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2 February 2026
PETER GABRIEL has his 11th LP o\i ready for release.
Exact date TBA. It’s the follow-up to 2023’s album i/o.
Following the lead single Been Undone Gabriel
offers a 2nd taster, titled PUT THE BUCKET DOWN ,
a funky disco upper.
Wake up, get up, people
Start your week here.
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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.
One of them is BRUCE SPRINGSTEEN who wrote
a new song, titled STREETS OF MINNEAPOLIS, to
protest against Trump‘s devastating regime.
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
R.I.P. Renée Good.
R.I.P. Alex Pretti.
Vitalizing tunes that work faster than a stream of caffeine
28 January 2026
Californian vets PAPA ROACH who started their turbulent adventure back in 1983
evolved over the years from nu-mental noiseninks to robust mainstream rockers.
In 2022 they released their most recent album with Ego Trip.
Today they launch a brand new single, called WAKE UP CALLING (hey, they stole
the header of these TUTV series). It follows 2025 singles Even If It Kills Me and Braindead. New album? When?
This one is another burst of overwhelming passion.
Wake up and call your lover, a friend,
a family member, just anybody you
want to make peace with.
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27 January 2026
Flipped out garage rocker KING TUFF, born Kyle Thomas is back in town.
He has bagged his 6th longplayer, named it MOO and will share it with
the world on 27 March. More info here.
Album artwork
KT introduces his new record : “Rock & Roll is the music of rodents and bugs. It should sound like it crept from a decrepit trashcan or a crypt or a toilet. It is not chill or vibey, autotuned or on the grid. It is not perfect, which is why it’s perfect. And I don’t care if it’s dead or alive, cool or uncool: when I hear it, and when I play it, as a chubby and balding 43 year old punk weirdo, I FEEL ENERGIZED”.
Yep, the man is buzzing.
The album’s first taster is a no-nonsense, clear-cut rock juggernaut
with a glamourous T.Rex swagger, titled TWISTED ON A TRAIN.
Wake up and
jump on board.
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21 January 2026
Photo Devon Chambers
Band: ADULT DVD
Who: EBM punks from
Leeds, UK.
Track: REAL TREE LEE
“Lee is a guy that we never want to become, let’s make that clear! This tune goes out to all the blokes who keep it blokey and delve too far into the cretin side of the internet, guys that believe every sub Reddit post they read, dudes that base their entire lives around some bonkers right wing conspiracy and live in fear of 5G. When it comes to Lee, what you see isn’t a what you get, and what you get is much darker than you’d expect.”
TUTV: Hit! Hit! Hit! Need an upbeat upper to get you trough the day? This Adult DV one, right here, will do the job, with striking Chemical Bros echoes and other electronic fireworks. Floor Lee! Lee! Lee.
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17 January 2026
Band: CULT OF DOM KELLER
Who: Psych rock trio from Nottingham, UK with
5 albums on their résumé and a new one coming
up.
Track: LEADERS WITH HOOVES
First single from their forthcoming 6th LP, their first in 5 years.
Unholy Dream will show up on March 27th. More info here.
New album artwork
The band about the track: “Leaders with Hooves is about the confession of the cruelty
woven into power itself. Those we call leaders are not shepherds but devils, trampling
the world beneath them with the relentless rhythm of their hooves, leaving nothing but splintered lives and hollow authority in their wake.
We follow not in spite of them, but because the pounding of that unholy cadence lures us, hypnotizes us, convinces us that obedience is inevitable, that the chaos they summon is destiny. The song’s title is a mirror to the darkness we choose to march toward, an acknowledgment that what masquerades as leadership is in truth a brutal stampede—unyielding, merciless,
and utterly indifferent to the lives crushed beneath it.”
TUTV: This nightmarish psych jam troubles and confuses numb minds and warns of the corrupt powers that be. Its ominous, guitar-layered resonance and murky vocals pierce your ears. Mind-bending. We need to wake up before we’re all brainwashed by greedy charlatans around the globe.
Apocalypse now!
Watch the awesome animated video.
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13 January 2026
Band: WHITE BEAST
Who: Vociferious and enigmatic noiz rock duo from Richmond, Virginia.
They released their debut longplayer Suffering Time in 2023.
Track: COOKED
Their first new music of 2026. Harbinger for
their 2nd LP, titled Die Hard, out on May 1st.
New album artwork
TUTV: Holy shit! Cooked cooks you to the bone. It’s a jaw-dropping noiz blow-out that crushes your stereo into pieces. You risk being arrested by the anti-decibel police when you play this jagged juggernaut too loud. Now get up, stand up, and fight for your right
to bash your head against your bedroom wall.
STREAM
.
BUY
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9 January 2026
Tool and A Perfect Circle flamboyant vocalist Maynard James Keenan
has a new album ready, his 5th overall and the first in 5 years, with his
3rd band PUSCIFER.
The record is baptized NORMAL ISN’T
and will land on 6 February.
Track: ImpetuoUs
The 3rd single, following the 2 previous
ones Pendulum and Self-Evident
Keenan: “I’m looking forward to hearing where this song takes people.
As the writers, we forget that in a way, we are carpenters and that we’ve
been with this song since it was a pile of lumber. Our Perspective may differ
from the final occupant of this space we’ve constructed. Shelter, Bridge or
Gallows, Coffin? Curious to find out.”
Slowly but surely ImpetuoUs will creep under your sleeping skin.
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7 January 2026
Photo by Magnus Volmer Nielsen
Artist: DEBBIE SINGS
Who: Berlin-via-Copenhagen singer and producer, who released
her critically acclaimed debut album Debbie’s Songs last year,
in February.
Track: SUCKER PUNCH
Following Sunny Skies, the second single from her upcoming EP, named ‘Oh My’.
A largely self-written, produced, and recorded project, created almost entirely by
Debbie herself, while moving between Copenhagen and Berlin.
It’ll be out on 27 February.
Oh My artwork by Signe Dige
Debbie explains: “Sucker Punch is a song about being sick of bullshit.
It is about feeling like kicking some ass and eating everything on the menu.”
TUTV: Boom Boom Boom! Sucker Punch is EBM frenzy with an immediate
impact on all of your limbs. This techno-tastic knockout is really badass
trash.
Debbie drops her revved-up vocals all over it, pouring extra oil on
this firecracker. Throw your furniture out of the window and make
room to go berserk. Pump up the jam, people.
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5 January 2026
In 2025 Japanese kawaii metal-pop sensation BABYMETAL celebrated 15th years
as a band. Wow, time flies supersonically. The girls were still kids back then.
Moametal, one of the members told Kerrang: “Despite everything we’ve been
through, I’m grateful and relieved that BABYMETAL is still standing strong.
There are times that I just wanted to give up and moments I just wanted to run away,
but the thought that the team I love may fall apart if I walk away kept me going. Before
I knew it, I was doing everything I could to protect BABYMETAL.”
The turbulent Tokyo trio also released their new,
5th full-length called Metal Forth last year.
To kick off 2026 and to mark 15th years of Babymetal again they
re-recorded 2015 single HEADBANGEREEEEERRRRR!!!!! from their
debut LP.
I’m not a dedicated fan/follower of the genre, but when Babymetal strikes
I can’t resist doing some crazy moves and enjoying the bombastic spectacle.
Still suffering from a New Year hangover?
This volcanic blow-up will get you over it.