Coming Up 2026

PUSSY RIOT Unleash Debut Album ‘CYKA’ On June 12th – Info & Two Bloodthirsty Singles Right Here

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3 June 2026


Photo by Max Avdeev

You can’t shut up the imperishable Russian collective of political and feminist activists PUSSY RIOT and their global fanbase. This year marks their 15th year of opposition against the Kremlin tyranny.

A couple of weeks ago, the clamorous PRs showed up at the Venice Biennale, the so-called “Olympics of the art world”, timed deliberately, to coincide with Russia‘s controversial return to the event. The stunt made headlines globally.

Mastermind and driving force since day one is NADYA TOLOKONNIK, who spent two years, along with fellow pussy riotiours Yekaterina Samutsevich and Maria Alyokhina, in a
Russian jail for hooliganism motivated by religious hatred after her protest performance
in the Cathedral of Christ the Saviour church in 2012.

Thus far, they have expressed their fierce discontent through several mixtapes,
a series of barbed-wire singles, and countless live protests in their home country,
Ukraine, and the Western world.

And on June 12th, the debut album, titled CYKA, will be unleashed.


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Ahead of it, you can start screaming and shouting
in the streets to these 2 bloodthirsty singles.

– DISOBEY –

Nadya: “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.

– CANDY DOPAMINE –

“This song is kind of a love & hate song to prescription and designer drug culture.
It started with my dependence on anti depressants, but it’s also looking at everyone
now mentalhealthmaxxing and looksmaxxing via pills and injections.

It’s not a judgement, it’s just an observation and my personal experience with
these things is that I have to be in a long term relationship with them for my
PTSD and depression.”

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THE CHRONICLES OF MANIMAL AND SAMARA – Intimidating Poetic Metal Duo Launch 4th LP In June – Hear 3 Stunning Tracks Right Here

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18 May 2026

Band: THE CHRONICLES OF MANIMAL AND SAMARA
Who: London-based DIY duo – Daphne Ang (Singapore) and Andrea Papi (Italy)
that fills a gap in music by bringing literature, art, and history together into a
space where rock and metal meet electronica.

New album: MISANTROPI
Their 4th. It’ll land on June 22th.
Tracklist and pre-order info here.

Press info: “‘Misantropi‘ presents a raw, unfiltered manifesto for those who despise humanity. According to the duo, this album is: rue to their roots, the album melds spoken poetry and spoken word over heavy metal riffs, but with a new emphasis on going back to the classic set up of drums, bass, and guitars. There is more singing and melodic vocals, adding a visceral human element to their already intense sound.


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TCOMAS: “The album is human made. It’s played with real instruments, with hands,
feet, vocal cords, and human body parts. It’s raw and unfiltered. It is for those who see
through the facade and aren’t afraid to admit that they hate what we have become.”

So far, the duo has offered 3 stunning previews.

– LUCKY DUCKER –
It features a staggering 131 swear words throughout its 247-word-long lyric in this
deafening 4,49 minute bombshell. Cult crime movie Scarface (1983) with Al Pacino as
coke king Tony Montana has 266 fucks, but spread over 170 minutes, so TCOMAS win
the swear contest, by far.

– THE LAST PLAGUE –
A rare slow-mo piece, burning slowly but
fiercely with an ominous and enigmatic progression.

Intimidating and transfixing.

– GIROTONDO –
Metallica-like shocker peaking
on the fistpumping chorus.

Helter skelter.

All 3 together on Spotify


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JON SPENCER Riffs His Butt Off On The First 2 Singles Of His New Upcoming LP

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13 May 2026

Blues rock veteran JON SPENCER has been riffin’ around since 1983. He did so, with…
take a deep breath, his first band Pussy Galore, his gang the Blues Explosion, with his wife Christina Martinez‘s in Boss Hog, with his group the Hitmakers, and now as a trio (under his own name) with Kendall Wind on bass and Spider Bowman on drums.

They have an album, called SONGS OF PERSONAL LOSS AND PROTEST, out on June 12th.

Tracklist and pre-order info here.

Press info: “Garage punk for today, hyper-driven soul and powerhouse grooves,
beats hard as diamonds and slick as ice, fuzz bass in your face, and an avalanche
of uncontrollable urges, pushing Jon’s latest outbursts — hollering, drooling, sexified crooning, and vociferously lamenting these difficult times — to new levels of rock’n’roll expressionism.”

Ahead of the album, we get these 2 riff-insane sucker-punches.

– KNOCK ‘EM OUT –

– ORANGE SLICE BLUES –

Tour Dates – Instagram – Linktree

Belgian Noise Freaks EMPTY HEAD Release Their Debut LP On May 29th – Info & Their 3 Bonkers Singles Right Here

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Soon on your stereo

8 May 2026


Photo: Vincent Press

Band: EMPTY HEAD

Who: Hefty Belgian noise-rock outfit, formed in 2020 in Liege, Belgium.
They produce an explosive mix of punk energy, raging guitar riffs and
infectious melodies, fully formed and bristling with a wiry tension.

Their music sits somewhere between the dance-floor swagger of Viagra Boys
and the explosive urgency of The Hives. Raw yet subtle. Visceral, unpredictable.
Their feverish brand of rock is a true call to let go.

Album: FREAK SHOW
Their debut. Out May 29th.

Tracklist and pre-order info HERE.


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Ahead of the release these freaks
gave us 3 singles to prepare for
the ultimate, upcoming storm.

– VINCENT –
Schizo electricity.

– CONQUEST –
Blasting psych-punk.

– DOWN THE RABBIT HOLE –
Knife-edged kamikaze.

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THE ALL-AMERICAN REJECTS Launch Their 5th LP ‘SANDBOX’ On May 15th – Hear 6 Prodigious Tracks Out Of The 12

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28 April 2026

Oklahoma‘s rock champs,  THE ALL-AMERICAN REJECTS, haven’t been
really quite active during their 27-year career. So far, only 5 full-lengths,
new one included.

The new one is titled SANDBOX. It’ll be launched
on May 15th. Tracklist & pre-order info here.

Tyson Ritter (frontman) told NYC’s magazine Paper: “This album has taken
a lot of fireside chats, and a lot of mending fences. I think I said in an interview
before. People don’t really want a new All-American Rejects record.

People want their time capsule and want to jump into it and feel like they smell
CK One and it makes them feel young. But the question I pose is, ‘What if we can
say something now? What if we can actually resonate?’”

TUTV: The band have already previewed 6 out of the 12 LP’s tracks.
Six fucktastic rockers, definitely harbingers for a prodigious album.
And when, unexpectedly, the other 6 pieces would be stinkers, we’ll
still have a half-whopping record I’ll play until my ears bleed.

– KING KONG –

– SEARCH PARTY! –

– EGGSHELL TAP DANCER –

– GET THIS –

– SANDBOX –

– EASY COMES EASY GO –

All 6 on Spotify


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THE ROLLING STONES Release Their 25th Album ‘FOREIGN TONGUES’ In July

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After a series of cryptic billboards popped up across the globe,
the past few days, it looks like The Rolling Stones have revealed
the title of their upcoming album.

The billboards feature the iconic Stones logo and the same phrase repeated
in various languages. In Dutch, it says VREEMDE TONGEN, which means in English,
FOREIGN TONGUES. Different fan groups on social media say that the LP will be
out in July. It’ll be their 25th, following 2023’s comeback Hackney Diamonds.

The news comes after the release of last week’s vinyl-only single,
called Rough & Twisted, under an old alias, The Cockroaches.

On April 10th, the red-hot-cooking rock blues intro of the song was shared
under the Instagram account of thecockroaches2026, whether this was with
the band’s fiat is not known, but the clip is still online, so I guess Jagger & Co
knew about it.

Listen here.

TRICKY Will Launch His 15th Album ‘DIFFERENT WHEN IT’S SILENT’ In July – Discover First Single ‘OUT OF PLACE’

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23 April 2026

Tired of his limited role with Massive Attack, trip-hop bigwig TRICKY (born Adrian
Nicholas Matthews Thaws in Bristol-UK 58 years ago) wanted to do his own thing.

So, 31 years ago (I know, sounds like ages), he
left MA and started his significant solo career.

On July 17th, he will launch his 15th full-length.
It’s named Different When It’s Silent. Tracklist
and pre-order info here.

Press info: “‘Different When It’s Silent’ follows a prolific period of activity. Since 2020’s ‘Fall to Pieces’ LP, Tricky has released music under several different guises, all via his own label, ‘False Idols’. Yet returning to an album under his own name took on a different shape. For Tricky it was another side project, until ehis manager Alan McGee felt the songs clearly belonged to a Tricky record.’

Tricky (who lost his daughter Mina, who took her own life, in 2019) : “Since my daughter died, I want to work. I want to do stuff. But all the press, being on camera, everything just changed when she died. I’ve never been a pop star as such but: that made me even more
want to go in the background.”

In 2020, he released his heart-wrenching LP Fall To Pieces that dealt with his terrible loss.

“Emotionally, I’m saying I’m ready to start my life again. I’m looking forward to touring. I want to record. I was emotionally paralysed. Now I’m moving again. And sonically, this lets people know: if you have your own sound, you’ll never go out of fashion. When genres come and go, you’ll still be there. This album says that – nothing sounds like it.”

The lead single is titled OUT OF PLACE and features
his collaborator of late, Marta Zlakowska, on vocals.

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POND – Australian Psych Rockers Launch Their 11th LP In June – Info & First Two Singles Right Here

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16 April 2026

Band: POND
Who: Popular psych-rock
vets from down under.

New album: TERRESTRIALS
Their 11th. Out on June 19th.
Pre-order info here.

Press info: “Terrestrials is a cyclone of urgent, scorched earth rock’n’roll, tipping
the hat to the sounds of then while squarely facing up to the here and now.

Conceived from a place of reverence for a particularly potent epoch in Oz rock, Terrestrials mines the sound of open sky melancholia, heat haze sizzling on the plains and jangly pub backrooms that hits an eternally poignant nerve for anyone familiar with the sound, time and place.”

Two spaced-out tasters so far.

– TERRESTIALS –

A both glittery and far-out tune
with a supercharged finale.

– TWO HANDS –

Funky groover.
Edgy earworm.

Linktree – All Albums

Danish Glammy Rockers ICEAGE Release 6th LP On May 29 – Info And First 2 Singles Here

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9 April 2026


Photo by Alva Le Febvre

After Danish glam indies ICEAGE released their superb 5th album, titled Seek Shelter frontman Elias Bender Rønnenfelt wanted a hiatus for the band so he could do his own stuff, writing poetry and recording/releasing 2 solo LPs, Heavy Glory (2024) and Speak Daggers (2025).

Now it’s Iceage time again.

They bagged their 6th LP, baptized it FOR LOVE OF GRACE & THE HEREAFTER and
they will share it with the world on May 29th. Tracklist and pre-order info here.


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Press info: “Across the sprawling, twelve song arc of the album, a universe of love variously expands and contracts in an eternal tango, Elias Rønnenfelt’s lyrics burn with apocalyptic intimacy while the band masterfully maneuvers within their shape-shifting scenery of feral post-punk.”

Two previews, so far.

– STAR –
Pavement-like jam

– EMBER –
Delirious upsurge

Instagram – Spotify – All Albums

KURT VILE Annouces New Album And Many Tour Dates – Hear First Single ‘CHANCE TO BLEED’

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7 April 2026

The now 48-year-old electric folk star KURT VILE was born in Lansdowne, Pennsylvania, 
and lives now in Philly. He’s so happy about his state that he named his upcoming new,
10th LP Philadelphia’s Been Good To Me. It’ll appear on May 29th.

Lead single CHANCE TO BLEED is Vile, alright. Lazy, feel-good, and sparkling guitar play.

North American Tour 2026

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