KING GIZZARD & THE LIZARD WIZARD – Out Of The Blue The Hardest Working Band In The World Released Their 28 LP In 14 Years

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17 August 2026


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I guess for the Australian psych-prog-rockers
KING GIZZARD & THE LIZARD WIZARD a day
counts 48 hours.

I must be something weird like that.

They just released their 28th LP in 14 years.
It’s named ALIEN METAL. Order info here.

And it’s quite a special record for the riff junks from down other, as
they have thrown their guitars through the window and surprise with
a full electronic one.

Stu Mackenzie (vocalist/guitarist): “We’ve never scrapped so much material
as we have for this album. Entire albums, entire universes that were formulated,
created, recorded, deleted and started again. The project was finally unlocked
during a late night jam session that went on for more than an hour with every
track evolving from the same source performance.”

They actually announced the album a couple of weeks ago, along
with its single Level 5, but no release date was communicated, and
last Friday it came falling out of the blue.

Billboard US: “Alien Metal is arguably the biggest swing in a catalog full of them,
as the sextet best known for wild, garage-meets-psych-rock ditched its guitars in favor
of a hulking Eurorack, a type of modular synthesizer developed in the ’90s that all of
its members could play simultaneously.”

TUTV: Back to the British 90s techno raves. Alien Metal resonates as if KG&TLW
locked themselves up for a couple of weeks playing Underworld, The Prodigy and
Leftfield records on repeat.

Expect an incessant tsunami of hyperkinetic beats, mind-blowing electro
Krautrock madness, and deformed vocal flashes. Full blast forward without
breaks. Not one moment to have a much-needed breather. E-cstatic.

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RADIOHEAD Maestro THOM YORKE About DAVID BOWIE

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17 August 2026

Sounds creepy, Thom.

“I remember sitting on a climbing frame in a local play park. And I had just
seen the video for ‘Ashes To Ashes’ by David Bowie. It was the craziest thing
I’ve ever seen, and all the other kids were sort of saying, how it was too weird,
and I thought, I wanna do this for a living.”

Genius.
1947-2016.

Full Yorke feature here.

SHERYL CROW – American Superstar Allures With Power Pop Ballad ‘FREEDOM BUS’

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Reveries for the laziest day of the week

16 August 2026


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American singer-songwriter star SHERYL CROW is gearing up
for her 13th full-length. It’s titled Pick You Up and will show up
on October 9th.

FREEDOM BUS is the first single and features
vocals from young songsmith Jesse Welles.

Crow wrote the song with her musical husband, guitarist Jeff Trott, during weekly
sessions at Crow’s home in Nashville: “We’d get together, eat lunch and bang out a song
in two hours,” she says, “fully finished, and do a little demo of it, and then go about our way.”

“I do not take freedom lightly, because our freedom has
been paid for in the lives of others throughout history,”

Hear the magnificent power pop ballad here.

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XTC – British New Pop Wavers Released Single ‘DEAR GOD’ Today 40 Years Ago

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Top singles from the past

16 August 2026

British new pop wave band XTC (1972–2006) driven by frontman/songwriter
Andy Partridge released stand-alone single DEAR GOD on 16 August 1986,
today 40 years ago.


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Written by Partridge, the song lyrics grapple with the existence of God
and the problem of evil. Partridge was inspired by a series of books with
the same title, which Partridge viewed as exploitative of children.

It wasn’t a commercial success, but still
is one of their best songs to date.

“Dear God, sorry to disturb you but
I feel that I should be heard loud and clear
We all need a big reduction in amount of tears
And all the people that you made in your image
See them fighting in the street
‘Cause they can’t make opinions meet about God
I can’t believe in You”

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QUEENS OF THE STONE AGE Announce Their 8th Album ‘PERFCTH’ With Very Bloody Video

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QOTSA‘s chieftain Josh Homme and keyboardist/guitarist Dean Fertita
reveal the title and release date in a very bloody teaser video, while playing
five-finger fillet.

It’s named Perfecth. It’s their 8th LP and will hit the streets on September 30th.

The annocuncement follows last month’s power pop harbinger track Easy Street.

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Summer Of 1969 – August 15th – First Day Of Notorious WOODSTOCK Festival

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Every day of this summer we go back to the same summer day somewhere in history

15 August 2026

On 15 August 1969, the notorious and historic
WOODSTOCK MUSIC AND ART FAIR kicked off
in Bethel, New York

Attended by over 400,000 people, the event featured, Jimi Hendrix, Crosby Stills
Nash & Young, Santana, The Who, Creedence Clearwater Revival, Grateful Dead, Janis
Joplin, The Band, Canned Heat, Joan Baez, Melanie, Ten Years After, Sly and the Family
Stone, Johnny Winter, Jefferson Airplane, Ravi Shanker, Country Joe and the Fish, Blood
Sweat and Tears, Arlo Guthrie, and Joe Cocker.

Woodstock offered the counterculture generation a respite amid the Vietnam War and unrest at home, and would become a defining moment of the era, as well as an iconic milestone in pop culture history.

The festival would be captured in a documentary
as well as a best-selling soundtrack to the film.

Danish Glamorous Danish Rockers ICEAGE Fly To The US In 2027

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15 August 2026

Glamorous Danish indie rockers ICEAGE, fronted by charismatic frontman Elias Bender Rønnenfelt released their 6th full-length, named For Love Of Grace & The Hereafter last May.

TUTV said: “Iceage return with sonic panacherie and a sense of urgency, rockier and punkier than on predecessor Seek Shelter. Rønnenfelt is omnipresent, although obviously
in a feverish place of his own, torn from reality at times.”


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They’ll promote it in the US next year.

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BAXTER HALL – Boston’s Singer-Songwriter/Guitarist Impassiones With His New Heartfelt Reflection ‘THE WORK’

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Daily electricity to load your batteries

15 August 2026

Artist: BAXTER HALL
Who: Singer-songwriter based in Boston. He released
his debut album Somewhere In My Guitar in 2020.

Track: THE WORK
The title piece of his upcoming EP,
out September 18th.

Press info: “The storyline around “The Work,” and the EP overall, is one that is personal
to Hall while still being entirely relatable to others. Addressing family dynamics is nothing new for the rising artist.

A musical old soul who was raised in New England surrounded by multiple generations of professional classical musicians, experiencing the allure and magnetism of live music while his father performed with the Boston Symphony Orchestra and the Boston Pops.”


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Hall about the song: “‘The Work’ is about my personal experience handling the emotions
of going no-contact with a parent. The feelings of loss and sadness that come with that decision, but also having your boundaries be stronger than your empathy and empowering yourself to break the cycle and not internalize and inherit toxic behavior.”

“This song came through very quickly and was one of the ‘easy writes. It was a very healing
and cathartic experience for me, and truthfully my first thought was it was not being some
big single to promote. It felt very personal and something I just sang to myself for a while.”

TUTV: This is singer-songwriting beauty, melancholia and heartfeltness. From acoustic
intimacy to rockin’ swagger. Many legendary songsmiths come to mind (Jeff Buckley, Gram Parsons and Nick Drake to name a few). Hall‘s sincere, Americana voice turns this mixed-emotions reflection into a graceful moment. Engrossing.

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