Wake-Up Call

THE ALL-AMERICAN REJECTS Rock Out With ‘KING KONG’

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21 April 2026

Oklahoma‘s rock champs,  THE ALL-AMERICAN REJECTS, haven’t been
quite as active during their 27-year journey. So far, only 4 full-lengths.

But wait, as they announced recently, they worked their butt off for
a new one, named SANDBOX. It’ll see the day of light on May 15th.

Ahead of it they present a taster called KING KONG.

Tyson Ritter (frontman) who left Los Angeles: “I’m from a small town in Oklahoma, and I moved back home. When I got to LA, I fell into an interesting crowd. It was the quintessential, ‘I’m in LA in my 20s and early 30s’ life. It’s a town where everyone is chasing the same industry. There’s no real life about it for me that I experienced until I left.”

Sounds like if King Kong is a pretty
good boy who just wanna rock out.

What about you?

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MASSIVE ATTACK & TOM WAITS Team Up For Bone-Chilling Protest Song ‘BOOTS ON THE GROUND’

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16 April 2026

British trip-hop icons MASSIVE ATTACK and legendary crooner-maverick
TOM WAITS have teamed up for a collaborative politically-loaded track,
named BOOTS ON THE GROUND.

It’s a loud and clear protest song, critising today’s autocratic America.

Boots On The Ground comes with a video clip created by MA & made with work by US photo artist thefinaleye. It shows the aftermath of the recent largest public protests in American history against “ICE raids, the militarisation of domestic forces, and state authoritarianism”.

The intro of the clip starts with the text “From the murder of George Floyd in Minneapolis on May 5 2020, to recent ICE raids on migrant communities and the killing of civilians that protect them,” and moves on to, “From the brutal state repression of public protest, to the reality of American homelessness that includes nearly 33,000 military veterans” and ends by detailing those who have lost their lives to ICE and the impact of oppressive retaliation to protest.

Bone-chilling in sound and vision.

The clock is ticking.

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THE ITCH Do Your Head In With Electro Whopper ‘NO MORE SPRECHGESANG’

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13 April 2026

Band: THE ITCH
Who: British party-starting electro-punk
duo, Simon Tyrie and Georgia Hardy.

Track: NO MORE SPRECHGESANG

Standout from their brand new debut
album It’s The Hope That Kills You.

Tyrie: “I wrote the words ‘no more sprechgesang’ a few years ago in a notebook at
a really bad gig, being deadly serious, along with a long list of other things I wanted
to see the back of. But when I rediscovered the line in my notebook I just found it really
funny and stupid.

Now when I sing ‘no more sprechgesang’ it feels less like a call to arms and more
like a melancholic ode to the scene we once belonged to, which at the time of writing
I wanted to burn down. ”

TUTV: Boom boom boom! The Itch draw you into
a head-spinning trance with nonstop rotating beats.

Get up. Have fun.
Smash your head on
the kitchen wall
on repeat.

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CARROSER – Belgian Hysterical Big Teeth Maniacs Cause A Götterdämmerung Explosion With ‘GOOD TIMES’

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9 April 2026

Band: CAROSSER
Who: Big-teethed sonic maniacs from Antwerp, Belgium. An unlikely bunch of likeable outcasts, who got together in 2024 as a result of their members’ desire to write hard-hitting and emotionally charged music. The result is a mix of posthardcore and dreamo with lyrics that constantly float between hope and cynicism.

Track: GOOD TIMES
Piece from their upcoming EP, titled
Easy Access, No Service. It’ll land
on your stereo on April 10th.

“It’s a song about sticking your head in the sand because you believe that there is
nothing you can do about the horrible sh*t that goes on around you. So you give in
to fear and self pity. Whether that is the right thing to do is up to you, dear listener.”

TUTV: Wanna scare the hell out of your nasty demons? In that case, schizophrenic eccentrics Carosser offer you a sonic Molotov cocktail to do the job. Imagine cacophonous Texan mavericks At The Drive-in and New York‘s demonic speedball rockers A Place To Bury Strangers turning their amps up to the max, Together At The Same Time!! Sounds like a Götterdämmerung hardcore explosion, right? You betcha.

Psychotic guitar riffs and a trashing bass/drums artillery produce a dystopian pandemonium you can split atoms with. On top of it comes the out-of-his-fucking
mind vocalist who desperately wants to yell himself out of his straitjacket.

Around the 2-minute mark, you can catch your breath again
and prepare your eardrums for a bone-chilling finale.

Talking about having a good time. Hallelujah.

Wake-up noizzz junks.
Here’s your breakfast.

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SINE – Texan Electronic Boom Artist Beeches On Repeat On New Single ‘CRUEL’

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7 April 2026

Artist: SINE
Who: Austin, Texas-based musician Rona Rougeheart, who blends dance beats,
sub-bass, rhythmic synths, and industrial elements into an overall sound that
she describes as ‘electronic boom’.

Track: CRUEL
The final single from her new upcoming album, named
La Mordre, out on May 22nd. Tracklist and order info here.

Sine: “The song is about people who purposefully choose to be cruel to others.
The words are both sarcastic and serious and I like the contrast of the lyrical
content against the upbeat nature of the music, which otherwise makes it a
fun dance track.”


Album artwork

TUTV: From the word go, you get caught up in a spiraling whirlwind of chemical
brothers electronics and a salvo of EBM beeching. Sine‘s sensual vocals roll over it,
repeating this thump-thump whopper’s crucial question, “Is it cool to be cruel?”
I guess we all know the answer.

Hey boy, hey girl.
Time for your wake-up
trance.


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JACK WHITE Heats Up With Two New Garage Blues-Rock Firecrackers

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4 April 2026


Press photo

Only this week JACK WHITE (né John Anthony Gillis 50 years ago in Detroit) announced
an European tour, and he follows that news now with 2 new firecrackers, his first new music since his 6th solo album NO NAME, that came out in 2024.

They’re both White vintage, unbridled garage blues-rock headbangers.

– G.O.D AND THE BROKEN RIBS –

– DERECHO DEMONICO –

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KNEECAP – Irish Rap & Roll Loudmouths Have New Crazy & Catchy Whopper Called ‘FENIANS’ Out

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2 April 2026

Belfast‘s notorious rap & roll activists KNEECAP – Mo Chara,
Móglaí Bap, and DJ Próvaí – hip and hop around with a knife
between their sharp teeth since 2017.

They released their debut album 3cag in 2018
and went viral in 2024 with follow-up Fine Art.

Last year, the spotlight wasn’t really on their music but more on their
problems with some governments for their support for Palestine on
and off stage.

This year will see the release of their 3rd longplayer.
It’s baptized FENIAN, Irish for Fínín, an adjective with
Fíníneach Origin: Old Irish féne, the name of an ancient
Irish people.

It’ll hit the streets on May 1st. More info here.

The album is promoted as “A new chapter, new sounds, new manifestos.
A blistering album that revels in darkness while bursting through the void
with illuminated revery.”

Following Smugglers & Scolars and Liars Tale,
the brazen Irishmen come up with the title track.

Crazy & Catchy as Hell.

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DEAD PIONEERS – Denver Punks Go After That Moron In The White House With Their New Crushing Cannonball ‘NO KINGS’

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Band: DEAD PIONEERS
Who: Sharp-mouthed punks
from Denver.

Track: NO KINGS
New piece from their upcoming 3rd LP, named Wagon Burner .
I’ll hit our stereos on June 26th. More info here .


Album artwork

TUTV: Following blitzkrieg bomb Nazi Teeth, the punk pioneers go after that orange moron in the White House. The new crushing cannonball refers to the massive No Kings Protests (June 2025, October 2025, and March 2026), with millions across the US, hitting the streets to oppose the actions and policies of the incompetent and tyrannic Trump administration. Wake up, world, and join the protests.

Fight! Fight! Fight!

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NOIR ADDICTION – Red-Hot Industrial Rock Turbo Drop Sassy Stomper ‘SERVE ME SOME CRIME’

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26 March 2026

Band: NOIR ADDICTION
Who: Italy-based industrial rock project built around Sonny Lanegan, a musician and producer whose earlier work included White Pulp and The Dead Good in Los Angeles.

The released theior debut LP Decadent Desire in 2025.

New track: SERVE ME SOME CRIME
It’ll feature on their 2nd album, named
Pretty Things Don’t Last, out July 16th.

Lanegan: “At its core, the song is about freedom not the peaceful, inspirational kind, but the messy kind. The kind where you allow yourself to be contradictory, to not have it all figured out, to embrace a bit of chaos instead of pretending you’re always in control. It’s me saying: if life insists on being absurd, I might as well play along.”


Stunning artwork

TUTV: From the get-go, bombastic bass drones and frenetic guitars set the tone and
never lose their grip on this red-hot dark-Goth-wavish stomper. Think Bauhaus rockin’
out or Sisters Of Mercy performing on a vertiginous roller coaster. Add vocals coming from a dark place, and the revolving sonic picture is complete. Start the turbo up. Here. Now.

Hallelujah.

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MUSE – British Rock Giants Announce Album #10 And Share First Single ‘BE WITH YOU’

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24 March 2026

British rock giants MUSE, fronted by the emo-loaded Matt Bellamy
started their triumphant odyssey back in 1994. WTF! That’s 32 years
ago. Stop the clocks.

It’s been 4 years since their latest album Will Of The People, hit planet Earth.

Now the wait is over for all MUSE fanatics.

Album #10, named The Wow! Single First comes out on June 26th.
More info here.

Press info: “Muse are a culturally-attuned, genre-defying band who channel the anxieties of each era—technology, power, rebellion, and identity—into maximalist, stadium-ready rock that evolves with the times while staying unmistakably Muse.”

Along with the news, the band dropped the first single, titled BE WITH YOU.

Pure MUSE. Another bombast-fueled nugget powered by booming synths, Bellamy‘s hysterical guitar entering the room midway, and his melodramatic vocals.

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