Month: May 2025

SPORTS TEAM Offer Saxophone-Infused Power Pop On New Album ‘BOYS THESE DAYS’

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25 May 2025

Band: SPORTS TEAM
Who: Lauded indie pop-rockers
from London

Album: BOYS THESE DAYS
Released: 23rd May.
Their 3rd one.

Press info: With musical pedals to the metal and saxophones at full throttle,
the Mercury-nominated six-piece bring us their third studio album. Think Prefab
Sprout meets Roxy Music the band ally a seer-like lyrical insight with their most
dynamic musical performances to date, Sports Team are piercing the content
abyss.

This witty and insightful examination of modern life is both a critique and a celebration
of its times. ‘Boys These Days’ takes aim at everything from advertising hype to relationship dysfunction, stationed at the point where the digital tide crashes onto IRL shores, but their perspective is fuelled by immersion in that landscape as Sports Team are scrolling along with the rest of us.”


Press photo by Bartek Szmigulski

NME says: “Sonically, it’s a step up from the guitar-driven mayhem that characterised their roots, without just slapping some synths on top like many of their indie counterparts. In reality, they’ve never sounded closer to that wacky, eccentric live band down your local on a Friday night – and maybe that’s where their truest form lies.”

TUTV: ST come up with 10 orchestral, horns-infused power pop chants. Funky, punky
and hunky-dory. Effervescent and zealous Imagine Franz Ferdinand having a date with Scottish pop legends Orange Juice. Always entertaining but a bit too much of the same.

Top tracks: Boys These Days, Planned Obsolescence, Bang Bang Bang, and Head To Space.

Singles: I’m In Love (Subaru) / Bang Bang Bang

– I’M IN LOVE (SUBARU) –

– BANG BANG BANG –

ALBUM

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‘WHERE WERE YOU’ By THE MEKONS – 1976

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45prm singles on vinyl

25 May 2025


Photo via Twin/Tone Records

Band: THE MEKONS
Who: Punk band formed in Leeds, England. Now based in Chicago, Illinois.
The current line-up features original members Jon Langford and Tom Greenhalgh.
Active: 1976-present.

Track 1: WHERE WERE YOU /
Track 2: I’LL HAVE TO DANCE THEN (ON MY OWN)

“When I was waiting in the bar, where were you?
When I was buying you a drink, where were you?
When I was crying home in bed, where were you?”

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CHRISTINE AND THE QUEENS And Italo-Disco Pioneer CERRONE Team Up For Dancefloor Knockout ‘CATCHING FEELINGS’

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Daily noise that works faster than a stream of caffeine

25 May 2025


Photo by Thomas Spault

French singer/songwriter Rahim Claude Redcar, born Héloïse Adélaïde Letissier, of CHRISTINE AND THE QUEENS has teamed up with 72-year-old Italo-disco pioneer
MARCO CERRONE for a 4-track EP.

Here’s the first taster, a dancefloor
knockout titled CATCHING FEELINGS.

Sunday or not, wake up people and feel the beat.

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HALFCUTLEMON – Flaming Danish Garage Rockers Erupt On New Hefty Haymaker ‘OINTMENT’

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Daily electricity to load your batteries

24 May 2025

Band: HalfCutLemon
Who: A Copenhagen-based alternative rock quartet blending raw punk aesthetics
with cinematic depth and lyrical introspection. Formed by musicians with a shared
love of emotionally driven songwriting, the band crafts immersive soundscapes that
draw from post-punk, alt-rock, and experimental music.

Track: OINTMENT
New piece from their forthcoming
album, titled ‘This Ain’t Real’.

The song explores the insecurities of youth and the ways in which people
mask their vulnerability – be it through religion, aesthetics or social identity.

TUTV: Chainsaw riffs, brawny drumming, sinewy vocals, and a vivid velocity cause
a sonic dizziness. Then unexpectedly, around the 1.50 minute mark, the band take
a turn, slow down and resonate like a moody, psychedelic Interpol song, but not for
long, as they erupt with vivacious vigor and chaotic clamour to close this huge haymaker.
Wowzers.

WATCH

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EMINEM Released His Third Album ‘THE MARSHALL MATHERS LP’ 25 Years Ago

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24 May 2025

Marshall Bruce Mathers III aka massive rap star EMINEM released his
top-tier LP THE MARSHALL MATTERS on 23 May 2000, 25 years ago.

Upon release, the album went straight to number one on the Billboard 200, staying atop for eight consecutive weeks. A significant commercial success compared to the release of The Slim Shady LP a year before. The record sold 1.78 million copies in its first week, which made it among the fastest-selling studio albums in the US.

Its key single Stan, featuring songstress Dido, got no further than #51 in the US, but topped the charts in twelve other countries, including the United Kingdom, Germany, Australia, and Ireland.

STAN

ALBUM


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SKUNK ANASIE Sound Refreshed On Their 7th Album ‘THE PAINFULL TRUTH’

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24 May 2025

British robust veteran rockers SKUNK ANANSIE, fronted by the
fantabulous Skin have their new, 7th LPTHE PAINFUL TRUTH.

Press info : “Celebrated for their fearless approach to addressing political and social issues, Skunk Anansie has broken significant racial and gender barriers in rock, using their platform to advocate for identity, equality, and activism. Their influence extends beyond music, making them icons of both sound and social change.

Now, the legendary British rock band returns with their seventh studio album, The Painful Truth. Recorded in LA with renowned producer Dave Sitek (known for his work with Foals, Weezer, and Yeah Yeah Yeahs), this latest release sees the four-piece once again pushing creative boundaries and solidifying their place as modern pioneers in the music world.”


New album artwork

Kerrang‘s verdict: “The Painful Truth sounds eye-openingly fresh for a band with such
history. Everything about this is new, except its heart-on-sleeve honesty. They’ve never
released an album that embraces creativity this openly. My Greatest Moment, for example,
is full of ear-catchingly extracurricular sounds – the sort of thing artists in the NIN-to-Starset bracket specialise in, but without sounding like either. Life’s truth might be painful sometimes, but it’s rarely sounded better.”

TUTV: SA return less raw, rough and heavy as usual, even poppy at times. Mind you,
there’s still enough decibels to challenge your ears, especially when Skin’s voice reaches for the sky. As always she put all of her heart and soul in her performances. But overall they sound somehow polished, in an entertaining way that is, with more emphasis on melodiousness. Top tracks: An Artist Is An Artist, Lost And Found, Cheers and Meltdown.

SINGLES.

– AN ARTIST IS AN ARTIST –

– LOST AND FOUND –

ALBUM

RICHARD ASHCROFT Presents First New Music In 7 Years – Hear New Power Pop Pearl ‘LOVER’

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Daily noise that works faster than a stream of caffeine

24 May 2025

RICHARD ASHCROFT and The Verve (1990–1995, 1997–1999, 2007–2009) scored
their biggest triumph, commercially and critically, in 1997 with their 3rd LP Urban Hymns that topped the UK Charts. So did its timeless single Bittersweet Symphony (more than 1,2 billion streams on Spotify).

The band split twice, came back and, finally, called it a day in 2009. In between and afterward Ashcroft recorded solo. So far he has released 5 albums, with Natural Rebel, which came out in 2018, as his most recent one (if you don’t count Acoustic Hymns Vol. 1 from 2021, featuring reworked versions of some of his best known songs).

The former madman, who kept on performing live now and then, is now
finally back with a new single LOVER is an instantly infectious piece. Sirenic
power pop, with Ashcroft repeating the track’s title non-stop.

The song samples English singer-songwriter Joan Armatrading’s
1976 hit Love And Affection. When RA let Armatrading hear ‘Lover‘
she gave her blessing to release it.

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