New Album Alert 2026

BONNIE ‘PRINCE’ BILLY – Enchanting Balladeer Reflects On Our Changing World On ‘WE ARE TOGETHER AGAIN’

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6 March 2026


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Balladeer Will Oldham, operating under his moniker of BONNIE “PRINCE” BILLY started his busy journey back in 1993. He released a lot of solo work so far, collaborated with other songsmiths (and still does), and was also a member of a couple of bands.

Album: We Are Together Again
It follows last year’s eminent LP
The Purple Bird.

Press info: “However dimly we perceive it, we are living through a change of worlds.
The one we were born into is slipping away, reshaped and denuded by human action. What remains is the question of what we will carry forward, and how we will refuse to surrender ourselves. Will Oldham’s new album feels like an answer.

In Oldham’s songs friendship, community, and the stubborn joy of making art with others become a means of persistence. This isn’t a denial of collapse, which would be delusion, but a kind of defiance: remaining fully human, fully joyful, in a world with a diminishing horizon.”

Oldham: “This record was made closer to the Ohio River than any I’ve been involved
with since 1993’s Palace Brothers’ ‘There Is No-One What Will Take Care of You. Louisville’s’ current-and-past vital musical community is highlighted on every song.

Catherine Irwin, who sang on the BPB release ‘Ease Down the Road’, is back here on ‘Hey Little’ and ‘Vietnam Sunshine.’ Lacey Guthrie, Tory Fisher and Katie Peabody, the three front women of the band Duchess, sing together on the opening and closing songs, parallel odes to the beast that is fear.”

TUTV: BPB is one of those balladeers who keep on enchanting, despite their musical palette hardly ever changing. Fans know what he has to offer, as he does once again
with this new work. Acoustic guitar accompanied heart-to-heart ponderings, and
lullabies follow each other in an organic way.

Overall thematically, he reflects on our disturbingly changing world: “Life is scary,
we are scared, we’ve arrived here unprepared,” on the melancholic contemplation
Life Is Scary Horses’ says a lot of what is on his mind.

His quiet voice always has a de-stressing resonance. His several duets with the equally beautiful voice of Catherine Irwin are so fitting here, as are the subtle orchestrations with strings, cello, and horns now and then. Although this record is mainly about our current rat race, there’s room for more personal moments. BPB does again what he does best. And I like it.

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New Benefit WAR CHILD UK Album Out Featuring A Star Squad

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7 March 2026

A new compilation benefit album, titled HELP (2), to raise funds for WAR CHILD UK,
a long-term operational organisation that shapes systems that protect and support
the well-being of children affected by conflict, is out now.

It features 23 tracks by a star squad. Some contribute
a new song, some an old one, some a cover.

Tracklist

1. Arctic Monkeys – Opening Night
2. Damon Albarn, Grian Chatten & Kae Tempest – Flags
3. Black Country, New Road – Strangers
4. The Last Dinner Party – Let’s do It Again!
5. Beth Gibbons – Sunday Morning
6. Arooj Aftab & Beck – Lilac Wine
7. King Krule – The 343 Loop
8. Depeche Mode – Universal Soldier
9. Ezra Collective & Greentea Peng – Helicopters
10. Arlo Parks – Nothing I Could Hide
11. English Teacher & Graham Coxon – Parasite
12. Beabadoobee – Say Yes
13. Big Thief – Relive, Redie
14. Fontaines D.C. – Black Boys On Mopeds
15. Cameron Winter – Warning
16. Young Fathers – Don’t Fight The Young
17. Pulp – Begging For Change
18. Sampha – Naboo
19. Wet Leg – Obvious
20. Foals – When The War Is Finally Done
21. Bat For Lashes – Carried My Girl
22. Anna Calvi, Dove Ellis, Ellie Rowsell & Nilüfer Yanya – Sunday Light
23. Olivia Rodrigo – The Book of Love
Bonus Track: Oasis – Acquiesce (Live from Wembley Stadium, 28 September 2025)

The record is released physically and digitally. Order info right HERE.

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Warchild UK website

RAGING LINES – Norwegian Singer-Songwriter Impresses With His DIY Debut Album ‘SMILE BLANK’

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2 March 2026

Artist: RAGING LINES
Who: Young DIY singer-songwriter/producer
Sondre Thomassen Thorvik from Oslo (Norway)

Album: SMILE BLANK

STT: “I think of music as multiple lines coexisting with one another. They all
move at different speeds but seem to catch up with one another in parts of
the song to make sense.”

TUTV: This is one of those records that drop in my inbox, now and then, without much information, from a non-English/American place, and turn out to be pretty special ones.

Norwegian musician Thorvik is obviously inspired
by the 70s/80s new wave/Goth/post-punk decades.

Opener Walk With Me and Too Dramatic, Too Paralyzed vibrate respectively like early
New Order and Joy Division, Things To Make It True, could be a previously unreleased
solo John Cale track, layers of Curesque guitars reverberate on Things Too Make It True
and Smile Blank, and Stay Away brings Bauhaus‘ moodiness to mind.

So much about the influences, but it’s Thorvik‘s architectural skills to shape
rock-solid songs, featuring passionate, personal reflections, mixed emotions
and outside observations, and his commanding baritone voice that set this
debut album apart. Raging Lines is a surprising discovery, Smile Blank is a
high-quality singer-songwriter accomplishment.

Listen up, world!

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SMILE BLANK on Spotify – Instagram

Midnight Hour Whisperer BLACK VIIOLET Touched By Love On New Jazzy-Brassy Album ‘DARK BLUE’

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24 February 2026

Artist: BLACK VIIOLET
Who: Alter-ego of American garage punk ‘n’ roll
turbo The Darts‘ front Amazon Nicole Laurenne.

New album: DARK BLUE
Her 2nd.

Press info: “Dark Blue sits in that liminal space where jazz, noir pop, and trip-hop overlap, but the real engine is Nicole. Her writing, her arranging, her ability to take the tension of long months on the road and turn it into something soft, bruised, and unmistakably hers.

It is a record full of late-night light, small scars, little mercies, and the quiet
ache of wanting someone who is always a few thousand miles away.”

Laurenne: “When you’re doing what you love but the person
you love is always far away, you get stretched thin.”


📸 Brian Kasnyik

TUTV: Dark Blue connects fluently with debut album After You, continuing to soundtrack your night out at your favorite downtown club. Laurenne‘s 24/7 songwriting production (The Darts & solo) doesn’t affect the quality of her torch songs, not in the slightest.

You’re drawn into this new, relaxing record from her first sensual whispers on ( ‘Dark Blue’ and ‘One’ with some smooth organ touches). Jazzy-brassy trip-hop musings (‘Gimme Your Love’ / ‘Not Too Bad’ / the 1936 jazz standard ‘Why Don’t You Do Right?’ / ‘No Fool Like Me’ and the vulnerable closer ‘Whiskey Eyes’) and some more up-tempo reflections (‘Take Me (Or Leave Me)’ / ‘Got Me Down’ / ‘Just Met’) intertwin.

Dark Blue is an ode to love, as blissful as it can be, it also can cause a kind of tristesse when lovers need to miss each other for some time, as Nicole Laurenne experiences when she’s flying around half of the world to entertain us music addicts.

Think of soul legend Otis Redding‘s heartfelt ballads on his classic Blue L (with a lot of Sam Cooke songs on it) from 1965. Similar melancholic mood swings, similar amorous longings, similar midnight hour lovesickness.

Black Viiolet echoes universal emotions that many of us can relate to.
That’s what pop-ular music was, is, and always be about.

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DARK BLUE on Spotify – Instagram – Linktree

STONE – Liverpool Punk Rockers Unleashed Their 2nd Album ‘AUTONOMY’

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21 February 2026


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Band: STONE
Who: Post-punk-rock indies from
Liverpool, who formed in 2019.

Album: AUTONOMY
Their 2nd one, following their
attention-grabbing, 2024 debut
Fear Life For A Lifetime.

Press info: “Ever since their rapid rise in the depths of lockdown,
Liverpool’s Stone have tended to thrive best when leaning into the
chaos.

Having further sealed themselves as a vital force on the global punk scene with their 2024 debut album Fear Life For A Lifetime, the band are back with a follow-up that’s loaded with their most reflective and bruising work to date. Autonomy comes as a fierce testament to the band’s resilience, fighting spirit and togetherness.”

TUTV: Loads of bursting post-punk brawniness. Loads of stooked guitar oomph.
Loads of barnstorming vocality. But (oops, there’s a but) a lack of really memorable
tunes you want to go back to in a flash.

The Beatles-esque title track, steamed-up singles Monkey See Monkey Do and
Money (Hope Ain’t Gone), riff-ripsnorter Stack Up Thd Reasons and fiery fulminations
Moulin Rouge and Sweet Heroine are muscular blowups that have an immediate impact,
but no a very lasting one. The rest of the songs are just variations, sonically that is,
of the aforementioned pieces.

Loads of evaporative vitality to make you jump out of your bed in the morning, but once you’re alive and ready to kick, you change the tune, well, I do. Yep, mixed emotions about Stone‘s 2nd longplayer.

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PEACHES – Disco Queer Icon Effervescences, Sonically And Lyrically, On 7th LP ‘NO LUBE SO RUDE’

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20 February 2026


New album artwork

Artist: PEACHES
Who: The fabulous/controversial/notorious performer/producer and
feminist/gay activist born Merrill Nisker, 58 years ago in Toronto, Canada.

New album: NO LUBE SO RUDE
Her 7th one.

Press info: A brash, unapologetic blend of electronic, dance, punk, industrial, and pop music, No Lube So Rude exists at the intersection of the personal and the political, where the body serves not only as a sexual and spiritual vessel, but also as the front line in a battle for basic human rights.

Peaches’ lyrics are bawdy and explicit here, laced with biting sarcasm and clever
wordplay, but they’re also surprisingly vulnerable, offering up a candid look in the
mirror from a post-menopausal queer icon reckoning with a society that’s come
to expect silence, if not outright erasure.”

Peaches: “When the world is friction, lube isn’t a luxury. It’s a necessity. It’s how you turn
that friction into pleasure, into power, into pride. I want people to understand that they can still have a voice no matter who they are or what the world says about them. Now more than ever, there are so many forces that just want you to give up and be quiet. If this album can help you resist that, then that’s what it’s for.”

DIY Magazine (UK) says: “Describing Peaches’ lyrical content as sex positive is, let’s face it, a bit like describing the sky as blue. On her seventh studio album, the Canadian musician spreads her brash and ultra-horny sentiment across another collection of vibrant, high-energy bangers.”

TUTV: I’ll let Peaches first do some talking:

“I’m a horny little fucker, and I’ll put you in a squeeze I’m a horny little fucker, and I’ll bring you to your knees / I’m a horny little fucker, and I’ll put you in a squeeze / I’m a horny little fucker, and I’ll bring you to your knees / I’m a horny little fucker, fucker, fucker, fucker, fucker, fucker.”

Now, rush to the dancefloor. Jump here, jump there, jump everywhere. Peaches is on
fire, producing queer disco rampage, delivered in a stream of bass-booming layers and peppered with sassy synths. Merril Misker is still highly nightclub relevant and one of the best party mavericks around.

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Tour Dates 2026

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REMEMBER SPORTS – Philly’s Lauded Indies Have Their 5th Full-Length ‘THE REFRIGERATOR’ Out

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14 February 2025

Band: REMBER SPORTS
Who: Ohio-rooted and Philadelphia-based indie
quartet, formed in 2014 named Sports for a while.

Album: THE REFRIGERATOR
Their 5th one.

Press info: “The new album captures the messy, cathartic energy of transformation. Written in the aftermath of the pandemic, the record is shaped by grief, uncertainty,
and a deep love for music and friendship. Songs wrestle with identity, memory, and growing up, balancing bratty catharsis with tenderness and reflection.”

TUTV: Indie-pendent guitar pop is back. Actually, it never was gone whatsoever,
but the electric-powered 6-string scene is prominently present lately, way more than before. Remember Sports, Dream Nails, Ratboys, The Belair Lip Bombs, Fanclubwallet, Sprints, Man/Woman/Chainsaw, Wet Leg, Vuce Vera, Lime Gardeb, and way more other bands crank up their guitars to vitalize their cacthy pop tunes.

No artificial ballyhoo, no ersatz hurry-skurry, no phony posing. They all keep it
simple, direct, fresh and whipped-up. They do not pretend to be the next big thing.
They act inspired by their gut-feeling and insatiable knack for spine-tingling, kicky
music. The Refrigerator features all those plugged-in characteristics. Remember
Sports are in excellent condition to compete in this sonic discipline.

Btw, while writing this, it dawned on me that all the aforementioned bands are
female-fronted ones. Coincidence? No idea, but it shows that rockin’ girl power
is back. Supercool!

The album’s 3 singles.

– BUG –

– ACROSS THE LINE –

– CUT FRUIT –

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KMFDM – German Industrial Goth Rockers Still Relevant On Their 24th Album ‘ENEMY’

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11 February 2026

Band: KMFDM
Who: International, industrial veteran shock rockers
with German roots founded by Sascha Konietzko.
Active: 1984–1999, 2002–present

New album: ENEMY
Their 24th full-length.

Press info: “Never a band to take the easy path, ‘ENEMY’ delivers some of KMFDM’s
most stylistically challenging and politically scathing material yet. KMFDM keeps moving, dancing on the blood-dimmed tide, roaring as a rough beast to make noise against a world that demands the silence of ignorance. Join the Ultra Heavy Beat and make yourself the ENEMY of hypocrisy, discrimination and injustice.”

TUTV: After more than 4 decades and several different line-ups KMFDM know
out-and-out how to entertain their loyal fanbase and by extension all aficionados
of Goth/darkwave/industrial rock. But the band do not limit themselves to just
copy/paste what they did before.

They deliver a variety of bludgeoning EBM music. From vintage, electro-infused thunderstrokes, to barbed wire pop fireworks (with Lucia Cifarelli vocals) and even
a dub reggae intoxicated hip-shaker (Stray Bullet 2.0).

Lyrically Enemy calls for arms in these fucked-up, far-right times, before we get crushed by an elite of ruthless, political piranhas, immoral/corrupt billionaires, and corporate leeches. KMFDM are still relevant, no doubt about that. Now go to your favorite wall and bang your head into it

Keytracks: Enemy / L’Etat / Catch & Killy / Stray Bullet 2.0

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ENEMY On SpotifyInstagram – Spotify

MOON MOTHER – Swedish Amplified Folk Duo Take You To ‘MEADOWLANDS’ On Their New Album

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10 February 2026

Artists: MOON MOTHER
Who: MM is the voice echoing through a starless night, music born from darkness, yet always carrying a glimmer of light. From the rural landscapes of western Sweden, the duo has built an architecture of earthy, alternative slow rock and melancholic, atmospheric folk with a Nordic touch. A sound they call månrock.

Album: MEADOWLANDS
Their 2nd one, following 2023’s
debut She’s A Starry Night.

Press Info: “On the new album, recorded and produced in their home, live takes and emotion are in focus. Minimalism with a large expression that has then been intuitively built on to create a raw and powerfully atmospheric soundscape that, with the help of traditional, acoustic instruments such as for example accordion and birch-trumpet with large reverbs, has built an earthy, unique and mysterious ambience.

A place where the past meets the present. In the magical world of Meadowlands, the vocals are in the spotlight, surrounded by experimental, string arrangements, grinding acoustic instruments and typical Moon Mother vocalizations, big choirs and the occasional blackbird.”

TUTV: Meadowlands‘s resonates as if Moon Mother recorded it in a covert cocoon far away, from the real world – not a harmonius one whatsoever, as we know – somewhere in the middle of a giant forest. Well, that’s what my mind put into images from what my ears hear.

The duo’s sonic universe doesn’t translate as an earthy one, rather one where reality meets surreality, where doom and gloom are kept under control, where a light shines that never goes out. Melodramatic orchestrations, progressing in slow-motion accentuate the otherwordly atmospherics that float around while Sara Mehner‘s delirious vocals cause goosebumps in the middle of it all.

This is music for twilight moments and deep contemplations.
This is a record that draws your attention away from everyhting
that happens around you.

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Album On Spotify – Instagram – Linktree

ULRIKA SPACEK – London’s Pysch Rock Outfit Have Their 5th Album ‘EXPO’ Out

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9 February 2026

Band: ULRIKA SPACEK
Who: Psych rock collective
from London.

Album: EXPO
Their 5th one.


Album artwork

Press info: “In a hyper-individual world, the band’s fourth album EXPO offers an antidote. It’s there, in the shared dream logic of the music: the off-kilter melodies, jagged guitars and cirrus cloud atmospherics.

It’s there, in all the things that are said and unsaid between them; there in the writing, producing and mixing processes they share in. And even as each of their parts moves toward a unified vision, it’s never more keenly felt than in the bigger picture to which
Ulrika Spacek belong.”

MOJO (British music monthly): “Expo’s bleak outlook is explored inventively, live
and electronic elements expertly collaged from an unpredictable sonic palette”.

TUTV: Even though this is their 5th full-length, it feels as if the band still wander around, looking for a sonic place they can call home. US offers (again) a collage of guitar-piloted psych trips. At times transcendental, at times hooked, but some of their jams miss somewhat spirit and soul, but overall one step closer to their future top LP.

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USA 2026

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