Every day of this summer we go back to the same summer date somewhere in history
25 June 2026
Pulse Magazine July, 1996 📸Karen Mason
Grunge legends SCREAMING TREES (1984-2000) fronted by the late great baritone
vocalistMark Lanegan (1964-2022) released their illustrious 7th and final LP, titled DUST on 25 June 1996, today 30 years ago.
Kerrang Magazine selected Dust as the best album of 1996. The band toured behind Dust for nearly two years with former Kyuss and future Queens of the Stone Age frontman JOSH HOMME serving as a touring guitarist.
UNCUT Magazine said in retrospect: “It sounded – and still sounds – like the perfect evolution of grunge, consciously realigning that upstart music with the classic rock and psychedelia which had preceded it.”
No details thus far, but yet two appetizers with The Dark and my preffered one DEATH IS NO THE END. It all starts, yes, acoustically, and proceeds inch by inch
to a foredoomed climax. Goosebumps.
On August 10th, they will unleash their long-awaited debut
full-length, called Cannonball. Tracklist and order info here
Press info: “Grand and exuberant, rich with unconventional structures and world-beating choruses, the long-awaited record makes good on the band’s years of hard touring while unearthing new dimensions and unlikely facets in their songwriting; It is a sharp, smart first record, one which presents Man/Woman/Chainsaw exactly as they are right now.”
NME: “Their debut album is an exploratory, widescreen record that significantly levels
up the south London six-piece’s early material, expanding the runaway art-rock chaos that landed them in last year’s NME 100 into something no less intriguing but significantly more pop.”
Band: FROST CHILDREN Who: Ear-splitting EBM siblings Angel and Lulu Prost
from St. Louis, Missouri with no less than 6 LPs under
their belt.
On July 10th they have a new EP out, called TWEAKER POEM.
“Tweaker Poem is an ode to psychotic obsession and transcendent admiration for an Idol,
when love letters start to sound more tweaky and oddly spiteful than loving. The tracks are hymns for Lovers who hypnotize themselves with faith when the world seems to frown and frown and frown at them.”
Be careful Lulu, don’t chainsaw yourself.
EP artwork
Ahead of the EP’s arrival, we can go bananas to
this shrapnel bomb taster, named SATELLITES.
Last Thursday, I saw a real Beastie Boy in Belgium. The now 60-year-old MIKE D,
né Michael Louis Diamond, is in the middle of a European tour to promote his
upcoming debut LP Thank You. He made us all hip and hop and chant in chorus.
For nearly 4 decades, 56-year-old PJ HARVEY was/is one of the most intruiging
artists in pop/rock. Her 10 longplayers (so far) are unquestionable proof of that.
It’s a slow-progressing, illusive, and starry-eyed song
namedVOYAGER and will be available on 7″ vinyl.
Pre-order info here.
Single artwork
PJ: “The song had already started life as part of my work towards my new album, so when @profbriancox invited me to write a piece for his new show, I sent him the voice memo of this song to see if it resonated. It immediately made him think of the Voyager craft and the sound
of its signal being sent back to Earth.
I have long been fascinated by the spacecraft and its journey, and asked myself what it might say to us if it could? This was an inspiring route to take to develop the song.”
Every day of this summer we go back to the same summer date somewhere in history
24 June 2026
On 24 June 1999, guitar hero ERIC CLAPTON put no less than 100 of his guitars
up for auction at Christie’s in New York City to raise money for his drug rehab clinic,
the Crossroads Centre in Antigua in the Lesser Antilles.
His 1956 Fender Stratocaster named Brownie, which was used to record the electric
version of Layla, sold for a record $497,500. The auction helped raise nearly $5 million
for the clinic.
Band: YARD ACT Who: British post-punk outfit from Leeds, fronted by poetic wordsmith James Smith, who catapulted themselves to the top of indie world with
their first 2 longplayers.
TUTV: Their chilling post-punk debut LP The Dark Room, from 2005, is still the one for me. Afterward Editors went down risk-free pop lane. Mind you, they got my attention now and then again, like here with this new urgent tune.
TUTV: OMG! Bad Nerves have you in a headlock from the first crushing chord.
No way to escape. You’re in the middle of a punk tornado, and in the end, you’ll
be completely exhausted. OMG!
Ben Hozie (singer/guitarist), who says to be inspired by Jane’s Addiction and The Stone
Roses about the album: “Let’s go back to melodic tunes, let’s be more of a proper rock band. We were aiming at something larger, warmer, watery, and metaphysical, inspired by the optimistic alt rock of our half-remembered youth.”
TUTV: Bodega never reached the topmost level I expected them to reach after their thumping first LP. And as they are now moving towards the middle-of-the-indie-road
rock I wonder if it will ever happen. All Inside The Aquarium has a rumbustious na-na-na
buzz but isn’t the memorable cut I hoped for.
“I used a couple of the same synths that I’ve still got since the early 90’s.
The beat was made on the sampler I used on my album Truth Is Born of
Arguments from 1995. It was my first time working directly with a rapper,
I’m very happy it was Griff!”
TUTV: Yeah. What’s up, bro? Slow-mo pelvis-swaying time it is. Yeah.
A new tribute album for American rock heavyweights THE SMASHING PUMPKINS (formed in 1998 / 13 LPs) arrives, digitally on August 14th, vinyl in October. Pre-order info here.
Named Sending Hearts To All My Dearies: A Tribute To The Smashing Pumpkins
the album contains 15 cross-genre covers of songs spanning Pumpkins’ discography. Contributors include Tame Impala, Alice Glass, Nita Strauss, Yonaka, Des Rocs, Meg Myers, Between The Buriedand Me, and Palaye Royale, among others.
Tame Impala‘s version of Hummer, a track from the Pumpkins‘
1993 LP Siamese Dream is downright luring, even more psychedelic
colored than the original.
TAME IMPALA
THE SMASHING PUMPKINS
Tracklist
01. Tame Impala – Hummer 02. Yonaka – Today 03. The Midnight – Tonight, Tonight 04. Carpenter Brut – Cherub Rock 05. Barns Courtney – 1979 06. Meg Myers – Eye 07. Palaye Royale – Bullet With Butterfly Wings 08. Between The Buried and Me – Jellybelly 09. Alice Glass – Drown 10. Starbenders – Tonight, Tonight 11. Nita Strauss – 1979 12. Bones UK – Cherub Rock 13. Moon Taxi – Thirty Three 14. Des Rocs – Bullet With Butterfly Wings 15. Urban Heat – Ava Adore
