6 April 2026
NYC’s rock celebs THE STROKES broke the news today of the release
of their new, 7th LP, titled REALITY AWAITS. It’ll be out in the “summer“.
That’s all, folks. More details TBA.
They posted this car to tease the news
The previous full-length, the topflight The New Abnormal came out 6 years ago in 2020.
Vitalizing tunes that work faster than a stream of caffeine
4 April 2026
It’s already 30 years (time flies indeed) since Athens, Georgia-born Kevin Barnes
launched his band oF MONTREAL, named after a failed romance between him
and a woman ‘of Montreal‘.
Barnes just announced their 20th LP, titled Gethermead.
It will show up on 6 June. Tracklist and order info here.
The album was made following a lot of personal upheaval including a breakup
with his then-fiance which found him relocating from Vermont to Brooklyn.
The lead single, named WHEN is a flaming, riff-packed rocker.
Barnes: “‘When’ is mora a song about yearning, sadness, confusion, frustration, than it is a song about having sex. I’m hiding behind a shield of sexual bravado and pretending as if my only needs are physical. It’s very transparent that I’m longing for much more than just libidinal fulfillment, but those other things are being withheld.’”
“When can I fuck you again?”
4 April 2026
Band: MAKTHAVERSKAN
Who: Swedish post-punk
team formed in 2008.
Album: GLASS AND BONES
Their, brand new, 5th one.
Stereogum: “It finds them once again in top form, wielding
their signature blend of hard-charging post-punk and pristine,
jangly indie-pop.”
I love the album artwork better
GLASS AND BONES
Think The Cure fronted
by PJ Harvey on helium.
3 April 2026
Press photo by Alex Lockett
Workalcoholic (producing multiple other artists, writing music for his band, touring)
JACK ANTONOFF and his BLEACHERS have recorded a new longplayer. It’s called Everyone For Ten Minutes and it will land on May 22.
Press Info: “Bleachers return continuing the project’s evolution under the direction of acclaimed singer, songwriter, musician, and producer Jack Antonoff, an eleven-time Grammy Award winner.
Over the past decade, Bleachers have cultivated a passionate global fanbase, celebrated for high-energy live performances and a strong sense of connection with their audience.”
Ahead of the release we already got 3 splendid tasters.
– THE VAN –
The newest single.
Groover for dreamers.
.
DIRTY WEDDING DRESS
Vivifying, sax-flavored,
infectious tune
– YOU AND FOREVER –
Feverish flow.
Glorious glow.
Flaming Finale
New album means new tour.
1 April 2026
Band: FCUKERS
(No typo, fcukers indeed)
Who: Spiced EBM duo, Shannon Wise and
Jackson Walkerwis, from New York, formed
in 2022.
Album: Ö
Their debut.
Press info: “Ö is the anticipated debut album from New York City’s white-hot duo, who quickly built a reputation for their electric live shows and irresistibly catchy hooks.
With 100 gecs’ Dylan Brady providing additional production on tracks across the album,
and multi-Grammy-winning engineer Tom Norris (Lady Gaga, Charli xcx, The Weeknd) coming on board to mix the album, the result is 11 tracks that make you feel like you’re at the afterparty.”
TUTV: Ö is packed with woolgathering old skool techno boomers your eager body
can’t and won’t resist, although the EBM tandem never go totally out of their minds.
They love to seduce and tempt with funky feel-good beeps and bleeps juiced with
Wise‘s sultry breathing.
Highlights and TUTV’s favorites are the ska-horns infused TTYGT track, the vivifying thrill
of If You Wanna Party, Come Over To My House, and the bass buzz of Beatback and L.U.C.K.Y.
Fcukers are in da house. Join them.
SINGLE
ALBUM
27 March 2026
Gratifying Australian songstress/guitarist COURTNEY BARNETT
has her brand new LP, her 4th, titled CREATURE OF HABIT, out.
Press info: “Creature of Habit is a bold, emotionally resonant record that explores the central question: how to get out of your own way so you can truly feel your life. Written in the wake of a relocation from Australia to Los Angeles and the closure of her long-running label Milk! Records, Barnett was grappling with changes that put the future of both her life and career in question. Rather than internalizing those feelings, she decided to bring all this swirling confusion directly into the recording process.”
UNCUT Magazine (British msuci monthly): It’s a document of Barnett’s unsticking, through plain doing. It’s also an instantly engaging record born out of its author’s collaborative curiosity, the deliberate avoidance of any pre-recording plan and a determination to embrace change in whatever form, while staring down the uncomfortable emotions that so often attend it.”
TUTV: Sonically it’s the Barnett we all know for years now, assembling lazy guitar-galvanizing grooves, lazy tunes and lazy reveries with lazy vocals rolling over it, that
initiate lazy foot-and-pelvis moves.
Listening to the Australian songstress feels like having an ear-massage.
Lyrially she continous her soul-searching, as many questions are still
unanwsered. CB charms and entertains, nothing more, nothing else.
That’s fine by me.
SINGLES
US TOUR
26 March 2026
Band: MODERN WOMAN
Who: London-based art-rock outfit fronted
by singer-songwriter-guitarist Sophie Harris.
Debut Album: JOHNNY’S DREAMWORLD.
It’ll show up on May 1st.
Album artwork
Press info: ‘Johnny’s Dreamworld’ represents the culmination of Modern Woman’s journey from Sophie Harris’s early, intimate songwriting project into a full-bodied band capable of folding post-punk, avant-garde, and folk traditions into a live force of dynamic originality.
At its heart, the record explores the strange poetry buried within the ordinary. Harris’s lyrics, steeped in literary detail and filmic atmosphere, draw from a fascination with the dark underbelly of the everyday and the contradictions of womanhood.”
TUTV already had the opportunity to hear the LP. It’s gonna cause a storm on
the indie scene. Believe me, you don’t want to miss the dreamworld of Johnny.
Check the 3 shared singles (so far), and decide for yourselves.
NEPTUNE GIRL
A dazzling, dumbfounding
brainfucker.
DASHBOARD MARY
An intensely slow-burning torch.
.
DANIEL
Bone-chilling meditation.
Weeping, vocals from
a shadowy place.
TOUR DATES
28th Mar – UK, Reading – Beat Connection
11th Apr – UK, Bristol – Outer Town Festival
6th May – UK, London – The Lexington
7th May – UK, Wrexham – FOCUS Wales
16th May – UK, Leeds – In Colour Festival
23rd May – UK, Southampton – Wanderlust Festival
4th Jul – ES, Catalonia – Vida Festival
1st Aug – UK, Oxfordshire – Wilderness Festival
21st Aug – UK, Brecon Beacons – Green Man Festival
4th Sept – UK, Dorset – End of the Road Festival
Artist: BEDOUINE
Who: Syrian-born, Los Angeles-based singer-songwriter who
draws on ’60s and ’70s folk and country influences for her
glimmering, yet intense songs.
Album: NEON SUMMER SKIN.
Her 3rd, which will come
our way on June 5th.
Tracklist and more info here.
Check out the lead single Long Way To Fall.
25 March 2026
Band: THE RATS
Who: Post-punk dogs from
Ghent, Belgium ready to attack.
Album: BOXING DAYS
Their debut.
Press info: While the first releases focused on mechanical grooves, their debut
album, Boxing Days, has become a distinct guitar album. The nonconformist approach
to songwriting, however, remained: in eight tracks clocking in at just over half an hour,
it ranges from raw, back-to-the-roots punk to the closest they’ve ever come to a ballad.
There are echoes of Wire and Gang Of Four, alongside contemporary references like IDLES, Shame, and Viagra Boys, but The Rats never resort to imitation. What prevails is a radically unique identity: that of a band that never chooses the easy way out and doesn’t follow trends.”
The cover artwork features Albert Laperre, the great-grandfather of the album’s
graphic designer Stan Tijtgat, an amateur boxer who went down often but always
came back fighting.
Emile Dekeyser (frontman) adds: “It’s a fitting image for an album that, despite its title,
isn’t about fighting or winning. Boxing Days is about survival, about learning how to remain standing, even when you can’t quite keep up with the punches.”
TUTV: The rat race is on, folks. Time to get up, stand up, and fight for your right to start
a moshpit whenever and wherever you are, the moment Boxing Days torpedoes your ears. This debut is, without a shadow of a doubt, a longplayer that will last for a long time. For its sharp-teethed punkiness (British Racing Green / Won’t Stand For It / Muck And Bullets and the flabbergasting The Wrong Day), for its bloodcurdling execution, and for its overall KO horsepower in 8 rounds.
But it’s not only about the stupefying noizzz
and the turbulent spit-and-sneer excorcism.
The Rats, led by vim and vigour by motormouth Emile Dekeyser, offer barbed-wire songs with body and balls, with heart and soul, with vivacity and a jagged joie de vivre. Every uppercut stands loud and proud on its own feet.
A striking example is Boxing Day. A burning torch that moves like a snake chases
her helpless prey, slowly and viciously, until the fatal attack. Goosebumps.
Another standout, according to my enthusiastic ears, is the bone-chilling closer, called Stomper. A sort of aftermath meditation on what the fuck happened here, what
did we do, where will we go. Its ominous pace and out-of-your-Emile-mind finale is no
less than startling.
The Rats are a well-oiled rock machine wasting no time on arty-farty superfluity
and/or bombastic overproduction. 32 minutes of brutal honesty is what we get.
Great debut albums are the ones everybody remembers long after their release,
no matter how many followed, because of their uncalculated directness, their
primal, innocent discharge, and their everlasting tunes. Boxing Days undeniably
belongs to this coveted category
The Rats‘ message is crystal clear.
They’re here to stay. Join them.
STREAM/BUY ALBUM HERE
25 March 2026
Press photo by Shawn Bracknell
Baltimore‘s shiny synth-pop team FUTURE ISLANDS led by supple frontman
Samuel T. Herring celebrate their 20th anniversary as a band this year.
To mark the event, they have planned a double album, titled
FROM A HOLE IN THE FLOOR TO A FOUNTAIN OF YOUTH,
for release on May 22.
It will feature no less than 20 tracks. Alternate hits, rarities, and fan
favourites, some of which have never appeared on streaming services.
Album artwork
William Cashion (bassist): “The hole in the floor is the everyday, but the fountain
is the magic that happens when the life you dreamed about actually becomes the one you’re living. It’s the dream and the reality existing in the same room. “This is for everyone who has carried these songs with them, from the first house parties to the rooms we’re playing today.”
Tracklist and pre-order info HERE.
We get two previews to start the celebrations.
FIND LOVE is a tune that appeared on
7″ single ‘Before the Bridge’ from 2011.
Vintage FI pop bliss.
And the 2nd one, named SAIL is
a 2025 number originally released
on a VIP tour-only 7”.
Romanticism in motion.