Band: WHOLES Who: Raucous noise outfit led by Belgian, musical chameleon Wolf Vanwymeersch,
who played with several bands (pop, rock, sludge metal) and released a pure singer-songwriter pearl with solo debut album The Early Years back in 2022.
Wholes are “what remains after a soul has been detonated, what
struck those around it, what could no longer be contained”.
Last year, the band scored big time with their heart-wrenching debut album, named A Mass In The Water. One of the best 10 LPs of 2025 according to TUTV‘s ears: “It’s a
both scary and flabbergasting opus about Wolf’s father’s suicide. It takes a lot of courage to make and share this soul-crushing experience with the world.”
TUTV: Frontman Wolf told us that this new tune is not as dark as the previous ones,
even a teeny bit romantic with a line that goes like this “If our eyes lock for a second,
we’ll share an eternity”.
Besides that lovey-dovey line, The Moment sounds actually more like a brain-breaking nightmare, motorized by about 100 guitars and Wolf‘s ghostly vocals. It progresses
like a slow-burning torch that will, eventually, extinguish in the end. Spooky and
chilling if you ask me. Not really a whole lotta love here.
Portland-based rockers formed in 1993 in Issaquah, Washington, and have been
quite busy lately. It started with the celebration of the 20th anniversary of their
4th LP Good News For People Who Love Bad News, and a tour that is still
running until June.
And yesterday, songwriter Isaac Brock and his M&Ms announced the upcoming birth of their 8th LP. It’s baptized AN ERASER AND A MAZE and is slated for release on June 5th. More infohere.
New album artwork
Press info: “A physics theory says past, present, and future coexist, and that’s the best
lens for An Eraser and a Maze, which feels like every era of Modest Mouse happening at
once. Guided by Isaac Brock’s instinct-first process, the album is both familiar and alien,
warm and cold.
It stretches across the band’s sonic history, from propulsive classics to stripped,
raw moments, while carrying an undercurrent of mortality and loss that refuses
easy optimism.”
Last month, they already shared the LP’s first piece, ‘Look How Far…’, but without
further data. Now, along with the 2nd single ‘Picking Dragon’s Pockets’ came the aforementioned communication.
Former self-declared loser BECK (now 55) has released a brand new single,
called RIDE LONESOME. His first new music since 2023. It’s a smooth reverie,
produced by Nigel Godrich, who also produced three of Beck’s albums during
the late ’90s and 2000s. No indication whatsoever of a new longplayer.
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Beck also announced North American tour dates for the fall.
Last December, members of the European Broadcasting Union (EBU)
decided that Israel would be allowed to participate in the annual singing
contest despite the ongoing conflict in Gaza (and now in Lebanon/Iran too).
EUROVISION will be organsized in Vienna on May 16.
Now, the No Music For Genocide organisiation, which encourages artists
and rights-holders to pull their music from streaming platforms in Israel, is
calling for artists, broadcasters and fans to boycott the competition.
An open letter shared today has been signed by artists including Brian Eno, Kneecap,
Massive Attack, Paloma Faith, Paul Weller, Kneecap, Hot Chip, Of Monsters and Men, IDLES, Primal Scream, Sigur Rós, Young Fathers, Mogwai, Black Country New Road, Erika de Casier, Nadine Shah, Dry Cleaning, Ólafur Arnalds, David Holmes, Nemahsis, Macklemore, Roger Waters, Peter Gabriel, Vacations, Smerz, a number of former Eurovision finalists and
more.
Carried by introspective lyrics, the song navigates the disorientation
of trying to hold something together that’s already slipping away.
TUTV: This bass tanked-up groove gets under your skin without asking. There’s a kind
of imminent tension up in the air thoughout this hypnotic ride and when anxious guitars take over somewhere in the middle, it’s amps and heat up. This mind-boggling slice of psychedelic fever will bend your head for some time.
Artist: GRAHAM COXON Who: Blur‘s guitarist/co-songwriter who also has 8 solo LPs, and
two with his wife under the moniker The Waeve, on his résumé.
Track: BILLY SAYS
A piece of a never released album, calledCastle Park from 2011,
that will finally gets its release, this summer, on June 19th.
TUTV: Coxon was/is a rocker at heart who loves to get his guitar sparkle riffs to catchy tunes. Keep it simplea and catchy is the message. And it works (as it did always before).
TUTV: Sounds like if Green Day are playing Dead Kennedys killers. Full steam ahead.
Fast and furious. I’m pretty sure these there fired-up teens stole half of their parents record collection and got inspired to; dive head first, into the chaotic times we live in
and go after the empty-headed idiots who rule the planet. That’s punk for you, folks.
“I hate to admit it but this song was a turning point for me. My last band faded away, I’d lost touch with my friends, we were in this new dark era of American Society, and I just felt like if I didn’t squeeze with all my might I’d float off into the abyss. I wasn’t looking to start a band, but ‘Kingdom Comes’ became a guiding light for the kind of music I wanted to make.”
TUTV: From a heart-rending Matt Berninger-like start to electrifyng blues-weeping guitars. From intimate reflection to soul-stirring excorcism. Visceral passion in magnetic (e)motion.
Vitalizing tunes that work faster than a stream of caffeine
21 April 2026
Oklahoma‘s rock champs, THE ALL-AMERICAN REJECTS, haven’t been
quite as active during their 27-year journey. So far, only 4 full-lengths.
But wait, as they announced recently, they worked their butt off for
a new one, named SANDBOX. It’ll see the day of light on May 15th.
Ahead of it they present a taster called KING KONG.
Tyson Ritter (frontman) who left Los Angeles: “I’m from a small town in Oklahoma, and I moved back home. When I got to LA, I fell into an interesting crowd. It was the quintessential, ‘I’m in LA in my 20s and early 30s’ life. It’s a town where everyone is chasing the same industry. There’s no real life about it for me that I experienced until I left.”
Sounds like if King Kong is a pretty
good boy who just wanna rock out.
It featured on their 4th LP, Hard Promises.
The song reached #19 in the US.
Petty said at the time that the song’s title was inspired by a quote fromJanis Joplin,
who once said of touring, “I love being onstage and everything else is just waiting.”
