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. Hail, hail!
Band: POSICION UNIDA Who: A bilingual band of teens and early 20 year olds.
They started in 2024 and quickly made a name for
themselves thanks to their live shows.
World-famous country shero DOLLY PARTON was born
in Pittman Center, Tennessee, U.S. on 19 January 1946.
Happy 80 to one of the greatest voices ever,
to a tremendously flamboyant artist, and
utterly cool personality.
She’s in the music business since she was only 10-years old.
She wrote most of her songs herself. She has released no less
than 49 LPs and multiple collaborative albums (so far).
One of her biggest and best known hits.
More tha 880 million streams on Spotify.
Another year, another Jukebox to fill with new
tracks, 5 twice a week, for your aural pleasure.
This is the 5th batch of 5 new rad ones of 2026.
ALL TOGETHER
TRACK BY TRACK
Artists: DEAD ANYWAY Who: British duo that sets the dark lyricism of Kate Arnold
against the music and soundscapes of Marc Symonds. A mix
of poetry, electronica, and guitars.
TUTV: What the hell is this? Must be the most dancey, vibey, and trippy track
of their sonic canon. A Shift Of Perspective has an irresistible pelvis-energizing
swing spiced with sparkly guitar play and, of course, Kate Arnold‘s spoken-word
panache. Let the siren howl.
Band: DOWN THE LEES Who: The post-rock noise project of seasoned Canadian
singer/songwriter/guitarist Laura Lee Schultz. DTL released
3 notable albums, so far.
TUTV: Another torch burning jam enflamed with feverish, ominous
and sinewy guitar dynamism, a high-strung rhythm section, and Schultz‘s delirious vocals.
Band: SPECIAL FRIEND Who: French-American indie
guitar pop, based in Paris.
Track: BREAKFAST
New preview from their upcoming 3rd album, named Clipping. It’ll arrive on March 20th. More info here.
TUTV: Breakfastimmediately made me think of Canadian girl power pop band The Beaches and New Zealand‘s peppy outfit,The Beths. This is the kind of blithe
ditties that kick-start your mood after your first coffee in the morning. Trip and
hop along the speedy flow and the frolicsome duet vocals.
Band: THEY MIGHT BE GIANTS Who: Alt rock duo – John Flansburgh and John Linnell – started their
journey way back in 1982 and have since released 23 albums.
TUTV: These two giants are musical addicts. If you have released 23 albums, you
deserve some blue ribbons. And they’re not done yet. They’re still full of energy.
‘The sound itself comes from the nature of the home recordings, I’m limited
in what I can do in certain places so I’ll tend to lean more into more scrappy
lo-fi/garage sounds. The gear I like to use is simple and mostly broken.’
TUTV: Full electrifying speed from the get-go. This swirling guitar-riffing
missile has an adrenalizing gusto that makes your head spin 360°, while Holloway lets his sentiments roll out, loud and clear.
Zappy Canadian indie guitar pop combo THE BEACHES released
their praised, 3rd LP, named No Hard Feelings last year, in August.
And they start 2026 with a cover of a new wave hit from 1982, titled I Ran (So Far Away) by British pop act A Flock Of Seagulls (1979–1986,
1988–present). More than 209 million streams on Spotify.
UNCUT focuses in this new Ultimate Music Guide edition on the stormy story of the brilliant gang, know to us all as THE POGUES (1982–1996, 2001–2014) fronted by the incomparable Shane MacGowan (1957-2023).
The Pogues were a legendarily good time band, and immersed themselves heroically in the part, but their embrace of vibrant Irish musical culture was one aspect of a wider quest for adventurous music.
This they did, by expanding their personnel and taking influences from jazz,
middle-eastern music and beyond, building a group whose world-hungry musicality
found important fellow travellers in the shape of Joe Strummer, then on a similar
journey: a fusion of his punk era aggression with a more open-ended music.
You can purchase a copy and let it be sent to your home. Info HERE.
GORILLAZ, the brainchild of Blur’s Damon Albarn and comic book artist Jamie Hewlett,
have been writing/releasing reggae-infused pop tunes since 1988. They have their 9th longplayer, named The Mountain, out on March 20th.
They just added 2 new songs to the previously 3 shared ones.
It’s a lazy Sunday afternoon shanty featuring Bizarrap, Kara Jackson and Anoushka Shankar. You can whistle along, or if you are more of hummer,
just hum along.
