WASTE – Belgian Fast Up And Coming Motherrockers Nail It On Stage
6 February 2026
© C. Glenn Verberck
Band: WASTE
Who: Rowdy Belgian indies
who find beauty in chaos.
With a hat-trick of 3 steaming singles: Dog House, Get Up and Discotheque,
these fast-up-and-coming Belgian turbo got my ears’ full attention.
Beware, these punked-up bloodhounds bite. They chase you with ruthless racket.
They bark like werewolves. They produce rabid stuff. They bloody rock! They’re no
waste of your time whatsoever.
Hells Bells!
Last Wednesday, they hit my hometown of Ghent (Belgium) for a blistering salvo of jagged juggernauts. Think Deftones‘ nu-metal gusto, Rage Against the Machine‘s fiery forcefulness, and the Stooges’ kickass attitude, all rolled into one. Fucktastic, right? You betcha.
Calm before the storm
Vocalist Jef Jenaer is the excorcistic vox in the middle, screaming his 4 lungs out, between balloons. He’s backed by a mean rock machine steamrollin’ like a hotrod speeding out of control. Together, they produce an amount of illegal decibels that made the audience go nuts. The small club turned into a sauna.
Charged electricity
Waste nailed it, there and then. A small club try-out for
bigger things to come. Their future has no limits. Don’t
miss them.
DOG HOUSE
GET UP
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THE BLACK KEYS Back To Their Blues Roots With New Stomping Single ‘YOU GOT TO LOSE’ From New Upcoming Album
Daily electricity to load your batteries
6 February 2026
Press photo
Ohio‘s rowdy blues tandem THE BLACK KEYS – singer/guitarist Dan Auerbach
and drummer Patrick Carney just announced their 3rd LP in 3 years. It’s baptized PEACHES!. It’ll hit the streets
May 1st.
Auerbach about the new full-length: “We weren’t making a record. We were just
jamming, like this is for us. Really primal, in a moment when all the nerves were raw,
just kinda screaming. We were going through a lot, trying to lift our spirits. I think
my dad getting sick made me not give a fuck and just wanna scream for a bit.”
The lead single, called YOU GOT TO LOSE
is an unbridled boogie-woogie stomper.
BK go back to their inflammable blues roots.
They rattle and ramble like in their early days.
RATBOYS – Chicago’s Guitar Pop Indies Have Their 6th Album ‘SINGIN’ TO AN EMPTY CHAIR’ Out Today
6 February 2026
Band: RATBOYS
Who: Chicago’s beloved guitar pop
indies, fronted by ratgirl Julia Steiner.
Album: Singin’ To An Empty Chair.
Their 6th longplayer.
Album artwork
Press Info: “11 songs showcase Ratboys‘ twangy, effervescent, as confident as they’ve
ever been, and more emotionally interrogative than ever before. If the band’s last record, 2023’s widely-praised The Window, was “a level-up record,” then Singin’ to an Empty Chair
is Ratboys at the peak of their powers.”
Julia Steiner (vocalist/lyricist/guitarist): “A big, overarching theme of this record is my
attempt to document my experience being estranged from a close loved one. The goal is to update this person on what’s been going on in my life and to try to bridge that impasse and reach out a hand into the void.”
DIY Magazine (UK) says: “At a time when country-tinged indie rock is by no means
in short supply in America – Wednesday, Waxahatchee and MJ Lenderman all spring
to mind – Ratboys have earned their seat at the top table.”
TUTV: Expect a tsunami of indie guitar pop fervor. Made me immediately think
of Australian group The Belair Lip Bombs, who scored best album of 2026 on
TUTV’s list with their 2nd one Again.
Signin’ To Empty Chairs is not as good as Again. Mind you, we get a handful of bouncy tunes (Open Up / Know You Then / Anywhere / What’s Right and At Peace In The Hundred Acre Wood), but we also get a handful of lukewarm songs to make this a memorable record. Anyway, indie guitar pop is alive and kicking.
KEY SINGLE
ALBUM
Reggae Legend BOB MARLEY Would Have Celebrated His 80th Birthday Today
6 February 2026
Robert Nesta Marley was born 80 years
ago today in Nine Miles, Jamaica.
Happy B. to the eternal legend who introduced reggae,
to the masses. His supreme songwriting, his Jah devotion,
and his gospel gathering-like concerts made him a global
superstar.
He passed away in 1981 due
to cancer, aged only 30.
Legend indeed.
RECORD STORE DAY 2026 – Full List Of Releases
LANDOWNER – Massachusetts Rockers Are Definitely PARQUET COURTS Fans
Vitalizing tunes that work faster than a stream of caffeine
5 February 2026
Renowned jangly guitar indies Parquet Courts from NYC changed their
name to LANDOWNER, moved to Massachusetts and released a new
riff-ripper, called NORMAL RETURNS TO NORMAL.
Just kidding.
But listen to this track, and you’ll hear clearly why I was joking around.
This new piece will feature on their 5th LP, titled Assumption, out Feb 27.
NOEL GALLAGHER Finally Recognized For His Songwriting Brilliance
JUKEBOX 2026 – WEEK 6 – Five New Rad Tracks Added Twice A Week
Another year, another Jukebox to fill with new
tracks, 5 twice a week, for your aural pleasure.
This is the 9th batch of 5 new rad ones of 2026.
ALL TOGETHER
TRACK BY TRACK
Andrew Falkous – Brussels 2025 – Photo by Turn Up The Volume
Band: MCLUSKY
Who: Welsh notorious post-punk noiseniks
featuring Andrew Falkous from tumultuous
turbo Future Of The Left.
Track: I KNOW COMPUTER
New piece from an upcoming mini album.
It follows last year’s flabbergasting full-length
The World Is Still Here And So Are We.
Single artwork
TUTV: Vintage Mclusky clatter. Bass and guitar have
a fiery fight, and Falkous spits and sneers as we are
used to for a long time.
Slam-bang hullabaloo.
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Band: PUNCHBAG
Who: Revved up brother-sister duo from South London,
colliding the raw unfiltered energy of punk, with the overflowing
ecstasy of pop. Last year they released their red-hot debut EP
I’m Not Your Punchbag.
Track: I’M OBSSESED
Piece from their 2nd EP,
out April 10th.
“It’s about being completely obsessed with something or someone,
but not in a cute way, more in a ‘your whole body is under attack’
kinda way. It’s sort of disordered, chaotic, overwhelming.”.
TUTV: Another scathing sucker-punch from these pumped-up siblings.
I’m Obssesed is a mid-tempo cry-out with a shrieking, multi-vocal chorus.
Striking stroke.
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Band: HUNGRY
Who: Unabated guitar energized
team from Manchester, UK.
Track: CAMBRIDGE IS ON FIRE
Jacob Peck (frontman/lyricist): “ The song expresses our frustrations with
middle-class comforts, over-analysis without action, nimbyism, intellectual
cowardice as a stand-in for material change and all too easy deference to
business and power.
TUTV: These Manchester punk dropouts hit hard. All greedy sharks in
our collapsing society better run and hide. Hungry go on a roasting rampage,
powered by a propulsive bass/drum tandem, neurotic guitars, and berserk
vocals.
Ferocious uppercut.
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Band: STEVE
Who: Belgian noise/industrial/hip-hop outfit who
released their 5-track debut EP Not A Person in 2024.
Track: I’M NOT DEAD
Brand new single.
It captures the feeling of barely surviving in an over-stimulated, hostile world,
where sleep is the only refuge and being “not dead” feels like the only victory left.
TUTV: Creepy vocals dominate this draggy-paced trauma, causing a bone-chilling experience. Think early Einstürzende Neubauten. There’s an almost unbearable
tenseness in the air from start to finish.
I’m Not Dead sounds like the theme song of a horror movie with a vicious
snake sneaking towards its helpless prey. Watch under your bed before
you go to sleep.
Mind-boggling.
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Crédits : Charlotte Pneumonie
Artist: BIRTAWIL
Who: Solo project of French musician
Xavier Godart who played in some bands
before.
Track: SENTO
New single from his upcoming album Dua Min.
Out on 27 February. More info here.
TUTV: Relentless percussion, industrial shockwaves, and blood-curdling guitars
push this nightmarish trip to hellish places. Sento is a hypnotic, instrumental jam,
both freakish and mind-bending.
Spookish score.
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Late Royal Genius PRINCE Released Hit Single ‘KISS’ Today 40 Years Ago
Top singles from the past
5 February 2026
The late royal genius PRINCE (1958 – 2016) relased his
big hit KISS today 40 years ago, on 5 February 1986.
It topped the US Singles Charts, peaked at #6 in the UK,
#2 in Australia and top-10 in several European countries.
The sensual dance-soul song
featured on his 8th LP Parade.
Kiss in peace, Prince.
