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CROSS WIRES – British Post Punk Indies Return With Doom And Gloom Burst ‘PREACHERS’

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Daily electricity to load your batteries

26 January 2026

Band: CROSS WIRES
Who: Vehement post-punk
4-piece from Romford, UK.

So far they have released 2 albums.

Yesterday In Mourning (2023)
and A Life Extinct and #3 is canned.

Track: PREACHERS
The first single from their upcoming third album
‘Under The Watchful Eye of Another Man’s God’.
It’ll come our way on February 16th.

TUTV: As long as bands like Cross Wires are around, indie guitar rock will leave a mark with its intense, critical, middle-finger rage, and manic street preaching about social injustices.

Afer an alarming siren-like intro rabid riffs race and rush everywhere. Jonathan Chapman‘s well-oiled pipes cut like a razor-blade. Hot-button vim and vigour from start to finish.

Like the Pistols, Cross Wires mean it, man.

LYRICS

“Fear the world. The air you breathe.
Life hasn’t meaning when everything is a conspiracy.
Local sun. Hologram moon.

Don’t trust anyone but me. I’ve come to save your soul.

You’ve been indoctrinated and it’s time to let it go.
Rigged election. The plandemic. Everything is clear if
you’d just open up your eyes. Chemtrails and pizzagate.
(They don’t even have a basement)
Oh god I’m on the grift again.

Don’t trust anyone but me. I’ve come to save your soul.
You’ve been indoctrinated and it’s time to let it go.”

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UNCUT – New Ultimate Music Guide Edition With Legends THE POGUES

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19 Janaury 2026

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.

BrooklynVegan’s Best Punk Album Of 2025

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21 December 2025

Many music blogs/websites, big and small, have posted their
end-of-the-year lists (best song/album/concert/video etc).


Album artwork

Prestigious American online music magazine BrooklynVegan picked
NEVER ENOUGH, the 4th LP by hard-hitting Baltimore rockers TURNSTILE
as their best PUNK album of 2025.

“In classic Turnstile fashion, Never Enough finds them focused on pushing the catchiness, the experimentation, and the heaviness to new limits, and doing so their way and no one else’s.”


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NME’s BEST ALBUM OF 2025

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19 December 2025

Many music blogs/websites, big and small, have posted their
end-of-the-year lists (best song/album/concert/video etc).

British legendary music-zine/blog NME picked GETTING KILLED
by Brooklyn rockers GEESE. It’s their fourth.


Press photo

“Getting Killed’ should be enough to wake people up from their exhausted nostalgia and realise that New York – and guitar music at large – is alive and kicking down their front door. At least, it’s easily the album of the year. Stay wild and carry on.”


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NME’s 50 Best Albums Of 2025

SOFIA TALVIK – Swedish Americana Songstress Enchants With Acoustic Xmas Reverie ‘LET PEACE BE THE SONG’

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15 December 2025

Artist: SOFIA TALVIK
Who: Swedish songstress who has shared her songs from
the quiet forests of Sweden to the bustling streets and small
town venues across the United States, in 49 of its 50 states.

So far Talvik has released 10 albums,
countless singles and eps. All on Spotify.

Track: LET PEACE BE THE SONG
The single from her new Xmas
album Wrapped In Paper.
Stream/buy it here.

Enchanting.

“Santa if I could ask just one thing
Let peace be the song that we all sing
Let truth be the present that you bring
Let justice spread her mighty wing”

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THE DIVINE COMEDY Go Christmassy With New Reverie ‘ALL THE PRETTY LIGHTS’

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13 December 2025

Artist: THE DIVINE COMEDY
Who: The backing band of Irish
songsmith veteran Neil Hannon.

Track: ALL THE PRETTY LIGHTS
New Xmas tune that follows their praised
new LP Rainy Sunday Afternoon.


“It began with the title and a scrap of melody. That title brought to mind my family’s visit to London in the late ’70s. To be a 7-year-old in London at Christmas was like being in Mary Poppins. Utterly magical! These memories are a bit garbled and possibly enhanced with age, but the song is as much about the fallibility of memory as about nostalgia for Christmas past.”

Santa is on his way.

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