PALINDRONES – London’s Dark-EBM-Wave Hypnotize With Whirlwind Single ‘THE BLOOD MOON’
Daily electricity to load your batteries
16 June 2026
Artists: PALINDRONES
Who: An emotionally immersive, captivating, dark electronic duo from South London.
They take listeners on a shimmering and cathartic sonic journey with dreamy Industrial Synthpop, infused with pounding rhythms, haunting, evocative vocals and esoteric ambiance.
Formed in 2020 by Jamie and Karen, emerged during lockdown. Songwriting was
their way to stay connected whilst living on opposite sides of London. Their name, Palindrones, speaks to the duality at the heart of their artistry—where symmetry, reflection, and contradiction fuel both their music and their creative process.
Track: THE BLOOD MOON
“It’s dark, hypnotic journey through the tides, storms, sin and submission. It’s a tale of
the cycles of destruction, renewal and the ancient currents that flow beneath human experience.
Like the celestial body that gives the song its name, The Blood Moon pulls listeners into
a world where scars become constellations, rivers run red, and every ending delivers the
seed of creation. Immerse yourself in the bloody sea.”
TUTV: The Blood Moon is a dark-EBM-wave whirlwind that creeps under your skin,
into your veins, after a forbidding intro. It’s a sickly sticking tune that spirals and adrenalizes with pithy pzazz.
Macabre alternating/duet vocals emphasize the ill-boding pressure and awaken
bats all around. Palindrones draw you into their sinister and hypnotizing world without asking permission, but they leave the door ajar for a possible rebirth. Trust me, you’ll surrender after one spin.
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GARBAGE Fueled ANTWERP With Genuine Love And Badass Rockers
On stage
16 June 2026
After more than 30 years, GARBAGE still operate with their original line-up.
Vocalist/lyricist Shirley Manson, guitar/bass Duke Erikson, guitarist Steve Marker
and drummer Butch Vig. Quite rare, after such a long time.
And with the four of them, they released their 8th, widely praised album,
titled Let All That We Imagine Be The Light (stream below) last year.
Soon after, they hit the road for a long tour. At one point, Manson announced
that it would be their final one as the overall costs of playing live around the
world were getting too high.
As part of the final live chapter, Garbage landed in Antwerp, Belgium, last Saturday.
Shirley Manson was welcomed like a goddess. And it obviously touched her genuinely. Her utterly cool presence and, most of all, her phenomenal voice affected the whole crowd.
The sound was overpowering from start to finish, the band rocked badass, and as said Manson filled the special open-air setting, in a park in the middle of Antwerp, with her mesmerizing vocal exploit.
After two blazing tracks from last year’s album, three huge hits from the past Empty,
I Think I’m Paranoid and Stupid Girl kicked in and dynamized the elated audience that
sang along word-for-word.
Euphoria everywhere. Several hits would follow, and in between, top drawer tunes
taken from their 30-plus-year career kept the fire burning, while Manson tackled the orange monkey in the White House and expressed her support for the discriminated
LGBTQIA+ community between songs.
Manson felt super, performed super, and reacted totally happy to the audience’s non-stop cheers, although it didn’t rain. This was by far the best galvanic concert I witnessed this year (so far).
At the end, just before the encores, Manson did a wonderful thing. She told the band
to wait to play while she jumped off the stage and let a young fan (with whom she had interacted a few times during the set) take a selfie with her. While some stars moan
about people’s phones at concerts, Shirley did this. Class!
I’m still thriving on the amount of love and electricity
that marked this show. Don’t stop yet, guys!
In the back Nicole Fiorentino, who also played with Smashing Pumpkins
and other bands before, played bass and did some backing vocals
Setlist
1. There’s No Future in Optimism
2. Hold
3. Empty
4. I Think I’m Paranoid
5. Stupid Girl
6. Right Between the Eyes
7. Vow
8. No Horses
9. It’s All Over but the Crying
10. Have We Met (The Void)
11. Control
12. Chinese Fire Horse
13. Boys Wanna Fight
14. Cherry Lips (Go Baby Go!)
15. Push It
16. The Day That I Met God
Encore:
17. Lovesong
(The Cure cover)
18. Special
19. Only Happy When It Rains
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Image Of The Day – TOM MORELLO’s Message To UK’s Far-Right Activist TOMMY ROBINSON
RATM guitarist Tom Morello’s message at Download Festival this weekend. pic.twitter.com/5oMTg9936K
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Former Rage Against The Machine guitar hero
TOM MORELLO played at Download Festival UK.
He played a set of provocative, politically-fuelled songs, including
‘Killing In The Name’, ‘Soldier In The Army Of Love’, as well as Ozzy
Osbourne’s ‘Mr. Crowley’ and John Lennon’s ‘Power To The People’.
He took the occasion to send a clear message to the British far-right
activist Tommy Robinson (born Stephen Christopher Yaxley-Lennon), who
was arrested the day before, with a big sticker on the back of his guitar
that read FUCK TOMMY ROBINSON.
THE SMITHS Released Their Masterly Album ‘THE QUEEN IS DEAD’ Today 40 Years Ago
Significant longplayers from yesteryear
16 June 2026
Manchester’s icons THE SMITHS (1982–1987 / 4 albums) released their masterly
THE QUEEN IS DEAD, their 3rd LP, on 16 June 1986, today 40 years ago today.
The longplayer’s title is taken from American writer Hubert Selby Jr.‘s
1964 novel, The Last Exit To Brooklyn. The LP’s cover features a still of
French actor Alain Delon from the 1964 film L’Insoumies (The Unvanquished).
Delon granted permission for the image’s use, though, according
to Morrissey’s Autobiography, the actor said his parents were
dismayed by the title.
Pitchfork‘s verdict: “A masterpiece marking the Smiths’ imperial phase with Morrissey’s grandly moving lyrics and delivery, alongside Johnny Marr’s sparkling melodies and intricate arrangementsfor. For true believers, the album cemented the Smiths’ status as the greatest group in the world despite their struggle to gain widespread commercial success at the time, and positioned Morrissey as a spurned savior of British music.”
Singles.
– THE BOY WITH THE TORN IN HIS SIDE –
– BIGMOUTH STRIKES AGAIN –
– THERE IS A LIGHT THAT NEVER GOES OUT –
ALBUM
SPARKS – Live Album ‘SPARKS LIVE ON THE MOON’ Will Land On Planet Earth In September
16 June 2026
Last year, the brothers Ron (79) and Russell Mael (76), known to the world as SPARKS,
who started their career 59 years ago, released their 28th LP, titled Mad! (stream below)
and took the road afterward for a tour that’s still going.
Now, the Maels have announced a live album. It’s named SPARKS LIVE ON THE MOON.
It’ll drop on planet Earth on September 14th. Pre-order info here.
The double LP comprises a full live set of 20 songs spanning the band’s 59 year career.
Sparks: “After our 2025 World Tour, we accepted an invitation to do a special one-off concert on the Moon, more precisely at the Taruntius Crater, near Mare Fecunditatis. Honored to be the first band to perform on the moon, let alone at the beautiful Taruntius Crater, we couldn’t have imagined the lunar fan interest, with all tickets being grabbed up within an hour. Sit back, close your eyes and imagine the wondrous setting, and enjoy Sparks’ first full concert album, Live On The Moon.”
Enjoy the first preview with Whippings And Memories.
A track from their 1972 LP A Woofer in Tweeter’s Clothing.
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First TIBETAN FREEDOM CONCERT Was Held In SAN FRANCISCO 30 Years Ago
15 June 2026
30 years ago, on June 15th and 16th, 1996, roughly 100,000 people gathered at
Golden Gate Park in San Francisco for the First Tibetan Freedom Concert
featuring an impressive line-up of big-name acts.
The musical event was organized by the Beastie Boys to raise money and
awareness for the genocide of Tibetan Buddhists following the occupation
and annexation of the region in 1950-1951 by China. It started the Tibetan
Indepedence Movement. But to this day, China still governs Tibet.
PUSSY RIOT – Russian Political Punk Activists With NADYA TOLOKONNINKOVA Unleash Bitchy EBM Juiced Debut LP ‘CYKA’
15 June 2026
Photo by Max Avdeev
You can’t shut up the imperishable Russian collective of political and feminist activists PUSSY RIOT and their global fanbase. This year marks their 15th year of opposition against the Kremlin tyranny.
Last Month, the clamorous PRs showed up at the Venice Biennale, the so-called
“Olympics of the art world”, timed deliberately, to coincide with Russia‘s controversial
return to the event. The stunt made headlines globally.
Mastermind and driving force since day one is NADYA TOLOKONNIK, who spent two years, along with fellow pussy riotiours Yekaterina Samutsevich and Maria Alyokhina, in a
Russian jail for hooliganism motivated by religious hatred after her protest performance
in the Cathedral of Christ the Saviour church in 2012.
Thus far, they have expressed their fierce discontent through several mixtapes,
a series of barbed-wire singles, and countless live protests in their home country,
Ukraine, and the Western world.
And now their pungent debut album CYKA is out.
Tolokonnikova about the LP’s reactionary motivation, the ongoing war with Ukraine:
“Me and my countrymen could have prevented it, we just had to fight harder for our dream
of a peaceful democratic Russia. I live in exile, like a rat. Everything I loved was taken from me; my entire country was stolen. My mother died of cancer in Moscow, and I couldn’t be there to say goodbye.
The father of my daughter nearly died after being poisoned with a nerve agent by the FSB. My friend Alexey Navalny was murdered in jail. And I no longer know whether I’ll ever be able to let people get close to me again – being torn away from everyone I loved cost too much. Vengeance is what forces my eyes open in the morning, and what keeps me going. “OUTRO” is dedicated to my mother and my love to her.‘
TUTV: Don’t expect a clamourous Bikini Kill noise. Only on smoking punk grenades
Faceless Pigs, Disobey, Candy Dopamine and Blizzard) they lash out with rage. Sonically,
CYKA is for the greater part a trip and hop, EBM-orientated record spiked with both, reflective and spiralling synth-orchestrated flare-ups.
Vocally, she alternates bouncy, whispering rap rants with poppy, near-helium-like
echoes. We have a unqiue party album here. One to dance when Putin is going down.
Lyrically Tolokonnikova unravels all her outrage and is on constant attack mode.
She will never quit attacking the Russian dictator (who appears on the title track).
She will never stop exposing his crimes. She’ll never back down. She’s a fearless
warrior. She’s a tenacious bitch. Hail hail.
Singles.
– DISOBEY –
– CANDY DOPAMINE –
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TOOTH – Young London Gunslingers Rock Beyond ‘THE AGE OF INNOCENCE’
Vitalizing tunes that work faster than a stream of caffeine
15 June 2026
Promo shot
Band: TOOTH
Who: Young London gunslingers ready
to conquer the British indie scene.
Tom Pollock (frontman) told DIY Magazine: “Lots of bands from the ‘90s have
had this massive resurgence, kids are craving their own generation’s version of that.
Kids nowadays want to claim something that’s their own and not have to look back
into the past.
Track: THE AGE OF INNOCENCE
Standout blast from their brand new 5-track EP, called Restless In Bloom.
The age of innocence is long gone. Nowadays, cityscapes and picture-painting
inspire Pollock, still writing with a “confusion and restlessness”, only through
the lens of a 21-year-old Londoner.
TUTV: Resolute aplomb, big guitars, thumping sound, itching vocals,
anthemic tunes. Afire adolescent Britrock for adolescent music junkies.
Standout blast from their brand new 5-track EP, called Restless In Bloom.
FULL EP
DURAN DURAN – British Glam Rockers Released Their Eponymous Debut LP Today 45 Years Ago
15 June 2026
British glam rockers DURAN DURAN, initially branded as being part
of the New Romantic Movement in the UK, released their eponymous
debut LP on 15 June 1981, today 45 years ago.
Influenced by artists such as David Bowie, the Human League, Japan, and Chic,
the group features a mixture of new wave, synth-pop, and dance-punk tunes
with more atmospheric tracks, as well as elements of disco and punk rock.
Simon Le Bon‘s cryptic lyrics cover topics from youthful
torment and confusion to the band’s goals and ambitions.
It peaked at #3 in the UK, #2 in New Zealand,
#9 in Australia, and #24 in the US.
Album artwork
NME wrote: “A sensibly-packaged, respectively safe and self-consciously
worthy record that belies the promised glamour of their two earlier singles.”
Courtney Taylor-Taylor of The Dandy Warhols years later: “If you go back
to the first record, they smoked everybody. It’s incredible! Disco bass-lines, Japan
textures and mixed by the guy who did the Iggy Pop records”
Singles.
– GIRLS ON FILM –
– PLANET EARTH –
ALBUM
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Still alive and trippin’.
