18 January 2026
The frontcover of red hot chili pepper FLEA‘s upcoming
solo full-length, named Honora, out March 27th.
Flea: “The cover is a photograph of my beautiful mother-in-law, in Iran in
the late 60’s, Shahin. Shahin is a strong Persian woman, and the spirit of
a free Iran lives in her heart.”
This is the the 2nd shared single, featuring radio head Thom Yorke.
18 January 2026
New York City‘s charged punk dropouts Plasmatics (1978–1983), fronted by
the controversial WENDY O WILLIAMS was arrested on stage at Milwaukee,
40 years ago today, and charged with the offence of simulating sex with
a sledgehammer.
Williams later filed a multimillion-dollar civil suit against the Milwaukee Police,
claiming they sexually assaulted and beat her during the arrest, but a jury
rejected her claims.
Hell yeah!
18 January 2026
Ed Sheeran ticket tout fraudsters ordered to pay back £3million or face jail https://t.co/Oe9PKtGs46
— NME (@NME) January 17, 2026
If you do the crime, you must do the time.
NME reported this crazy story.
“A couple found guilty of a multi-miMaria Chenery-Woods and her husband Mark Woods
ran TQ Tickets Limited, which used over 100 identities to buy tickets for acts including Ed Sheeran and Lady Gaga and re-sell them at inflated prices on secondary ticketing sites such
as Viagogo.llion-pound ticket touting fraud operation have been ordered to pay back £3million within three months, or face jail.
TQ Tickets sold £6.5million worth of gig tickets between 2015 and 2017, but this does not include the hundreds of thousands of pounds worth of unsold tickets that trading standards officers found when they raided its offices in Dickleburgh, Norfolk.
Now, a Proceeds of Crime Act hearing at Leeds Crown Court, told Chenery-Woods
she must pay £995,279 within weeks or face a further four years in jail.
Woods, meanwhile, must pay £2million by April, or face seven years and six months in prison.
Chenery-Woods was sentenced to four years in prison at Leeds Crown Court in May 2024.
Woods received a two-year suspended prison sentence and was ordered to carry out 250 hours of unpaid work. He was also told he must observe an electronically monitored overnight curfew for four months.”
Vitalizing tunes that work faster than a stream of caffeine
17 January 2026
Band: CULT OF DOM KELLER
Who: Psych rock trio from Nottingham, UK with
5 albums on their résumé and a new one coming
up.
Track: LEADERS WITH HOOVES
First single from their forthcoming 6th LP, their first in 5 years.
Unholy Dream will show up on March 27th. More info here.
New album artwork
The band about the track: “Leaders with Hooves is about the confession of the cruelty
woven into power itself. Those we call leaders are not shepherds but devils, trampling
the world beneath them with the relentless rhythm of their hooves, leaving nothing but splintered lives and hollow authority in their wake.
We follow not in spite of them, but because the pounding of that unholy cadence lures us, hypnotizes us, convinces us that obedience is inevitable, that the chaos they summon is destiny. The song’s title is a mirror to the darkness we choose to march toward, an acknowledgment that what masquerades as leadership is in truth a brutal stampede—unyielding, merciless,
and utterly indifferent to the lives crushed beneath it.”
TUTV: This nightmarish psych jam troubles and confuses numb minds and warns of the corrupt powers that be. Its ominous, guitar-layered resonance and murky vocals pierce your ears. Mind-bending. We need to wake up before we’re all brainwashed by greedy charlatans around the globe.
Apocalypse now!
Watch the awesome animated video.
17 Janaury 2026
NYC’s poignant songstress MITSKI has canned her new, 8th LP. It’s baptized Nothing’s About to Happen To Me, has a cool cat on the cover (actually no idea who’s cat it is) and will land on February 27th.
Hear first single ‘Where’s My Phone’ here.
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17 January 2026
Photo by Jason Thrasher
Artist: CROOKED FINGERS
Who: The ever line-up changing band
of seasoned North Carolina songsmith
Eric Bachmann.
Track: HAUNTED
New piece from his upcoming 7th, only his first in
15 years, titled Sweth Deth. It’s out on 27 February.
New album artwork
Haunted is a goosebumps duet with eminent songstress
Sharon Van Etten. An impassioned, wholehearted, vocal
delight.
Enjoy.
17 January 2026
Band: SLEAFORD MODS
Who: Rap-punk poetry duo featuring
voice Jason Williamson and instrumentalist
Andrew Fearn.
New album: THE DEMISE OF PLANET X
Their 13th one.
Press info: “Boasting the duo’s most varied and expressive musical approach so far,
The Demise Of Planet X charts, critiques and satirises our times, while offering a universal cry of anger and release of energy that pushes against the encroaching cultural darkness.
Contemplating the world coming to an end not with a big bang but in slowly rising tide of irritating mundanity, The Demise Of Planet X strikes back with vivid sonics, acerbic words, enveloping atmospheres and a engaging wit across 13 tracks that will move hearts, minds and feet.’
Jason Williamson: “The Demise Of Planet X represents a life lived under immense uncertainty, shaped by mass trauma,” declares frontman Jason Williamson. “When we wrote the last album, it was about stagnation, a country that felt like a lifeless corpse.
Three years later, that corpse has been split open by war, genocide, and the lingering psychological fallout of Covid, whilst social media has mutated into a grotesque, twisted
form of digital engineering. It feels like we’re living among the ruins. A multi-layered abomination etched into our collective psyche.”
DIY Magazine says: “If not already a fan, what would one get out of ‘The Demise of Planet X’ that doesn’t already feature in their back catalogue, beside a few more timely references? Much like the state of the country they wax lyrical about, Sleaford Mods are stuck in a rut.”
TUTV: Mods by numbers, sonically and thematically. 4 out of the 5 singles (listen below)
are the LP’s highlights. The rest of the tunes vary from good to mediocre, and that’s not enough to have a memorable album for the future. Their razor-sharp way of filleting all sorts of social injustice still is spot-on, but my hungry taste for infectious hip-hop wallops
is not satisfied.
– ELITEST G.O.A.T. –
All 5 singles
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ALBUM
Tour Dates
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16 January 2026
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Band: THE DARTS
Who: Steamy garage Amazons based in Seattle, Washington,
fronted by charismatic singer-songwriter Nicole Laurenne,
also operating solo as Black Viiolet
Track: MIDNIGHT CREEP
The first single from their forthcoming LP, their 6th, named
Halloween Love Songs. It’ll hit our stereos on March 3rd.
Press info: “‘Midnight Creep’ started as a surprise curveball when ‘rythm section bitch’
Lindsay brought Nicole a demo called ‘Phantom Creep.’ Nicole was already quietly writing a Halloween-themed album and immediately heard a chance to chase something different.
An honest-to-ghoul old-school monster dance, the kind that might’ve aired on a haunted Shindig episode taped in a basement full of fog machines and paper-mâché bats. She rebuilt the tune into a slinky, organ-driven earworm; Lindsay created a simple, go-go-friendly choreography; and suddenly The Darts had a Halloween banger that felt both brand-new and weirdly familiar.”
TUTV: As a longtime fan, news of new Darts music puts a big smile on my face,
and lately it happens every year. I actually don’t know what Nicole Laurenne eats
or drinks, but her production flow is off the charts, with the band and solo.
Look, I’m smiling again. New album in March, new single today.
Midnight Creep is vintage Darts frenzy. Sizzling, blistering, and red-hot-blooded. Laurenne and her sidekick, her organ, lead the hungry troops once again. The piquant buzz and fuzz at play here ignites all of your limbs and makes you jump like a kangaroo from left to right and back.
The always black-dressed glam she-devils look sexy, play sexy, and sound sexy
(on record and on stage), and thanks to them, it’s Halloween every single day of
the year, from now on. This new smashing pumpkin is perfect to open and end
all creepy midnight parties. Bullseye!
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Significant longplayers from yesteryear
16 January 2026
Paul SIMON (now 84) and Art GARFUNKEL (also 84) are two of the most loved and famous voices in musical history. Together they recorded/released 6 LPs between 1963 and 1970. Then they went their seperate ways, but reunited countless times afterward to play live shows.
SOUNDS OF SILENCE was their 2nd LP. It came out 60 years ago
today, on 17 January 1966. Almost all tracks were written by Simon.
It peaked at #21 in the US and #13 in the UK. Over
the next few decades it would keep on selling copies.
The album cover photo features the duo on a trail looking back
towards the camera. It was shot at Franklin Canyon Park in L.A.
AllMusic said in retropective: “Tough a rushed effort, this was a far stronger album
than their debut, mostly thanks to Simon’s compositions; indeed, in one fell swoop, the
world learned not only of the existence of a superb song-poet in Paul Simon, but, in
Simon’s harmonizing with Art Garfunkel, the finest singing duo since the Everly Brothers.”
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