THE ROLLING COCKROACHES
Tomorrow – SATURDAY APRIL 11TH – is the day.
Read all about it on NME.
The @RollingStones return: update on The Cockroaches, new music, and the chances of a 2026 tour https://t.co/C2a08CRlnj
— NME (@NME) April 10, 2026
JOE JACKSON – British Veteran Songsmith Has His 22th Album ‘HOPE AND FURY’ Out
10 April 2026
Artist: The lauded British,
singer-songwriter veteran.
New Album: HOPE AND FURY
His 22nd one.
Press info: “Often labelled a musical chameleon, Jackson insists that most of his work belongs to his own “mainstream” – sophisticated pop songs with ever-shifting rhythms
and textures. After his playful detour with What A Racket! (a 2023 side project exploring early 20th-century British entertainment and music), he now returns to that core territory.
The result, according to Jackson, falls somewhere between Fool (2019), Laughter and
Lust (1991), and Night and Day (1982). Nine new songs in total – ranging from biting,
witty pop to moving ballads.”
TUTV: At the age of 71 and after an impressive 56-year career, Jackson has earned
lots of stars and stripes. This new LP will be another one to remember. The versatile
songsmith obviously wanted to have and make fun.
He returns to his swinging Latin-pop side with both jaunty and vigorous ballroom tunes: Welcome to Burning-By-Sea, I’m Not Sorry, Made God Laugh, Do Do Do, and Fabulous People (actually the first 5 tracks).
But with the closing quartet of songs After All This Time, The Face, End Of The Pier, and
See You In September he leaves the cocktail party behind him and offers some good
old Jackson musings. It makes Hope and Fury an album with, sonically, 2 different
moods. I like the ebullient one the most, it smells like spring spirit.
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SILK – Irish Shoegazers Engulf Your Ears With Six String Electricity On New Single ‘AURALUX’
Daily electricity to load your batteries
10 April 2026
Band: SILK
Who: The musical project of Irish guitarist/songwriter
Michael Smyth of former shoegazers Virgins.
Track: AURALUX
The title track from the upcoming mini-album debut,
out on May 7th. Tracklist and pre-order info here.
Lyrically, the song cuts across themes of loss and
acceptance, catharsis via volume and reverb.
Album artwork
TUTV: Shoegaze at its transcendental best. After a fuzzy intro, your ears get engulfed by a wide-ranging flood of galvanic guitars, dragging you into a whirlpool of six-string electricity with a melodramatic and bombastic resonance, while Smyth‘s velvety vocals hover all over the voltaic storm. One of his best compositions to date.
‘Keep me out of heaven
Its just another place’.
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Amazing Album Artwork – Cover Of New One By, Eh… British Xenofeminist Crisis Energy Duo GUTTERSNIPE
10 April 2026
Promo shot
Band: GUTTERSNIPE
Who: Two normal-looking people, making
not-so-normal, chaotic and cacophonous
racket.
Album: EXTINTION BURST!
Their 2nd.
Press info – take a deep breath and start reading: “Extinction Burst! is the new invocation in album-form by Guttersnipe, Leeds’ premier and pre-eminent Xenofeminist crisis-energy rock duo.* Slamming at full speed to multi-dimensional oblivion, Extinction Burst! is the most full, hi-definition lurid dream-mare yet spewed out by Uroceras Gigas & Tipula Confusa.”
I’m quite sure you’ll agree that the album’s artwork is pretty cool and eye-catching.
But I’m not sure you’ll dig the duo’s vociferous and caterwauling punk mayhew,
although is worth a try.
Let’s have a go with the album’s new single, right here below.
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This is how this Xenofeminist Crisis-Energy duo sounds live.
THE CLASH Released Their Hip-Rock-Hop Single ‘THE MAGNIFICENT SEVEN’ Today 45 Years Ago
Top singles from the past
10 April 2026
Iconic rock punks THE CLASH released their single
THE MAGNIFICENT SEVEN on 10 April 1981, today
45 years ago.
It featured on their triple album Sandinista!
The song was inspired by old school hip hop acts from New York City, like
the Sugarhill Gang and Grandmaster Flash & the Furious Five. Rap was still a
new and emerging music genre at the time, and the band, especially Mick
Jones, was very impressed with it, so much so that Jones took to carrying a
boombox around and got the nickname “Whack Attack“.
It peaked at #34 in the UK Charts.
“You lot! What?
Don’t stop, give it all you got
You lot! What?
Don’t stop, yeah!
ROBERT PLANT & SAVING GRACE Play LED ZEP Classic On The Late Show
10 April 2026
ROBERT PLANT and his touring band for 6 years now
released an album last September, titled Saving Grace,
the band’s name. For Plant it’s his 12th LP as a solo artist.
They’re about to embark on a North American tour.
To warm-up they went on The Late Show
a couple of days ago.
One of the 3 songs they performed was Led Zeppelin‘s
1969 classic Ramble On from their 2nd longplayer.
A remarkable rendition it was. Zealous and ardent.
And Plant‘s bluesy voice hasn’t aged whatsoever.
LED ZEP
BONNIE “PRINCE” BILLY About When Songs Change
9 April 2026
I love the smell of BPB songs in the morning.
Last month BPB released his new album We Are Together Again.
CARROSER – Belgian Hysterical Big Teeth Maniacs Cause A Götterdämmerung Explosion With ‘GOOD TIMES’
Vitalizing tunes that work faster than a stream of caffeine
9 April 2026
Band: CAROSSER
Who: Big-teethed sonic maniacs from Antwerp, Belgium. An unlikely bunch of likeable outcasts, who got together in 2024 as a result of their members’ desire to write hard-hitting and emotionally charged music. The result is a mix of posthardcore and dreamo with lyrics that constantly float between hope and cynicism.
Track: GOOD TIMES
Piece from their upcoming EP, titled
Easy Access, No Service. It’ll land
on your stereo on April 10th.
“It’s a song about sticking your head in the sand because you believe that there is
nothing you can do about the horrible sh*t that goes on around you. So you give in
to fear and self pity. Whether that is the right thing to do is up to you, dear listener.”
TUTV: Wanna scare the hell out of your nasty demons? In that case, schizophrenic eccentrics Carosser offer you a sonic Molotov cocktail to do the job. Imagine cacophonous Texan mavericks At The Drive-in and New York‘s demonic speedball rockers A Place To Bury Strangers turning their amps up to the max, Together At The Same Time!! Sounds like a Götterdämmerung hardcore explosion, right? You betcha.
Psychotic guitar riffs and a trashing bass/drums artillery produce a dystopian pandemonium you can split atoms with. On top of it comes the out-of-his-fucking
mind vocalist who desperately wants to yell himself out of his straitjacket.
Around the 2-minute mark, you can catch your breath again
and prepare your eardrums for a bone-chilling finale.
Talking about having a good time. Hallelujah.
Wake-up noizzz junks.
Here’s your breakfast.
A PLACE TO BURY STRANGERS – New York’s Nightmare Rockers Release ‘2015-2025’ Compilation ‘RARE AND DEADLY’
Photo credit: Heather Bickford
New York‘s nightmarish noiseniks A PLACE TO BURY STRANGERS, founded and
fronted by singer/songwriter/bassist Oliver Ackermann, have a new album out,
titled Rare And Deadly.
Press Info: “The record cracks open a decade-long vault of raw nerve and sonic chaos. Spanning 2015–2025, the collection gathers demos, B-sides, abandoned experiments, and forgotten fragments pulled from Ackermann’s personal archive of late-night recordings, blown-out tapes, and half-finished sessions.
These tracks capture the band at their most unfiltered, caught between
breakthrough ideas and beautiful mistakes, with the edges left jagged
on purpose.”
TUTV: Generally, albums featuring previously unreleased tracks, demos, rarities, etc.,
are an excuse for being too lazy to make new music and/or to make some easy money. This is an exception. This compilation counts enough badass barnstormers to get APTBS fans in an intoxicating rush of bafflement. Kudos to mastermind Ackerman for assembling a worthy collection of tracks that could have ended up on any of their 3 last albums.
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Adrenaline Shots – GOSSIP Stood In The Way Of Control At Glastonbury 2024
9 April 2026
Arkansas trio GOSSIP fronted by the showy and razzle-dazzle Beth Ditto
performed their 2005 hit Standing In The Way Of Control at Glastonbury
Fest 2024 with a choir of thousands.
Lose control, folks,
here and now.