New Albums

Sludge Creeps CHAT PILE + Avant-Garde Artist HAYDEN PEDIGO Dropped Surprising Album ‘IN THE EARTH AGAIN’ Today

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31 October 2025

CHAT PILE the clamorous and out-of-their-minds sludge/metal creeps from Oklahoma
and Texas-born avant-garde musician, politician and performance artist HAYDEN PEDIGO have teamed up for a most surprising album. Talking about a bizarre collaboration.

Album: IN THE EARTH AGAIN

Stereogum (and other mainstream music websites) had the opportunity
to listen to the record for a week now and they have this to say:

“In The Earth Again is a staggering achievement that makes sense within each artist’s discography, even as it stands out as an adventurous outlier for both acts. It’s a flavor combination on par with salted caramel or dipping fries in your Frosty, though the
outcome here is often more bitter than sweet.

I just heard the album 2 hours ago and I say: WTF. Don’t get fooled by the fact that Mike Meyers is pictured on the LP’s cover and that the record is released today, on Halloween. This is everything you wouldn’t have expected. It’s ACE!

IN EARTH AGAIN


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CP: Instagram
HP: Instagram

PUBLIC ENEMY – Apocalypse 2025… Riot-Rap Crusaders Dropped Surprise Album

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1 July 2025

Sharp-tongued riot-rap crusaders PUBLIC ENEMY fronted by Chuck D, who
released a new solo LP, named Radio Armageddon, last May, and loudmouth
Flavor Flav dropped, out of the blue, a new album, their 16th, titled BLACK SKY
OVER THE PROSPECTS: APARTMENT 2025.

So far, it’s only available for streaming and buying on Bandcamp.

PE rant, roar, rage, rock and hip-rap-hop like in the old days, with loads
of razor-edged pizzazz, anti-establishment cry-outs and expressive chants.

As an ever politically outspoken gang, they can’t be missed in these
gruesome wartimes and with an egomaniacal macho in the White
House.

Public Enemy Apocalypse 2025… The Enemy Strikes Back
would have been a fitting album title too.

(W)rap it up, people,
right here, right now.


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Instagram – Linktree – All Albums

SEAN O’HAGAN And His HIGH LLAMAS Return With New Album ‘HEY PANDA’ In March – Hear The 2 Singles Here

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14 February 2024

Irish celebrated songsmith SEAN O’HAGAN returns with HIGH LLAMAS,
the band he founded back in 1992, for album #11. It’s named HEY PANDA,
the first in 8 years, following Here Come The Rattling Trees and will land
on March 29.

PRE-ORDER info here.

PRESS INFO: “Opened up by the delirious alchemy of contemporary pop music,
Sean O’Hagan leaps back into life with High Llamas, with a set of killer tunes reflecting on dimensional levels how definitions change over time. Arranged by Sean and produced with mix collaborator Fryars to engage the eardrums in non-stop new possibilities, Hey Panda radiates optimism inspired by the joys and sorrows felt in former lifetimes and the diverse conundrums of today alike.


Photo by Steve Brummell

A modern pop music / deep listening experience that could only issue forth
from their personal quadrant of the galaxy. Hey Panda projects soulfully through an enervating abstract of today’s popular music; the sound of the Llamas’ stately melodies and expressive ditties laid open – blissfully shattered – with drums and vocals hitting different, burning sounds and contemporary production twists pulling the ear at every turn.”

Singles shared so far.

– HEY PANDA –

– TORIAFAN –

HIGH LLAMAS: All Albums – Instagram – Drag City Records

FRANK CARTER & THE RATTLESNAKES Move To Classic Rock With Their Staggering 5th LP ‘DARK RAINBOW’

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26 January 2024


Press photo

British alt rockers FRANK CARTER & THE RATTLESNAKES have
their 5th full length, baptized DARK RAINBOW out today.

Kerrang says: “Some people’s perception of them may remain stuck in the seething punk rock of the singer’s youth but, in truth – bar the post-pandemic rage unleashed on previous album Sticky – in the studio, they have long since been moving closer to Arctic Monkeys than Gorilla Biscuits. It’s their ambitious fifth record, however – augmented with pianos, synths and strings, heavy with mature power ballads and emotionally charged throughout – that might just make the world appreciate them as the consummate modern rock band they have become.” Full interview here. Score: 4/5.


Album artwork

TUTV: With tensely emotive singles Man Of The Hour and Brambles, tattoo artist Carter seemed to let his angry punk days behind him and move towards classic rock. Now the album confirms that surprising, bold move.

And it’s a truly staggering record, filled with several melodramatic power ballads that generate goosebumps and some stoner rock ebullitions. Carter sings his heart out with monumental vivaciousness. A vocal tour de force throughout, dealing with mixed love emotions. Dark Rainbow will impact your ears for a very long time.

Singles/clips: Man Of The Hour / Brambles

– MAN OF THE HOUR –

– BRAMBLES –

ALBUM

FC & TR: Instagram – Linktree
TUTV: Facebook – Instagram – Twitter

Coming Up – Belgian Dream Pop Artist HAZE Releases Her 2nd Album ‘OUT OF SIGHT’ On Jan 24th

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What’s up?

19 January 2024


📷 Gunther Liket

Artist: HAZE (Ghent, Belgium)
Who: Musical project of Belgian singer-songwriter Mirabelle van de Put.
After years of playing bass and doing backing vocals with several bands
she decided to pursue her own dream pop journey.

Haze will release her sophomore album, titled OUT OF SIGHT,
in less than a week, on Jan 24th. Keep your ears peeled.

Press info: “On her second album, “Out of Sight,” Mirabelle shifts her focus
towards experimenting with sound and samples. Eager to explore what is just
out of reach. Everyday sounds are skillfully distorded and artfully woven into
the music, avoiding sterile and predictable tones in favor of organic, slightly
off-kilter sounds.”

Single: HIDING

A glinstering dream pop musing featuring sparkling guitar and
smooth bass play, and van de Put‘s enticing voice takes you on
a soothing trip that flares up now and then.

Haze: Facebook – Website

SLEATER-KINNEY – New Album, Tour Dates 2024

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7 November 2023

A couple of weeks ago Washington‘s indie-pop-punk band SLEATER-KINNEY ,
who started their journey (with 3 members) back in 1994, went on a break in
2006, reloaded their engines in 2014, became a duo – Carrie Brownstein and
Corin Tucker – announced the upcoming birth of their 10th LP. It’s named
Little Rope and will be shared with the world on 19 January 2024.

Pre-order info here.

Along with the news came lead-single HELL.

And yes, it’s a hellish track.
A high-powered roller coaster.

Hell don’t have no worries
Hell don’t have no past
Hell is just a signpost
when you take a certain path

Listen/watch.

And just now the duo confirmed that they will go on the road in 2024
(after playing some intimate warm-up gigs over the coming weeks)

SK: Instagram – Website

New Supergroup Featuring LOL TOLHURST x BUDGIE x JACKNIFE LEE Have Their Debut LP ‘LOS ANGELES’ Out – Jungle Music For The City Of Angeles

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3 November 2023

Former The Cure drummer LOL TOLHURST (64), BUDGIE (65), former Siouxsie
and the Banshees drummer and Siouxsie‘s husband, and Irish music producer
Jacknife Lee all live in Los Angeles and as music junkies, they found each other
in the City of Angels and decided to give it a go together.

Following a couple of singles, their first album,
named LOS ANGELES (what else?) is out now.

MOJO: “Los Angeles already feels like a destination record. Lee, Tolhurst and Budgie putting their decades of world-building expertise to excellent use. If the world they have built is on the brink of collapse, it only adds to the thrill.” Score: 8/10.

TUTV: The trio invited big-name vocalists such as Bobby Gillespie and James Murphy
(LCD Soundsystem) and other stars such as The Edge (U2) and Mark Bowen (Idles) for
their first body of work. 13 tracks, 54 minutes.

If there was a jungle in Los Angeles this would be its soundtrack. Lots of primitive
Budgie percussion (remember his album ‘A Bestiary Of with his then-wife Siouxsie Sioux, operating as The Creatures?) embedded in synth orchestrations creating dance-infused collages. Paranoid psychedelia for big cities. The flow of the tracklist isn’t as accurate as it could have been, but first impression after a couple of spins is one of let’s hit the drums
once again.

Singles/clips: Los Angeles / Ghosted At Home

– LOS ANGELES –

– GHOSTED AT HOME –

ALBUM


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THE ROLLING STONES Number One In 14 Countries With Their New Album ‘HACKNEY DIAMONDS’

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2 November 2023

Looks like a lot of people still love The Rolling Stones because they
only play rock ‘n’ roll but still like it. Their new lonplayer (it’s their 24th
British and 26th American album) HACKNEY DIAMONDS hit the top spot
of the charts in 14 countries. Lots of satisfaction for Mick Jagger and Co.

HACKNEY DIAMONDS


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THE STONES: Instagram – Facebook

American Hardcore Ska-Punk Turbo PWRUP Will Be Your New Favourite Halloween Band

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26 October 2023

Band: PWRUP

Who: Hit team, founded in 2018, in Western Massachusetts creating music they hadn’t heard before. With influences ranging from punk, hardcore, and ska to metal and prog rock, their unique style would include tight vocal harmonies, fast and heavy riffing, dance breakdowns, and melodic horn parts.


📸: Joe MacFadzen

New album: JUST DEVILS

Aaron Hibbert (vocalist/guitarist): “Just Devils is the farthest most of us have ever pushed
the envelope musically and we are so unbelievably excited for people to finally hear it.”
Brian Westbrook (drums, vocals, producer) “I hope I’m still alive by the time this album comes out.”

TUTV: Have yourself a headbanging Halloween party at your local graveyard with
your new favourite Halloween band PWRUP. This Western Massachusetts turbo will
wake up the dead for you with their new head-over-heals brouhaha longplayer.

Be ready for a hysterical mishmash of hardcore ska-punk missiles. No breaks, no brakes, no mistakes. Always fast-forward in overwhelming overdrive with disordered guitar solos, supersonic drumming, ear-splitting screaming and a wall of illegal decibels. Think Metallica playing dead metal faster than a comet while horns blow your ears to pieces.

A sonic tsunami of smashing pumpkins.

Advice: Go to the gym every single day and work out hard for a couple
of hours until 31 October in order to be in perfect moshpit shape to go
berserk with your beloved devils on All Hallows’ Eve.

RELEASE THE BATS


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BUY


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PWRUP: Facebook – Instagram
TUTV: Facebook – Instagram – Twitter

NEIL YOUNG – New LP ‘BEFORE AND AFTER’ With Acoustic Re-Recordings Of 13 Career-Spanning Songs Out Next Month

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22 October 2023

It feels like if NEIL YOUNG releases an album every other month.
Live ones, compilations, new ones and lots of archival material.

Next month, on December 8, another longplayer will land. It’s named
BEFORE AND AFTER, only available on vinyl. More info here.

Press info: On Before And After, Young chooses favorites from his playbook like a trip into his music history and performs them mostly alone on a solo acoustic journey. Each of the songs blend into each other and morph with mesmerizing clarity into a continuous flow of music creating a 48-minute pure and intimate listening experience. The 13-track album spans Neil’s career, from Neil’s early Buffalo Springfield contribution, “Burned” (1966) to the recent “Don’t Forget Love”(2021) and includes the previously unreleased song “If You Got Love”.

Neil Young: “The feeling is captured, not in pieces, but as a whole piece — designed to be listened to that way. This music presentation defies shuffling, digital organisation, separation. Only for listening. That says it all.”

TRACKLIST

1. I’m The Ocean
2. Homefires
3. Burned
4. On The Way Home
5. If You Got Love (Previously Unreleased)
6. Dream That Can Last
7. Birds
8. My Heart
9. When I Hold You In My Arms
10. Mother Earth
11. Mr. Soul
12. Comes A Time
13. Don’t Forget Love

Three tasters.

I’m The Ocean, Homefires and Burned.

NEIL YOUNG: Instagram – Archives