Month: August 2025

HVIRESS – Enigmatic British Synth-Pop Duo Take You An Outlandish Trip With New Single ‘I AM THE SNAKE QUEEN’

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25 August 2025

Artists: HVIRESS (pronounced ‘Heiress’)
Who: The occult, musical love child of British
songwriters/musicians Hana Piranha and Mishkin
Fitzgerald.

Track: I AM THE SNAKE
Brand new piece from their upcoming debut album,
named Bitchhouse, which will land on October 10th.

It explores the seductive chaos of overconsumption, fast fashion, and the glittering
debris of late-stage capitalism, through a lens of ancient magic and feminine power. Propulsive and expertly crafted, the song is both sinister and self-assured.

Fitzgerald: “Hana and I came up with the concept for ‘I Am The Snake Queen’ after
a fateful night on some psychedelic mushrooms that went slightly wrong. Hana was transformed into an ancient deity and after coming out of the darkness she became
the snake queen.

After that experience, we both thought it was too good not to write a song about.
We have always seen HVIRESS as a project for mixing ancient magick with modern
trash. ‘I Am The Snake Queen’ blends those two worlds seamlessly.”


Single artwork

TUTV: Ready for an outlandish electro-pop trip? That’s what you’ll experience
in the upcoming, swirling 217 seconds. From the get-go layers of synths, keyed up percussion and transfixing vocals create an ominous atmosphere where reality and surreality meet and greet. You can’t, and you don’t want to resist its tantalising impact.

There’s a hard-to-nail tension in the air, all the way through.
The snake queen is hissing just around the corner. Dope stroke.

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PATTI SMITH – Her Magnum Opus ‘HORSES’ Turns 50 In November

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25 August 2025

On November 10, PATTI SMITH‘s debut LP,
her magnum opus HORSES turns 50.

Of course, it’ll be celebrated with an anniversary edition, featuring several previously unreleased tracks. Along with the proper album, we get her 1975 audition tape for RCA,
an alternate take on Birdland and Snowball, a non-album track.

PATTI: “Hello everyone, my record company announced the forthcoming release of the
fiftieth anniversary of Horses, my first album. In a way I feel these pre-announcements
for books, records and films are quite early. But that is how things operate and since they support and believe in my work I am showing support and gratitude by sharing their information.

I am not soliciting you ever, though of course I always hope you will read what I have written. But I am posting here, information shared and perhaps appreciated then off we go somewhere else. There are 6,500 vinyls. It’s a double album and the second was compiled after much labor.

Unearthed recordings, a couple live pieces from CBGB, youthful efforts gathering dust, little bits scavenged from half a century ago. I am grateful to all who helped form it and the people who have supported it for five decades.”

Pre-order info here.

Original LP


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SUMMER OF 2025 – Today: English Punks SOFT PLAY And Songstress KATE NASH Yesterday At READING FEST

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24 August 2025

Last weekend was Reading Leeds Festival weekend.

English punk duo SOFT PLAY, formerly known as Slaves) appeared on Saturday and
invited songstress KATE NASH for a superheated delivery of their latest single SLUSHY.

Hit! Hit! Hit!
Hit! Hit! Hit!

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SHOW ME THE BODY – New York’s Deafening Trio Have A Blast With Reworked Version Of ‘ONE TRAIN’

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24 August 2025

New York‘s cast-iron trio SHOW ME THE BODY have 3 LPs under their
belt with Trouble The Water as the most recent. It came out in 2022.

So far no news of another longplayer.

Meanwhile, they recorded a new version of ONE TRAIN
from their 2014 EP Yellow Kidney, along with a new video.

Throw your pillow through the window
and have a blast, loud music junkies!

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KINGS OF LEON And Country Star ZACH BRYAN Share A 2nd Collaborative Song With ‘WE’RE ONTO SOMETHING’

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Reveries for the laziest day of the week

24 August 2025

Rock family Kings Of Leon took mega famous
country star Zach Bryan along on their latest
tour.

It led to a collaboration in the studio.

Early August, they shared a song named Bowery
credited to Zach Bryan featuring Kings Of Leon.

And now a 2nd song, We’re Onto Something, just went online,
this time credited to the Kings Of Leon featuring Zach Bryan.

Enjoy the soulful warmth of this sweet little tune.

24 August 1981 – JOHN LENNON Killer Gets 20-Year Jail Sentence

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24 August 2025

On 8 December 1980, the then 25-year-old Texan Mark Chapman killed John Lennon in cold blood with 5 shots in his back, at the entrance of the Dakota building in New York where John and Yoko lived.

On 24 August 1981 he was given a 20-year jail sentence. Over the next few months, Chapman would claim many times to have been beaten by fellow inmates, some of
whom allegedly tried to kill him.

More than a dozen psychologists and psychiatrists interviewed Chapman in the six months prior to his trial. They conducted a battery of standard diagnostic procedures and more than 200 hours of clinical interviews. All six defense experts concluded that Chapman was psychotic; five diagnosed paranoid schizophrenia, while the sixth felt that his symptoms were more consistent with manic depression.

Chapman is still in prison. His 14th parole hearing was
scheduled for this month. But no news about it, so far.

Chapman in a 1992 interview with the former
American TV and radio host legend Larry King.

SUEDE – Glam Rock Celebs Release Their 10th Album ‘ANTIDEPRESSANTS’ On September 5th

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24 August 2025


Press photo

As loyal fans know and are waiting for, glam rock/pop celebs SUEDE
orchestrated by their never aging frontman Brett Anderson, share their
10th full-length, named Antidepressants with the world on September 5th.

Press info: “The album is a milestone achievement that sees the band at the top of their game. It follows the success of their critically acclaimed ninth UK Top 10 album Autofiction, released in September 2022, which charted at No. 2 on the UK Albums Chart and was their highest-charting release in over 20 years.”

So far we got 3 singles and
a live video for the album’s
title track.

– DANCING WITH THE EUROPEANS –

– DISINTEGRATE –

– TRANCE STATE –

– ANTIDEPRESSANTS –

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THUMPER – Badass Irish Rockers Drop Scorching Slam ‘THE DRIP’

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23 August 2025

Band: THUMPER
Who: Rowdy rockers from Ireland, who released their
debut album Delusions Of Grandeur in 2022.

Track: THE DRIP
Lead single from their upcoming
second album. Details TBA.

“The Drip is a song about tour burnout and relationship strain. The song was written almost a line at a time, small lyrics jotted down at different moments on tour, in different cities, different head spaces. The title refers to that slow accumulation, drip torture was on my mind, but also an IV drip – something that keeps you alive, hooked to your veins. In this case my deep love for making music, and the people I make it with.Best headphones deals

The song has no chorus – no release. But it’s joyous and builds with momentum with each passing section, even as the lyrics seem to become more abstract. This conflict between love for the thing, and that thing destroying you – that’s The Drip. ‘Poke to find a vein, flick the bag’.”

Mental guitars + madcap drummer + psychotic vocalist = SICK SHIT

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23 August 2025 – PICTURE OF THE DAY

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Band: CREEPER
Who: Creepy, doom and gloom
eccentrics from the UK. They’re
active since 2014.

On October 25th they release their 4th LP,
called Sanguivore II: Mistress of Death.

I never heard of these horror punks before, but when I saw them on
the cover of the new Kerrang issue I couldn’t resist putting them here
on the blog.

They’re so cute, right?

Newest single

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