LONELY LEESA & THE LOST COWBOYS Impose With Their Inclusive Anthem Of Hope

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Daily electricity to charge your batteries

16 October 2026

Band: LONELY LEESA & THE LOST COWBOYS
Who: Boston-based Americana rock and roll team
led by Leesa Coyne.

Track: NEW AMERICAN DREAM
Their brand new single.

Leesa: “To me, the ‘New American Dream’ is for everyone to have some comfort and freedom. To be able to have those moments of not having a care in the world. To not constantly worry about some impending doom coming around the corner: ‘Am I going to be assaulted?’ ‘Am I going to be deported?’ ‘Am I going to be broke?’”  

TUTV: Leesa‘s fantastic, room-filling voice carries this majestic power ballad.
Ten seconds in and two names came to mind, Sheryl Crow and Lucinda Williams .
Yes, that emotive and imposing. Vocal Americana grandeur.

I love the sanguine idea of New American Dream. After the GOP and their psychotic
God got their lying asses kicked in a couple of weeks the biggest challenge is to live
all together tolerantly, regardless religion, origin, politics, or sexuality. No more the
Divided States Of America.

There’s no other way. After 21 centuries we should at least try it once,
not only in America. We wouldn’t be lonely and lost anymore, I guess.

New American Dream evokes those sentiments, and being embedded
in this wonderful song it becomes an inclusive anthem of hope.


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FONTAINES D.C. – The Fully Grown Irishmen’s 5th Album ‘DOPAMINE CHAMBER’ Is A 5-Star Triumph

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16 October 2026

Band: FONTAINES D.C.
Who: The Irish indie stars, fronted
by their charismatic and highly talented
singer/songwriter Grian Chatten.

Album: DOPAMINE CHAMBER.
Their 5th. Order info here.

Grian Chatten (frontman/songwriter) who spent time among the faded grandeur
of Venice, Vienna and Sicily in search of lyrical inspiration: “I think Romance was maybe
60 per cent human and 40 per cent corrupted by automation, and a loss of feeling.

This one feels more like 60 per cent corrupted — the mask is wearing the face a little
more. I felt it would be more powerful to leave the hope out and reflect the ugliness
honestly. This one needed to feel more like a catastrophic warning.”

NME says: “A doom-ridden escape from the band of the decade. The gothy tones of
The Cure linger and ‘Dopamine Chamber’ would sit comfortably alongside the melancholy moodpieces of ‘Disintegration’ and ‘Pornography’, as well as the future-proof genre-clash
and dislocation of Massive Attack’s ‘Mezzanine’.”

TUTV: Their first 2 LPs were afire ones, the ones young gunslingers make, full of vim
and vigour and stuffed with muscular barnstormers. With their third album Skinty Fia
the growing-up Irishmen showed signs of change of course, sonically and lyrically.

The 4th full-length Romance confirmed their new direction completely
and now with Dopamine Chamber they created/crafted a masterpiece.

A strings sweeping, orchestral, gloom/doom triumph. More cinematic, designed synth arrangements, less youthful guitar upheaval, more in-depth reflections about what worried Chatten sees and hears around him in this dark era.

His ruminative tonality and affecting storytelling timbre are on his most entrancing button. This sign of the times exploit will spin on my headphones for a long time. One
of the most fulfilling accomplishments of 2026.

Singles.

– MARIANNE –

– TONGUE –

– WHERE IS GONE? –
Featuring Rosalía

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PET SHOP BOYS Voice NEIL TENNANT Is Not A Fan Of TAYLOR SWIFT

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16 October 2026

Oops.

The Pet Shop Boys released a new album last week, named ‘A Man from the Future’.
It’s an electronic/orchestral/concept one that follows the life of English mathematician
and logician Alan Turing (1912-1954) and his legacy. It’s a collaboration with Turing biographer Andrew Hodges. The record is credited to Tennant/Lowe/Hodges.

Sorry, but I can’t find a ‘Billie Jean‘ here neither, Neil.

Photo on top: from cover of TPS album ‘Nonetheless‘.

New Singles: VEHICLE – SMASHING PUMPKINS – U2 – LAND OF TALK

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16 October 2026

Band: VEHICLE
Who: Greedy indie rockers
from Leeds, UK.

Single: MISERABLE VIBES
3rd preview track from their
forthcoming debut album, named Fumes, slated
for release on 19 March 2027 (my birthday).

Michael Cable (frontman/songwriter): “A withdrawn nostalgia addict goes cold turkey, everything floats to the surface, the conclusion is an elusive one. Archive footage floats across the words– our hero doesn’t know what era they’re from anymore, the song is about the strange guilt of living in a present that borrows too heavily from the past.”

TUTV: References? The La’s, The Tubs, and sensation Geese.
Sound: Jangly post-punk action. Vibes? Chilling.

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Band: THE SMASHING PUMPKINS
Active: Since 1988 – To date, 13 LPs

Single: BLACK STARS
Part of the soundtrack of the upcoming dystopian movie
The Hunger Games: Sunrise On The Reaping. In cinemas
from Nov 20th on.

TUTV: Feel-good, catchy, guitar-pop melodiousness.

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Band: U2
Active: Since 1976 – 50 years!!!

Single: THE GREATEST SHOW
The 3rd appetizer from their upcoming 16th full-length,
baptized Carnival De Luz, which will drop on 13th Nov.

TUTV: This could easily be a hidden track from
the 1987 Joshua Tree LP. Emotive, soul-touching
and slightly epic.

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LAND OF TALK
Who: Absorbing Canadian rock indies,
led by singer and guitarist Elizabeth Powell.

Single: DOGS
New taster, following Cats from their
5th longpplayer called Lasts. It’ll land
on Nov 13th.

TUVT: Jangly electricity twisting and turning forth and back.

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THE HUMAN LEAGUE – British Electro-Pop Bigtimers Released Their Classic Album ‘DARE’ Today 45 Years Ago

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Significant longplayers from yesteryear

16 October 2026

Band: THE HUMAN LEAGUE
Who: British electro pop bigtimers who got active in 1977.
They’re still touring constantly with frontman Philip Oakey (71 now)
as the original member. They released 9 LPs.

Anniversary album: DARE
Their 2nd one.
Released: 16 October 1981,
today 45 years ago.

NME said: “This sounds like the first Human League greatest hits collection.
Much more than ABBA or whoever you like, the Human League signify that
deliciously serious, sincerely disposable MOR music can possess style, quality
and sophistication.”

TUTV: Another clear-cut proof of the fact
that delightful pop tunes last for decades.

KEY SINGLE
More than 807 million
streams on Spotify

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U2 Announce Concerts In Mexico City, Buenos Aires And São Paulo For Spring 2027

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15 October 2026


New album artwork

As all U2 fans know, their heroes are releasing album number 16, their first
in 9 years, titled Carnival De Luz on November 13th. Pre-order info here.

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.

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.”

Three weeks ago, following debut single Fireflies, they
premiered the 2nd preview with Silencio. A solid gold
crackerjack.

Enough about the music. Tour news now.

They just announced the first shows of a 2027 world tour.
They start with Buenos Aires, Mexico City, and São Paulo.
See dates below. Sign up for pre-sale HERE.

Concerts for Europe and North America will
be communicated in a couple of weeks.

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THE BEATLES Masterpiece ‘RUBBER SOUL’ In Gold On November 27th For RECORD STORE DAY

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15 October 2026

On November 27th, the Record Store Day organisation
will take part again in the yearly Black Friday event.

One of the countless releases is an exclusive, standalone vinyl LP in a limited-edition
gold vinyl of the 1965 original version released in the US by Capitol Records, of the
masterpiece album Rubber Soul by The Beatles.

The audio has been sourced from the original 1965 US production master referencing
the contemporary mastering notes of the time. Pressed on a 180g heavyweight gold LP and housed in a poly-lined inner bag within a single outer sleeve that replicates the original US Album release.

As had occurred with all The Beatles’ albums released in the US, the tracklisting is different from its UK counterpart. For this Capitol release, ‘Drive My Car’, ‘Nowhere Man’, ‘What Goes On’ and ‘If I Needed Someone’ were sidelined from the sequence of the UK LP.

A total of 15,000 copies are available.

UK

More info about this Beatles exclusive in the UK here.
All participating shops here.

US

Info about this Beatles exclusive here.
List of (most) US shops here

OTHER COUNTRIES

Go to the website of RECORD STORE DAY to find out where.

Music maestro, please.


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BLONDIE Returns With 12th Album ‘HIGH NOON’ In February – Hear The First JOHNNY MARR Written Single

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15 October 2026

BLONDIE are one of those iconic star bands that have been around for ages,
actually since 1974. Yep, 52 years, and still fronted by the now 81-year-old
legend Debbie Harry and her former husband Chris Stein (76) as guitarist
and co-songwriter.

They just announced the upcoming birth of their 12th full-length, their
first in 9 years. It’s baptized HIGH NOON and will see the day of light
on 26 February 2027.

The record features the final recordings of co-founder
and drummer Clem Burke, who passed away last year
in April.

Across the 13 songs, Harry and Chris Stein are joined by special guests including
Johnny Marr, Glen Matlock, Zach Condon of Beirut, and Jess Wolfe and Holly Laessig
of Lucius.

Debbie: “This album is classic Blondie. An amalgamation of all our different
influences and eras into something new. This music feels grounded in the present,
shaped by who we are and how we’re living now.”

Pre-order info here.

The lead single SPECTRAL EYES is written by ex-The Smiths guitar champ
Johnny Marr, who released his new top-drawer album The Age Of Everything
2 weeks ago.

He knows exactly what Blondie dance-guitar-pop is about.

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RONNIE WOOD Exhibits New JIMI HENDRIX Paintings

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15 October 2026

Now 79 year old RONNIE WOOD isn’t only guitarist for 51 years with
The Rolling Stones, after also playing with 60s idols Small Faces and
the Rod Stewart fronted Faces, but he is also a respected painter.

Hist latest work, paintings of his hero and friend Jimi Hendrix
is now exposed at Handel Hendrix House Museum in London.

Wood: “I was there in The Speakeasy Club, in London’s Soho when he played, and
he sat in my booth, and that’s when I first got to know him properly. Straightaway,
he opened up to me for some strange reason.”

Voodoo chile Jimi Hendrix.

FAT WHITE FAMILY – The Best Live Band Of The 21st Century Bombed Brugge, Belgium

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15 October 2026

A week ago I went to London to see the fabulous
THE STROKES, who delivered a fabulous show.

One of the support acts was British controversial post-punk gang
FAT WHITE FAMILY, and last Monday they came to Belgium to bomb
the historic city of Brugge.

For the 15th time (the first time was in my hometown of Ghent back in 2014, with
50 people in a small club) they blew me away with a flabbergasting uppercut concert.

Their latest full-length, their 4th, titled Forgiveness Is Yours in 2024.
A stunning record that went Top 5 in TUTV’s end-of-year albums.

Now back to Brugge. The 7 manic misfits went for an insane, baffling best-of set
with, as usual, the perplexing Lias Saoudi in the middle, who’s also active with
The Moonlandingz and Decius.

When he hits a stage, he always invites his demons along for a bewildering fight.
He sings, screams, howls, and wails like a possessed madman who just escaped
from a psychiatric facility.

His erratic presence, go-getter performance style, and mood-swing vocal exorcism
are overwhelming. One day his head will explode on the podium. Without the drugs,
Lias‘s physical condition is as powerful as Rocky Balboa‘s one in his boxing heyday.

He’s backed by a mean killer machine, with changing lineups over the years, but flanked by his brother on keyboards and the awesome guitarist  Adam J Harmer as 2 of the original members.

No lows, only mind-messing and scream-along highs, including I Am Mark E Smith,
Feet, Whitest Boy On The Beach, Is It Raining In Your Mouth, Touch The Letter,
and the destroying closer Bomb Disneyland.

After 75 minutes, FWF were done. Saoudi‘s demons were floored,
and the audience needed some time to get back to reality after
experiencing the jaw-dropping extravaganza.

Best frontman and best live band of the 21st century.

FORGIVENESS IS YOURS


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