JOE JACKSON About His Early Ambitions
Just saying
11 November 2026
Mission accomplished with brio.
Last April JJ released his 22nd album, the prominent ‘Hope And Fury‘ opus.
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JUKEBOX 2026 – Week 46 Five New Rad Tracks Added Twice A Week
ALL TOGETHER
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TRACK BY TRACK
Artist: MY LO-FI HEART
Who: The solo project of Sheffield-based
hoarder of musical instruments, Ian Turley.
He has carved out a unique space in the indie music scene with
a hypnotic, day-dreamy, stream of consciousness drive into the
weird, wonderful chaos of love.
Track: DANCE FOREVER
“It’s a track about the feeling you get when watching the person you love
as they dance, completely lost in the moment. Your bodies pulse in time
with the beats and all that matters is the music.”
TUTV: Sparkling guitar lines, bouncy bass pulsation, shiny synths
and Turley‘s near-whispering combine for both, oddly rhythmical
and body-activating vibrations. Don’t hesitate to shadowdance to
the trancey ambiance in mysterious ways.
Dance, dance, dance.
Band: IT’S KARMA IT’S COOL
Who: Psych pop rock outfit from
Lincoln, UK led by Jim Styring.
Track: JEREMIAH
First single from their forthcoming album, titled ‘Paint Me Skyward‘
which will follow next year. Sales of the song on Bandcamp will go to
the UK mental health charity, Mind. Buy here.
Styring: “The song (and album) is about a very troubled young man, Jeremiah,
and his struggles and battles with life. He’s definitely fallen from the tracks and is
lost. But he’s being given a second chance to put things right. Something amazing
is waiting to happen. It’s now or never for him.”
TUTV: Jeremiah is a high-energy, guitar-propelling roller that draws your aural
attention from the kick-off. Styring‘s peculiar vocals add fuel to the vivid velocity,
peaking powerfully on the buzzing chorus that sticks in an eye/ear-blink.
Infectious harbinger for the band’s upcoming album
Band: IONA SKY
Who: Anglo-American pop-rock band, formed in 2023, based in
Cambridgeshire, England, blending cinematic pop-rock, indie-rock
and pop-country storytelling with big hooks, atmospheric guitars
and emotionally direct songwriting.
They released their 5-track debut EP Homeschooled in
2024 followed by a second, Departure, last February.
Track: FEAR OF THE KNOWN
It’s about the odd feeling when the thing you know best becomes
the thing that frightens you most. Musically it moves from held-back
verses into a big, cathartic rock chorus.
TUTV: Iona Sky don’t waste time on this rad ripper, enlivened by the charismatic
front Amazon’s keyed-up vocals. Halfway through, the flow drops with some trippy
bass play, only to recharge the batteries and reignite the snappy fuzz.
You’d better be in perfect shape to keep up with this zippy
guitar-pop stormer when the chorus blasts out of your
speakers.
Striking stroke.
Artist: CHAZ
Who: A DIY hip-hopper, would be
superstar from Essex, UK.
Track: DROPS
Chaz has a message: “I won’t bore you with a load of AI generated waffle
about how I’m the greatest artist and this song I’m plugging is gonna change
the world, cause it probably isn’t.”
TUTV: Chaz is a witty DIY bedroom geezer who shakes and quakes
on his debut at a lazy mid-tempo pace, triggering pelvis activity. Think
Getdown Services and other related UK garage acts who hip and hop
with sassy swagger.
Enjoy Drops on your coach swaying from left
to right and back. Don’t worry, be happy.
Dry your eyes, guys.
Artists: SCHAU.SCHOU
Who: The collaboration between Kristopher Schau, a well-known
Norwegian musician, author, and broadcaster, and Christoffer Schou
from Cahe Superstar Recordings, an independent label based
in Norway.
Track: UNPREPARED FOR PRAYER
It features Norwegian singer-songwriter Sarah Leander
and is the first shared piece from a new, upcoming EP.
TUTV: Expect a slow-moving, soothing dream pop musing carried by reflective,
alternating vocals and at times juiced with some organ warmth. Midway, captivating
guitars join the ethereal flow, adding an unexpected sense of intensity.
Enthralling tune.
ICEAGE- Danish Guitar Popsters On The Road Next Year
11 November 2026
Danish indie stars ICEAGE, who formed in 2008 and are spearheaded by Elias Rønnenfelt released their 6th full-length, For Love Of Grace & The Hereafter, their first in 5 years, last May. It gave Rønnenfelt time to write/record/release 2 solo LPs.
The band will take the road next year to play in the US and UK/Europe.
NEW ALBUM
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Only last Saturday Elias Rønnenfelt played a captivating solo gig at Sonic City in Belgium.
Photo by Turn Up The Volume
Ob-La-Di Ob-La-Da, Today All My Troubles Seem So Far Away
10 November 2026
Wowzers.
Working hard for the money.
TEST PLAN – British Punk Agitators Run Amok On Helter Skelter Assault ‘SIGNAL’
Daily electricity to charge your batteries
10 November 2026
Band: TEST PLAN
Who: Indie noizz trio from London looking for the sweet spot between
dancing and moshing. They cultivate a ferocious blend of noise-rock,
dance-punk, and post-hardcore.
Track: SIGNAL
Sitting somewhere between dark goth-disco, techno and distorted noise-rock,
the track has been part of the band’s live set for almost three years, evolving
from a rehearsal room jam into its final form.
The music video was filmed in a massive swimming pool inside a disused east
London leisure centre being used as a squat, with their drummer directing and
editing the video in-house. Talking about DIY.
Artwork
TUTV: Stone the crows. Signal is a vociferous beast of a psychopathic
punk assault. Scary, squawking shit that fucks around with your brain.
After a brutal bass intro, hysterical guitars and an out-of-his-crazy-mind
vocalist grab you by the throat and never let go, leaving you behind, just
like that apocalyptic motormouth, completely out of breath.
This slam-bang trio clearly have a plan to test your stereo’s resilience.
Those poor boxes don’t stand a chance against the exorcistic fracas at
play here. Beware, they only look nice.
Helter skelter.
WATCH
BUY
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MICHAEL STIPE About PATTI SMITH
10 November 2026
“I bought her album Horses the day it came out and sat listening to it all night. I had this epiphany and releazid that this is what I wanted to do with my life: learn how to sing and start a band.”
Today 51 years ago, on 10 November 1975,
Patti Smith released that monumental debut LP.
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Quote source: Farout Magazine
Cover Of Debut Album By Sultry Australian EBM Pop Artist DIANE
10 November 2026
Credit: Diego Campomar
Artist: DAINE
Who: 23-year-old artist, vegan since the age of 13, from down under,
who uses they/them pronouns. They suffer from POTS, EDS, and autism.
Album: IN ENDLESS AWE & AGONY.
Their debut. Sounds like a modern-day
Britney Spears to my ears.
NME: “Daine reintroduces themself sans-autotune, cynical yet poptimistic while on a complete sugar high from being chewed up and spat out. Confessing the neuroses of stardom, they cash in on today’s most lucrative pop culture currency: bearing all. Cynical yet poptimistic while on a complete sugar high from being chewed up and spat out.”
ARTWORK
I know it sounds silly, but the first thing that popped up in my mind when
seeing this cover was ‘Silence of the Lambs‘, the title of the 1991 psych-horror
classic movie with Jodie Foster and Anthony Hopkins.
Discover Eye-And-Ear Catching Dutch Trio KATIE BITCHCOIN
Band: KATIE BITCHCOIN
Who: New eye-and-ear-catching Dutch trio that describes their music
as a satirical, high-energy mix of electroclash, punk rock, and lipstickwave,
balancing sharp socio-economic critiques with chaotic, danceable beats.
Here they’re dressed up and painted up for their 2nd,
dazzling single Selfish Sellfish. Watch video clip below.
NEW SINGLE
PRINCE AND THE NEW POWER GENERATION Topped The US Charts With Funk-Insane Single ‘CREAM’ Today 35 Years Ago
Top singles from the past
10 November 2026
Purple royalty PRINCE (1958-2016) scored his 5th and final No. 1 hit in the US
with the sexy/funky-insane single CREAM today, 35 years ago, on 10 Nov 1991.
The song, which appeared on the Diamonds And Pearls album, was
credited to Prince and his backing band, the New Power Generation.
The single entered the top 10 in 15 other countries worldwide, peaking
within the top three in Australia, Canada, Norway, and Switzerland. Its
video was directed by Rebecca Blake.
Melody Maker (legendary UK weekly) said: “An excellent” single,
with its ghostly, Hendrix guitars transcending mere pastiche.”
“Cream
Get on top
Cream
You will cop
Cream
Don’t you stop
Cream
Sh-boogie bop”
