15 July 2026
Promo pic, taken in Paris
Atlanta‘s metal giants MASTODON announced the birth of their 9th LP via their
socials (see below). They named it MARROW DEEP. It’ll land on planet Earth on
August 28th. More info here.
And as usual, Mastodon come up with album artwork to
stare at for a while and try to figure out what’s all in there.
Hear the 2 shared singles.
– SNAKES FOR DINNER –
– YOUR GHOST AGAIN –
TOUR DATES
13 July 2026
New York‘s foolproof, post-hardcore-rock hellraisers SHOW ME THE BODY
just release of their new full-length, their 4th. It’s named Alone And Together.
Kerrang says: “One of post-hardcore’s most consistently exciting and invigorating
bands has found a new gear and cemented themselves as a band for everyone,
regardless of taste.”
Rock ‘n’ roll pigeons on the cover.
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6 July 2026
Cover art by Dami (@stinkydam) and Elizabeth Shogry
Artists: LAIKA
Who: Bedroom pop collective
from Pittsfield, Massachusetts.
Album: METAMORPHOSES
TUTV: Wonderful artwork.
Day-night-and-inbetween
dream music.
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2 July 2026
Artist: NIXON BOYD
Who: Singer-songwriter from Ontario, Canada
who’s also the guitarist of indie rock band Hollerado.
Album: EVERY TIME WE TURN A CORNER
Stereogum says: “What makes this album so special is his
lyrical and sonic sparseness. Bare bones, bare feelings.”
Eye-catching LP cover, ear-catching tunes.
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29 June 2026
Artist: CHANEL BEADS
Who: Musical project of American art-pop
singer-songwriter Shane Lavers.
Album: YOUR DAY WILL COME
His 2nd LP, named exactly the same
as his debut one from 2024.
NME says: “The New York artist is all about refinement rather than repetition. The songs add up to a melodic, daring work that poses knotty questions about the reflexivity of listening and whether it’s possible for an artist to achieve a clean break from expectations, like a dissertation you can kick back to.”
Eh, hello to you too.
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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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