3 October 2026
📸 Ewen Spencer
Irish indie stars FONTAINES D.C. are enjoying
a supersonic career, getting more famous along
the way.
On October 16th, they’ll launch their 5th album,
baptized Dopamine Chamber. More info here
So far they gave us 2 sneak peeks.
– MARIANNE –
– TONGUE –
Next year, the Irishmen will fly around the world to promote the album.
North America
Euro/UK
Japan – New Zealand – Australia
3 October 2026
“I loved her because she was a woman songwriter, and she was really standing of the fray, a real serious writer who you could compare with any of the guys. ‘Running Up That Hill’ was one of those songs that, when I first heard it, I went ‘Oh I wanna record that song someday. But you finally smarten up and go ‘I can’t do that song better than her so I’m not gonna do it.”
Kate does it best.
For your eyes
Artist: BLONDSHELL
Who: Los Angeles-based power pop songstress,
born Sabrina Mae Teitelbaum 29 years ago.
Album: VIOLINS
Her brand-new 3rd one.
NME says: “Beautifully tender and profoundly
honest album of alt-rock poetry.”
Album covers do not need to be serious all the time.
I think this one is just funny. It makes me smile. Yep,
it’s that simple.
VIOLINS
Significant longplayers from the past
3 October 2026
Eminent singer-songwriter BECK (né Bek David Campbell 56 years ago in Los Angeles) released his 10th album THE INFORMATION today 20 years ago, on 3 October 2006.
It was produced and mixed by Nigel Godrich, with whom Beck recorded
Mutations (1998), Sea Change (2002) and his new one Ride Lonesome.
Beck: “It started out painless, and ended up being painful. It’s as if we made the album once, and we made it again, and we made it a third time. We started the record in 2003, and we got together annually, Nigel Godrich and I. We combed over everything, and got rid of the things we were tired of, the things that seemed trite.”
About the LP’s title: “The Information is the thing that occupies our minds, so we won’t have
to deal with silence which may make us think. The album was going to be called International Dreambag, but I thought it was too hippy, so at the last minute I named it after this. I generally have a rule against title tracks – I wanted to call it Colourforms, but it was trademarked.”
Rolling Stone said: “The Information is dense in its rhyme games, rhythmic details and overdub antics. But it is a compelling overload, combining the sample-delic bloom of Beck’s best-loved album, Odelay, and the folk-pop introspection of his least-understood, 2002’s
Sea Change.”
Turn Up The Volume: Most of the critics praised and lauded the LP,
but to my ears – except for some strong moments like Elevator Music /
Nausea / Dark Star / The Information – it’s a bit too much the Beck
we know for so long.
Singles.
– NAUSEA –
– CELLPHONE’S DEAD –
– THINK I’M IN LOVE –
ALBUM
Daily electricity to charge your batteries
2 October 2026
Artist: DEXELLE
Who: Seasoned singer-songwriter-guitarist
Nicolas D’Exelle from Antwerp, Belgium.
TUTV: Death Of A Rose is a shiny electro-pop pearl enriched with glammy orchestrations (think Scritti Politti), spot-on arrangements, Dexelle‘s stylish and impassioned vocals, and busy bass riffage.
It all results in a tremendously catchy tune for which repeat buttons were invented. Although the song’s story runs on mixed emotions, it’s the kind of sonic gem that puts
a big smile on your face and makes your day before it even begins.
Dexelle operates on this newbie in a space where you can show your funky dance moves
to synth-pop bliss by experts such as Tame Impala, MGMT, Two Door Cinema Club. Great company, right? You betcha.
Press play and shake your booty, people.
1 October 2026
Band: LIME GARDEN
Who: 4 power-pop punkettes from
Brighton (UK) on their way to stardom.
Track: MOVING TARGET
New single that follows the release of their
2nd ace LP Maybe Tonight last April.
TUTV: Lime Garden have a frivolous guitar-pop dance
flair to them that triggers fleet-footed body movement
and a brisk ambiance.
Promo photo by Travis Shinn
Band: A PERFECT CIRCLE
Who: L.A.-based bombastic rock duo, featuring guitarist
Billy Howerdel and Tool vocalist Maynard James Keenan,
also active with Puscifer.
Track: TO WHO IT MAY CONCERN
It’s been 8 years since APC released their latest album Eat The Elephant.
Then last May they unleashed new single Starless and were pretty active
at summer festivals.
TUTV: Their 2nd single in 5 months.
A moody, melodic and majestic piece
of music.
Band: FONTAINES D.C.
Who: The high-spirited Irishmen who
are enjoying a supersonic career.
Track: TONGUE
After Marianne, the 2nd appetizer from their upcoming album
number 5. Dopamine Chamber will arrive on October 16th.
TUTV: Fontaines D.C can sound themselves differently. As they prove
here once again with this bass-charged midtempo jam, sounding as
if singer Grain Chatten‘s vocals were recorded in a garage.
Photo Turn Up The Volume – Belgium 2025
Band: DIIV
Who: Noisy shoegazers
from Brooklyn, NY.
Track: TRILLIONS
Third preview, following The Fountain and Kid, from their new
5th full-length, entitled ZIRP! Out October 30th. Tracklist and
more info here.
TUTV: Quite poppy for DIVV. At the core of this newbie sits
an upbeat melody you can hum/whistle along. Nice tune.
UNPEOPLE are a London-based 4-piece outfit who run
a lot of amok with their pop-punk metal since 2023.
I never heard them before, then I saw their comic faces on the cover
of the new KerrangI edition, and they just make me laugh and remember
that rock needs comical people like them too. Hence image of the day.
And funny videos too.
Interview with Kerrang right here.
2 October 2026
The former The Police voice/bassist/songwriter STING was
born Gordon Matthew Thomas Sumner on 2 October 1951.
Happy 75!
With The Police (1977–1984 and a reunion in 2007-2008) he recorded/released
5 LPs, and solo he added 15 albums. He has sold a combined total of more than
100 million records.
He also played in several movies and lots of TV Shows.
THE POLICE
SOLO
