Big Blasts From The Past

JIMMY EAT WORLD Will Celebrate The 25th Birthday Of Their 4th Album ‘BLEED AMERICAN’ On The Road

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12 February 2026

It has already been 7 years since Arizona rockers
JIMMY EAT WORLD released their 10th LP, named
Surviving.

But last November, they dropped a new single, called Failure
as part of an upcoming EP, but not a word anymore about that
EP so far. Weird.

Anyway, the band is ready now to celebrate the upcoming 25th birthday
of their 4th full-length BLEED AMERICAN (released 17 July 2001), which
featured their gigantic hit The Middle (more than 1,227 billion streams
on Spotify).

They’ll take the road starting in June.

Jim Adkins (frontman/guitarist) is enthusiastic: “I feel like at this time in our lives, especially for me, it’s important to get back to a place that you can savor. This tour is designed to be an elevated version of our show, a heightened experience with production that reflects 25 years of learning how to stretch artistically in the live environment.” Fans can expect to hear the entirety of Bleed American, along with much more they’ll have to wait to see and hear!”

All Dates here below.

– THE MIDDLE –

– FAILURE –

– BLEED AMERICAN –


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RUSH – Canadian Rockers Released One Of Their Most Popular Albums ‘MOVING PICTURES’ Today 45 Years Ago

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12 February 2026

Canadian prog rockers RUSH started their musical enterprise
way back in 1968. Forty-seven years and 19 LPs later they called
it a day.

But 10 years later, in 2015, they returned to tour. And last year they celebrated
the 50th anniversary of their-self titled debut LP, which got a deluxe reissue
treatment.

Today marks the 45th birthday of their 8th album
MOVING PICTURES, released on 12 February 1981.

It was a big hit, topping the Canadian charts and reaching #3 in both the US and UK.


Promo picture

PopMatters wrote in retrospective review: “Moving Pictures is, without any question, not only Rush’s masterpiece but one of those rare albums that epitomizes an era. It represents both a culmination and a progression: the peak of the band’s development as well as the blueprint for Rush’s subsequent work.”

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– ALBUM –


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CAROLE KING Released Her Masterpiece ‘TAPESTRY’ 55 Years Ago Today

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10 February 2026

Singular voice and songwriter CAROLE KING was
born in Brooklyn 84 years ago. She released 16 LPs
between 1970 and 2001.

Her magnum opus, TAPESTRY came out
55 years ago today, on 10 February 1971.

Rolling Stone wrote back then: “Carole King’s second album has fulfilled
the promise of her first and confirmed the fact that she is one of the most
creative figures in all of pop music. It is an album of surpassing personal
intimacy and musical accomplishment and a work infused with a sense of
artistic purpose. It is also easy to listen to and easy to enjoy.”

Turn Up the Volume says: I’m pretty sure songstresses like Sheryl Crow,
Angel Olsen, Sharon Van Etten, Adele, Céline Dion and Alanis Morissette
have this record in their collection.

SINGLE

ALBUM


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ADAM AND THE ANTS Topped The UK Album Charts With ‘KING OF THE WILD FRONTIER’ This Day 45 Years Ago

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25 January 2026

British new wave band ADAM AND THE ANTS (1977–1982) fronted by
Adam Ant (born Stuart Leslie Goddard, 71 years ago) topped the UK Charts
with their 2nd longplayer KINGS OF THE WILD FRONTIER on 25 January 1981,
today 45 years ago.

Prior to his first slot on Top of the Pops, Adam Ant got the band together in a small rehearsal room in Brixton to create a video test. Shooting stills from the monitor screen during the band performance produced some powerful images. Two days later a repeat shoot from the video recording, in a blacked-out studio, produced the sleeve image.

The Village Voice (American music magazine, 1955-2017) wrote: “The music, needless to say, is rock and roll, a clever pop-punk amalgam boasting two drummers, lots of chanting, and numerous B-movie hooks. Especially given Adam’s art-schooled vocals, I find that the hooks grate, but that may just mean that when it comes to futuristic warriors I prefer Sandinistas.”

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ALBUM

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ELVIS COSTELLO & THE ATTRACTIONS Released Their 5th Longplayer ‘TRUST’ 45 Years Ago

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24 January 2026

ELVIS COSTELLO & THE ATTRACTIONS released their
5th LP, named TRUST, 45 years ago, on 23 January 1981.

Just as the 4 previous ones, the record was produced by big friend
Nick Lowe. It went to #9 in the UK and peaked at #28 in the US.

Rolling Stone said: “It marks Elvis’s summit as a singer,
songwriter, and miserable-Irish-bastard pin-up boy.”

Elvis Costello: “A record that falls between the cracks a little bit.
It has one of the greatest Attractions performances with ‘New Lace
Sleeves.”

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ALBUM


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ARCTIC MONKEYS – Debut Album ‘EVERYTHING YOU SAY I AM, THAT’S WHAT I’M NOT’ Is 20 Today

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23 January 2026

British rock prodigies ARCTIC MONKEYS started their career in grand style with
their debut album WHATEVER PEOPLE SAY I AM, THAT’S WHAT I’M NOT.

It catapulted them immediately into indie rock stardom.

That was long before frontman/songwriter/guitarist Alex Turner came up with
his posh Elvis persona and became a crooner, and obviously wants to be the next
Nick Cave.

The album’s title was taken from a line in the novel Saturday Night and Sunday Morning, written by Alan Sillitoe. The name was chosen after Turner recognised similarities between the two works and the appropriateness of the title.

Turner: “It’s good because the book is called Saturday Night and Sunday Morning and
that’s kind of what the album is, so there’s a link there. And also, there’s a lot of people
saying a lot of things about us and you don’t have control over it.”

The album’s cover is a black-and-white photograph of Chris McClure – a close friend
of the band who was the lead singer for The Violet May and the brother of Reverend
and The Makers lead singer Jon McClure, which was taken in the early hours of a morning
at the Korova bar in Liverpool. The band had given him, his cousin, and his best friend £70 to spend on a night out.

NME said: “Our Generation’s Most Important Band. Alex Turner’s lyrics and depiction of Sheffield, and the night lives of teenagers in particular, make him a master of observation.”

No 1 SINGLE

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DAVID BOWIE Released His Cocaine Album ‘STATION TO STATION’ 50 Years Ago Today

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23 January 2026

The thin white duke DAVID BOWIE (1947 – 2016) released his 10th LP
STATION TO STATION on 23 January 1976, today 50 years ago.

It peaked at #5 in the UK, and #3 in the USA.

During the sessions, Bowie was suffering from various drug addictions, most
prominently cocaine, and subsequently stated that he recalled almost nothing
of the production.

Bowie in 1987: “I was so blocked, so stoned. It’s quite a casualty case, isn’t it.
I’m amazed I came out of that period, honest. When I see that now I cannot
believe I survived it. I was so close to really throwing myself away physically,
completely.”

Rolling Stone wrote in retrospect: “An album that was both musically
accessible and lyrically elliptical, a transition between the plastic soul of
Young Americans and the chilly electronic hum of the Berlin trilogy that
followed.”

The cover art featured a still from the film
The Man Who Fell To Earth, in which Bowie
had the main role.

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ALBUM


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Legendary Nightingales SIMON & GARFUNKEL Released Their 2nd LP ‘SOUNDS OF SILENCE’ 60 Years Ago Today

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16 January 2026

Paul SIMON (now 84) and Art GARFUNKEL (also 84) are two of the most loved and famous voices in musical history. Together they recorded/released 6 LPs between 1963 and 1970. Then they went their seperate ways, but reunited countless times afterward to play live shows.

SOUNDS OF SILENCE was their 2nd LP. It came out 60 years ago
today, on 17 January 1966. Almost all tracks were written by Simon.

It peaked at #21 in the US and #13 in the UK. Over
the next few decades it would keep on selling copies.

The album cover photo features the duo on a trail looking back
towards the camera. It was shot at Franklin Canyon Park in L.A.

AllMusic said in retropective: “Tough a rushed effort, this was a far stronger album
than their debut, mostly thanks to Simon’s compositions; indeed, in one fell swoop, the
world learned not only of the existence of a superb song-poet in Paul Simon, but, in
Simon’s harmonizing with Art Garfunkel, the finest singing duo since the Everly Brothers.”

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Remember When PETER FRAMPTON Came Alive? It’s 50 Years Ago Today

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15 January 2026

PETER FRAMPTON was only 16 when he was a member of British
pop band The Herd (1965-69), who scored a couple of top 10 hits
in the UK.

Afterward, he formed, along with Small Faces‘ frontman, the late Steve Marriott,
a group named Humple Pie (1969-1975). Frampton already left in 1971 and went
solo, but also worked, in between, with rock stars such as David Bowie, Bill Wyman
and Ringo Starr.

On 15 January 1976, today 50 years ago, he released his most successful LP,
a double one, in his career with PETER FRAMPTON COMES ALIVE!

It debuted on the charts at No. 191. Only weeks later, it reached No. 1 in the US, spending 10 non-consecutive weeks in the top spot. It was the best-selling album of 1976 and has sold over 8,000,000 copies in the United States.

AllMusic/Bruce Eder: “At the time of its release, Frampton Comes Alive! was an anomaly,
a multi-million-selling (mid-priced) double LP by an artist who had previously never burned
up the charts with his long-players in any spectacular way. The biggest-selling live album of
all time, it made Peter Frampton a household word.”

Peter Frampton: “I’m very aware that when I kick the bucket, the first paragraph will be,
‘The man responsible for Frampton Comes Alive! just dropped dead, after coming alive all
these years.'”

Frampton showed millions of screaming girls the way.

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OASIS – Their Millionseller Album ‘(WHAT’S THE STORY) MORNING GLORY’ Topped UK Charts This Day 30 Years Ago

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14 January 2026

Manchester‘s giants OASIS topped the UK Charts with their
2nd LP, millionseller (WHAT’S THE STORY) MORNING GLORY? .

The record jumped to No. 1 on 14 January 1996, today 30 years ago,
for 10 weeks. The album sold a record breaking 345,000 copies in
its first week and stayed in the charts for a phenomenal 145 weeks.

It also led to the band’s breakthrough in the US, reaching #4
on the Billboard 200 and being certified 4× platinum by the
Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA).

Rolling Stone Magazine wrote: “What’s the Story is more than a natural
progression, it’s a bold leap forward that displays significant musical and
personal growth. Tension and instability have been inherent traits of great
rock teams. For Oasis, the addition of shared genes gives their songs extra
impact and dimension.”

TUTV: I saw Oasis 28 times (so far), including
Wembley Stadion, London, on August 3. I guess
I’m a fan.


Oasis, Wembley London, August 3rd – Photo by Turn Up The Volume

Noel Gallagher: “Those songs are just a privilege to be a part of. It’s like when
you do great gigs, you come off stage and say well it was a privilege to be at that
gig, regardless of my part in it. ‘Wonderwall’, ‘Don’t Look Back’ and ‘Champagne
Supernova’ when I play them sometimes I think ‘wow it is a privilege to be a part
of this.”

Liam Gallagher at the time: “Without my voice he’d still be ironing
Clint Boons knickers.” A reference to Noel’s past as a roadie for Inspiral Carpets.

SINGLES: Some Might Say / Wonderwall /
Don’t Look Back In Anger / Champagne Supernova

– SOME MIGHT SAY –

– WONDERWALL –

– DON’T LOOK BACK IN ANGER –

– CHAMPAGNE SUPERNOVA –

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