Wake-Up Call 2026

BAD(ASS) WAITRESS Get In Your Face While Being Drunk

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9 October 2026

Band: BAD WAITRESS
Who: 4 fierce art-punk provocateurs
from Toronto, Canada.

Track: I ONLY LIKE YOU WHEN I’M DRUNK
Single from their sophomore album In The Hollow, 
following their 2021 debut No Taste. Tracklist and
pre-order info right here.

Info: The title sounds like a joke you might regret making the next morning, but the song itself keeps digging beneath the punchline. “You horrify me / Make everything shit around me,” vocalist Kali-Ann Butala spits at the outset, only to admit moments later that she’s still drawn in. Desire becomes something embarrassing and invasive, the kind of attraction that seems to make less sense the closer you look at it.


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TUTV: Here’s some toxic and sick rock ‘n’ punk tumult. Bad Waitress attack your
terrified stereo, and your scared eardrums, and get in your panic-stricken face
in less than 3 minutes.

Schizoid guitars, an hysterical octopus drummer, and intoxicated spits and
snears join fighting forces to get their message loud and across anybody all
who dare to listen sober to this merciless motherrocker.

Stone the crows.
Release the bats.

Time to drink yourself in oblivion
and meet Badass Waitress.

“I only like you when I’m drunk / I only like you when I’m fucked up and crazy.”

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GRIPPER – Philly Oddballs Knock You KO With Two Punk Punches

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6 October 2026

Band: GRIPPER
Who: 5 combustive oddballs from Philly,
who also have fun in other bands.

Tracks: MISS BEHAVE and OTHER BASTARD.

Both hellacious punk punches, bundled under the heading PROMO 2026,
will be on their upcoming debut album, named Another Night Of Fun On Me
out early next year.


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Time to get up and
release the bats.

– MISS BEHAVE –


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Waking Up With STRANGE FRUIT From INDONESIA

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29 September 2026

Band: STRANGE FRUIT
Who: Synth/guitar pop daydreamers
from Jakarta, Indonesia.

Track: POUVOIR MOTEUR
Highlight from their
debut EP, named Drips.


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TUTV: Straight from Jakarta, Indonesia, a blend of prog synth-pop and Krautrock dynamics transferring your mind onto a cloud way above our disorderly planet. Wake up, keep on dreaming, and hope for the best.

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SNÕÕPER – Nashville’s Kamikaze Pop Punks Explode Again On New Projectile ‘MOUTH CLOSED’

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23 September 2026


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Band: SNÕÕPER
Who: Kamikaze pop-punk team from
Nashville with 2 LPs on their shelves.

Last July, they surprised us with the hyperkinetic hammer-drill Recess.
Surprised? Not because we don’t know how these snoopers sounded before,
but because of the way they sounded when Recess dropped. It used to be all
about schizophrenic guitars, but here schizophrenic synths took over.


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Now with their next projectile MOUTH CLOSED, we get a wrestling marriage
of an aggravated drum machine with an out-of-control bass guitar, with the
familiar screams and shouts all over it. Madness as usual.

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MY LENNIS – Belgian Motherrockers Have New Explosive Barnstormer ‘WIDE AWAKE’ Out

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17 September 2026

Band: MY LENNIS
Who: 4 Belgian noiseniks influenced by Weezer, Blink 182, Good Charlotte and The Offspring. What started as a trio became a foursome in 2023 with ambitious plans, namely making miles by playing live and diving into the recording studio.


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Track: WIDE AWAKE

TUTV: These motherrockers hit bullseye again with this explosive barnstormer.
This is what happens when grunge and punk collide and cause a nuclear reaction.
All you need to blow up your poor speakers is a revved-up rhythm section, a schizophrenic guitarist and a psych-o-tic maniac for a loudmouthed singer. Enter My Lennis. Maddening turmoil, people.

Get up, wide awake,
and release the bats.


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THE WAR ON DRUGS Are Back With Synth-Glowing Single ‘WHO’S THAT’

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9 September 2026

It’s been 4 years since Philly rockers THE WAR ON DRUGS orchestrated by
singer/songriter Adam Granduciel released their latest album I Don’t Live
Here Anymore.

Their fans can start jumping for joy ’cause their idols are back with new single
WHO’S THAT, a synth-glowing woolgathering evoking dreamy images. No sign
yet of a new LP, but I’m sure that won’t take long.

Awake. Arise.
TWOD are back.

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HEARING TESTS – London Punks Attack Belligerent Psycho Politicians With Their New Exploding Grenade ‘BURNING THE FLAG’

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2 September 2026

Band: HEARING TESTS
Who: A hardcore band from London, sonically direct, taking influence from all
over the hardcore spectrum, fast pummelling riffs, huge sing along political lyrics,
tackling issues such as the rise of the far right, consumerism and inequality with
more personal stories.

Their sound is fast, raw, and unapologetically direct – built for sweaty basements and
shouted choruses. Lyrically, they pull no punches, taking aim at consumer culture, far-right
politics, and systemic inequality with a clarity and fury that leaves no room for ambiguity.
Politically charged and sonically relentless, Hearing Tests aren’t just playing punk – they’re
living it.

Track: BURNING THE FLAG

TUTV: Holy smoke! Hearing Tests tash, crash and smash all war-greedy psychos who
have turned our planet into a ravaging battlefield. Burn The Flag is an exploding punk grenade, a detonative ebullition, a barbed wire assault.

We all know that we’re doomed if all those immoral, intolerant, egomaniacal world leaders as we know them, stay in charge. Their erratic behaviour is unpredictably dangerous. We the people should stand up, all together, and get rid of all those evil politicians while screaming Burning the flag, Burn in hell at the top of our lungs.

Time to wake up
and save humanity.
Now.

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MINISTRY – Industrial Tormentors Hate TRUMP To The Bone

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24 August 2026

AL JOURGENSEN, mastermind of legendary industrial metal tormentors MINISTRY, 
just announced the final stand of the band after a tumultuous journey since 1981.

They bagged their 17th and final LP, named Hate To Go (Take Out Or Delivery).
It’ll hit the streets on October 30th.

Jourgensen: “I’m fucking done. I’m proud of what I’ve accomplished. I’m amazed at the path that it’s taken, from With Sympathy to where we’re at today, and all points in between. It’s been quite a ride, but I’m completely at peace with the fact that it’s done. It’s time to herd goats.”

Track: WE HATE

It’s pretty self-evident that Ministry has never been a big fan of ‘Hair Mussolini’, especially now as he bombards the American people on a near daily basis with self-aggrandising AI slop. Al Jourgensen and co. therefore felt it necessary to give ‘Trumplethinskin’ a dose of his own medicine with their new single.

Fuck Trump.

TOUR 2027 EU/UK
(American dates TBA)

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MOVEMENTS – Californian Nu-Metal Act Full Of Ardency On New Single ‘LIVE BY THE SWORD’

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18 August 2026


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Band: MOVEMENTS
Who: Nu-metal/post-hardcore act
from Rancho Santa Margarita, California
who formed in 2015.

Track: LIVE BY THE SWORD

5th single from their upcoming 4th longolayer,
called Happier Now will land on September 4th.

TUTV: Ardency is the key word here, sonically and vocally. The kind of decicated ardency Deftones built their career with. Live By The Sword‘s urgent zestfulness holds your focus for the full ride.

Press play
and erupt.

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PIG – Blazing New-Goth-Wave Engine Fulminates On Ferocious Sledgehammer ‘AN AMERICAN IDEAL OF BEAUTY’

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4 August 2026


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Artist: PIG
Who: Longtime, English Dark-Goth-wave whirlwind and solo diesel engine
Raymond Watts, who made 15 LPs with German cult band KMFDM and has
several solo ones out, with this year’s piping hot album Hurt People Hurt
as the most recent one.

Track: AN AMERICAN IDEAL OF AMERICA
New single from his upcoming EP, named Dirt Box.
Out September 4th. More info here.

Watts: “I wanted to distil and hone the sound of the current PIG album, ‘Hurt People Hurt’,
so inviting my old partners in swine Marc and Günter to join Jim and myself in the studio seemed the perfect blend of brutality and beauty to feed, fertilise and transmogrify the hog
into Hogzilla. This new single was the first result of our work as a quartet, hammered in the heat of the anvil of hurt.”

TUTV: Wake up, America, here comes PIG. This new blazing electro-burning outburst resonates like it’s performed by a dream team, legendary industrial hotrod aggressors Ministry fronted by Bauhaus‘ iconic maestro Peter Murphy. Sounds pretty awesome, right? You betcha.

The immense vim and vigour at play here is off the charts, with Raymond Watt‘s characteristic, bone-shilling and terrifying vocals grabbing you by the throat for
the full 4 and a half sledgehammering minutes. Ferocious, fulminating, fierce
eruption. PIG rules.

“This is an American ideal of beauty
Put up, shut up, do your duty.”

Hurt People Hurt


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