Daily noise that works faster than a stream of caffeine
18 June 2025
Brooklyn‘s hardcore vets BIOHAZARD had a remarkably loud run between 1987–2004, then took a split-up rest for 4 years to reload the engines. Overall they have released
9 LPs (so far).
Billy Graziadei (frontman) spoke to Reality Check TV early this year about a new album: “It’s almost done. It’ll be out later this year. Hopefully it’ll be out before summer, but you never know.”
And here’s their first new stuff since 2012 with new ferocious, molotov
cocktail FORSAKEN. No further details of the new album. Be patient.
Daily noise that works faster than a stream of caffeine
17 June 2025
Canadian rock legends SLOAN got together in 1991 and earned
them lots of accolades, fans and record sales, over the years.
And they’re not done yet. They have their 14th LP, named BASED
ON THE BEST SELLER ready to share with the world on 26 September.
More infohere.
Jay Ferguson (guitarist): “It’s not a challenge to make a 14th album. But sometimes it’s
a challenge to think of a new overarching theme for a 14th album , and The Kinks’ 14th album was Soap Opera, essentially a TV play and complete story arc set to music, so clearly Ray Davies didn’t have that problem.
Our band has the capability to perform different styles within the rock/pop sphere, but it’s often hard to harness the group to adhere to one particular style or theme. That’s okay though. With four songwriters, we tend to make music that perhaps doesn’t always naturally hang together under one opened umbrella but that’s our style, and that style is continued on Based on the Best Seller.”
Along with the news comes the first single, a harmonic, easygoing
and guitar-hooky groover, titled LIVE FOREVER, a catchy booster.
Chris Murphy (bassist): “If given the chance to live forever, would we even want to? Careful what you wish for. Would you want to feel 80 for hundreds of years? I guess that’s the kind of hard-hitting question this song tackles. It also predicts that we will all have ‘90s nostalgia, once we’re 100 years old.”
Wake up, people
and let’s celebrate
life, we’re not cats,
we only have one.
Single from their recently released
6-track debut EP, titled, eh, THE EP.
Just like the two sensational Wet Leg girls The Pill girls are from the Isle Of Wight.
Just like WT, TP write/record/release witty pop-punk tunes that put a big smile
on your face. Money Mullet is a perfect example.
Daily noise that works faster than a stream of caffeine
15 June 2025
Artist: LAURA JANE GRACE Who: Infamous havoc instigator from Chicago, who has been around since the 90s.
She has released (so far) 7 albums with her gang Against Me! and 2 on her own.
And the duo are ready for lonplayer number three.
It’s named ‘Tomorrow We Escape’ and will hit the streets
on September 9.
theOGM about the album: “When we started this process, we knew we wanted to make
more relatable songs. It was a healthy challenge to focus on emotion. In the past, a lot of our material was politically charged. That element is present to a degree, but we wanted to take a more personal route. This mindset drove how we wrote songs. Everybody has a struggle. The goal is to find motivation for preservation.”
The first brain-breaking single UPSIDE DOWN will
boom and gloom in your head all day long.
“Heaven isn’t up, spiral going down,
we were made to sin, only you can
control how”
British supergroup MANTRA OF THE COSMOS featuring happy mondays Shaun Ryder
and Bez, Andy Bell (Ride/Oasis) and drummer Zak Starkey, Ringo‘s son, who played with Oasis and The Who among others and who actually came up with this project’s idea two years ago, described it as “a fantastic psychedelic groove from a band of misfits, outsiders
and innovators.” Sounds like a 24-hour party for young-and-old-timers!
Bell: “It’s a pleasure to be part of Mantra of the Cosmos.
Four like-minded souls who get off on the same music.”
Ryder:“It doesn’t sound like the Mondays or Black Grape
or Oasis or The Who, it’s what we’re doing all together.”
To walk it like they talk it, they dropped two tracks. The wham-bam disco-punk
stomper Gorilla Guerilla and the moody groover X (Wot You Sayin’). Afterward everybody got back to their day jobs… until now.
With DOMINO BONES (GETS AROUND) they strike hard again. It’s a bedlam banger featuring Noel Gallagher saying: “It’s Dylan, Dali, Ginsberg and a bit of cosmic jibber-jabber. Add in Bez, who dances on the tunes like Zak plays the drums and Andy Bell plays all things stringed, and you have it.”
The madly mantra at work here is quite invigorating. Blimey, what a belter! We want more!
Daily noise that works faster than a stream of caffeine
12 June 2025
Press photo
As we, the fans, all know, glam rock/pop luminaries SUEDE orchestrated by the never aging Brett Anderson, have canned their 10th longplayer, named it Antidepressants
and will share it with the world on September 5th.
New album artwork
Along with the announcement came the sky-scraping lead single Disintegrate.
And the follow-up TRANCE STATE is as monumental, cranked-up with drum/bass
impetus, radiant guitar lines, and as ever, Anderson‘s melodramatic vocals. The final
result has a razzle-dazzle impact on your speakers and ears.
Daily noise that works faster than a stream of caffeine
11 June 2025
New album artwork
Last week David Byrne and his former Talking Heads colleagues celebrated their very first gig, 50 years ago in the legendary CBGB club in New York, opening for the gaba-gaba hey Ramones, with a brand-new video for their classic 1977 single Psycho Killer.
And yesterday, Byrne announced the upcoming birth of his 9th solo album (that’s already one more than with Talking Heads). It’s named Who Is The Sly? and will see the day of light September 5th. Tracklist and other info here.
The first singleEVERYBODY LAUGHS is a feel-good, cocktail party
gem for the upcoming summer. A luminous light in a dark world.
Byrne: “Someone I know said, “David, you use the word ‘everybody’ a lot.” I suppose I do that to give an anthropological view of life in New York as we know it. Everybody lives, dies, laughs, cries, sleeps and stares at the ceiling. Everybody’s wearing everybody else’s shoes, which not everybody does, but I have done. I tried to sing about these things that could be seen as negative in a way balanced by an uplifting feeling from the groove and the melody, especially at the end, when St. Vincent and I are doing a lot of hollering and singing together. Music can do that — hold opposites simultaneously. I realized that when singing with Robyn earlier this year. Her songs are often sad, but the music is joyous.”
Wake up people,
all together now,
1-2 and a 1-2-3-4.
