TWISTED TEENS – New Orleans’ Adult Punks Ignite Garage Rock Cannonade With New Single ‘STALKS’

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Vitalizing tunes that work faster than a stream of caffeine

12 October 2026

Band: TWISTED TEENS
Who: Two adult punks based in the Holy Cross
neighborhood of New Orleans, Louisiana.

Track: STALKS
Newest piece from their upcoming album No. 4. It’s baptized
The Holy Cross Tigers, and it will drop on November 6th.
Tracklist and order info here.


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Subpop Records say about the album: “Holy Cross Tigers is the fourth Twisted Teens
album but the first that feels immediately and entirely relatable. It is a blown-out transmission from the lip of heartbreak, a place where even the lucky have been and from which they have hopefully returned. That is, it sounds an awful lot like the truth.”

TUTV: Stalks is what edgy DIY garage punk is about. Cracked guitars, cracked drums
and cracked vocals interblend to fabricate some kickass hurly-burly that cannonades
with keen-edged sassiness. Let’s stalk them.

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BODEGA – NYC Rockers Keep It Simple On Their New Let’s Have Fun Album ‘ALL IN THE AQUARIUM’

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12 October 2026


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Band: BODEGA
Who: Zesty rock team
from NYC.

Album: ALL INSIDE AQUARIUM
Their 4th.

Press info: “‘All Inside Aquarium’ sees the band expanding far beyond their minimalist post-punk origins towards soaring anthemic rock, sans the ‘indie’. Sonically, the band aimed for “this late ’80’s/early 90’s Stone Roses-meets-Janes Addiction thing, with more riffing and guitar solos.”

Where the band’s earlier material took a more explicitly sociopolitical bent, Hozie and Belfilgio’s writing on All Inside Aquarium is deliberately more concerned with the personal, poetics, and play.


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TUTV: Bodega never made world-shattering records, and All Inside Aquarium isn’t world-shattering. Bodega always made uncomplicated and galvanizing records, and this one is their most uncomplicated and galvanizing one. A let’s have fun album. And fun we have, folks.

They jump from funky crackerjack rockers (the title track / Weather Me / Pick Up The Check / Slow Train) to easygoing, poppy guitar tunes (Literary World / Oxygen / Olivia) without trying to overdo it in any way whatsoever. Straightforward and simple. Paul Weller would say “that’s entertainment“.

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U2 Released Their 2nd Album ‘OCTOBER’ Today 45 Years Ago

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Significant longplayers from yesteryear

12 October 2026

Irish rock jumbos released their 2nd album, named
OCTOBER on 12 October 1981, today 45 years ago.

The album was lyrically inspired by the memberships of Bono, the Edge, and Larry Mullen Jr. in a Christian group called the Shalom Fellowship, and consequently it contains spiritual and religious themes. Their involvement led them to question the relationship between the Christian faith and the rock and roll lifestyle, and threatened to break up the band.

Bono: “I remember the pressure it was made under, I remember writing lyrics on
the microphone, and at £50 an hour, that’s quite a pressure. The ironic thing about
October is that there’s a sort of peace about the album, even though it was recorded
under that pressure.

I think October goes into areas that most rock ‘n’ roll bands ignore.
When I listen to the album, something like ‘Tomorrow,’ it actually
moves me.”

TUTV: I’m a sizeable U2 fan but
this album is somehow a bit too
bombastic for my liking.

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– GLORIA –

– FIRE –


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Cover Of Brand New Debut Album By Irish Post Punks BASHT.

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12 October 2026


Photo by Turn Up The Volume – Rock Werchter, Belgium – 6 July 2026

Band: BASHT.
Who: Serrated post-punks
from Ireland.

Album: POOR ADVICE
Their brand new debut.

About the artwork: “We thought it was perfect to have the child – Harley – be shooting at something. It’s like he’s the kid shooting at the establishment, shooting at the stained-glass that you might find in a church. He’s taking shots at what he perceives to be the authority in his life, and he’s questioning what he’s been told from an early age.”


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Mojo Magazine says: “The LP’s 10 squally, dynamics-rich songs skewer
ld Ireland Catholicism, the nanny state, and their hair trigger fragility of
peaceful existence.”

TUTV: Fresh Dublin‘s deep-seated, unambiguously
opinionated and socioemotional kneecap post-punks
make their mark.


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MOJO Magazine – New Issue With Cover Star BOB DYLAN

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12 October 2026

As BOB DYLAN nears UK shores once more and a box set of his extraordinary
1976 shows emerges, MOJO digs in, and reflects on Dylan’s other ground-breaking
tours, including 2026’s, with its mysterious rotating cast of guitarists.

Also in this issue: Amy Winehouse’s Back To Black; inside Roxy Music’s For Your Pleasure; Chuck Berry’s rock’n’roll legacy; Queens Of The Stone Age return from the brink; Fela Kuti against the world, Bernie Taupin; Fontaines DC; Jimmy Webb; Alice Cooper; Simple Minds; Brian Epstein; Tony Iommi and more.

This month’s Free CD is titled Mystical Children: The Men And Women Of
Rolling Thunder. Being 15 tracks by Dylan’s all-star cohorts on his landmark
tours, ’75-’76. Includes: Joan Baez, Scarlet Rivera, Kinky Friedman, T Bone Burnett,
David Mansfield, and an exclusive track from Dylan’s upcoming 1976 live box set.

Great songsmith. Great song. Great video.

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LOST IN SEPTEMBER – Harmonious Belgian Daydreamers Enthrall With New Melancholic Ballad ‘ENDLESS FLIGHT’

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Reveries for the laziest day of the week

11 October 2026


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Artists: LOST IN SEPTEMBER
Who: Musical project of Belgian singer-songwriters
Alain Quateau en Renilde Gees who started making
music together, more than thirthy years after they
first met.

Track: ENDLESS FLIGHT
Their newest piece.

“It’s a very personal song about a dark fear that you cannot easily put into words. When
you love someone very much, with everything you have, the thought of letting go is one of the hardest things. And at the same time, there is something wondrously beautiful in that: perhaps letting go is sometimes the most beautiful thing you can do. Endless Flight is about feelings you would rather not express out loud, but which are there nonetheless.”

TUTV: Starry-eyed Simon and Garfunkel mellifluousness lightens this stripped-to-the-bone, piano-guided ballad up. Soul-stirring vocals and affecting chorus harmonies turn Endless Flight into a euphonic lullaby for dreamy fall moments, when you look out the window, watching leaves swirl while figuring out what is going on in your mind.

Poetry in melancholic motion.


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LEONARD COHEN Wrote 10 New Songs 25 Years Ago

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11 October 2026

The late great songsmith LEONARD COHEN (1934-2016)
released his 10th album TEN NEW SONGS 25 years ago,
on 9 October 2001.

It was co-written with and produced by
American songstress Sharon Robinson.

The record went to No. 4 in Canada, No. 1 in Poland
and Norway, No. 3 in France and only No. 143 in the US.

Rolling Stone said: “Ten New Songs manages to sustain loss’s fragile beauty
like never before and might just be the Cohen’s most exquisite ode yet to the
midnight hour.”

TUTV: Cohen showed once again that he’s the candlelight music master


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LUNA ROSA – British Indies Cause Goosebumps With Orchestral Masterstroke ‘A ROOM BETWEEN THE OCEANS’

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Daily electricity to charge your batteries

10 October 2026

Band: LUNA ROSA
Who: Indie outfit from Northants,
East Midlands of England.

Track: A ROOM BETWEEN THE OCEANS

Born from one line in a short story, ‘A room in the ocean’ it stayed with frontman
Rory McDade for a year before becoming ‘A Room Between The Oceans’, emerging
as an image of two people sealed inside a room being battered by waves from
either side, while everything within remains completely still.

It is a place of safety and danger, euphoria and pain, love and trauma.
A place that can feel like everything, precisely because there is nowhere
else to go.

The song’s institutional shadows were partly informed by a book, titled One Flew Over The Cuckoo’s Nest by American novelist Ken Kesey (1935-2001), while its cosmic imagery reflects the band’s vocalist/lyricist Rory McDade’s fascination with the idea of joy and trauma existing within the same space.

TUTV: Mind-bending mixed emotions collide on this monumental goosebumps
roller coaster. A Room Between The Oceans is an astonishing masterstroke amplified
with overwhelming orchestrations, crescendo rock grooves, Interpol-like guitar bliss
and a captivatingly melodramatic chorus with perfervid vocals bringing The Afghan
Whigs’ frontman Greg Dulli‘s feverish voice to mind.

In a normal world this staggering tour de force
would be a widespread triumph. Spread the word.

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