Vitalizing tunes that work faster than a stream of caffeine
12 October 2026
Band: TWISTED TEENS Who: Two adult punks based in the Holy Cross
neighborhood of New Orleans, Louisiana.
Track: STALKS
Newest piece from their upcoming album No. 4. It’s baptized The Holy Cross Tigers, and it will drop on November 6th.
Tracklist and order info here.
Album artwork
Subpop Records say about the album: “Holy Cross Tigers is the fourth Twisted Teens
album but the first that feels immediately and entirely relatable. It is a blown-out transmission from the lip of heartbreak, a place where even the lucky have been and from which they have hopefully returned. That is, it sounds an awful lot like the truth.”
TUTV: Stalks is what edgy DIY garage punk is about. Cracked guitars, cracked drums
and cracked vocals interblend to fabricate some kickass hurly-burly that cannonades
with keen-edged sassiness. Let’s stalk them.
TUTV: These New Orleans motherrockers move ‘n groove with tenacious
vigor. They don’t fool around, they entertain your ears and body with
confident swagger. They ramble and they rattle. They rule.
Band: DOPAMINE FIX Who: Fresh-Irish indie duo who’s manifesto says a lot about them: “With a nod to the Dadaists, we create Post Punk, Experimental and
Electronica which aims to unnerve, to disturb and to question.”
“This piece speaks from inside the aftermath: after the damage, after the noise,
when certainty has begun to fail. In a world shaped by artificial intelligence, disinformation and continuous media manipulation, perception is no longer shared. Reality becomes something assigned rather than lived.”
TUTV: Dopamine Fix offer a voltaic, jump-up-and-down earworm
that bangs and booms from start to finish, like disco legends Erasure
with a punky vibe. Trust me, they’re for real, and they produce real
sonic stimulants.
Band: CAPE CRUSH Who: Power-emo rockers
from Boston, MA.
Track: PLACE MEMORY
New piece from their new,
forthcoming album.
Ali Limpkin (vocalist and guitarist): “The term ‘Place Memory’ is the supernatural theory that a place can hold an energetic memory, like when you hear ghostly footsteps or a disembodied voice, that perhaps you’re not hearing something intelligent, you’re hearing a repeat of that memory played back to you as if on tape. Or maybe you’re hearing your sister on the other side of the veil? The song talks about the choice we don’t make becoming a sister ship bound for a different route. One that we can only wave at from the shoreline.”
Design credit: Katie Scarlett @katie.scarlett
TUTV: Who said indie guitar pop is dead? Go away. On second thoughts stay
and try to not lose yourself in this 6-string whirlwind steaming all over you.
You will fail.
Cape Crush rush and race rivetingly with no intention to slow down
on their swift run. One word. Electromagnetic. I told you, doubters.
Listen and get my drift.
