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31 July 2025
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Month: July 2025
FUTURE ISLANDS Frontman SAMUEL T. HERRING Remembers Being A Kid
1 August 2025
Photo by Turn Up The Volume – Lokerse Feesten, Belgium, 2024
Unfortunately, it still happens today.
IDLES Grab You By The Troath With Crime Hellraiser ‘RABBIT RUN’
Daily electricity to load your batteries
31 July 2025
Credit: press
Last year Bristol‘s fierce mavericks IDLES released their critically
acclaimed 5th full-length with Tangk and are still touring it.
Last March frontman Joe Talbot teamed up with Chvrches’ superior voice
Lauren Mayberry for a reworked version of her solo song Sorry, Etc, Etc.
Now, the band scored the soundtrack of upcoming for American filmmaker
Darren Aronofsky’s highly anticipated action crime thriller Caught Stealing.
It’ll feature movie stars Austin Butler, Zoë Kravitz, Bad Bunny, Regina King, Matt
Smith, and more. Idles contributed wrote four new songs for the soundtrack.
Talbot: “This has been a huge opportunity for us that seemingly came about after a chance meeting backstage at Fallon when we both happened to be guests on the same day. But in hindsight, I realize that Darren is one of my favorite directors and his films have in some ways made me who I am as an artist. This lucid dream has been a lifetime in the making and one that I will live over and over with a huge sense of humility and joy.”
Here’s one of the four songs,
titled RABBIT RUN, released
as a single now.
Guess what, it sounds like a criminal hellraiser.
Scary, freakish, dangerous and cocksure.
Steal the song here.
This weekend.
JOHN MELLENCAMP – Celebrated Singer Songwriter Rocker Released His 8th LP ‘SCARECROW’ 40 Years Ago Today
31 July 2025
Highly lauded and prize-winning singer-songwriter star JOHN MELLENCAMP (73 now) released his triumphant 8th LP SCARECROW this day 40 years ago, on 31 July 1980.
It peaked at number two on the US Billboard. The album has
produced 3 top-ten hits. ‘R.O.C.K. in the U.S.A.’, ‘Lonely Ol’ Night’,
and ‘Small Town‘.
The overall theme of the record wad the fading of
the American Dream in the face of corporate greed.
Mellencamp said years later: “With Scarecrow, I was finally starting to find my feet
as a songwriter. Finally, for the first time, I realized what I thought I wanted to say in
a song. I wanted it to be more akin to Tennessee Williams, John Steinbeck, Faulkner,
as opposed to The Rolling Stones or Bob Dylan.”
Pitchfork: “The thing just leaps out of the speakers. The cool, natural efficiency of Mellencamp’s band combined with Gehman’s clean, muscular production adds up
to a platonic ideal of a rock’n’roll record: It’s direct, unfussy, and unpretentious,
barreling forward on the strength of a mammoth backbeat.”
KEY SINGLE
ALBUM
STRAY CATS – Rockabilly Heroes Will Rock Towns In The US With Their Original Line-Up
31 July 2025
Press promo
STRAY CATS had several runs in their careers (1979–1984, 1986–1993, 2004–2009,
2018–present) with the first one as their most notorious. Overall they scored 9 LPs,
the last one in 2019 with 40.
And their 2nd home is a stage, where they still rock ‘n’ billy with eager gusto.
More than 35 million streams on Spotify.
DEAD ANYWAY – British Poetic And Versatile Trip-Hop Duo Tells Us All About Their New Compelling EP ‘THIS OR BROADMOOR’
31 July 2025
Artists: DEAD AWAY
Who: British duo project that sets the dark lyricism of Kate Arnold against the music and soundscapes of Marc Symonds. A mix of poetry, electronica and guitars. A heady brew of dark, glitchy head-messing wonder.
TUTV: The duo has a sort of enigmatically attractive power that creates an aural
curiosity. It happens once again with this new EP. In 4 songs, lasting only 8 minutes
all together (a bit too short, guys) they draw you into their heartfelt psyche, lyrically
and musically.
Expect a melting pot of trip-hop dynamics, industrial echoes, schizo guitar scratches, distorted synths, drum/bass reverberations and Arnold‘s spoken word musings.
Mind you, This Or Broadmoor is not some arty-farty piece of work. There’s an organic catchiness that massages your ears and mind gently and makes your hips groovin’ smoothly. Okay, enough talk from yours truly.
Kate and Marc took the time to guide us through
This Or Broadmoor, track by track. Here we go,
fifty/fifty.
Kate: “The collection as a whole is around two themes: 1) the way older people (especially women) are viewed by society, and 2) generally taking stock of my own life so far.”
CRONE
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Kate: “I think ‘Crone’ is perhaps pretty self-explanatory – sure, the way women are
overlooked once they cease being viewed as of use sexually but also that their opinions
are often discounted due to their age, despite their experiences. Of course, this stuff
applies to men too – but I’m not one so can only speak from my own standpoint!”
CLOWN CAR
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Kate: “‘Clown Car’ is me berating myself for spending all my years turning my life into poetry and lyrics, when, really where has it got me? Would it not have been better to have just shut
up and got on with it, like any normal person?
The meaning of the EP titles comes in here too: Broadmoor is a high security mental
institution/prison in the UK – and I genuinely feel that if I hadn’t found the ability to turn
‘every stray thought and feeling’ into something lyrical then I’d have been in real trouble mentally. I know Marc feels the same about making music, so it’s an extension of that
feeling really: it’s Dead Anyway, or Broadmoor for us! “
A FEAR OF EXPLOSIONS
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Kate: “It’s a taking stock piece. It’s not a swipe at an ex; it’s more about learning through one’s experiences and the way those experiences shape you as you age. The ‘you’ it’s addressed to is any younger person, who may feel that age won’t ever come to them. As we all did, of course.”
ANOTHER NIGHT DONE
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Kate: “It’s quite simply, a list of my recent dreams that I was keeping! Marc came up with
a ‘groove’ one night in the studio and, seeing that he was on a roll, I just started putting them
to what he was doing and recorded the vocal there and then. It’s also, I guess, a nod to the EP title, since I’m aware that the whole lyric is fairly barking!”
Marc about the music:
“After writing ‘Unspoken Word’, ‘Partially Eaten by Animals’ and ‘Tough Listen’ in 2 years,
I felt musically exhausted. I genuinely thought that my best musical work was behind me and couldn’t see the point in any of it. Kate was still writing, however, and chose two tracks (‘Crone’ and ‘Clown Car’) from what she calls ‘the pantry’ of tracks I’d sent her over the years which she hadn’t already used.
This kicked me up the bum to come up with two new tracks, one of which (‘Fear of Explosions’) was written to a piece she’d already recorded into her phone at home (you may be able to tell this from the recording) and it was a real nod to how we were forced to do things due to Covid restrictions during the first 4 EPs and the first album!
The other one I wrote something brand new for, ‘Another Night Done’, came together
on the night – a first for us as we usually write separately. I really just wanted to create something that would make people dance!”
BUY STREAM
FULL EP
BIFFY CLYRO – Scottish Motherrockers Unleash Their New Wall-Breaking Single ‘HUNTING SEASON’
Daily noise that works faster than a stream of caffeine
31 July 2025
Band: BIFFY CLYRO
Who: The pretty famous
Scottish noise junks.
Track: HUNTING SEASON
2nd single, following A Little Love from their
upcoming 10th LP, named Futique. Out on
September 26th.
Simon Neil (guitarist/vocalist) about the album: “It’s an exploration of ideas, objects
or relationships that exist across time – we are never aware when we do anything for
the last time and there’s a beauty and sadness within that. What will be your Futique?”
On Hunting Season, the sassy Scots do what they love to do. They challenge
the potency of wall-breaking ballyhoo, while rockin’ their butt off. Bang-on,
motherrockers.
Wake up, people,
hunt the hunters.
Songstress REGINA SPEKTOR Asks Pro-Palestine Protesters To Leave Her Show
30 July 2025
When pro-Palestine protesters interupted the songstress’ show in Portland a couple
of days ago, she asked them to leave. In response to one who said: “I’m watching dying children. That hurts”, she answered this.
Spektor, who is of Russian-Jewish heritage and emigrated to the IS as a child.
She’s a longtime supporter of Israel, and has previously spoken out against
figures like Björk for allegedly spreading “false” information on a pro-Palestine
social media post.
Full Spektor feature in NME right here.
TUTV: As long as the horrible genocide continues, any place is good enough to protest against it, even at your show, Ms Spektor, all the more so because the protesters did it
in a civil way. Nothing is more important than talking about the terrifying, human drama
in Gaza, nothing.
20 BEST TRACKS OF THE MONTH – JULY 2025
30 July 2025
ALL TOGETHER
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TRACK BY TRACK
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Band: MODERN GUILT
Who: Fully charged indie
trio from London.
Track: YOU KNOW WHO YOU ARE
“A self-confessed ode to dishonesty.”
TUTV: Jangly indie Britrock at its arousing best. No way to not go
bonkers when this rip-roaring The Strokes-like anthem infiltrates
your ears. Trust me, one spin and you’re hooked. You know
where to find the repeat button.
Blimey.
Instagram – Linktree
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Band: MONITORS
Who: French-British-Bosnian post-punk outfit,
formed in 2017. So far, they have 2 EPs on
their résumé.
Track: DANSE MACABRE
First single from their upcoming debut album,
titled The Madelaine Affair out 3rd October.
TUTV: Thudding drums, edgy guitar riffs,
infectious dynamics, deranged chorus, and
agitated vocals.
Titanic thrill!
Instagram – Bandcamp
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Band: SOULWAX,
Who: Belgian brothers David and Stephen Dewaele‘ working together
for 30 years now, with diverse projects. They DJed the world around
as 2manydjs, had their own Radio Soulwax, and produced/remixed
countless other artists.
Track: RUN FREE
One of two new shared pieces from their 6th LP,
titled All Systems Are Lying and on your stereo
on October 17th.
Album artwork
“We wanted to capture the feeling of a band playing electronic instruments,
live, loud and loose. This record is the result of that experiment. It’s a rock
album made without any electric guitars.”
Trippy.
Dancey.
Vibey.
Trancy.
Instagram – Website
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Press photo
Band: SUEDE
Who: The famous glam
rock vets from London.
Track: DANCING WITH EUROPEANS
Newest single from their 10th album. It’s called
Antidepressants and will land on our speakers
on September 5th.
TUTV: Anderson stars, once again, in the middle with an overwhelming vocal performance, peaking on the epic chorus, and he’s backed by a full of vim and vigour drums/bass tandem and glimmering guitars.
Suede age backwards.
Instagram – Linktree – All Albums
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New album artwork
Band: WET LEG
Who: The showy pop sensation, Rhian Teasdale
and Hester Chambers, from the Isle of Wight.
Track: DAVINA MCCALL
Highlight from their sophomore
full-length, named Moisturizer.
Groovy.
Smoothly.
Sexy.
Instagram – All Links
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Press photo by Nik Freitas
Band: BRIGHT EYES
Who: Longtime lauded Nebraska‘s
pop/rock trio orchestrated by
Conor Oberst.
Last year, they released their exquisite
11th LP, titled Five Dice, All Threes.
Track: 1ST WORLD Brand new single.
Oberst: “It’s an homage to ska in all its waves. From Desmond Dekker
to Tim Armstrong, we’re just happy to add our track to the bin. The video
is inspired by NYC 90s hip hop, which like ska, has a long tradition of unifying
people & using celebratory music to convey subversive political themes. To be
played loud. Windows down. Summertime.”
TUTV: Sounds and feels like you are
ska-ing on a shaky merry-go-round.
Big fun. Big tune.
Instagram – Linktree
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Photo by Sandra Ebert
Artists: STILL BLANK
Who: New transatlantic guitar pop duo — Jordy is
from Kaua’i, Hawaii, while Ben is from Manchester, UK.
Track: AIN’T QUITE RIGHT
Only their 2nd single.
TUTV: An ongoing, hyperkinetic, swift drum beat drives you nuts, while
guitar sparks come and go, and humming vocals add a seductive feel.
Pretty addictive.
Instagram – Linktree
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Artist: JASON ISBELL
Who: Much lauded songsmith with 10 albums on
his résumé (6 recorded with his band the 400 Unit)
Track: SHOULD I GO MISSING
Isbell has reissued his 10-year-old album Something More Than Free
digitally. It will be available on physical media on October 3. It includes
this previously unreleased track, a B-side for one of the LP’s singles.
TUTV: Fortunately, this psychedelic, slide-guitar ripper didn’t go missing.
It resonates like a swamp blues burner spiced with good old organ play
and Isbell‘s firm voice. Totally cool.
Instagram – Spotify
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Band: MELT MOTIF
Who: An experimental band based in Bergen, Norway, and São Paulo, Brazil.
Known for their unique fusion of genres, they blend elements of metal, dark
electronic, darkwave, industrial, and more.
So far, they have released two albums and their respective remixes.
A new full-length is waiting in the pipeline to be released in September.
Track: ASPHALT
Newest single.
TUTV: It’s a nasty industrial brainfucker motorized by fierce percussion
and ominous vocals. Its haunting and bloodcurdling progression has an
instant impact on your psyche. This is sick shit. I love it.
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Instagram – Linktree
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Photo: Emma Chitty | Graphics: Mike Raymond
Band: NRVS
Who: Mysterious trio with an inimitable take on
humanity’s downward spiral into a dysfunctional
entropic existence. They unleashed their punk-groovy
debut EP Like You last year.
Track: FREE
New single from their
upcoming album.
“Just another dumb song about love found & lost within
the wreckage! It happens… what are you gonna do?”
TUTV: This arresting, melancholic song sticks after just one spin. Its bluesy guitar
radiance, its bass-beat-heavy cadence and despondent vocals get under your skin.
Its melodic catchiness has irresistible written all over it. In a normal world this should
be a bloody big hit.
Instagram – Linktree
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Band: LOBSTERBOMB
Who: Glamorous indie quartet from Berlin. They released
their pithy party debut album Look Out in 2023. You can
stream it here.
Track: NIGHTBIRD
TUTV: Full steam ahead from the get-go, motorized by bedazzling guitars,
a relentless drum beat, and peppy vocals culminating in a pungent chorus.
Lobsterbomb‘s appetite for blistering pop punk is insatiable. Don’t stop.
Instagram – Linktree
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Photo by Euan Robertson
Band: IDLEWILD
Who: Veteran Scottish
indie pop team.
Track: IT’S NOT THE FIRST TIME
Newest single from their upcoming 10th, self-titled
album, their first one in 6 years. It’ll hit the streets
on 3 October.
TUTV: Vintage Idlewild. Nostalgia and romanticism
wrapped in a sticky guitar pop melody. Welcome back.
Instagram – Linktree
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Band: GUSH
Who: Fresh and frantic Belfast 4-piece who launched their
cooking 5-track debut EP Exposure Therapy, last summer.
Track: YOUR WORLD
Their 2nd single of the year.
TUTV: Your World is a glammy, full-riff-blooded, rollicking burner.
All amps up, all decibels up, while afire guitars have an ongoing
sonic fight with a badass bass and a chorus that goes airborne
every time it pops up, powered by frisky vocals.
Get your world rocked right here.
Instagram – Linktree
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Artist: BAXTER DURY
Who: Renowned nightclubber and
chill-out singer-songwriter. Son of,
you know who.
Track: SCHADENFRAU
Newest single from his 8th LP, baptized
Allbarone and out on September 12th.
Jiving electro-disco vibes
activating all of your lazy
limbs.
Instagram – All Albums
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Band: EDITRIX
Who: Disorderly noise trio from
Easthampton, Massachusetts.
Track: FLESH DEBT
New piece from their upcoming 3rd LP,
titled The Big E. It’ll show up on July 25.
TUTV: Bass and guitar have a metallic riff contest while vocalist Wendy Eisenberg
tells us a story. A knock-down-and-drag-out finale will blow you off your socks.
Schizophrenic electricity!
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Instagram – Bandcamp
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Credit: The Irrational Library
Band: THE IRRATIONAL LIBRARY
Who: The Irrational Library is a Dutch-American rock band with its roots
firmly planted in both the regional and international counterculture.
Track: NOTES FROM THE PLAYGROUND Newest single from their
forthcoming, 5th full-length ‘The Saying Of It All‘. More details TBA.
TUTV: Wham bam. Here comes the rumbling blues train once again. Rollin’ and steamin’, always thundering to the pounding heartbeat of its fat groove, while hungry guitars and Joshua Baumgarten‘s stirring vocals inflame this rough ripper with extra fuel.
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Instagram – Facebook
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Press Photo by Genesis Báez
Band: BIG THIEF
Who: Brooklyn‘s beloved folk-pop-rockers,
fronted by voice/face and soft songstress
Adrienne Lenker.
Track: ALL NIGHT ALL DAY
New piece from their 6th LP, entitled
Double Infinity. It comes out on
September 5.
TUTV: Another sepia-colored BT humdinger with
Lenker‘s starry-eyed voice enchants once again.
Instagram – Spotify – All Albums
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Band: NEWMOON
Who: Popular Belgian
melodic shoegazers.
Track: SAME DISTANCE
Piece that should have been on their excellent 2024 album Temporary Light ,
but it didn’t due to vinyl constraints. It was never intended as a single or B-side.
TUTV: Yes, it would have been an unquestionable highlight on the album. But on or off it, it’s great to have this phantasmagoric pearl right now. A dream-in-motion beauty for the ears, mind, and soul. Made me immediately think of Brian Eno‘s ambient atmospherics. Wonderful. Truly wonderful.
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Instagram – Linktree
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Artist: STEPH SWEET
Who: Affecting British
indie songstress.
Track: BURN SO GOOD
From her new 4-track EP Ghost Signal.
TUTV: Trip-hop dynamics, ambient echoes and
ominous synths, and Sweet‘s haunting vocals combine
for a twilight experience in slow-mo.
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Instagram – Website
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MARK STEWART, one of the most adventurous/inventive/original
post-punk & dub artists/performers ever, passed away 2 years,
aged 62.
He was a co-founding member and frontman of British,
genre-bending new wave band The Pop Group
Track: A LONG ROAD
From his sublime, 8th solo LP The Fateful Symmetry,
released posthumously 3 weeks ago.
Goosebumps! Nothing but goosebumps!
Reminiscent of his friend, fan and piano
crooner Nick Cave‘s work.
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Facebook – Mute Records
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TURN UP THE VOLUME
WARMDUSCHER – London’s Dance Punk Combo Back With New Hepped Up Hip-Shaker ‘YAKUZA’
Daily electricity to load your batteries
30 July 2025
Band: WARMDUSCHER
Who: Dance-punk disco gang from
London, born to turn you upside down.
They have 5 albums, so far, to their credits with last
year’s Too Cold To Hold as their most recent one.
Now the dance-crazy combo returns with a single, named YAKUZA. It was originally written during the sessions for ‘Too Cold To Hold’, but although it didn’t make the LP,
the band didn’t throw the titillating tune in the dustbin because “it stood out immediately, calling for a life of its own”.
Clams Baker Jr. (the flamboyant frontman): “‘Yakuza’ just had this sleazy, cinematic
vibe that didn’t quite fit on the album—but we knew it had to live. When David Holmes
jumped on the remix, the whole vision locked into place.”
And here it is, with two remixes, one by David Holmes and one by Sworn Virgins.
Yoohoo.
With remixes.