Vitalizing tunes that work faster than a stream of caffeine
26 February 2026
Californian oldtimers SOCIAL DISTORTION are one of the
most notorious and celebrated American punk bands ever.
They formed in 1978, took a break here and there but never went away for good.
So far they released 7 LPs, with Hard Times And Nursery Rhymes from 2011 as
the most recent one.
Big news for their generational fans. SD have a new full-length canned.
It’s titled BORN TO KILL and hits the streets on May 8th. More info here.
We get the title track as the album’s first preview.
It’s a fuming outburst with the guitar volume way up.
You can’t tell if you hear a veteran or a new band.
Yoohoo.
The band will hit the road later in
the year to promote the new album.
Vitalizing tunes that work faster than a stream of caffeine
23 February 2026
Artist: GENESIS OWUSU Who: Widly celebrated 27-year-old rapper born
in Ghana, and living in Canberra, Australia. So far
he has released 2 albums.
Track: STAMPEDE
His new single. So far, no news of
a new full-length.
Owusu: “There are people who have expansive amounts of money, who are
intentionally acting to separate us so they can keep getting richer at the expense
of general human wellbeing. We’re all under that same thumb and we need to
realise that.”
To hell with the greedy rich.
Get up, stand up, and fight for
your right to stampede all over
those rapacious hyenas.
Vitalizing tunes that work faster than a stream of caffeine
19 February 2026
Band: CHALK Who: Three earthshaking electro junks from Belfast, Ireland.
Last year, they unleashed their boiling hot 3rd EP, titled Conditions III.
Track: TONGUE
New single from their upcoming debut album,
named Crystalpunk. It’ll show up on March 13th.
Ross Cullen (vocalist) “For the demo, I sang the opening few lines of the song
on my earphones microphone and that take made it to the final version. I had to
whisper because my girlfriend was sleeping beside me.
There was something ominous about the track and felt like it would be the beginning of something. I played the intro to Ben and it felt like a “Eureka” moment for us and felt like we had accidentally taken care of the opening track for the album without thinking too hard about it.”
TUTV: Alarm! Let the sirens blare! Armagddeon Time has arrived, folks! Run to the hills where CHALK will entertain us, before we go nuclear, with their new grenade. Tongue hits hard, really hard, on repeat. It’s a merciless brainbreaker. It’s an industrial sledgehammer. It’s mental! Perfect way to go out with a bing bang.
Vitalizing tunes that work faster than a stream of caffeine
17 February 2026
Band: WESTSIDE COWBOY Who: Fast up-and-coming indies
from Manchester, UK.
Paste Magazinesays: “They are the kind of band whose buzz still feels like an accident they keep tripping over. Four Manchester music-school friends, barely out of uni, playing as if the point is to stay in motion long enough that nobody can sand them into a product.
They call what they do “Britainicana”, not quite a genre so much as a self-defense mechanism,
a way of admitting they’re raised on American mythologies while still stuck in Northern England. Sonically, that mindset comes through as American roots shapes shoved through a British DIY garage-rock body: folk harmony and country phrasing jostling up against slacker guitars and punk velocity, like someone trying to sing a lullaby while sprinting.”
TUTV: This high-voltage crackerjack resonates like a slow pop song by The Beatles, sped up and overdubbed with about 100 guitars. And the result is a spiky slice of infectious music.
Keep your eyes and your ears
peeled. More fireworks to come.
“Theft World is an ode to the power and pervasiveness of stealing,” says the band of the album. “It’s about taking something ugly and using it to make something cute. It’s about
eating an absurd world and falling in love with it as you digest.”
TUTV: Wham Boom Wham Boom Bam! From the first chord on, you can stamp your feet, spin your head around, and punch your hands in the air. Lip Critic bop to the beastly beat, so does your itching body.
But as the track progresses, the funky ambiance gets ominous, agressive and brutal. Vocalist Bret Kaser goes nuts, the band goes bonkers, your stereo goes berserk, and
your ears go bananas. Hallelujah. Fucktastic, right? You betcha.
As they raise their political voice(s) regularly, they couldn’t ignore the bullshit
happening in Trump‘s Divided States Of Hate,where masked Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents shoot American civilians in cold blood.
Vitalizing tunes that work faster than a stream of caffeine
3 February 2026
Band: GRRRL GANG Who: Three Indonesian
guitar-pop indies.
Track: LAPDOG
Piece/clip from their new 3-track
maxi-single, named Online 24/7.
Edo (guitarist) “This song is about the choices we make every
day, when we click ‘agree’ to something that actually hurts us.”
TUTV: Lapdog tackles, just like the other two guitar-electryfing songs,
the signs of our times, and those do not look good, as we all now.
The fervent firecracker grooves with verve and vigor. Vocalist Angee‘s spoken
word performance is loud and crystal clear, so is the vibrant chorus. We need
to stop messing up.
Wake up, people.
Indonesia is here
to rock.
Tour Dates
March 17 – Washington, D.C. @ Pie Shop March 18 – Philadelphia, PA @ Silk City March 19 – Boston, MA @ Warehouse XI March 20 – New York, NY @ Mercury Lounge March 22 – Los Angeles, CA @ The Smell March 23 – San Diego, CA @ Soda Bar March 25 – San Francisco, CA @ Bottom of the Hill March 27 – Portland, OR @ Swan Dive March 28 – Seattle, WA @ Clock-Out Lounge
Vitalizing tunes that work faster than a stream of caffeine
29 January 2026
The brutal killings of two American citizens – Rennée Good shot with
3 bullets in the face and Alex Pretti with 10 bullets by 2 agents – in Minnesota, have triggered several musicians to call out Trump and
his ruthless Immigration and Customs Enforcement.
A powerful goosebumps ballad that should be played
all over the world, in the first place, all over America.
“I wrote this song on Saturday, recorded it yesterday and released it
to you today in response to the state terror being visited on the city of
Minneapolis. It’s dedicated to the people of Minneapolis, our innocent
immigrant neighbors and in memory of Alex Pretti and Renee Good.”
LYRICS
[Verse 1]
Through the winter’s ice and cold
Down Nicollet Avenue
A city aflame fought fire and ice
‘Neath an occupier’s boots
King Trump’s private army from the DHS
Guns belted to their coats
Came to Minneapolis to enforce the law
Or so their story goes
[Verse 2]
Against smoke and rubber bullets
In the dawn’s early light
Citizens stood for justice
Their voices ringing through the night
And there were bloody footprints
Where mercy should have stood
And two dead, left to die on snow-filled streets
Alex Pretti and Renee Good
[Chorus] Oh, our Minneapolis, I hear your voice
Singing through the bloody mist
We’ll take our stand for this land
And the stranger in our midst
Here in our home, they killed and roamed
In the winter of ’26
We’ll remember the names of those who died
On the streets of Minneapolis
