERE.

The 12-song record is produced by Jacklee Knife and tackles themes of spirituality, friendship, freedom, and endurance. The news comes a couple of months after the
band’s two surprising 6-track EPs, Days Of Ash (February) and Easter Lily (April),
and the new CD/LP’s teaser single Street Of Dreams (July).

Bono: “Roll up, roll up, roll up! Bring your purple socks, your broken hearts, your
rose-tinted naivety… oh be amazed in the hall of mirrors. There will be loud guitars,
deep bass, some ecstatic rhythms and, yes, some silver tears will make an appearance.

Because in the near distance just outside our carnival of light there are all kinds of creatures. The same imagination that brings us our creativity can also bring us monsters. So we make
the drums louder. We build a bigger fire. We make our stories wilder and funnier. We make the melodies sweeter and the songs, they better shine, because if the world is in darkness we better not be.”

The Edge: “It’s a messy, provocative, sacred collection of songs, and features
the first-ever use of flat-wound strings on a U2 recording. Just saying.”

Along with the news, we get the 2nd appetizer, named SILENCIO. It’s a solid gold footstomper with a red-hot chorus. I guess I didn’t hear them ignited like this since
Vertigo (2004, gosh, that’s 22 years ago).

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At 95 Actor WILLIAM SHATNER Covers Metal Classics At RIOT FEST

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24 September 2026

Actor WILLIAM SHATNER, best known for his role as Captain Kirk
in the American TV series Star Trek (1966-1969), is a longtime metal
fan.

Now at 95 (!!!!!) he has recorded a metal album, details TBA, and last weekend
he performed at Riot Fest in Chicago last weekend. Among several other bangers
he played Metallica and Black Sabbath classics. See below, and scroll to the right.

LIME GARDEN – Excitatory British Guitar Wonk Pop Sensation Hit BRUSSELS

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24 September 2026

Brighton‘s swirling guitar pop (they call it themselves ‘wonk pop‘) sensation
LIME GARDEN entered the scene in 2017 and took a long to come up with
their debut album named One More Thing, which was released in 2024.

Last April, the Brighton girls launched their sophomore CD/LP, titled
Maybe Not Tonight, bursting with sing-along and dance-along pop
sparklers.

Last Tuesday, they came, saw, and conquered Brussels with an exhilarating 50-minute
set. Live, they pump up the jam and had the crowd in the sold-out club on their feet and clapping/singing in no time, with an incessant flood of excitatory tunes.

Frontwoman Chloe Howard was the magnetic entertainer in the middle. She’s blessed
with a self-assertive, strong, venue-filling voice; she plays the tambourine better than
Liam Gallagher and her discofloor moves are pretty seductive.

Hard to pick highlights as the gem-packed party flow went on and on. But I’ll give you the standout cracker of all standout crackers, called 23. A funky/groovy pelvis-shaking booster, so far TUTV‘s single of 2026. As expected, it ended their glorious rave-up. An invigorating pop triumph. Not bad for a Tuesday, not bad at all.

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Body
Pop Star
Lifestyle
Moving Target
Bitter
Always Talking About You
I Want to Be You
Downtown Lover
Clockwork
Maybe Not Tonight
All Bad Parts
Cross My Heart
Love Song
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QUEENS OF THE STONE AGE Offer 3rd Single From Their Upcoming 9th Album

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24 September 2026


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Stoner rock champs QUEENS OF THE STONE AGE recently
announced details of the birth of their upcoming 9th CD/LP.

It’s titled Perfecth (not a typo) and will be
shared with the world on October 30th.

Tracklist and pre-order info here.

Following the first 2 rad singles, Easy Street and
Insignificant Other, the queens offer taster #3
named WHERE THE GOTH GIRLS AT?

Josh Homme (frontman): “Watching the goth girls working the counter
at JC Penney and giving goth makeovers to the old ladies, that’s when I
knew the only place I want to be is where the goth girls at. Teenage
love, ain’t it grand?”

It’s pure QOTSA.
Bombastic, boisterous, and bad-ass.

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CHVRCHES Return With First New Music In 5 Years – Hear Powerul Single ‘ROSES’ Here

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24 September 2026


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It’s 5 years since Scottish synth-pop trio CHVRCHES
have released their 5th album Screen Violence.

But it gave frontwoman Lauren Mayberry the time and space
for her solo debut CD/LP, called Vicious Creature, which came
out in 2024.

The wait is over for the fans.
Here’s the new single ROSES.

Mayberry (frontwoman) “This is the longest break we had ever taken between
albums and when we got together to write new music, we wanted to really push
ourselves and not be retreading ground we’d walked before. I really think we
achieved that. It feels like the most coherent vision we’ve had as a band.
We’re excited to be back.”

Roses is darker, more powerful and
more puissant than we are used to.


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T. REX – 55 Candles Today For Glam Rock Classic ‘ELECTRIC WARRIOR’

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Significant longplayers from yesteryear

24 September 2026

Solid gold rock star MARC BOLAN, who died tragically in a car accident at only 29,
started his career with a band named Tyrannosaurus Rex, released 4 LPs and then
the group’s name changed to T. REX (1967-1977), who made 12 albums.

Their 2nd LP as T.Rex, titled ELECTRIC WARRIOR, has become a classic in
the glam rock genre. It came out on 24 September 1971, 55 years ago today.

It was a #1 hit in the UK.

It was produced by Tony Visconti, who worked a lot
with Bowie and several other big-name musicians.

Pitchfork said in retrospect: What makes this record so enduring is its almost accidental emotional depth. When T.Rex is kicking out the jams, they sound like they’re having the most gleeful, absurd good time ever committed to wax. There’s nothing so glorious in rock and roll as hearing Bolan croon, “Just like a car, you’re pleasing to behold/ I’ll call you Jaguar if I may be so bold,” over his namesake boogie.”

TUTV: Bolan was a natural-born rock star. Charisma, looks, clothes,
voice, and most of all tons of classic gems, slow and fast, glamorous
and moody. A genuine electric warrior. Legend 4ever.

Singles.

– GET IT ON –
(No 1 on the UK Singles Chart)

– JEEPSTER –
(Peaked at #2 in the UK)

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SNÕÕPER – Nashville’s Kamikaze Pop Punks Explode Again On New Projectile ‘MOUTH CLOSED’

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Vitalizing tunes that work faster than a stream of caffeine

23 September 2026


Photo by Turn Up The Volume – Brussels, 2025

Band: SNÕÕPER
Who: Kamikaze pop-punk team from
Nashville with 2 LPs on their shelves.

Last July, they surprised us with the hyperkinetic hammer-drill Recess.
Surprised? Not because we don’t know how these snoopers sounded before,
but because of the way they sounded when Recess dropped. It used to be all
about schizophrenic guitars, but here schizophrenic synths took over.


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Now with their next projectile MOUTH CLOSED, we get a wrestling marriage
of an aggravated drum machine with an out-of-control bass guitar, with the
familiar screams and shouts all over it. Madness as usual.

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MAGAZINES – Punked-Up Dutchmen Detonate On Their New Uppercut ‘COWBOY SINATRA_’

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Daily electricity to charge your batteries

23 September 2026

Band: MAGAZINES
Who: 3 hopped-up Dutchmen who went by the name PEER
for about 10 years, then took a break to return last year under
their new moniker.

Track: COWBOY SINATRA_
Their newest single.

TUTV: I know Frank and Nancy Sinatra, but so far Cowboy Sinatra is a stranger to me,
but not for long. He sounds very punked-up, infuriated, and gloriously bonkers. Magazines remind me of British punk psychos Soft Play (who started out as Slaves), who also have an avid appetite for slam-bang drums, paranoid guitars, lots of spitting and sneering, and uppercut choruses. Pleased to meet you, cowboy.

Stop reading, people, start listening.

Right here.
Right now.

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