31 January 2026
Band: SLUT INTENT
Who: American twin cities
hardcore slut style group.
Album: SLUTWORLD
Their debut.
Stereogum says: “For such a ceaselessly aggressive band, there’s a huge dynamic
range here; they shift from runaway-train speed to slo-mo churn to discordant midtempo freakouts, making the transitions feel as natural and effortless as an world-class athlete’s graceful body contortions.
Their fury would drown out a lesser frontperson, but Kelly commands the mic with enough unbound personality to shine through the chaos.”
TUTV‘s impressions:
POST-punk-core madness.
VOCIFEROUS vocalist Katy Kelly‘s
pipes are made of steel.
LOUDER, filthier, and cruder
than the Riot grrl movement.
FASTER than Lambrini Girls
and Snooper put together.
YOU can scare your whole town
with this boiling volcano.
YOU will be arrested by the police when
you play this slut shit too loud.
NO songs, only Molotov cocktails.
ONLY 18 minutes, but you’ll be out
of breath when the tsunami is over.
FIRST punk-loud and fuck-clear
record of the year.
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Band: DZ DEATHRAYS
Who: Disorderly punk rock trio from
Brisbane, Australia who found each
other in 2012.
Album: EASING OUT OF CONTROL
Their 7th one.
Album artwork
Australia’s THE MUSIC website: “Mega riffs ready to send a festival crowd into raptures? Tick. A riotous celebration of the joys of getting back on the road? Sure. Rock anthems that address the weird place we find ourselves, with personal privacy and the pale blue dot we
call home under threat from dark forces? Several.”
TUTV: 31 minutes of running rock amok, producing as many licks, hooks and riffs,
possible in that short time. No arty farty baloney. No ego wanderings. No unnecessary digressions.
Only combusting rock and bloody roll. They take a breather (well, sort of) on
2 tracks, Real Love and lullaby Warped but ‘Easing Out Of Control’‘s dominating
racket is roisterous and boisterous.
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Artist: LUCINDA WILLIAMS
Who: Longtime lauded and award-winning
songstress (now aged 72) from Louisiana.
New album: WORLD’S GONE WRONG
Her 16th.
UNCUT Magazine (British glossy music monthly): “Williams reveals her chief preoccupation: America and where it stands today. Her natural impulse is to channel compassion, concern, empathy and anxiety in a batch of wise songs that know their past and present but refuse to crumple or compromise.
One year into Donald Trump’s second term, Williams knows people need to feel their woes
are acknowledged and understood, and more so, that they need hope for a kinder future.
The music is straight and soothing, a band coming together in a rootsy salve as Williams returns to a favourite theme, deliverance through music. She is engaged in nothing less
than a battle for America’s soul.”
Williams: “We are here to bear witness to this monstrous sickness.”
TUTV: If you have any kind of common sense, you’re disgusted by that orange dictator’s damaging politics in the White House. First of all, all the not-brainwashed Americans, of course, but also at least half of the world despises him because of his authoritarian
‘Me, Myself and I‘ politics.
Lucinda Williams is one of those millions of Americans who are sick of this MAGA cult POTUS. She embeds her rage into a series of most captivating songs, sonically, vocaly and lyrically. World’s Gone Wrong is both a worrying, candid, and sharp-observing record. Don’t miss it.
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Band: CAST
Who: The Britpop vets who were along with
Richard Ashcroft support act for the Oasis
reunion gigs in the UK.
New album: YEAH YEAH YEAH
Their 8th one.
Promo photo
CLASH MAGAZINE says: “With as many albums in this century as in the last, ‘Yeah Yeah Yeah’ finds Cast building on the momentum of the previous two years with both confidence and quality. Refusing to trade solely on nostalgia, it’s a beefed-up version of their best selves. Long may their positivity last.”
TUTV: When someone says Cast I say “Fine Time,” referring to their
995 debut single. Yep, the former Britpop stars, led by former The La‘s
member John Power, have been playing around for more than 3 decades.
And they didn’t lose their appetite for feel-good, easy-going, joyful tunes, at all.
YYY features 10 jangly guitar pop songs. Simple but oh so catchingly infectious.
Cast have no ambition to reinvent the rock wheel, they just wanna entertain us.
Mission accomplished.
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Artist: WAIT, WHAT DID YOU SAY?
Who: Kind of mysterious singer-songwriter from
Tucson, Arizona with the weirdest alias I ever heard.
Album: STAY SAFE, LITTLE ONE
His debut album.
“This album is the culmination somewhat, since the beginning of writing
these words down. i would like to thank everybody in my life, past, present,
and future, for simply being in my life.”
TUTV: Think of the early raw rockin’ days of Evan Dando and his Lemonheads. Contagious melodies embedded in a swamp of high-energized tuines. At times chaotic, ramshackle and distorted, but hey, that’s DIY garage rock for you, folks. No arty farty production, no superfluous special effects. Direct, raw and rough. Love it.
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