New Album Alert 2026

God Bless CYPRESS HILL – Hip-Hop Legends Release New All Spanish Album ‘DIOS BENDIGA’

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24 July 2026

It has been 4 years since hip-rap-hop dopeheads
CYPRESS HILL released LP #10 with Back In Black.

But the wait is over. Full-length number 11, named DIOS BENDIGA (Spanish for ‘God Bless’) is out now. An album performed entirely in Spanish that aims to highlight their Latin roots and reconnect directly with their cultural heritage.

Press info: “Hip-hop legends Cypress Hill were the first Latino-American hip-hop
group to achieve platinum and multiplatinum success. In partnership with Hybe
Latin America, they present the first, fully Spanish-language album of their career.

This is a deeply personal and spiritual project for the group that highlights
their Latin roots and reconnects directly with their cultural heritage.”

TUTV: Prepare your ears, your hips, and by extension your whole body for a hip-rap-hop summer fiesta. With Cypress Hill, cocktail-flavored fun is guaranteed. Their word-waterfall dynamism and insane-in-the-brain eurhythmics are key (once again).

MAGA idiots will probably whine again that American artists sing in Spanish (remember their Bad Bunny hate?). Que se jodan! Music doesn’t have (language) boundaries.

Once upon a time Bob Dylan sang “I would not feel so all alone / Everybody must get stoned.”
Dios Bendiga has the vivid vibes to get high (with/without weed). Shake your booty, folks.

Singles.

– CAMPEONES –

– WACHA TRUTA –

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LENNY KAYE – At 79 Longtime PATTI SMITH Guitarist Has His Mellow Solo Debut Album Out

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21 July 2026


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Artist: LENNY KAYE
Who: Best known as the longtime guitarist for
more than 50 years, of Patti Smith‘s band.

Album: GOIN’ LOCAL
At 79, and after a zillion years in the music
business, Kaye released his solo debut LP.

Kaye: “I feel like I’m a new artist. I think this album will surprise
those who think they know me from what I’ve done previously.”


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Mojo: “His unguarded tenderness can be disarmingly guileless,
an unexpected and welcome evolution from the godfather of
garage rock.”

TUTV: Well, you’re obviously never too old to put out your debut LP. Of course,
after half a decade playing in Patti Smith’s band, Kaye knows what is needed to
deliver appealing goods.

You would expect Kaye to come up with a bunch of full-on rockers, instead, except
for the wired-up title track and Solstice, he chooses mellow Americana romanticism,
and his warm voice fits the sweet-toned mood like a glove. Touchy-feely musings and dreamy ballads sign for a tenderhearted record.

Get in your laid-back rockin’ chair and let
yourself be entertained by Goin’ Local.

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HAVVK – Irish Alt Rock Duo Deliver New Intense Roller Coaster Album With ‘TIME WILL KILL’

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20 July 2026

Band: HAVVK
Who: Steamy punk rock duo
from Ireland. Vocalist Julie Hough and
multi-instrumentalist Matt Harris

Album: TIME WILL KILL
Their 4th.

Press info: At its core, the album taps into a powerful,
universal tension: the race against time.

Vocalist Julie Hough has battled insomnia for many years and is diagnosed with ADHD, which continues to inform HAVVK’s work, with this new album delving deeper into themes of restlessness, vulnerability, and the fragile line between exhaustion and clarity.

It captures the restless feeling that life is moving faster than we can keep up, where unfinished to-do lists, lost passions, and the urge to make a real impact all collide.

Set against a backdrop of global and national unrest, the album confronts the guilt
and conflict of pursuing personal meaning while the world feels like it’s unravelling.

The album frames meaningful relationships as both a lifeline and a quiet act
of resistance, highlighting the human drive to stay present in an unstable world.

TUTV: HAVVK alternate punked-up belters with flaming torch songs. Julie Hough‘s
gutsy vocals infuse all tracks, speedy or slow, heavy or quieter, with tenacious panache. She ventilates and challenges her mental health problems with all the force she has in
her heart and soul. It makes Time Will Kill a vociferous and intense roller coaster album.

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TRICKY – Trip-Hop Groove Master Welcomes You Once Again Into His Cosmic Space With New LP ‘DIFFERENT WHEN IT’S SILENT’

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17 July 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.

Today his new 15th full-length DIFFERENT WHEN IT’S SILENT is out.

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 his manager Alan McGee felt the songs clearly belonged to a Tricky record.’

TUTV: The longtime trip-hop master didn’t/doesn’t change his sonic palette for the past
few years/albums. Not necessary whatsoever to my satisfied ears. His tense and tenebrific trademark synth-grooves, mostly mid-tempo, still have a transfixing and chilling effect.

And as ever, a vocal partner (in the early years Martina Topley-Bird, then Marta Zlakowska and Francesca Belmonte as the most notable) is an instrumental part
of Tricky‘s overall bewildering sound.

This time it’s young, riveting Bristol voice Mitch Sanders who co-stars for the greater
part with Tricky‘s whispering vocals in the back, engendering the familiar, spookish twilight atmosphere. Again Tricky makes you feel comfortable in his cliffhanging cosmic space.

Standout Tracks: Singles Because I Don’t Know and I’m Yours /
Paris Maybe / So Cold / Piano / Frontier Town and Out Of Place.

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XIU XIU Fascinate with A Hallucinatory Sonic Odyssey On ‘ERASERHEAD XIU XIU’

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16 July 2026

Californian experimental duo XIU XIU deliver their second LP honoring the iconic filmmaker David Lynch (1946-2025), with their musical vision of his first pitch-black, surreal fantasy movie Eraserhead from 1977. It tells the story of a bizarre man who
tries to survive his industrial environment, his angry girlfriend, and the unbearable screams of his newborn mutant child.

This new XX’s project is named ERASERHEAD XIU XIU

Movie trailer.

Press info: “In 2016, with the blessing of David Lynch and Angelo Badalamenti, Xiu Xiu released and toured the surprisingly successful album Plays The Music Of Twin Weaks.

Now they return with Eraserhead Xiu Xiu. A new live concert with accompanying film
and full-length album that uses field recordings, concert specific homemade instruments, organ, modular synths, vocals, flashlights, electrical interference, and elements of musique concrete to express the bizarre emotionality, conflicted sexuality, relentless darkness, and singularly unsettled moonscape of this most incredible of midnight masterpieces.

The album itself is a masterpiece in sound collage and experimentation, shifting
from minimal auditory sensations to a clobbering, grotesque cacophony.”

TUTV: XX’s hallucinatory sonic odyssey is as outlandish, Kafkaesque, and
phantasmagorical as the movie. You need to take time, separate yourself from
your surroundings, dim the light, and sit down to immerse yourself, with your
earphones on, in the petrifying, distorted sound disturbance spread across
7 trance-like (long and short) tracks.

Don’t go to sleep immediately after.

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THE ROLLING STONES – It’s Only Rock And Roll But We Like ‘FOREIGN TONGUES’

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11 July 2026

Eternal rock icons THE ROLLING STONES have their 25th LP, FOREIGN TONGUES out.

The Telegraph (English newspaper) writes: “There is more than enough vitality,
wit, richness, energy and joy on offer here to make the case that rock ’n’ roll still
rules in the modern pop firmament, and the Stones remain its greatest advocates.’

TUTV: As expected, nothing un-Stonesque on this new longplayer.

Jagger (82), Richards (82) and Wood (79) are still addicted to piping hot blues crackers (Rough And Twisted / Never Wanna Lose You / Covered In You), they still know how to rock
out with lots of decibels (In The Stars / Mr Charm / Never Wanna Loose / Hit Me In The Head / Side Effects) and they still come up with powerful ballads (Jealous Lover / Ringing Hollow / Some Of Us / Back In Your Life).

Overall, it’s a bit much of the same, close family to their previous LP Hackney Diamonds. Catchy tunes, but no memorable ones for the future. No fillers, but no real killers either.

On the other hand, it’s quite spectacular to hear a 64-year-old band generating
so much ardency, fervency and vibrancy. Foreign Tongues displays a joie de vivre
many young groups can learn from.

The Stones could have retired a very long time ago.
But rock ‘n’ blues roll was/is and will always be in
their hearts and souls. Hats off. Bless them.

Singles.

– ROUGH AND TWISTED –

– IN THE STARS –

– JEALOUS LOVER –

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Amazing Album Artwork – Cover Of The New One By Famous R&B Songstress KELELA

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10 July 2026


Promo pic

Artist: KELELA
Who: Widely lauded R&B songstress
from Washington D.C.

Album: NEW AVATAR
Her 3rd. Out now.

Stereogum says: “The album thrives on elegant abrasion. The guitars are some of the record’s most exciting textures, rubbing against Kelela’s voice instead of simply supporting it. Sometimes it’s scratchy, fuzzy like steel wool, at others, it’s like wind picking up dust from a construction site.”

One fourth trip-hoppy, one fourth dancy, one fourth vibey and one fourth dreamy.


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MARY IN THE JUNKYARD – English Indie Newcomers Triumph With Debut Album ‘ROLE MODEL HERMIT’

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7 July 2026


Credit: Xander Lewis

Band: MARY IN THE JUNKYARD
Who: Post-rock-punk indie trio
from London.

Album: ROLE MODEL MERMIT
Their debut.

Press info: A record bursting with creativity and experimentation.
A blend of dark fables, intricate melodies and moments of revelation.


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NME: “On their long-awaited first record, the London trio continue weaving fantastical tales with their surreal sound. The record’s sinewy assurance and structure across its first half also forms a trap, at times more constraint than conduit for the trio’s natural charisma. Across the latter half, the music again feels like a shared pact for dreaming, structures that build and wind. Sometimes magic is all in the details, grand or granular.”

TUTV: MITJ create capricious, entrancing, voltaic indie music with tortoise-like,
torch-burning songs. As inventive and adventurous as their countrymen Black Country,
New Road and English Teacher. They don’t rock, they don’t punk, they don’t pop, they
don’t scream and shout.

They embed illusory and poetic meditations into cloudy compositions with a mesmerising intimacy and creaking violin moments. Guitarist Clari Freeman-Taylor‘s vocals are weirdly charming and instrumental for this engrossing debut triumph. Wrap yourself in their imaginative spheres. It’s a transfixing place to be in.

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No Expiration Date For DEEP PURPLE – Their New Album ‘SPLAT!’ Is An Old Skool Hard Rock Turbine

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3 July 2026

English legendary hard rock titans DEEP PURPLE have
their 24th album, titled SPLAT! out. Order info here

Press info: 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.” ”

MOJO Magazine (British music monthly): “Producer Bob Ezrin has turned up
the group’s Deep Purple-ness without lapsing into self-parody. Most of the songs
here crack along at a furious pace.”

TUTV: No expiration date for Deep Purple, who score here a high-voltage,
hard-rocking piece de resistance. Yes, after more than 5 decades they still
sound the same, with all DP’s characteristics on all cylinders: jumbo tunes,
staggering orchestrations, symphonic organ vibrancy, old skool guitar solos
and Ian Gillan‘s still brobdingnagian vocals, but the all-around, non-stop
puissant forcefulness is timelessly strong.

Never change a winning formula. Headstrong hellraisers like Arrongant Boy,
Diabolo, The Only Horse In Town, Guilty Trippin’ and Sacred Land show us why
Deep Purple still is a fireball turbine.

KEY SINGLE

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Their extensive 2026 touring schedule will bring them
in 28 countries on three continents. All dates HERE.

BETH ORTON Lights Spiritual Candelight Delight With 9th LP ‘THE GROUND ABOVE’

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26 June 2026


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British long-time renowned singer-songwriter BETH ORTON has her
9th full-length, titled THE GROUND ABOVE out today. Order info here.

Press info: “For more than 30 years, Beth Orton has been our antenna to the cosmos,
the poet laureate of forces too vast to take in all at once. A testament to her artistry,
the album her most direct and unapologetic music to date.

Urgent, raw, embodied and emotionally fearless, moving between subconscious expression and expansive, timeless song craft. Her voice, from whispered incantation
to primal wail, equally delivers melodies reminiscent of classic songbook form. Throughout the album, Orton documents survival and renewal, motherhood and identity, political unease, and the ongoing choice to stay – in love, in art, and in the world.”

TUTV: Orton lights candlelight delight, starring her vulnerable, slightly hoarse,
but very absorbing voice. She translates ruminative life-mattering thoughts into
moving music that evokes the listener’s silent attention for the full 47 minutes.
The Ground Above is a enthrallingly bittersweet humdinger of a record.

A spiritual companion for tranquil moments.


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