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FRANZ FERDINAND Can’t Stop Touring – New 2026 Dates For EU/UK Announced

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Scottish rock vets FRANZ FERDINAND released their 6th LP (in 21 years),
named The Human Fear at the beginning of this year, then started an
extensive tour.

And as the cliché goes ‘due to public demand‘ FF will keep on rolling in 2026.


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JEFF TWEEDY & WILCO Organize Third Edition Of Their ‘SKY BLUE SKY FESTIVAL’ In MEXICO In January 2026

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JEFF TWEEDY and his band WILCO will have, after two inactive years, the third edition of their own Sky Blue Sky Festival, next year from January 15 to 19 at the Hard Rock Hotel Riviera Maya in Mexico.

LINE-UP

The Autumn Defense
Cameron Winter
Case Oats
Dr. Dog
How Long Gone (Live Podcast)
Hurray for the Riff Raff
The Jayhawks
Jeff Tweedy
Michael Shannon & Jason Narducy & Friends Play R.E.M.
MJ Lenderman & the Wind
Valerie June
Waxahatchee
Wilco
Yo La Tengo

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PRIMAL SCREAM Got Their Rocks Off (Again) At Their Life-Celebrating Jamboree In The Netherlands

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14 June 2025

PRIMAL SCREAM was conceived in Scotland in 1982. That’s a looooong time ago. And it was a highly turbulent journey with good to sublime albums (with 1991’s Screamadelica as their magnum opus), chaotic gigs, and human drama (guitarist Robert Young passed away in 2014, only 49 and keyboardist Martin Duffy died in 2022 after a fatal fall at his home).

As of today, frontman/lyricist Bobby Gillespie and guitarist Andrew Innis (both 63 now) are the only original members, with awesome bassist Simone Marie Butler (since 2013) and relentless drummer Darrin Mooney (since 1997) as longtime additions.

Last November The Scream released their 12th, critically acclaimed LP,
named Come Ahead (with Gillespie‘s young father on the cover).

NME said: “Personal and political, Bobby Gillespie and co’s David Holmes-assisted first album in eight years wants us to dance our way to justice… ‘Come Ahead’ may have a whole lot of funk on its surface but still packs oodles of punk and grenades of protest in its trunk.” Score 4/5.

New album, new tour.

The band is in my Top-5 of best live ones for a very long time now, so when they
landed in The Netherlands, in the cozy city of Utrecht last Monday, I was upfront for
another spiritual Primal Scream gathering.

Yes, that’s what a PS concert is all about. It’s an euphoric and uplifting celebration of
life (oh yeah, just look around, hug your beloved family and friends, it’s not like if all in
our tormented world is shit), a festive jamboree for your heart, soul and vocal cords. Screamdelica‘s highlights Don’t Fight It Feel It, Movin’ Up, Loaded, as Come Together are
the emotive exponents of the exuberant mindset throughout the night.

The fact that a full orchestra is up there, including two soul-powered voices and a sultry saxophonist, shows the group’s determination to walk it like they talk it and give the people an all-in sonic gospel-like treatment.

The album’s singles Ready To Go Home, Love Insurrrection and The Centre Cannot Hold, fitted the fervent flow just perfectly. A couple of other newbies were integrated, but of course everybody went berserk when the aforementioned e-tastic highlights and 24 Carat firecrackers Rocks, Jailbird, Medication, and Country Girl made the sweaty venue shake to its foundations. What can I say. There’s no such thing as an expiration date for The Scream. Not on record, not on stage. Hail hail!

An idea of the live Scream spirit

SETLIST

1. Don’t Fight It, Feel It
2. Love Insurrection
3. Jailbird
4. Ready to Go Home
5. Deep Dark Waters
6. Medication
7. Innocent Money
8. Heal Yourself
9. I’m Losing More Than I’ll Ever Have
10. Love Ain’t Enough
11. The Centre Cannot Hold
12. Loaded
13. Swastika Eyes
14. Movin’ on Up
15. Country Girl

Encore:

16. Melancholy Man
17. Come Together
18. Rocks

COME AHEAD


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THE FLAMING LIPS – Pyschedelic Eccentrics Impress (Again) With An Eye-And-Ear Catching Spectacle In ANTWERP BELGIUM

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5 June 2025

Every single time I saw THE FLAMING LIPS perform (about 10 times now) it was a special spectacle, visually and sonically. And the over the years expanding visual attractions that fit the theatrical music perfectly, make every concert, an even more spiritual and unforgettable experience.

Exactly what happened again last Friday in Antwerp, Belgium when the Lips played their magical 2002 album Yoshimi Battles the Pink Robots in full, followed by a fan favorites set.

The whole bombastic extravaganza includes two huge (plastic) pink robots, massive confetti raining, multi-colored balloons, a lasers-directed light show, gigantic eyeballs, goblins, puppets, an inflatable rainbow and lost of other bedazzling attributes. In the middle of it all, glam & glitter magician Wayne Coyne, conducts the psychedelic rock opera.

He doesn’t stop to encourage the willing audience to scream, scream and just scream.
His keyword is LOVE. “Scream it, c’mon, scream it”. Get the loud picture? I bet you have.

The Lips are all about putting on a carnival-esque, ear-and-eye catching raree-show
filled with orchestral epicness, ecstatic highs and 60s cinematic romanticism where demons and dragons get floored and love conquers all. It’s phenomenally entertaining
and extremely mind-boosting. I only saw happy faces, and adrenaline-elated, dancing people. MAGIC! PURE MAGIC! Come back soon.

The set’s fantastic closer.

Part 1 – Yoshimi Battles the Pink Robots album in full

Fight Test
One More Robot/Sympathy 3000-21
Yoshimi Battles the Pink Robots, Pt. 1
Yoshimi Battles the Pink Robots, Pt. 2
In the Morning of the Magicians
Ego Tripping at the Gates of Hell
Are You a Hypnotist??
It’s Summertime
Do You Realize??
All We Have Is Now
Approaching Pavonis Mons by Balloon (Utopia Planitia)

Part 2

She Don’t Use Jelly
Flowers of Neptune 6
The Spark That Bled
Pompeii Am Götterdämmerung
Waitin’ for a Superman
The Golden Path
(The Chemical Brothers cover)
Riding to Work in the Year 2025 (Your Invisible Now)
The Yeah Yeah Yeah Song (With All Your Power)

Encores

True Love Will Find You in the End
(Daniel Johnston cover)
Race for the Prize


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CRACKS – Young Belgian Punk Gunslingers Shoot From The Hip

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23 May 2025

Lately Belgian groups form, show up and nail it faster than you can say
“Trump is an idiot.” Small country, big bands. I experienced the irrefutable
fact that razor blade punk ‘n’ roll belongs to young, hungry and thirsting
gunslingers again, not to money-greedy institutions such as Green Day,
Metallica, AC/DC and those Guns ‘n Roses poseurs.

Mind you, these businessmen fabricated some great stuff along their careers,
but their original, genuine frame of mind and middle finger gusto of yesteryear
is long gone. They all became/are capitalist dinosaurs.

Make way, oldtimers, for CRACKS. Five young, hungry gunslingers. Last Thursday
they landed in my hometown of Ghent, to turn sweaty club Kinky Star upside down.

From the first chord, the first drum hit and the first primal scream on, my trained
ears knew some roasting racket was about to fill the place. And that’s exactly what happened.

Picture this. A spit and sneer frontman with black sunglasses on (I dig the witty
arrogance) backed by a riff-roasting artillery. No breaks, no brakes. The Stooges‘ motto search and destroy was omnipresent, very loud and very clear. Uppercut after uppercut after uppercut.

These motherrockers came, saw and blew the roof off. If they were the only band of the red-hot night, they would still be playing this very moment. Their lust for life and insatiable appetite to be your dog is huge. They bite and excite. Don’t miss them. Cracks zijn krakken.

Now, let the music do the talking. Here’s their debut EP Don’t Let This Get
To Your Head. Five Molotov cocktails that will test your stereo’s resilience.


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