THE ROLLING STONES Premier 2 Rippers From Their Upcoming LP ‘FOREIGN TONGUES’
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5 May 2026
After a series of cryptic billboards popped up across the globe, THE ROLLING
STONES revealed the title of their upcoming album and release date last week.
It’s named Foreign Tongues and will be shared with the world on July 10th.
It’ll be their 25th, following 2023’s
comeback Hackney Diamonds.
Check out the two firecrackers that just went online.
They easily could have been on their previous album.
No surprises. Only rock ‘n’ roll, but they still like it.
– ROUGH AND TWISTED –
The track that was released as a vinyl-only single
last month, under an old alias, The Cockroaches
Totally new riff-hooked,
mid-tempo, ripper.
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MODERN WOMAN – British Post-Punk Newcomers Nail It Big Time With Their Dazzling Debut Album ‘JOHNNY’S DREAMWORLD’
5 May 2026
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Band: MODERN WOMAN
Who: London-based art-rock outfit fronted
by singer-songwriter-guitarist Sophie Harris.
Album: JOHNNY’S DREAMWORLD.
Their debut.
Press info: ‘Johnny’s Dreamworld’ represents the culmination of Modern Woman’s
journey from Sophie Harris’s early, intimate songwriting project into a full-bodied
band capable of folding post-punk, avant-garde, and folk traditions into a live
force of dynamic originality.
At its heart, the record explores the strange poetry buried within the ordinary.
Harris’s lyrics, steeped in literary detail and filmic atmosphere, draw from her
fascination with the dark underbelly of the everyday and the contradictions
of womanhood.”
TUTV: Modern Woman nail it right away with their spellbound debut. One of the
best firstborns in along time according to my eardrums and my perplexed mind.
No comfortable verse/chorus/verse/chorus song structures here. MW take us on
a knock-down-drag-out ride, zigzagging its way through 9 resounding rollercoasters.
Black Midi and Black Country, New Road rolled into
one. Puzzlingly catchy and whimsically hooking.
Sophie Harris is one hell of a performer, vocally and lyrically, who writes spine-chilling pieces of intoxicating music. Imagine Kate Bush without any sonic boundaries, backed
by a tenacious post-punk force. Beyond any doubt, one of this year’s most dazzling
records thus far.
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TOM PETTY And His HEARTBREAKERS Released Fourth LP ‘HARD PROMISES’ 45 Years Ago
Significant longplayers from the past
5 May 2026
On 6 May 1981, 45 years ago, TOM PETTY and his HEARTBREAKERS
released their 4th longplayer, HARD PROMISES.
Its working title was Benmont’s Revenge, referring to their keyboard player
and the band’s co-founder Benmont Tench. Hard Promises is the last full
album to feature the original Heartbreakers lineup, as bassist Ron Blair
left after the album’s release.
It reached #5 on the US Charts, #1 in New Zealand and #32 in the UK.
AllMusic‘s verdict: “It offered a reaffirmation that the previous album ‘Damn
The Torpedoes’ wasn’t a fluke. There’s not much new on the surface, since it continues
the sound of its predecessor, but it’s filled with great songwriting, something that’s as
difficult to achieve as a distinctive sound. It has a tremendous set of songs and a unified
sound that makes it one of Petty’s finest records.” Score: 4/5.
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Amazing Album Artwork – Cover Of Debut One By Experimental Duo HEITH & TARAWANGSAWELAS Out Today
5 May 2026
Press
Artists: HEITH & TARAWANGSA WELAS
Who: Experimental, instrumental duo, Milan-based artist/musician Daniele Guerrini (Heith) and Indonesian musician Teguh Permana (Tarawangsawelas). They produce a distinctive “5th world music in low data mode,” blending experimental electronic sounds with traditional Indonesian elements.
Album: DUORI
It’s released today.
Otherworldly Eastern
trip-hop. Quite special.
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MASSIVE ATTACK Spokesman ROBERT DEL NAJA About Our Species
4 May 2026
Snow leopard?
Two weeks ago Massive Attack and Tom Waits released
a collaborative anti-war song Boots On The Ground.
For Those About To Punk, Riotous Brits IRKED Salute You
4 May 2026
Band: IRKED
Who: Fast and furious punk squad from North East England who slot somewhere
between modern garage punk, ’80s hardcore and eggy post-punk, outside of
the group, we’ve all been pals for around 15 years +.
FFO: X-Ray Spex, Downtown Boys, Alien Nosejob, Uranium Club, Radio Birdman,
Pissed Jeans, METZ, New Bomb Turks, C.O.F.F.I.N, Eddie Current Suppression Ring
and Cher (‘the’ Cher?).
Album: THE GRIEVANCE
Their debut.
Press info: “The Grievance is born out of an excitement for playing live and the noble
desire to rip it up. However, as with all the best party music there’s a mission statement
too. Dancing to Betty Davis or Syl Johnson or Bikini Kill or Public Enemy is all well and
good in the clubs, but when you really dig into it, you are taught and inspired as well
as entertained.
As the title suggests, there is spleen being vented here, just as when Huggy Bear vented,
or Dead Kennedys vented, or X-Ray Spex vented. IRKED’s rage might be tempered by wit
and killer hooks but it’s still laser focused. The Grievance is genuinely righteous music
made by people embedded in their local community and rightly enraged at the world
around them.”
TUTV: These blazing Brits have two perfervid things in common with Australian rock gangbangers Amyl And The Sniffers. Their frantic front Amazon, and their insatiable punk addiction. Both bands have a zonkers appetite for riff-rattling orgies. No breaks for the wicked, no fooling around, no pompous posing.
Sucker-punch after sucker-punch at 100 miles per hour. Listening to The Grievance feels like being in the middle of a warzone, and there’s no way to escape (not that you really want to).
Loudmouth Helen Walkinshaw has four lungs and aims at your poor eardrums with her iron pipes, while her accomplices in crime roll over Beethoven with a riotous exorbitance. You need Duracell-motorized rollerskates to keep up.
For those about to punk, Irked salute you.
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ESORE ALLE – British Songsmith Offers Elated Baroque Piece ‘MUM, I DID DRUGS!’
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4 May 2026
Artist: ESORE ALL
Who: British singer-songwriter from Birmingham, describing himself this way:
“Love child of Gaga and Glutton, The Weird Starchild of the next generation and
all-round Yin Yang of Satire and Seriousness.”. Weirdo from Birmingham, blending
together a unique Yin Yang of satire and seriousness, Esore Alle is the embodiment
of “If you don’t laugh, you’ll cry.”
Track: MUM, I DID DRUGS!
New single.
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TUTV: And what did mum say? Was she angry? Did she want some too? Whatever,
Alle‘s tongue-in-cheek thoughts on casual drug use and what your entourage thinks
about it, are wrapped in both an amusing and rainbow-like orchestrated baroque
pop tune with his falsetto bits, drawing all of your aural attention. Outright
songwriting felicity.
As Bob Dylan sang years ago: “Everybody must get stoned”.