Month: December 2025
BIKINI KILL Punkette KATHLEEN HANNA About The Lies She Was Told
27 December 2025
(photo by Turn Up The Volume!)
All lies, all machos.
THE FAKE FRIENDS – Real Canadian Misfits Punch You On Repeat With ‘SUCKER BORN EVERY MINUTE’
Daily electricity to load your batteries
27 December 2025
Photo by Nick Pegg
Band: THE FAKE FRIENDS
Who: A bunch of old hardcore guys from Montreal, Québec trying to make
pop songs with sweet licks, infectious choruses, and introspective lyrics with
some epic breakdowns thrown in make for some intense and supremely
addictive songs.
FFO: Parquet Courts, Culture Abuse, Yard Act,
Franz Ferdinand, The Strokes, Cloud Nothings.
Track: SUCKER BORN EVERY MINUTE
First taster from their forthcoming 2nd album, named
Let’s Not Overthink This, out on 13 February 2026.
More info here.
Press info: The song drives on tightly wound guitars and a rhythm section
that feels both precise and restless, while frontman Savage leans into the
tension between bravado and self-recognition.
The lyrics circle around familiar patterns: burned bridges, late-night decisions,
the impulse to run from responsibility. The hook lands like a self-directed challenge.
TUTV: After a neurotic riff intro, we get into a pelvis-trigging groove, not for long
that is, as those neurotic riffs return every time the mental, vociferous chorus
comes back to kick you in the nose.
While listening to this psychotic punk chant, 3 suckers
are born to lose. You can’t’ fake this shit, it’s real.
WATCH
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BUY
THE CURE Guitarist PERRY BAMONTE Passed Away Aged 65
WILCO’s SOLID SOUND FESTIVAL North Adams, Massachusetts – 26/28 June 2026
DIY Magazine’s BEST ALBUM OF 2025
27 December 2025
Artist: CMAT
Who: Irish songstress
Ciara Mary-Alice Thompson
Album: EURO-COUNTRY
Her 3rd.
DIY: “‘EURO-COUNTRY’ has been the soundtrack to – and the driving force behind – her arrival proper in the mainstream’s big leagues. An opus in the truest sense of the word, it’s an instant-classic album that, in the future, will be held up as the gold standard for just how much you can say with pop.”
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DIY’s 20 Best Albums Of 2025
NICK CAVE & WARREN ELLIS Score ‘THE DEATH OF BUNNY MUNRO SOUNDTRACK’
26 December 2025
Back in 2009, NICK CAVE published a darkly comic novel about a sex-addicted salesman, titled The Death of Bunny Munro. When it came out, Cave and his longtime sidekick and bad seed WARREN ELLIS scored an audiobook.
Now, The Death Of Bunny Munro has been adapted
into a TV show, and Cave and Ellis wrote a completely
different soundtrack for it.
It’s a compelling, goosebumps and gloomy score, with Cave‘s intimate piano play,
Ellis‘ sinister violin pieces and shadowy synth textures are prominent in the middle.
It’s 99,99 % instrumental, a sombre and darksome symphony.
I’m not really into soundtracks (without seeing the movie, that is).
But the masterly duo have created a chilling opus that spellbinds
all the way.
Fascinating.
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Image Of The Day – Flaming Lip WAYNE COYNE And His Family
The Flaming Lips mastermind WAYNE COYNE
and his lovely family in their Xmas outfit.
I wonder if they walk the streets dressed like this.
REMEMBER SPORTS – Philly’s Lauded Indies Drop Their 5th Full-Length ‘THE REFRIGERATOR’ In February
26 December 2025
Band: REMBER SPORTS
Who: Ohio-rooted and Philadelphia-based indie
quartet, formed in 2014 named Sports for a while.
Album: THE REFRIGERATOR
Their 5th one
Release: 13 February 2026
Press info: Remember Sports have always sounded like a band in motion, chasing a feeling, chasing each other, sometimes running from themselves. Over the past decade, they’ve built a devoted following through bruising live shows, emotionally honest songs, and a sound that keeps evolving.
The new album captures the messy, cathartic energy of transformation. Written in the aftermath of the pandemic, the record is shaped by grief, uncertainty, and a deep love for music and friendship. Songs wrestle with identity, memory, and growing up, balancing bratty catharsis with tenderness and reflection.”
Check the 3 previews (so far).
– BUG –
– ACROSS THE LINE –
– CUT FRUIT –
