Pick Of The Day

CHARM SCHOOL – American Rock Shockers Screw Up Your Mind With ‘SKADENFREUDE PLOY’

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29 January 2026

Band: CHARM SCHOOL
Who: No wave post-punk crew from LA via Louisville.
Actually, seasoned multi-hyphenate artist Andrew Sellers
and his longtime collaborators.

They released their debut album Debt Forever last year.

New Track: SKADENFREUDE PLOY
Title track from their upcoming 4-Track EP.
It’ll land on February 20th. More info here


EP artwork

Sellers: “Charm School’s job is to infiltrate, radiate, negate and fascinate. To wield
a real-flame torch among the droves of the lost who don’t even know they are lost.
A soundtrack to the true full-live-birthing of our status as second-world juggernauts.

This is what we rock to in Our Own Private Albania, as our elders and leaders
prove decisively that they learned nothing but nothing in their times on our
planet.”

TUTV: Rowdy riffage dominates this red-hot-blooded sucker-punch, assisted
by a ruthless rhythm section going apeshit now and then, a schizo sax in the
back, and an agitated vocalist. All together they produce a kind of filthy groovin’
hullabaloo.

Fire your shrink and let Charm School screw up your mind. Helter skelter.

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LINDSEY TROY – Former DEAP VALLY Voice/Guitarist Bedazzles With Heart And Soul Stirring Gem ‘LOVE IS DEEPER’

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28 January 2026

Artist: LINDSEY TROY
Who: Former vocalist/guitarist of roasting blues rock duo
Deap Vally, who made stormy waves from 2001 to 2024.

Track: LOVE IS DEEPER
2nd solo single following her bewitching
debut I’ve Seen The Wild Trees.

Troy: “I wrote this song, and I cried for two days straight when I wrote it. Good tears.
Tears of empathy and healing. ‘Love is Deeper’ is a song about deep, unconditional
love. About intergenerational trauma and complex family dynamics.

I sing about sacred childhood memories that are the backdrop of
my life, the blissful memories of my youth that I hold so dear.

But I also sing about painful memories that are part of my life’s mural. This song is about the reverberating impact of mental illness on a family. About blood being thicker than pain. About empathy. About saying my piece and letting go of my anger to forgive and heal.”


Single artwork

TUTV: Love Is Deeper is a sad story set to a mid-tempo corker of a song, spiked with
distorted guitars that seem to accentuate the raw pain. Troy‘s deely felt vocals star in
the middle. You can really feel the heavyhearted emotions at play.

A genuine tearjerker.

As a first-hour Deap Vally fan it’s amazing to see
Lindsey Troy back in action in a truly heart-and-soul
stirring way.

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CROSS WIRES – British Post Punk Indies Return With Doom And Gloom Burst ‘PREACHERS’

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26 January 2026

Band: CROSS WIRES
Who: Vehement post-punk
4-piece from Romford, UK.

So far they have released 2 albums.

Yesterday In Mourning (2023)
and A Life Extinct and #3 is canned.

Track: PREACHERS
The first single from their upcoming third album
‘Under The Watchful Eye of Another Man’s God’.
It’ll come our way on February 16th.

TUTV: As long as bands like Cross Wires are around, indie guitar rock will leave a mark with its intense, critical, middle-finger rage, and manic street preaching about social injustices.

Afer an alarming siren-like intro rabid riffs race and rush everywhere. Jonathan Chapman‘s well-oiled pipes cut like a razor-blade. Hot-button vim and vigour from start to finish.

Like the Pistols, Cross Wires mean it, man.

LYRICS

“Fear the world. The air you breathe.
Life hasn’t meaning when everything is a conspiracy.
Local sun. Hologram moon.

Don’t trust anyone but me. I’ve come to save your soul.

You’ve been indoctrinated and it’s time to let it go.
Rigged election. The plandemic. Everything is clear if
you’d just open up your eyes. Chemtrails and pizzagate.
(They don’t even have a basement)
Oh god I’m on the grift again.

Don’t trust anyone but me. I’ve come to save your soul.
You’ve been indoctrinated and it’s time to let it go.”

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TEll A ViSiON – Berlin-based Singer-Songwriter Moves And Grooves With Panache On Her Sassy Single ‘IDLU’

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24 January 2026


Photo by Tim Bruening

Artist: TEll A ViSiON
Who: Genre-bending, multifaceted writer, producer,
and composer (she/they) based in Berlin who has
released five albums so far.

Hailed by German pop culture critics as “one of our most exciting sonic innovators”.
She fuses gritty, sometimes dubby beats, bluesy guitar, circling synths, sample
aesthetics, and raw and direct lyrics into songs that are visual and uncompromising.

Track: IDLU
New single.

TAV: “It’s about setting boundaries and feeling yourself again.
Cause if you know what you don’t like – you know better what
you like”.

TUTV: TAV moves and grooves with the distorted swagger of The Kills, and
the libidinous disco thumping of Peaches. Arousing vibrations everywhere
in the air, accentuated by her sensuous, near-whispering St. Vincent-like
vocality. Tantalising Saturday night fever for 2026 weekends.

“Now you think this song is about u
No, this song’s not about u
It’s about me
Cause it’s good to realize
The things I mind
So I‘ll know better next time”

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Let’s ‘HAVE A PINT’ With Scottish Punk Dropouts COWBOY HUNTERS

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22 January 2026

Band: COWBOY HUNTERS
Who: Glasgow‘s punk dropouts
Megan Pollock and Desmond Johnston.

They have steadily built a reputation as one of the UK’s most unpredictable and confrontational live acts. Sharing duties across drums, bass and vocals, the duo
operate with a deliberately stripped-back setup that amplifies the physical impact
of their shows, drawing equally from the raw intensity of punk and the communal
release of rave culture

Track: HAVE A PINT
New single from their upcoming 5-track EP,
titled EPeepee. It’ll hit the streets on March 20th.

TUTV: Oh bloody hell yeah. This is it. Raw and rough punk hysteria at its sharp-cutting best. These two mental hunters take you on a wham-bam rollercoaster ride, up and down, left and right. Have A Pint sounds like it was recorded in their local pub’s toilet, generating some barbed wire shit, juiced with obstreperous duet vocals that drive you nuts in the end. This roistering Scottish duo will join Sleaford Mods on their upcoming tour.

Have a beer.
Press play.
Go berserk.


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MODERN WOMAN – Ardent British Indies Overwhelm With Slow Burning Torch Song ‘DASHBOARD MARY’

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20 January 2026

Band: MODERN WOMAN
Who: London-based art-rock outfit
fronted by songwriter Sophie Harris.

Track: DASHBOARD MARY
Lead-single from their upcoming debut full-length, baptized
Johnny’s Dreamworld and out on May 1st. More info here.


Album artwork

Press info on album: ‘Johnny’s Dreamworld’ represents the culmination of Modern Woman’s journey from 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.”
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TUTV: Blimey! This slow-burning torch gets you in a firm grip before you even realize it.
Its ongoing immense intensity has a hypnotic impact on your psyche. Foreboding tension hangs in the air, augmented by Harris‘ bone-chilling vocality. Around the 3-minute mark, all pent-up emotions explode into a guitar-layered finale that blows your mind away.

Stupendous!
Overwhelming!

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THE DARTS – Garage Punk Amazons Start HALLOWEEN Right Now With New Sizzling Love Song ‘MIDNIGHT CREEP’

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16 January 2026


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Band: THE DARTS
Who: Steamy garage Amazons based in Seattle, Washington,
fronted by charismatic singer-songwriter Nicole Laurenne,
also operating solo as Black Viiolet

Track: MIDNIGHT CREEP
The first single from their forthcoming LP, their 6th, named
Halloween Love Songs. It’ll hit our stereos on March 3rd.

Press info: “‘Midnight Creep’ started as a surprise curveball when ‘rythm section bitch’
Lindsay brought Nicole a demo called ‘Phantom Creep.’ Nicole was already quietly writing a Halloween-themed album and immediately heard a chance to chase something different.

An honest-to-ghoul old-school monster dance, the kind that might’ve aired on a haunted Shindig episode taped in a basement full of fog machines and paper-mâché bats. She rebuilt the tune into a slinky, organ-driven earworm; Lindsay created a simple, go-go-friendly choreography; and suddenly The Darts had a Halloween banger that felt both brand-new and weirdly familiar.”

TUTV: As a longtime fan, news of new Darts music puts a big smile on my face,
and lately it happens every year. I actually don’t know what Nicole Laurenne eats
or drinks, but her production flow is off the charts, with the band and solo.

Look, I’m smiling again. New album in March, new single today.

Midnight Creep is vintage Darts frenzy. Sizzling, blistering, and red-hot-blooded. Laurenne and her sidekick, her organ, lead the hungry troops once again. The piquant buzz and fuzz at play here ignites all of your limbs and makes you jump like a kangaroo from left to right and back.

The always black-dressed glam she-devils look sexy, play sexy, and sound sexy
(on record and on stage), and thanks to them, it’s Halloween every single day of
the year, from now on. This new smashing pumpkin is perfect to open and end
all creepy midnight parties. Bullseye!

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KIM GORDON – Former Sonic Youth Icon Rocks Out On New Swirling Single ‘NOT TODAY’

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15 January 2026


Photo credit: Moni Haworth

Former Sonic Youth icon KIM GORDON (aged 72) launched her 2nd solo album, titled
The Collective last year in March. Another noise-distorted exploration of industrial sounds. A worthy follow-up to her startling 2019 debut No Home Record.

And Gordon isn’t running out of effervescent sonic ideas. She already bagged
her 3rd full-length, titled PLAY ME. It’ll land on March 13th. More info here.

Press info: “Kim Gordon‘s vision of art and noise has come sharper into focus just
as readily as it has changed—a paradigm of possibility that, four decades on, still
feels like a dare. Play Me is distilled and immediate, expanding Gordon’s sonic
palette to include more melodic beats and the motorik drive of krautrock.”

Along with the news comes the first single NOT TODAY.

KG: “I started singing in a way I hadn’t sung in a long time. This other voice came out.”

TUTV: Make some room, just like Gordon does (below in the clip) and make room for some swaying movements. It’s another musical affair this time. More straightforward, more rock, more zip. Whatever Kim says I’m gonna play her today. You should too.

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SUNN O))) – Drone Experts Announce New LP And Share 10-Minute Pitch-Dark Jam ‘GLORY BLACK’

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14 January 2026


photo by Charles Peterson

Band: SUN O)))
Who: Drone-metal experts, Stephen O’Malley and Greg Anderson,
from Seattle , producing earsplitting waves since 1998.

Track: GLORY BLACK
The first single from their Self-titled 10th LP, their
first in 7 years. It’ll land on planet Earth on April 3rd.


Album artwork

Glory Black isn’t cheery music whatsoever. It’s a pitch-dark jam coming from
2 gloomy minds who look like monks who escaped from the film set of 1986
movie The Name Of The Rose with Sean O’Coonery.

Drone! Drone! Drone!


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Tour Dates (more to come)

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MAGIC WANDS Entrance With Psych Dream Pop Piece ‘SACRED MIRRORS’ Feat. Former PSYCHEDELIC FURS Guitarist

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12 January 2026

Band: MAGIC WANDS
Who: Dream-pop duo – Dexy and Chris Valentine – from Los Angeles.
So far they have released 3 albums. You check them out on Spotify.

New single: SACRED MIRRORS
It features former Psychedelic Furs‘s
guitarist John Ashton.

Dexy: “The song is based around John’s title but approached from a more spiritual
perspective. We are all sky gazers, so it includes imagery about the sky, sea, moon
and stars.

It’s a love song for outsiders about reflections and dreaming of endless possibilities.
We needed to be brought back to a more uplifting side of making music, and the DNA
of John’s songwriting has helped us to do just that.”

Ashton: “I fell in love with Magic Wands via a friend who sent me some of their music.
The songs immediately drew me in via the visions and emotions they imparted on my
psyche. To say I was inspired to write new music would be an understatement.”

TUTV: This is new-wavish splendour that has an immediate impact on your inner self. Sacred Mirrors moves in a hallucinatory universe, far away from our traumatic reality, where you can nestle yourself in your dream of choice. Illusory Valentine vocals and Ashton‘s electricity fit each other like a glove.

Press play and float away.


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