For nearly 4 decades, 56-year-old PJ HARVEY was/is one of the most intruiging
artists in pop/rock. Her 10 longplayers (so far) are unquestionable proof of that.
It’s a slow-progressing, illusive, and starry-eyed song
namedVOYAGER and will be available on 7″ vinyl.
Pre-order info here.
Single artwork
PJ: “The song had already started life as part of my work towards my new album, so when @profbriancox invited me to write a piece for his new show, I sent him the voice memo of this song to see if it resonated. It immediately made him think of the Voyager craft and the sound
of its signal being sent back to Earth.
I have long been fascinated by the spacecraft and its journey, and asked myself what it might say to us if it could? This was an inspiring route to take to develop the song.”
Every day of this summer we go back to the same summer date somewhere in history
24 June 2026
On 24 June 1999, guitar hero ERIC CLAPTON put no less than 100 of his guitars
up for auction at Christie’s in New York City to raise money for his drug rehab clinic,
the Crossroads Centre in Antigua in the Lesser Antilles.
His 1956 Fender Stratocaster named Brownie, which was used to record the electric
version of Layla, sold for a record $497,500. The auction helped raise nearly $5 million
for the clinic.
Band: YARD ACT Who: British post-punk outfit from Leeds, fronted by poetic wordsmith James Smith, who catapulted themselves to the top of indie world with
their first 2 longplayers.
TUTV: Their chilling post-punk debut LP The Dark Room, from 2005, is still the one for me. Afterward Editors went down risk-free pop lane. Mind you, they got my attention now and then again, like here with this new urgent tune.
TUTV: OMG! Bad Nerves have you in a headlock from the first crushing chord.
No way to escape. You’re in the middle of a punk tornado, and in the end, you’ll
be completely exhausted. OMG!
Ben Hozie (singer/guitarist), who says to be inspired by Jane’s Addiction and The Stone
Roses about the album: “Let’s go back to melodic tunes, let’s be more of a proper rock band. We were aiming at something larger, warmer, watery, and metaphysical, inspired by the optimistic alt rock of our half-remembered youth.”
TUTV: Bodega never reached the topmost level I expected them to reach after their thumping first LP. And as they are now moving towards the middle-of-the-indie-road
rock I wonder if it will ever happen. All Inside The Aquarium has a rumbustious na-na-na
buzz but isn’t the memorable cut I hoped for.
“I used a couple of the same synths that I’ve still got since the early 90’s.
The beat was made on the sampler I used on my album Truth Is Born of
Arguments from 1995. It was my first time working directly with a rapper,
I’m very happy it was Griff!”
TUTV: Yeah. What’s up, bro? Slow-mo pelvis-swaying time it is. Yeah.
A new tribute album for American rock heavyweights THE SMASHING PUMPKINS (formed in 1998 / 13 LPs) arrives, digitally on August 14th, vinyl in October. Pre-order info here.
Named Sending Hearts To All My Dearies: A Tribute To The Smashing Pumpkins
the album contains 15 cross-genre covers of songs spanning Pumpkins’ discography. Contributors include Tame Impala, Alice Glass, Nita Strauss, Yonaka, Des Rocs, Meg Myers, Between The Buriedand Me, and Palaye Royale, among others.
Tame Impala‘s version of Hummer, a track from the Pumpkins‘
1993 LP Siamese Dream is downright luring, even more psychedelic
colored than the original.
TAME IMPALA
THE SMASHING PUMPKINS
Tracklist
01. Tame Impala – Hummer 02. Yonaka – Today 03. The Midnight – Tonight, Tonight 04. Carpenter Brut – Cherub Rock 05. Barns Courtney – 1979 06. Meg Myers – Eye 07. Palaye Royale – Bullet With Butterfly Wings 08. Between The Buried and Me – Jellybelly 09. Alice Glass – Drown 10. Starbenders – Tonight, Tonight 11. Nita Strauss – 1979 12. Bones UK – Cherub Rock 13. Moon Taxi – Thirty Three 14. Des Rocs – Bullet With Butterfly Wings 15. Urban Heat – Ava Adore
High-decibel hardcore rockers TURNSTILE from Baltimore, Maryland released
their blockbuster full-length, their 4th album overall, Never Enough, one year
ago and then cruised all around the planet to heat up their fans.
And… they still don’t have enough. They
just announced new shows. See below.
For tickets and more details, scroll down to
the bottom of their website’s homepage HERE.
Artist: THE ALCHEMIST Who: Renowned American rapper/DJ Alan Daniel Maman, regarded as one of the most influential producers in modern hip-hop and underground rap. His frequent collaborators include Mobb Deep, Larry June, Action Bronson, Freddie Gibbs, Roc Marciano, ScHoolboy Q, Griselda, Boldy James, Earl Sweatshirt, and Curren$y.
TUTV: Manchester, the world capital of great rock & pop legends like Oasis, The Smiths,
The Stone Roses, The Happy Mondays, Joy Division/New Order, and other luminaries, all massively celebrated for their unforgettable music, their badass swagger, and cool charisma, frequently generates new, promising bands, even faster than the country is going throughPrime Ministers.
Enter Bank Holiday, afire gunslingers with huge ambitions. Swagger, check.
Attitude, check. Tune check. Their debut single OUT OF THE BLUE is heading
like a comet towards 1 million streams on Spotify.
Why? It’s a guitar-blistering rock anthem, sparked with gung-ho vocals that make their already sizeable fanbase go mad for it. Sure, lots of work to do for the young Mancs to earn a place in the iconic city gallery, but they feel supersonic, and something is already happening. Don’t miss them.
NME says: “A career high. While other artists, they came up with, have
called it quits, the British indie band have kept moving forward. Their fifth
album rewards that resilience with some of their most beautiful work yet.”
TUTV: Bittersweet pop melancholia sugar-coats this new opus. It has a similar intimate
and treasuring life-and-love idealisation of Coldplay‘s 1998 debut Parachutes. Three-hanky sweet (a bit too much at times), but genuine and honest-to-goodness. Heart-and-soul stirring stories, familiar to some of us. Swim Deep
