TRIPLE LUTZ – Portland Punks Rant And Rave On Maddening Motherrocker ‘DON’T WAKE DADDY’

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Daily electricity to load your batteries

20 May 2026

Band: TRIPLE LUTZ
Who: Portland, Oregon’s one and only skater Tonya Harding-core band, since 2017. Half queer, half femme, and half bald. Full of frenzied energy and anthemic fury, these rippers never fail to deliver a hot-blooded and impassioned performance, leaving first-timers both enthralled and invested.

Track: DON’T WAKE DADDY

“The track captures the feeling of sneaking through chaos while trying to keep everything from falling apart. A pulsing swamp stomp that delivers a scathing sermon, a foreboding prophecy for religious hypocrites on their judgment day.”

TUTV: Hurry, get in the car and join Triple Lutz to hunt religious hypocrites. Expect
a razor-blade ride, knife between the teeth, with all punk cylinders and punk burners
on. No mercy, no way back. There’s a riot going on, folks, inflamed with this maddening
spit and sneer motherrocker. No rest for the wicked. Hallelujah.

LISTEN/WATCH

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23 May 2026 Marks The 60th Anniversary Of THE DOORS’ First Historic Gig At The WHISKEY A GO GO In L.A.

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20 May 2026

Sixty years ago, from May 23rd on to August 21st, 1966 blues rock legends THE DOORS had a historic residency as the house band at iconic venue the Whiskey A Go Go on the Sunset Strip in West Hollywood, California.

Co-founder/guitarist Robby Krieger (aged 80 and along with drummer John Densmore, the 2 surviving band members) will play their again in 3 days (poster on top), on May 23rd.

MOTHER Screams Her Heart And Lungs Out On Titanic Debut Slam ‘UNHOLY’

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20 May 2026

Artist: MOTHER
Who: Mysterious debutante. Present on all social
media, but without any specific, personal data.

“Music is the closest thing to creating life I’ll ever know. Every song I write is born from pain, obsession, and survival. When someone truly connects to it, they become part of that creation – not as a listener, but as family. That bond isn’t blood. It’s devotion. That’s why MOTHER isn’t just a name to me – it’s an ideology.”

Track: UNHOLY

“When I wrote ‘Unholy’, I was drowning quietly. Every part of my life felt as though it was rotting at the edges — relationships, mental health, identity, survival. I couldn’t tell whether the voice inside me wanted salvation or self-destruction anymore. I only knew some part of me wanted to disappear. The emptiness, the fractured sense of identity, the feeling of becoming a stranger inside your own body.

“There’s a grief within ‘Unholy’ that mourns a version of myself I’m not even sure ever truly existed. That’s the cruelty of BPD and dissociation — you begin to question your own memories, your own emotions, your own reflection.”

TUTV: (Un)holy shit! What a titanic debut slam this is. Think the metallic symphonic grandeur and orchestral vocality of Within Temptation and Nightwish, the schizophrenic post-hardcore howling of Bring Me The Horizon, and the visual charisma of Alice Glass. Sounds colossal, right? You betcha. Mother screams her heart and lungs out. Sonic exorcism.

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MANIC STREET PEACHERS – Grand Mixed Emotions Opus ‘EVERYTHING MUST GO’ Released 30 Years Ago

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Significant longplayers from yesteryear

20 May 2026

Welsh heroes MANIC STREET PREACHERS released their
4th album EVERYTHING MUST GO on 20 May 1996, today
30 years ago.

The first album without guitarist/lyricist Richey Edwards,
who disappeared mysteriously in February the year before.

Nicky Wire (bassist, lyricist) in an interview with The Guardian in 2016: “We always
wanted to be massive. It would have been great for Richey to have been with us at those
huge gigs. That’s the real sadness. It’s great that he is on the record with some of his lyrics thoug.


Manics on the cover of NME in 1994

James Dean Brandfield (Vocalist, guitarist) in the same interview: “Look, let’s get in
a room together as a band rather than as friends, and see what the dynamic is like without Richey. Writing a song like A Design for Life was a massive relief: it was the only way we could
be ourselves again.”

The record peaked at #2 in the UK.

NME said: “You leave feeling privileged to have experienced such a life-affirming
and tuneful bout of self-counselling, and you feel it’s done them good as well.

‘Everything Must Go’ punches at its own heavy, emotional weight – of recent memory only Radiohead’s ‘The Bends’ can spar in the same ring – but as the right hand pounds you with desolation, the left follows through with a tentative and gentle tickle of optimism.”

TUTV: My all-Manics-time favorite album. A grand mixed emotions opus. The first LP without the sadly missed Richey Edwards. Everything Must Go felt and still feels like a heart and soul tribute to him.”

KEY SINGLE

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PANIC SHACK – Welsh Punkettes Turbo Storm Through New Cannonball ‘GRIN & BEAR IT’

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Daily electricity to load your batteries

19 May 2026


Photo by Turn Up The Volume – Antwerp, Belgium – 2025

Band: PANIC SHACK
Who: 4 power-pop punkettes from Wales who released
their super-duper self-titled debut LP last year.

Track: GRIN & BEAR IT
No news, thus far, of a 2nd album.

On this new piece, the afire quartet resent day-to-day life and everything that comes with it. Every shift feels the same; it’s impossible to escape, and it all feels so heavy when the world is crumbling around you.

TUTV: Hupsakee. Here we go. Panic Shack attack once again. Probably their most hotheaded ebullition to date. Ravaging riffage in all corners. Havocking and pulverising, with Sarah Harvey‘s half-rapping, half-yelling vocals, adding fuel to the fire. If this storming cannonball is a harbinger for their 2nd LP, we’d better fasten our seatbelts.

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THE ALL-AMERICAN REJECTS – New Album ‘SANDBOX’ Is Only (Great) Rock ‘N’ Roll But We Like It (Very Much)

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Oklahoma rockers THE ALL-AMERICAN REJECTS, haven’t been really
active during their 27-year career. They just released (only) their 5th LP,
named SANDBOX.

The new one is titled SANDBOX. It’ll be launched
on May 15th. Tracklist & pre-order info here.

Tyson Ritter (frontman) told NYC’s magazine Paper: “This album has taken
a lot of fireside chats, and a lot of mending fences. I think I said in an interview
before. People don’t really want a new All-American Rejects record.

People want their time capsule and want to jump into it and feel like they smell
CK One and it makes them feel young. But the question I pose is, ‘What if we can
say something now? What if we can actually resonate?’”

TUTV: After 27 years, these vets come up with a highly peachy longplayer. A fireworks record stuffed with a series of whoppingly fab tunes. We get scream-along/fist-pumping rockers (Easy Come, Easy Go / Sandbox / Staring Back At Me), euphoric rockers à la The Killers (Get This / Eggshell Tap Dancer / King Kong / Lemonade), and a couple of gripping ballads (Green Isn’t Yellow / Mama).

Enough sonic scores, with familiar life-observing-affirming stories, to have yourself one of the best rawk ‘n’ roll LPs of the year. Retro? Old-fashioned? Maybe, but I don’t give a flying f**ck if it’s hip or not. Sandbox made/makes me go for the repeat button several times now. It activates my bloodstream and doubles my production of adrenaline. A 100% solid triumph. Hands down.

Key singles.

– KING KONG –

– GET THIS –

– EASY COMES EASY GO –

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NOEL & LIAM GALLAGHER Together At Number 11 On This Year’s UK RICH LIST

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19 May 2026

The Gallagher brothers’ combined net worth is estimated at £375 million, placing
them at #11 on this year’s list of the richest people in the UK music business

Noel: “I better call my accountant because I know
for a fact that I haven’t got that much money.”

Now I’m totally convinced that the bros will never look back in anger.

Read the full NME feature here.

Ps: Former English football star David Beckham is the first billionaire
sportsman (fortune combined with his wife’s, Victoria ‘Posh’ Adams).

UPUPAYĀMA – Psychedelic Multi-Instrumentalist Gears Up For His New Album – Check Out The 3 Singles

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19 May 2026

Artist: UPUPAYĀMA
Who: The moniker of Italian
multi-instrumentalist Alessio Ferrari.

Album: HONESTY FLOWERS
His 4th. Tracklist and pre-order info here.

Press info: “An epic double LP. A cosmic brew of organic psychedelic rock and global grooves at its most percussive, lively and distorted. Equally hedonistic and heady, it courses through rhythmic funk grooves, doubled-down scorched fuzz riffing, winding motorik jams, tranquil drones and pastoral acid-folk across its seventy-minute run time.”

TUTV: On his upcoming new LP Ferrari creates and composes orchestral psych symphonies again, only the way he does. An exciting mix of yesterday’s Krautrock-like echoes relived for today and tomorrow. Timeless and boundless riff-roaring psychedelia that causes mindbending, hallucinatory moments. Don’t miss it.

Check out the LP’s 3 singles.

– MYSTIC CHORDS OF MEMORY –

– FLIIIM –

– IN THE SOLSTICE SUN Pt. 2

All 3 On Spotify


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