28 September 2026
Next January, the 15th, flamboyant rock star
ROD STEWART will celebrate his 82th birthday.
He just announced details of his last ever tour.
“I’ve been singing the music I love since I was 19 years old,
and I’ve had the privilege of taking it around the world to
all of you.”
Two of his countless pinnancles.
With FACES
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Promo photo
Iowa‘s notorious nu-metal freaks SLIPKNOT, electrocuting the world with
an illegal amount of nuclear power since 1995, are back with a big bang.
Their most recent album, The End So Far, came out in 2022.
A couple of weeks ago, they pierced our eardrums with
new single ARSENAL. More stuff to come? No info so far.
But what they certainly will do is shock and knock, trash and crash
North America next year, with a deafening cast of support acts.
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Paul Banks in the middle
Always Interpol.
A month ago they released their commendable 8th album ‘This Mirros Weighs A Ton.’
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Approximately 3,250 million tickets sold in 1 weekend.
I’m sure the Gallagher bros are feeling supersonic once again.
Daily electricity to charge your batteries
28 September 2026
Photo by Pablo Rincon
Artist: ARK IDENTITY
Who: The moniker for Toronto‘s alternative
artist and producer Noah Mroueh.
Track: SIT
New single.
Mroueh: “Politics, racism, sexism, social media, people constantly arguing,
the news, algorithms, It feels like there’s almost no space to just think for
yourself anymore. ‘SIT’ came out of that frustration.”
“In a world that constantly demands our attention and reaction, choosing to stop,
sit still and think for yourself can be the most radical thing you do. For me, sitting
becomes an act of rebellion.”
Sit here
TUTV: If your feet don’t react, your pelvis doesn’t start shaking, and your head doesn’t go forth and back to this firm footstomper you need to change your meds and/or consult a shrink. This bass/drum motorized riff banger rotates on and on. Ark Identity moves and grooves with funky panacherie.
This is the sort of enlivening tune that makes you jump out of bed, makes you dance around your kitchen table, and makes you leave your house for a brisk walk and a sit in the park, following your instincts, feeling confident and determined to make your own mark, regardless of what others think.
Again, we experience that galvanizing music
can resuscitate yout numb psyche.
“Sit down, breathe out
Don’t lose your head now
Reach out, shut down
Find out and fuck around
STREAM
BUY
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WATCH
28 September 2026
Band: TRIGGERFINGER
Who: Belgian rock vets Ruben Block and
Mario Goossens who started as a trio back
in 1998.
Album: TARMAC
6th full-length, the tandem’s
first in 9 years.
Ruben Block (vocalist/guitarist) talked to Belgian
magazine Humo about their new record in 9 years.
“People get older; we view life differently now than we did back then. The world has changed too. So the situation is naturally different than it was then. But apart from that, we did indeed try to make a record that sounds a bit different from what we had already made.
It’s fucking hard to write a good song, isn’t it? It takes time, energy, concentration, and frustration. You hope that people will enjoy hearing it and that we’ll be able to tour with
it for a while: that’s it.”
TUTV: For nearly 30 years now, Belgian stone rockers use a simple formula. Let the riffs
do the main talking. Triggerfringer play in the first division of electric-magnetic rawk ‘n’ roll, knocking out bombproof bangers with bona fide dedication and lots of blare, triggering dextrous body activity. No arty farty tricks. Straight on. Bingo.
SINGLES
ALBUM
Significant longplayers from yesteryear
28 September 2026
Soul/funk master STEVIE WONDER, born Stevland Hardaway Morris 76 years ago,
released his monumetal 19th LP SONGS IN THE KEY OF LIFE, a double one plus
one EP, on 28 September 1976, today 50 years ago.
It debuted at number one on the Billboard 200 Chart, becoming only
the third album to achieve that feat, and the first by an American artist.
The album’s themes: religious beliefs, love, romance, nostalgia, parenthood,
inequality, music as a language, and racial discrimination. Wonder played, wrote,
and arranged the majority of the album.
Pitchfork: “Songs in the Key of Life” was the culmination of a historic period of creativity
for Stevie Wonder. Its ambition and scope were unprecedented, and he never approached
its caliber or impact again. The album was the culmination of a historic period of creativity,
a concentrated burst of music matched only by a handful of artists (mid-’60s Bob Dylan, early ’70s Rolling Stones, ’80s Prince).”
TUTV: Michael Jackson called himself the King of Pop.
I call Stevie Wonder the King of Soul.
Singles.
– SIR DUKE –
– I WISH –
– ISN’T SHE LOVELY –
ALBUM
Reveries for the laziest day of the week
27 September 2026
Press photo
Lauded New Orleans born folk songstress MARY GAUTHIER (64 now) has a rich past, writing/recording/releasing her deeply felt songs since 1990. Many artists such as Tim McGraw, Blake Shelton, Kathy Mattea, Vince Gill, Bettye Lavette, Candi Staton, and Amy
Helm have covered songs of her.
She just released her new full-length, named RECKONING, her first in 8 years.
TUTV: Gauthier‘s riveting Americana voice gets all your aural attention throughout this
new, stirring acoustic folk album. Gauthier sings about people’s loneliness caused by addiction to alcohol and drugs. About the struggle for love and justice in a world where religious people often pervert Jesus’ message of love for others. About the Kennedys,
MLK, Obama, and today’s dark political turmoil.
About individuals eager to follow orders, whether it’s crucifying Jesus or shooting
Rene Good in cold blood on a Minneapolis street. About anything/anybody that puzzles Gauthier and impacts her views on humanity. No, these aren’t happy songs whatsoever,
but they stick, like real life sticks. In the end, Gauthier hopes for salvation, something,
I guess we all do.
Fitting candlelight music for soulful and moony Sunday evenings
Today, September 27th, PEARL JAM plays
at Ohana Festival, Dana Point CA.
Nice poster.
And PJ have a new drummer.
Top singles from the past
27 September 2026
Country shero DOLLY PARTON, who passed away a month ago at
the age of 80, scored one of her countless hits with MY COAT OF
MANY COLORS, the title track of her 8th LP.
It was written by Parton, and released on 27 September 1971,
today 55 years ago and peaked at #4 on the US Country Charts.
The song tells of how Dolly‘s mother stitched together a coat for her daughter out of rags given to the family. As she sewed, she told her child the biblical story of Joseph and his coat of many colors. The excited child, “with patches on my britches and holes in both my shoes”, rushed to school, “just to find the others laughing and making fun of me” for wearing a coat made of rags.
