MODERN WOMAN – Capricious London Indies Baffle With New Puzzling Brainfucker ‘NEPTUNE GIRL’

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Daily electricity to load your batteries

26 February 2026

Band: MODERN WOMAN
Who: London-based art-rock outfit
fronted by songwriter Sophie Harris.

Track: NEPTUNE GIRL
Newest single from their upcoming debut LP, named
Johnny’s Dreamworld. It’ll show up on May 1st. More
info here.


Album artwork

Press info: “On ‘Neptune Girl’, morality is examined through the lens of childhood; what it means to be good or bad before you understand those words. “This was built off an image of growing up in England, playing in the roads and fields with a friend who later went up to heaven. Heaven is, I imagine, somewhere near Neptune.”

Musically it’s nostalgic yet restless, echoing the coming-of-age unease of early 2000s films like Anita and Me or My Summer of Love, where the glow of adolescence hides an undertone of anxiety.

TUTV: Sophie Harris, as she already did with Modern Woman‘s previous stunner
Dashboard Mary creeps under your skin, without asking. Her nightmarish vocality
and overall haunting presence messes with your confused mind.

Neptune Girl‘s capricious mood-swing groove has a baffling, forth and back
going, magnetism. It’s a dazzling and dumbfounding brainfucker. It’s brill.

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SOCIAL DISTORTION – Generational Punk Oldtimers Return After 15 Years With Fuming Outburst ‘BORN TO KILL’

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Vitalizing tunes that work faster than a stream of caffeine

26 February 2026

Californian oldtimers SOCIAL DISTORTION are one of the
most notorious and celebrated American punk bands ever.

They formed in 1978, took a break here and there but never went away for good.
So far they released 7 LPs, with Hard Times And Nursery Rhymes from 2011 as
the most recent one.

Big news for their generational fans. SD have a new full-length canned.
It’s titled BORN TO KILL and hits the streets on May 8th. More info here.

We get the title track as the album’s first preview.
It’s a fuming outburst with the guitar volume way up.
You can’t tell if you hear a veteran or a new band.

Yoohoo.

The band will hit the road later in
the year to promote the new album.

Instagram – Tour Tickets – All Albums

Former Lovers NICK CAVE And PJ HARVEY Released ‘HENRY LEE’ Single Today 30 Years Ago

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Top singles from the past

26 February 2026

In the late 90s NICK CAVE and PJ HARVEY were lovers. No wonder
Cave did a duet with her, on a song named HENRY LEE, backed by
The Bad Seeds, which featured on his 9th LP Murder Ballads. It
was released as a single 30 years ago, on 26 February 1996.

Henry Lee is Nick Cave‘s variant of a traditional folk
song named ‘Young Hunting‘, which has its origin in
Scotland.

It wasn’t a great commercial success, yet one of the standout tracks on that LP.

Here’s The First Batch Of Nominees For The ROCK & ROLL OF FAME CLASS Of 2026

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25 February 2026

The 2026 inductees will be decided by ballots cast by an international
panel of more than 1,200 artists, historians and music industry pros.

The Rock & Roll Class Of 2026 will be revealed in April
with the induction ceremony taking place this fall.

Here’s the first batch of nominees.

Click and discover them all.

ARROWS OF ATHENA – Boston’s Electro-Guitar-Pop Duo Celebrate French Champagne Legend On Effervescent Piece ‘COMETS’

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25 February 2026


Photo Credit: Karla Lopresti Photography

Band: ARROWS OF ATHENA
Who: Cinematic Boston alt-rock duo – Jac-Lyn Gibson (vocals, visuals, and storytelling) and Scott Lerner (guitar, bass, synth, drum programming, and engineering) – echo the past with a modern tenacity.

They released their debut album The Ghost Archives in 2024

Track: COMETS

Press info: “Gibson was recently turned on to the story of Barbe-Nicole Ponsardin Clicquot, a French widow who in the early 1800s took over her husband’s wine business.

Proving her worth and defying patriarchal constraints of the era, Ponsardin eventually became known as Madame Clicquot, the “Grande Dame of Champagne,” and her famous pink bubbly, Veuve Clicquot, is still, to this day, consumed around the world.”

Gibson: “It’s said that comets crashed into the vineyard one evening and, although everyone was convinced the grapes were no longer usable, she was certain it would help with the flavor of the wine.

After many failed attempts, her ‘wine’ became popular among the elite and people would
travel quite a distance for a taste of her pink bubbly wine. The story is fascinating and a
true testament of what women can overcome in times of despair.”

TUTV: Electrifying layers of guitars and Gibson‘s avid vocals star in this new exuberant electro-pop whirlwind, while non-stop bass/drum riffs/beats pump up the jam. Fasten
your seatbelts, and be ready for this sonic collision. A superb bottle of champagne waiting for you at the end of this mousseux ride. Santé.

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Midnight Hour Whisperer BLACK VIIOLET Touched By Love On New Jazzy-Brassy Album ‘DARK BLUE’

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24 February 2026

Artist: BLACK VIIOLET
Who: Alter-ego of American garage punk ‘n’ roll
turbo The Darts‘ front Amazon Nicole Laurenne.

New album: DARK BLUE
Her 2nd.

Press info: “Dark Blue sits in that liminal space where jazz, noir pop, and trip-hop overlap, but the real engine is Nicole. Her writing, her arranging, her ability to take the tension of long months on the road and turn it into something soft, bruised, and unmistakably hers.

It is a record full of late-night light, small scars, little mercies, and the quiet
ache of wanting someone who is always a few thousand miles away.”

Laurenne: “When you’re doing what you love but the person
you love is always far away, you get stretched thin.”


📸 Brian Kasnyik

TUTV: Dark Blue connects fluently with debut album After You, continuing to soundtrack your night out at your favorite downtown club. Laurenne‘s 24/7 songwriting production (The Darts & solo) doesn’t affect the quality of her torch songs, not in the slightest.

You’re drawn into this new, relaxing record from her first sensual whispers on ( ‘Dark Blue’ and ‘One’ with some smooth organ touches). Jazzy-brassy trip-hop musings (‘Gimme Your Love’ / ‘Not Too Bad’ / the 1936 jazz standard ‘Why Don’t You Do Right?’ / ‘No Fool Like Me’ and the vulnerable closer ‘Whiskey Eyes’) and some more up-tempo reflections (‘Take Me (Or Leave Me)’ / ‘Got Me Down’ / ‘Just Met’) intertwin.

Dark Blue is an ode to love, as blissful as it can be, it also can cause a kind of tristesse when lovers need to miss each other for some time, as Nicole Laurenne experiences when she’s flying around half of the world to entertain us music addicts.

Think of soul legend Otis Redding‘s heartfelt ballads on his classic Blue L (with a lot of Sam Cooke songs on it) from 1965. Similar melancholic mood swings, similar amorous longings, similar midnight hour lovesickness.

Black Viiolet echoes universal emotions that many of us can relate to.
That’s what pop-ular music was, is, and always be about.

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RUSH – Deluxe Edition Of 1984 LP ‘GRACE UNDER PRESSURE’ And Tours In 2026 And 2027

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25 February 2026


Original members Geddy Lee and Alex Lifeson today

Canadian prog-rock legends RUSH had/have a brilliant,
very long career, which started in 1968. They released 19 LPs.

On March 13th they RUSH will release a deluxe edition of
their 1984 LP Grace Under Pressure. More info here.


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The new front cover will be different from the original one.

New Artwork

Original Artwork

And, they’ll go on the road again, under the banner of Fifty Something Tour.
This year in North America and next year in Argentina, Brasil, and Europe

JUNE-JULY 2026

AUG-DEC 2026

2027

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