20 June 2026
Band: WARNING
Who: Notorious British
doom metal vets.
Album: RITUALS OF SHAME
Their brand new one
and first in 20 years.
Sputnikmusic says: “It’s absolutely insane how they can come back after 20 years and drop an album of this magnitude. Sit down, lay back and get lost in the darkness my friends.”
15 June 2026
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Band: YHWH NAILGUN
Who: Capricious postcore punks
from Philadelphia.
Album: MAGAZINE
WTF! 10 songs (well, night terrors would be a more fitting term) in 11 minutes.
Lazy bastards. Hey wait, those 11 minutes are pulse-pounding, strangling ones.
DIY Magazine says: “On ‘Magazine’ the band lean further into the intangible, proving
their status as punk mystics and seers across an album that is an 11-minute distillation
of what makes them such a force.
They wholly prove their mettle as a truly original and prophetic act.”
Note: After listening to these bloodcurdling hallucinations,
you will probaly look like the figure below, on the cover.
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For your eyes
3 June 2026
Artists: PEARLY DROPS
Who: Celebrated Finnish trippy pop duo from Helsinki.
Actually, two experienced musicians and producers,
Juuso Malin and Sandra Tervonen.
Album: THE VOICES ARE COMING BACK
Their 3rd, released last August.
Artwork by Sandra Tervonen
at Studio Pearly Drops.
The famous tandem will release a deluxe edition of that triumphant LP,
dubbed The Voices Became Louder on July 17th, featuring an impressive
cast of guests.
The original album’s as well as the deluxe edition’s cover are bizarre
and weird, but artistically amazing (so are their promo photos).
ORIGINAL
DELUXE EDITION
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27 May 2026
Bill Orcutt (left) and Mabe Fratti. Composite: PR Image/Melissa Luna
Artists: BILL ORCUTT & MABE FRATTI
Who: Miami-based veteran guitarist and the
praised, young Guatemalan cellist and vocalist.
The Guardian (English newspaper) says: “The Guatemalan newcomer
and US veteran find striking common ground on an intimate collaboration
full of agitation, complexity and uncanny chemistry.”
Ear-catching music, eye-catching cover.
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25 May 2026
Artist: BLADEE
Who: The moniker of notorious Swedish
rapper Benjamin Thage Dag Reichwal.
Album: SULFUR SURFER
His 8th in 16 years. Busy guy.
Dazed says: “This album is dense, with Bladee pastiching disparate references
to Lord of the Rings, Dragon Ball Z, Mary Poppins, Christian mysticism and more
into the postmodern artwork that is his singular musical universe, a world in which
good and evil, nihilism and hope, and, ultimately, fantasy and reality intertwine.”
I looked at the cover from different angles. I must
say that Bladee doesn’t look like a surfer at all.
COVER
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20 May 2026
Artist: SMIRK
Who: The moniker for jangly rock singer-songwriter Nick Vicario based in
Connecticut, US.
Album: SPECULATIVE FICTION
His 3rd. Out July 3rd.
First single Dog Years is what jangly-jingly riffs sound like.
16 May 2026
Promo shot
Band: SUBLIME
Who: Ska punks from
Long Beach, California.
Album: UNTIL THE SUN EXPLODES
Their 4th and first in 30 (!) years.
First Single
14 May 2026
Band: COLA
Who: Canadian indie rock trio, formed in 2020
featuring two members of split band Ought.
Album: COST OF LIVING ADJUSTMENT.
Their 3rd.
No idea what the cover is about. No clues provided by the band either.
Rolling Stone says: “You want dystopian guitar grooves exploring all the ways that the capitalist grind corrodes your hopes, your dreams, your very soul? You’ve come to the right place. The Canadian art-punk trio bring dynamic passion and determination, and actual melodies — on their excellent third album”
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TOUR DATES
5 May 2026
Press
Artists: HEITH & TARAWANGSA WELAS
Who: Experimental, instrumental duo, Milan-based artist/musician Daniele Guerrini (Heith) and Indonesian musician Teguh Permana (Tarawangsawelas). They produce a distinctive “5th world music in low data mode,” blending experimental electronic sounds with traditional Indonesian elements.
Album: DUORI
It’s released today.
Otherworldly Eastern
trip-hop. Quite special.
19 April 2026
Band: MAN BAND
Who: New project of British musicians Chainy Rabbit
and Daniel Sargent who were both in another band,
named Ohhms.
Album: STRONG MAN
Their debut.
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