New Album Alert 2026

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

Posted on by JL

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

ALBUM


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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’

Posted on by JL

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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Album on Spotify – Instagram – Linktree

SWIM DEEP – Indie Idols Seduce With Bittersweet Pop Melancholia On New Album ‘HUM’

Posted on by JL

23 June 2026


Photo: Luca Bailey

Band: SWIM DEEP
Who: English indie pop
stars from Birmingham.

New Album: HUM
Their 5th.

NME says: “A career high. While other artists, they came up with, have
called it quits, the British indie band have kept moving forward. Their fifth
album rewards that resilience with some of their most beautiful work yet.”

TUTV: Bittersweet pop melancholia sugar-coats this new opus. It has a similar intimate
and treasuring life-and-love idealisation of Coldplay‘s 1998 debut Parachutes. Three-hanky sweet (a bit too much at times), but genuine and honest-to-goodness. Heart-and-soul stirring stories, familiar to some of us. Swim Deep

KEY SINGLES

ALBUM


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POND – Psych Pop Rockers From Down Under Have Their Bulletproof 11th Album ‘TERRESTRIALS’ Out

Posted on by JL

19 June 2026


Photo: Kristofski

Band: POND
Who: Popular psych-pop-rock
veterans 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.”


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DIY Magazine says: “Pond are devised as a group in which anything goes, something that
has always been both their underlying strength and their weakness. They will always exist in their own weird and wonky world, but it’s a place that everyone should visit every once in a while. The band boil everything down to its very essence.”

TUTV: I’m not a steady Pond follower. Mind you, they accomplished some great things
now and then, but overall, to my ears, they were a band playing always, just under the surface of psych guitar pop splendiness. Not bad, not good (enough), until now.

Terrestrials is packed with a string of vigorous firecrackers with Two Hands, Roebuck
Plains, The Fatal Shore, and Tourmaline as the best of many best. For the very first time, these spunky-funky-punky Aussies will crowd my earphones for a long while. Bulletproof entertainment.

Singles.

– TERRESTIALS –

– TWO HANDS –

– THROUGH THE HEATHER –


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Album On Spotify – Linktree – All Albums

PUSSY RIOT – Russian Political Punk Activists With NADYA TOLOKONNINKOVA Unleash Bitchy EBM Juiced Debut LP ‘CYKA’

Posted on by JL

15 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.

Last Month, 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 now their pungent debut album CYKA is out.

Tolokonnikova about the LP’s reactionary motivation, the ongoing war with Ukraine:
“Me and my countrymen could have prevented it, we just had to fight harder for our dream
of a peaceful democratic Russia. I live in exile, like a rat. Everything I loved was taken from me; my entire country was stolen. My mother died of cancer in Moscow, and I couldn’t be there to say goodbye.

The father of my daughter nearly died after being poisoned with a nerve agent by the FSB. My friend Alexey Navalny was murdered in jail. And I no longer know whether I’ll ever be able to let people get close to me again – being torn away from everyone I loved cost too much. Vengeance is what forces my eyes open in the morning, and what keeps me going. “OUTRO” is dedicated to my mother and my love to her.‘

TUTV: Don’t expect a clamourous Bikini Kill noise. Only on smoking punk grenades
Faceless Pigs, Disobey, Candy Dopamine and Blizzard) they lash out with rage. Sonically,
CYKA is for the greater part a trip and hop, EBM-orientated record spiked with both, reflective and spiralling synth-orchestrated flare-ups.

Vocally, she alternates bouncy, whispering rap rants with poppy, near-helium-like
echoes. We have a unqiue party album here. One to dance when Putin is going down.

Lyrically Tolokonnikova unravels all her outrage and is on constant attack mode.
She will never quit attacking the Russian dictator (who appears on the title track).
She will never stop exposing his crimes. She’ll never back down. She’s a fearless
warrior. She’s a tenacious bitch. Hail hail.

Singles.

– DISOBEY –

– CANDY DOPAMINE –


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CYKA on Spotify – Instagram – Website

JON SPENCER Ventilates His Anger With A Flood Of Blues Riffage On New LP ‘SONGS OF PERSONAL LOSS AND PROTEST’

Posted on by JL

12 June 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.

Their album, called SONGS OF PERSONAL LOSS AND PROTEST, is out now.

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.”

Spencer: “I’m in a time of spiritual reckoning. These past few years, there has been a lot of emotional conflict and personal loss, the passing of time takes its toll. Losing friends, losing family, and all of this set against a world gone topsy-turvy, where it feels like we are losing
basic freedoms I’m trying to balance a lot of things, but the answer is always rock ’n’ roll.”

TUTV: Spencer is fed up, as millions of us, with that monkey in the White House. He totally messed up the world’s balance with trade wars, insulting and intimidating other countries and their leaders for not kissing his fat ass, and with his economically disastrous Iran war, and all this in just 18 months. Whatever disturbs Spencer’s mind, he seeks distraction in his music, as we music junkies do in listening to it.

There’s an abundance of anxiety, anger, and fury to ventilate on this new record, instigating a non-stop riff-licks-hooks flood. Old skool blues explosions. A 32-minute
tirade of raging rock ‘n’ rebellious roll excitation. Songs Of Personal Loss And Protest has enough deliberative firepower to reinvigorate us with the confidence to face and fight
the daily turmoil caused by larger-than-life egos in charge, who derail our lives.
Thanks, Jon.

Singles.

– KNOCK ‘EM OUT –

– ORANGE SLICE BLUES –

Tour Dates – Instagram – Linktree

OSEES Surprise With Surprising 5-Track Psych-Prog Rock Album ‘OFF COURSE’

Posted on by JL

8 June 2026


Credit Osees

Riff machine OSEES led by barnstormer in shorts John Dwyer dropped,
without foreplay or warning, new music. 5 tracks, 32 minutes, under
the caption OFF COURSE.

Is it an album, is it an EP?

According to common understanding, an EP contains more tracks than a single but fewer
than an album (8-10). Contemporary EPs usually contain up to eight tracks
and have a playing time of 15 to 30 minutes.

I call it an EP, Osees‘ general calls it an album.
He’s the boss. So an album it is.


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Dwyer: “We went back to an older method of writing for this one. We jammed
and jammed and jammed. I took the tapes home and ironed out some mutant
tunes. We went back into the studio and burned them to tape live and then I
took it home and did the vocals. Spice is always nice.

Mixed it all up in the cauldron and thus we have a strange brew indeed Floating in
the smoke we have: A couple long jams, a couple short jams and a finale that’ll dump
a bucket of ear worms on you (reminiscent of “the axis”?) Dip your toe in organ rock
and roll.”

TUTV: Whatever format it is. I played Off Course 5 times in a row. Yes, to my
ears it’s one of the best things Osees did in recent years. No riff mania, but 60/70’s
psych prog rock inspired work-outs, a bit of Deep Purple in their symphonic phase.

Mind-bending and trance-inducing, coming close to the extravagant trips
of that other ultra-productive team King Gizzard & The Lizard Wizard,
27 albums in 16 years.

The Trick is my fav track. An instrumental, Krautrock-like, motorik piece
that thrives on organ and hyperkinetic drumming. Flabbergasting. Mind
you, all 32 minutes have a dumbfounding effect.

What a surprisingly surprising surprise.


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Instagram – Album On Spotify

THE CLAYPOOL LENNON DELIRIUM Color Psychedelic Rainbows On Their 3rd Album ‘THE GREAT PARROT-OX AND THE GOLDEN EGG OF EMPATHY’

Posted on by JL

6 June 2026

Band: THE CLAYPOOL LENNON DELIRIUM
Who: Outlandish duo, composed of bassist/vocalist Les Claypool,
member of Primus, and guitarist/vocalist Sean Ono Lennon.

Album: THE GREAT PARROT-OX AND THE GOLDEN EGG OF EMPATHY

Their 3rd LP. A concept one with a 24-page original comic
book created with longtime collaborator Rich Ragsdale.

Story: “Set in the once-glorious land of Cliptopia, where a sentient A.I. known
as Cliptron and his army of robots are resourcing everything, then turning it all
into Clipnex brand paperclips, the album follows young artist Hippard O. Campus Jr.
as he rebels against his father, Hippard Sr. (owner of the CLIPNEX corporation and
creator of CLIPTRON).

With help from salty sea-dog Colonel O’Coren, Hipp embarks on a fantastical adventure
to stop Cliptron’s cold, chrome heart from converting the world, humans included, into paperclips.”

Hipp’s quest leads across the sea to the Isle of Lucidity, where the all-wise Ministry of Manatees guide him to the Great Parrot-Ox, whose Golden Egg of Empathy is the only
thing that can bring understanding and emotion to Cliptron.

Claypool: “The album was over three years in the making and was the most labor intensive recording I have ever been involved in. The results are something Shiner and I are very proud
of. A relevant concept piece accompanied by a colorful, phantasmic comic book.”

Lennon: “The record is a cautionary tale of what could be in store for humanity if we continue to favor machines over men. It is a tale of a technocracy eclipsed by paperclips; a young man destined to unravel the fabric of his father’s folly, and a sacred feathered Goddess (played by WILLOW), who holds the egg-shaped key to their future.”

TUTV: Lucy in the sky with diamonds? Well, sort of. This unusual pair take you on a trip where they treat you with a mix of 60s dream pop, prog-rock, and rainbow psychedelia. Mind you, it’s an accessible record to go eight miles high to, but it goes a long way, 1 hour and 2 minutes, and the fictional story in play isn’t a simple one to get hold of.

En route, this retro-addicted duo play round elaborated poppy tunes that are dressed
up with yesteryear orchestrations, and plenty of space for Claypool’s bass extravaganza.

After a couple of spins, I’m not sure yet if this is a bad, good, or very good LP (certainly not a delirium one). I know that doesn’t make sense, I suppose. But yes, I’m confused, so I’ll get back to my headphones and see what happens this time.

SINGLE

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Instagram – Spotify

WIDOWSPEAK Offer Vivifying Dream Pop ‘ROSES’

Posted on by JL

6 June 2026

Band: WIDOWSPEAK
Who: Vivifying dream pop friends from Brooklyn, NY.
Guitarist and vocalist Molly Hamilton and guitarist
Robert Earl Thomas.

Album: ROSES
Their 7th.

Press info: “An record called Roses would be concerned with romantic gestures.
Across the ten tracks, intimate spaces and stages of love are captured with a nostalgic, vaseline-coated lens. Candles burn inside red glass as lovers get close in a leather booth.

Celebrity headshots gaze down like angels in a restaurant. Elsewhere, carnations are pressed in a black book and dancers pull each other close. Widowspeak is a band that
riffs on big emotions without being too self-serious. The sweetness, even silliness, of an extended limerent phase that becomes as all-consuming as a pulpy trade paperback.

Cars and their drivers serve as a way to talk about codependency. If music can simultaneously be naturalistic and noir, saturated and lush, that is Widowspeak.
They’re a band that knowshow to set a scene.”

Far Out Magazine says: “Conjuring dreamy, folksy nuggets from life’s unassuming
corners, Widowspeak herald a charming return, delicately rippling with slowcore
ambience and a touching songcraft that carries Roses a respectable distance.”

TUTV: OMG, I’m lazy today. If I say that this record sounds like Mazzy Star backed
by Neil Young on acoustic and electric guitar I guess you know what to expect.

SINGLE

ALBUM


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Album On Spotify – Instagram – Linktree – All Albums

THE AFGHAN WHIGS Will Launch Their 10th Album ‘SOFT CONTROL’ In August – Info & Its 3 Singles Here

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5 June 2026


Photo by Royal Cream

Cincinnati‘s rock bigshots THE AFGHAN WHIGS fronted by general Greg Dulli, celebrate their 40th anniversary as a band. They’ll share the milestone with their fans on the road (1st leg already done) and with a new album, their 10th.

It’s named SOFT CONTROL, and it’ll hit the streets on August 21th. Pre-order info here.

Press info: “The new album is testament to the old David Bowie quote, where he describes aging as “an extraordinary process where you become the person you always
should have been.”

By now, the volatile years of band leader Greg Dulli’s youth have been substituted with a wry and self-aware satori. The edge and sensitive temperament remain but the unchecked infernos of ego and rage no longer threaten personal immolation. And Dulli’s vocals are simultaneously the strongest and most delicate that they’ve ever been.

The album captures The Afghan Whigs’ unique ability to conflagrate stab you in your
nose bone guitars and cubist refractions of soul and R&B. There is a reconciliation of loud volume and somber reflections, living life with joy and purpose while keeping one eye on the clock and remaining aware of the absurdity. ”

Greg Dulli: “I’ve worked hard on my inner peace. I was an angry young man, and it fueled
my art, ambition and my drive. I wouldn’t change anything because I can’t. But as I got into photography and other art forms, I realized that I’m not in competition with anyone, including myself. Now, I know what I’m doing and there’s a quiet confidence that comes with being able
to back it up.”

Ahead of the LP’s launch, the Whigs offered us 3 singles (thus far).

– HOUSE OF I –
As Dulli described the track
‘an uptempo banger’.

– DUVATEEN –

Dulli: “When I finished “Duvateen it felt like my life passing before my eyes.
The references to the teacher chasing me down the hall reminded me of my childhood. Digging a hole was an obvious allusion to a grave. I’m at a precipice in life where I can look behind and clearly see the forest of my youth, but I can also see the path to the other side. And it’s going to inform what I do for the rest of my days.”

– JUNGLE ROUX –
Vintage ardent AW passion.

TOUR DATES

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