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16 May 2026
Band: THE HOWLERS
Who: British high-energy,
guitar rock tandem.
Track: VIPER
First single from their forthcoming, sophomore album,
titled Heavy, out October 9th.
For all galvanizing guitar rock fanatics.
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14 May 2026
New York‘s hair-rising, post-hardcore trio SHOW ME THE BODY
just revealed details of their new album, their 4th. It’s titled
Alone Together and will land on July 10th.
Tracklist and pre-order info here.
Album artwork
Last month, they premiered a first cut, hefty haymaker Dance In The USA.
Here comes another preview.
NO GOD is a resounding slam dunk that hits like a hammer drill.
You can join them on their kamikaze car ride at your own risk.
Tour Dates
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13 May 2026
Press picture by Olaf Heine
Last week, English symphonic hard rock titans DEEP PURPLE announced
the upcoming birth of their 24th LP, titled SPLAT! It’ll show up on July 3rd.
At the heart, SPLAT! is an idea conceived by Gillan. Rather than treating the end as destruction, the album imagines it as transformation. It explores the end of humanity
not in any crude apocalyptic sense but as a metamorphosis beyond physical existence.
Ian Gillan (vocalist): “Where we are now with this incarnation of Deep Purple feels very much like a very ‘now’ version of Deep Purple as it was in the seventies. I have to say, now we are very much back in with material that is compatible with ‘Highway Star’, ‘Smoke on the Water’, ‘Lazy’, the dynamics, the balance, and the fun of the music we made from ‘69 to ‘73.” ”
Make way for the lead single, called ARROGANT BOY.
Holy cow. They’re in their seventies but rock as if they were in their twenties. Arrogant Boy could easily have been one of their mastodonic 70s hits. Lots of smoke on the water again. Hat off.
Their extensive 2026 touring schedule will bring them
in 28 countries on three continents. All dates HERE.
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9 May 2026
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Veteran Massachusetts metalcore hotrods
CONVERGE trigger earhquakes since 1990.
The older they get, the more productive they get. In 2021 they canned
a collaborative longplayer, called Bloodmoon: I with Goth phenomen
Chelsea Wollfe.
Last February they hit hard with LP #10,
titled Love Is Not Enough.
Vacation? No way.
Full-length number 11, named Hum Of Hurt
is ready to cause amok from June 5th on.
Jacob Bannon (frontman) about new single DOOM IN BLOOM “It’s dark song
and pointed right at you. Lyrically, I’m exploring how my own middle-aged introspection
doesn’t always bring a brighter light. I see my own trappings reflected in those around
me. Here I am imploring them to slip the noose to see another day.”
Hangover? Here’s the cure.
Bang your head against your
wall of choice ’til it bleeds.
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7 May 2026
Courtesy Pussy Riot – Photo by Nikita Teryoshin
You can’t shut up the imperishable Russian political activists PUSSY RIOT and
their ever-growing fanbase. This year marks their 15th year of opposition against
the Kremlin tyranny.
Thus far, they expressed their fierce discontent with two loud and clear studio LPs,
several mixtapes and a series of barbed wire singles, and countless live protests
in their home country, in Ukraine, and in the Western world.
And now, after yesterday’s protests in Italy (more below), the band released,
in a rush, a guerrilla-made punk flamethrower, annex video of the happening.
A nasty slam dunk, called DISOBEY, comes amid the controversial Russian
return to this year’s Biennale Arte in Venice – Italy, which has led to the
EU cutting funding, the Jury resigning, and many protests. Of course, the
Pussy Riot movement was present on the front line.
Over 50 PR members stormed the Russian Pavilion at the Biennale, only yesterday.
Police were forced to close the doors of the pavilion. They tackled PR followers
who managed to get inside and open the door that was being blocked. All Pussy
Rioters wore pink ski masks and had pink smoke, they raised their fists, played
guitars, and moshed as a protest.
Time to act pronto, musically too!
Nadya Tolokonnikova (founding PR member): “I wanted to do a classic punk song,
in old school Pussy Riot style. I’ve been trying to be polite, writing letters via the Council
of Europe, writing directly to the board, to the president, to people in the art world, and
dead ends everywhere.
Polite society doesn’t work when you are dealing with thugs and crooks, so we meet
them with punk, we have to scream our anger and disdain for what is happening.
Over 50 members of Pussy Riot, from all over the world, came here
to the Storm of Venice, to scream and take part in this moment.
We quickly go into editing mode after, gathering photographers and video people,
we cut the video sitting in a cafe, and turn it around in a day, this is our actionist training
in action. This is our art, and our protest. We hope the punks, freaks, and actually anyone
who ever felt like fucking screaming to enjoy this song and moment with us. Fuck Putin.”
Video by Taisiya Krugovykh & Vasily Bogatov.
Wake up, Italy.
Wake up world.
Fuck Putin!!
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4 May 2026
📸: @visualritual
Band: SPARTA
Who: Veteran rockers from El Paso, Texas (2001–2008, 2011–2013, 2017–present).
Founding members Paul Hinojos and Tony Hajjar played also with At The Drive-In (Hajjar still does now and then).
Track: EVERYTHING YOU SAY
New piece from their forthcoming 6th album, titled
Cut A Silhouette. Out May 29th. Tracklist and order
info here.
Matt Miller (frontman/songwriter): “I love it. This is a dreamy
song about longing and love. A big scream declaring desire.”
Wake up, people.
You have the right to remain silent.
Anything you say can and will be used
against you in a court of law.
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28 April 2026
New York‘s cast-iron trio SHOW ME THE BODY have released
their first new music of 2026 with hammer and tongs haymaker
DANCE IN THE USA .
No sign yet of a 4th longplayer. Their last one
Trouble The Water came out in 2022.
Julian Cashwan Pratt (frontman): “The song is about how we implore style
to survive in this reality. It’s how we embrace the struggle of ourselves, our family’s,
and those around you. It’s the dance that we all do – how we hustle, the good
and the bad things we do – just to get through it.”
[Verse 1]
If there ain’t no heaven, this is hell on earth
You can tell me ways, but only mine will work
Hundred days a week, they playing their tricks on you
It’s a fools’ game, but I ain’t one to lose
[Chorus]
Dance in the USA
Dance for the dues paid
Dance in the USA
Dance in the USA
[Post-Chorus]
Sun shines in hell, sun shines in the city
Sun shines in the USA
Sun shines in hell, sun shines in the city
Yeah
[Verse 2]
You’re either getting fucked or you’re doing some fucking too
Time to choose
Better move quick now, baby, junkie’s gotta shoot
It’s a fools’ game, but I ain’t one to lose
TUTV: May the body force be with you, America.
Start dancing, it’s time for a big change, people.
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23 April 2026
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Sharp-mouthed rapper MGK , formerly known as Machine Gun Kelly invited his
nu-metal buddy FRED DURST, frontman of Limp Bizkit for 32 years now, to join
him for a new maddening moshpit anthem, named FIX UR FACE
MGK: “I called up my friend Fred Durst. I said, ‘Sir,
drop something on this. The rest is history.”
The accompanying video clip is directed by @samcahill. It was shot
all around the world, from Prague to Ireland to London to Germany to
the States.
Jump! Jump! Jump!
Jump! Jump! Jump!
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16 April 2026
British trip-hop icons MASSIVE ATTACK and legendary crooner-maverick
TOM WAITS have teamed up for a collaborative politically-loaded track,
named BOOTS ON THE GROUND.
It’s a loud and clear protest song, critising today’s autocratic America.
Boots On The Ground comes with a video clip created by MA & made with work by US photo artist thefinaleye. It shows the aftermath of the recent largest public protests in American history against “ICE raids, the militarisation of domestic forces, and state authoritarianism”.
The intro of the clip starts with the text “From the murder of George Floyd in Minneapolis on May 5 2020, to recent ICE raids on migrant communities and the killing of civilians that protect them,” and moves on to, “From the brutal state repression of public protest, to the reality of American homelessness that includes nearly 33,000 military veterans” and ends by detailing those who have lost their lives to ICE and the impact of oppressive retaliation to protest.
Bone-chilling in sound and vision.
The clock is ticking.
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13 April 2026
Band: THE ITCH
Who: British party-starting electro-punk
duo, Simon Tyrie and Georgia Hardy.
Track: NO MORE SPRECHGESANG
Standout from their brand new debut
album It’s The Hope That Kills You.
Tyrie: “I wrote the words ‘no more sprechgesang’ a few years ago in a notebook at
a really bad gig, being deadly serious, along with a long list of other things I wanted
to see the back of. But when I rediscovered the line in my notebook I just found it really
funny and stupid.
Now when I sing ‘no more sprechgesang’ it feels less like a call to arms and more
like a melancholic ode to the scene we once belonged to, which at the time of writing
I wanted to burn down. ”
TUTV: Boom boom boom! The Itch draw you into
a head-spinning trance with nonstop rotating beats.
Get up. Have fun.
Smash your head on
the kitchen wall
on repeat.