Vitalizing tunes that work faster than a stream of caffeine
9 May 2026
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Veteran Massachusetts metalcore hotrods CONVERGE trigger earhquakes since 1990.
The older they get, the more productive they get. In 2021 they canned
a collaborative longplayer, called Bloodmoon: I with Goth phenomen Chelsea Wollfe.
Full-length number 11, named Hum Of Hurt
is ready to cause amok from June 5th on.
Jacob Bannon (frontman) about new single DOOM IN BLOOM“It’s dark song
and pointed right at you. Lyrically, I’m exploring how my own middle-aged introspection
doesn’t always bring a brighter light. I see my own trappings reflected in those around
me. Here I am imploring them to slip the noose to see another day.”
Hangover? Here’s the cure.
Bang your head against your
wall of choice ’til it bleeds.
Vitalizing tunes that work faster than a stream of caffeine
7 May 2026
Courtesy Pussy Riot – Photo by Nikita Teryoshin
You can’t shut up the imperishable Russian political activists PUSSY RIOT and
their ever-growing fanbase. This year marks their 15th year of opposition against
the Kremlin tyranny.
Thus far, they expressed their fierce discontent with two loud and clear studio LPs,
several mixtapes and a series of barbed wire singles, and countless live protests
in their home country, in Ukraine, and in the Western world.
And now, after yesterday’s protests in Italy (more below), the band released,
in a rush, a guerrilla-made punk flamethrower, annex video of the happening.
A nasty slam dunk, called DISOBEY, comes amid the controversial Russian
return to this year’s Biennale Arte in Venice – Italy, which has led to the
EU cutting funding, the Jury resigning, and many protests. Of course, the Pussy Riot movement was present on the front line.
Over 50 PR members stormed the Russian Pavilion at the Biennale, only yesterday.
Police were forced to close the doors of the pavilion. They tackled PR followers
who managed to get inside and open the door that was being blocked. All Pussy
Rioters wore pink ski masks and had pink smoke, they raised their fists, played
guitars, and moshed as a protest.
Time to act pronto, musically too!
Nadya Tolokonnikova (founding PR member): “I wanted to do a classic punk song,
in old school Pussy Riot style. I’ve been trying to be polite, writing letters via the Council
of Europe, writing directly to the board, to the president, to people in the art world, and
dead ends everywhere.
Polite society doesn’t work when you are dealing with thugs and crooks, so we meet
them with punk, we have to scream our anger and disdain for what is happening.
Over 50 members of Pussy Riot, from all over the world, came here to the Storm of Venice, to scream and take part in this moment.
We quickly go into editing mode after, gathering photographers and video people,
we cut the video sitting in a cafe, and turn it around in a day, this is our actionist training
in action. This is our art, and our protest. We hope the punks, freaks, and actually anyone
who ever felt like fucking screaming to enjoy this song and moment with us. Fuck Putin.”
Vitalzing tunes that work faster than a stream of caffeine
4 May 2026
📸: @visualritual
Band: SPARTA Who: Veteran rockers from El Paso, Texas (2001–2008, 2011–2013, 2017–present).
Founding members Paul Hinojos and Tony Hajjar played also withAt The Drive-In (Hajjar still does now and then).
Vitalizing tunes that work faster than a stream of caffeine
28 April 2026
New York‘s cast-iron trio SHOW ME THE BODY have released
their first new music of 2026 with hammer and tongs haymaker DANCE IN THE USA .
No sign yet of a 4th longplayer. Their last one Trouble The Water came out in 2022.
Julian Cashwan Pratt (frontman): “The song is about how we implore style
to survive in this reality. It’s how we embrace the struggle of ourselves, our family’s,
and those around you. It’s the dance that we all do – how we hustle, the good
and the bad things we do – just to get through it.”
[Verse 1] If there ain’t no heaven, this is hell on earth
You can tell me ways, but only mine will work
Hundred days a week, they playing their tricks on you
It’s a fools’ game, but I ain’t one to lose
[Chorus] Dance in the USA
Dance for the dues paid
Dance in the USA
Dance in the USA
[Post-Chorus] Sun shines in hell, sun shines in the city
Sun shines in the USA
Sun shines in hell, sun shines in the city
Yeah
[Verse 2] You’re either getting fucked or you’re doing some fucking too
Time to choose
Better move quick now, baby, junkie’s gotta shoot
It’s a fools’ game, but I ain’t one to lose
TUTV: May the body force be with you, America.
Start dancing, it’s time for a big change, people.
Vitalizing tunes that work faster than a stream of caffeine
23 April 2026
mgk/fd press
Sharp-mouthed rapper MGK , formerly known as Machine Gun Kelly invited his
nu-metal buddy FRED DURST, frontman of Limp Bizkit for 32 years now, to join
him for a new maddening moshpit anthem, named FIX UR FACE
MGK: “I called up my friend Fred Durst. I said, ‘Sir,
drop something on this. The rest is history.”
The accompanying video clip is directed by @samcahill. It was shot
all around the world, from Prague to Ireland to London to Germany to
the States.
Vitalizing tunes that work faster than a stream of caffeine
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.
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.
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.
Vitalizing tunes that work faster than a stream of caffeine
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.
Vitalizing tunes that work faster than a stream of caffeine
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 infohere.
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.
