13/03/2026
'20th Century Paddy - The Songs of Shane MacGowan' arrives 13 November - First single 'A Rainy Day in Soho' by Bruce Springsteen out now
MUSIC LEGENDS AND RISING STARS UNITE FOR '20TH CENTURY PADDY - THE SONGS OF SHANE MACGOWAN'
THE ULTIMATE TRIBUTE TO SHANE MACGOWAN WILL BE RELEASED ON 13 NOVEMBER VIA RUBYWORKS
FIRST SINGLE 'A RAINY NIGHT IN SOHO' BY BRUCE SPRINGSTEEN OUT NOW
WATCH LYRIC VIDEO
ARTIST LIST REVEALED WITH MORE TO BE ANNOUNCED
"Shane was all naked bottomless humanity. Threatening to force us to ask ourselves if we were living deeply, authentically. He was raw, hilarious, no apologies and profound. His soul was filled with the transgressive and ecstatic properties of the saints.” - Bruce Springsteen (read full essay below)
Dublin, Ireland. 12th March 2026. Today marks the official beginning of a landmark musical journey as Victoria Mary Clarke & Rubyworks announce the upcoming release of ‘20th Century Paddy - The Songs of Shane MacGowan’, a tribute album honouring the everlasting legacy of Shane MacGowan. The name of the album was inspired by Shane, as ‘20th Century Paddy’ is an album Shane had always wanted to make himself. 20th Century Paddy - The Songs of Shane MacGowan’ is scheduled for full release on 13th November 2026 and is available for pre-order HERE, including a limited edition Deluxe Bookpack featuring 3LPs, 2CDs & a 56-page book of memorabilia and liner notes. Coinciding with this announcement, the album’s first single, a reimagined version of the classic hit "A Rainy Night in Soho" performed by Bruce Springsteen, is available now on all streaming platforms worldwide.
LISTEN TO 'A RAINY NIGHT IN SOHO' BY BRUCE SPRINGSTEEN HERE
WATCH LYRIC VIDEO HERE
A REIMAGINED LEGACY
‘20th Century Paddy - The Songs of Shane MacGowan’ is a sonic love letter to a catalogue that shaped generations. The album features a wide-ranging mix of icons and contemporary disruptors, each bringing a unique perspective to the tracks that defined Shane MacGowan’s career.
“Shane’s spirit and songwriting are eternally exalted through this glorious collection, each song is uniquely and graciously interpreted by these beyond beautiful artists and his family are humbled by and thankful to each and every one of the musicians involved, to the delightful team at Rubyworks, and to John Kennedy without whom this would not have happened” - Victoria Mary Clarke
“Rubyworks is honored that Victoria Mary Clarke and John Kennedy have asked us to partner in preserving Shane MacGowan’s unparalleled artistic legacy. As a songwriter, Shane redefined the landscape for generations of artists; it is a privilege to provide a home for this work and ensure his poetic voice continues to reach audiences around the world” - Niall Muckian, Rubyworks
ARTIST LINEUP
In addition to today’s single release, Victoria Mary Clarke & Rubyworks are thrilled to unveil the list of talent contributing to the project, with more to be announced.
Amble
Bruce Springsteen
Camille O’Sullivan
Cronin
Damien Dempsey
David Gray
Dropkick Murphys
Garron Noone
Glen Hansard
Hozier & Jessie Buckley
Johnny Depp & Imelda May
Johnny Mac and The Faithful
Kate Moss
Liam Ó Maonlaí
Lisa Moorish & Another Day
Lisa O'Neill
LYRA
Madra Salach
Moya Brennan
Mundy
Picture This
Pinch of Snuff
Primal Scream
Steve Earle
The High Kings
The Jesus and Mary Chain
The Libertines
The Murder Capital
The Pogues
Tom Waits
SUPPORTING DUBLIN SIMON COMMUNITY
Honoring Shane MacGowan’s legacy, 50% of artist royalties will be donated to Dublin Simon Community to provide lifesaving housing and healthcare for those experiencing homelessness.
“Shane MacGowan was a long‑time supporter of our work and it is because of this enduring connection that proceeds from the new tribute album will go to helping Dublin Simon Community support people who are homeless today. Shane’s empathy for people sleeping rough in Dublin was well known; he never hesitated to stop, acknowledge, and share a moment with someone on the street. In 2021, Shane performed at the Christmas Eve Busk which turned out to be his last live performance before he passed away. Since then, one of his songs has been played at the Busk each year in tribute to him. The funds raised from the tribute album will support Dublin Simon’s client development, supports that help to build resilience, dignity and confidence. Many of these initiatives focus on creativity and community, including music, as a powerful way to support people on their journey out of homelessness.” - Catherine Kenny, CEO, Dublin Simon Community
FULL BRUCE SPRINGSTEEN ESSAY
“Every once in a while, every once in a great while an artist comes along whose voice seems to speak to history itself. Woody Guthrie, Jimmy Rogers, Little Richard, Chuck Berry, Miles Davis, Elvis, Jerry Lee Lewis, John Coltrane, Patti Smith, James Brown, Bob Dylan, Aretha Franklin, John Lydon, Hank Williams, Sinatra. Geniuses all, they were both timeless and the embodiment of their moment in time. Many, unsurprisingly, led difficult lives not easily bound by the shackles of convention. They were natural rebels unable to stifle or heed the impulses that led them to their glory and personal hardships. Great art is by nature lawless. We do not get to choose our obsessions. We do not get to dictate our blessings or our transgressions. It’s a little joke the gods play on us. Shane’s voice was so deeply real, profane and honest, his writing so flashing, alive and historically rich its genesis appeared as a mystery to all including, I believe, its creator. The dangerous joy, the glee and courage, the humor in the face of fate, the wild ramble of a life driven towards the artistic heavens and the daily balm of self obliteration. Shane was all naked bottomless humanity. Threatening to force us to ask ourselves if we were living deeply, authentically. He was raw, hilarious, no apologies and profound. His soul was filled with the transgressive and ecstatic properties of the saints. I don’t know who’ll be listening to my music in 100 years but I know they’ll be listening to Shane’s. Though I did not know Shane very well, I spent a lovely afternoon in his presence shortly before he passed. He was not well but he and his wife Victoria proved warm and gracious hosts. As I left, I thanked him for his beautiful work, his music, his songs, his life. I stood in his warmth, kissed him and told him I loved him.” Bruce Springsteen
About Rubyworks
Rubyworks is an independent record label based in Dublin, Ireland. For over two decades, we’ve been proud to champion original, world-class talent, building lasting careers for artists whose music cuts through the noise and resonates far beyond Ireland.
About Shane MacGowan
Born on Christmas Day 1957, Shane MacGowan rose from a rebellious youth in London and Tipperary to become a punk icon and ‘Face’. After blazing a trail with his band The Nips, he founded Poguemahone, later The Pogues, blending Irish roots with raw energy and sensitivity to create hits like "Fairytale of New York" and "A Rainy Night in Soho”. After The Pogues, he pursued solo projects, including a book of his art and a series of high-profile collaborations with artists like Nick Cave, Johnny Depp, and Sinéad O’Connor. With his new band The Popes, Shane continued to deliver the same passion, power and commitment to celebrating the culture and traditions of his beloved Ireland that first propelled him to international stardom.
PRE-ORDER '20TH CENTURY PADDY - THE SONGS OF SHANE MACGOWAN' HERE
12/03/2026
Vancouver roots rockers GRAHAM BROWN BAND share new single + video for "Tell The World" from Outside Within LP.
GRAHAM BROWN BAND SHARES NEW VIDEO "TELL THE WORLD"Song is latest single Vancouver roots rockers' new album Outside Within featuring big feelings and guitar heroics
WATCH + SHARE "TELL THE WORLD"
Past praise for Graham Brown:
"The fact that [Hiwatt], his tenth album, is arguably his best yet testifies to his commitment."
Kerry Doole, Exclaim!
"Far from being a hindrance, the ‘live’ recording has given Spirit and Soul a spontaneity and a certain joie de vivre that more, sometimes overproduced albums can often lose.”
Jim Finnie, Americana UK
"While the group is one of the tightest and consistently sharp local live acts, Brown’s new album Solo is a change from the usual Neil Young-esque rock to stripped-back acoustic folk that hones in on the artist’s clean playing and narrative songwriting.”
Stuart Derdeyn, Vancouver Sun
TORONTO ON -- It’s coming up on a year since Vancouver’s Graham Brown Band released the album Outside Within, the latest addition to their impressive catalogue and another showcase for Graham’s incendiary guitar playing. However, the band’s more mellow side is revealed in the new single “Tell The World,” and its accompanying video showing the band performing in an intimate setting.
Graham says, “It’s basically a song about believing in yourself, believing that you are worth it, and standing up for your beliefs even when the doubts creep in during the quiet hours. And that we are all stronger together if we help others do the same. The inspiration to write the song came to me when I had a moment of doubt, then I kinda went, I got this and I feel strong. Come along for the ride and sing it loud and clear.”
Outside Within is available to purchase from Bandcamp, and stream on Spotify, Apple Music, and Amazon Music
As on previous Graham Brown Band albums, Outside Within was captured live in the studio, this time at Hipposonic in Vancouver where the bulk of its 12 songs were remarkably laid down in a single Saturday afternoon. As usual, Brown is backed by guitarist/keyboardist Rob Blackburn, bassist John Werner and drummer Mark Gruft, and throughout the album it’s clear that the band is firing on all cylinders and having a blast doing it.
There’s no shortage of highlights on Outside Within, from the rousing first single "Courage Comes" and blazing fretboard wizardry on “Graveyard Trees” to other tracks such as "Heaven" that share the more country-fied vibes of “Tell The World.” What’s most refreshing is how immediate all of Brown’s songwriting comes across, with few overt concessions to nostalgia.
“I truly do put my heart and soul into these songs and paint a picture for the listener the best I can,” Graham says. “I can only say that I am trying to improve my skills every day, and part of those skills I believe are to let the art form breathe and not over-think or complicate things. I’ve written about 400 or more songs thus far and there is still so much to learn. That’s what I love about songwriting or any art form—it is infinite if you let it be.”
Brown has adhered to that philosophy ever since he first made his mark in the 1980s as co-founder of Canadian alt-country pioneers Jr. Gone Wild. From there, he embarked on several different projects, including Happyman, Brilliant Orange and Graham Brown & The Prairie Dogs. But since the release of the 2011 album Hiwatt, the Graham Brown Band has made its mark as an acclaimed international touring attraction. Now with Outside Within, they are back to tearing up stages once again.
01 All Nighter
02 Big Trouble
03 Courage Comes
04 Discover Me
05 Down Those Tracks
06 Graveyard Trees
07 Heaven
08 Lending Hand
09 Man Made (history)
10 Tell The World
11 Will The Guilty Fall
12 You & Me Against The World
Howling Bells - UK Tour starts tonight - New album 'Strange Life' out now.
“[A] narcotic mix of dream pop and gnarly indie guitar riffs. Their sound has not dated, nor has the vision dimmed. From the sonic maelstrom of "Sacred Land" to the swelling harmonies of "Angel", there's darkness and sunlight here and every shade in between." Uncut
“Returning with Strange Life, their first record in 12 years, singularity is their strength. Howling Bells fit in better now than ever” The Observer
“Their alchemy remains strong” The Sunday Mirror
“Organic bluesy dreampop which is a little but never too woozy.. Unbroken is The Breeders Gone shoegaze/ Elsewhere it brings to mind Chrissie Hynde singing for The Gun Club” Record Collector
"They have never been a band to chase trends and that’s what makes their return feel so timeless" Clash
“It’s classic Howling Bells: moody, atmospheric yet uplifting” Under The Radar Magazine
“Despite emerging in the early 2000s, the Australian trio feel well placed for the current 90s revival, thanks to a signature sound that blends ethereal and dreamy verses with swampy, Sonic Youth-style choruses. A reminder of how life's bruises can often add a little hard-won wisdom to rock's second acts. Classic Pop
“Channelling events occurring during their decade away - new motherhood; global meltdown - Strange Life's hooky goth-grunge and dream-pop courts seismic impact. [The album] warrants recognition, Stein and co's passion undimmed” Mojo
“Howling Bells’ return to the forefront of the music scene” Rock’n’Folk (France)
"Strange Life" effortlessly picks up where their once shimmering mix of dream pop, gothic grunge, and intricate indie guitar riffs left off” Rolling Stone Germany
“Juanita Stein's voice, first and foremost, evocative and splendid as ever, and that reassuring alternative indie rock that flirts with dream pop, without excess or show-off virtuosity” Rumore (Italy)
Howling Bells have recently released their acclaimed new album, ‘Strange Life’, via Nude Records. The UK-based Australian band’s first LP in 12 years, The trio, comprising Juanita Stein (vocals, guitar), Joel Stein (guitar) and Glenn Moule (drums), will celebrate the LP release with a UK headline tour in March and April. Full tour dates are listed below.
MARCH/APRIL UK TOUR
Thursday 12 March - Think Tank - Newcastle - TICKETS
Friday 13 March - King Tuts - Glasgow - TICKETS
Saturday 14 March - Brudenell Social Club - Leeds - TICKETS
Sunday 15 March - Deaf Institute - Manchester - TICKETS
Thursday 19 March - Bodega - Nottingham - TICKETS
Friday 20 March - Clwb Ifor Bach - Cardiff - TICKETS
Sunday 22 March - Wedgewood Rooms - Portsmouth - TICKETS
Tuesday 24 March - Oslo - London - TICKETS
Thursday 26 March - Fleece - Bristol - TICKETS
Friday 27 March - The Sugarmill - Stoke - TICKETS
Saturday 28 March - Hallamshire Hotel - Sheffield - TICKETS
Sunday 29 March - The Waterfront Studio - Norwich - TICKETS
Thursday 23 April - Alphabet - Brighton - TICKETS
Friday 24 April - Dead Wax - Birmingham - TICKETS
LISTEN TO 'STRANGE LIFE' HERE
Since their beginnings, breaking through with their acclaimed self-titled debut back in 2006 amidst a landscape of scrappy British indie and skinny-jeaned male dominance, the Australian trio - vocalist/guitarist Juanita Stein, her brother and guitarist Joel Stein and drummer Glenn Moule - have been something of an anomaly. They might have moved to the other side of the world in pursuit of the dreams that soon became a reality, playing at an NME Tour and then in stadiums supporting Coldplay whilst whipping up acclaim from the most credible ends of the music press. They may have seen various members come and go, but Howling Bells’ hypnotic indie rock always stood apart from the pack and was very much a reflection of their unbreakable union. Influenced by the likes of Tom Waits and Sonic Youth, as well as Nirvana, Fleetwood Mac, and Björk, their recipe created a heady, immersive stew - equal parts sepia-toned romance and gritty rock 'n' roll thrills.
‘Strange Life’ is both a vibrant document of and an exploratory testament to this alchemical magic. An album that harnesses the unique musical perspective that pricked up the music world’s ears back in their beginnings, but transposes it onto a lifetime’s more experience, ‘Strange Life’ is both familiar and new; a record that will unfurl like an old friend to long term fans whilst speaking in a language that only hard-won experience and a few more trips around the sun can understand. It is, suggests Juanita, a record about experience and wisdom. “If you're not able to acknowledge the mistakes and the pain and make beautiful music out of it, then they're left festering inside of you,” she says. “And I don't ever want that to happen.”
The band’s first album since 2014's ‘Heartstrings’, 'Strange Life' was recorded with Howling Bells’ long-time friend and collaborator, producer Ben Hillier (Blur, Depeche Mode, Elbow) at his Agricultural Audio Studios.
WATCH 'UNBROKEN' VIDEO HERE
WATCH 'HEAVY LIFTING' VIDEO HERE
WATCH 'CHIMERA' VIDEO HERE
WATCH 'MELBOURNE' VIDEO HERE
WATCH 'SWEET RELIEF VIDEO HERE
BUY/LISTEN TO 'STRANGE LIFE' HERE
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Robin Trower Announces UK Tour Dates For August and September.
Robin Trower Announces UK Tour Dates For August and September
Presale: Planet Rock HERE
General On-sale Friday 13th March - TICKETS HERE
His New Album One Moment In Time: Live In The USA is out now via Artone / Provogue.
Order/Listen HERE
Award-winning British blues ico Robin Trower announces a run of UK tour dates for 2026, beginning in Sunderland (Old Fire Station) on 31 August and then calling through Edinburgh (Queens Hall), Manchester (Academy), Cambridge (Junction) and finishing on 5 September in London’s Shepherd’s Bush Empire.
Planet Rock presale tickets will go on sale at 9am GMT on Wednesday 11 March HERE
General sale tickets go live on Friday 13 March at 9am HERE.
The evergreen musician has been in an incredibly rich vein of form in recent years with a slew of acclaimed studio albums including Come and Find Me (2025), Joyful Sky (2023), No More Worlds To Conquer (2022) and Coming Closer To The Day (2019).
This years’ latest release One Moment In Time: Live In The USA showcases Trower in full flight and the perfect appetiser to delve into ahead of his tour. The album was recorded during his Summer 2025 USA tour at the setlist whistlestop tour of Trower’s fabled career, the bluesman dropped roaring renditions of Too Rolling Stoned, Day of the Eagle and of course his pièce de résistance, Bridge of Sighs. Trower is no heritage artist, and the cheers are just as loud for the four songs from No More Worlds To Conquer, not to mention his stalking take on One Go Round (from Come And Find Me).
Talking about live shows he says, “I prefer this format because I have more freedom,” he explains. “In a three-piece, everybody is trying to make up for the missing instrument. We’ve got Richard Watts on bass and vocals: a wonderful voice, great musician. Then there’s Chris Taggart on drums, another fantastic musician. I’m very fortunate to play with guys of this calibre. We’ve been working together now for a good ten years. They have to watch me a bit, because obviously I’m leading and they have to follow – but they do a brilliant job.”
For Trower, the big time beckoned in 1967 when he joined A Whiter Shade Of Pale hitmakers Procol Harum, and many guitarists would have clung to that enviable position for life. Trower acknowledges his good fortune at being at the epicentre of that late-’60s youthquake (“I still think it was the epitome of UK popular music and rock ‘n’ roll”). But Procol’s band dynamic could never contain all his ideas, and after five acclaimed albums, Trower rolled the dice on a solo career.
Needless to say, the history books have vindicated him. By 1974, Trower was a major star in the land whose music had inspired him, with Bridge Of Sighs’ heavy soul achieving Gold US sales and influencing future luminaries like Steve Lukather, Metallica and countless more. Yet the veteran doesn’t dine out on Bridge Of Sighs – or his other hit albums of the late-’70s like For Earth Below, Long Misty Days and In City Dreams – preferring to march ever onward. Over the past decade you’ll find projects from 2020’s United State Of Mind supergroup alongside Maxi Priest to the recent run of studio albums released on the Provogue label.
Sit back and immerse yourself in the beauty that is One Moment In Time: Live In The USA and then go to experience a legend in the flesh, live and drink in every moment. There is nothing quite like live music.
Tour Dates - TICKETS HERE
Monday 31 Aug - Sunderland, Firestation
Tuesday 1Sep - Edinburgh, Queens Hall
Thursday 3 Sep - Manchester Academy 2
Friday 4 Sep - Cambridge, Junction
Saturday 5 Sep - London, O2 Shepherd’s Bush Empire
11/03/2026
Jamie Williams and the Roots Collective announce the release of their new album ‘In the Moment’.
Acclaimed indie roots rockers, Jamie Williams and the Roots Collective announce today that they are releasing their brand-new studio album ‘In The Moment’ on 25th May 2026.
This multi-influenced, powerful album, is their twelfth album to date and takes them in a few new directions.
In The Moment will be available on vinyl, CD and across all major download and streaming sites.
In The Moment was recorded at ‘The Sink’ & ‘The Loft’ in Essex, UK and produced, mixed and mastered by David J Milligan / Milligan Audio.
Still on their ‘never ending tour’, encompassing 50 gigs a year, the band have found time to record another studio album, their 12th, and in the classic ‘Roots’ manner there are some surprises. As well as rootsy rock there are excursions into reggae, soul, punk, funk, a bit of psyche & some real heart wrenching ballads. 12 genre-fluid songs about love, rejection, redemption & the conflicts that exist in our daily lives; songs of healing & songs of hope. Something very ‘now’ but also timeless.
Four neuro-spicy guys in a room, playing together & creating chemistry.
Roots ain’t dead, not the way Jamie Williams & the Roots Collective play it!
Jamie Williams- Lead Vocals; Electric & Acoustic Rhythm Guitars & Mandolin
Dave Milligan - Electric Lead, Slide, Rhythm Guitars, Organ, Melodica, Keyboards, Brass arrangements, Orchestral String Arrangements, Cowbell, Tambourine & Backing Vocals
Jake Milligan - Bass Guitars, Keyboard, Orchestral Brass & Harmonica
James Bacon- Drums and Percussion
All tracks written by Jamie Williams
Track Listing:
1. Be True To Your Soul
2. Soul Healing
3. Rest Of My Days
4. I Get The Picture
5. Every Broken Man
6. Cleansed
7. Busy Getting Nowhere
8. From The Heart
9. Wrong
10. Peace Love and Flowers
11. The Other Side
12. Thank You Father
Previous releases:
· Feet on the Ground (2010)
· Good Time (2013)
· Dug Deep, Found Steel (2014)
· Live 'n' Kickin' at the Brasenose Arms (2016)
· Diff'rent Gravy (2018)
· Eggshed Sessions - EP (2018)
· Do What You Love (2020)
· Move the Planet (2022)
· Live at Hot Box (2023)
· Stay True (2024)
· A Curated Collection of Collective Collectables (2025)
Website https://www.jwroots.co.uk
Bandcamp https://jwrc.bandcamp.com
Youtube channel https://youtube.com/@jwroots
Facebook page https://facebook.com/jamiewilliamsandtherootscollective
X Feed https://twitter.com/jwroots
Instagram Feed https://www.instagram.com/jwrootscollective
Deer Tick - New album 'Coin-O-Matic' out 5 June - First single/video out now.
Providence’s Deer Tick have announced the 5th June release of their ninth studio album, 'Coin-O-Matic', via ATO. The LP casts a bright light on a little-known facet of the American mythos: the hidden histories of the band’s home state of Rhode Island, where the everyday dramas of working-class families long collided with the menace of the mafia underworld. As they tapped into their infinite fascination with that strange duality, singer/guitarist John McCauley, guitarist/singer Ian O’Neil, drummer/singer Dennis Ryan, and bassist Christopher Ryan assembled a batch of songs exploring desperation, grief, redemption, and resilience with both cinematic detail and lived-in emotionality. A sharp new turn from one of indie-rock’s most enduringly vital forces, Coin-O-Matic arrives as a complicated love letter to a way of life slowly slipping from the collective memory.
'Coin-O-Mati'c is deeply informed by the singular experience of growing up Irish-Catholic. That is exemplified by the album’s lead single, the ramshackle jangle-pop “Mary Singletary”, which Deer Tick share today. It tells a tender yet irreverent tale of interfaith teenage lust. “Most of the stories on the album are from my parents’ generation and the generation before that, when the idea of a Catholic and a Protestant getting together was very scandalous,” says McCauley. “With that song in particular, I liked the idea of writing about Catholic guilt and pre-marital sex and adding in a little bit of Looney Tunes-style violence—sometimes as a young Catholic boy, I did imagine a vengeful God cutting me down in a cartoonish kind of way.”
The single is accompanied by a video directed by Colin Devin Moore.
LISTEN TO 'MARY SINGLETARY' HERE
WATCH 'MARY SINGLETARY' VIDEO HERE
The follow-up to 'Emotional Contracts' (hailed by Uncut as one of 2023’s best albums), 'Coin-O-Matic' takes its title from a cigarette-vending-machine company that served as the headquarters of Raymond Patriarca, a legendary mobster who ran one of the most ruthless crime families in U.S. history. “If you grew up in Rhode Island years ago, you’d see all these mobsters on the news and then run into them at a restaurant on Federal Hill,” says McCauley, referring to Providence’s version of Little Italy. “They were criminals but also very colorful characters, and I wanted the album to partly reflect a certain nostalgia for that kind of seediness”.
Recorded at Deer Tick’s home studio, 'Coin-O-Matic' marks their first self-produced album in their two-decade-plus lifespan, during which they’ve enlisted A-list producers like Dave Fridmann (a Grammy-winner known for his work with The Flaming Lips and Spoon). “At first it was daunting not to have that extra ear in the studio, but it felt like the right time to peel off the Band-Aid and fully trust ourselves,” says O’Neil. “Since we were working in our own space and there weren’t any limitations on time, we had the freedom to take these four-guys-in-a-room rock songs and experiment with different ways of decorating them.”
Featuring guest musicians like Los Lobos’ Steve Berlin (on baritone saxophone) and former Deer Tick member Rob Crowell (on organ), 'Coin-O-Matic' frequently brings a live-wire immediacy to their finespun storytelling. “We’ve never been so comfortable making a record, and I think you can feel that in the performances,” says Dennis, who engineered the LP. “We weren’t beholden to anyone else’s idea of what Deer Tick sounds like, and because of that this album feels like an unfettered capturing of who we are as a band.”
In its soulful contemplation of recklessness and consequence, longing and devotion, 'Coin-O-Matic' ultimately joins the canon of rock albums whose geographically rooted storytelling reveals deeper truths about the human experience. “I think there’s something universal in stories of regret and loss and poor decisions, even if they’re told through the lens of all the odd characters in this little state of ours,” O’Neil points out. “One of the reasons I wanted us to make this album is that I think Rhode Island deserves to be a contender for a place that people sing about,” McCauley adds. “Sonically, there’s nothing country about it, but to me it almost feels like a country record set in an urban environment—there’s definitely some outlaws in there. I hope that people see themselves in it, and that they understand a little more about the place that we come from.”
'COIN-O-MATIC' TRACKLISTING
1. Dog Years
2. Mary Singletary
3. Endless Loop
4. Sweetest Thing
5. ACI
6. Everything Born
7. Eyelid
8. I Am an Island
9. 507 Smith
10. Exit Door
11. Candy Cigarettes
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PRE-ORDER 'COIN-O-MATIC' HERE
The Noise Who Runs (Sneaker Pimps' Ian Pickering) releases scathing 'Bang Bang' single, heralding new 'RE: GEN X' album.
FOR FANS OF: Sneaker Pimps, Ian Brown, Death In Vegas, The Fall, Ian Dury, LCD Soundsystem, UNKLE, Sun Atoms, Nightmares on Wax
'Bang Bang' ISRC code - QT6EY2570920
0'The Bodies Are Under The Bus Again' ISRC code - QT6EY2570924
FOR SHARING
'Bang Bang' video
https://youtu.be/SC15o1vh7hs
Bandcamp https://thenoisewhoruns.bandcamp.com/track/bang-bang-2
Spotify https://open.spotify.com/track/398XmsWAlx0oA2CfnR01bj
'The Bodies Are Under The Bus Again' video https://youtu.be/imIF6Ro1k98
Bandcamp https://thenoisewhoruns.bandcamp.com/track/the-bodies-are-under-the-bus-again-2
'Come and Join The Beautiful' Army' EP (2024) https://thenoisewhoruns.bandcamp.com/album/come-and-join-the-beautiful-army
"Ian Pickering is among the most relevant songwriters of this generation, with topical subject matter, sharp lyricism, a relatable attitude and music that is addictive as F*&@" ~ The Spill Magazine
"Poetic brutality... the anthemic grace and stature of something by The Sisters of Mercy: it has an Arctic chill through which a lyrical, passionate heat radiates" ~ Backseat Mafia
"A brooding electronic swirl that ably captures the feeling of floating in space... could be the lament of a proxy Major Tom, far from home and reflecting on the life he left light-years behind" ~ Joyzine
"Beguiling... anthemic yet accessible, gothic, grand and graceful, delicately dance-driven and dark, coiled and ornate, slow and seductive" ~ Big Takeover Magazine
"Ethereal electronic intimation... true splendour and prowess" ~ Ringmaster Review
UK alternative electro-pop artist The Noise Who Runs is back with the topical single 'Bang Bang' and accompanying video, capturing the psychic exhaustion of life lived inside permanent crisis mode. It’s a song about running on empty — physically, emotionally, politically — where outrage replaces thought and reaction substitutes for responsibility. Previewing the new 'RE: GEN X' album, forthcoming via TNWR Records, he also presents the similarly-minded 'The Bodies Are Under The Bus Again' with a video that will resonate with folks at their very core.
The Noise Who Runs is songwriter, vocalist and multi-instrumentalist Ian Pickering, known for his work with Sneaker Pimps and Front Line Assembly. Native to Hartlepool in the north-east of England, Pickering co-authored such Sneaker Pimps hits as 'Spin Spin Sugar', '6 Underground' and 'Tesko Suicide'. In 2019, he launched this project, three years after relocating to Lille, France.
“Bang Bang is a day in the life of a typical 21st Century employee. The verses are the day to day reality, the mundane grind of routine for little reward, struggling against soaring costs and stagnant wages, watching idiots with fortunes dictate the agenda for destroying, first, the post-war dream, and second, the entire planet on which we depend," says Ian Pickering.
“This is the reality for everyone, but it’s Generation X, the true beneficiaries of the post-war dream, who marched everyone up to the top of the hill and sat down to enjoy its ultimately selfish, me-first view, while Generation Y, Z and all who follow have to navigate life on the knife-edge precipice. And seemingly, it’s Disney lemmings time - honey, we fucked up the kids!”
The lyrics collapse the serious and the trivial into the same breath, mirroring a culture where catastrophe, misinformation and distraction coexist without hierarchy. Repeated questions about “bringing it back” point to our compulsion to recycle failed systems and ideas, even after recognising their damage, while the refusal of false enlightenment rejects the comforting myth that awareness alone leads to change.
The Noise Who Runs' new offerings follow the 2024 EP ‘Come and Join the Beautiful Army’ and the 2023 debut album ‘Preteretrospective’, both released to rave reviews and airplay in more than 60 countries. As with those, the new record was mixed and mastered by Colin C at The Cell Studio.
'RE: GEN X' is both a reckoning and a reply — a response from within a generation that inherited progress, equality, and expanding liberty, but failed to defend them when they came under threat. Framed by the cultural optimism of late-1980s youth and the 1990s second summer of love, the album questions how a generation defined by scepticism, freedom, and possibility became comfortable with inaction as those gains were slowly dismantled and how scepticism hardened into detachment, irony replaced action, and silence came to feel like neutrality. Rather than nostalgia, it offers a critique of passivity: what happens when a generation knows better, but does nothing.
Across the record, exhaustion, outrage, and repetition form a recurring loop. Political failure, cultural denial, and performative morality are examined not as abstract forces, but as habits — things learned, tolerated, and repeated. The album resists slogans and solutions, instead holding up a mirror to complicity, comfort and collapse. This record doesn’t ask to be forgiven; it asks to be examined — and leaves open the question of whether awareness, this time, will finally lead to action.
On March 10, 'Bang Bang' is available from fine music platforms, including Spotify, Apple Music and Bandcamp. On May 8, the "RE: GEN X" album will be released via TNWR Records.
CREDITS
Music & lyrics written by Ian Pickering
Performed by The Noise Who Runs
Recorded, engineered & produced by The Noise Who Runs
Additional production by Colin Cameron at The Cell Studios
Mixed & mastered by Colin C. at The Cell Studio
Video by Ian Pickering
Cover artwork and layout by Ian Pickering
Artist photos by Lucie Logier https://lucielogier.com/accueil-1
Publicity by Shameless Promotion PR
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10/03/2026
Luke Winslow-King Unveils New Single "Don't Worry Your MInd" - Album 27/3.
BROOKLYN, NY - Luke Winslow-King is proud to unveil “Don’t Worry Your Mind,” the latest single from his forthcoming album Coast of Light, due March 27 via Bloodshot Records. Listen here. The track is out now, with the full album available for pre-order here.
"Don’t Worry Your Mind’ began as a quiet lullaby in waltz time—an intimate, almost whispered melody—before it found its pulse and stepped into the light,” Winslow-King explains. “In the studio, we heard it leaning toward the urgency of Wilson Pickett and the haunting slide-guitar spirit of Elmore James, and it naturally evolved into a laid-back shuffle. We didn’t want to force the songs into a mold—we let them reveal themselves. What starts as a cradle song can end up a driving shuffle. There are no rules. That spirit lives at the heart of Coast of Light.”
Known for blending jazz, blues, classical, and folk into a cinematic, roots-driven sound, Winslow-King pairs fluid guitar work with bold songwriting and a gruff-but-tender vocal delivery. Consequence has praised his music as “steeped in the muddy Delta blues,” while Austin Chronicle notes his “wide range of songwriting worthy of comparison to Jason Isbell and John Fullbright.”
Coast of Light finds Winslow-King exploring love, loss, hope, and resilience through the lens of Spanish music and culture. Inspired by time spent in Cádiz on Andalusia’s Atlantic coast, the album carries a breezy seaside atmosphere with touches of flamenco’s emotional depth and rhythmic pulse. Co-produced with longtime collaborator Roberto Luti in Livorno, Italy, the record features Simone Luti (bass), Piero Perelli (drums and congas), Nicola Venturini (Hammond organ, Fender Rhodes, piano), and Giacomo Riggi (mallet percussion).
Originally from Cadillac, Michigan and now based in Spain, Winslow-King cut his teeth busking Woody Guthrie songs before spending 15 formative years in New Orleans, where he forged a lasting creative partnership with Luti. Over the course of eight previous albums, he has recorded with George Porter Jr., Little Freddy King, and John Boutté, shared stages with Jack White, Taj Mahal, and Rosanne Cash, and seen his song “Everlasting Arms” performed by Dr. John for the Playing for Change series.
Rooted in tradition yet driven by restless curiosity, Luke Winslow-King continues to push American roots music forward—on his own terms.
DON'T WORRY YOUR MIND
Don’t Worry Your Mind
Everything thing will be fine
Just close your eyes
Pretty baby, don’t you cry
Amongst pleasant streams
You gonna find all of your dreams
No worry or care
Shall await, wait for you there
Don’t Worry Your Mind babe
Don’t Worry Your Mind
Don’t Worry Your Mind baby
Everything thing will be fine
Don’t Worry Your Mind
Everything little thing is gonna be alright
Lay down your head
Then crawl right into bed
Wrapped in the wings of love
Spread around you
Just like a glove No sound of fear
Shall ever fall Fall on your ear
Don’t Worry Your Mind babe
Don’t Worry Your Mind Don’t Worry Your Mind baby
Everything thing will be fine
Don’t Worry Your Mind
Everything little thing is gonna be alright
Go right to sleep
Drift off into the deep
Try counting sheep
Pretty baby girl
Don’t you weep
Rest in my arms
None’ll do ya
Do you no harm
Don’t Worry Your Mind babe
Don’t Worry Your Mind
Don’t Worry Your Mind
TOUR DATES
3/21 – LÜDENSCHEID, DE | Jazz Club Lüdenscheid E.V.
3/23 – KØBENHAVN, DK | Maskinhallen, København S
3/24 – MØRKØV, DK | Gården I Mørkøv Kirkeby
3/25 – SØNDER BJERT, DK | Bjert Gamle Brugs
3/26 – TØNDER, DK | Hagge’s Musik Pub
3/27 – HARBURG, DE | Fischhalle
3/28 – OSNABRÜCK, DE | Blues Lawine
3/29 – MECHELEN, BE | Café De Wei
3/30 – GHENT, BE | Missy Sippy Blues & Roots Club
5/13 – BUDAPEST, HU | Müpa Budapest
5/14 – Szeged, HU | Rakpart 62. szül. Szabadság úszóház
6/10 – GOSHEN, IN | Goshen Brewing Company
6/11 – LOWELL, MI | Lowell Showboat Sizzlin’ Concert Series
6/12 – TRAVERSE CITY, MI | The Alluvion
6/13 – CADILLAC, MI | Coyote Crossing
6/14 – HOLLAND, MI | Park Theater
6/20 – MANISTEE, MI | Manistee Dune Jam
6/21 – DELTON, MI | Buttermilk Jamboree
7/3 – TONGEREN, BE | Hookrock Blues & Roots
7/4 – GAILDORF, DE | Gaildorf Bluesfest
8/14 – MARQUETTE, MI | Ore Dock
9/11 – HERENT, BE | Shortie Blues
Tinsley Ellis Releases New Song And Video For "Sweet Ice Tea".
TINSLEY ELLIS RELEASES VIDEO FOR SWEET ICE TEA
Song A Highlight Track From Acclaimed New Album, Labor Of Love
Labor Of Love is equal parts passion, grace and artistry…earthy, contemplative and gut-bucket. Ellis’ vocals deliver old-world goodness without pretense or artifice. [This is] the real deal for lovers of the bona fide.
–Vintage Guitar
Ellis delivers a masterclass in passionate musicianship. Raw, edgy performances.
–Relix
Labor Of Love is an unqualified masterpiece.
–AllMusic
Atlanta-based blues guitarist, vocalist and songwriter Tinsley Ellis releases his new video for Sweet Ice Tea, a highlight track from Ellis' new album, Labor Of Love (released January 30). Labor Of Love is Ellis' second acoustic album (after 2024's Blues Music Award-nominated Naked Truth), and his first acoustic album to contain all original material. The album is available on CD, Georgia peach-colored vinyl LP and at all digital service providers. It is available to order here.
Since the release of Labor Of Love, many outlets including No Depression, AllMusic, Living Blues, Blues Music Magazine, Relix and numerous publications across the UK and Europe have featured Ellis and his mesmerizing acoustic music. Vintage Guitar magazine put Ellis on the cover of its February 2026 issue.
Sweet Ice Tea debuted on the nationally syndicated radio program, Acoustic Café, in over 120 markets. Labor Of Love hit #1 on the NACC Blues Genre Chart (North Americana College & Community), #1 on The Big Blues Radio Chart and appears on the Folk Alliance International Radio Chart’s Top 50. It’s also at or near the top on blues radio chart across the globe in France, Australia, Canada and the UK.
According to Ellis, “Sweet Ice Tea is a hill country blues stomper with a plaintive shout-out to the love of my life -- Soul Food! We hope it makes the listener hungry for more songs from my new Labor Of Love album!” The video for the song was directed by filmmaker Tony Bieser, who also directed Ellis' previous videos for Too Broke and Hoodoo Woman. Watch Sweet Ice Tea below.
With Labor Of Love, Ellis delivers a raw, edgy, self-produced set of 13 original compositions, all performed with pure emotional honesty. The songs spin modern tales of floods, conflagrations, voodoo spirits, personal travails and heaven-sent prayers. From the feral opener Hoodoo Woman to the John Lee Hooker-groove of Long Time to the evocative, Skip James-inspired To A Hammer to the Son House-style stomp of Sunnyland, Ellis inhabits his songs in a way that is simply astonishing.
Each performance carries the weight, experience and hard-earned wisdom Ellis learned over four decades on the road, making Labor Of Love as profoundly deep and moving as any music he has made in his career. It covers the gamut of emotions, finding good times in the hard times, mixing gentle beauty with foot-pounding ferocity.
Ellis continues performing solo all over the country in his aptly named “Two Guitars And A Car” tour. For Ellis, playing solo, acoustic blues has helped him tap into the raw essence of the music. “I love doing these shows,” Ellis says, “I can be more expressive and emotional as a solo acoustic artist. I just love the sound of acoustic guitar. I always have.” Find Ellis' tour dates here.
“No matter what I play, I like to have an edge, "Ellis says. "For me, just playing this music is a labor of love. I sat at the feet of Muddy Waters, B.B. King, Howlin’ Wolf. I got into this music because of them. I always told myself if I could just make a living playing the blues, I’d be, at least in my own mind, successful.”
Premier Guitar believes he’s more than reached that goal, declaring, “Ellis is a legend of American blues music...he’s an American music treasure. He delivers a sermon on the power and glory of the blues, and is one of modern blues’ greatest performers.”
Shye Ben Tzur, Jonny Greenwood and The Rajasthan Express - New Album 'Ranjha' out on 8th May - Listen to title track & watch video.
“MUSIC is just such a sweet shop. There are so many styles and talents, and it’s hard to just stick to one thing, because people are having fun elsewhere – and it looks like fun. That’s certainly always been true with Shye and our collaborators from India”. Jonny Greenwood
Shye Ben Tzur, Jonny Greenwood and The Rajasthan Express will release their new album 'Ranjha' through World Circuit/BMG on 8th May. Produced by Sam Petts-Davies and recorded at Greenwood's Oxfordshire studio, the album is the follow-up to 2015's widely acclaimed album 'Junun'. Presented on special Red & Coral Splatter vinyl in a gatefold sleeve, CD and as a download, 'Ranjha' is available now for pre-order. To coincide with today's announcement, the group have unveiled the title track, alongside a video filmed by Ian Patrick.
LISTEN TO TITLE TRACK 'RANJHA' HERE
WATCH VIDEO FOR TITLE TRACK 'RANJHA' HERE
In 2015, Shye Ben Tzur, Jonny Greenwood and their Indian collaborators The Rajasthan Express released 'Junun', accompanied by Paul Thomas Anderson’s documentary of the same name. 'Junun' was widely acclaimed both for what it was – a joyous synthesis of the sensibilities of several wildly divergent musical backgrounds – and for what it wasn’t. All concerned were determined that 'Junun' would be neither solemn experimental exercise nor polite cultural exchange. The musicians ensconced themselves and longtime Radiohead producer Nigel Godrich in the 15th-century Mehrangarh fort in Jodhpur and created something real.
A decade or so later, they’ve done it again. The personnel which made 'Ranjha' are (mostly) the same, the location (Oxford) is different and the ambition consistent: to conjure and communicate something of the transformative feeling that Shye recalls gripping him on his initial exposure to the sound in which he has since immersed himself. “The first time I heard Indian music,” he says, “I didn’t speak Urdu at that point, so I couldn’t really understand the lyrics. But I felt it physically. It changed my life. It made me move to India and dedicate myself to it.”
Shye Ben Tzur was born in New York City and raised in Israel. He was 19 when he saw the Indian flautist Hariprasad Chaurasia and tabla player Zakir Hussain in concert in Jerusalem, and felt that his destiny had been decided. He relocated to Ajmer, in Rajasthan, married into an Indian family, learned the languages and founded The Rajasthan Express, a supergroup of musicians adept in the Sufi devotional singing known as Qawwali, the folk music of Rajasthan and, when necessary, furnishing a thumping brass section.
Jonny Greenwood, lead guitarist and multi-instrumentalist with Radiohead, has been on various other musical journeys of his own. He has composed film scores for – among others – Paul Thomas Anderson, Jane Campion and Tran Anh Hung, arranged strings for The Pretenders and Frank Ocean and was commissioned by BBC Proms for his piece ‘Horror vacui’, for which he won the ‘Large Orchestral Award’ at the Ivors. In 2023, Greenwood collaborated with the Israeli rock musician Dudu Tassa on 'Jarak Qaribak', an album of well-known Middle Eastern love songs, all adored across the region, on which the guest vocalists were asked to step across geographic borders – an Egyptian singer did the Algerian song, a Palestinian picked up the Lebanese selection, an Israeli performed the Moroccan one, an Emirati the Israeli.
The sequel to 'Junun' was not supposed to be this long in coming. “No,” says Shye. “Even when we were on the Radiohead tour (2017 and 2018), we were already working on new songs”. Jonny recalls further writing sessions in Italy at around that time, before the work, like everything else, was postponed by the Covid-19 pandemic. One decision had been made, however, which is that they would not return to the fort, but instead record their second album in a more orthodox studio – the same Oxford studio in which Jonny has recently been recording as The Smile with Radiohead’s Thom Yorke and jazz drummer Tom Skinner (Skinner would also eventually be enlisted to play on “Ranjha”). Assembling everyone in the same place was a considerable logistical undertaking: 21 musicians and/or singers are credited on the album, most of them from a long way away.
“It was a very different experience,” agrees Shye. “It was about getting a clearer sound in a more controlled environment, but using the features of the studio to be creative in a completely different way. So I think it sounds very different.” What 'Ranjha' does share with 'Junun' is the willingness of all concerned to go with what happened when everyone’s ideas were brought to bear upon the song-sketches Shye brought with him. “With Shye’s songs,” says Jonny, “you feel dangerously like you can ruin them quite easily by imposing western chords on them, like you’re forcing a square into a circle. But at the same time, a lot of the songs just seem to come to life as soon as there was some of that. . . I’ve always wanted to turn this band into a funk group.”
For all involved, 'Ranjha' has been, as 'Junun' was, a cascade of pleasant surprises. For the listener, it’s a testament to the power of allowing unselfconscious curiosity to get the better of you. “I can get awkward talking about this,” says Jonny, “because Shye is so sincere about it. I’m used to songs about alienation, songs which are about serious things, but not spiritual things. If an English band just sang religious or spiritually inspired songs and poetry, it would be very unusual.”
None of which strikes Shye as necessarily any obstacle to enjoying 'Ranjha' – and perhaps even to allowing this music to beguile newcomers to it as it once entranced him. “You feel this music on your body,” he says. “Then it affects your emotional state when you hear the melodies. Then come the words and the lyrics. If people want to go deeper, they’ll find a rich world of music. And this album is maybe like a window into that phenomenal tradition.”
‘RANJHA’ TRACKLISTING
1. SHIQWA
2. MARBOLOT
3. RANJHA
4. SHEMESH
5. SHIQWA (REPRISE)
6. ISHQ-E-MAJNUN
7. SAQI
8. MARBOLOT (REPRISE)
9. AVIV
10. MUSTT
11. SHARMINDA
PRE-ORDER 'RANJHA' HERE
Jah Wobble & Jon Klein present scathing single 'Who Wins?' ahead of ‘Automated Paradise' LP.
FOR FANS OF: Jah Wobble, Public Image Ltd., Mark Stewart / The Pop Group, The Fall, Sleaford Mods, Cabaret Voltaire, Gallon Drunk
'Fading Away' - ISRC code UKYBD250002
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'Who Wins' single https://wardle.bandcamp.com/track/who-wins
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'Automated Paradise' digital order
https://wardle.bandcamp.com/album/automated-paradise
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'Dub Volume 1' album https://wardle.bandcamp.com/album/dub-volume-one
'The Usual Suspects' LP https://jahwobbletheinvadersoftheheart.bandcamp.com/album/usual-suspects
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Previewing their new 'Automated Paradise' album, Jah Wobble (Public Image Ltd) and guitarist Jon Klein (Siouxsie & The Banshees, Specimen) reveal the fire-buster 'Who Wins?', a song about distrust — about the growing sense that the grand halls of power have become echo chambers of empty promises. The question echoes long after the final note fades — we probably wouldn't like the answer.
The title itself acts as a refrain and a provocation. Who wins? Not answered outright, the song understands something important: the most powerful question in politics is often the one that leaves the listener finishing the sentence themselves. Less of a statement and more like a mirror, this song fits squarely inside the long lineage of protest music. Songs that capture a moment when the atmosphere shifts — when dissatisfaction becomes a chorus and the private complaint becomes public noise.
'Automated Paradise' is Wobble & Klein's third collaborative record and also their debut album as a duo with Dimple Discs, previewed by the motorik lead track ‘Fading Away’, pulsating with the raw electrical tension of British post-punk and new wave. These two legends first combined forces on the 'Metal Box – Rebuilt In Dub' album in 2021, they continue to collaborate live and in the studio.
"'Who Wins?' is a good old protest song, pointing fingers and making a racket! It was a bass line that turned into a metal riff. The noisier songs on this album tend to reflect on today’s information overload, where there’s no security, and people are becoming more polemic and stressed, but there seems to be a thread of hope that truth and justice will maybe prevail," says Jon Klein.
"Working with Jah Wobble is always an inspiring experience. When I started working with him in recording sessions, he often quoted the words of Holger Czukay, the bass player of German band Can: “First we play, then afterwards we talk! We like to make things happen in the moment. Often we complete a working draft to a piece of music from scratch in a few hours.”
Jah Wobble adds, "The music comes from that silent place. It’s pre-existing. You just allow it to flow... Proper post punk. Angry and humorous. Okay, it’s the end of civilisation. But nothing lasts forever right? We shouldn’t take it to heart."
This is Jah Wobble’s first post-punk album in recent years, these brash guitar-driven tracks reflecting his preoccupation with the declining state of the nation. Driven by his weekly experience with Klein, working at the "Tuned In" music community project in Merton, this record recalls the spirit of Mark Stewart - angry in an empathetic, constructive way. The lyrical content mainly came together on the spot in the studio.
This album follows two 2025 albums for Wobble -
‘Dub Volume 1' (Dimple Discs) and the expanded reissue of the 2017 album 'The Usual Suspects', featuring 25 career highlights, re-recorded and including some of Wobble’s finest material, alongside tracks by Invaders Of The Heart and PiL.
Guitarist and producer Jon Klein was a member of Siouxsie and the Banshees from 1987 until 1994 (the 'Peepshow', 'Superstition' and 'The Rapture' era). Originally in the Bristol band Europeans, he then formed the glam-goth act Specimen and relocated to London, where he co-founded The Batcave nightclub. He has worked with Talvin Singh and Sinéad O'Connor, and co-produced a string of No. 1 albums for Warner-signed Fangoria, fueling a decade-long streak of chart-topping success in Spain.
Born John Wardle, bassist and vocalist Jah Wobble is from East London. An original member of Public Image Ltd (PiL) from 1978-80, he made two seminal albums with the band, including the iconic ‘Metal Box’. Wobble formed Invaders of the Heart in 1982, collaborating with Can's Holger Czukay, Jaki Liebezeit, U2's The Edge and producer François Kevorkian. By the 1990s, he was well known, had chart success and a Mercury Music Prize nomination for the album ‘Rising Above Bedlam'. After releasing the top-40 album ‘Take Me To God’ and then ‘Heaven and Earth' via Island Records, Wardle fled record company constraints to more experimental recordings.
Wobble has collaborated with Sinéad O’Connor, Massive Attack, Ginger Baker, Björk, Brian Eno and Pharoah Sanders, was part of the supergroup The Damage Manual, worked with Julie Campbell aka LoneLady on ‘Psychic Life’, and with his wife Zi Lan Liao on the album ‘Chinese Dub, winning the Songlines Magazine World Music Award. He also plays and records with his sons Charlie and John Wardle in Tian Qiyi. 2024 brought his 'Timeless Roots' album with Horace Andy, followed by 2025's 'Old Fashioned Ways' album with Jamaica's Ken Boothe. Wobble played on Richard Russell’s album ‘Everything is Recorded' (notably ‘Losing You’ feat. Sampha).
Wobble published his autobiography ‘Memoirs of a Geezer: Music, Life, Mayhem’ via Serpent’s Tail in 2009, following his 2008 radio documentary on Sid Vicious for BBC Radio 3. 30 Hertz Records, the independent label Wobble launched in 1997, still releases music in collaboration with Cherry Red, including 'Dark Luminosity – The 21st Century Collection' and 'In Dub II: Deluxe'.
On March 27, 'Automatic Paradise' is available on CD and transparent vinyl, limited to 800 copies. The digital download can be pre-ordered via Bandcamp. Jah Wobble & The Invaders Of The Heart continue touring the UK in 2026, for which tickets are available at https://jahwobble.com/#live
TRACK LIST
1. Fading Away
2. Make It Stop
3. Who Wins
4. Read Between The Lines
5. Automated Paradise
6. Terminal Terminal The End
7. Endless Sky
8. Brockwell Lido
CREDITS
'Fading Away' written by Jah Wobble, John Tian Chi Wardle & Jon Klein
'Who Wins?' written by Jah Wobble, Izumi Karaage & Jon Klein
Jah Wobble - bass & vocals
Jon Klein - guitar, synthesizer, backing vocals & programming
Izumi Karaage - drums on 'Who Wins?'
John Tian Chi Wardle - drums on 'Fading Away'
Keiko Yamazaki - backing vocals on 'Fading Away'
Produced by Jah Wobble & Jon Klein
Engineered & mixed by Jon Klein at Tuned In Studio & Ground Control.
Mastered by Anthony Chapman
Cover artwork & design by Jah Wobble
Released by Dimple Discs
Barcode 5052571225325
Vinyl catalogue ID #DEEDEE081LP / CD catalogue ID #DEEDEE081CD
Live photos by Fergus Kelly / Room Temperature
Other photos by Peter McDowell
Publicity by Shameless Promotion PR
JAH WOBBLE & THE INVADERS OF THE HEART - TOUR DATES
Mar. 28 BUTLIN'S SKEGNESS - Shiine On Weekender 2026
Apr. 02 WIMBORNE MINSTER - Tivoli Theatre
Apr. 03 TOTNES - Barrel House
Apr. 04 CARDIFF - Clwb Ifor Bach
Apr. 10 STOKE ON TRENT - Artisan Tap
Apr. 11 DARWEN - Library Theatre
Apr. 25 GWYNEDD - Neuadd Ogwen
May 15 CAMBERLEY - Login Lounge
May 30 LYME REGIS - Marine Theatre
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09/03/2026
Canadian alt-country/bluegrass group CABIN FEVER lament small town decline on latest single "No Back Page".
CABIN FEVER LAMENTS FADING SMALL TOWNS ON LATEST SINGLE "NO BACK PAGE"Song follows "Good Old Days" as Canadian bluegrass / alt-country group's first new music of 2026
LISTEN TO + SHARE "NO BACK PAGE"
TORONTO ON -- Following their first single of 2026 "Good Old Days" -- featured as a Track of the Day at Americana UK and Quality Americana -- Canadian bluegrass / alt-country group Cabin Fever are today releasing "No Back Page," an emotional counterpoint in its depiction of fading small town life.
The song is a showcase for the group’s harmony vocals, with its story inspired by guitarist Kyle Faulkner’s experiences living in northern Saskatchewan and traveling throughout the U.S. Midwest, where a sense of community often revolved around the town newspaper.
"No Back Page" is available to purchase at Bandcamp and stream on Spotify, Apple Music, Amazon Music and Tidal
Faulkner explains, “Year after year, I noticed the changes that were happening in many of these towns; storefronts closing, more houses for sale, fewer people walking down the main street, and a change in the overall feeling of being there. I was stricken by the parallel between the feelings I had then, and the feelings when our town had lost its local paper, and began to imagine myself not as someone passing through one of these towns, but as an established community member who had spent my entire life there, and who wasn’t ready for the changes that were coming. ‘No Back Page’ touches on those feelings of loss, of unwanted progress for progresses’ sake, and offers a lament on the direction our world is taking these days.”
Cabin Fever recorded both "No Back Page" and "Good Old Days" with producer Matt Weston at his Swamp Songs studio, with Matt chipping in on drums as well. The sessions carried on the spirit of the group's 2025 debut EP It's Only Forever, which propelled Kyle Faulkner, bassist/vocalist Jessica McKay and mandolin player Colin Jolly from playing around campfires to opening for some of Canada’s top live acts, including The Sadies, The Once, and Sam Roberts Band.
Although steeped in bluegrass tradition, Cabin Fever see themselves as a modern-day roots music unit, pushing the sonic envelope with the addition of other elements to add an extra kick to an already high-octane sound. For the band, it’s never been about sticking to the rules, but instead writing original songs that can connect with roots music fans of all stripes.
Montreal's DANIEL ISAIAH previews Western Medicine LP with gorgeous first single "Too Far To Run".
DANIEL ISAIAH USHERS IN SPRING WITH "TOO FAR TO RUN" Single is first preview of Montreal singer/songwriter's Western Medicine LP out April 17
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TORONTO ON -- Montreal-based singer/songwriter Daniel Isaiah shares "Too Far To Run," the first preview of his sixth solo album, Western Medicine, out April 17. Anyone familiar with his past work will immediately notice his continuing musical evolution, with the new 10-song collection being his most compelling to date -- a tour de force of roots music song craft, conjuring images of Leonard Cohen fronting The Band, and Randy Newman recording in Neil Young’s barn.
"Too Far To Run" is available purchase at Bandcamp and stream on Spotify, Apple Music, Amazon Music and Tidal
Legendary filmmaker Robert Altman once said that 90 per cent of directing is casting, and Isaiah took that approach on Western Medicine, reasoning that by choosing the right musicians, the rest would fall into place. Spontaneity turned out to be the key ingredient, giving songs such as “Too Far To Run” an easy-flowing groove that complements a vibe Daniel compares to seeing the first bird of spring. The group chemistry propels another standout track, “How The Tiger Got Her Stripes,” which could be mistaken for an early ‘70s Dylan outtake.
The sound of Western Medicine is also in large part a reflection of the confidence Isaiah has built over the three years since making his previous album To Live A Wild Life, the result of improving his sight-reading skills and immersing himself in old songbooks.
Daniel says, “Songwriting started as a hobby, something I did when I needed songs for a band or a record. Now it’s part of my daily life. I can’t really imagine living without it.”
Working in a practice room on the top floor of a building with a panoramic view of Montreal, Isaiah honed the 10 songs on Western Medicine, some of them right up to the album’s recording sessions in May 2025 at Montreal’s Mixart Studios with a band comprised of drummer Robbie Kuster, bassist Mishka Stein, pianist Jérome Beaulieu and guitarist Warren Spicer, who also oversaw engineering and mixing.
“I had almost no preconceived ideas of how the songs should take shape in the studio,” Daniel admits. “Before the session, I made rough demos of all the songs—just me on guitar or piano—and sent them to the musicians. We had one rehearsal where we played through each song once or twice. That was the extent of preparation.”
Still, it’s Isaiah’s lyrics that form the core of Western Medicine. “Fire In The Night” pays tribute to a friend who struggled with mental illness and tragically lost his life in a cabin fire north of Montreal, while “Champion Is Down” grew out of images of Mussolini and Gaddafi being done in by their own citizens. Elsewhere, Daniel was inspired to write “Old Ram’s Horn” after inheriting his grandfather’s shofar, an essential symbol of Jewish culture, while “Total Eclipse Of The Sun” was written in the immediate aftermath of the April 2024 solar event.
If Daniel Isaiah’s Western Medicine accomplishes anything, it is indeed opening our eyes and ears to fleeting moments of beauty. And once a listener does that, there can be no argument that this is one of the best albums of the year.
01 Too Far To Run
02 Fire In The Night
03 Western Medicine
04 Old Ram's Horn
05 Until I Lay Me Down
06 Long March To Your Grave
07 Champion Is Down
08 How The Tiger Got Her Stripes
09 Total Eclipse Of The Sun
10 Shadow World
Collective Dust Drops "Do People Even Use CDs Anymore?" EP
The spirit of early 2000s metalcore is roaring back to life, and Collective Dust is leading the charge. Hailing from Clarksville, TN, the five-piece makes a bold first impression with their EP "Do People Even Use CDs Anymore?"
Blending quirky, synth-laced flourishes with chugging riffs and thunderous percussion, the band captures the raw energy and unfiltered emotion that defined the genre’s golden era. Yet there’s nothing dated about their execution — it’s a revitalized take on a beloved sound, packed with modern intensity and charisma.
With momentum building, Collective Dust is set to bring their high-octane live show across the U.S., paving the way for their upcoming full-length album. For fans craving the chaos, hooks, and heart of 2000s metalcore, the revival is here — and it’s louder than ever.
Canadian photographer JOHN SCHWIRTLICH turns singer/songwriter with debut album Apertures.
JOHN SCHWIRTLICH REFOCUSES ON MUSIC WITH APERTURES B.C. photographer teams up with Craig Smith of ONTARIANS for debut album of roots rock gems.
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TORONTO ON -- John Schwirtlich has been a professional photographer for the past 25 years, based in Kamloops, British Columbia, shooting everything from his twin passions for skiing and live music to working on film sets and architectural projects.
Still, John never gave up on his dream to make music, dating back to his youth in Kitchener, Ontario during the late 1980s when a scene blossomed around emerging singer/songwriters such as Danny Michel, Paul MacLeod and Shannon Lyon. With the harmonica as his instrument of choice, John became a member of Lyon’s band Strange Days, which went on to play across Canada, crossing paths with other bands like Blue Rodeo, The Tragically Hip and Skydiggers that were establishing a national touring circuit.
Now, John’s musical aspirations have come to fruition with his debut album, Apertures, a roots rock feast that sounds like someone who’s actually been in the songwriting game for a long time. Produced by Craig Smith of the band ONTARIANS, the 10 full-band songs on Apertures are a reflection of the title in terms of exposing various degrees of personal experience, with John’s rough-edged voice ideally suited to tell his story.
Apertures is available to purchase at Bandcamp and stream on Spotify, Apple Music, Amazon Music and Tidal
Not surprisingly, much of the subject matter on Apertures deals with the complexities of love and relationships that all of us who have been around the block a few times must deal with. There’s the good stuff—as on “Night Like This” and the album’s first focus track “Kimberley”—as well as the less good stuff, as heard on bittersweet tracks such as “7 Days” and “What You Want.”
Then there are a few simply fun, straight-ahead rockers like “Idaho Rain,” “Ain’t No Joke” and “Somebody” that display the full extent of how well John and Craig collaborated together. If Apertures was made in the 1970s, it would have possibly resembled a ragged-but-right solo album by someone like Rick Danko or Ronnie Lane, but Smith’s stellar production keeps each song bright, tight, and filled with unexpected sonic surprises.
As John says, “I think anything you do that involves a creative process—whether it’s photography, music, woodworking, sculpting, whatever—it can all be inspiring in different ways. I would say that music inspires my photography, and not the other way around. I also produce mountain scenery video projects and music plays a big role in the way I see images and edit them together. Working with Craig on this album was truly inspirational. We’ve been friends for a long time, and he’s always been one of the best songwriters I’ve ever known.”
For many of us, achieving goals takes longer than we expect. But with the release of Apertures, John Schwirtlich can not only appreciate what he’s accomplished, he can also take pride in having made one of the best Canadian roots rock albums of the year.
01 Night Like This
02 Kimberley
03 7 Days
04 On My Way
05 Collingwood
06 Intuition
07 Idaho Rain
08 Ain't No Joke
09 What You Want
10 Somebody
GALVEZTON PRESENTS “ROLL TO G-TOWN” NEW SINGLE OUT NOW, NEW ALBUM OCEAN CABARET OUT APRIL 3RD.
Texas-native GALVEZTON presents new single “Roll To G-Town.” An eclectic mix of old school Beck meets dusty roads Americana, the new single and video for "Roll To G-Town" are now available via La Izquierda Records.
Dripping with charisma and confidence, the new single by GALVEZTON is a love letter to Robert Kuhn’s home state. Paired with a mesmerizing new video that features various easter eggs related to GALVEZTON’s forthcoming album, which is to be released worldwide April 3rd, 2026, (except in the UK where it will be released May 15th.) For instance, the actual abandoned strip club Ocean Cabaret plays a heavy role in the video, and is also the name of the upcoming album.
PRE-SAVE THE NEW GALVEZTON ALBUM, OCEAN CABARET
The original concept of the new single was born from kitchenside pandemic hangs with Robert Kuhn and his acoustic guitar. Featuring psychedelic lyrics, folky guitars, and the entrancing backup vocals of Krystal Hardwick, the new single is a perfect springtime jam. Recorded appropriately in Galveston, TX at La Izquierda headquarters between 2022 and 2024, the new single offers a brand new anthem for the Lone Star State.
STREAM “ROLL TO G-TOWN”
Robert Kuhn, the face and voice behind GALVEZTON describes the impact of the new song in greater detail:
“Texas country star Rich O’toole heard me play the song at La Izquierda Surf and Music Festival and immediately asked me if he could record it. I agreed of course and after his version came out, Houston hip-hop legend, Bun-B (UGK), heard it and said he wanted to do a remix. Paul Wall, the People’s Champ, soon heard it and wanted to collaborate too, so joined in and the song becomes a Houston area anthem. “Ima take my money an Roll to G-town!”
WATCH THE VIDEO FOR “ROLL TO G-TOWN”
If you're around in the Texas area, catch GALVEZTON at an upcoming show this Spring.
GALVEZTON TOUR DATES:
03.06 El Lago, TX @ Sammy G’s District 70
03.13 Houston, TX @ Cactus Music - in store performance
4/3 Houston, TX @ Big Star Bar
4/5 Galveston, TX @ Brews Brothers
05.02 Galveston, TX @ La Izquierda Surf & Music Festival
06.11 Galveston, TX @ Save The Locals Festival
Robert Kuhn (GALVEZTON) was named after Bob Dylan a long time ago in a Houston hospital, more dead than alive. Introduced by his father to a steady diet of songwriters like Townes Van Zandt, Guy Clark, Bruce Springsteen, Steve Forbert, The Band and Michelle Shocked, while his mother, a school teacher and all-state upright bas player, passed along the love of music. Once the pandemic hit, Kuhn expanded his creative efforts on the foundation of La Izquierda, a longboard surf competition and music festival. Quickly growing his grassroots community building efforts and non-profit activities by supporting other local fests, Robert has been specifically affiliated with La Izquierda Surf & Music Festival (May 2 & 3), Save The Locals Fest (a weekly free concert series on Thursday evenings in June & July), and the Galveston Annual Sandcastle Competition in September. Due to Kuhn's impact, La Izquierda continues to thrive and has also developed into a record label for musicians along the Gulf Coast.
GALVEZTON, took over after the pandemic as Robert’s eclectic music deepened past the singer-songwriter genre and became a collective experience utilizing the sounds and arts of the island home he represents. Sharing bills with legends Ramblin' Jack Elliot, Shinyribs, The Lost Bayou Ramblers, Alex Maas (The Black Angels), Del Castillo, The Nude Party, and Cheech and Chong, GALVEZTON’s signature style is often compared to artists such as Phosphorescent, The War on Drugs, Kurt Vile, Lou Reed and Courtney Barnett.
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08/03/2026
Stacy Mitchhart’s New Album w/Gretchen Wilson, Kenny Neal & Charlie Musselwhite.
NASHVILLE, TN - Stacy Mitchhart is excited to announce the forthcoming release of his new album, No Rhyme or Reason on April 17th. Pre-order here. His new single, "Good One Time" is out now. Listen here.
After more than three decades of electrifying stages with his soulful guitar work, commanding vocals, and well-crafted songs, blues powerhouse Stacy Mitchhart is poised for one of the most significant releases of his career.
His 17th album, No Rhyme or Reason, was produced by multiple GRAMMY® winner Tom Hambridge - known for his work with Buddy Guy, George Thorogood, and Susan Tedeschi - and fe Buddy Guy, and features guest appearances from Gretchen Wilson, Kenny Neal, and Charlie Musselwhite.
“I wanted to work with an outside producer for the purpose of creating a fresh sound,” Mitchhart explains from his Nashville home. “I also wanted to collaborate with people that I truly admire and write new original music.”
Recorded largely on Nashville’s storied Music Row, No Rhyme or Reason showcases Mitchhart’s versatility through four standout singles. The edgy “Bad As You” explores the all-too-human tendency of projecting faults onto others, while the swaggering “Good One Time” delivers big guitars, organ, and punchy horns beneath a visceral vocal performance Mitchhart captured in just a couple of takes. Louisiana blues stalwart Kenny Neal joins Mitchhart on “Mean Bad Wrong,” lending the track a classic New Orleans flavor and fulfilling a longtime wish to record together.
The album also includes the rollicking duet “Sure Looks Good To Me” with GRAMMY®-winning vocalist Gretchen Wilson. “Gretchen and I have talked about recording a duet since she was a waitress at the Bourbon Street Blues and Boogie Bar in 1996,” Mitchhart recalls. “She used to get up and sit in with us.” Known primarily for her chart-topping country hits, Wilson brings a gritty, roadhouse energy to the collaboration.
A virtuoso guitarist who places equal emphasis on melody, storytelling, and groove, Mitchhart first made waves on the blues scene in the early 1990s. Raised in Cincinnati, Ohio, his blistering guitar chops and magnetic stage presence quickly made him a standout on the regional club circuit. By 1996, he had relocated to Nashville, where he became the longtime house act at the city’s iconic Bourbon Street Blues and Boogie Bar. His fiery performances there quickly became legendary and cemented his reputation as one of the genre’s most dynamic live performers.
“I’m a musician. It’s what I do—my whole being,” Mitchhart says. “I’ve played everywhere from the Amsterdam Arena in front of 45,000 people to a grocery store for 30 people, to juke joints in Mississippi and black-tie events at the Ritz-Carlton.”
In late 2024, Mitchhart released the funky single “Shake (Make Your Body Move),” a high-energy collaboration with blues legend Bobby Rush that even tips its hat to the swagger and groove of Prince in his prime.
“My sound is a gumbo of musical styles,” Mitchhart says. “I love blues and jazz and R&B, and I like some country, some rock, and some hip-hop. It all works its way into the final sound. My philosophy is that the music has to feel good first, and then it has to mean something to me.
That musical openness has fueled a career filled with accolades and global touring. Mitchhart won the prestigious Albert King “Most Promising Guitarist” Award at the International Blues Challenge Iin Memphis, has been inducted into the Canadian South Blues Hall of Fame, and has received multiple honors from the Music City Blues Society. His performances have graced leading festivals worldwide, including the Edinburgh Jazz & Blues Festival, Birmingham Blues Festival, Southside Shuffle Blues & Jazz Festival, Windsor Blues Festival, Kalamazoo Blues Festival, Cincinnati Blues Festival, and the legendary King Biscuit Blues Festival.
“My dream? I’m basically living it,” Mitchhart reflects. “I get to play music and make a living doing it. Every year it feels like I’m still moving forward. I’ve come a long way—but I’ve still got more to go.”
TRACK LISTING
Good One Time
Bad As You
Sure Looks Good To Me
Once You Leave
Flip To The Other Side
We Blew It
Long Way Down
No Rhyme Or Reason
Mean Bad Wrong
Never Gonna Get Me Back
She's Just Right
On My Dying Day
Out Now: Trixies, the new album by Squeeze.
On BMG
Buy HERE
MOJO “Trixies sits comfortably beside Squeeze’s finest works of the late ’70s. It might even be better” ★★★★★
Classic Pop ★★★★ Record Collector ★★★★
Uncut 8/10 LouderThanWar ★★★★ Daily Express ★★★★
BBC Radio 2’s Piano Room – watch/listen HERE
Album launch show at KOKO, March 11, 2026
More than 50 years after it was written Trixies, the new album by Squeeze, is out now.
One of 2026’s most anticipated albums Trixies is the band’s first album in eight years but the first they ever wrote. A collection of stories set in a fictional night club, Trixies, the album was written by the band’s teenage founders Chris Difford (19) and Glenn Tilbrook (16) at the very start of their songwriting partnership. Now more than fifty years on, Squeeze have completed the circle and realised the vision the precocious teens had for the songs that, as the Guardian wrote, show that “all the Squeeze hallmarks of melody, romance and storytelling were there from the beginning.”
“A record imagined in youth, realised in maturity and vibrating with the thrill of possibility” Classic Rock
“Imaginative, impressive and, most importantly, fun” – PopMatters
“A surprising and impressive release” The Wire
Before the sky-high classics such as ‘Up The Junction’, ‘Tempted’, ‘Cool For Cats’, ‘Another Nail In My Heart’ and ‘Labelled With Love’, before the 2008 Ivor Novello Award for Outstanding Contribution to British Music, the Mojo Icon award, the quintessential Cradle To The Grave, the world tours and festival highlight sets, and before 2017’s celebrated The Knowledge, there was Trixies.
The only problem with these songs – crime scene vignettes like ‘The Place We Call Mars’ and ‘Don’t Go Out In The Dark’; the riotous come-hither rapacity of ‘Why Don’t You’; and the evocative acoustic scene setter ‘You Get The Feeling’ – was that, back in 1974, the musical vision of the young creators exceeded their virtuosity. “We fully committed ourselves to songwriting but this was three or four years before we even got to make our first record. Long story short, these were songs that we just didn’t have enough musical experience to record properly” explains Difford.
Fifty years on, and having rediscovered the original cassette, that problem no longer exists for the band whose live shows are legendary and who have played more than 600 shows since reuniting in 2007. So what better way to mark 50 years of Squeeze than to complete the circle and realise the vision they had for Trixies? “The songs that we wrote then astound me. I’m proud of them now, and I’m particularly proud that it was young us that did that. These are very much the same songs that we wrote then,” says Tilbrook, “The only difference is that now I can teach the songs to the rest of the band. Back then, I didn’t even know what the names of the chords were!”
Now this precocious opening volley of songs – under the guiding production hand of Squeeze’s bassist Owen Biddle (The Roots, John Legend, Al Green) – finally gets to enjoy its moment in the spotlight.
And by returning Difford and Tilbrook to the birth of their creative partnership, Trixies has acted as the catalyst to a latter-day songwriting surge. On the heels of Trixies, an album of brand new Squeeze songs – recorded concurrently with Trixies – is finished and set to follow in the future. “The act of revisiting the Trixies songs had me in tears,” smiles Tilbrook, “partly because they’re so good, but also because I’m aware of all the stuff that I’ve still yet to hear and write.” The sentiments are echoed by Difford: “It really fills me with joy that at my age we can discover that we wrote such great songs when we were teenagers. I’m very proud of that.”
This autumn Squeeze will be embarking on the most ambitious UK tour of their career, one that will also support the anti-poverty charity Trussell and Grassroots Music Venues. The 16-date Tried, Tested and Trixies Tour in 2026, starting at Glasgow’s OVO Hydro on November 12, and ending at the Brighton Centre on December 5, will see Squeeze headline several arenas for the first time – including a hometown show at London’s O2 Arena just 3 miles from where the band started. Joining Squeeze on the tour as Very Special Guest will be singer, songwriter and activist Billy Bragg. Ahead of the UK tour Squeeze will take to the stage at the iconic Hollywood Bowl in Los Angeles on September 19 alongside special guests Adam Ant and The English Beat, followed by an appearance at the Bourbon & Beyond Festival in Louisville, KY on September 26.
Tried, Tested and Trixies Tour 2026 dates – see www.squeezeofficial.com for ticket links
Thursday 12 November Glasgow OVO Hydro
Friday 13 November Blackpool Opera House
Saturday 14 November Nottingham Motorpoint Arena
Monday 16 November Newcastle O2 City Hall
Tuesday 17 November Stockton Globe
Thursday 19 November Hull Connexin Live
Friday 20 November Leeds First Direct Bank Arena
Saturday 21 November Liverpool M&S Bank Arena
Monday 23 November Manchester O2 Apollo
Thursday 26 November London The O2
Friday 27 November Cardiff Utilita Arena
Saturday 28 November Birmingham Utilita Arena
Monday 30 November Swansea Building Society Arena
Tuesday 1 December Plymouth Pavilions
Friday 4 December Bournemouth International Centre
Saturday 5 December Brighton Centre
The band has also announced a short run of European shows and their only UK summer show:
Friday March 20 Fabrik - Hamburg, Germany
Sunday March 22 Debaser Hornstulls Strand - Stockholm, Sweden
Tuesday March 24 Patronaat - Haarlem, Netherlands
Wednesday March 25 Luxor - Köln, Germany
Friday March 27 Santeria Toscana 31 - Milano, Italy
Saturday March 28 Café de la Danse - Paris, France
Sunday June 27 Retro C Trop - Tilloloy, France
Saturday July 4 Gwyl Portmeirion Festival, Wales
Squeeze band:
Chris Difford – guitar & vocals
Glenn Tilbrook – guitar & vocals
Owen Biddle – bass
Melvin Duffy – pedal steel guitar
Steve Smith - percussion
Stephen Large - keyboard
Simon Hanson – drums
Danica Dora – backing vocals
Leon Tilbrook - guitar
Trixies is released on March 6th 2026 via BMG. Pre-order HERE
Trixies Tracklisting:
What More Can I Say
You Get The Feeling
The Place We Call Mars
Hell On Earth
The Dancer
Good Riddance
Don't Go Out In the Dark
Why Don't You
Anything But Me
It's Over
The Jaguars
Trixies (Part One)
Trixies (Part Two)
Trixies formats:
Black Vinyl – Cat# 964215841
Transparent Pink Vinyl – Cat# 964202901
Transparent Red Vinyl – Cat# 964216311
CD – Cat# 964202912
Joanne Shaw Taylor teams up with Orianthi on powerful new single "What Good Is My Love?".
Joanne Shaw Taylor Teams Up with Orianthi on Powerful New Single “What Good Is My Love?”
A fiery blues-rock duet confronting heartbreak, doubt, and the question of love that isn’t returned
Watch the official music video for “What Good Is My Love?” NOW
Stream “What Good Is My Love?” on all platforms HERE
British blues-rock artist Joanne Shaw Taylor returns today with a stirring new single, “What Good Is My Love?,” featuring acclaimed Australian guitarist and singer-songwriter Orianthi. Out now via Journeyman Records, the emotionally charged track pairs two of modern blues rock’s most formidable guitarists for a dynamic and deeply personal collaboration.
Driven by a slow-burning groove and soaring guitar interplay, “What Good Is My Love?” explores the painful uncertainty that comes when love is no longer reciprocated. Joanne’s soulful vocals, while Orianthi’s stunning guitar solo, carries the weight of the song’s central question, capturing the vulnerability of realizing that even the deepest devotion may not always be enough.
“We’ve probably all been in the position at some point in life when the love we had and give isn’t returned,” Joanne shares. “Whether it’s unrequited or simply fades. I wanted to write a song for those of us who have had to question, "What good is my love if it’s not enough?”
The track unfolds with a simmering intensity before erupting into electrifying guitar exchanges between Joanne and Orianthi, whose fiery playing adds another dimension to the song’s emotional arc. The pairing of their distinct styles creates a striking musical dialogue, blending raw blues grit with soaring melodic leads. Together, they deliver a performance that balances heartbreak with defiant strength, turning personal reflection into an anthemic moment of catharsis.
“What Good Is My Love?” arrives as the latest preview of Joanne’s forthcoming studio album, due out later this year. The single follows the recent release of “Hell Or High Water,” a blues gospel anthem about perseverance and inner struggle, gaining momentum across streaming platforms and radio.
The upcoming album builds on the momentum of Joanne’s critically acclaimed Black & Gold, which drew widespread praise upon its release. Classic Rock Magazine awarded the album a 9/10 rating, while Powerplay Magazine highlighted its “pop appeal and smoothness.” Guitarist Magazine noted that it “reinforces Joanne’s place in the firmament of today’s brightest stars,” and American Blues Scene called it “a deeply personal experience, showcasing the depth of Joanne’s artistry.” Together with the Black & Gold (Deluxe Edition) and a run of acoustic reinterpretations, the album marked a major creative milestone in Joanne’s career.
The new single arrives as Joanne prepares to launch her Spring 2026 U.S. headline tour, bringing her electrifying live show to audiences across the Midwest, Northeast, Southeast, and Florida. The run begins March 18th in Skokie, IL and includes stops in New York, New Jersey, Pennsylvania, Maryland, Indiana, Tennessee, the Carolinas, and Florida, culminating with a sold-out appearance at Sound Wave Beach Weekend in Miramar Beach. Known for her commanding stage presence, fiery guitar work, and emotionally immersive performances, Joanne continues to captivate audiences with a set that blends new material with fan favourites from across her catalogue. For more information and to purchase tickets, visit https://www.joanneshawtaylor.com/tour.
2026 Spring U.S. Tour
March 18 – Skokie, IL – North Shore Center for the Performing Arts
March 20 - Kent, OH - The Kent Stage
March 21 – Pittsford, NY – Beston Hall
March 22 – Homer, NY – Center for the Arts of Homer
March 24 – Red Bank, NJ – The Vogel
March 25 – Sellersville, PA – Sellersville Theater
March 27 – State College, PA – The State Theatre
March 28 – Annapolis, MD – Rams Head On Stage
March 29 - Oakmont, PA - The Oaks Theater
March 31 - Hobart, IN - The Hobart Art Theater
April 2 – Franklin, TN – The Franklin Theatre
April 3 – Greenville, SC – Peace Center
April 4 – Cornelius, NC – Cain Center for the Arts
April 7 – Orlando, FL – The Plaza Live
April 9 – West Palm Beach, FL – Kravis Center for the Performing Arts
April 10 – Ponte Vedra, FL – Ponte Vedra Concert Hall
April 10-12 – Miramar Beach, FL – Sound Wave Beach Weekend +
+Sold Out
Europe Summer Dates
May 23 Peer, BE Deusterstraat 78
May 24 Schoppingen, DE Schoppingen Blues Festival
May 25 Raalte, NL Ribs & Blues Festival
May 27 Hanover, DE Pavillon
May 28 Nuremberg, DE Lowensaal
May 29 Eindhoven, NL Muziekgebouw Eindhoven
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The Who: ‘Live At Eden Project’: Historic Performance With The Heart Of England Philharmonic Orchestra.
THE WHO ANNOUNCE LIVE AT EDEN PROJECT: A HISTORIC PERFORMANCE WITH THE HEART OF ENGLAND PHILHARMONIC ORCHESTRA
IN STORE MAY 29TH, 2026
Formats:
Black 3LP Gatefold, Ltd. 3LP Gatefold, 2CD Digipak, Streaming & Digital Download
Pre-Order “Live at Eden Project”
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Few bands have shaped the landscape of rock music with the force and longevity of The Who. For nearly six decades, their sound, spirit, and unmistakable energy have echoed across generations, influencing artists and audiences around the world. In 2026, the band adds a remarkable new chapter to their legacy with Live at Eden Project - a landmark live recording that captures the raw power, emotional depth, and artistic ambition of their unforgettable July 2023 performance at Cornwall’s iconic Eden Project.
Set within one of the UK’s most sustainable and visually striking venues - a breathtaking network of biomes nestled in the Cornish countryside - the concert stands as a testament not only to The Who’s musical evolution but also to their enduring cultural relevance. Backed by the Heart of England Philharmonic Orchestra, founding members Pete Townshend and Roger Daltrey delivered a performance that fused classic rock intensity with orchestral grandeur. The Eden Project’s natural acoustics and enclosed structures created a warm, detailed sonic environment that offered a clarity and intimacy unmatched by traditional stadium settings.
The recording reflects this unique atmosphere. Fans have long cherished The Who’s “special location” shows, and Eden stands among the most memorable - a once-in-a-lifetime convergence of music, environment, and artistic vision. The smaller capacity fostered a deeper connection between the band and audience, allowing for heightened interaction, greater emotional resonance, and a sense of being inside the performance rather than observing it from afar. This intimacy, combined with the band’s refined orchestral approach, captures The Who at a defining moment in their modern era.
Live at Eden Project also presents one of the strongest and most focused setlists of The Who’s orchestral period. Alongside beloved anthems such as “Baba O’Riley” and “Pinball Wizard,” the album includes rarely performed gems like “Cry If You Want,” “Anyway, Anyhow, Anywhere,” and “The Rock,” creating a career-spanning journey that balances hits, deep cuts, and orchestral showpieces with remarkable fluidity.
Today’s announcement coincides with the launch of the first single, “Pinball Wizard,” which is available for streaming and download immediately. The track offers a powerful first glimpse into the atmosphere and artistry of the Eden performance, capturing the heightened clarity, emotional nuance, and orchestral depth that define the full release.
Scheduled for release on May 29th, 2026, Live at Eden Project will be available as a 2CD Digipak, a limited 3LP Gatefold edition pressed on recycled vinyl with no plastic shrink wrap and packed in a separate paper wallet, a standard 3LP Gatefold, and across all major digital platforms. Every format showcases the full emotional and sonic range of a night that stands among the most compelling in The Who’s recent history.
Vibrant, immersive, and uniquely alive, Live at Eden Project is the definitive document of The Who’s orchestral era - a recording that captures not only a legendary band in peak form but also the spirit of a venue whose environmental ethos and natural beauty mirror the band’s own commitment to evolution and innovation.
The Who - Live at Eden Project
Release: May 29th, 2026
Formats:
Black 3LP Gatefold, Ltd. 3LP Gatefold, 2CD Digipak, Streaming & Digital Download
Tracklisting:
- Overture
- 1921
- Amazing Journey
- Sparks
- The Acid Queen
- Pinball Wizard
- We’re Not Gonna Take It
- Who Are You
- Eminence Front
- The Kids Are Alright
- You Better You Bet
- Anyway, Anyhow, Anywhere
- Substitute
- I Can’t Explain
- My Generation
- Cry If You Want
- Won’t Get Fooled Again
- Behind Blue Eyes
- The Real Me
- I’m One
- 5:15
- The Rock
- Love, Reign O’er Me
- Baba O’Riley
Thorbjørn Risager & The Black Tornado Announce New Album, Live At Hotel Cecil - Watch the video for 'Hold My Lover Tight'.
Thorbjørn Risager & The Black Tornado Announce New Album, Live At Hotel Cecil.
To be released 19 June via Provogue/Artone
Check out the latest single
Hold My Lover Tight (Live).
Pre-Order/Stream
HERE
Also check out the video for Said I Was Hurt (Live).
The award-winning Danish roots rockin’ octet Thorbjørn Risager & The Black Tornado are set to release their new album Live At Hotel Cecil on 19 June via Provogue/Artone. To celebrate, they’ve revealed the foot stompin’, roof raisin’ new single Hold My Lover Tight (Live).
Pre-order and stream the latest singles
HERE.
Situated at the heart of Copenhagen, the Hotel Cecil has been home to a Jazzhouse and a Playhouse, and originally served as a meeting place, lecture hall, and administrative hub for the women’s emancipation movement in Denmark when it was built in 1936. Set against an Art Deco backdrop, it perfectly suits the smooth, smoky blues of Denmark’s hardest-working band.
The show was recorded at their sold-out performance on 29 November 2025, one of the band’s final shows on their ‘House of Sticks’ winter tour, and saw the band fully flexing their sophisticated might.
“Hotel Cecil has a certain intimacy,” says Risager. “It’s big enough to have power, but still close enough that you can really feel the faces in front of you. That kind of room invites you to dig deeper — both musically and emotionally. There’s a history in places like that. You can feel that many stories have unfolded there.”
Reflecting on the night, he recalls, “I remember a great sense of anticipation backstage — that quiet buzz before you walk on stage. The room felt warm, very present. The audience was listening — really listening — and then when the groove hit, they were right there with us. That exchange of energy is everything.”
It’s easy to assume these road-worn veterans, exuding effortless cool, treat this as just another day at the office, but that’s not the case. “I still get that little spark before walking on stage,” he smiles. “And I hope I always will. If you stop caring, maybe you should stop playing. But it’s not fear anymore. It’s a focus. A readiness.”
He continues, “We always approach a live show with respect — for the music, for each other, and for the audience. It’s never just about playing the songs as they are on the record. It’s about creating a moment that only exists that night.”
That's what Risager and his band are: a conduit for these stories and these places with history, providing a connection for the audience in that specific moment. “I want people to feel lifted. Maybe they came in with a heavy day on their shoulders — I hope they leave lighter. Blues music can be soulful and deep, but it’s also about joy and release. If people walk away feeling connected, energised, maybe even a little transformed, then we’ve done our job.
In February, the band revealed the first taster from the album: the slow and smouldering Said I Was Hurt (Live). This song, along with Already Gone, Long Time Ago, House of Sticks, and Inner Light, is one of five tracks taken from last year’s latest studio album, House of Sticks.
There is always a certain anticipation when a new song is played live to the audience for the first time. “You can feel it in the room,” he explains. “There’s a certain silence when people are really listening — and then a reaction that’s genuine. Sometimes you see people mouthing the chorus by the second time around. That’s when you know something has landed. A special song doesn’t just entertain — it resonates.”
The set list is sprinkled with songs from throughout the band's bulging back catalogue Hold My Lover Tight (Live) is one of four taken from 2017's Change My Game and sees the band in full flight entertainer mode.
The eight-piece band adorned the high stage. The curtains are raised. As the lights are dimmed, the band's neon logo draws your attention. The drape-flanked room catapults you to another place and another time. That's where the Danish sensations draw you in.
Thorbjørn Risager (Vocals, Electric Guitar), Emil Balsgaard (Organ, Keys), Joachim Svensmark (Electric Guitar), Kasper Wagner (Baritone Sax), Hans Nybo (Tenor Sax), Peter W Kehl (Trumpet), Søren Bøjgaard (Bass), and Martin Seidelin (Drums, Percussion) - have won four Danish Music Awards (with seven nominations), the "Best Band" in the European Blues Awards and won the prestigious German Preis der Deutschen Schallplattenkritik Jahrespreis - German Record Critics' Awards. They’ve sold over 100,000 physical albums and surpassed 32 million streams, all the while blazing a trail worldwide with more than 1.500 shows. They've opened for Bonnie Raitt, the Tedeschi Trucks Band, jammed with the legendary Buddy Guy and even picked up a fan in Elwood Blues himself - Dan Aykroyd! - who hailed their "Hot rhythm and blues."
Live At Cecil Hotel proves to be a special moment.” A sold-out show still sends a tingling sensation through a band. “It’s humbling. Truly. We’ve built this step by step over many years, often far from home. To see “Sold Out” means people have chosen to spend their evening with us. That’s not something I take lightly,” he says.
With the new album, Thorbjørn Risager & The Black Tornado are bringing a little piece of themselves to their fans around the world. “Copenhagen means something special to us. It’s home. You know the streets; you know the energy of the city. And yes, there are often friends and family in the crowd. That adds another layer — you feel proud, but maybe also a little more vulnerable. But in the end, once the music starts, we’re all just part of the same experience.
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Tour Dates
Tickets are available HERE
Mar 12 – Jönköping Teater – Jönköping, Sweden
Mar 13 – Bollnäs Jazzklubb – Bollnäs, Sweden
Mar 14 – Katalin – Uppsala, Sweden
Mar 19 – Fabrik – Hamburg, Germany
Mar 20 – Club Volta – Cologne, Germany
Mar 21 – Jazzhaus – Freiburg, Germany
Mar 27 – Frimis Salonger – Örebro, Sweden
Mar 28 – Mejeriet – Lund, Sweden
Apr 2 – Curaçao International BlueSeas Festival – Willemstad, Curaçao
Apr 10 – Freja – Skövde, Sweden
Apr 11 – Söderport – Kalmar, Sweden
Apr 13 – Gladsaxe Jazzklub – Gladsaxe, Denmark (Duo concert)
Apr 17 – Havila Bluescruise Bergen–Tromsø – Norway (Duo concert)
Apr 23 – Musiktheater Piano – Dortmund, Germany
Apr 24 – Musiktheater Rex – Bensheim, Germany
Apr 25 – Music Hall – Worpswede, Germany
Apr 30 – Budenzauber – Kiel, Germany
May 2 – Motala Blues Festival – Motala, Sweden
May 7 – Tivoli Vredenburg – Utrecht, Netherlands
May 8 – Stadthalle – Schlüchtern, Germany
May 9 – Fahrzeugbau Meier – Altdorf-Ludersheim, Germany
May 30 – Tidaholm Blues Festival – Tidaholm, Sweden
Jun 12 – HsD Gewerkschaftshaus – Erfurt, Germany
Jun 13 – TBA – Germany
Jun 19 – Blues Garage Open Air (Release concert) – Hannover, Germany
Jun 20 – Bluesnacht Petershagen – Petershagen, Germany
Jun 25 – Riverboat Jazzfestival – Silkeborg, Denmark
Jul 4 – Laufen – Laufen, Switzerland
Jul 10 – JUKS Schenefeld – Schenefeld, Germany
Jul 11 – Blues, Roots & Song Festival – Schneverdingen, Germany
Jul 29 – Vallemaggia Magic Blues – Avegno, Switzerland
Aug 15 – Den Blå Festival – Aalborg, Denmark
Aug 16 – Gemsinghoved Festival – Struer, Denmark
Aug 21 – Flensburger Hofkultur – Flensburg, Germany
Sep 17 – BW Live – Haslev, Denmark
Sep 24 – Festhalle – Dudenhofen, Germany
Sep 25 – Kesselhaus – Berlin, Germany
Sep 26 – TBA – Germany
Oct 9 – TBA – Sweden
Oct 10 – Nalen – Stockholm, Sweden
Oct 15 – Color Line Cruise Oslo–Kiel – Norway
Oct 16 – Color Line Cruise Kiel–Oslo – Norway
Oct 17 – Oslo Bluesklub – Oslo, Norway
Oct 23 – Sønderborghus – Sønderborg, Denmark
Oct 24 – TBA – Denmark
Oct 29 – Het Bolwerk – Sneek, Netherlands
Oct 30 – Harmonie – Bonn, Germany
Oct 31 – Spirit of 66 – Verviers, Belgium
Nov 7 – Farum Jazzklub – Farum, Denmark
Nov 12 – Metropool – Hengelo, Netherlands
Nov 13 – TBA – Netherlands
Nov 14 – De Bosuil – Amersfoort, Netherlands
Nov 20 – Bygningen – Køge, Denmark
Nov 26 – TBA – Germany
Nov 27 – TBA – Germany
Nov 28 – Lehenbachhalle – Winterbach, Germany
Dec 5 – Amager Bio – Copenhagen, Denmark
Dec 11 – TBA – Sweden
Dec 12 – Pustervik – Gothenburg, Sweden
Track Listing
1. Already Gone
2. Long Time Ago
3. Said I Was Hurt
4. House Of Sticks
5. Insomnia Boogie
6. Long Forgotten Track
7. Sin City
8. Never Givin' In
9. Headed For The Stars
Rat Scabies & Chris Constantinou: 'Definition' single/video from OTM ‘2% Out of Sync’ – First Ever Vinyl Pressing.
ONE THOUSAND MOTELS
Rat Scabies and Chris Constantinou
‘2% Out of Sync’ – First Ever Vinyl Pressing
Limited Edition Trans Smoke Green Vinyl - with a golden twist....
Out 17 April 2026 on FOAD Musick
“Upbeat rock songs with a twist in the lyrical tail.. a high spirited, elaborated album.” – Vive Le Rock
“A match seemingly made in rock ’n’ roll heaven (or a punky purgatory).” – Midlands Rock
“Stunning.. the sonic textures here are layered perfectly and mix soul, blues, gospel and rock and roll.” – Get Ready to ROCK!Rat Scabies, the famed drummer and founding member of The Damned, and Chris Constantinou, bass player and vocalist who has worked with Adam Ant, Sinéad O’Connor, The Wolfmen and others, are releasing their debut album as One Thousand Motels on vinyl for the first time. ‘2% Out of Sync’, which received rave reviews on its original digital release, is now a limited pressing of 300 units on beautiful trans smoke green vinyl through FOAD Musick, with distribution through Cadiz Music and Plastic Head; digital distribution and sync representation handled by Cherry Red Records. The record is released on 17 April 2026.
And there’s a twist. Fifteen gold vinyl test pressings, signed by both Rat and Chris, have been randomly tucked into presale orders. You won’t know you’ve got one until you open it.
This is not the first time these two creative forces have united their musical powers. They were both heavily involved with the punk rock supergroup The Mutants, which featured members of UK Subs, The Specials, Vice Squad, The MC5 and Stiff Little Fingers. After recording three albums as The Mutants between 2014-2016, including sessions at Rancho De La Luna in Joshua Tree with members of The Dandy Warhols and Eagles of Death Metal, Rat and Chris stripped things back to just the two of them.
While in New York making another album, Rat and Chris found themselves with some downtime. Chris explained, “We had finished the album and the bars were shut. I had a bunch of demos lying around which were just waiting for the right collaborator.” As soon as he heard the tunes, Rat was onboard and instinctively got on with it, and within a few days they had the bones of the album that would become ‘2% Out of Sync’.
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“Chris writes from the heart and shares his ups and downs, which are often butt-clenchingly awkward,” Rat explained. “He writes about his loves, losses and good times, which often play out like a Jacques Brel movie (if there were such a thing).” Chris responded with a simple, “My songs are about my experiences, what else have I got to write about?”
They finished laying down the drum tracks in Glastonbury at Orchard Studios while Chris overdubbed in a shed in his back garden. “There were times,” whines Rat, “when we’d blown all our money and it felt like it was time to call it quits, but I’d listen to the rough mixes and felt it would be a dreadful waste not to finish this record – the tunes are just too good.”
The recordings were mixed by Nicholas De Carlo at his Mash Studios in Ramsgate, Kent. “We were totally over the moon with the way Nick De Carlo made us sound,” said Chris. “He brought an organic feel to the mixes and created a sound that is both proficient and natural and which crucially leaves my melodies alone.” “Yeah, for sure,” added Rat. “NDC gave it some bollocks.”
Five years on, the album is finally getting the physical release it deserves. The vinyl has been mastered from the original lacquer cut, and both Rat and Chris approved the test pressing together.
Their second album “Get In Where You Fit In” (2021, Universal Music) expanded the sound dramatically, bringing in vocalist Sean Wheeler alongside Hal Lindes (Dire Straits), the Memphis Horns, The Specials’ Horns and Preston Heyman (Kate Bush). A third album is currently in production with Brandon Eggleston (Dandy Warhols), with new singles and further vinyl releases to follow.
When asked about the choice of name for the project, Rat summed it up best: “We’re too old and battle worn to be making career moves, so we wanted a name that immediately summarised where we’ve come from, but not necessarily where we’re going.”
TRACKLIST
Side 1: Beautiful Losers / Definition / Gone / Rain / Kings X Guru
Side 2: Andy’s Wonder World / Kill Me If You Love Me / 2% Out / I Like Sex In The Suburbs / Gerry’s Ashes
06/03/2026
Canada's SAMMY VOLKOV returns with stunning psych-folk/chamber pop collection Songs From The Goodbye Garden.
SAMMY VOLKOV RELEASES STUNNING SONGS FROM THE GOODBYE GARDEN Second solo full-length from Edmonton artist is a powerful mix of psych-folk and chamber pop
WATCH + SHARE "BLUE" (LIVE PERFORMANCE VIDEO)
"The vocals that emanate from Sammy Volkov carry an air of melancholy. Roy Orbison, with a dash of Chris Isaak and a pinch of gospel-era Elvis Presley are the knee-jerk comparisons, as Volkov sings like a man out of time."
Chad Huculak, Edmonton Journal
TORONTO ON -- Today, Edmonton, Alberta-based singer/songwriter Sammy Volkov releases his second solo full-length album Songs From The Goodbye Garden, a brilliant 10-song collection that blends psych-folk, indie rock and chamber pop.
Produced with Renny Wilson of Faith Healer, the album features string arrangements by two-time Grammy nominee Drew Jurecka, along with an A-list crew of musicians. The end result is an esoteric palette of sonic colours intentionally designed much like concept albums of old, when vinyl was king and the listener would entrust 40 minutes to an unbroken listening experience (with one flip in the middle).
Sammy explains, “My life’s ambition has been to create an album that could stand alongside the records I studied as a kid. Not just literally on the shelf, but as a personality in my life—a voice that I could return to and come to trust. As a young, queer person on the Canadian prairies, I found the permission and comfort that I sorely craved in music. I went searching for songs, new and old, as a way to fill myself up and explore when I did not feel comfortable doing so with real, living people. I want to be that comfort for future generations of young people. I think with this new album, I’ve actually made something that will stand the test of time.”
Songs From The Goodbye Garden is the follow-up to Sammy’s 2022 debut album Be Alright!, which established his reputation by hitting #1 on the prestigious CKUA Top 30 in Canada. Two years later, Sammy’s collaboration with Dana Wylie, The Day Had To Come, was a classic country tour de force, landing on Bandcamp’s Best Country Albums year-end list.
Now, Songs From The Goodbye Garden raises his songwriting to a new level, balancing bittersweet nostalgia and melancholy with upward momentum and drive. From the aching strings on “The Way You Smile” to the sunshine blast of a Northern Soul trumpet on “Over The Hardest Part,” it’s as if Jackie Wilson and Townes Van Zandt had found themselves in the studio together and somehow made it work.
There is no other way to state it; Sammy Volkov is an artist unlike any other. In one respect, he is a throwback to a time when pop music was made by skilled craftspeople that knew how to conjure magic through the right combination of musicians, melody and lyrics. In another respect, the purity of his voice and the range of emotion it is able to convey is enough to transfix any audience.
SAMMY VOLKOV Live:
Mar 7 (Sat) :: Vulcan AB :: Nine In Line
Mar 12 (Thurs) :: Calgary AB :: The King Eddy
Mar 14 (Sat) :: Barrie ON :: On The Mark (w/ Sam The Living)
Mar 17 (Tues) :: Toronto ON :: Burdock Music Hall (w/ Sam The Living)
Mar 19 (Thurs) :: Vancouver BC :: The Heatley
Apr 15 (Wed) :: Winnipeg MB :: Times Change(d)
Apr 23 (Thurs) :: Memphis TN :: Bar DKDC
Apr 26 (Sun) :: Nashville TN :: Dee's Country Cocktail Lounge
May 1 (Fri) :: Vancouver BC :: The WISE Hall
May 2 (Sat) :: Vancouver BC :: Concerts at Cliff's
May 3 (Sun) :: Halfmoon Bay BC :: Studio Space
01 A Matter Of Time
02 Marjorie
03 Marianne
04 It’s Not Your Fault
05 The Way You Smile
06 Strangest Thing
07 In A Little While
08 Over The Hardest Part
09 Blue
10 Halloween Is Over
CALEB TOMLINSON finds harmony in northern isolation on latest six-song EP Solstice.
CALEB TOMLINSON MAKES AN INDELIBLE IMPRESSION WITH DEBUT EP SOLSTICE
Yukon-based alt-country artist emerges as a powerful new voice from northern Canada
LISTEN TO + SHARE "WHAT NOW"
TORONTO ON -- Whether it’s the isolation or the natural environment, there’s something distinct about Yukon singer/songwriters. Caleb Tomlinson, based in Whitehorse, is a prime example. His music shines with an intimacy and simplicity that on the surface seems disconnected from the modern world, although its effect is an immediate connection to a listener’s soul.
Tomlinson’s latest six-song collection, Solstice, is a pure expression of his gifts, which draw inspiration from the timeless work of Leonard Cohen and Kris Kristofferson, as well as Jason Molina and John K Samson. Although the EP appeared on streaming services in 2024 with little fanfare, Tomlinson is giving Solstice a proper release today in response to his expanding touring schedule that included a January/February jaunt to the UK and Ireland. In any case, Solstice captures a moment that deserves to be shared, no matter when it occurred.
Solstice is available from Bandcamp and all streaming services
Tomlinson explains, “I worked with Kelvin Smoler at his Whitehorse studio, and it was one of his first singer/songwriter-type projects. It started out with just my acoustic guitar, although we had the idea of bringing in some other Whitehorse musicians I knew, but had only played with casually before. That turned into 12 musicians contributing to the sessions, and a handful of those joining my live band, The Perseids.”
Those results place listeners squarely in the midst of the recording sessions, with Tomlinson’s shimmering guitar and rough-hewn voice complemented by unobtrusive strings, horns, percussion and backing vocals. There’s a haunting quality to all aspects of the sound, and it’s not surprising that the first song laid down was “Ghosts,” one of Tomlinson’s country-flavoured songs, along with “What Now,” an homage to George Jones.
“That song came directly after a three-day canoe trip, during which my new girlfriend and I broke up halfway through,” Tomlinson says. “We had to keep being cordial and talk about the usual stuff despite both of us realizing the relationship was over. There was a highway crossing early in the third day and we got my friend to pick us up to avoid another day on the river. But things are good now; she’s a great person and we’re still friends.”
Indeed, most of the songs on Solstice deal with the inherent complexities of relationships, while at the same time evoking memories many of us have of unrequited love on summer nights. Of course, that’s something residents of northern Canada experience differently as well, and the songs “Walls” and “Southern Solstice” express those feelings brilliantly.
Caleb Tomlinson’s Solstice is the type of record that takes hold after two or three listens, and continues to unravel more mysteries after that. As he prepares new material, these six songs serve as a vital introduction to a powerful new voice on the global singer/songwriter scene.
01 Homesteader
02 Southern Solstice
03 Walls
04 What Now
05 Ghosts
06 Caroline
NYC's Nevaris presents 'SoundSession' EP, co-written with Bill Laswell.
Watch performances for ‘Remedy’ & 'Ninth Sun', filmed at Laswell's studio.
FOR FANS OF: Bill Laswell, Lee Perry, Material, Method of Defiance, DJ Krush, DJ Logic, Will Bernard, Scientist, Carlos Santana, Hieroglyphics Ensemble, Sly and Robbie
FOR SHARING
'SoundSession' EP order https://nevaris.bandcamp.com/album/soundsession
Spotify https://open.spotify.com/artist/7v3fX2yK24jpCaMktBQUbY
Apple Music https://music.apple.com/us/artist/nevaris/1556468200
'Remedy - Live' https://youtu.be/v5Z_4wfuGFA
Bandcamp https://nevaris.bandcamp.com/track/remedy-live-3
'Ninth Sun' - Live https://youtu.be/XnkGrNqOB4o
Bandcamp https://nevaris.bandcamp.com/track/ninth-sun-live
"Grooves and moves, ambience and addiction, brass and bass, analogue and digital, the old and the new, the timeless and the forward-thinking all subsumed into a dub sound" ~ Big Takeover Magazine
"An immersive and atmospheric experience within the realm of dub music... a sonic landscape where every element has its place and purpose" ~ Skylight Webzine
"Evokes the imagination into eager action, sultry intimations echoed in the music’s warmly fragrant enterprise and inspiriting breath" ~ Ringmaster Review
”Love this! They've made a work of supreme creativity” ~ Carlos Santana (on 'Reverberations' album)
Manhattan-based percussionist, composer and multimedia artist Nevaris presents his 'SoundSession' EP, released via Nolej Records. Co-written with legendary bassist-producer Bill Laswell, who was unable to participate due to health reasons, the four-track collection was recorded live at Laswell’s professional recording space, Orange Sound in West Orange, New Jersey.
The session captures nine musicians performing together in real time, without overdubs or edits, preserving the full depth and spontaneity of the moment. Originally conceived as a virtual performance, 'SoundSession' evolved into something more immediate and organic. Multiple cameras documented the ensemble's studio performance, the focus remaining fully on the music and shared energy in the room.
The EP features four tracks, including two fan favorites ('Ninth Sun-Live' and 'Remedy - Live') and two never-before-released tracks ('Document' and 'Dub Orchestra'). Across its runtime, SoundSession blends Afro-Latin rhythms, deep dub architecture, jazz improvisation, cinematic soundscapes and turntablism into an expansive, immersive listening experience. The Big Takeover Magazine described Nevaris’ sound as “the timeless and the forward-thinking all subsumed into a dub sound.”
This is the fourth collaboration between Agustín Nevaris, Bill Laswell, and this particular lineup of musicians, including DJ Logic, Jonathan Maron, Angel Rodriguez, Will Bernard, Peter Apfelbaum, Jojo Kuo, Lockatron and Matt Dickey. Laswell’s original basslines form a central foundation of the EP and are performed in this session by Jonathan Maron, bringing depth and clarity to the compositions.
“SoundSession is about playing together live without being stressed by ticket sales or venues... Bill Laswell’s studio has always been an inspiring place with so much history. From the first notes, we could tell there was something good happening. The recording documents it exactly as it was," says Nevaris.
Recorded and mixed by James Dellatacoma and mastered by Michael Fossenkember at Turtletone Studios, this recording features interpretations of music previously written by Nevaris and Bill Laswell, including specific basslines that were written by Laswell, which bassist Jonathan Maron learned and performed when Bill was unable to participate in the recording for health reasons.
As an artist, Agustín Nevaris is a visual and multimedia artist with a vast array of creative projects across mediums.. Of European and Mexican descent with multi-generational roots in NYC and LA, Nevaris also performs under the name Loud Apartment with an evolving lineup of musicians, most notably Bernie Worrell of P-Funk and Talking Heads. He also co-founded Nolej Records, Nolej Studios and the Uncomun Festival.
The EP follows Nevaris’ 2023 debut 'Reverberations', released in 2023 via Bill Laswell's label M.O.D. Reloaded, and praised by Carlos Santana as “a work of supreme creativity”. With SoundSession, Nevaris continues to explore the intersection of dub, funk, Afro-Latin expression and improvisational freedom—grounded in live performance and collective musical dialogue.
The 'SoundSession' EP is out now via Bandcamp. As of March 12, it is available on all major digital platforms, including Apple Music and Spotify. Already in the works is a second studio album involving some truly exciting special guests, to be released later in 2026.
TRACK LIST
1 Ninth Sun - Live
2 Remedy - Live
3 Document
4 Dub Orchestra
CREDITS
Written by Agustín Nevaris, Bill Lasswell, DJ Logic, Peter Apfelbaum, Jojo Kuo, Will Bernard, Lockatron, Angel Rodriguez, Jonathan Maron & Matt Dickey
Agustín Nevaris - timbales, bongos, Hammond Organ
Angel Rodriguez - bata drums, shekere, congas, darbuka
Jojo Kuo - bata drums, shekere, misc. percussion
DJ Logic - turntables
Peter Apfelbaum - sax, flute, melodica, reed organ
Will Bernard - guitar
Lockatron - drumset
Matt Dickey - guitar
Jonathan Maron - bass
Produced by Agustín Nevaris
Recorded at Orange Sound in West Orange, New Jersey
Recorded & mixed by James Dellatacoma
Mastering by Michael Fossenkember at Turtletone Studios
Artwork by Realize
Artist photos by Michael Black
Publicity by Shameless Promotion PR
Keep up with Nevaris
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05/03/2026
Kimon Kirk & Robbie Fulks Chronicle the Story of a Desperate Man With "Dashboard Hula Doll".
LOS ANGELES, CA - Kimon Kirk & Robbie Fulks are excited to announce the release of “Dashboard Hula Doll” off Kirk’s forthcoming solo effort, Bikini Jardine, due Summer 2026. The accompanying video has been premiered by Magnet, check it out here.
“Dashboard Hula Doll” chronicles the story of a desperate man on the verge of losing everything – everything except his guiding light, the grass-skirted hula doll perched atop the dash of his family car. The story unfolds over the song’s two careening minutes and humorously evokes the downward spiral of a hapless husband “half-a-way to Denver on a three day bender,” to quote one of its lyrics. “Dashboard Hula Doll” pays tribute in spirit to one of Kirk and Fulks’s musical heroes, beloved NRBQ guitarist Big Al Anderson, whose tongue-in-cheek compositions and ferocious guitar playing clearly informed the mood of the recording.
“Dashboard Hula Doll,” written with the pioneering alt-country artist Robbie Fulks, includes a video filmed in the Southern California desert. Recorded in one live session at LA’s Sunset Sound, “Dashboard Hula Doll” features Kirk on vocals and electric guitar, Fulks on vocals and acoustic guitar, Duke Levine (Bonnie Raitt) on lead guitar, and the powerhouse rhythm section of Paul Bryan (Aimee Mann) on bass and Jay Bellerose (Robert Plant and Alison Krauss) on drums.
Kimon’s full-length double LP, Bikini Jardine, slated for Summer 2026, represents one of his most ambitious projects to date. The title is a playful mash-up of the all-female punk band Bikini Kill and Beach Boys guitarist Al Jardine. The record includes songs co-written with Aimee Mann and David Champagne, features guest vocal appearances by Mann and Gaby Moreno, and boasts the aforementioned standout co-write with Robbie Fulks on “Dashboard Hula Doll.”
Bikini Jardine showcases contributions from collaborators such as NRBQ keyboardist Terry Adams and guitarist Will Graefe and harmonica from Session Americana’s Jim Fitting. Bikini Jardine features Kirk’s two all-star backing bands: one based in LA, the other in Boston. Guitarist Michael Eisenstein (Letters to Cleo), keyboardist Jebin Bruni (Meshell Ndegeocello), bassist Paul Bryan (Aimee Mann) and drummer Sebastian Aymanns (Gaby Moreno) comprise the LA quartet, while guitarist Lyle Brewer, keyboardist Jamie Edwards, bassist Jim Haggerty, and drummer John Sands, all Boston heavyweights, anchor the east coast band.
The sprawling 15-song set has yielded some of Kirk’s most introspective acoustic work alongside his heaviest, most electrified tracks, with much of the band’s performances captured live in the studio. Tracks draw inspiration from locales near where they were written — from East LA streets to a historic barn in Massachusetts and an apartment on Lake Como — and the forthcoming album nods to influences ranging from The Beach Boys Friends, The Beatles and Rolling Stones double albums, Stevie Wonder’s Music of My Mind, and XTC’s Apple Venus, resulting in a record that sits at the crossroads of thoughtful songwriting, raw energy and musical immediacy.
"Dashboard Hula Doll"
Kimon Kirk and Robbie Fulks
She took the family, left me the Camry
And a ticket to a mid-life stall
Only one thing ahead of me now
And that’s a dashboard hula doll
Made of a shiny plastic, hips a little spastic
Stands about four inches tall
Every little bump makes my temperature jump
With a dashboard hula doll
Shake, shake, shake,
Shaking like a grass skirt hipshake
Shake up my body till I just can’t take it at all
No one can top her, Smokey couldn’t stop her
She’s a sight for sore eyeballs
It’s a Cannonball Run of miserable fun
With a dashboard hula doll
Down in Oklahoma, sunk into a coma in a backwoods hole in the wall
Who leads me straight to the Super 8
It’s my dashboard hula doll
Half-a-way to Denver on a three-day bender
Now we’re fighting through a rush hour crawl
My temper explodes, out the window she goes
Bye bye, hula doll
Shake, shake, shake,
Shaking like drunk fool’s handshake
Shake up my body till I just can’t take it at all
Sitting in the Camry
Calling up my family
Threatening to end it all
If we can’t be together you’re gonna find me deader
Than a dashboard hula doll
Bywater Call release "How Long" single and music video.
BYWATER CALL
NEW SINGLE – “HOW LONG”
RELEASED WEDNESDAY 4 MARCH 2026
STREAM SINGLE | WATCH MUSIC VIDEO
“One of My Favourite Bands. Meghan Parnell does a hell of a job.
Put them in your playlist... embrace it. Get their name out there.”
– Joe Bonamassa, SiriusXM
“All soulful restraint, light-touch organ and warm Nashville-ready guitar
strains with beautifully from-the-heart vocals. A class act in action and
must-listen for anyone seeking quality rootsy rock and soul.”
– Classic Rock Magazine
“Meghan Parnell soothes the soul with her one-of-a-kind, silky voice. How can you resist those horns, the guitar, and the outstanding musicians of Bywater Call? You can’t. Listen up! – Rock and Blues Muse
On Wednesday, March 4th, Canadian Roots, Rock, and Soul band Bywater Call release of their second studio single of 2026, “How Long”, from their forthcoming fourth studio album, set to come out July 2026 with more details to come soon.
The single is available on all streaming platforms via – https://linktr.ee/bywatercall
Watch the official “How Long” music video on YouTube HERE.
“How Long” is slow burn, contemporary soul and R&B inspired song, influenced by the likes of Black Pumas, Brittany Howard (Alabama Shakes) and Amy Winehouse. Lush and deep, with soaring horns, lead synths, raw, exciting vocals and a hypnotic guitar feature, the song is indicative of the band’s mission to meld old and new sounds and influences, while continuing to carve out a lane of their own.
On “How Long,” Bywater Call evolves and embarks on a experimental journey, while delivering the familiar emotion and musical drive that followers of the band have come to love. Initially restrained and haunting, the song flowers into an intense catharsis.
“How Long is a raw and introspective song that wrestles with guilt, fragility, and the fear of becoming the very thing you never wanted to be,” says lead singer Meghan Parnell. “Lyrically and melodically, we tried to convey the vulnerability and self-reflection of someone living in the fragile space between remorse and repetition.”
The song was recorded at Palace Studios in Toronto, captured and mixed by Patric McGroarty, and mastered by Kristian Montano of Montano Mastering.
“An astonishing display of joy, energy, and camaraderie. Bywater
Call are one of the most exciting bands of the moment.”
– Bluestown Music
“Some of the most heart-lifting and utterly exciting music
I’ve heard in ages.” – Music News
“This band is heading for much bigger stages.”
– Blues Matters
Often transcending genres, Bywater Call is known for their dynamic, emotional live shows, featuring powerful vocals and exciting interplay between all band members.
In early 2026 Bywater Call were officially nominated for the UK Blues Award for “International Act of the Year,” having been previously nominated in 2025 and 2024.
In their August 2024 issue, Classic Rock made Bywater Call’s 2024 album Shepherd their “Blues Album of the Month” and said it was “an inventive and uncommonly catchy record,” and added, “the sense of a band on the brink is unmistakable.” The album won “Top Blues Album of the Year” in the magazine’s year-end round-up.
The band will be on tour throughout Europe, the USA and Canada in 2026.
2026 TOUR DATES
**More dates to be announced. More info: www.bywatercall.com
CANADA and USA
Feb 26 | Burlington, ON | Burlington Performing Arts Centre
Mar 5 | Aurora, IL | The Venue
Mar 6 | Terre Haute, IN | Terre Haute Brewing Co
Mar 7 | Evansville, IN | Mojo’s
Mar 8 | Franklin, TN | Franklin Theatre *supporting Robert Jon & the Wreck
Mar 10 | Chattanooga, TN | The Listening Room
Mar 11 | Charlotte, NC | Middle C
Mar 13 | Greenville, SC | Poe Mill Music
Mar 14 | Atlanta. GA | Smith’s Old Bar
Mar 17 | St Augustine, FL | Café 11
Mar 18 | Cocoa Beach, FL | Heidi’s
Mar 19 | Ft Myers, FL | Buckingham Blues Bar
Mar 20 | Safety Harbor, FL | SHAMc
Mar 21 | Boca Raton, FL | Funky Biscuit
Mar 22 | Orlando, FL | Judson’s Live
Mar 25-29 | Miami, FL | Keeping the Blues Alive at Sea
Apr 1 | Raleigh, NC | Pour House
Apr 2 | Hagerstown, MD | Live at Hub City Vinyl
Apr 3 | Tuckerton, NJ | Lizzie Rose Music Room
Apr 4 | New York, NY | Iridium
Apr 23| Syracuse, NY | 443 Club at the Hosmer Auditorium
Apr 24 | Plattsburgh, NY | Retro Live
Apr 25 | Drummondville. QC | Maison des arts Desjardins Drummondville
EUROPE
14-May | Dudenhofen Germany | Kulturverein Dudenhofen
15-May | Rimsting Germany | Feuerwehrhaus
16-May | Affalter Germany | Zur Linde
17-May | Regensburg Germany | VAZ Pfarrheim
19-May | Norderstedt Germany | Music Star
20-May | Bremen Germany | Meisenfrei
21-May | Werchter Belgium | Blue Rooster
22-May | Weert Netherlands | De Bosuil
23-May | Unna Germany | Lindenbrauerei
24-May | Raalte Netherlands | Ribs & Blues Festival
27-May | Verviers Belgium | Spirit of 66
28-May | Krefeld Germany | Kulturrampe
29-May | Haarlem Netherlands | Patronaat
30-May | Tilburg Netherlands | Heyhoef
31-May | Aalten Netherlands| LSA Music
2-Jun | Arnstadt Germany | Kulisse
3-Jun | Aschaffenburg Germany| Colos-Saal
4-Jun | Köln Germany | Die Kantine / Freideck
5-Jun | Luxemburg Luxemburg | Blues Club
6-Jun | Riotord France | Climax Club Legend
7-Jun | Le Thor France | Sonograf
9-Jun | Chambery France | Brin de Zinc
13-Jun | Penmarch France | God Save The Kouign Festival
16-Jun | Tenerife Grand Canaria | Teatro Leal
17-Jun | Las Palmas Grand Canaria | Teatro Guiniguada
ABOUT BYWATER CALL
Often transcending genres, Bywater Call is known for their dynamic, emotional live shows, featuring powerful vocals and exciting interplay between all band members. A powerhouse seven-piece Southern soul, roots rock outfit from Toronto, Canada; the band is comprised of Meghan Parnell (vocals), Dave Barnes (guitar), Bruce McCarthy (drums), Mike Meusel (bass), newest member, Andrew Moljgun (keys), Stephen Dyte (trumpet), and Julian Nalli (tenor sax).
Bywater Call was nominated for the “2025 UK Blues Award” for “International Blues Artist of the Year” for the second consecutive year, alongside artists including Beth Hart and Walter Trout. The band has also received multiple Independent “Blues and Canadian Maple Blues Award” nominations including “Entertainer,” “Electric Act,” and “Best Female Vocalist” at the 2024 Awards Season.
In March, Bywater Call played their second Joe Bonamassa “Keeping the Blues Alive” cruise, featuring headliners Big Head Todd and the Monsters and Larkin Poe. In 2025, they play the Netherland’s BOSPOP Festival alongside the likes of the Black Keys, Warren Haynes Band, Marcus King, and Blackberry Smoke.
The band has opened for Canadian award-winning musicians Whitehorse and Tom Cochrane, and singer Meghan has joined renowned pedal-steel guitarist Robert Randolph on stage at his request.
Their newest studio album Shepherd was selected as the Blues Album of the Year by UK’s Classic Rock Magazine. Band leaders Meghan Parnell and Dave Barnes were featured on the cover of Blues in Britain in January of 2025. Their 2025 live album Sunshine was released in August 2025 to rave reviews.
In 2024 alone, the band played 140 shows across 10 countries. Bywater Call’s music is an exploration of life’s highs and lows. From intimate ballads that lay bare the complexities of human emotion to electrifying anthems that demand to be played at full volume, their catalogue is a journey through human experience, featuring influences from the likes of The Band, The Wood Brothers, Tedeschi Trucks Band, Otis Redding, Little Feat, Sly and the Family Stone, and many more.
Bywater Call
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04/03/2026
Jared James Nichols releases new single 'Killing Time'.
JARED JAMES NICHOLS
Shares New Single ‘Killing Time’
+ Official Video — Watch HERE
New Album Louder Than Fate
Out June 5th via Frontiers Music Srl
Pre-Order HERE
Album Release Party
June 6th, The Lexington - London
Jared James Nichols is pleased to share his new single, ‘Killing Time’, the third track taken from his upcoming fourth studio album, Louder Than Fate, due out on June 5, 2026 via Frontiers Music Srl. The single arrives alongside an official video, available below.
Raw, unapologetic, and deeply rooted in the lineage of blues-driven hard rock, ‘Killing Time’ captures Nichols at the peak of his creative confidence, channelling grit, groove, and soul with relentless intensity while setting the tone for what promises to be his most powerful and fully realised album to date. The song was written & recorded in Nashville with Roger Alan Nichols (Larkin Poe, Tyler Bryant & The Shakedown, Hayley Williams) producing. The video for 'Killing Time' was shot in the basement of Halestorm Manor (Lzzy & Joe from Halestorm's house).
Nichols comments on the new track, "‘Killing Time’ is not being able to cut the loss of a relationship when you know you have to move on. It’s about walking a lonely path while hanging onto hope, even when all is lost. Every stripped-down chord echoes the regret of moments thrown away and words left unsaid. Writing this song was a personal reminder that it is OK to close chapters and move on to new beginnings."
Coming out June 5th via Frontiers Music Srl, Louder Than Fate is Nichols’ fourth album and really shines a light on his songwriting skills. “What’s cool with this record is this is the first time I ever took my time as a songwriter and we did not rush any aspect of it, working with people who have their eye on the prize of the song,” Nichols says. “It’s a totally different vibe.
Perhaps not coincidentally, since several songs were recorded at the Foo Fighters’ Studio 606 in Los Angeles, Nichols went for more of a classic guitar rock feel, intertwined with jagged, evergreen choruses. “Every record has another shade, it’s been like cutting a little deeper into the fruit,” Nichols adds. “It’s like I know there’s more down there and I’m just trying to reach for it.”
Produced and mixed by Jay Ruston (Anthrax, Stone Sour, Amon Amarth, Skindred,
and Steel Panther) with additional production by Roger Alan Nichols (Larkin Poe, Tyler Bryant & The Shakedown and Hayley Williams of Paramore), Louder Than Fate is filled with razor sharp riffs whilst seamlessly balancing muscle and melody, combining his guitar playing prowess with emotionally charged vocals. The songs move effortlessly between hard-hitting rock anthems and more reflective, dynamic Tracks like 'Bending or Breaking' and 'Killing Time' expand the sonic palette with subtle keyboards and cinematic string arrangements, adding depth without ever sacrificing power.
Since his breakout debut, Jared James Nichols has built a reputation as one of the most electrifying guitarists and performers of his generation. Known for his unmistakable tone, fearless playing style, and commanding stage presence, he has toured extensively across the US and Europe, sharing stages with some of the biggest names in rock and earning praise from fans and critics alike.
Nichols comments on Louder Than Fate, “I’m beyond excited for this record. I’ve been counting down the days until its release like it’s a personal holiday. If the singles are any hint for you, there are plenty of riffs ripping through the speakers like a buzz saw. But going deeper into the record, there are tons of different emotions and sounds that I have yet to explore as a singer/songwriter. I am personally thrilled to share different shades of myself on this record, giving so much more depth and insight to the listener. Get ready for Louder than Fate."
Now a decade into a career that’s taken him millions of miles around the planet and made him a peer and jamming buddy of guitar gods like Zakk Wylde, Slash and Joe Perry, Nichols is one of only a select few artists to represent Gibson Guitars as a global ambassador.
Louder Than Fate is not just an album — it’s a declaration. A record that speaks to resilience, conviction, and the unstoppable force of an artist who plays every note as if it truly matters. Loud, honest, and deeply human, this is Jared James Nichols at his absolute best.
'Louder Than Fate' Track List:
1. Let’s Go
2. Ghost
3. Way Back
4. Bending Or Breaking
5. Killing Time *
6. Dust N’ Bones
7. Show Me *
8. Looks Like That Felt Good *
9. Runnin’ Hot
10. Pretend
Killing Time (acoustic version) Bonus Track Japan
The Death Of Love (bonus track Digital)
Produced & Mixed by Jay Ruston
Except * Produced & Mixed by Roger Alan Nichols
About Frontiers Music Srl:
Founded in 1996 by Serafino Perugino in Napoli, Italy, Frontiers initially specialized in the distribution of indie Rock labels across the Italian market. The company, however, soon evolved into a leading global rock label, working with such important artists as Skunk Anansie, Van Zant, Def Leppard, Journey, Don Felder, Yes, Mr Big, Biohazard, Whitesnake, and ELO, while also signing and developing tomorrow’s artists.
Today, the expanded Frontiers Label Group owns and operates the imprints Frontiers Music Srl (Mainstream and Classic Rock), FLG Records (Alternative Music), and BLKIIBLK Records (Metal and Hard Rock) with global digital and physical distribution via The Orchard (Sony Music).
The company is headquartered in Italy with additional executive staff in London, NY, Boston, Raleigh, and Nashville. Serling Rooks Hunter McKoy Worob and Averill LLP provides legal representation in the US, with international legal representation under the direction of Dario De Cicco.
Ringo Starr announces Long Long Road, his second album with T Bone Burnett. Shares new song.
RINGO STARR ANNOUNCES LONG LONG ROAD, HIS SECOND ALBUM WITH T BONE BURNETT
TO BE RELEASED APRIL 24, 2026 (UMe)
First single + Visualizer, ‘It’s Been Too Long’, featuring Sarah Jarosz and Molly Tuttle is available now
This second collaboration follows the success of the chart-topping Country album Look Up released in January 2025
March 3, 2026, London – Ringo Starr releases ‘It’s Been Too Long’, featuring the lush vocals of Molly Tuttle and Sarah Jarosz, out today. This is the first single from his forthcoming album Long Long Road (released April 24), co-written and produced by T Bone Burnett, the 10-song album also includes collaborations with Billy Strings, Sheryl Crow and St Vincent and is the highly anticipated follow-up to last year’s chart topping Look Up.
Pre-Order HERE.
“I’m blessed to have T Bone in my life right now and working with me on these records,” Ringo stated. “After we did the last record, which I love listening to, this one just sort of happened. I like to say sometimes I make the right moves, like you can go left or right at any point, and one of the right moves was hooking up with T Bone for Look Up, and now for this one, which I’m calling Long Long Road, because I’ve been on a long long road.”
As the title implies, and like Ringo’s own journey, Long Long Road has solid roots in Country and Americana, and evolved into something broader, creating an aural mosaic of Starr’s musical legacy and influences, including Carl Perkins. “I recorded two Carl Perkins songs with The Beatles, and both T Bone and I wanted one on this record,” Ringo explained, “and he found this beautiful track I’d never heard before, ‘I Don’t See Me In Your Eyes Anymore’.”
Recorded in Nashville and Los Angeles, this record sees the return of many of the Look Up musicians including the core band (that T Bone affectionately dubs The Texans after the 1959 band Ringo played with in Liverpool) featuring Paul Franklin, David Mansfield, Dennis Crouch, Daniel Tashian, Rory Hoffman, Patrick Warren and Colin Linden.
“I've loved Ringo’s playing and his singing for my whole life,” T Bone stated. “And then one night we were at a poetry reading together and he said, why don't you write a song for me? So I wrote him a Gene Autry type song because I always heard Ringo as a Texas artist, the way he played felt just like Texas music to me. Ringo Starr is a recording artist of the highest caliber, and I wanted to surround him with these young masters, bringing in some of this extraordinary young energy that's happening around Nashville for both of these records.”
Their first collaboration, Look Up, released January 10, 2025, brought overwhelming success and acclaim. It was Ringo’s first Country record in 50 years, and it earned him his first Top 10 on Billboard’s all genre Top Album Sales chart, as well as landing him on multiple other Billboard Charts. In the UK, the album reached a significant career milestone garnering him his first solo #1 album on the Official Country Chart. In February 2025 Starr made his Grand Ole Opry debut after being invited by Emmylou Harris during the first of his two-night run at the legendary Ryman, which was recorded for a 2-hour special still streaming on CBS/Paramount Plus.
Here are the 10-songs, 6 written or co-written by T Bone Burnett, two co-written by Ringo and Bruce Sugar, one written by Ringo Starr, Mark Hudson, and Gary Burr and one by Bernie Benjamin and George David Weiss and recorded by Carl Perkins:
SIDE ONE
1. RETURNING WITHOUT TEARS
2. BABY DON’T GO
3. I DON’T SEE ME IN YOUR EYES ANYMORE
4. IT’S BEEN TOO LONG
5. WHY
SIDE TWO
1. YOU AND I (WAVE OF LOVE)
2. MY BABY DON’T WANT NOTHING
3. CHOOSE LOVE
4. SHE’S GONE
5. LONG LONG ROAD
The album was produced by T Bone Burnett and co-produced by Daniel Tashian and Bruce Sugar and will be released on UMe.
NEW YORK, NY: JP Soars & Anne Harris will release their highly anticipated collaborative album, Gypsy Blue Revue, on May 29, 2026, via Forty Below Records. Pre-order here. The first single, “Viper,” is available now, with additional singles “Jessie Mae” and “Goin’ Down to South Carolina” to follow. Listen here.
For more than two decades, JP Soars has built his reputation the way roots music was meant to be built — onstage, night after night. A fiery guitarist, soulful vocalist, and inventive songwriter, Soars blends American blues with rock & roll, Latin grooves, country, and gypsy jazz, guided not by genre but by feel.
That musical vision comes into sharp focus on Gypsy Blue Revue, a collaboration with acclaimed Chicago-based violinist, vocalist, and songwriter Anne Harris. The partnership began in 2019 after the two artists crossed paths on the festival circuit and joined forces at the Big Blues Bender in Las Vegas. The chemistry was immediate, and what began as a one-off performance quickly evolved into a powerful creative union rooted in Southern soul, roadhouse blues, rock, and eclectic folk influences.
The album was recorded live at a rural Ohio studio without click tracks or overdubs, capturing the immediacy and chemistry that define their performances. “We approached it exactly like a show,” says Soars. “All in one room, playing together. We just wanted it to sound like us.” The record also features Soars’ longtime bandmates: drummer Chris Peet and bassist Cleveland Frederick.
The singles from Gypsy Blue Revue highlight Soars’ storytelling depth and musical range. “Jessie Mae” draws inspiration from a real-life encounter with Hill Country blues legend Jessie Mae Hemphill, transforming it into a vivid portrait of strength and authenticity. “Goin’ Down to South Carolina” grew organically from a spontaneous studio riff into a groove-driven standout fueled by vintage guitar tones. Meanwhile, “Viper” delivers a cautionary tale of romantic misadventure wrapped in gritty swagger and sharp musicianship.
Born in California, raised in Arkansas, and now based in South Florida, Soars’ musical journey was cemented at age 18 after meeting B.B. King backstage — a moment that solidified his interest in the blues. Since then, he has released six acclaimed albums, won the Blues Foundation’s International Blues Challenge and the Albert King Guitar Award, received multiple Blues Music Award nominations, and placed albums in the Billboard Blues Top 10.
Anne Harris brings her own distinguished career to the project. A classically trained violinist and accomplished singer-songwriter, who has worked Keb’ Mo’ and Taj Mahal, has released six studio albums and toured internationally, including a decade-long collaboration with Blues Music Award winner Otis Taylor. Her work bridges pop-rock, folk, country, and roots traditions, bringing texture, nuance, and emotional depth to the collaboration.
Gypsy Blue Revue unites classic influences with contemporary energy.
“This is a music lover’s record,” says Soars. “There’s everything from Caribbean grooves to country songs to Django Reinhardt influences. If music moves me, I don’t care about the genre — and I think our audiences love that diversity.”
TRACK LISTING
- Jessie Mae
- Go With The Flow
- Viper
- Paradise
- Goin' to South Carolina
- May Mountain Waltz
- Old Silver Bridge
- Minor Blues
- Cigar Box Jam
TOUR DATES - JP Soars
03.06 Goodland, FL LIttle Bar
03.07 Naples, FL Dogtooth Sports and Music Bar
03.12 Fort Lauderdale, FL Blue Jean Blues
03.13 Jupiter, FL Das Beer Garden
03.15 Lake Worth, FL Bamboo Room
03.19 Bonita Springs, FL Sugarshack
03.20 Bradenton, FL Cottonmouth Southern Soul Food
03.20 Venice, FL Venice Blues, Rock, Reggae & BBQ
03.21 Fort Myers Beach, FL The Beach Bar
03.25 Cocoa Beach, FL Heidi's Jazz Club & Restaurant
03.26 Englewood, FL Englewoods
03.27 West Palm Beach, FL Northwood Art Music Warehouse
03.28 Delray Beach, FL The Wine & Spirits Kitchen
04.14 Ryman. NY * Fanatics
04.15 Syracuse, NY * 443 Club
04.18 Norwood, Mass * Fall Out Shelter
06.13 Salt Lake City, UT Utah Blues Festival
*with Anne Harris
NYC's ECCE SHNAK announces UK tour dates with music legends EMF
Watch their new animated thriller video for 'Katy's Wart'.
FOR SHARING
Tour previewhttps://youtu.be/yBbJ6xr41nU
Instagram reel https://www.instagram.com/p/DVHOUknAQgn/
Tour tickets
https://www.songkick.com/artists/5039913-ecce-shnak
'Katy's Wart [Extended Feelm Version]' video https://youtu.be/BdZOGralXkE
'Katy's Wart [Animated Music Feelm Version]' video https://youtu.be/rX9wxPoZpu0
Bandcamphttps://ecceshnak.bandcamp.com/track/katys-wart
2025 RELEASES
'Shadows Grow Fangs' EP http://ecceshnak.bandcamp.com/album/shadows-grow-fangs-2
'Backroom Sessions' live EP https://ecceshnak.bandcamp.com/album/backroom-sessions
'Jeremy, Utilitarian Sadboy' video https://youtu.be/Kn3ALhMULbo
'Prayer on Love' video https://youtu.be/6WcIpHkadOk
'Shadows Grow Fangs' video
https://youtu.be/-WzdmYBVA0Y
'The Internet' video
https://youtu.be/ZYg12iOdTeg
'Stroll With Me' video
https://youtu.be/FlwKyWgFLOw
"Both jarring and exhilarating... powerful and anthemic. Mind blown!" ~ The Spill Magazine
"Mathy rock ornateness, sub-metal weight, and prog-infused punk— the perfect attraction of opposites. But stand back a bit and contemplate further, and you will find pop infectiousness, classical grace, and even hardcore aggression all working in harmony" ~ Big Takeover Magazine
"Art / alt rock with varied twists of punk, chamber pop, new wave, experimental rock and more besides, there is never a predictable moment in sound or design" ~ Black Noise Zine
Genre-defying NYC outfit Ecce Shnak will be joining platinum-selling legends EMF for a series of UK dates in early June. The two bands toured the US west coast together in 2025 (along with Spacehog) and Ecce Shnak also features on the EMF's epic indie dance track 'LGBTQ+ Lover' in support of the marginalized queer community. The video footage was filmed during their joint tour.
In the heart of New York City’s experimental scene, Ecce Shnak has carved out a reputation for "high-wire" performance, their music is a volatile yet meticulously crafted ecosystem, where technical precision meets a sense of inspired mayhem. Pronounced Eh-kay sh-knock, the band is made up of David Roush (composer, bassist and one of two singers), Bella Komodromos (vocals), Chris Krasnow (guitar), Gannon Ferrell (guitar), and Henry Buchanan-Vaughn (drums).
David Roush shares, "Our precious pals in the legendary dance-pop crew EMF have invited us to be the opening act for 6 joyful days in the UK early this June! You can find the details of where and when our trampucings will lead us on our website and social media accounts. So trampuce along with us. To quote EMF, “You deserve more than this world could ever give!”"
Moving towards their full-length album 'Dandy Variances' album, anticipated later this year via Records, Man Records, the band recently released their new video for 'Katy's Wart', along with its Bandcamp release. a hidden gem originally released on their 2019 'Joke Oso' album. Telling a visceral tale of justice, the new video introduces a cruel madman, who finally meets his end at the hands of five purple goddesses of righteous vengeance.
The story is presented as a three-minute 'Animated Music Feelm Version', and an immersive ten-minute 'Extended Feelm Version' with a backstory that builds tension and context, centered on a well-dressed maniac, whose harmful acts finally trigger a cosmic intervention. The heroic twin sisters ultimately fend him off with the help of otherworldly agents of chaotic justice. In a supernatural animated turning point, five spirits are conjured to deliver him a dose of instant karma.
A blistering indictment of bigotry and cruelty, this surreal narrative was brought to life through a collaboration with some of the industry’s most innovative creative minds. The project’s striking visual identity is the work of the production-direction team of Hollye Bynum and Sam Owens, along with David Roush. The eery mind-boggling animation was crafted by the titans at Titmouse Productions. With this high-fidelity animation, 'Katy’s Wart' is now a definitive piece of Ecce Shnak lore, bridging their historical catalogue with their ambitious future.
2025 was a massive year for Ecce Shnak that saw the spring release of their 'Shadows Grow Fangs' EP, which was recorded and produced by Jeff Lucci, mixed by Nicholas Vernhes (Animal Collective, Deerhunter, Wild Nothing, The War on Drugs) and mastered by Grammy award-winning engineer Joe LaPorta (David Bowie, The Weeknd, Foo Fighters, Vampire Weekend).
They also released their live 'Backroom Sessions' EP and two club anthems - the Bladerunner-esque 'Jeremy, Utilitarian Sadboy (Kill Em Mix)' with German DJ-producer Eskei83 and the buoyant 'Prayer On Love (Madison Mars Remix)', in collaboration with world-famous DJ-producer Madison Mars.
'Katy's Wart' can be found on digital music platforms, including Bandcamp, Spotify and Apple Music. Tickets for Ecce Shnak and EMF June tour dates are now available.
'KATY'S WART' CREDITS
Written / composed by David Roush
Performed by Ecce Shnak
Sound Engineer: Jeff Lucci at the Art Farm (NY)
Mixed by Bryce Goggin
Mastered by Fred Kevorkian
Released by Records Man, Records
Video produced & directed by Hollye Bynum, Sam Owens & David Roush
Featuring actors Rachael Rae Robertson & Rebecca Robertson
Video animation by Titmouse Productions
Artist photos by Tommy Krause
A&R: Beth Narducci for You + Me Entertainment
Publicity by Shauna McLarnon for Shameless Promotion PR
TOUR DATES
JUN 02 Manchester, UK - Gorilla
JUN 03 Worthing, UK - The Factory Live
JUN 04 Portsmouth, UK - Kola
JUN 05 Southend, UK - Chinnerys
JUN 06 London, UK - The Garage
JUN 07 Leeds, UK - Brudenell Social Club
Keep up with Ecce Shnak
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Philip Sayce announces new album "Scorched Earth: Volume 2 Live in LA / London" ahead of UK Tour.
PHLIP SAYCE - NEW LIVE ALBUM “SCORCHED EARTH: VOLUME 2 LIVE IN LA / LONDON” RELEASED 1 MAY 2026 BY ATOMIC GEMINI RECORDS
PRE-SAVE ON STREAMING PLATFORMS
TURN IT UP. FEEL THE HEAT. STEP INTO THE FIRE.
NEW SINGLE “MORNING STAR (LIVE)”
OUT NOW ON ALL STREAMING PLATFORMS
WATCH THE MUSIC VIDEO HERE
MAY/JUNE 2026 UK TOUR
TICKETS AVAILABLE FROM
THEGIGCARTEL.COM AND PHILIPSAYCE.COM
SPECIAL GUESTS:
TOM MORIARTY (ALL SHOWS)
*CHANTEL MCGREGOR (HOLMFIRTH ONLY)
Internationally acclaimed guitarist, singer, and songwriter Philip Sayce sets the stage ablaze once again with the announcement of his explosive new live album, Scorched Earth: Volume 2 Live in LA / London.
To mark the news of the highly anticipated new live album, Sayce releases the album’s latest single, “Morning Star (Live),” available now on all streaming services alongside an official lyric which fans can watch on YouTube HERE.
Pre-save the full digital album HERE.
Captured during a triumphant run of sold-out performances at the legendary venue The Baked Potato in Los Angeles and a packed, over-capacity show at The Garage in London, Scorched Earth: Volume 2 Live in LA / London documents Sayce at the absolute peak of his powers.
“Morning Star (Live)” follows the release of the album’s first single, “Peace Machine (Live)”, which debuted late last year and is already available on streaming services with an accompanying music video. Together, the two tracks offer a powerful preview of the raw intensity and emotional fire that define the full live album.
A blistering continuation of the Scorched Earth series, Volume 2 delivers the fearless improvisation, volcanic guitar work, and deep emotional charge that have cemented Sayce’s reputation as one of the most revered guitarists of his generation.
The record captures the undeniable chemistry between Sayce and his world-class band: Sam Bolle (bass) and Bryan Head (drums). Together, they unleash a sonic firestorm blending blues grit, psychedelic soul, and high-wire rock ‘n’ roll.
Among the album’s defining moments are explosive renditions of “Once” and “Bitter Monday,” recorded live at The Baked Potato, along with a breathtaking rendition of Jimi Hendrix’s “Spanish Castle Magic,” performed during an unforgettable night at The Garage in London. It’s a fearless, transcendent take that channels and honours the spirit of Jimi Hendrix while unmistakably bearing Sayce’s signature tone and fire.
The album’s sonic depth and clarity are elevated by GRAMMY Award-winning mixing engineer Mark Rains and GRAMMY Award-nominated mastering engineer Brian Lucey, ensuring every surge of the live experience hits with full force.
“These shows were pure electricity,” says Sayce. “There’s something powerful about capturing a moment when the band, the songs, and the audience are completely locked in. LA and London brought that magic. We lit the fuse, and you can feel it.”
Recorded in two of the world’s most iconic live music cities, Scorched Earth: Volume 2 Live in LA / London stands as a definitive testament to Philip Sayce’s standing as a modern torchbearer of blues-rock guitar. From searing solos and soulful vocals to thunderous rhythm section interplay, this is more than a live album; it is an event.
With critics and fans consistently praising Sayce’s incendiary performances and emotional authenticity, Scorched Earth: Volume 2 Live in LA / London arrives as a must-hear release for guitar lovers and live music devotees worldwide.
SCORCHED EARTH: VOLUME 2: LIVE IN LA / LONDON
ALBUM TRACK LISTING
1. One Foot In The Grave (3:19)
2. Once (3:35)
3. Bitter Monday (5:52)
4. Peace Machine (9:30)
5. Lady Love Divine (3:56)
6. 5:55 (1:53)
7. Morning Star (5:07)
8. Spanish Castle Magic (5:07)
Photo by Marty Moffatt
PHILIP SAYCE
MAY/JUNE 2026 UK TOUR
TICKETS AVAILABLE FROM
THEGIGCARTEL.COM AND PHILIPSAYCE.COM
SPECIAL GUESTS:
TOM MORIARTY (ALL SHOWS)
*CHANTEL MCGREGOR (HOLMFIRTH ONLY)
BRISTOL, THE FLEECE
TUESDAY 19 MAY 2026
Special guest: Tom Moriarty
Tickets: The Gig Cartel
2 St Thomas St, Redcliffe, Bristol, BS1 6JJ
https://thefleece.co.uk
NOTTINGHAM, RESCUE ROOMS
WEDNESDAY 20 MAY 2026
Special guest: Tom Moriarty
Tickets: The Gig Cartel
Masonic Pl, Goldsmith St, Nottingham, NG1 5LB
www.rescuerooms.com
HOLMFIRTH, PICTUREDROME
FRIDAY 22 MAY 2026
*Special guests: Chantel McGregor
and Tom Moriarty
Tickets: The Gig Cartel
Market Walk, Holmfirth,
West Yorkshire, HD9 7DA
www.picturedrome.net
GLASGOW, ST LUKES
SATURDAY 23 MAY 2026
Special guest: Tom Moriarty
Tickets: The Gig Cartel
Calton, 17 Bain St, Glasgow, G40 2JZ
www.stlukesglasgow.com
NEWCASTLE, ANARCHY BREW
SUNDAY 24 MAY 2026
Special guest: Tom Moriarty
Tickets: The Gig Cartel
Benfield Business Park, Unit A1, Benfield Rd,
Newcastle upon Tyne NE6 4NQ
www.anarchybrewco.com/events
BASINGSTOKE, HAYMARKET
WEDNESDAY 27 MAY 2026
Special guest: Tom Moriarty
Tickets: The Gig Cartel
Wote St, Basingstoke RG21 7NW
www.anvilarts.org.uk/visit-us/how-to-get-here/the-haymarket
BURY ST EDMONDS, THE APEX
THURSDAY 28 MAY 2026
Special guest: Tom Moriarty
Tickets: The Gig Cartel
Charter Square St, Bury St Edmunds, IP33 3FD
www.theapex.co.uk
CHESTER, THE LIVE ROOMS
SATURDAY 30 MAY 2026
Special guest: Tom Moriarty
Tickets: The Gig Cartel
1 Station Road, Chester, CH1 3DR
www.theliverooms.com
CARDIFF, THE GLOBE
SUNDAY 31 MAY 2026
Special guest: Tom Moriarty
Tickets: The Gig Cartel
125 Albany Road, Cardiff, Wales, CF24 3NSA
www.globecardiff.co.uk
LONDON, ISLINGTON ASSEMBLY HALL
WEDNESDAY 3 JUNE
Special guest: Tom Moriarty
Tickets: The Gig Cartel
Upper St, Islington, London, N1 2UD
https://islingtonassemblyhall.co.uk
ABOUT PHILIP SAYCE
Born in Wales, raised in Canada, and based in Los Angeles, Philip Sayce is a global force in blues-rock and one of the most electrifying live performers of his generation. In March 2024, he was officially named one of the “Greatest Blues Guitarists of All Time” in Total Guitar/Guitar World magazine’s prestigious Top 100 list.
With a career that spans decades, Sayce first rose to international prominence touring with Jeff Healey and performing at the Montreux Jazz Festival. His guitar work appears on Melissa Etheridge’s Academy Award-winning anthem “I Need to Wake Up,” and on Uncle Kracker’s Billboard record-setting album No Stranger to Shame.
From sold-out headline shows across the globe to tens of millions of streams, Sayce has built a body of work defined by fearless innovation, soulful authenticity, and unmistakable tone. Whether in the studio or on stage, his musicianship remains raw, emotional, and unfiltered — honouring the blues while pushing it boldly into the future.
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Manchester music icons INCA BABIES share sultry noir single 'Daniella'
New 'Reincarnation' alternative-anthology is out now.
FOR FANS OF: The Gun Club, Birthday Party, The Cramps, The Stooges, Link Wray, Screaming Blue Messiahs. John Spencer Blues Explosion, Killing Joke
FOCUS TRACKS: Two Rails To Nowhere, Candy Mountain, Daniella, Busters on Fire, Cowboy Song, Phantom Track, Damnation
FOR SHARING
'Daniella' video https://youtu.be/RMDY77oOOio
Spotify https://open.spotify.com/track/0nm7L7LOljaYQz4zEk8L5L
'Reincarnation' album https://incababies1.bandcamp.com/album/reincarnation
Spotify https://open.spotify.com/album/39CvssRXtdzdoG7UCeOH4b
'Superior Spectre' video https://youtu.be/oyuOadBfYyE
'Two Rails To Nowhere' video https://youtu.be/2uLFOEHJYCg
‘Candy Mountain’ video https://youtu.be/uOT5Qi6BUyw
Inca Babies documentary film (2024) https://youtu.be/B3vjByUSSSY
'Ghost Mechanic Nine' album (2024) https://incababies1.bandcamp.com/album/ghost-mechanic-nine
"Brian Setzer's twang, the silver lining amidst Bauhaus' dark expanse and post-punk fever fired up by Gang of Four... captivating blend of angularity and intensity with a driving rhythm" ~ The Spill Magazine
"From their emergence in 1982, they've sculpted a perpetual warped seduction... Their almost serpentine invention and dark musical incitements have continued to inspire and invigorate... truly one of the leading lights and template setting protagonists of British rock ‘n’ roll" ~ Ringmaster Review
"Thirty years down the line the Inca Babies' recordings are not just a collection of outstanding songs from independent music's golden age, but for those of us who were there, they remain pretty much a life statement; a declaration of intent" ~ Isolation Records
Manchester's iconic outfit Inca Babies presents their new single 'Daniella', drifting through smoky swamp-jazz grooves amidst a haunting tapestry of desire, danger, and shadowed city streets. With haunting lyrics and sultry rhythms, the Incas pull listeners into a tense, cinematic world where love and chaos collide.
This is the latest offering from their 'Reincarnation' album, released at the tail-end of 2025 via Black Lagoon Records. With strong cinematic and hypnotic elements, 'Daniella’ brings us through dark city streets, where danger, desire and delirium intertwine.
As foundational pioneers of the early post-punk and deathrock movements, Inca Babies remain a vital cornerstone of the Manchester and UK music scenes to this day. Led by guitarist-vocalist Harry Stafford alongside long-time collaborator Rob Haynes (The Membranes, Goldblade), the band helped define a dark, jagged sonic landscape that remains influential decades later.
During their initial five-year ascent, they amassed a dedicated following through relentless touring, six singles and four albums—every one of which successfully breached the UK Indie Charts. Their status as alternative icons was further cemented by a prestigious run of four BBC John Peel sessions between 1984 and 1988. Since reforming in 2007, Inca Babies have proven they are far from a legacy act, continuing to command respect as elder statesmen of the British underground.
“Daniella” is the third track on 'Reincarnation'. It was re-recorded at 6Db Studios in Salford with renowned producer Simon ‘Ding’ Archer (The Fall, PJ Harvey), who devoted significant effort to infuse it with a distinctive dub style. The original version was first recorded in 1986 at Cargo Studios for the album 'This Train', which we also released on Black Lagoon Records," says Harry Stafford, who shared recording and mixing duties before mastering by Marco Butcher at Boombox Studio.
"Looking through our back catalogue, it occurred to me that there were tracks that should again be made available in some manner and others that would benefit from reinvention. Last year's 'Ghost Mechanic Nine' album was an opportunity to create new music for our fans, who would like this music in the form of digital downloads and, for the truly hardcore, as a 12” Vinyl Album," says Harry Stafford.
"But it was also a realisation that we could invigorate old tunes. We already had a ‘best of’ compilation in ‘Plutonium', released in 2006, so we embarked upon a new quest, to inject new life into our favourite back catalogue. This whole project was to be an Innovative re-imagining of old tunes: re-invented for contemporary consideration. All of them Re-awakened and 'Re-inca-rnated'."
Inca Babies' journey since their formation in 1983 in Manchester's now-legendary deck-access flats of Hulme was highlighted in the 2024 documentary 'The Making of Ghost Mechanic Nine'. Since reforming, they've released four albums and toured three continents, continuing to explore goth, punk, death-rock and jazz-blues.
Earlier, the Incas shared 'Superior Spectre', a live favourite that was originally included in their 1984 John Peel Session, this song also appeared on their 2014 'Scatter' EP, following the A/B-side singles 'Candy Mountain', with its hypnotic bass line, contemporary groove and electronic sequencing; and 'Two Rails To Nowhere' with its original 1988 version featuring Inspiral Carpets' Clint Boon and new expanded Gun Club-esque version, featuring guitarist Vincent O'Brien.
The 'Reincarnation' album is out now, available on CD and available everywhere digitally, including Spotify, Apple Music and Bandcamp.
CREDITS
Written by Harry Stafford
Harry Stafford - guitars, bass, keyboards & vocals
Rob Haynes - drums & percussion
Vincent O'Brien - slide guitar
All songs re-recorded by Harry Stafford and Rob Haynes.
Slide Guitar recorded by Vincent O Brien
Recorded & produced at 6Db in Salford by Simon ‘Ding’ Archer
Mastered by Marco Butcher at Boombox Studio, North Carolina
Artwork designed by Harry Stafford
from images by James Chadderton Art Ltd. (Manchester Apocalyptic visions)
Album released by Black Lagoon Records - catalogue no. BLRLP0061
'Superior Spectre' video created by Harry Stafford & Jandi Moreno
Publicity by Shameless Promotion PR
TRACK LIST
01 Candy Mountain (from 'This Train' album, 1986)
02 Buster’s on Fire (7” Single on Constrictor Records, 1987)
03 Daniella (from 'This Train' album, 1986)
04 Two Rails to Nowhere (from 'Evil Hour' album, 1988)
05 Jericho (from 'Big Jugular' 12” EP, 1984)
06 Devil in my Room (from 'Opium Den' album, 1986)
07 Phantom Track (from 'Death Message Blues' album, 2010)
08 The Diseased Stranger’s Waltz (from 'Rumble' album, 1985)
09 Damnation (from 'The Stereo Plan' album, 2014)
10 Thirst (from 'Opium Den' album, 1986)
11 Superior Spectre (Extra B side of 'Scatter' 12” 2014 For Record Store Day)
12 Cowboy Song (B side from 'The Judge' 12” single, 1984)
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03/03/2026
JON VON BOEHM PRESENTS NEW ALBUM REFLECTIONS OUT NOW.
“Not Today” is really about telling stories without using words." -Honk Magazine
“Not Today” moves fluidly between jazz fusion, instrumental rock, and old-school R&B. It’s jammy without becoming indulgent, technical without feeling cold." -Foxfire Magazine
Multifaceted artist and acclaimed bass player Jon von Boehm proudly presents new invigorating jazz-fusion record, Reflections. The new album follows the sonically sprawling and emotionally charged single “Not Today”, which was released in January.
Out now via Space Donkey Records, Reflections is the fourth studio album from the effervescently talented Jon von Boehm. Featuring an impeccable roster of fellow musicians von Boehm has encountered due to his experience as a session player, the new record demonstrates what it means to organically build community through music.
Although a solid 90% of the album is lyricless, with various instruments carrying the emotional weight set forth by von Boehm, some of the most impactful moments are where liminal vocals shine through. On one album highlight “Lucky Me”, Aly Cutter’s sultry vocals balance out funky vocoder-esque synths that invoke elements of some of Daft Punk’s earlier works.
STREAM REFLECTIONS
Written over a two and a half year span, Reflections captures growth and introspection, seamlessly blending groove, emotion, and texture into a rich jazz-rock-ambient journey. Equal parts technical and heartfelt, the new record reflects Jon von Boehm’s evolution as an artist.
von Boehm’s new record features a compact roster of musicians including Marcus Finnie, Cory Ponder, Kyle Edmonston, Michael Green, and Brian Czach on drums, Jake Patterson, Cole Clark, and John Gallo on guitars, Josh Karas and Walt Scott on keys, Aly Cutter on vocals, and last but certainly not least Chris West and Troy Atkins on sax.
Reflections Tracklisting
1.Not Today
2.Spin To Win
3.Long Days
4.Lucky Me
5.The Higher End
6.Professor Of Pettiness
7.A blink For A Blink
8.Airtight
9.Forget About Your Warm Up
10.The Struggle
Born and raised in Erie, PA, Jon von Boehm has maintained an impressive 38-year journey in music, beginning honing his craft in the form of lively church performances, where he harmonized seamlessly with his peers. In his teens, von Boehm explored and fell in love with the invigorating world of jazz, where he fearlessly collaborated with seasoned musicians thrice his age.
Before settling in Nashville, Jon embarked on an enriching journey in FL, where he had the opportunity to study under the guidance of bass guitar virtuoso Jeff Berlin – a pivotal influence in his musical development. Known for intricate playing and dynamic tone, Jon von Boehm is a sought-after session player and live performer that has left an indelible mark on the music world. Out NOW, Reflections, is a culmination of everything Jon has worked on in the past — an extremely personal album that thrives off of cinematic storytelling and the desire to build community through music.
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Ex-Island Records outfit LAPTOP reclaims Caribbean warmth on new single “Xanadu".
"On This Planet", their first album since reforming the band, is out June 5th.
FOR FANS OF: Talking Heads, Neville Staple, Jonathan Richmond, Beck, Ziggy Marley
INFLUENCED BY David Bowie, Ultravox, Lou Reed, Jonathan Richman, Devo, Roxy Music, Brian Eno
FOR SHARING
‘Xanadu’ video https://youtu.be/Ha4KlA83i2M
Get the single https://ditto.fm/xanadu_995c7dd3
Spotify https://open.spotify.com/track/7Lrqg7giyk2K8ffCq8P2K8
Bandcamp
https://laptoptheband.bandcamp.com/single/xanadu
'Confused' video https://youtu.be/nJmOPjmvPZg
'Indie Hero' video https://youtu.be/x9M9HfZ4LmE
'I Don't Know' video https://youtu.be/iufIPNTKq9E
'Additional Animals' video https://youtu.be/C_qAp_89ntU
'Weirder' video https://youtu.be/h1vMNHu09iE
“Uplifting and joyous…. Excellent” ~ John Kennedy, Radio X
"Few artists who emerged in the late ’90s managed to fuse irony, melody, and social awareness with such precision — urgent, unsettled, and emotionally precise" ~ The Spill Magazine
"Playfully marries pieces of disco-pop, synth-pop and a splash of new wave" ~ God Is In The TV
"Fun-loving, light-hearted gem of groovy quirky indie pop - burrows into your brain and stays there... a perfect dispatch from a band that's always been ahead of its time" ~ Music-News.com
"Pop music writ large.. Come for the grooves, stay for the words of wisdom" ~ Big Takeover Magazine
NYC alternative pop outfit Laptop presents 'Xanadu', the latest offering from their forthcoming album "On This Planet", which starts out sounding like a love song, but slowly reveals itself as something darker. A duet between frontman Jesse Hartman and Nevis vocalist Anna Hadeed, the track explores the American idea of settling down — building a life, owning something permanent — and how that dream can quietly go wrong. It’s less about romance than what happens when good intentions collide with money, power, and the pressure to create something lasting.
Formed in the late ’90s, Laptop released three albums with Island Records, earning praise from NME, The Guardian, and others for their stylized blend of synth-pop, irony, and emotional precision. Now revived as a contemporary project with his son Charlie Hartman, Laptop has become a vehicle for Hartman grappling openly with adulthood in this chaotic world — not as a clean resolution, but as something messier and harder to define. “Xanadu” captures the moment when the art dream runs into the desire for stability, and neither comes out untouched.
The title nods directly to Citizen Kane, where “Xanadu” names Charles Foster Kane’s vast, illusory estate — a symbol of success that ultimately exposes loneliness and regret. Laptop updates the idea for a modern American setting. In this version, Xanadu isn’t a castle; it’s a mid-century dream house, full of hope and expectation, carrying the belief that ownership might finally bring peace. This is love song disguised as a hard look at the pitfalls of American materialism.
Filmed on Oualie Beach in Nevis, where overdubs for Laptop's coming album were recorded, the video juxtaposes Hartman and Hadeed's chilled beachside duet with glossy, candy-colored visual sequences involving a separate couple. Gently mocking the modern semi-colonialist belief that paradise can be packaged, purchased, and controlled, we see a slick couple sail toward their dream, only to see it sink beneath the waters of their own ambitions and end up in flames. Kitschy postcard titles like "The Good Life” and “Live the Romance" punctuate their journey, underscoring the bitter irony of it all.
Jesse Hartman got his start as a Voidoid with Richard Hell, before founding indie rock band Sammy with Luke Wood, and releasing albums via Fire Records and Geffen Records. Since reviving, Laptop is on a roll on the strength of the singles “Indie Hero”, "Confused", "Additional Animals", "I Don't Know" and “Weirder”, mixed by Grammy award-winning producer Mario McNulty (David Bowie, Prince, Nine Inch Nails, Julian Lennon), collectively drawing millions of views and reintroducing Laptop's humor and sounds to a new generation.
“Xanadu” will be released via Hurricane Cove Records on February 13, available on major streaming platforms, including Spotify, Apple Music and Bandcamp. Laptop’s much-anticipated "On This Planet" album will be released on June 5. The band performs next at NYC's Mercury Lounge on April 9, along with UK rockers Art Brut.
CREDITS
Written & produced by Jesse Hartman
Published by: Exurbia Music, Inc. (BMI)
Released by Hurricane Cove Records
Jesse Hartman — vocals, guitars, keys, synths, piano, bass
Anna Hadeed — vocals
Geddys “Ch4se” Ferguson — vocals
Kendelle Thomas - bass
Mike Desmarais — drums
Lluísen Capafons — conga, percussion
Matthew Dakoutro — cello, viola, violin
Siuxx — electric guitar
Artem - horns
Engineered by Iñaki Ariste Aznar, Edward Douglas & Jesse Hartman
Recorded at Millenia Estudios
Mixed by Edward Douglas & Jesse Hartman
Mastered by Dave Trumfio
Artwork Painting by Jesse Hartman
UPC/EAN 5063904538524
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Modesty Blaise shares 'Carol Mountain', previewing remastered seminal 'Melancholia' album.
FOR FANS OF: Pulp, Divine Comedy, XTC, Stereolab, Jacques Dutronc, Francoise Hardy, High Llamas, Edwyn Collins, Michael Nesmith, Brian Wilson
FOR SHARING
'Carol Mountain' video https://youtu.be/LWQkL8oN91g
Bandcamp
https://modestyblaiseuk.bandcamp.com/track/carol-mountain-2
'The Little Things You do" pre-save https://orcd.co/the-little-things (out March 20)
Original 'Melancholia' album (vinyl, CD) https://modestyblaiseuk.bandcamp.com/album/melancholia
"Clever they are Modesty Blaise – they know just what to borrow, and just what to create. Most importantly – they know just how to blend. And what a cocktail they create" ~ The Spill Magazine
"Cheeky pop perfection... Fantabulous dance-pop, Modesty Blaise will remind you that Brits are the king of wit and groovy retro-laced musical wanderings, not far from the mark set by Pulp back in the 90s" ~ Big Takeover Magazine
“A sublime sugar lump... captures what is great about charming English pop. Part C86 part 67 psych pop, a beautifully written slice of nostalgia" ~ Monolith Cocktail
Bristol-based avant indie pop outfit Modesty Blaise presents a newly remastered version of "Carol Mountain", previewing the remastered 25th Anniversary edition of their seminal album "Melancholia". This expanded collection features newly-restored audio, many outtakes of the original sessions and updated artwork in a fantastic new 3 Disc version. Forthcoming via European label From Lo-Fi To Disco!, this release reflects on the album’s legacy and continued resonance.
The newly-edited video for "Carol Mountain" was created from footage shot when Modesty Blaise played in New York in 2002, when the band was made up of Jonny Collins, David W Brown, Gregory Jones, Clem Courtney and Julien Clapperton.
Modesty Blaise have been around since 1993 in various guises. In that year, they recorded their debut single 'Christina Terrace' with Edwyn Collins at the helm, garnering them immediate success with a live appearance on ITV and inclusion among many end-of-year top music rankings. Other highlights include supporting Robbie Williams at London's O2 Arena, inclusion in a Rough Trade compilation, an ITV company documentary on Jonny Collins, and a BBC Radio session involving seventeen people.
Originally issued as a standalone single, "Carol Mountain" reflects the defining qualities that have given the album its enduring reputation: restraint, atmosphere, and emotional depth. Built around huge productions and slow-burning intensity, the track expands the sonic world of "Melancholia" — immersive, introspective, and quietly affecting.
"Carol Mountain formed one of the main tracks of the whole album. It was recorded in multiple parts and using three different drum kits. It’s inspired by Steven Gaines’ book "Heroes & Villains" about The Beach Boys, and written in about half an hour on a Sunday morning. In contrast to that quick writing process, the recording took months and more than half of the entire recording budget for Melancholia. We got orchestral players from a Bristol orchestra and I found a barbershop quartet to come and record with us", says Jonny Collins.
"'Carol Mountain' was Brian Wilson’s unrequited love, I believe. We know that Brian knew this song well and that Brian’s band played the CD album on their tour bus. That was a great thing, and it sounds even better now."
Originally released on CD and vinyl, "Melancholia" remains a quietly influential work more than two decades after its original release — defined by emotional precision, sonic restraint, and a timeless sense of atmosphere. The 2026 remaster has been completed with a light-touch approach, focused on clarity and depth rather than reinvention. Greater dynamic range and enhanced detail bring new presence to the recording, revealing subtle textures and spatial nuance while preserving the character of the original mix.
'Carol Mountain' is available exclusively via Bandcamp, reflecting the independent spirit of the anniversary campaign by offering listeners a direct connection to the music ahead of the wider streaming release. On April 24th, the "Melancholia - Remaster" album will be released across all major streaming platforms, including Spotify and Apple Music.
'MELANCHOLIA - REMASTER'
Disc 1: Melancholia - Remastered
Disc 2: Melancholia [de]Construction
Disc 3: Melancholia - The Singles
CREDITS
Written by Jonny Collins
Mixed & produced by Jonny Collins
Remastering at White House Studio by original engineer Martin Nichols
Jonny Collins - vocals & guitar
David W Brown - bass guitar
Gregory Jones - guitar & vocals
Clem Courtney - organ &vocals
Julien Clapperton - drums & cymbals
Video created by Jonny Collins
Cover artwork by Gregory Jones
Released via From Lo-Fi to Disco!
Publicity by Shameless Promotion PR
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Joe Satriani and Steve Vai release new SatchVai Band single and music video for "Dancing".
Joe Satriani and Steve Vai release new SatchVai Band Single and Music Video For “Dancing”
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Legendary guitar icons Joe Satriani and Steve Vai return with the SatchVai Band release of their brand-new single, “Dancing,” out now via earMUSIC, alongside a wildly entertaining new video directed by Satriani’s son, ZZ Satriani. The single is released Monday 2nd March 2026.
The single is available on all streaming platforms HERE.
Watch the official "Dancing" music video HERE.
Musically, “Dancing” – a reimagined interpretation of a song by iconic Italian singer, pianist, and songwriter Paolo Conte – showcases the SATCHVAI Band at full throttle.
A vibrant, melodic conversation between two of rock’s most expressive guitar voices. Built on momentum, melody, and fearless musical chemistry, the track captures the spirit of spontaneity and joy that defined their electrifying European tour.
The video stars actor, comedian and musician Brendon Small (Metalacolpyse. Dethklok), a longtime friend of both guitarists, who hilariously portrays an overzealous talent manager pushing the duo to cast dancers for the band’s upcoming live show.
The chaos unfolds in sync with the track’s fast-moving melodic interplay between Satriani and Vai — a rapid-fire exchange of soaring guitar lines that mirrors the eccentric parade of auditioning performers. Eagle-eyed fans will also spot a cameo from the band’s powerhouse drummer Kenny Aronoff, adding to the tongue-in-cheek energy.
Satriani shares, “‘Dancing’ really captures the playful side of what Steve, and I discovered on stage together last summer — that push-and-pull of melody and energy. The video gave us a chance to show that spirit in a completely different way. Watching ZZ bring this absurd casting concept to life — and having Brendon step into the madness — made it even more fun.”
Vai adds, “This band thrives on surprise — musically and visually. ‘Dancing’ is a perfect example of that. It’s melodic but relentless, and the video turns that energy into a kind of surreal comedy. It’s a glimpse into the personality of this band before we even hit the stage.”
The release arrives as the SatchVai Band prepares to bring their “Surfing With The Hydra” 2026 U.S. Tour stateside for the first time. Launching April 1st in Seattle and running through May 30th at Wolf Trap, the tour follows a celebrated European run that included stops in London, Paris, Copenhagen, and festival appearances at Hellfest, Umbria Jazz Festival, and Guitares en Scène.
Support on all dates will come from progressive metal innovators Animals as Leaders.
On the Surfing With The Hydra Tour, fans can expect a full-band, high-energy performance featuring more new material from the forthcoming SATCHVAI Band album alongside iconic favourites from both artists’ catalogues.
“Dancing” follows the duo’s previous releases, including the cinematic instrumental “The Sea of Emotion, Pt. 1” and the anthemic “I Wanna Play My Guitar,” featuring powerhouse vocals from Glenn Hughes (Deep Purple, Black Country Communion).
Together, these tracks preview a collaboration that is decades in the making. Despite nearly 50 years of friendship, the SATCHVAI Band marks the first time Satriani and Vai have formally united in a shared group — alongside drummer Kenny Aronoff, bassist Marco Mendoza, and guitarist Pete Thorn — forging a live experience built on virtuosity, friendship and fearless creativity.
All ticket details available at SATCHVAIBAND.COM
April 1 – Seattle, WA – Paramount Theatre
April 2 – Portland, OR – Arlene Schnitzer Concert Hall
April 4 – Oakland, CA – Fox Theater
April 5 – Reno, NV – Grand Sierra Resort and Casino
April 7 – Long Beach, CA – Long Beach Terrace Theater
April 8 – San Diego, CA – Cal Coast Credit Union Open Air Theatre
April 10 – Mesa, AZ – Mesa Amphitheatre
April 11 – Las Vegas, NV – The Theater at Virgin Hotels Las Vegas
April 14 – Denver, CO – Mission Ballroom
April 16 – Houston, TX – 713 Music Hall
April 17 – Dallas, TX – Music Hall at Fair Park
April 18 – Austin, TX – ACL Live at the Moody Theater
April 20 – Mobile, AL – Saenger Theatre
April 22 – Pompano Beach, FL – Pompano Beach Amphitheater
April 24 – Clearwater, FL – Baycare Sound
April 25 – St. Augustine, FL – St. Augustine Amphitheatre
April 26 – Orlando, FL – Hard Rock Live
April 27 – Atlanta, GA – Atlanta Symphony Hall
April 29 – Charlotte, NC – Ovens Auditorium
April 30 – Durham, NC – DPAC
May 2 – Minneapolis, MN – State Theatre
May 3 – Chicago, IL – Chicago Theatre
May 5 – Milwaukee, WI – The Riverside Theater
May 7 – Nashville, TN – Ryman Auditorium
May 8 – Cincinnati, OH – PNC Pavillion at Riverbend Music Center
May 9 – Indianapolis, IN – Everwise Amphitheater at White River State Park
May 10 – St. Louis, MO – The Factory
May 12 – Buffalo, NY – Kleinhans Music Hall
May 13 – Toronto, Ont – Meridian Hall
May 15 – Northfield, OH – MGM Northfield Park
May 16 – Rochester Hills, MI – Meadow Brook Amphitheatre
May 17 – Syracuse, NY – Landmark Theatre
May 20 – Boston, MA – Leader Bank Pavilion
May 21 – Albany, NY – Palace Theatre
May 22 – Waterbury, CT – Palace Theater
May 23 – Virginia Beach, VA – The Dome
May 27 – Reading, PA – Santander Performing Arts Center
May 28 – New York, NY – Beacon Theatre
May 29 – Atlantic City, NJ – Borgata Hotel Casino & Spa
May 30 – Vienna, VA – Wolf Trap
ABOUT SATCHVAI BAND
Formed in 2024 after decades of friendship and musical intersections, SATCHVAI Band brings together two of the most celebrated guitarists of all time—Joe Satriani and Steve Vai—for an unprecedented collaboration. Rounding out the powerhouse lineup are Kenny Aronoff (drums), Marco Mendoza (bass), and Pete Thorn (guitar), creating a stellar quintet of world-class musicians. More than just a band, SATCHVAI Band is a supercharged fusion of guitar-driven mastery, chemistry, and creative fire.
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ABOUT JOE SATRIANI
For over three decades, the guitar virtuoso has traveled the world, playing to sold-out crowds as both a headliner and as founder of the all-star “G3” guitar extravaganza. Satriani’s studio and live recordings have sold more than 10 million copies worldwide to date and of his many solo albums, two have gone platinum and four others went gold, with 15 Grammy nominations between them. He launched his annual “G4 Experience” in 2014 bringing aspiring guitarists together for four days of workshops, mentor sessions and live performances, providing an exclusive learning platform led by him and his accomplished peers. In 2021, he introduced the "Crystal Planet" comic series, a five-part opus interweaving the realms of music and art. The tour documentary "Beyond the Supernova," directed by ZZ Satriani and currently available for streaming, offers an intimate behind-the-scenes glimpse that intricately chronicles his life, illuminating the profound dedication that fuels his guitar mastery. His side project, Chickenfoot, featuring former Van Halen frontman Sammy Hagar, former bassist Michael Anthony and Red Hot Chili Peppers’ drummer Chad Smith saw their debut album certified gold and their second studio album debuted at #9. Satriani released his 19th studio album, The Elephants of Mars, in April 2022. It was a busy 2024 for Joe Satriani as he embarked on the highly anticipated G3 Reunion tour alongside the original powerhouse line-up: Satriani, Eric Johnson and Steve Vai. This was followed by the Satch/Vai duo tour, where the long-time friends not only shared the stage but also unveiled a new musical collaboration together. Rounding out the year, Satriani joined forces with Sammy Hagar, Michael Anthony and Jason Bonham for the Best of All Worlds tour, which sold out arenas nationwide and was met with widespread fan and critical acclaim.
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ABOUT STEVE VAI
Steve Vai is a virtuoso guitarist, composer and producer, considered by many as one of the greatest guitarists of all time. In over 45 years in the industry, Vai has sold over 15 million records, received three Grammy Awards, and recorded with music legends like Frank Zappa, David Lee Roth, Whitesnake and many more. Vai has also toured extensively and recorded live projects with G3 (collaborating with different touring lineups including Joe Satriani, John Petrucci, Eric Johnson, Yngwie Malmsteen, and Steve Lukather) and Generation Axe, a supergroup Vai formed with Zakk Wylde, Yngwie Malmsteen, Nuno Bettencourt and Tosin Abasi. Vai is the author of Vaideology: Basic Music Theory for Guitar Players (Hal Leonard), his inaugural music theory book designed to help both beginners and veteran guitar players. In the recent past, he has travelled the globe supporting his most recent studio album Inviolate, staging performances in 51 counties across the globe. Over the course of his 43 years touring, he continues to visit locations for the first time. His final excursion in 2023 saw Vai perform in Ho Chi Minh City (Vietnam), Kaohsiung (Taiwan), Zallak (Bahrain), Bangalore and Kolkata (India), alongside six new markets in China (Foshan, Xi’an, Chengdu, Chongqing, Nanjing and Hefei). In 2024, BEAT (Adrian Belew, Tony Levin, Danny Carey, Steve Vai) staged 65 North American appearances. The ensemble will travel to South America for additional performances in 2025.
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01/03/2026
Rockabilly Icon Dale Watson Releases An Ode To Love.
AUSTIN, TX - Dale Watson is excited to announce the release of a new single, "If You Really Love Me (Outlive Me.)" Pre-save here. It's off of his forthcoming release Unwanted due April 24th via 40 Below Records, Pre-order here. The single has been premiered by Glide magazine, check it out here.
The first single, "Willie Waylon And Whiskey" has been warmly embraced by press and radio. It was premiered by Holler, and featured in Taste of Country, The Bluegrass Situation and also added to Sirius XMs Outlaw Country.
The ballad “If You Really Loved Me (Outlive Me)” reflects on loss and survival. “When you’ve lived awhile unfortunately you will lose people. At some point your heart weighs heavy with that knowledge that we are here for a short time, but worse yet, so are our loved ones. So, this is my selfish way of asking my loved ones to take care of themselves for me.“
With his new album Unwanted, Watson delivers another unapologetic statement from the heart of American roots music. It’s a lean, hard-hitting blast of honky-tonk, outlaw country, western swing, and rockabilly — the sound he named Ameripolitan and has championed for more than 40 years. Entirely written and produced by Watson, the album is another defiant stand from one of American roots music’s true originals.
Backed by The Lonestars, Watson is joined by Celine Lee, The Memphians, Katie Shore (Asleep at the Wheel), and pianist Matt Hubbard. “Everybody on this record knows how to make the music breathe,” Watson says. “That’s the difference.”
THE DOCUMENTARY
The Texas rockabilly icon is the subject of the forthcoming documentary IF YOU REALLY LOVE ME, OUTLIVE ME — a part love story, part musical odyssey that offers an intimate portrait of Watson and his creative partner and wife, Celine Lee
.
Stars of their own Southern fairytale, Dale and Celine forged a magnetic bond rooted in their shared devotion to the rockabilly tradition. That connection didn’t just shape their personal lives — it resonated straight into the microphone between them, launching a life of lyrical adventure, hard-won triumphs, and deeply intertwined artistry.
Dale reflects; “I didn’t think a simple song about love and life would strike such a universal chord, but stepping back and looking at it, the song and the documentary do go hand in hand. Love is the do all to end all.“
A film by production companies Easy Mondays & Poster, directed by Alejandro Ruax and Saskia d’Altena, and produced by d’Altena, Ruax and Asori Soto.
Before the film hits the festival circuit, a friends-and-family pre-screening will take place on March 11 in Austin at the Eastside Ballroom. This is an invite-only event. For additional information or to inquire about the guest list, please contact pati@deviousplanet.com.
ABOUT DALE WATSON
Watson has shared stages and bills with some of the most respected names in American music, including Merle Haggard, Johnny Cash, Willie Nelson, Kris Kristofferson, Ray Price, Loretta Lynn, and Dwight Yoakam — artists who recognized in him a kindred spirit and a deep respect for the tradition.
He’s brought that same unapologetic sound to national audiences through appearances on Austin City Limits, Jimmy Kimmel Live, and The Late Show with David Letterman. Despite such high-profile appearances, Watson remains rooted in the road. “I still play over 300 shows a year,” he says. “That’s where the truth is. That’s where the songs tell you if they’re real.”
Honored as a Texas State Musician and founder of The Ameripolitan Music Awards, Watson sees Unwanted as part of a living tradition. “Outlaw country isn’t nostalgia,” he says. “It’s alive, it’s loud, and it’s still being written.”
IF YOU REALLY LOVE ME (OUTLIVE ME)
If you really love me outlive me
Don’t make me go through life with out you
If you really love me outlive me
It’s the least someone who loves me can do
I’ve had my share of loss
I’ve had to bare the cost
How much grief can one heart take
How many times can one heart break
If you really love me outlive me
Don’t make me go through life without you
it’s a selfish request i know
To be the first to go
Everyone i’ve loved has left
Except you and so i ask
If you really love me outlive me
Don’t make me go through life with out you
If you really love me outlive me
It’s the least someone who loves me can do
Don’t make me go through life with out you
if you really love me outlive me
TOUR DATES
03/01/26 The Coda Concert HousJeoplin MO
03/07/26 Broken Spoke Austin TX
03/07/26 Fulton Oysterfest Fulton TX
03/09/26 The Continental Club Austin TX
03/12/26 Poor David's Pub Dallas TX
03/14/26 Lazy Days Canteen & Ingram TX
03/15/26 Sundown Llano TX
03/20/26 Back Porch of Texas Abilene TX
03/21/26 FitzGerald's Berwyn IL
03/22/26 Wittenberg - Wittenberg WI
03/23/26 James Ballentine Minneapolis
03/25/26 309 General Restaurant Hot Springs SD
03/26/26 TBD Sheridan WY
03/27/26 Oriental Theater Denver CO
03/28/26 Lulu's Downtown Colorado Springs CO
04/11/26 The Orleans Hotel Las Vegas NV
04/12/26 Fairfax Grange Hall Bakersfield, CA
04/13/26 Zebulon Los Angeles, CA
04/18/26 Broken Spoke Austin TX
04/24/26 Bartonville Food Store Bartonville, TX
05/02/26 Broken Spoke Austin, TX
05/17/26 Eastside Rockin'Rumble Nashville, TN
05/23/26 The Long Center For the Performing Arts Austin, TX
06/10/26 Main Street Crossing Tomball, TX
06/25/26 Off Broadway St Louis, MO
28/02/2026
Colder Suns: ‘Yesterday Is All I Want’ - Out now.
COLDER SUNS
‘Yesterday Is All I Want’
Released yesterday, analogue influences on an album recorded at Francis Rossi’s studios, with Quo producer/engineer Andy Brook.
Released 27 February 2026, Colder Suns’ second album ‘Yesterday Is All I Want’ marks the first salvo of a four-part concept album series, aiming to explore our perception of time and how it shapes who we are. The album was recorded at Francis Rossi’s ARSIS Studios and produced with acclaimed Quo producer and engineer Andy Brook. They launched the album with a gig at The Cart & Horses pub, famous for being the birthplace of Iron Maiden.
This is a band that channels tradition into a very modern sound,Colder Suns are unabashed purists, going for analogue and tube gear wherever possible. The line-up features father and son, Paul and Charlie Hayes, on guitar and bass respectively. Both Paul and vocalist / guitarist Ben Martin play classic/retro guitars – Paul has an original 1990’s Ibanez Jem, and Ben treasures many 1970s and 80s guitars. ‘Redd’ Reddington, who has also played with Mel Gaynor [Simple Minds] in his band, completes the line-up on drums.
‘Yesterday Is All I Want’digs into the tension between choice and destiny, and how much free will we really have over the paths our lives take. The 9 original songs look at the struggle to truly live in the present, and keep one eye on the future, when too often we rely on the past as an anchor.
Colder Suns say, “Everything we do is with passion, we write and play music because we all truly can’t live without it. To know that someone has listened and connected to our music on an emotional level is the most rewarding thing; that and playing in front of a huge crowd and enjoying the rush of truly entertaining. We don’t write songs on a transactional basis, each song has a purpose and very specific subject”
Melody and harmony are at the centre of everything they do but with a focus on energy and vocal hooks or ear worms. The group are known for high-energy performances, anthem-worthy songwriting, and a sound that resonates across the rock spectrum. The band have played numerous live shows, building their reputation on stage with a powerful and engaging presence. Notable performances include headlining Camden Assembly, The Fiddler’s Elbow, and The O₂ Islington.
On‘Yesterday Is All I Want’, Colder Suns look at the past’s impact on the present. By drawing on decades of musical experience, family ties, some vintage equipment, and their own influences, they have created something vital and contemporary. ‘Yesterday Is All I Want’ is all about how we live in here and now, and how we got here: it’s an album about today…
LINE-UP
Ben Martin – Vocals, Guitar (keys)
Paul Hayes – Guitar, BVs (keys)
Redd Reddington – Drums
Charlie Hayes – Bass, BVs
Steve Louw announces new album "Traces of the Flood" featuring new single "Time To Move".
STEVE LOUW – "TRACES OF THE FLOOD"
NEW ALBUM RELEASED 15 MAY 2026
PRE-ORDER ALBUM
FEATURING THE NEW SINGLE “TIME TO MOVE”
RELEASED 27 FEBRUARY 2026
STREAM SINGLE | WATCH MUSIC VIDEO
Steve Louw’s 2026 album, Traces of the Flood, is a ten-track sonic adventure where each track etches into your aural subconscious, delivering some of the South African singer songwriter and guitarist’s most confident work to date. Released Friday 15 May 2026, the album and is available to pre-order HERE.
The first single from the album is entitled “Time To Move” and is released Friday 27 February 2026 and is available to stream HERE. Watch the official "Time To Move” music video HERE.
After a 13-year hiatus from fronting the band, Big Sky, Steve Louw returned to recording with Headlight Dreams, the first of what followed – 2022’s Thunder & Rain, 2024’s Between Time, and now his fourth solo album release within five years, Traces of the Flood.
Having retained his collaboration with career-long friend and critically acclaimed producer Kevin Shirley (Joe Bonamassa, Black Country Communion, Beth Hart, Joanne Show Taylor), Traces of the Flood celebrates his rich contribution and commitment to Steve’s talent. The musicians that appear on the past four records, from Headlight Dreams to Traces of the Flood, are a band in every sense.
Regarding the players for this album, Steve spotted a kindred spirit he wanted to be a part of in realising Traces of the Flood’s true potential. “I’d seen Bob Britt play with Doug Lancio at a Dylan show in Memphis, and I wanted to have those two guitar players in the band for this record,” he says.
“Kevin liked the old RCA studio in Nashville, having worked there before with Joanne Shaw Taylor,” Steve adds. “It’s quite a funky space. It’s got a lovely vibe. It’s a big room, and all this gear, amps, you name it, are there, so the place has music in its walls.”
“We walked in on day one, plugged in and played.”
Arriving at the studio with “18 songs that were in shape,” Steve recalls, and as is true of the past three album recordings, everyone set to work. Armed with a mix of songs written more recently and a balance of older work, only ten made the cut during the Traces of the Flood sessions.
With absolutely no agenda as to which way this record was going to realise itself, Steve explains his approach, “Train Don’t Run” (From 2021’s Headlight Dreams) and “Traces of the Flood” are like brothers. Still, you would not know that unless I told you, and they were written simultaneously in 2019, so “Traces of the Flood’s’” time only revealed itself in the making of this album.
On “Echo Dream”, “we cut that track with three acoustic guitars,” Steve recalls. “Me, Bob and Doug, and while we were doing that, Greg Morrow did a few drum parts, and that was it. Then, Bob added an electric guitar part, and it was complete.”
Another standout track on Traces of the Flood is “Time to Move”. “The band felt it; I didn’t think I’d do that song if only because I thought it wasn’t ready, but when we started playing it, we fell right into the song’s groove. It was the second last song we played, and after three days of jamming in the studio the song became effortless.”
“All I had was the riff. I knew it needed that 12-string
sound and that beat. We got it right away.”
A track like “CBGB Xmas” came to life in a single, recorded take. “We only had 10 minutes of studio time left to play, so we just knocked it out. You hear how we caught it in one loose jam.”
“This album, sonically, is the sound of a band in full flight.”
Each album Steve has committed to tape and launched into popular culture has landed through raw talent, chance meetings and serendipity, coupled with sheer bloody-mindedness to have it realised and appreciated by the world. Traces of the Flood stands as further proof of that commitment.
Energy, urgency and a room filled with players committed to the process; Traces of the Flood is yet another defining chapter for Steve Louw on a road well-travelled.
Steve Louw – Biography
Steve Louw (born 16 September 1955) is a South African musician and singer-songwriter who specialises in album rock, blues rock, country rock and Americana music. He was born in The Hague and has been active as a musician since 1981. He was inducted in the South African Rock Hall of Fame in 2003.
Louw, who was born Stephen Geoffrey Louw, learnt to play the guitar after being inspired by the music of Bob Dylan, the Rolling Stones, and Neil Young, and formed his first band, Atlantic Rose, while in high school in Cape Town in the late 1960s. While a student at Stellenbosch University in the 1970s he became involved in the local music scene, playing his own songs in various line-ups.
His career as a professional musician began in the early 1980s when he formed the band All Night Radio with fellow former Stellenbosch University students Nico Burger (guitar) and Rob Nagel (bass). The group recorded two albums – The Heart's the Best Part (1984) with US producer John Rollo, and The Killing Floor (1986), on which Louw began a partnership with producer Kevin Shirley that continues to this day.
Louw then formed the band Big Sky and in 1990 released their debut album, Waiting for the Dawn, again produced by Kevin Shirley. The album arrived just as South Africa began moving away from apartheid rule and the group's music helped soundtrack a decade of positive revolution. The title track is today considered a South African rock classic.
Big Sky released another five albums over the next 15 years: Horizon (1995), Going Down with Mr Green (1997), Best of the Decade (1999), Beyond the Blue (2002) and Trancas Canyon (2008); as well as the concert DVD Heart and Soul, filmed at Cape Town's Little Theatre in 2008.
Louw and Big Sky achieved considerable success in South Africa with sell-out tours and several major radio hits including "Kathleen", "Mr Green", "One Cut With A Knife", "Strange Room" and "Diamonds and Dirt". In 1996 the band won the FNB South African Music Award for “Best Pop Music Performance” and “Best Rock Album” for the album Horizon.
In 1998 Big Sky opened for US singer-songwriter Rodriguez on his triumphant debut tour of South Africa, with the musicians in the band also backing the US artist. The tour is chronicled in the 2012 Oscar-winning documentary Searching for Sugar Man.
Louw gained an international profile after he collaborated with Brian May (Queen) and Dave Stewart (the Eurythmics) on the track "Amandla", recorded for the 46664 Aids awareness project inspired by the work of Nelson Mandela.
In 2021 Louw returned with the album Headlight Dreams, produced by Kevin Shirley, and recorded in Nashville with crack studio musicians and featuring a guest appearance by US guitar legend Joe Bonamassa. The album received critical acclaim and the first single, "Wind in Your Hair", has become a popular Spotify hit.
Louw released his sophomore solo release Thunder and Rain on November 11, 2022, through BFD. The album was produced by Kevin Shirley and features Joe Bonamassa and Doug Lancio.
On 6 September 2024, Louw released his third solo album Between Time, produced by Kevin Shirley.
On 15 May 2026, Louw will release his fourth solo album Traces of the Flood, produced by Kevin Shirley.
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STEVE LOUW
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27/02/2026
Matteo Mancuso joins forces with Steve Vai on new single Solar Wind.
Matteo Mancuso joins forces with Steve Vai on new single Solar Wind
Listen
HERE
Taken from his new album Route 96. Released 24 April via Music Theories Recordings
Stream/Pre-Order HERE
Watch the video for
Isla Feliz ft Antoine Boyer
UK Shows
13 May - Glasgow - Oran Mor
14 May - London - Islington Assembly Hall
The guitar virtuoso Matteo Mancuso reveals his brand-new single, Solar Wind, featuring the legendary Steve Vai. The song is taken from his new album Route 96, which will be released on 24 April via Music Theories Recordings.
Matteo Mancuso will also be playing the following UK shows:
13 May - Glasgow - Oran Mor
14 May - London - Islington Assembly Hall
Requiring no introduction, Steve Vai stands among the most awe-inspiring guitarists in the world. For more than five decades, he has continually redefined the limits of the instrument. He has also openly praised the young Sicilian guitarist Mancuso, widely regarded as one of the most exciting emerging talents today, as he pushes the guitar to new frontiers of his own. So having the two appear on the same song is a mesmerising spectacle.
Solar Wind is the opening track on the as yet released new album from Mancuso and sees the multiple Grammy winner and instrumental guitar mastermind Vai trade licks with Mancuso. Having him appear on the record was a huge honour, says Mancuso, and his contributions ended up making the opening track the most important song on the album. “Solar Wind is a really special song to me. I believe Steve brought a whole new dimension to the music. I was listening to a lot of his solo records like Passion And Warfare while composing this music. He sent back his parts in just a couple of weeks and what he played was spectacular. It’s not shreddy, I wanted something melodic rather than over the top, but still very Vai-like.”
There are many reasons for the young musician to feel proud of album number two – named after his year of birth, as well as the 96kHz audio sample rate Steve Vai recommended him to record at. Solar Wind is the second song to be released from the album following Isla Feliz featuring the Gypsy Jazz whirlwind Antoine Boyer.
Mancuso burst on the scene in 2023 with his debut album The Journey after his prodigious ability caught the attention of the likes of Tosin Abasi, Al Di Meola, Dweezil Zappa and Steve Vai. The release of his debut with its perfect storm of dazzling fingerstyle technique and beautifully crafted compositions saw him adorn the front covers of multiple Guitar magazines, being hailed as the “world’s hottest virtuoso,” “the young guitarist redefining virtuosity,” and saw his international touring take flight with sold-out shows across Europe and the US.
Perhaps the biggest difference between the debut and Route 96 is the musical confidence on display. The concepts are more orchestrated and developed, with Mancuso showing no shortage of creative wind in the sails. As he goes on to explain, the first album was mainly arranged in a rehearsal room, working out the structure and flow of Mancuso’s music in real-time. This time, the process was much more streamlined.
One of the big differences between Mancuso and the large majority of his peers is his musical open-mindedness. He’s the kind of player who can not only exist but thrive in a variety of different styles
Route 66 features Matteo alongside Riccardo Oliva (bass) and Gianluca Pellerito (drums) and was recorded at Fico D’India Studios in Casteldaccia, Italy and produced by Matteo along with his father Vincenzo Mancuso.
Tour Dates
Tickets available HERE
2/26 Lansing, MI Grewal Hall at 224
2/27 Chicago, IL Vic Theatre
4/09 - Catania, Italy - Zo Centro
4/12 - Palermo, Italy - Teatro Politeama
4/13 - Rende (CS) - Auditorium Unical
4/14 - Bari, Italy - Teatro Forma
4/15 - Grassina, Italy - Viper Club
4/16 Torino, Italy - Hiroshima Mon Amour
4/17 - Milan, Italy - Alcatraz
4/19 - Padova, Italy - Hall
4/20 - Bologna, Italy - Locomotiv Club
4/21 - Roma, Italy - Auditorium Parco della Musica
4/23 - Berlin, Germany - Lido
4/24 - Hamburg, Germany - Fabrik
4/25 - Frankfurt, Germany - Zoom Frankfurt
4/28 - Munich, Germany - Ampere
4/30 - Amsterdam, Netherlands - Paradiso
5/01 - Nilmegan, Netherlands - Doornroosje
5/03 - Esch-sur-Alzette - Rockhal
5/05 - Paris, France - Alhambra
5/06 - Barcelona, Spain - Sala Apolo
5/07 - Madrid, Spain - Sala Villanos
5/09 - Stockholm, Sweden - Debaser Hornstulls Strand
5/10 - Göteborg, Sweden - Pustervik
5/11 - Helsingor, Denmark - The Culture Yard
5/13 - Glasgow, UK - Oran Mor
5/14 - London, UK - Islington Assembly Hall
5/16 - Athina, Greece - Gagarin 205
7/16 - Pori, Finland - KIRJURINLUOTO
8/17 - New York, USA - Full Moon ResortMatteo Mancuso Online
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Samantha Martin & Delta Sugar announce new live album "A Beautiful Buzz" and single "My Crown".
Samantha Martin & Delta Sugar
New Album "A Beautiful Buzz" Released May 22, 2026
Canadian powerhouse Samantha Martin & Delta Sugar Announce new live album "A Beautiful Buzz", a soul-driven, blues-soaked revue capturing one of the most electrifying voices at full flight, in the spirit of "Mad Dogs & Englishmen"
Pre-order The Album “A Beautiful Buzz”
CD & Vinyl | Digital
Featuring The New Single “My Crown” Out February 27
Stream Single | Watch Live Video
Samantha Martin & Delta Sugar release their new live album A Beautiful Buzz via Gypsy Soul Records on May 22, 2026. Captured during the band’s Love Is All Around tour across Western Canada in 2022, the album documents the raw power, soul, and communal energy that have made Samantha Martin & Delta Sugar one of Canada’s most electrifying live acts.
The CD and limited edition gatefold double vinyl editions of the album are available via www.samanthamartinmusic.com/store with the digital edition available on all streaming platforms HERE.
The album is preceded by the lead single “My Crown,” released Friday February 27, offering a first taste of the sweat-soaked, soul-driven performances that define the power and the excitement of A Beautiful Buzz.
Stream the single “My Crown” HERE.
Watch the live performance video for “My Crown” HERE.
Samantha Martin & Delta Sugar occupy a rare space in modern roots blues music: deeply reverent of soul and gospel tradition, yet unafraid to push those forms into something louder, sweatier, and fiercely alive. Led by Martin’s unmistakable, powerhouse vocal delivery, the band has earned a reputation as one of Canada’s most commanding live acts, equal parts grit, grace, and emotional force.
A two-time JUNO Award nominee and seven-time Canadian Blues Award nominee for Female Vocalist of the Year, Samantha Martin has long drawn comparisons to the great soul shouters of the past. As Rhythm & Booze put it, “Samantha Martin’s name can be talked of in the same sentence as Etta James, Tina Turner, and Aretha Franklin. It’s soul for the modern age with a turbocharger.” Paris Move (France) went further, calling her “indispensable, Samantha Martin, the new Southern soul tornado.”
Those comparisons aren’t casual. Over the course of their catalogue, discerning listeners will hear echoes of Mavis Staples, Sharon Jones, Otis Redding, Booker T. & the MG’s, and the Memphis Horns, all filtered through a modern, road-hardened sensibility. It’s classic soul DNA delivered with contemporary urgency and volume. As Glide Magazine noted, “a jaw-dropping display of vocal prowess that showcases this band’s brand of supercharged blues. Comparisons of soul greats run rampant, but like Brittany Howard, Samantha Martin might be the next musical game changer.”
Mixed by Renan Yildizdogan and Ross Hayes Citrullo, the in-house team at Gypsy Soul Records, A Beautiful Buzz marks a first for the band: a long-overdue live album capturing the raw electricity that has defined Samantha Martin & Delta Sugar onstage for over a decade.
Recorded during the band’s Love Is All Around tour across Western Canada in 2022, A Beautiful Buzz was born under extraordinary circumstances. Originally scheduled for January and repeatedly delayed by the final wave of COVID-era disruptions, the tour finally launched in November, with Martin six months pregnant. Undeterred, a 13-person touring party loaded into a sprinter and rental car and pushed west from the sub-zero cold of Saskatoon toward the West Coast.
Night after night, the shows carried a heightened emotional charge, but one final performance stood apart, crackling with urgency, joy, and the awareness that one chapter was closing just as another was about to begin. That moment became A Beautiful Buzz, a testament to resilience, love, and transformation, capturing a band at full throttle and an artist on the edge of profound personal change.
For many listeners, the album lands somewhere in the lineage of Joe Cocker’s Mad Dogs & Englishmen, a communal, unrestrained live soul revue where horns, grit, gospel, and sweat collide. It’s not a polished live souvenir; it’s the sound of a band at peak intensity, feeding off the room and giving it everything back.
With a new studio album already in development for 2027, A Beautiful Buzz stands not as a detour or placeholder, but as a deliberate statement, finally committing to record the live force that made Samantha Martin & Delta Sugar essential in the first place.
“The Love Is All Around tour, initially set for January 2022, faced the trials of postponement until November 2022—marking the closing chapter of COVID-era delays," says Samantha Martin. "By the time the tour kicked off, I was six months pregnant with my son. I’ve never been one to be easily deterred. So, clad in a winter jacket that barely zipped, our 13-person touring party loaded into a sprinter and a rental car and embarked on a tour from the sub-zero temperatures of Saskatoon to the balmy West Coast of Canada."
"Each show was a whirlwind of energy and emotion, but one stood out above the rest. Perhaps it was the excitement of the final show, or maybe it was the realization that my life was about to change in a big way. Whatever the reason, the atmosphere was electric, filled with a beautiful buzz that I wanted to share with you. This album captures the magic I felt, and is a testament to resilience, love, and the power of music amidst life's transformations.”
A BEAUTIFUL BUZZ – ALBUM TRACK LISTING
1- Love is All Around - 3:35 (S. Martin, J. Chisholm)
2- Don’t Have To Be - 3:02 (S. Martin, A. Beer-Colacino, A. Warner)
3- You’re The Love - 3:37 (S. Martin, C. Chaffey)
4- Good Trouble - 3:18 (S. Martin, S. Vinnick)
5- All Night Long - 4:39 (S. Martin, C. Chaffey, M. McCallum, D. Yates, D. Nash, S. Marriner)
6- The Shape I’m In (feat. Steve Marriner) - 3:58 (Robbie Robertson)
7- I’ve Got a Feeling - 6:58 (S. Martin, C. Chaffey)
8- My Crown - 5:53 (Rench)
9- Loving You Is Easy - 7:25 (S. Martin)
10- “Band Intro” - (1:48) (S. Martin)
11- Pass Me By - (3:31) (S. Martin, C. Chaffey)
12- Them Changes - 3:54 (George Buddy Miles)
13- Loving Cup - 6:25 (M. Jagger, K. Richards)
PRODUCTION CREDITS
Recorded November 26, 2022 @ A.C.T. Theatre in Maple Ridge, BC
Mixed by Renan Yildizdogan and Ross Hayes Citrullo at RHC Music in Toronto, ON
Mastered by Phil Demetro Mastering in Toronto, ON
BAND LINE-UP
Lead Vocals & Acoustic Guitar: Samantha Martin
Background Vocalists: Tafari Anthony & Sherie Marshall
Electric Guitar: Curtis Chaffey
Bass: Ian McKeown
Drums: Will Fisher
Keys: Jeff Heisholt
Trombone: Emily Ferrell
Saxophone: Andrew Moljgun
Trumpet: Brian Walters
Special guest vocalist and acoustic guitar on “Shape I’m In” and 2nd electric on “Them Changes” and “Loving Cup”: Steve Marriner
SAMANTHA MARTIN & DELTA SUGAR
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26/02/2026
Danny George Wilson - New Album 'Arcade' 20th March, hear title track - The Handsome Family Tour Support.
Danny George Wilson, who releases his new album 'Arcade' on 20th March via Loose Music, has been confirmed as a special guest on The Handsome Family's forthcoming UK tour in May. Coinciding with the announcement, Wilson has today unveiled the title track to the new album.
LISTEN TO NEW SINGLE 'ARCADE'
WATCH VIDEO TO NEW SINGLE 'ARCADE'
"Arcade’ is a song about youth culture and nostalgia…a mix of sadness and gratitude" reflects Wilson. "Doffing a cap to the classic and influential ‘Subway Art’ book that emerged in 1984, a first taste of Dinosaur Jr’s ‘Freak Scene’ and Sonic Youth’s ‘Teenage Riot’ and memories of Sutton’s long demolished Arcade."
The Handsome Family Support Tour - May 2026:
Sun 17th - The Glasshouse, Gateshead
Mon 18th- Brudenell, Leeds
Tue 19th - St Luke's, Glasgow
Sat 23rd - Union Chapel, London
Sun 24th - Union Chapel, London
Wed 27th - St George, Bristol
Thu 28th - The Wedgewood, Portsmouth
Sat 30th - Stoller Hall, Manchester
Sun 31st - Tung Auditorium, Liverpool
'Arcade' finds Danny George Wilson returning to Hamish Benjamin’s studio in East Sussex - five years on from his startling, post-lockdown solo album Another Place – to construct its sequel. With Lewes-based Benjamin and right-hand man Henry Garratt, again given free rein, 'Arcade' presents a fresh collection of sonically inventive, deeply romantic songs, with atmosphere taking primacy over meaning, and narrative dissolving. As Wilson tells it:
“The songs are about the ways we deal with losing people, time, place, or don’t deal with it… Looking back, we discover what was always there, or things that are just easier to ignore - different and contradictory perspectives. And I wanted a chance to work with Hamish and Henry again, and this seemed like their thing, and it was”.
Traditional instrumentation meets technology; the majority of tracks feature a string quartet, while Benjamin and Garratt employ synthesiser and mellotron along with a plethora of guitars. Gerry Love again provides backing vocals with cameos from Emma Tricca and Annie Dressner. Fragile, tender, full of uncertainty, ultimately 'Arcade' is a song-cycle in which the premise of each track subverts the previous, and demonstrates most assuredly, we still move in doubt.
WATCH 'DISTANT SEASONS' VIDEO HERE
PRE-ORDER NEW ALBUM 'ARCADE'
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The Zac Schulze Gang Announce November 2026 Tour.
THE ZAC SCHULZE GANG ANNOUNCE NOVEMBER 2026 TOUR
TICKETS ON SALE WEDNESDAY 25 FEBRUARY 2026 VIA
ALTTICKETS.COM and ZACSCHULZEGANG.ROCKS/TOUR
YOUNG ARTIST OF THE YEAR WINNER UK BLUES AWARDS 2025
“The Zac Schulze Gang are no ordinary blues-rock band; they’re an unstoppable force, poised on the brink of something extraordinary.”
"Following the release of their critically acclaimed studio album Straight To It, Kent rockers The Zac Schulze Gang are heading out on a 6-date November 2026 Tour. Tickets are on sale at 10am GMT on Wednesday 25 February 2026 from alttickets.com and www.zacschulzegang.rocks/tour.
Recipients of the “Young Artist of the Year” at the UK Blues Awards 2025, ZSG are best known for their explosive live shows and their signature blend of 70s classic blues rock and modern alternative influences. Over the past few years, the Kent-based trio have steadily built a loyal following who are fans of blistering, raw-to-the-bone live shows. Their exciting sound combines classic British R&B with punk energy, outstanding musicianship, and pure dynamite.
"The Zac Schulze Gang are a phenomenon in the making.”
– Metal Planet Music
Released in September 2025, the band’s album Straight To It is a fitting title for the Zac Schulze Gang's debut studio album: the trio doesn't mess around with niceties, preferring to play the kind of blues-infused rock'n'roll that grabs your throat and doesn't let go.
Frontman, guitarist Zac Schulze, is a world-class shredder, playing with precision, speed, and passion, but the focus of the trio isn't just his solos. The Zac Schulze Gang is an undeniable gang, a group unified by a like-minded sensibility that adds an electrifying charge to their rock'n'roll. Zac Schulze rides the thunder generated by the rhythm section of his drummer brother Ben Schulze and bassist Ant Greenwell. The trio create a massive roar, all without losing sight of their songs.
The blend of melody and muscle gives Straight To It a visceral kick. Branching away from the blues that provided the trio their initial inspiration, the Zac Schulze Gang opens the album with "The Rocker," whose breathless hooks almost feel like a rallying call, and sustain that energy through the blitzkrieg rush of "High Roller." This hard edge is complemented by the bright power-pop of "Angeline" and "Betterland," an alt-rock anthem that soars toward the skies.
The Zac Schulze Gang’s sound and work ethic harks back to the much-loved live dynamic and relentless touring schedules of 70s icons including Rory Gallagher and Dr Feelgood. Their unique sound also embodies elements of heritage classic rock acts like AC/DC and Thin Lizzy, while giving a nod to contemporary influences like Turnstile, Royal Blood and Queens of the Stone Age.
The Gang have made lasting impressions at esteemed festivals including Eric Clapton's Crossroads in LA, Planet Rock's Winter End in 2023 and Fairport's Cropredy Festival, and the Rory Gallagher Tribute Festival in Ballyshannon where the band first exploded onto the scene.
Zac Schulze won Emerging Artist of the Year at the UK Blues Awards 2024 and followed this by winning Young Artist of the Year at the UK Blues Awards 2025. With sold out shows in Netherlands, Germany, and London’s legendary 100 Club, this power-driven trio are THE band to watch.
DHP Family in association with The Main Thing
Presents
THE ZAC SCHULZE GANG
NOVEMBER 2026 TOUR
TICKETS AVAILABLE FROM
ALTTICKETS.COM
ZACSCHULZEGANG.ROCKS/TOUR
Leeds, The Key Club
Tuesday 10 November
Tickets: alttickets.com
66 Merrion St, Leeds, LS2 8LW
www.thekeyclubleeds.com
Manchester, Night & Day
Wednesday 11 November
Tickets: alttickets.com
26 Oldham St, Manchester, M1 1JN
https://nightnday.org
York Crescent
Thursday 12 November
Tickets: alttickets.com
8 The Crescent, York, YO24 1AW
https://thecrescentyork.com
Norwich, Waterfront Studio
Friday 13 November
Tickets: alttickets.com
139-141 King St, Norwich, NR1 1QH
https://waterfrontnorwich.webflow.io
Brighton, Hope & Ruin
Saturday 14 November
Tickets: alttickets.com
11-12 Queens Road, Brighton, BN1 3WA
www.hope.pub
Nottingham, Rescue Rooms
Sunday 15 November
Tickets: alttickets.com
Masonic Place, Goldsmith Street,
Nottingham, NG1 5LB
www.rescuerooms.com
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25/02/2026
Iconic NYC artist JOAN AS POLICE WOMAN shares 'Anyone' video + announces tour dates.
Joan As Police Woman shares 'Anyone' video from 'The Real Life Anniversary Sessions'
FOR FANS OF: Cat Power, Anohni, Jeff Buckley, P J Harvey, Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds, Meshell Ndegeocello, Talk Talk, David Bowie, Laura Nyro
INFLUENCED BY:Al Green, Nina Simone, Joni Mitchell, Siousxie, Prince, Hendrix, Sly Stone, Miles Davis, Tony Allen, Lou Reed
FOR SHARING
'Anyone' live video https://youtu.be/h9AORzcT7qQ
'The Ride' live video https://youtu.be/nP_LwgjWSZE
'Real Life' album (2006)
https://joanaspolicewoman.bandcamp.com/album/real-life-2006-album-bonus-b-sides
Spotify https://open.spotify.com/album/67ouFcgOcc0Vd3OKEqPq4p
Tour tickets https://linktr.ee/japw and https://www.joanaspolicewoman.com/tour
"A voice so wondrous and moving that it makes everyone else’s seem ordinary and mundane" ~ The Guardian
"Breathtakingly good music"
~ Uncut
"Intimate yet commanding... immersive delivery and unmistakable voice" ~
The Spill Magazine
"The coolest woman in pop" ~ The Times
"Joan As Police Woman is one of the 21st century’s best musicians"
~ The Economist
"Full of meditative beauty…ravishing and lovelorn" ~ Mojo
Renowned NYC artist Joan As Police Woman presents a live performance video for her now-classic track “Anyone”, following another recently-shared video, "The Ride". Both of these personal and up-close offerings preview "The Real Life Anniversary Sessions", a string of videos commemorating the 20th anniversary of her much-loved debut album "Real Life", released via UK independent Reveal Records.
Joan Wasser, known professionally as Joan As Police Woman since 2004, is a critically acclaimed musician and producer. As a singer, songwriter, and multi-instrumentalist, she defies easy categorization, crafting her own sound that blends various genres. She has released ten albums of original material, two cover albums, and an anthology.
Recorded live on November 11, 2025 at The Owl Music Parlor, these endearing videos feature Wasser delivering a powerful, stripped-down performance on vocals and piano, accompanied by fellow NYC artists Will Graefe (guitar and vocals) and Jeremy Gustin (drums and vocals).
"I wanted to take “Anyone" out of its original 6/8 triplet-based soul ballad territory. Will Graefe, Jeremy Gustin and I have been creating a new sound together since we began touring in October 2024," says Joan Wasser, adding "This arrangement came together quickly when we shifted it into a more exploratory folk / jazz feeling reminiscent of Van Morrison".
Joan As Police Woman is a sought-after collaborator who’s collaborative spirit has guided her to record and/or perform live with hundreds of artists,including Afrobeat legend Tony Allen (with whom she made the The Solution Is Restless album) Lou Reed, Anohni & The Johnsons, Meshell Ndegeocello, Rufus Wainwright, John Cale, David Byrne, Dave Okumu, Chris Dowd, Lau, Scissor Sisters, Sparklehorse, Beck, Laurie Anderson, Lloyd Cole, Afel Bocoum, Dave Gahan, Tanya Donelly, David Sylvian, Steve Jansen and Damon Albarn who duetted with Joan on her song Get My Bearings and invited her to feature on the Gorillaz album Song Machine. She's currently enjoying life as a member of Iggy Pop's touring band (playing keys and singing).
Joan As Police Woman will soon be touring, bringing more "Real Life" to audiences internationally. While tickets for the Real Life 20th Anniversary Tour can be obtained at https://linktr.ee/japw or www.joanaspolicewoman.com/tour.
CREDITS
Lyrics & Music written by Joan Wasser
Joan Wasser - vocals, piano
Will Graefe - guitar, vocals
Jeremy Gustin - drums, vocals
Adam Sachs - audio recording engineer, mixer
Ehud Lazin - videographer
(c) Sweet Police under exclusive licence to Reveal Records 2026
Joan As Police Woman photos by Judi Rosen
Publicity by Shameless Promotion PR
LIVE
MAR 7 Frenchtown, NJ, USA - ArtYard
JUNE 20 New York, NY, USA - Joe's Pub
REAL LIFE ANNIVERSARY TOUR 2026
NOV 5 London, UK - Union Chapel
NOV 6 London, UK - Union Chapel
NOV 7 Manchester, UK - RNCM (Royal Northern College of Music)
NOV 9 Glasgow, UK - Oran Mor
NOV 11 Brugge, Belgium - Cactus Club
NOV 12 Amsterdam, Netherlands - Zonnehuis (sold out)
NOV 13 Hamburg, Germany - Mojo Club
NOV 15 Aarhus, Denmark - Train
NOV 16 Copenhagen, Denmark - DR Concert Hall
NOV 18 Budapest, Hungary - House of Music Hungary
NOV 20 Roma, Italy - Angelo Mai
NOV 22 Berlin, Germany - Haus des Rundfunks & Großer Sendesaal
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Brother Wallace - Hear new single - UK shows in May 2026 - Debut album 'Electric Love' out 8th May.
Every so often, an artist arrives with a voice so seasoned and a story so grounded that they feel less like a "discovery" and more like an inevitability. Brother Wallace is that artist. Today, the West Point, Georgia-bred singer, pianist, and soul revivalist releases “Gone With The Wind,” the latest single and music video from his forthcoming debut album, 'Electric Love' (out 8 May via ATO Records).
While his previous singles showcased a high-octane grit, “Gone With The Wind” reveals a more introspective, tender side of the powerhouse vocalist. It is not only luminous, but it also finds him turning inward without losing any of the fire that’s quickly made him one of soul’s most compelling new voices. Built on a rollicking piano riff and carried by Wallace’s sublime vocal, the track is a lived-in meditation on letting go of the noise, protecting your peace, and giving yourself permission to breathe.
“I started writing that song when I was driving home from work one day, feeling like I needed to let the world go and take some time out for myself,” Wallace explains. That sense of sanctuary is amplified by the song’s heavenly background harmonies, provided by a group of young vocalists from Wallace’s hometown—students he personally trained during his years as a choral director. “When they added their parts, it felt like they were carrying me away as they were singing,” he says. “It was like a beautiful journey that I didn’t want to end.”
LISTEN TO 'GONE WITH THE WIND' HERE
WATCH VIDEO HERE
This May, Brother Wallace will take his "force of nature" live show to the UK for the first time, making two appearances at The Great Escape before playing a string of shows across the country, culminating in a performance at Cross The Tracks festival in London.
DEBUT UK SHOWS:
May
Thu 14th - The Great Escape, Komedia, Brighton
Fri 15th - The Great Escape, Brighthelm, Brighton
Mon 18th - The Castle, Manchester
Tue 19th - The Exchange, Bristol
Wed 20th - Colours Hoxton, London
Sun 24th - Cross The Tracks, London
Tickets available here.
The path to 'Electric Love' is as extraordinary as the music itself. For years, Wallace built a life at the intersection of art and service in rural Georgia, shaping young voices by day while his own grew into a formidable force. His trajectory shifted after a chance meeting with Dan Taylor (The Heavy), sparking a multi-year creative partnership that eventually led them to the legendary Real World Studios in the UK.
Produced and co-written by Taylor, 'Electric Love' was engineered and mixed by a premier team including Bob Mackenzie (James Blake, The 1975) and Jim Abbiss (Adele, Arctic Monkeys). The result is a 13-song revelation that fuses the grace of Sam Cooke with the raw, driving energy of Southern soul icons like Johnnie Taylor.
The momentum behind Brother Wallace is building at a breakneck pace. His first-ever single, “Who’s That?,” recently cracked the Top 30 at Triple A radio—a rare feat for an independent-leaning debut—while the album’s title track was premiered internationally by Craig Charles on BBC Radio 6 Music.
Across the album, Wallace refuses to settle for simple nostalgia, instead using his gospel roots to fuel songs about hard-won redemption and radical joy. From the moody ferocity of “You’re The Man” to the minimalist elegance of “Any Day Now,” Electric Love is a body of work that hits like lightning and stays.
'Electric Love' Tracklist
You’re The Man
Top Shotta
No God In This Town
Who Do You Love?
Any Day Now
Patient Man
Midnight Valley
Jealous
Hope Of Fools
Let’s Get Together
WATCH 'ELECTRIC LOVE' VIDEO
WATCH 'WHO'S THAT' VIDEO
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One Thousand Motels: Rat Scabies & Constantinou – Golden twist to trans smoke green vinyl....
ONE THOUSAND MOTELS
Rat Scabies and Chris Constantinou
‘2% Out of Sync’ – First Ever Vinyl Pressing
Limited Edition Trans Smoke Green Vinyl - with a golden twist....
Out 17 April 2026 on FOAD Musick
“Upbeat rock songs with a twist in the lyrical tail.. a high spirited, elaborated album.” – Vive Le Rock
“A match seemingly made in rock ’n’ roll heaven (or a punky purgatory).” – Midlands Rock
“Stunning.. the sonic textures here are layered perfectly and mix soul, blues, gospel and rock and roll.” – Get Ready to ROCK!Rat Scabies, the famed drummer and founding member of The Damned, and Chris Constantinou, bass player and vocalist who has worked with Adam Ant, Sinéad O’Connor, The Wolfmen and others, are releasing their debut album as One Thousand Motels on vinyl for the first time. ‘2% Out of Sync’, which received rave reviews on its original digital release, is now a limited pressing of 300 units on beautiful trans smoke green vinyl through FOAD Musick, with distribution through Cadiz Music and Plastic Head; digital distribution and sync representation handled by Cherry Red Records. The record is released on 17 April 2026.
And there’s a twist. Fifteen gold vinyl test pressings, signed by both Rat and Chris, have been randomly tucked into presale orders. You won’t know you’ve got one until you open it.
This is not the first time these two creative forces have united their musical powers. They were both heavily involved with the punk rock supergroup The Mutants, which featured members of UK Subs, The Specials, Vice Squad, The MC5 and Stiff Little Fingers. After recording three albums as The Mutants between 2014-2016, including sessions at Rancho De La Luna in Joshua Tree with members of The Dandy Warhols and Eagles of Death Metal, Rat and Chris stripped things back to just the two of them.
While in New York making another album, Rat and Chris found themselves with some downtime. Chris explained, “We had finished the album and the bars were shut. I had a bunch of demos lying around which were just waiting for the right collaborator.” As soon as he heard the tunes, Rat was onboard and instinctively got on with it, and within a few days they had the bones of the album that would become ‘2% Out of Sync’.
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“Chris writes from the heart and shares his ups and downs, which are often butt-clenchingly awkward,” Rat explained. “He writes about his loves, losses and good times, which often play out like a Jacques Brel movie (if there were such a thing).” Chris responded with a simple, “My songs are about my experiences, what else have I got to write about?”
They finished laying down the drum tracks in Glastonbury at Orchard Studios while Chris overdubbed in a shed in his back garden. “There were times,” whines Rat, “when we’d blown all our money and it felt like it was time to call it quits, but I’d listen to the rough mixes and felt it would be a dreadful waste not to finish this record – the tunes are just too good.”
The recordings were mixed by Nicholas De Carlo at his Mash Studios in Ramsgate, Kent. “We were totally over the moon with the way Nick De Carlo made us sound,” said Chris. “He brought an organic feel to the mixes and created a sound that is both proficient and natural and which crucially leaves my melodies alone.” “Yeah, for sure,” added Rat. “NDC gave it some bollocks.”
Five years on, the album is finally getting the physical release it deserves. The vinyl has been mastered from the original lacquer cut, and both Rat and Chris approved the test pressing together.
Their second album “Get In Where You Fit In” (2021, Universal Music) expanded the sound dramatically, bringing in vocalist Sean Wheeler alongside Hal Lindes (Dire Straits), the Memphis Horns, The Specials’ Horns and Preston Heyman (Kate Bush). A third album is currently in production with Brandon Eggleston (Dandy Warhols), with new singles and further vinyl releases to follow.
When asked about the choice of name for the project, Rat summed it up best: “We’re too old and battle worn to be making career moves, so we wanted a name that immediately summarised where we’ve come from, but not necessarily where we’re going.”
TRACKLIST
Side 1: Beautiful Losers / Definition / Gone / Rain / Kings X Guru
Side 2: Andy’s Wonder World / Kill Me If You Love Me / 2% Out / I Like Sex In The Suburbs / Gerry’s Ashes
CINEMA STEREO announce new single "So Sorry, My Dear" and debut European Tour.
CINEMA STEREO ANNOUNCE NEW SINGLE
“SO SORRY, MY DEAR”, LIMITED EDITION 7-INCH VINYL AND DEBUT EUROPEAN TOUR
STREAM SINGLE | 7-INCH VINYL | WATCH MUSIC VIDEO
OCTOBER /NOVEMBER 2026 EUROPEAN TOUR
TICKETS AVAILABLE FROM CINEMA STEREO
"Nashville-based alternative rock band Cinema Stereo return with their newest single and video, “So Sorry, My Dear,” which arrives on all major streaming platforms Tuesday February 24. The release will be accompanied by a limited edition 7-inch vinyl, featuring an exclusive B-side, “Keep Me Down,” available only on the physical pressing.
Stream single HERE. Order the 7-inch vinyl HERE. Watch the music video HERE.
“So Sorry, My Dear” captures Cinema Stereo at their most emotionally charged—pairing driving rhythms, soaring melodies, and a timeless rock sensibility with modern urgency. The track reflects the band’s ability to balance nostalgia and forward momentum, delivering a sound that feels both familiar and fresh.
The vinyl release nods to the band’s deep appreciation for music’s past, while offering fans something tangible and rare. “Keep Me Down,” unavailable on streaming services, expands the single’s sonic universe and showcases another side of the band’s evolving sound.
Alongside the new music, Cinema Stereo are also announcing their debut European tour, kicking off October 15, 2026. Tickets are available from Cinema Stereo. The tour marks a major milestone for the band as they bring their high-energy live show overseas for the first time. Full tour dates and cities will be announced in the coming months.
Originally from Orlando, Florida, and now based in Nashville, Cinema Stereo draw inspiration from a wide range of influences including Queen, The Police, Tame Impala, Aerosmith, and The Killers. Known for their fearless creative approach, raw emotion, and captivating lyrics, the band continues to carve out a space as one of the most exciting new voices in modern rock.
“So Sorry, My Dear” will be available on all streaming platforms HERE from Tuesday February 24, with the limited edition 7-inch vinyl available HERE while supplies last.
For updates on the vinyl release, tour dates, and more, follow Cinema Stereo on social media and streaming platforms.
CINEMA STEREO
EUROPEAN TOUR 2026
TICKETS AVAILABLE FROM CINEMA STEREO
15-Oct-2026 Verviers Belgium - Spirit of 66
16-Oct-2026 Krefeld Germany - Kulturrampe
17-Oct-2026 Bully-les-Mines France - Bully On Rocks festival
20-Oct-2026 Santander Spain - Niagara
21-Oct-2026 León Spain - Babylon
22-Oct-2026 A Coruña Spain - Mardi Gras
23-Oct-2026 Ourense Spain - Café Cultural
24-Oct-2026 Sevilla Spain - Sala Even
25-Oct-2026 Jerez Spain - La Guarida del Angel
27-Oct-2026 Orihuela Spain - La Gramola
28-Oct-2026 Valencia Spain - Loco Club
29-Oct-2026 Castellón Spain - Sala Because
30-Oct-2026 Zaragoza Spain - Rock 'n Blues Café
31-Oct-2026 Valles Spain - AMC Bocanegra
1-Nov-2026 Vitoria Spain - Urban Rock Concept
3-Nov-2026 Barcelona Spain - Razz 3
4-Nov-2026 Chambèry France - Brin de Zinc
5-Nov-2026 Eppstein Germany - Wunderbar Weite Welt
6-Nov-2026 Regensburg Germany - VAZ
7-Nov-2026 Lauchhammer Germany - Real Music Club
10-Nov-2026 Frankfurt Germany - Nachtleben
11-Nov-2026 Bremen Germany - Meisenfrei
12-Nov-2026 Dortmund Germany Musiktheater Piano
14-Nov-2026 Heilbronn Germany - Umma23
15-Nov-2026 Norderstedt Germany - Music Star
18-Nov-2026 Hamburg Germany - Cowboy un Indianer
21-Nov-2026 Coevorden Netherlands – MFC
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LEVEL 42: December 2026 live dates; 45 years since first studio album.
LEVEL 42 will be heading out on a five-date UK tour in December 2026 to mark 45 years since their first studio album, 1981’s ‘Level 42’. Tickets are onsale at 10am on Friday 27 February and available from AEGPRESENTS.CO.UK. Beginning in Bath on 01 December, they will then head to Nottingham and Oxford, before finishing with two nights at London’s Indigo at The O2.
Their ‘Level 42’ self-titled, debut studio album was merely the first step in an incredible career for the band who continue to set the benchmark for British Jazz Funk. To date, the band have released 14 studio albums, had 18 top 40 singles including the era-defining ‘Lessons in Love’, ‘Something About You’, ‘Leaving Me Now’, ‘Running in the Family’, and ‘Hot Water’, sold out Wembley Arena for a total of 21 nights, and sold in excess of 30 million albums worldwide.
Forty five years on from that first album, Level 42 are still in demand the world over. These UK December dates celebrate yet another remarkable milestone, but are also an opportunity to witness one of the most popular and enduring British bands doing what they do best.
24/02/2026
Plumpton Revival 2026
The Forgotten Festival Is Coming Home on Saturday 8th and Sunday 9th August 2026 at Plumpton Racecourse, Plumpton, Lewes BN7 3AL.
In 1969 and 1970, Plumpton Racecourse played host to one of the most legendary — yet overlooked — festivals in British music history. Acts like Pink Floyd, The Who, Ginger Baker, Peter Green, and Black Sabbath lit up the Sussex skies before the festival was forced to relocate. Eventually evolving into what we now know as the Reading Festival.
Now, more than 50 years on, that forgotten chapter of British counterculture is set to roar back into life. Plumpton Revival will take place on August 8–9, 2026, transforming the racecourse into a full-scale, immersive reimagining of those extraordinary late-60s/early-70s weekends.
“It’s more than just a tribute — this is about reclaiming a forgotten chapter of UK music history and re-
igniting it for a new generation,” said Theo Crew, Creative Producer.
General Admission Tickets, VIP Experience Tickets (Both Weekend and Day Tickets), Accessibility Tickets 2-4-1 With Carer, Camping Tickets, Child Tickets and 65+ tickets and Parking are all available an onsale now here:
https://plumptonrevival.uk/tickets/
In addition, you can add Refund Protection to your purchase at checkout, this is applied to all purchased tickets. This covers events such as illness, travel problems, or family emergencies.
The event will feature theatre-quality tribute acts honouring the original lineup — including Think Floyd, Who’s Next, Dreams of Fleetwood Mac, and Eric and the Claptones — alongside nationally touring artists from the current Blues circuit,
such as The James Oliver Band (currently performing with Ian Dury and the Blockheads bassist Norman Watt-Roy), Aynsley Lister, one of the UK’s hottest contemporary blues guitarists, Will Wilde an award winning blues rock harmonica player, singer & songwriter from Brighton, 2026 UK Blues Awards ‘Best Band’ nominees The Milk Men, and Brothers In The Blues
consisting of Bob (The Glue) Brookes on Vocal and Harmonica (Miller Anderson, Chris Farlow, Buddy Whittington), Derek Austin on Keyboards (Frank Sinatra, Peggy Lee, Eric Burdon), Jeremy Sherman on Bass Guitar (Uncle Johns Band, Voodoo Kitchen, Riverboat Six) Chris Hunt on Drums (23 years with Lonnie Donegan, Van Morrison and Joe Brown). They will be joined by special guest Nigel Bagge on Guitar and Vocal (The original guitarist in Nicky Moore’s Blues Corporation,
Fleetwood Mac’s Peter Green and Miller Anderson). More details about their set will be announced in due
course. Please be advised that the lineup is subject to change.
But Plumpton Revival is far more than a music festival. Organisers have curated a fully immersive and interactive 1970s experience, complete with psychedelic visuals, retro theming, period-accurate food and fashion, vintage markets, art installations, retro funfair attractions, and walkabout actors bringing the spirit of the era to life.
Festival Cinema:
Step inside our pop-up cinema and lose yourself in the sights and sounds of rock’s most electric era. Grainy film reels flicker to life, the air hums with nostalgia, and you’re transported back to the festival fields that changed music forever.
Festival Comedy:
Before arena tours… Before panel shows. Before comedy became pristine and polished. The 70's were chaos, character and pure variety ruled. This summer, we’re bringing it all back, with the Plumpton Revival Comedy Tent!
Basil Brush (A true icon of British variety as you’ve never seen him before!), Chas & Dave by The Spice Chavs – A raucous tribute to the sing along legends, Tony Law (8 Out of 10 Cats, Have I Got News For You) – Surreal, unpredictable, and one of the most inventive comics of our generation, Jarred Christmas (Never Mind the Buzzcocks, Mock the Week) – High-octane storytelling and festival-ready charisma. Also including a handpicked crew of comedians, performers, mischief-makers, and rising voices bringing depth, colour and unpredictability to the festival. Hosted by festival legend Craig
Campbell - (Russell Howard’s Good News) — the Plumpton Comedy Tent promises a weekend of glorious mayhem.
Festival Circus:
We’re bringing the magic of the circus to Plumpton Revival! Step back into a world of colour, wonder and true 70’s spectacle as the big top spirit returns for one unforgettable weekend. Expect Circus Parades bursting with colour and character, hands-on Circus Workshops where all ages can learn a trick or two, and a full programme of fire, danger, and magic shows to keep you on the edge of your seat. The circus is coming to Plumpton – and this time it’s bigger, bolder, brighter, and groovier than ever before.
Festival Disco:
This summer, Plumpton Revival turns the lights down low and brings the groove back where it belongs with the Plumpton Revival Disco. Step onto a dancefloor shaped by funk, soul, Motown, and early disco — when basslines were bold, choruses were huge, and the music moved bodies before it ever chased trends.
VIP Experience:
For those who like their nostalgia with a touch of luxury, our VIP tickets bring comfort and class to the
heart of the festival. Enjoy covered grandstand seating, giving you the perfect view of the Main Stage while staying shaded from the summer sun (or sheltered from the great British drizzle). Relax in the private bar, where the drinks flow, the service is swift, and the atmosphere stays effortlessly cool.
Take a break from the field with plumbed-in, flushing toilets — a small luxury that makes a significant difference. Start your weekend in style with a welcome drink on arrival, setting the tone for an unforgettable few days. Skip the queues with fast-track entry, getting you straight to the music, the laughter, and the memories. And that’s just the beginning — there’ll be more exclusive offers and perks announced in due course, reserved especially for our VIP guests.
Plumpton Revival promises not only an authentic throwback but also a joyful celebration of a cultural milestone that helped shape the UK’s music heritage.
Official Website: https://plumptonrevival.uk/
Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/plumptonrevival
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/plumptonrevival/
23/02/2026
Erja Lyytinen Celebrates 50th Anniversary Rock & Blues Birthday UK Tour in October 2026.
ERJA LYYTINEN CELEBRATES 50TH ANNIVERSARY ROCK & BLUES BIRTHDAY UK TOUR IN OCTOBER 2026
TICKETS ON SALE 10AM MONDAY 23 FEBRUARY 2026
https://erjalyytinen.com/tour
"Erja Lyytinen’s one of the best guitarists on the scene right now.
Forget male or female, forget rock or blues – just one of the best!”
– Music News.com
Award-winning Finnish guitarist and blues artist extraordinaire Erja Lyytinen is pleased to announce her 50th Anniversary Rock Blues Birthday UK Tour in October 2026.
Tickets go on sale 10am GMT on Monday February 23 at https://erjalyytinen.com/tour.
Lyytinen will celebrate her 50th Birthday by embarking on a special tour around the UK and Europe with a special celebratory setlist that will feature gems from Lyytinen’s vast repertoire since 2002. The guitar phenom will also perform songs from the latest studio album, Smell the Roses, along with some unexpected song choices.
See the full gig list at https://erjalyytinen.com/tour.
The seven-date UK tour takes in Dudley, Lamp Tavern (Thursday October 8), Sedgefield, Parish Hall (Friday October 9), Edinburgh, La Belle Angele (Sunday October 11), Sheffield, The Greystones (Tuesday October 13), Oxford, The Bullingdon (Wednesday October 14), London, Half Moon (Thursday October 15), and Faversham, The Old Brewery Store (Friday October 16).
“I did my first tour in the UK with Blues Caravan back in 2006, so it´s been exactly twenty years now doing gigs on this music lover’s island,” reminisces Lyytinen. “I remember how exciting it was for a young girl to finally do my first UK tour back then. What I loved the most, was the fact that as native English spoken people, the audiences understood and related to my lyrics. The witty humor and friendly British people simply stole my heart.”
“This year I’m celebrating the big number of turning 50, but I still feel as that 15-year-old girl who fell in love to play electric guitar by listening to guitarists like Tony Iommi and Richie Blackmore and wanting to travel around the world to play for audiences. This year we have updated our set list with some old gems and surprise numbers, so it´s going to be a lot of fun to come to the UK for a birthday tour!”
Watch Erja’s incredible guitar playing as she performs “Stoney Creek” at the Tavastia Club in Helsinki. The standout song is featured on Lyytinen's current album Smell The Roses.
Erja Lyytinen is one of the leading blues-rock guitarists on the international touring circuit. During a recording career spanning more than 20 years, the high-flying Finnish guitar phenom has released thirteen studio albums and several live albums. Lyytinen’s musical pallet is vast, encompassing the very best of contemporary blues rock whilst inspired and influenced by the blues greats of yore.
Lyytinen is known for her stellar and energetic live performances. Her live album Diamonds on the Road (2023) received magnificent reviews from the global music media. She celebrated her 20-year career by releasing the CD/DVD 20 Years of Blues Rock! that was recorded at the legendary Tavastia Club in Helsinki in 2023. For this spectacular event, she brought together the rhythm sections from her studio albums to date and other guest artists.
Lyytinen has been acknowledged for her work by her fans, peers, and the industry alike with a treasure trove of accolades. This includes being ranked #2 on Total Guitar's “10 Best Guitarists” poll as well as being awarded “Best Guitarist” at the 2017 European Blues Awards. Erja made history by becoming the first Finnish artist to be nominated for the "BB King International Artist of the Year" at the Maple Blues Awards in Canada in 2022.
She’s performed alongside world-famous guitarists including Carlos Santana, Sonny Landreth, and Jennifer Batten.
Her current studio album, Smell the Roses, released in March 2025, was ranked #6 on the UK’s Independent Blues Broadcasters in April. This riff-heavy laden album features Lyytinen’s mesmerizing slide guitar solo. Throughout the album, she expands her repertoire by honouring the hard rock sounds of the '60s and '70s. Smell the Roses has received praising reviews around the globe and has lifted Lyytinen among the best modern blues rock artists of our time.
ERJA LYYTINEN 50TH ANNIVERSARY
ROCK & BLUES BIRTHDAY UK TOUR OCTOBER 2026
TICKETS AVAILABLE FROM
https://erjalyytinen.com/tour
DUDLEY, THE LAMP TAVERN
THURSDAY 8 OCTOBER 2026
Buy Tickets
116 High St, Dudley, DY1 1QT
https://lamptavernlive.co.uk
SEDGEFIELD, PARISH HALL
FRIDAY 9 OCTOBER 2026
Buy Tickets
Front St, Sedgefield, Stockton-on-Tees, TS21 3AT
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EDINBURGH, LA BELLE ANGELE
SUNDAY 11 OCTOBER 2026
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11 Hastie's Close, Edinburgh, EH1 1JD
https://la-belleangele.com
SHEFFIELD, THE GREYSTONES
TUESDAY 13 OCTOBER 2026
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Greystones Road, Sheffield, S11 7BS
www.mygreystones.co.uk
OXFORD, THE BULLINGDON
WEDNESDAY 14 OCTOBER 2026
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162 Cowley Rd, Oxford OX4 1UE
www.thebullingdon.co.uk
LONDON, HALF MOON
THURSDAY 15 OCTOBER 2026
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93 Lower Richmond Rd., London, SW15 1EU
www.halfmoon.co.uk
FAVERHSAM, THE OLD BREWERY STORE
FRIDAY 16 OCTOBER 2026
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Mill Place, Faversham, Kent, ME13 7DY
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ERJA LYYTINEN
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22/02/2026
Marc Broussard announces "Chance Worth Taking", an All-Original Blues Soul Album, Out April 17.
MARC BROUSSARD GOES ALL IN WITH CHANCE WORTH TAKING, HIS FIRST ALL-ORIGINAL BLUES SOUL ALBUM, OUT APRIL 17
THE ACCLAIMED SOUL SINGER REUNITES WITH BLUES ICON
JOE BONAMASSA ON STUNNING 14-TRACK COLLECTION PRODUCED BY BONAMASSA, JOSH SMITH AND CALVIN TURNER
FIRST DOUBLE SINGLE OF “FEVER”/ “NO MORE” OUT NOW
Watch the official music video for “Fever’ HERE
Pre-order CHANCE WORTH TAKING
“The songwriting felt like a fever dream of creativity and inspiration. Joe and his band are among the best musicians in the world, and everything came together seamlessly. It was an incredible week with an amazing group of people.” – Marc Broussard
Powerhouse soul singer Marc Broussard goes all in on Chance Worth Taking, his first full album of original blues songs marking a definitive creative pivot for the acclaimed Louisiana singer-songwriter, out April 17th via Joe Bonamassa’s KTBA Records.
Produced by Joe Bonamassa and Josh Smith alongside Calvin Turner, the stunning 14-track collection reunites Broussard with Bonamassa, who takes the helm to contribute master fretwork and mesmerizing guitar solos on 10 tracks, including three songs co-written with Broussard. This stellar creative circle is rounded out by Josh Smith, who features on and co-wrote four tracks, and Calvin Turner, who joined forces with Broussard to co-write 10 of the album’s original songs and contributes to the album’s lush string and horn arrangements.
Today, Broussard offers the first taste of the album with two lead singles - “No More” a sweeping cinematic blues ballad framing Broussard's yearning vocal with stately strings and Bonamassa’s soaring guitar. "Fever" delivers a slinky, modern roadhouse groove, driven by funky rhythm guitars, punchy horns, Smith's stinging leads, and an insistent beat. These tracks serve as a powerful introduction to the album’s range, blending blistering guitar work with Broussard’s signature vocal grit.
Though Chance Worth Taking marks a stylistic pivot, it remains unmistakably Broussard. His signature "bayou soul" vocal, equal parts grit and grace, anchors the album, tying together brawny shuffles, pleading soul-blues, horn-driven blues-rock, and Mardi Gras–infused funk.
The album’s origin began when Turner proposed an album of original blues material and sent Broussard a folder of 15 instrumentals. Broussard then wrote lyrics as if possessed. "I would wake up at 6:00 a.m. and write until 11:00 p.m. I'd be in the studio sweating like a madman," he recalls. The songs were finished in three manic days and refined in the studio with Bonamassa.
"I'm still more versed in soul music than in blues, but I'm getting an education in the genre and its history from Joe and Josh," Broussard explains. "When we got into the studio, Joe wasn't fully convinced we had a blues album, so he added to the songs we already had, and we wrote three others together. In the end, we got to the promised land."
There is a sense of free-spirited discovery on Chance Worth Taking, with Broussard exploring a wide emotion and stylistic palette - from big-band, B.B. King-style arrangements on the jaunty, swinging "Let Me Take You Out Tonight" and the horn-riff-driven "Blame," which boasts tasty, masterful improvisational interplay among Bonamassa, Smith, and Rock and Roll Hall of Famer Reese Wynans and the ‘80s-inspired ballad, “These Walls” with Bonamassa in rare form, soloing with a fire that's both cinematic and pyrotechnic.
Fans of classic Broussard will rejoice in the soul ballads "Chance Worth Taking," with its gospel-tinged chorus, and "Sweet Love," a timeless ballad complete with sumptuous harmonies and sweeping strings. The album concludes on a New Orleans send-off with the brassy, booty-shaking "Laissez Les Bons Temps Rouler," a song co-written by Trombone Shorty and Broussard.
Broussard is ready to unveil Chance Worth Taking, introducing fans to both the new album and a fresh era of inspired creativity. "Man, I'm so excited about it all. It's time for me to move into my bluesman phase. At this stage of my life, I'm all about it."
Chance Worth Taking Track Listing
1. You’ll Be Sorry
2. Trying To Do Right feat. Joe Bonamassa
3. I’m Going Home
4. No More feat. Joe Bonamassa
5. Fever feat. Josh Smith
6. Chance Worth Taking
7. Let Me Take You Out Tonight
8. Sweet Love
9. These Walls
10. Satisfaction Guaranteed
11. Blame
12. Whispers
13. Laissez Street Parade Intro feat. Trombone Shorty
14. Laissez Les Bons Temps Rouler feat. Trombone Shorty
2026 TOUR DATES
Mar 3 - Strom - Munich, DE*
Mar 4 - Papiersaal- Zürich, CH*
Mar 6 - Muhle H- Manchestergen, CH* + Sold Out
Mar 7 - Colos-Saal - Aschaffenburg, Ee*
Mar 8 - Musicktheater-Rex - Bensheim, Ee*
Mar 10 - Harmonie - Bonn, DE*
Mar 11 - Scala - Leverkusen, DE*
Mar 12 - Musikzentrum - Hanover, DE*
Mar 13 - Fabrik - Hamburg, DE
Mar 14 - Lido - Berlin, DE*
Mar 16 - Werk 2 (Halle D) - Leipzig, DE*
Mar 17 - Ebertbad - Oberhausen, DE*
Mar 19 - Maassilo - Rotterdam, NL*
Mar 20 - Paradiso - Amsterdam, NL*
Mar 21 - Hedon - Zwolle, NL*
Mar 22 - Doornroosje - Nijmegen, NL*
Mar 24 - Muziekgieterij - Maastricht, NL*
Mar 25 - La Maroquinerie - Paris, FR*
Mar 26 - The Blues Kitchen Manchester - Manchester, UK*+ Sold Out
Mar 27 - Islington Assembly Hall - London, UK*
*With Brian Mackey Support
US SPRING DATES
Apr 9 - Soundwave Beach Weekend - Miramar Bch, FL + Sold Out
Apr 23 - The Dixie Carter Performing Arts Ctr - Huntington, TN*
Apr 24 - The Walker Theatre - Chattanooga, TN*
Apr 25 - Variety Playhouse - Atlanta, GA*
Apr 26 - Neighborhood Theatre - Charlotte, NC*
Apr 28 - Manchester Music Hall - Lexington, KY**
Apr 29 - Bijou Theatre - Knoxville, TN**
May 1 - New Orleans Jazz & Heritage Fest - New Orleans, LA
May 3 - Dosey Doe - The Woodlands, TX+
May 5 - Delmar Hall - St Louis, MO**
May 7 - Fitzgerald Theater - St Paul, MN*
May 8 - Space - Evanston, IL**
May 9 - Space - Evanston, IL**
May 10 - Hi-Fi Annex (Hi-Fi Indy) - Indianapolis, IN**
May 12 - Thunderbird Cafe - Pittsburgh, PA **
May 13 - The Birchmere - Alexandria, VA **
May 14 - Ardmore Music Hall - Ardmore, PA**
May 15 - Brooklyn Bowl - Brooklyn, NY**
May 16 - Narrows Center For The Arts - Fall River, MA**
May 30 - Bear Shadow Festival - Highlands, NC
*With Seth Walker Support
** With Sway Wild Support
+ With Kristen Kelly Support
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MARC BROUSSARD
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Spencer Mackenzie's new album "Empty Chairs" is out now, released by Gypsy Soul Records.
SPENCER MACKENZIE NEW ALBUM “EMPTY CHAIRS” RELEASED FEBRUARY 20, 2026
CANADIAN JUNO NOMINEE AND MAPLE BLUES AWARDS WINNER RELEASES NEW ALBUM “EMPTY CHAIRS,” WHICH EMBODIES HIS GRITTY AND INTROSPECTIVE STYLE. PRODUCED BY 2X JUNO NOMINEE AND EMMY AWARD WINNER ROSS HAYES CITRULLO OF THE COMMONERS
“EMPTY CHAIRS” – NEW ALBUM
CD & VINYL | DIGITAL
“If blazing guitar with no holds barred blues rock is your kind of thing,
then this album should definitely become a part of your life.”
– Guitarist Magazine
Today, JUNO-nominated and Maple Blues Award winner Spencer Mackenzie is pleased to release his new album, Empty Chairs, via Gypsy Soul Records.
The CD and vinyl edition of the album is available from www.spencermackenzie.ca.
The digital edition of the album is available on all streaming platforms HERE.
Watch the live video of title track “Empty Chairs” on YouTube.
Produced by 2X JUNO-nominated producer and Emmy Award-winning mixer Ross Hayes Citrullo, guitarist of The Commoners, the album captures Mackenzie’s signature blend of gritty, introspective blues rock.
Drawing on the legacy of blues legends while channelling the energy of modern blues rock, Empty Chairs fuses electrifying guitar, punchy riffs, soaring organ, dynamic vocals, and a powerhouse rhythm section. The album promises to be Mackenzie’s most personal and explosive work yet.
“Still only in his mid-twenties, Empty Chairs proves he carries the triple threat of a great voice, gifted musicianship and superior songwriting craft to become an international force.” – Blues Matters
“Spencer Mackenzie demonstrates why he's considered one of the most promising names in blues-rock. Soulful vocals, fiery guitar, and songs that linger.” – Blues Magazine NL
“A lively rock ‘n’ roll explosion. The guitar bubbles like acid on a brand-new Corvette’s paintjob, while the voice is jackshaft oil and grit. Giant, spirited and refreshingly super brisk!” – Raw Ramp
Citrullo brings a distinctive approach that blends artistry with technical mastery. With multiple accolades for albums that have topped charts and garnered millions of streams worldwide, he infuses Empty Chairs with energy, precision, and a live-feel intensity.
“What we caught on this album is honesty and fire,” says Citrullo. “Spencer’s playing is fearless, his voice wide open, and every take breathes like a live show you don’t want to end. Producing it was about chasing moments you can’t fake—tone that tells the truth, stories that cut deep, and performances that live in the room. It’s the blues, lit up with a rock edge—hitting with a modern bite and a timeless feel.”
BIOGRAPHY
With fluid phrasing, resonant tone, and expressive performances, Spencer Mackenzie may have been born on Beale Street in spirit, though he hails from Southern Ontario. Over nearly a decade, the JUNO-nominated, Maple Blues Award-winning guitarist has earned international acclaim for his raw, soulful blues-rock. His high-energy live performances—Canadian, European, and US stages including Montreal International Jazz Festival, Festival d'été de Québec, Moulin Blues Ospel, Ribs & Blues Raalte, and Kulturring Schöppingen Blues Festival—showcase his mastery of the guitar and his infectious stage presence.
EMPTY CHAIRS – ALBUM TRACK LISTING
1. Empty Chairs (4:29)
2. Trip (3:25)
3. What You Do (4:28)
4. Don’t Know Where I’m Going (3:11)
5. Till I Get to You (3:57)
6. Frozen Hearts (4:09)
7. Helping Hands (3:18)
8. Why (3:58)
9. Shoot Me Down (4:08)
10. Won’t Find Her (3:18)
11. Evil (3:57)
PRODUCTION & WRITING CREDITS
All songs written by Spencer Mackenzie and Co-Writer Richard Mackenzie on tracks 1,2,6,11
Exception on Track 4 - ‘Don’t Know Where I’m Going’ music and lyrics by Rory Gallagher
© BMG Rights Management (US) LLC d/b/a BMG Firefly / BMG Rights Management (UK) Limited / Strange Music Ltd. Used by permission. All rights reserved.
Spencer Mackenzie - Guitar and Vocals
Miles Evans Branagh - Piano, Hammond Organ, Keyboards
Stacey Shopsowitz - Bass on tracks 1-5 and 8-11
Steve Pelletier - Bass on tracks 6, 7
Adam Canon - Drums on tracks 1-5 and 8-11
Matt Burns - Drums on tracks 6, 7
Sandra Bouza and Chantel Williams - Background Vocals
Ross Hayes Citrullo - Background Vocals on track 2
Recorded at RHC Music, Toronto, Canada
Produced, Mixed and Engineered by Ross Hayes Citrullo - RHC Music
Assistant Engineers - Gavin Sharman, Marc Pallascio, Andrew Champion
Mastered by Kristian Montano
ALBUM TRACK BY TRACK
1 – Empty Chairs
A soulful blues rock song that expresses anger and frustration from the perspective of friends and families, who have lost innocent people they love due to gun violence. This can't be the new normal! It's got to change!
2 – Trip
An upbeat, guitar heavy anthem for the people who just want to be noticed and for people who are crying and screaming trying to get out! Whether it’s a dream or reality, let's go on a trip!
3 – What You Do
When we say that we’re fine. Are we really? Or are we just trying to save others over ourselves? ‘What You Do’ is a high energy blues rock song that's meant to bring your attention to the guessing game we all play.
4 – Don’t Know Where I’m Going
A nod to one of the greatest guitar players to ever do it, this rendition of Gallagher's acoustic blues folk number cranks up the volume and takes you down a road with deep, gritty guitar and an exciting fast rhythm section.
5 – Till I Get to You
All the pressure you carry is lifted when you get to the one you love with this soulful acoustic style song about the person that is always there for you, understands you, gets you, and helps you through it all.
6 – Frozen Hearts
This heavy blues rock song is a tribute to the victims of residential schools, who were taken from their way of life, family, culture and stripped of their identity. May the story of the ones who never made it home forever be heard and remind us to carry their memory with love and respect.
7 – Helping Hands
In life there are people who only do something because it benefits them. Sometimes they are the closest to us. "Helping Hands" is a funky blues rock song about moving on from the person that thinks you need them, but they need you more than you need them!
8 – Why
You can do the best job you can, but for someone who doesn't know themselves, it often becomes a thankless job. "Why" is a sad song filled with soulful licks and harmonies that's about doing everything right and getting hurt in return. You can solve all their problems just to be thrown out and left behind wondering why.
9 – Shoot Me Down
How can you hold up both ends if you're the only one? A relationship has two sides. This bare bones slide guitar song is about coming up with every idea for someone, them saying no, then never telling you what they really want. You can’t spend your life making up someone else's mind if all they do is shoot you down.
10 – You Won’t Find Her
It’s not you, it's all me. We both know that's a lie. This heavy riff driven blues rock song leaves you questioning how someone you once loved could go so wrong. You're left confused, searching for answers, until you finally realize you're better off without them."
11 – Evil
No matter how many people tell you to stay away or tell you, you're wrong, sometimes we won’t listen, and we find out for ourselves. "Evil" is a song with a punchy rhythm section and an in-your-face guitar sound, that's about learning how much someone can twist your mind or how blind love can really be.
ABOUT GYPSY SOUL RECORDS
Empty Chairs is Spencer Mackenzie’s third studio album released with Gypsy Soul Records, a label defined by soulful artistry and uncompromising vision along with other extraordinary artist including The Commoners, Samantha Martin & Delta Sugar, Bywater Call, Marcus Trummer, just to name a few. With his continued partnership, Spencer's new album will be embraced and elevated by Gypsy Soul Records, whose dedication to his craft ensures it reaches the hearts and souls across the globe with creativity that knows no bounds.
SPENCER MACKENZIE
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ROBIN ROSS & THE MELODYNES unveil 'Mind Space' album & ‘Campfire on the Moon’ video.
FOR FANS OF: Jefferson Airplane, Yes, Jacks Maze, Neil Young, The B-52's, Hawkwind, King Gizzard & The Lizard Wizard
INFLUENCED BY:Led Zeppelin, Pink Floyd, The Beatles, Rolling Stones, Neil Young, Jacks Maze
FOCUS TRACKS Spill No Mo Wine, Curious Mind, Cause I Do, Campfire On The Moon, Echo of Love
FOR SHARING
'Mind Space' album https://robinross.bandcamp.com/album/mind-space
Spotify
https://open.spotify.com/album/2jlv1wJiQTmXvwWEpONgjv
Apple Music https://music.apple.com/us/artist/robin-ross/1640503541
'Campfire on the Moon' video https://youtu.be/EvcXnpvuE1Q
Spotify
https://open.spotify.com/track/5BqqZuhfd2tCwx21iymp17
'Echo of Love' https://youtu.be/gMaupjdK3TI
'Spill No Mo Wine' video https://youtu.be/ya4lLg9uggA
Robin Ross & The TW Howlers 'Back To The Forest' EP https://robinross.bandcamp.com/album/back-to-the-forest
'Back To The Forest' CD https://robinrossmusic.com/album/3435543/back-to-the-forest
"Cool, funky basslines and female vocals that move the sound into a melodic punk style characteristic of The Go-Go’s. The song’s raw attraction comes from its intentional lo-fi, DIY late-70s punk sound, with a rough production that feels alive and uncensored. It’s punky, scrappy, and full of personality, a street-spirited hymn that celebrates both chaos and joy" ~ Skylight Webzine
"Punchy rhythm... akin to one of Neil Young’s mid 90s ragged outpourings" ~ Real Gone
"Like a party for friendship and feel-good energy... a flavour rich collaboration" ~ Ringmaster Review
Indie rockers Robin Ross & The Melodynes present their new 'Mind Space' album. Their second album, released via Pennsylvania indie imprint RPM Entertainment on February 20, showcases their diverse sound, mixing their own flavor of indie rock and classic rock sounds. The band also presents their new video for focus track 'Campfire on the Moon'.
Previewed by the B-52s-esque lead track 'Spill No Mo Wine' and the single 'Echo of Love', a shimmering anthem of sonic intimacy, 'Mind Space' is a head-trip with heart, blasting off from bedroom daydreams into a technicolor inner universe. Built from raw acoustic bones and lit up with electric spark, it balances cosmic drift with dance-floor swagger -- a joy-chasing, freedom-fueled reminder that the wildest frontier is the one inside your own head.
Robin Ross & The Melodynes is not just about music - it's about big fun between like-minded artists, including Wharton Tiers, JoEllen Gaetani, Katlyn Albrecht, Emery Rhodes, Tony Anniello. Joe (Bass) Torres, TW Howell and Nancy Isola. That shared joy is woven into every note, creating an infectious energy that invites the listener right into the heart of the party.
"Into my mind we roam. If we close the world around us and keep your eyes open, you can see prisms if you let them through. 'Mind Space' is a world of prisms -- some reach far and some are close. The title track 'Mind Space' is about resting in bed and drifting to the stars. Being the captain in your mind you can go wherever you want. Other songs like 'Spill No Mo Wine' and 'Shiny Blue Shoes' are our party stamp songs. Whatever world you land on, let's hope joy and spirits are plentiful," says Robin Ross.
"Other songs are about the journey. 'Follow' is aboard a spaceship en route to Mars, while 'Campfire On the Moon' is about all of your campfires in life together with others in a secluded sphere like the moon. We give in life as we move along the 'Echo of Love', which is a song about love by JoJo. I wrote the music on an acoustic guitar and built from there, adding the Strat later for the edge. 'Cause I Do' is something we do when we fall in love along life's flight. 'Taking All of My Heart' is another change ball, more of a pop love song about being swept off your feet on your journey. 'Come On In' is about being welcome -- come in let's dance. And 'Curious Mind' is about being tossed around in a dream but waking up to hope and beauty in someone someday".
This album was recorded at Baa Baa Leaf Music Studio in Milford, Pennsylvania, where Ross produced and engineered it, along with famed engineer Jonathan Duckett (Phillip Glass, Kenny G, David Sanborn).
"This album wouldn't be complete if it didn't have a few side pocket tunes. 'Free the Young' is one of those songs, recalling castles and kings, where tyranny was born to a new generation -- a crest that is upon us now. This is a message for youth to question history and fight for freedom," says Robin Ross.
"The other side pocket song is 'Sweet Jane', a blues riff song about a pooch named Jane. We were chilling with Sweet Jane and hit the blues and her master, Tony, wrote up some lyrics. We put this down in the studio and have been playing it ever since."
Emerging from the New Jersey and New York music scenes in 1988, Robin Ross has grown into a central figure in the creative pulse of Milford, PA. A multi-faceted musician, songwriter, and producer for cover thirty years, he has released numerous album while helping launch and develop several recording spaces, including Triple R Studios and Sound Complex near NYC. He has since grown his current hub, Baa Baa Leaf Music Studio into a creative sanctuary and production house.
In the early ’90s, Ross co-founded Laughing Jack (later renamed Jack’s Maze), praised for a progressive rock style echoing the grandeur of Pink Floyd and Led Zeppelin. Though business pursuits eventually pulled him down a different path, 2021 marked a return to form: he built Baa Baa Leaf Music Studio and reunited with bandmates Frank Cinquegrana, Scott Cowan, and Joe Torres to record new material, with a fresh Jack’s Maze release anticipated later this year.
As of February 20, 'Mind Space' is available on digital platforms, including Apple Music, Spotify, Amazon and Bandcamp, where his 2025 debut 'Back To The Forest' EP as Robin Ross & The TW Howlers, is also available. CDs can be obtained at https://robinrossmusic.com/music.
CREDITS
Recorded at Baa Baa Leaf Music Studios (Milford, PA)
Produced & Mixed by Robin Ross
Supervising Engineer: Jonathan Duckett
Robin Ross - Guitar, bass, keys, vocals
JoEllen Gaetani - Vocals
Wharton Tiers - Drums
Tony Anniello - Vocals
Katlyn Albrecht - Vocals, percussion
Emery Rhodes - Vocals
Dan Engvaldsen - Guitar
Joe Torres - Bass
TW Howell - Vocals, guitar
Jack Kowat - Sax
James Henry - Djembe
Nancy Isola - Background vocals
Tina Ross - Background vocals
Sandy Broxmeyer - Background vocals
Photography & videos by Tina Ross
Album artwork & design by Tina Ross
Publishing & booking: RPM Entertainment Enterprises, LLC
Publicity by Shameless Promotion PR
ALBUM TRACK LIST
01. Spill No Mo Wine
02. Mind Space
03. Campfire On The Moon
04. Free the Young
05. Cause I Do
06. Taking All Of My Heart
07. Shiny Blue Shoes
08. Sweet Jane
09. Curious Mind
10. Echo of Love
11. Come On In
12. Follow
Keep up with Robin Ross // Robin Ross & The Melodynes
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Nashville rockers Parker Barrow announce July 2026 UK Tour and new single 'Glass Eyes Cryin'.
PARKER BARROW ANNOUNCE JULY 2026 UK TOUR
TICKETS AVAILABLE FROM
PLANET ROCK & THE GIG CARTEL
NEW SINGLE – ‘GLASS EYES CRYIN’
STREAM SINGLE | OFFICIAL LYRIC VIDEO
"A perfect demonstration of what Parker Barrow are about – power, excitement and a classic Southern sound.” – Music News
“Parker Barrow are back… a bluesy, southern rock anthem that
hits with the force of a whiskey-fuelled freight train.” – Rock News
Nashville-based, Southern rockers Parker Barrow are pleased to return to the UK in July 2026 to perform five intimate club shows and a highly anticipated performance at Steelhouse Festival. Tickets for the July club shows go on sale at 10am on Thursday February 19th via Planet Rock, The Gig Cartel and Parker Barrow.
To celebrate their UK return, Parker Barrow are pleased to release their new single 'Glass Eyes Cryin', taken from their Hold The Mash EP.
The new single is available on all streaming platforms HERE. Hold The Mash EP is available on all streaming platforms HERE.
Watch the official lyric video for 'Glass Eyes Cryin' on YouTube HERE.
“Glass Eyes Cryin’ was the first song we wrote and recorded for Hold The Mash,” says Parker Barrow’s drummer, Dylan Turner. “We felt it was the perfect song to kickstart a musical shift to what the band has become since our previous record."
Continues Turner, "It’s a laid-back, groovy and features a powerful vocal that tells the story about a sass-filled response to situations of emotional manipulation. With the use of many textures, and gospel elements, the song takes you on the emotional journey that comes with the realization that actions truly speak louder than words.”
“Megan Kane is one of those one-in-a-generation vocalists. She also has amazing energy on stage still able to belt out her vocals whilst bouncing around like a Duracell bunny.” – Get Ready to Rock
“Truckloads of rock ‘n’ roll exuberance, with thrilling rhythms and
spectacular Plantish vocals.” – Raw Ramp
Husband-and-wife duo Megan Kane (lead vocals) and Dylan Turner (drums) lead Parker Barrow. The name of the band is a homage to Bonnie Parker and Clyde Barrow - the infamous American bank robbers during the early 1930’s Great Depression.
A chance encounter in 2019 paired-up Megan and Dylan, who was hunting for a new singer. Two weeks later, they were on the road together, driven by one goal: making their musical dreams a reality.
In 2023 Parker Barrow expanded with the full-time inclusion of guitarist and musical director Alex Bender. Dylan lays down a heavy groove while Megan’s soulful vocals soar high above. Alex’s inventive riffs and fiery playing pull it all together, creating Parker Barrow’s signature sound.
Parker Barrow’s vintage rock vibe features elements of Rock, Southern Rock, Blues & Soul; but their distinctive sound is unmistakably their own. There’s an impressive mix of old and new influences threaded throughout the band’s repertoire, including The Rolling Stones, Blackberry Smoke, Allman Brothers Band, Aerosmith, Tedeschi Trucks, The Black Crowes and traces of Led Zeppelin.
Parker Barrow’s debut album Jukebox Gypsies was released to glowing reviews from music press and fans globally; and the single “Back To Birmingham” racked up over a million YouTube views.
In 2025 they released the EP Hold The Mash, featuring the singles “Make It,” “Novocaine” and “The Healer.” They toured the UK supporting the Damn Truth later that same year winning over new fans. Planet Rock radio added “Make It” to their main playlist.
Parker Barrow has earned a reputation for their powerhouse live shows featuring spontaneous jams and fresh twists on their songs. In 2025, the band were busy touring the U.S. and, in the summer, they played festivals and headline shows in the U.K. and Spain.
Parker Barrow thrives on connecting with fans, both old and new. They will continue touring across the US and Europe through 2026. Their live shows deliver high energy, swagger, and pure heat—a testament that rock ‘n’ roll is very much alive and well.
“You can hear that they’ve drawn from the wells of the Allmans,
Led Zeppelin, Blackberry Smoke, Tedeschi Trucks Band, leaning into both the sweet and oomphy, biting sides of those blues-infused heroes. Nice.”
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PARKER BARROW
JULY 2026 UK TOUR
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FROME, TREEHOUSE
FRIDAY 17 JULY 2026
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35 Berkley Road, Frome, BA11 2EH
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STOWMARKET, JOHN PEEL CENTRE
SATURDAY 18 JULY 2026
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Church Walk, Stowmarket, IP14 1ET
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GLASGOW, AUDIO
TUESDAY 21 JULY 2026
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14 Midland St, Glasgow, G1 4PP
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SHEFFIELD GREYSTONES
WEDNESDAY 22 JULY 2026
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Greystones Road, Sheffield, S11 7BS
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LEEK, FOXLOWE ARTS CENTRE
THURSDAY 23 JULY 2026
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Stockwell St, Leek, Staffordshire, ST13 6AD
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STEELHOUSE FESTIVAL
FRIDAY 24 JULY 2026
Tickets: Box Office
Ebbw Vale, Wales, NP13 2ER
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London-based Liverpool troubadour ANDREW DEEVEY shares 'Money Can't Buy Me Love' single.
FOR FANS OF: The La's, The Kinks, Jake Bugg, The Beatles, Gerry Cinnamon, The Libertines, Shack, The Coral, Cast
INFLUENCED BY The Beatles, Echo and The Bunnymen, The House of Love, The Smiths, The La’s, Jake Bugg
FOR SHARING
'Money Can't Buy Me Love' https://andrewdeevey.bandcamp.com/track/money-cant-buy-me-love
Spotify
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Apple Music https://music.apple.com/us/artist/andrew-deevey/502230653
'Northern Soul' album (2019) https://open.spotify.com/album/5dFMgRaKFpAyOrxGBGaRqk
"Truly terrific... catchy and elegant... The guitar jangles, the vocals takes us back to the time we fell in love with indiepop" ~ Cloudberry Records
"The Next Johnny Marr" ~ Stephen Street
"A guitar incendiary of startling hugeness" ~ Melody Maker
"Anchored in the 50-year history of that unparalleled cultural industry that is British pop. Classically optimistic music... a classic, inimitable result" ~ El jardin de Octopus
English troubadour Andrew Deevey presents his new single 'Money Can’t Buy Me Love', a lean, hook-laden cut that taps straight into the anxiety of belt-tightening Britain. A timely and true reflection of our credit-crunch era, the track pairs melodic immediacy with a clear-eyed take on life where paychecks feel fleeting and everyday expenses steadily chip away at what’s left.
This is Deevey's latest offering in what can only be described as a storied musical career. After being a member of The Decemberists (UK), Hellfire Sermons, The Caretaker Race and The Bitter Springs, Deevey has stepped into a bold solo chapter, stripping his sound back to its essentials while sharpening his songwriting focus.
Following up his impressive 'Northern Soul' album, Deevey's new single is about valuing love and personal connections over money or material goods. Built around driving vocals, ringing guitar, harmonica and drum machine, the track delivers melodic indie-pop with soulful undertones and a sharp eye on modern financial pressures.
"'Money Can’t Buy Me Love' reflects on austerity-era realities — the squeeze of the credit crunch, rising costs, having no money and the sense that even when you do earn money, it quickly disappears," says Andrew Deevey. “It feels like someone is always making money out of you — taxes, parking, fines, bills — it never stops. But the things that really matter can’t be bought.”
With its raw, minimal setup and anthemic hook, 'Money Can’t Buy Me Love' captures Andrew Deevey at his most direct and self-assured — an artist distilling decades of experience into a lean, resonant statement. showcases Deevey’s evolution into a self-contained, uncompromising solo artist whose strength lies in melody, authenticity and direct connection.
Recorded at One Cat Studios, Antenna Studios in South London, this single was mixed, produced and mastered by Jon Clayton, reknowned for his work with The Monochrome Set, Band of Holy Joy, Vic Godard and The Subway Sect, The Near Jazz Experience and Carter USM frontman's project Jim Bob.
Originally from Liverpool, Deevey cut his teeth in the city’s rich music scene. Early projects gained London shows and coverage in the music press, Single of the Week recognition in NME. After relocating to London in search of new opportunities, he narrowly missed out on joining The La's — arriving just minutes too late to secure the role.
He soon joined The Caretaker Race, touring the UK and Europe extensively, including dates with The Darling Buds and The House of Love. During the 'Hangover Square' sessions, producer Stephen Street famously described Deevey as “the next Johnny Marr,” while Melody Maker praised his playing as “a guitar incendiary of startling hugeness.”
He later played guitar for The Bitter Springs, contributing to 'Everyone’s Cup of Tea' and 'The Odd Shower', touring as the backup band for Vic Godard and The Subway Sect, and recording a session for The Marc Riley Show.
Deevey recorded the album 'Northern Soul' within a year of going it solo, with the lead track 'I Got The Feeling' earning international airplay and receiving Album of the Week accolades on numerous UK stations. With songwriting shaped by the melodic guitar traditions of The Beatles and the direct acoustic energy of Jake Bugg and Gerry Cinnamon, Deevey now performs in a stripped-down format, embracing independence and immediacy on stage.
Andrew Deevey shares, “I wanted the songs to work acoustically or with a full band. I now play live with guitar, harmonica and drum machine — no waiting around. I’ve been playing these songs and getting good feedback from people. At one festival, someone told me, "You just blow them away"... That’s the reaction I’m after.”
As of March 2, 'Money Can't Buy Me Love' will be released via Waterline Records across digital platforms, including Spotify, Apple Music and Bandcamp, where it is now available for pre-order.
CREDITS
Written & arranged by Andrew Deevey
Andrew Deevey - Vocals, guitar, harmonica
Marian Lacko - Bass
Charlie Batney - Drums
Recorded, mixed, produced & mastered by Jon Clayton at One Cat Studios, Antenna Studios, 19 Haynes Lane. London. SE19 3AN
ISRC Code UKQBQ1800002
Video filmed by Henry Chin
Artist photos by Akis Markopoulos
Publicity by Shameless Promotion PR
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18/02/2026
Luke Winslow-King Unveils New Single, Album 27/3
Luke Winslow-King is excited to share the latest single off of his forthcoming release, Coast of Light due March 27th via Bloodshot Records. The track, “Shoot From The Hip” is out now, listen here, and the accompanying live video has been premiered by Blues Rock Review, check it out here.
A cinematic surge of spaghetti western grit, “Shoot From the Hip” relentlessly gallops forward with electric guitar swagger. Inspired by the sweeping landscapes of Aragón, Spain—where Luke has been living—the track paints a vivid and gruesome picture of frontier justice, duels at high noon, and all the pain and suffering they entail. Recorded and performed by an all-Italian cast, the song balances both elegance and ferocity, bringing European flair to a timeless Western soundscape. It’s explosive, ruthless, and undeniable. “So before you go reaching for the pearl-handled grip, let it be known, we Shoot From the Hip”
Winslow-King mixes jazz, blues, classical, and folk into a cinematic, rootsy sound that’s all his own. His fluid guitar playing, bold songwriting, and gruff-but-tender voice give his songs real staying power. Known for his strengths as a writer, producer, and player, he’s drawn praise for blending traditional American forms with deeply personal storytelling. As Consequence of Sound put it, his work is “steeped in the muddy Delta blues,” while Austin Chronicle notes he “demonstrate[s] a wide range of songwriting worthy of comparison to Jason Isbell and John Fullbright.”
The new album, Coast of Light, shows Winslow-King exploring the topics of love, loss, hope, and setbacks—through the influence of Spanish music and culture. Inspired by time spent in Cádiz on Andalusia’s Atlantic coast, the songs carry a breezy seaside feel and a touch of flamenco’s emotion and rhythm. Co-produced with Roberto Luti in Livorno, Italy, In addition to Winslow-King on guitar, percussion, and vocals, and Luti on guitar, the album features Simone Luti on bass, Piero Perelli on drums and congas, Nicola Venturini on Hammond organ, Fender Rhodes, and piano and drums, and Giacomo Riggi on mallet percussion.
Originally hailing from Cadillac, Michigan, and now living in Spain, Winslow-King’s early influences included Muddy Waters, Howlin’ Wolf, Buddy Guy, Jimi Hendrix, and Carlos Santana. After a short stint studying jazz and classical guitar, he began busking on street corners performing Woody Guthrie songs, fell in love with New Orleans spending the next 15 years honing his craft on street, and developing a lifelong friendship with his musical collaborator, guitarist Roberto Luti.
Winslow-King’s previous albums include Luke Winslow-King (2008), Old/New Baby (2009), The Coming Tide (2013), Everlasting Arms (2014), I’m Glad Trouble Don't Last Always (2016), Blue Mesa (2018), and If These Walls Could Talk (2022). He’s recorded with acclaimed artists such as George Porter Jr., Little Freddy King, and John Boutté. He’s shared the stage with Jack White, Taj Mahal, Rosanne Cash, and many others. His original song "Everlasting Arms" was performed by Dr. John in the 'Playing for Change: Songs Around the World' series on YouTube. His music has been featured on Anderson Cooper Live (CNN), NCIS: New Orleans (CBS), and Deadliest Catch (Discovery).
With a sound rooted in tradition but driven by curiosity, Winslow-King continues to carry American roots music forward on his own terms.
"SHOOT FROM THE HIP"
Seven silhouettes are riding
On the edge of town
Just waking up as the sun goes down
Sleep for the day
Only move at night
Under the cover of darkness
We crave no delight
So go right ahead now
Take that one last nip
But let it be known
We Shoot from the Hip
Don’t hold your breath
We don’t taunt nor tease
Without hesitation
We don’t squint nor squeeze
We ride for lady justice
And liberty
Came here to rid you
Like a bad disease
So, make no mistake
And be well equipped
Me and my gang
We Shoot from the Hip
We talk about nothing
That we don’t know
Come and just fix things
Up so that they go
You better have all your ducks
Lined up in a pretty row
If anyone should ask ya
You oughta know
Before you go reaching
For that pearl handled grip
Let it be known
We Shoot from the Hip
TOUR DATE
MAR 05 Ranica, Italy Druso
MAR 21 Ludenscheid, Germany Jazz Club Ludenscheid e.V.
MAR 24 Mørkøc, Denmark Gården | Mørkøc Kirkeby
MAR 26 Tønder, Denmark Hagge's Musik Pub
MAR 27 Hamburg, Germany Fischhalle
MAR 28 Osnabrück, Germany Blues Lawine
Tangerine Dream RSD: 12” clear vinyl featuring new versions from 'GTA V', 'Risky Business'.
Tangerine Dream
For RSD, ‘Night Trains & Cityscapes’
12” clear vinyl single featuring new versions of tracks from Grand Theft Auto V, and Risky Business
For Record Store Day, 18 April 2026, the current Tangerine Dream band line-up of Thorsten Quaeschning, Hoshiko Yamane & Paul Frick return with ‘Night Trains & Cityscapes’ [IH97T] an exclusive clear vinyl 12” single featuring new versions of some of their finest contributions to the world of scores.
Side 1 features two tracks fromGrand Theft Auto V, one of the best selling video games of all time: ‘Happy Ending’ and ‘Los Santos City Map’.
Side 2 features a new 2026 recording of ‘Love On A Real Train’, Tangerine Dream’s best-known track, from 1983 box office smashRisky Business starring Tom Cruise.
Mastered atAbbey Road by legendary cutting ace Miles Showell and pressed at Optimal in Germany, the EP is presented in a stylish single jacket by Invisible Hands Music.
Electro pioneers Tangerine Dream had a dozen top 20 albums on both sides of the Atlantic in the 1970s, as well as scoring some of Hollywood’s biggest movies including Firestarter (1984) and Near Dark (1987).
12” clear vinyl single
Track Listing
Side A
Happy Ending: 5m2s
Los Santos City Map: 8m5s
45rpm
Side B
Love On A Real Train: 8m50s
45rpm
Total Duration: 21m57s
Bruce Springsteen and The E Street Band's Land Of Hope and Dreams American Tour announced for Spring 2026.
Bruce Springsteen and The E Street Band will launch their Land Of Hope And Dreams American Tour this spring, kicking off in Minneapolis’ Target Centre on 31st March. The 20-date run will feature 19 arena shows, and a final night outdoors on 27th May at Nationals Park in Washington, D.C.
Springsteen offered the following comments about the goals of the tour: "We are living through dark, disturbing and dangerous times, but do not despair — the cavalry is coming! Bruce Springsteen and The E Street Band will be taking the stage this spring from Minneapolis to California to Texas to Washington, D.C. for the Land of Hope And Dreams American Tour. We will be rocking your town in celebration and in defense of America — American democracy, American freedom, our American Constitution and our sacred American dream — all of which are under attack by our wannabe king and his rogue government in Washington, D.C. Everyone, regardless of where you stand or what you believe in, is welcome — so come on out and join the United Free Republic of E Street Nation for an American spring of Rock 'n' Rebellion! I’ll see you there!" — Bruce Springsteen
In the spring of 2025, Springsteen and The E Street Band brought their Land Of Hope And Dreams Tour to more than 700,000 fans across Europe and released the “Land Of Hope And Dreams” EP from opening night in Manchester, England. Their return to the United States will mark Springsteen and The E Street Band’s first shows in North America since 2024.
2026 LAND OF HOPE AND DREAMS AMERICAN TOUR DATES
Tuesday, March 31 - Minneapolis, MN - Target Center
Friday, April 3 - Portland, OR - Moda Center
Tuesday, April 7 - Inglewood, CA - Kia Forum
Thursday, April 9 - Inglewood, CA - Kia Forum
Monday, April 13 - San Francisco, CA - Chase Center
Thursday, April 16 - Phoenix, AZ - Mortgage Matchup Center
Monday, April 20 - Newark, NJ - Prudential Center
Thursday, April 23 - Sunrise, FL - Amerant Bank Arena
Sunday, April 26 - Austin, TX - Moody Center
Wednesday, April 29 - Chicago, IL - United Center
Saturday, May 2 - Atlanta, GA - State Farm Arena
Tuesday, May 5 - Belmont Park, NY - UBS Arena
Friday, May 8 - Philadelphia, PA - Xfinity Mobile Arena
Monday, May 11 - New York, NY - Madison Square Garden
Thursday, May 14 - Brooklyn, NY - Barclays Center
Saturday, May 16 - New York, NY - Madison Square Garden
Tuesday, May 19 - Pittsburgh, PA - PPG Paints Arena
Friday, May 22 - Cleveland, OH - Rocket Arena
Sunday, May 24 - Boston, MA - TD Garden
Wednesday, May 27 - Washington, D.C. - Nationals Park
For ticketing information: www.brucespringsteen.net/tour
The E Street Band's members are Roy Bittan (piano, synthesiser), Nils Lofgren (guitar, vocals), Patti Scialfa (guitar, vocals), Garry Tallent (bass guitar), Stevie Van Zandt (guitar, vocals) and Max Weinberg (drums); with Soozie Tyrell (violin, guitar, vocals), Jake Clemons (saxophone) and Charlie Giordano (organ, keyboards, accordion). They will be joined by The E Street Horns (Barry Danielian, Eddie Manion, Ozzie Melendez, Curt Ramm), The E Street Choir (Lisa Lowell, Michelle Moore, Ada Dyer, Curtis King) and Anthony Almonte (percussion, vocals).
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17/02/2026
Bob Margolin to be Inducted into Blues Hall of Fame.
BOB MARGOLIN ENTERS BLUES FOUNDATION'S BLUES HALL OF FAME
We are deeply proud to share the news that Bob Margolin will be inducted into the The Blues Foundation’s Blues Hall of Fame as part of the Class of 2026! The man we are proud to call our longtime friend and VizzTone co-founder has been a vital part of the beating heart of the Blues for more years than many of us can remember. Bob has been a true Blues artist and a source of support and inspiration for his friends, fans, students and co-workers, lending his deep artistry, knowledge and creative energy to a lifetime's worth of performances, recordings, and associations.
From his formative years alongside Muddy Waters to a remarkable solo career, Bob has devoted his life to preserving, advancing, and sharing the Blues. His expressive guitar work, heartfelt songwriting, music performance, recording and production, and deep commitment to mentoring younger musicians, especially as a key figure in the Pinetop Perkins Foundation, have left an enduring mark on the global Blues community. Similarly, his heartfelt writing, which has appeared in countless articles, columns, and his own e-book, are a wonderful source of stories, anecdotes and opinions that continue to enrich the story of the Blues.
Here at Vizztone Label Group, we’re especially honored to celebrate Bob, not only as one of our artists, but as a valued partner whose vision, integrity, and passion continue to help shape what we do every day.
Please join us in congratulating Bob Margolin on this well-deserved recognition — and thanking him for a lifetime of music, mentorship, and dedication to keeping the Blues vital and strong.
—Richard Rosenblatt & Amy Brat
The celebration and induction ceremony will take place Wednesday May 6, 2026 in Memphis TN.
Congratulations to the class of 2026!
Robben Ford reveals new single, the brass-bolstered soul ballad, ‘Perfect Illusion.’
From soul and jazz to blues, rock, and fusion, there are few musical landscapes untouched by Robben Ford’s masterful touch. On his latest single, the brass-laced soul ballad ‘Perfect Illusion’, he delivers a performance that feels both radiant and timeless.
This is the second single to be taken from his upcoming new album, Two Shades of Blue, which will be released on 27 March via Provogue/Artone.
“That was written back in 1999 on my own during a period of writing with Michael McDonald,” Ford says. “I went out to get some air and on the gravel driveway, I saw what looked like a jewel. I look closer and it’s a drop of water, reflecting the light. And I thought: ‘Hah, perfect illusion’.”
Loading into Eastcote Studios with engineer George Murphy, the chemistry is palpable, with Ford’s guitar and vocals leading a first-call band that takes in drummer Ianto Thomas (Mark Knopfler), keys man Jonny Henderson (Otis Grand), bassist Robin Mullarkey (Paloma Faith) and a brass section comprising of Paul Booth (saxophone), Ryan Quigley (trumpet) and Trevor Mires (trombone). “Great cats,” smiles Ford. “London has been incredible for finding musicians. This place is loaded, even better for me than Nashville or LA.”
The album opens exquisitely with the brittle groove of its first single. 'Make My Own Weather'.. “That’s one of my favourite straight-up, slamming blues things I’ve ever written,” says Ford. “It’s about a guy reclaiming his freedom. I tried to create the rumble of a motorcycle with the rhythm guitar.”
Robben Ford is a man in motion. Scan the five-time Grammy nominee’s back catalogue – a half-century hot streak that darts between jazz, rock, fusion and blues – and you’ll find a musician in a constant state of metamorphosis. Spin new album Two Shades Of Blue – a transatlantic modern classic that shapeshifted as the sessions unfolded – and you’ll feel the risks taken and rules broken. “I have that curse,” smiles the 74-year-old guitarist. “I don’t have two records that sound the same…”
Robben feels at the top of his game right now. Two Shades Of Blue was tracked in the US and UK with two different crack-squad bands. The album also features the incredible talents of bassist, Darryl Jones (The Rolling Stones), Keyboardist Larry Goldings and Gary Husband on drums for the instrumental songs, The Fire Flute, The Light Fandango and Feeling's Mutual.
From his early days, Ford was a special talent. The 60s saw him backing Mississippi harp wizard Charlie Musselwhite and stretching those skills across Los Angeles with jazz giant Jimmy Witherspoon, before he fell in with the fearless adventurism of saxophonist Tom Scott’s esteemed ’70s fusion outfit, The L.A. Express.
That lineup’s blazing skills saw them recruited by Joni Mitchell for two classic albums (“the most formative two years of my musical life”), before Ford stepped out with rock royalty on George Harrison’s Dark Horse tour. That collaborative streak would continue throughout his career, from Bonnie Raitt to Bob Dylan. “I’m out there on the bandstand and this rocket ship takes off,” he recalls of his mid-’80s debut with jazz talisman Miles Davis. “For my solo, I put my head down and played every note I knew, as fast as I could. I look up, and Miles just goes: ‘Yeah’. And I’m like, ‘OK, he likes it’.”
“I still love to play,” he considers. “I’ve kept writing better music and become more acquainted with what it is to make a record. The fact that I’m all over the place musically has confused some people over the years. But I always need a change. I always want to do something different. And I’ve been that way since the very beginning…”
Track Listing
1. Make My Own Weather
2. Jealous Guy
3. Perfect Illusion
4. Black Night
5. Two Shades of Blue
6. Fire Flute
7. The Light Fandango
8. Feeling's Mutual
13/02/2026
Son Little shares tender new song 'Cherry' - UK shows April - New album ‘Cityfolk’ out 20th March.
Curiosity about his ancestry has led songwriter and multi-instrumentalist Son Little on a journey throughout the American South that has resulted in his new album, simply titled ‘CITYFOLK.’ The West Coast-born, Northeast-bred musician finetunes his craft here and speaks for those enduring tribulations about finding their place in the world.
Equal parts cosmic and carnal, on 'Cherry' Little drifts through hazy memories and half-truths, chasing that electric moment when love feels both eternal and fleeting. It’s tender, a little tipsy, and full of wonder - the sound of falling in love at light speed, knowing it might all disappear by morning. Give it a listen below.
LISTEN TO 'CHERRY' ON SPOTIFY AND YOUTUBE
Little, whose real name is Aaron Livingston, has sonically travelled everywhere that his songwriting and instrumentation have taken him. He’s toured with the likes of Black Pumas, Kelis and Mumford & Sons and made festival appearances at Newport Folk and Bonnaroo, melding his dedicated fanbase with mainstream listeners. On the soulful fluidity of 2020’s ‘aloha,’ the ANTI- Records act braves his way through realisations about his personal shortcomings, but endeavours to persevere through the madness. 2022’s ‘Like Neptune’ unspools Little’s time in therapy, no longer silencing his inner fire. With a catalogue that has amassed over 250 million streams, Little’s originality has embarked on a new chapter.
Now living outside of Atlanta, Livingston attributes the development of ‘CITYFOLK’ to going even further south to record in Muscle Shoals, Alabama. It was there that Little, whose past collaborations include The Roots and RJD2, connected with two-time GRAMMY-winning musician and Alabama Shakes band member Ben Tanner to flesh out sketches of songs that he’d crafted through epiphanies about his family’s roots.
Before immersing himself in the home studio of Tanner’s residence in Shoals, Little recorded voice note demos with subtle instrumentation that became the framework of ‘CITYFOLK.’ The acoustic demos would soon be mixed with drum machine beats before evolving into live material with contributions from a drummer, bassist and horn players. These jam sessions fully brought the record into existence, while the unchanging southern comfort and musical richness of Shoals remained a backdrop to the album’s hymnal stew. In the late 1960s, the Muscle Shoals Sound Studios housed unbridling protest anthems and melodious love songs that would become the classics of tomorrow. Little’s ‘CITYFOLK’ is such a relic in the musical path that has been paved for him.
“Just by showing up it brought something out,” Little explains. “I realized, in moving here, that my mother's people all came from this area, from South Carolina, Georgia–I thought a lot about how interesting it was that I would just sort of gravitate and migrate to a place where I had history.”
“Sometimes the spirits will guide you to a place when you don't even know you don't know why you found yourself there,” Little continues.
This spring Little will continue to travel the world and seek new experiences, including a European tour that begins April 7. All upcoming dates are listed below. Tickets are available here.
TOUR DATES
7 April – Rennes, France @ Mythos Festival
8 April – Amsterdam, Netherlands @ Paradiso
9 April – Rotterdam, Netherlands @ Annabel
10 April – Brussels, Belgium @ Le Botanique Orangerie
11 April – Hamburg, Germany @ Betty
13 April – Berlin, Germany @ Frannz Club
14 April – Prague, Czech Republic @ Cafe V lese
15 April – Warsaw, Poland @ Jasmine
17 April – Cologne, Germany @ Yard Club
19 April – Brighton and Hove, UK @ DUST
20 April – Bristol, UK @ The Croft
21 April – Manchester, UK @ Band on the Wall
22 April – London, UK @ Jazz Cafe
25 April – Paris, France @ Alhambra
Pre-Save ‘CITYFOLK’
1. Rabbit
2. Whip The Wind
3. Let’s Get Involved
4. It’s Your World
5. Cherry
6. Bottomless
7. Be Better
8. The Valley
9. In Orbit
10. Paper Children
11. Breathe
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12/02/2026
Marillion: Celebrate 25 Years of “Marillion.Com” with the Deluxe Edition.
Marillion Celebrate 25 Years of “Marillion.Com” with the announcement of the Deluxe Edition 2026, arriving 19th June
As first teaser the 2026 Remix of “Go!” Is Out Now!
Pre-order “Marillion” Deluxe Editions
Listen to the first single “Go! (2026 Remix)”
After the sold-out 2024 Deluxe Edition release of “This Strange Engine”, Marillion and earMUSIC are delighted to announce the next chapter in the band’s reissue series, celebrating one of their most distinctive and forward-thinking releases. Originally launched as an independent statement of artistic freedom, “Marillion.Com” captures the band at a moment of bold reinvention, embracing expansive songwriting, atmospheric depth, and an openness to global musical influences. The album moves effortlessly between cinematic arrangements, emotional storytelling, and moments of intimate reflection, offering a richly textured listening experience that continues to resonate with fans old
and new.
To be released as deluxe 3CD+Blu-ray media book and 5LP box-set editions, both sets include a version of the original studio album newly mixed and mastered, a previously unreleased complete recording of the band's 1999 performance recorded in London at the Shepherds Bush Empire, and also accompanied by illustrated booklets containing rare photos, new artwork, memorabilia and an essay that’s digging deep into the album’s story. The bonus Blu-ray, which is included in the media book, contains the album in hi-res and surround sound, demos & early versions of the album tracks, a “Marillion.com” documentary and the “Shot In The Dark (Zodiac)” concert video.
In stores 19th June, 2026.
MARILLION
“Marillion.Com” Deluxe Edition 2026
ALBUM RELEASE: 19th June, 2026
SINGLE RELEASE: “Go! (2026 Remix)” 11th February 2026
Album Formats:
-3CD + Blu-ray Media Book
-5LP box-set
-Digital Download/Streaming
3CD+Blu-ray Edition
CD 1 - Album Remix 2026
1. A Legacy (2025 Remix)
2. Deserve
3. Go!
4. Rich
5. Enlightened
6. Built-In Bastard Radar
7. Tumble Down The Years
8. Interior Lulu
9. House
CD 2 - Live In London 1999
1. Go!
2. Under The Sun
3. Rich
4. Uninvited Guest
5. A Legacy
6. House
7. Mad
8. Afraid Of Sunlight
9. Deserve
CD 3 - Live In London 1999
10. Easter
11. Answering Machine
12. Memory Of Water Big Beat
13. King
14. Brave
15. Great Escape
16. Kayleigh
17. Lavender
18. Slainte Mhath
Blu-ray Video Content
Marillion.Com Documentary Film
Shot In The Dark (Zodiac) Concert Video
1. Rich
2. The Uninvited Guest
3.Goodbye To All That
4. Afraid Of Sunlight
5. Easter
6. Deserve
7. Beyond You
8. The Space (acoustic)
9, Sugar Mice (acoustic)
10. The Answering Machine (acoustic)
11. Berlin
12. Waiting To Happen
13. Cathedral Wall
14. Garden Party
15. Abraham Martin and John
Blu-ray Audio Content
Marillion.com Album Remix 2026
-96/32 Stereo LPCM
-DTS-HD Master Audio 5.1
Demos & Early Versions
1. A Legacy - Early version - March 1999
2. A Legacy - Steven Wilson Master Mix - August 1999
3. You Get What You Deserve - Original Jam - January 1998
4. Deserve - Early Radiation Version - March 1998
5. Deserve - Early Dot Com Version - March 1999
6. Go - Early Vocal Melody - AoS sessions - October 1994
7. Upside Down (Go) - Radiation Version - April 1998
8. Go - Dot Com Work in Progress - February 1999
9. Go - Early Mix - June 1999
10. Swing Doors - Early Radiation Version - March 1998
11. Rich - Early Dot Com Version - March 1999
12. Enlightened - Radiation Work in Progress - March 1998
13. Enlightened - Dot Com Work in Progress - March 1999
14. Built in Bastard Radar - Writing Jams - March 1999
15. Built in Bastard Radar - Trevor Vallis Mix - July 1999
16. Tumble Down the Years - Early Radiation Version - March 1998
17. Tumble Down The Years - Early Mix - May 1999
18. Interior Lulu - Radiation Backing Track - April 1998
19. Finding Lulu - March 1998 to April 1999
20. Massive Attack Song (House) - Original Radiation Jam - December 1997
21. This House Aches - Work in Progress - March 1998
22. Think Happy
23. Dreaming of Summer - January 1999
5 LP Box Edition
Album Remix 2026
LP 1
1. A Legacy
2. Deserve
3. Go!
4. Rich
5. Enlightened
6. Built-In Bastard Radar
LP 2
7. Tumble Down The Years
8. Interior Lulu
9. House
Live In London 1999
LP 3
1. Go!
2. Under The Sun
3. Rich
4. Uninvited Guest
5. A Legacy
6. House
LP 4
7. Mad/ The Opium Den
8. Afraid Of Sunlight
9. Deserve
10. Easter
11. Answering Machine
12. Memory Of Water Big Beat
13. King
LP 5
14. Brave
15. Great Escape
16. Kayleigh
17. Lavender
18. Slainte Mhath
10/02/2026
Robin Trower Live! 50th Anniversary Edition Released by Chrysalis 3rd April.
Robin Trower - Live! 50th Anniversary Edition Landmark 1975 Stockholm show now available to hear in full for the very first time 2LP / 2CD & Digital formats Released by Chrysalis 3rd April 2026 Stream ‘Bridge of Sighs’ (Live in Sweden 2026 mix) here Pre-Order: https://robintrower.lnk.to/Live
“That night in ‘75…we were just flying” - Robin Trower
Robin Trower's journey as one of rock's most expressive and soulful guitarists began during his time with ‘60s beatmakers The Paramounts and then Procol Harum, but it was when he stepped out on his own that his distinctive brand of funky blues rock truly took flight. After leaving Procol, Trower formed the Robin Trower Band, releasing Twice Removed From Yesterday in 1973 — a confident debut long player that hinted at what was to come. A year later, Trower’s power trio hit full stride with the release of Bridge of Sighs, an album that not only cemented Trower's reputation as a guitar great but also brought international success, reaching Number 7 in the US Billboard Charts. Over the following years, the band achieved four consecutive gold albums and delivered a run of performances that have since become the stuff of legend. Now, Robin Trower celebrates the 50th Anniversary of another landmark moment — the release of Live! On 3 rd April 2026. Originally issued in 1976, this powerful set recorded at the Stockholm Concert Hall on February 3, 1975 captured the Robin Trower Band (Robin Trower, James Dewar (bass/vocals) & drummer Bill Lordan) at full throttle with Trower at the peak of his solo powers. Due to the limitations of vinyl at the time, only seven tracks from the show made it onto the original LP. This new anniversary edition finally makes available the full concert for the very first time - newly remixed and restored from the original multi-track tapes for this definitive Deluxe Extended Edition.
The 50th Anniversary Edition of Live! includes 5 previously unreleased tracks from the 1975 Stockholm performance, offering the complete setlist as it was originally performed for the very first time. The recording showcases the electrifying chemistry between Robin Trower, James and Bill Lordan — widely regarded as one of the finest live bands of the era. The blistering set includes searing live versions of fan favourites like ‘Too Rolling Stoned’, ‘Bridge of Sighs’, ‘Day of the Eagle’, ‘Rock Me Baby’, ‘Lady Love’, ‘Alethea’ and many more, now sounding better than ever.
Available on 2CDs, 2LPs and a full Digital release (same track listing as the 2CD), the new edition includes the complete 1975 Stockholm performance, featuring both the new 2026 remix and the original 1975 mix. The set also comes with a beautifully put-together booklet, including new liner notes and previously unseen photos from the period — a must-have for fans and collectors alike.
Expertly remixed by Richard Whittaker and fully approved by Robin Trower, Live! features brand-new liner notes by David Sinclair including interviews with Robin and Bill Lordan alongside previously unseen photos.
Five decades on, Robin Trower Live! still burns with the same intensity and soul that made him one of the defining guitarists of his era - and this expanded edition gives us the clearest window yet into that magical night in Sweden.
Robin Trower Live! [50thAnniversary Edition]: 2CD (DVD sized) Media Book: Complete Concert - 2026 Mix & Original 1975 Version, mastered at AIR Mastering. Housed in a hardback media book with extended liner notes by David Sinclair featuring interviews with Robin Trower and Bill Lordan and rare photographs.
TRACKLISTING:
CD1: Complete Concert - 2026 Mix 1. Day of the Eagle [3:48] * 2. Bridge of Sighs [7:02] * 3. Gonna Be More Suspicious [3:20] * 4. Fine Day [3:51] * 5. Lady Love [3:25] 6. Daydream [9:07] 7. Too Rolling Stoned [7:12] 8. I Can’t Wait Much Longer [7:28] 9. Alethea [5:17] 10.Little Bit Of Sympathy [7:15] 11.Confessin’ Midnight [6:39] * 12.Rock Me Baby [6:22]
CD2: Original 1975 Version 1. Too Rolling Stoned [6:41] 2. Daydream [7:57] 3. Rock Me Baby [5:58] 4. Lady Love [3:06] 5. I Can’t Wait Much Longer [6:58] 6. Alethea [4:10] 7. Little Bit Of Sympathy [5:55]
*Previously unreleased
Kalyn Fay's Native Stories Shine on ᎠᎾᏒᎤ (Garden).
TULSA, OK - Oklahoma-based singer songwriter, Kalyn Fay (Cherokee Nation, Muscogee descent, b. 1990) is back with their third full-length album, ᎠᎾᏒᎤ (Garden), out April 3, 2026 via Horton Records. "Windsong", the first single out now, has been premiered by Americana Highways, check it out here.
On “Windsong,” Fay reflects on finding grounding in unfamiliar places: “I wrote that song when I was in Arkansas and feeling very displaced. It was a way to sonically point back to a space where I could locate myself again—here’s the sound that I’m going to use to call myself back, so I never lose myself here.” The track features Fay on vocals and acoustic guitar, with Matt Magerkurth on cello, Mike Cameron on saxophone, Stephen Schultz on upright bass, Jake Lynn on drums and percussion, and Penny Pitchlynn on background vocals. Produced and recorded by Scott Bell at Closet Studios, mixed and mastered by D. James Goodwin, with horn and cello arrangements by Magerkurth, the song’s layered, warm sound perfectly supports its themes of homecoming, reflection, and connection to place.
Garden is a ten-song journey that centers family, culture, and heritage. From the punchy opener “More,” which questions external markers of validation and worth, to “Family” and “Grandmother,” which honor past and future generations, the album is full of rich storytelling. Highlights include “Seven,” co-written with Diné/Filipino songwriter Sage Nizhoni, exploring seven generations through layered, hymn-like textures, and “Tsudadatla Tsisqua (Spotted Bird),” sung entirely in Cherokee. Tracks like “Windsong” use powwow vocables as a sonic compass, while “Honeysuckle” bends time and memory into a reflection on home and the everyday. The title track, “Garden,” grounded in field recordings from Fay’s family land in Tahlequah, serves as the heart of the album—a reflection on place, identity, and the paths that bring us back to ourselves.
Fay has previously released Bible Belt (2016) and Good Company (2019), and has performed at major festivals including SXSW, Kerrville Folk Festival, Woody Guthrie Folk Festival, Folk Alliance International, FreshGrass, FORMAT Festival, and the Smithsonian Folklife Festival and the Venice Bienalle
In addition to music, Fay works across visual art, curation, and education. They are a Native Arts and Cultures Foundation LIFT Fellow and a First Peoples Fund Artist in Business Leadership Fellow, and currently serve as Assistant Curator of Native Art at Philbrook Museum of Art.
Across every medium, Kalyn Fay’s work celebrates Indigenous presence, knowledge, and creativity, carrying ancestral traditions into the present in deeply personal and resonant ways.
TRACK LISTING
1 More
2 Family
3 Seven
4 Grandmother
5 Honeysuckle
6 Way Out
7 Tsudadatla Tsisqwa
8 Windsong
9 Cherokee County
10 Garden
Cheikh Lô - Live at The Jazz Café, London 24th March - New Album 'Maame' Out Now Via World Circuit.
CHEIKH LÔ
LIVE AT THE JAZZ CAFÉ, LONDON ON 24TH MARCH
NEW ALBUM 'MAAME' OUT NOW VIA WORLD CIRCUIT RECORDS
FIRST STUDIO ALBUM IN A DECADE
Senegalese legend Cheikh Lô, who recently released his new album 'Maame', has confirmed a show at London's Jazz Café on Tuesday, 24th March. An expansive and deeply personal work born from isolation, resilience, and spiritual devotion, 'Maame' is his first studio album in a decade. Tickets are available HERE.
Recorded during (and after) the global lockdown in 2021, 'Maame' emerges not only as a creative triumph but also as a testament to Cheikh Lô’s enduring artistry. Following his landmark 2015 release — which earned him the distinction of being the first African artist to receive the WOMEX Artist Award — expectations were high. But rather than return to the studio immediately, Lô waited until the time felt right.
LISTEN TO "MAAME' HERE
Then came the pandemic.
With international travel at a standstill, Cheikh Lô took an unorthodox route: he built his own home studio. Armed with determination and guided by an unshakeable creative spirit, he worked closely with his son, who helped engineer the recordings. From these modest beginnings, the seeds of Maame began to grow.
The demos caught the ear of longtime collaborator Nick Gold, who championed the project and brought in London-based label World Circuit Records. The album continued to blossom into a full-scale production, recorded across continents with contributions from a global roster of musicians — from Senegal, Benin, Congo, the U.S., England, Canada, the Czech Republic, and beyond.
Cheikh Lô not only composed and arranged the entire album but also played a wide range of instruments: guitar, drums, timbales, congas, shakers, and contributed to backing vocals. The result is a rich tapestry of sound that crosses genres with ease — from Afro-acoustic and African Salsa to Mbalax, Afro-blues, Reggae, Afro-pop, Classical, Jazz, and traditional Rumba.
Traditional African instrumentation also takes centre stage: balafon, kora, African flute, sabar, and talking drums all add depth and authenticity to the album’s diverse sonic landscape.
Named after his spiritual guide, Maame Massamba Ndiaye, who passed away in 2014, Maame is both a tribute and a spiritual offering. As a devoted member of the Baye Fall, a branch of Senegal’s Mouride community, Cheikh Lô imbues this album with deep spiritual undertones, also honouring Cheikh Ahmadou Bamba (one of the most important and revered religious figures in Senegalese history and founder of the Mouride Brotherhood) and Mame Cheikh Ibrahima Fall (founder of the Baye Fall movement).
However, Maame is not only a spiritual record. It’s a profoundly Pan-African statement. On the reggae-infused anthem "African Development," Lô calls for unity and progress across the continent. As a UNHCR ambassador, he also delivers the poignant track "Carte d’Identite" to raise awareness about statelessness, reinforcing his long-standing commitment to humanitarian causes.
Beyond its political and spiritual messages, Maame is also filled with reflections on human behaviour and emotion. On tracks like "Ndekeyoo" (friendly betrayal), "Jikko" (kindness), and "Doylou" (dignity), Lô holds a mirror to society.
And, true to his reputation as one of Africa’s finest composers of love songs, he closes the album with the tender ballads "Koura" and "Nilelefe," revealing a softer, intimate side of his artistry.
Sung in Wolof, Dioula, Malinké, and French, Maame is a mosaic of languages, cultures, and sounds — a global journey anchored in African identity.
Tracklist
1 Baba Moussa BP 120
2 Jikko
3 Bamba Moofi Djouli Guedj
4 Maame
5 Doylou
6 Carte d’Identite
7 African Development
8 Ndeketeyoo
9 Ndiguel Dieufe
10 Kuma Magni Kobe Alaleno
11 Koura
12 Nilelefe
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Brother Wallace - First UK shows confirmed for May 2026 - Debut album 'Electric Love' out 8th May on ATO Records.
BROTHER WALLACE
FIRST UK SHOWS IN MAY INCL. THE GREAT ESCAPE AND LONDON'S COLOURS
DEBUT ALBUM 'ELECTRIC LOVE' OUT 8TH MAY ON ATO RECORDS
HEAR TITLE TRACK AND WATCH OFFICIAL MUSIC VIDEO
Georgia-bred singer, pianist, and soul revivalist Brother Wallace will perform his first UK shows in May 2026. Having last week announced his debut album 'Electric Love' (out 8th May via ATO Records), the singer will make two appearances at The Great Escape before playing a string of shows across the country, culminating in a performance at Cross The Tracks festival in London. Brother Wallace recently shared the album’s title track —a Motown-esque number that’s equal parts playful, revelatory, and gloriously cathartic—alongside an official music video. The track, which has been premiered by The Craig Charles Funk and Soul Show on BBC Radio 6 Music, is a bold first chapter from a voice that feels less like a “new artist” and more like a force that’s been building quietly for years, waiting for the right voltage.
DEBUT UK SHOWS:
May
Thu 14th - The Great Escape, Komedia, Brighton
Fri 15th - The Great Escape, Brighthelm, Brighton
Mon 18th - The Castle, Manchester
Tue 19th - The Exchange, Bristol
Wed 20th - Colours Hoxton, London
Sun 24th - Cross The Tracks, London
On the single 'Electric Love', Brother Wallace doesn’t just sing about joy—he fights for it. The song moves like a shot of sunlight through a storm cloud: Stax-and-satin soul, piano-driven, and bursting with momentum, it’s built for the exact moment when you decide you’re not going to let the world harden you. “It’s about choosing connection,” Wallace says. “Finding that current again—the thing that reminds you you’re alive.”
LISTEN TO 'ELECTRIC LOVE'
WATCH 'ELECTRIC LOVE' VIDEO, DIRECTED BY WILL WALTER
Raised in a small rural town where the church was both community and classroom, Wallace began singing early and started formal piano training at six years old. By 14, he was directing a 100-member choir—leading not from ambition, but from instinct. Music wasn’t extracurricular; it was identity. Still, his path didn’t follow the typical industry arc. Wallace built a life at the intersection of art and service, becoming a K–12 music teacher and shaping young voices day after day, even as his own kept growing into something undeniable.
Over time, that “teacher” story expanded into something bigger, including sharing the stage with gospel legend Kirk Franklin performing at Madison Square Garden. But it wasn’t until a chance meeting sparked a creative partnership—one that stretched across years and continents—that Brother Wallace’s vision began assembling into the album it was always meant to become.
That partnership was with Dan Taylor (The Heavy), who became not just a collaborator but a catalyst. Recorded at Real World Studios (the legendary facility founded by Peter Gabriel) and produced/co-written by Taylor, Electric Love captures the breathless immediacy of Wallace’s performances—engineered and mixed by Bob Mackenzie (James Blake, The 1975, King Krule, SAULT) and Jim Abbiss (Adele, Arctic Monkeys). The result is soul music that feels alive in your hands: gritty, radiant, and built around the kind of vocal that turns rooms silent before it turns them inside out.
Across its 13 songs, Electric Love is less a debut than a revelation—a body of work fueled by gospel roots and classic soul lineage (Sam Cooke, Little Richard, Southern soul greats) while refusing to live in nostalgia. Wallace writes in lived-in scenes and hard-earned feeling: heartbreak without defeat, joy without naïveté, vulnerability without apology. The album’s rhapsodic opener “Who’s That?” (released last fall as his first ATO single) entered the Top 30 at Triple A radio in the US for the first time this week—an amazing feat for his first-ever single. Now, the title track “Electric Love” expands the frame: this is an artist building a world where joy is radical, and connection is survival. Now, the title track “Electric Love” expands the frame: this is an artist building a world where joy is radical, and connection is survival.
For Brother Wallace, 'Electric Love' isn’t just a record. It’s proof of concept: a lifetime of music, faith, teaching, and grit distilled into something that hits like lightning—then stays.
'Electric Love' Tracklist
You’re The Man
Gone With The Wind
Top Shotta
No God In This Town
Who Do You Love?
Any Day Now
Patient Man
Midnight Valley
Jealous
Hope Of Fools
Let’s Get Together
WATCH THE VIDEO FOR 'WHO'S THAT'
PRE-SAVE/ PRE-ORDER ALBUM 'ELECTRIC LOVE'
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08/02/2026
Bootleg Beatles: ICONIC - Shows in Dec feat. songs from 7 historic performances; on sale now.
ICONIC
Featuring songs from seven historic Beatles’ performances, 13 shows in December 2026 are on sale today
The Bootleg Beatles are delighted to announce their ‘ICONIC’ tour, focussing on seven famous legendary appearances on stage and TV by The Fab Four. 13 shows taking place in December 2026 dates are on sale now - from bootlegbeatles.com/gigs/.
With more than a little help from their orchestra, this multi-media show will plot the course of The Beatles’ rise to fame from the Liverpool Cavern, when Ringo first joined the band in August 1962, to their London rooftop finale in January 1969.
Including deft re-enactments of their record breaking ’65 Shea Stadium concert and the global satellite TV broadcast of ‘All you need is love’, this unique ‘must-see’ show demonstrates exactly why the legacy the Fab Four created in just eight years is nothing short of astonishing.
DECEMBER 2026
Saturday 5th – De Montfort Hall LEICESTER
Sunday 6th – Philharmonic Hall LIVERPOOL
Tuesday 8th – Usher Hall EDINBURGH
Wednesday 9th – Royal Concert Hall GLASGOW
Thursday 10th – Bridgewater Hall MANCHESTER
Friday 11th – City Hall NEWCASTLE
Saturday 12th – Royal Concert Hall NOTTINGHAM
Monday 14th – Barbican YORK
Tuesday 15th – Symphony Hall BIRMINGHAM
Wednesday 16th – City Hall SHEFFIELD
Friday 18th – Utilita Arena CARDIFF
Saturday 19th – Brighton Centre BRIGHTON
Sunday 20th – Bristol Beacon BRISTOL
It’s not the Beatles but you simply won’t believe it.
‘Just incredible – you are in the room with The Beatles’ – Jeremy Vine on 5
‘The magic of perfect Illusion’ – Rolling Stone.
‘The Bootleg Beatles knock it out of the park again’ - Liverpool Echo
Danish roots-rockers Thorbjørn Risager & The Black Tornado reveal the radiant live version of ‘Said I Was Hurt’.
The award-winning roots rockin’ octet Thorbjørn Risager & The Black Tornado are road warriors in the truest sense - not a month passes without them being on tour, it is the environment that they live for, so it's only fitting that as they are about to head out on an enormous tour across Europe that they reveal their new single, the live version of ‘Said I Was Hurt’.
The song was recorded on 29 November 2025 at Hotel Cecil in Copenhagen, Denmark; one of the band’s final shows on their ‘House of Sticks’ winter tour, and saw the band fully flexing their sophisticated might.
Situated at the heart of Copenhagen, the Hotel Cecil has played home to a Jazzhouse, a Playhouse and originally served as a meeting place, lecture hall, and administrative hub for the women’s emancipation movement in Denmark when it was built in 1936. Set to an Art Deco backdrop, it perfectly suits the smooth, smoky blues sounds from Denmark’s hardest working band.
Thorbjørn adds: “The song is written by our guitarist Joachim Svensmark. This live version of the song was recorded at the wonderful venue Hotel Cecil in Copenhagen in November 2025. It’s always special to perform in your own home town in front of long time friends and fans. The place was packed and the crowd was just wonderful. A very special night where everything just came together perfectly.”
The song is taken from the House of Sticks album, which was released in January 2025 via Provogue/Artone and serves as the perfect foil to winter, it emits a slow warming sensation. Slow and soothing, it's a song that wraps itself around you in a sorrowful embrace. You can visualise it right now.
The eight piece band adorn the high stage, the curtains are raised and, as the lights are turned down low, the band's neon logo dominates your attention and the drape flanked room catapults you to another place and another time. That's where the Danish sensations draw you in; Thorbjørn Risager (Vocals, Electric Guitar), Emil Balsgaard (Organ, Keys), Joachim Svensmark (Electric Guitar), Kasper Wagner (Baritone Sax), Hans Nybo (Tenor Sax), Peter W Kehl (Trumpet), Søren Bøjgaard (Bass) and Martin Seidelin (Drums, Percussion).
They've won four Danish Music Awards (with seven nominations), the "Best Band" in the European Blues Awards and won the prestigious German Preis der Deutschen Schallplattenkritik Jahrespreis - German Record Critics' Awards. Blazing a trail worldwide with more than 1.500 shows, they've captivated crowds with their dynamic stage presence and a sound that fuses soul Chicago blues, boogie, and rock 'n' roll with a voice where Ray Charles, Van Morrison, and Billy Gibbons meet in the middle. They've opened for Bonnie Raitt, the Tedeschi Trucks Band, jammed with the legendary Buddy Guy and even picked up a fan in Elwood Blues himself - Dan Aykroyd! - who hailed their "Hot rhythm and blues."
They've sold over 100.000 physical albums and surpassed 32 million streams over the past two decades with fourteen albums, including eight studio; From the Heart (2006), Here I Am (2007), Track Record (2010), Dust & Scratches (2012), the multi-award-winning Too Many Roads (2014), Change My Game (2017), Come On In (2020), Navigation Blues (2022) and House of Sticks (2025) as well as a Best Of (2021).
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Tour Dates:
Jan 11 - January Blues Festival, London UK
Jan 23 - Blå Kaktus / Arbis, Norrköping (sold out) SE
Jan 24 - Nöjesfabriken, Karlstad (sold out) SE
Feb 6 - Nykøbing Falster Teater, Nykøbing Falster (sold out) DK
Feb 7 - The Tivoli, Helsingborg SE
Feb 20 - Kulturcafé Ludvig, Sorø (sold out) DK
Feb 21 - Karroserifabrikken, Helsingør DK
Feb 26 - Gerd’s Juke Joint, Joldelund DE
Feb 27 - Kulturbastion Torgau, Torgau DE
Feb 28 - Colos-Saal, Aschaffenburg DE
Mar 6 - Hammel Kulturhus / Inside Hamme, Hammel DK
Mar 7 - Kappelborg, Skagen DK
Mar 12 - Jonköping Teater, Jonköping Teater SE
Mar 13 - Bollnäs Jazzklubb, Bollnäs SE
Mar 14 - Katalin, Uppsala SE
Mar 19 - Fabrik, Hamburg DE
Mar 20 - Club Volta, Cologne DE
Mar 21 - Jazzhaus, Freiburg DE
Mar 27 - Frimis Salonger, Örebro SE
Mar 28 - Mejeriet, Lund SE
Apr 1 to 5 - TBA, TBA
Apr 10 - Freja, Skövde SE
Apr 11 - Söderport, Kalmar SE
Apr 23 - Musiktheater Piano, Dortmund DE
Apr 24 - Musiktheater Rex, Bensheim DE
Apr 25 - Music Hall, Worpswede DE
Apr 30 - Budenzauber, Kiel DE
May 2 - Motala Blues Festival, Motala SE
May 7 - Tivoli Vredenburg, Utrecht NL
May 8 - Stadthalle, Schlüchtern DE
May 9 - Fahrzeugbau Meier, Altdorf-Ludersheim DE
May 30 - Tidaholm Blues Festival, Tidaholm SE
Jun 13 - TBA, Erfurt DE
Jun 14 - TBA, Riesa DE
Jun 19 - Blues Garage, Isernhagen DE
Jun 20 - Bluesnacht Petershagen, Petershagen DE
Jun 25 - Riverboat, Silkeborg DE
Samantha Fish releases "Rusty Razor" single ahead of UK tour with support from The Zac Schulze Gang.
SAMANTHA FISH RELEASES NEW SINGLE “RUSTY RAZOR” FEATURING MICK COLLINS
FEBRUARY & MARCH 2026 “PAPER DOLL” UK TOUR
WITH SPECIAL GUESTS: THE ZAC SCHULZE GANG
TICKETS AVAILABLE FROM
www.alttickets.com/samantha-fish-tickets
https://samanthafish.com/#tour
www.thequeenshall.net
“Paper Doll isn’t just another Samantha Fish album—it’s a career-defining statement from an artist who refuses to stand still. Play it loud. Play it often. And when the tour rolls through your town, don’t walk—run.”
– Rock News, 10/10
“Samantha Fish is one of the best contemporary blues players on the planet.”
– Vive Le Rock
To celebrate Samantha Fish’s 2026 UK tour, the American guitarist and vocalist has released her new single “Rusty Razor” featuring Mick Collins.
Rusty Razor is the latest single taken from Samantha’s album Paper Doll. Stream the song on Spotify or YouTube.
The single is released three weeks before Samantha’s “Paper Doll” UK Tour kicks off at the York Barbican on February 27th. Tickets for all her UK concerts are available from Altickets.com and SamanthaFish.com, except Edinburgh Queen’s Hall where tickets are available HERE.
Samantha is also pleased to announce that her special guest at all UK concerts is The Zac Schulze Gang.
The UK tour follows Samantha’s latest critically acclaimed studio album Paper Doll, that was Grammy nominated for “Best Contemporary Blues Album.”
Samantha will perform songs from her new album Paper Doll, plus tracks from her classic albums including Wild Heart, Chills & Fever, Belle of the West, Death Wish Blues, Faster, and Kill or Be Kind.
Samantha was also nominated for a 2024 Grammy for “Contemporary Blues Album of the Year” for her collaboration with Jesse Dayton on Death Wish Blues. Total Guitar voted Samantha as one of the “Top 100 Greatest Blues Guitarists” of all-time. In 2024, she joined Slash on his S.E.R.P.E.N.T. US tour.
The charismatic singer-guitarist-songwriter has earned a reputation as a guitar hero and a powerful live performer, while releasing a series of acclaimed albums that have shown her restless creative spirit consistently pushing her in new, exciting, and often unexpected musical directions.
The New York Times called Fish, "An impressive blues guitarist who sings with sweet power," and "One of the genre's most promising young talents." Her hometown paper, the Kansas City Star wrote: “Samantha Fish has kicked down the door of the patriarchal blues club and displays more imagination and creativity than some blues veterans exhibit over the course of their careers."
Samantha believes her musical future is an open road. "I'm never going be a traditional blues artist, because that's not who I am," she says. "But it's all the Blues for me. When Muddy Waters and Howlin' Wolf came out, what they were doing didn't sound like anything that had been done in Blues before.
A DHP & Regular Presentation By Arrangement With ATC Live presents
SAMANTHA FISH
FEBRUARY & MARCH 2026
“PAPER DOLL” UK TOUR
WITH SPECIAL GUESTS:
THE ZAC SCHULZE GANG
TICKETS AVAILABLE FROM
www.alttickets.com/samantha-fish-tickets
https://samanthafish.com/#tour
www.thequeenshall.net
York, Barbican
Friday 27 February 2026
Tickets: alttickets.com
www.yorkbarbican.co.uk
London, O2 Shepherd’s Bush Empire
Saturday 28 February 2026
Tickets: alttickets.com
www.academymusicgroup.com/o2shepherdsbushempire
Bristol, O2 Academy
Sunday 1 March 2026
Tickets: alttickets.com
www.academymusicgroup.com/o2academybristol
Birmingham Town Hall
Tuesday 3 March 2026
Tickets: alttickets.com
https://bmusic.co.uk
Manchester, O2 Ritz
Wednesday 4 March 2026
Tickets: alttickets.com
www.academymusicgroup.com/o2ritzmanchester
Newcastle, Wylam Brewery
Thursday 5 March 2026
Tickets: alttickets.com
www.wylambrewery.co.uk/events
Edinburgh Queen’s Hall
Friday 6 March 2026
Tickets: thequeenshall.net
www.thequeenshall.net
Nottingham, Rock City
Saturday 7 March 2026
Tickets: alttickets.com
www.rock-city.co.uk
06/02/2026
Eric Johnson announces Texaphonic July & August 2026 UK Tour.
ERIC JOHNSON
TEXAPHONIC JULY & AUGUST 2026 UK TOUR
TICKETS ON SALE 10AM
WEDNESDAY 4 FEBRUARY 2026 VIA
THEGIGCARTEL.COM & ERICJOHNSON.COM
Legendary Grammy-nominated Texas guitarist Eric Johnson is pleased to announce an 11-date UK tour in July and August 2026. Tickets go on sale at 10am on Wednesday February 4th via THEGIGCARTEL.COM and ERICJOHNSON.COM.
One of the most outstanding instrumentalists in rock over the past 40 years, Texas guitarist Eric Johnson was already a legend before he recorded his first album. By the early 1980s, many celebrated guitarists were singing the praises of this skinny kid from Austin with the mind-melting chops. Comparisons were made to such guitar heroes as Jeff Beck and Jimi Hendrix and when he joined the ‘70s Austin fusion band Electromagnets they were being hailed as “the Mahavishnu Orchestra of Texas”.
With the release of his highly anticipated 1986 solo debut album Tones, the underground guitar legend finally emerged onto the scene fully formed. It landed him on the cover of Guitar Player magazine, which hailed the album as a “majestic debut”, and earned him his first Grammy nomination for the song “Zap”. With the release of his follow up album, 1990’s platinum-selling Ah Via Musicom, which contained the Grammy Award winning song “Cliffs of Dover”, Eric Johnson became a bona fide international guitar phenomenon.
The New Age Music Guide once opined that “Eric Johnson plays guitar the way Michelangelo painted ceilings: with a colorful vibrancy that’s more real than life” while Rolling Stone included him in their list of the 100 Greatest Guitarists of the 21st century. A dynamic singer as well as an incredibly gifted guitarist, a pianist and a prolific songwriter, Eric has been featured on the cover of countless guitar magazines around the world while also racking up critical accolades along the way.
Since 1986 Eric has released seventeen albums, in addition to albums with other artists such as Eclectic with jazz guitarist Mike Stern, and the platinum-selling G3 Live with Joe Satriani and Steve Vai. Eric has received eight Grammy nominations along with numerous other recognitions, awards and wins in various polls and magazines.
Among Johnson’s many accolades are a GRAMMY award in 1992 for “Cliffs of Dover” as Best Rock Instrumental Performance, lifetime induction into the Guitar Player Gallery of Greats, and his listing among the “100 Greatest Guitarists of the 20th Century” by Musician magazine. In his hometown of Austin Texas, a city full of guitarists, the readers of the Austin Chronicle voted Eric Johnson the city’s “Best Electric Guitarist” and “Best Acoustic Guitarist” in their yearly poll year after year. They also named him “Electric Guitarist of the Decade” and one of the top five “Musicians of the Decade”. In February 2024 Eric was honored with induction into the Texas Heritage Songwriters Association Hall of Fame.
2023 found Eric on his ‘Treasure Tour’, 67 US dates that were split between a Spring and a Fall tour. In January and February 2024 Eric joined the ‘G3 Reunion Tour’ with Joe Satriani and Steve Vai, and the resulting live album from the tour was released in January 2025. In August 2024 he made a short run of dates in the north and northeast including the Backroads Blues Festival in New York.
In September and October 2024 Eric was a featured performer on the ‘Experience Hendrix 2024 Tour’, crossing the country from Washington state to Florida, and then rejoined in March and April 2025 for the ‘Experience Hendrix 2025 Tour’ throughout the east and northeast USA and Canada. September and October 2025 saw the first dates of his ‘Texaphonic’ tour, from New Orleans to New York, featuring a set of new blues rock power trio material.
In December 2025 Eric joined the Allman-Betts Band for a series of shows as a special guest, duetting with Devon Allman and Duane Betts. The Texaphonic tour continues in the USA from April through May 2026 from Florida to California, including a headlining appearance at the Austin Blues Festival. In late June Eric returns to Europe for the first time in over a decade and brings the Texaphonic tour to Europe and the UK, finishing up in Scotland by mid-August at ‘Guitar Dreams’ with Mike Stern and others before returning to Austin for a special event with Tommy Emmanuel.
Over the course of more than four decades, Eric Johnson has been traveling on a prolific odyssey. Along the way, his creations have cross-pollinated the various musical genres which include rock, blues, jazz, fusion, soul, folk, new-age, classical, and even country. Inevitably EJ says it best himself in sharing that regardless of the genre “It really boils down to the music and the song at the end of the day”, he explains. “The most important thing for me is to grow musically and make a more expansive and meaningful artistic statement with every new project”.
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WOLVERHAMPTON, KK’S STEEL MILL
WEDNESDAY 22 JULY 2026
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Starworks Warehouse, Frederick Street, WV2 4DU
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FROME, CHEESE & GRAIN
FRIDAY 24 JULY 2026
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35 Berkley Road, Frome, BA11 2EH
www.cheeseandgrain.com
LONDON, ISLINGTON ASSEMBLY
SATURDAY 25 JULY 2026
Tickets: The Gig Cartel
Upper St, Islington, London, N1 2UD
https://islingtonassemblyhall.co.uk
BASINGSTOKE, HAYMARKET
SUNDAY 26 JULY 2026
Tickets: The Gig Cartel
Wote St, Basingstoke RG21 7NW
www.anvilarts.org.uk/visit-us/how-to-get-here/the-haymarket
SOUTHAMPTON, THE BROOK
MONDAY 27 JULY 2026
Tickets: The Gig Cartel
466 Portswood Rd, Southampton, SO17 3SD
https://the-brook.com
NORTHAMPTON, ROADMENDER
WEDNESDAY 29 JULY 2026
Tickets: The Gig Cartel
1 Lady's Lane, Northampton, NN1 3AH
www.theroadmender.com
NORWICH, EPIC STUDIOS
THURSDAY 30 JULY 2026
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112-114 Magdalen St, Norwich, NR3 1JD
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HOLMFIRTH, PICTUREDROME
FRIDAY 31 JULY 2026
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Market Walk, Holmfirth, West Yorkshire, HD9 7DA
https://www.picturedrome.net
EDINBURGH, QUEEN’S HALL
SATURDAY 1 AUGUST 2026
Tickets: The Gig Cartel
85-89 Clerk St, Newington, Edinburgh, EH8 9JG
www.thequeenshall.net
SUNDERLAND, THE FIRE STATION
MONDAY 3 AUGUST 2026
Tickets: The Gig Cartel
The Fire Station, High Street West, Sunderland, SR1 3HA
www.thefirestation.org.uk
LYTHAM, LOWTHER PAVILION
TUESDAY 4 AUGUST 2026
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Lowther Terrace, Lytham Saint Annes FY8 5QQ
https://lowtherpavilion.co.uk
Red Giant release explosive new single "Can't Find Me" from upcoming "Red Giant: Vol. 1" EP.
RED GIANT
EXPLOSIVE NEW SINGLE – “CAN’T FIND ME”
RELEASED WEDNESDAY 4 FEBRUARY 2026
STREAM SINGLE | WATCH MUSIC VIDEO
“RED GIANT – VOL.1” EP
RELEASED WEDNESDAY 29 APRIL 2026
PRE-ORDER THE EP
Red Giant’s new single “Can’t Find Me” is released Wednesday February 4th, and is available on all streaming platforms HERE. Watch the official music video HERE.
“Can’t Find Me” is the first single from Red Giant’s highly anticipated EP “Red Giant – Vol. 1” released Wednesday April 29th. The EP is now available to pre-order HERE.
Dave Simpson is the lead guitarist and vocalist of Red Giant. He also has a massive following on his popular guitar YouTube Channel with has over 146,000 subscribers.
“Can’t Find Me” charts Dave’s complex journey through his hell of mental problems caused by an uncaring school system which paradoxically encouraged the very bullying the authorities said they wanted to eradicate.
These so-called child guardians became part of the abuse by blaming the victim and ignoring the actions of the culprits.
The lack of support, and in many cases, due to the inadequacy of the guardians involved, created a feeling of isolation, exclusion and of being ignored and unseen by those whose responsibility it was to look out for him.
His self-worth and respect were destroyed and not feeling able to confide in family or friends led Dave to thoughts of self-harm, a path others in his situation have taken, resulting in the ultimate release from their suffering by taking their own lives.
With Red Giant, Dave’s willingness, and ability to talk and write songs about this painful subject has resonated with so many who find comfort, release, and resolution in his words.
“Can’t Find Me” is the story of so many people, and it is the hope of Red Giant that this song reaches who it needs to and shows them that they are not alone, and being here is so much better than the other choices.
“Red Giant – Vol. 1” – EP Track list
1. Are You Alright? (3:04)
2. Can’t Find Me (4:08)
3. It's All Gone Wrong (4:32)
4. Overcome (4:03)
Mixed, produced & mastered by Matt Crawford
Recorded at Superfly Studios
All songs written by David Simpson
Guitars & Vocals – Dave Simpson
Drums – John Joe Gaskin
Bass – Johnny Simpson
Red Giant are proving themselves to be ones to watch on the UK live circuit. With an extremely successful 2025 the band is looking to capitalize on their forward momentum with there soon to be released 4-song E.P that features four brand-new songs.
The band is playing and sounding better than ever with strong live performances and confidence. Watch out. 2026 looks like it’ll be another significant year for Red Giant.
RED GIANT – BIOGRAPHY
Lead songwriter, guitarist and vocalist, David Simpson first picked up the guitar at 16 years old. Since that time David has been a prominent performer in several bands over the years and co-founded Red Giant at the beginning of 2024.
David decided after years of playing in other bands it was time to follow his own musical style. The music he was writing did not fit the bands he was playing with, and he soon set up his own group, The Dave Simpson Trio.
The trio performed all over the UK for years and was a very established blues rock band, but in 2024 the band wanted a change. Not just in name but in style, opting for a heavier rockier approach to go along with the new songs David was writing.
Red Giant was born. Not long after the name change the band went into the studio to record their self-titled debut album.
David is a world-renowned YouTube presenter with a channel that has amassed over 146,000 subscribers due to his unique playing style and expertise on the instrument.
David has been incredibly open about his struggles with mental health, and his blunt openness has helped countless others deal with their personal traumas. David’s work ethic is outstanding, tirelessly working on songs and videos while also performing and collaborating with other musicians.
John Joe Gaskin, the drummer for Red Giant, also started playing drums at the age of sixteen. As soon as he found the drums he wanted to do nothing else. He’s dedicated his life to the instrument.
John Joe is an absolute powerhouse of a drummer with a supernatural sense of time and is the bedrock of the band. Widely known as a dynamic and versatile performer, playing nationwide in the UK and Europe John Joe is comfortable with any style of music.
John Joe not only performs his duties as the drummer of Red Giant but is also the joker of the band with his wicked sense of humour who keeps everyone laughing.
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04/02/2026
Milkfest 2026 Announce Special Guests.
AWARD-WINNING BLUES GREAT ELLES BAILEY JOINS THE LINE UP FOR LONDON-BASED CHARITY BLUES FESTIVAL
ELLES BAILEY, THE UK BLUES VOCALIST OF THE YEAR, WILL BE MAKING A SPECIAL GUEST APPEARANCE AT MILKFEST, THE ONE-DAY BLUES CHARITY EVENT.
Milkfest ’26 is held at the Indigo at the O2 in Greenwich London on March 1st from 2-10pm. The event is being held to raise money for Dementia UK.
Also appearing at the event are Squeeze legend Chris Difford, blues rock greats the Climax Blues Band, UK Blues Band of the Year Brave Rival, Vocalist of the Year Alice Armstrong, Acoustic Act of the Year Mississippi MacDonald and UK Blues Challenge Winner Errol Linton.
The line up also boasts Average White Band/McCartney/Pretenders greats Hamish Stuart & Robbie McIntosh, and the event hosts The Milk Men. Further special guests will be announced.
Elles Bailey is one of the most acclaimed and admired artists on the UK Blues scene, but her reputation far exceeds the blues. Her profile goes from strength to strength every year, and now she also hosts a radio show on Planet Rock
Profits from Milkfest will go towards Dementia UK, a charity that provides nurses for families dealing with dementia, which now affects one in evert two people in the UK, whether as a sufferer or a carer.
Milkfest organiser Adam Norsworthy said;
“Elles is a bit of an all-round superstar, and we couldn’t be happier having her on the bill for Milkfest. Her name is the icing on an-already fabulous blues cake!”
Elles Bailey said “It’s an honour to be part of the Milkfest 2026 line-up alongside so many friends. I’m really looking forward to this very special event celebrating the wonderfully eclectic British blues scene, all in support of the incredible charity Dementia UK. Having experienced first-hand the devastation dementia can bring to the whole family, I’m proud to be able to support such an important cause and help raise awareness and vital funds by bringing people together through the power of music.”
Tickets are on sale now from all the usual online retailers including AXS, Eventim, Ticketmaster and from the venue itself.
General on sale - https://www.theo2.co.uk/events/detail/milkfest-25
Milkfest 25 was held in February this year and raised over £8,000 for the Brain Tumour Charity. This year’s chosen charity is Dementia UK, the specialist dementia nursing charity. Every three minutes, someone in the UK develops dementia: a progressive and complex condition that can be devastating for the whole family. It’s a huge and growing health crisis and is the leading cause of death in the UK.
Admiral Nurses are continually supported and developed by Dementia UK, to provide life-changing advice and support to anyone affected by dementia, whenever it’s needed. They work on the free national Admiral Nurse Dementia Helpline, in face-to-face and virtual clinics, and in the community, in GP practices, hospitals, and care homes.
03/02/2026
Colder Suns: Feb Album, Launch Show, Single.
COLDER SUNS
‘Yesterday Is All I Want’
Analogue influences on an album recorded at Francis Rossi’s studios,
with Quo producer / engineer Andy Brook
Colder Suns’ second single from the album is ‘Pantomime High Fives’ which will be released 5 February 2026
Released on 27 February 2026, Colder Suns’ second album ‘Yesterday Is All I Want’ marks the first salvo of a four-part concept album series, aiming to explore our perception of time and how it shapes who we are. The album was recorded at Francis Rossi’s ARSIS Studios and produced with acclaimed Quo producer and engineer Andy Brook. On 20 February 2026, there will be an album launch gig at The Cart & Horses pub, famous for being the birthplace of Iron Maiden, where Colder Suns will be headlining.
Colder Suns’ second single from the album is ‘Pantomime High Fives’ which will be released 5 February 2026.
This is a band that channels tradition into a very modern sound, Colder Suns are unabashed purists, going for analogue and tube gear wherever possible. The line-up features father and son, Paul and Charlie Hayes, on guitar and bass respectively. Both Paul and vocalist / guitarist Ben Martin play classic/retro guitars – Paul has an original 1990’s Ibanez Jem, and Ben treasures many 1970s and 80s guitars. ‘Redd’ Reddington, who has also played with Mel Gaynor [Simple Minds] in his band, completes the line-up on drums.
‘Yesterday Is All I Want’ digs into the tension between choice and destiny, and how much free will we really have over the paths our lives take. The 9 original songs look at the struggle to truly live in the present, and keep one eye on the future, when too often we rely on the past as an anchor.
Colder Suns say, “Everything we do is with passion, we write and play music because we all truly can’t live without it. To know that someone has listened and connected to our music on an emotional level is the most rewarding thing; that and playing in front of a huge crowd and enjoying the rush of truly entertaining. We don’t write songs on a transactional basis, each song has a purpose and very specific subject”
Melody and harmony are at the centre of everything they do but with a focus on energy and vocal hooks or ear worms. The group are known for high-energy performances, anthem-worthy songwriting, and a sound that resonates across the rock spectrum. The band have played numerous live shows, building their reputation on stage with a powerful and engaging presence. Notable performances include headlining Camden Assembly, The Fiddler’s Elbow, and The O₂ Islington.
On ‘Yesterday Is All I Want’, Colder Suns look at the past’s impact on the present. By drawing on decades of musical experience, family ties, some vintage equipment, and their own influences, they have created something vital and contemporary. ‘Yesterday Is All I Want’ is all about how we live in here and now, and how we got here: it’s an album about today…
LINE-UP
Ben Martin – Vocals, Guitar (keys)
Paul Hayes – Guitar, BVs (keys)
Redd Reddington – Drums
Charlie Hayes – Bass, BVs
02/02/2026
Robert Jon & The Wreck announce additional UK tour dates in June and October 2026.
ROBERT JON & THE WRECK
JUNE AND OCTOBER 2026 UK TOUR
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“You’re watching arguably the best rock ‘n’ roll band around right now.”
– Maximum Volume Music
Hot off the heels of the release of their latest single “Put Your Money Where Your Mouth Is,” critically acclaimed Southern Roots Rock band Robert Jon & The Wreck are pleased to announce the second leg of their 2026 UK Tour. In addition to their April 2026 UK tour dates featuring special guest Sam Morrow, the band will return to the UK in June and October to perform more concerts.
Planet Rock will run a 48-hour ticket pre-sale for the June and October tour dates from 10am on Wednesday February 4th. Pre-sale tickets available from PlanetRock.com. Password protected: RJTW2026.
Tickets go on general sale 10am on Friday February 6th from alttickets, robertjonandthewreck.com, The Gig Cartel, and Gigantic.com.
New dates include Holmfirth Picturedrome (June 18), Love Rocks Festival (June 19), Cambridge Junction (Oct 2), Nottingham Rock City (Oct 3), Liverpool, O2 Academy 2 (Oct 4), Bristol Trinity (Oct 6) Leeds Project House (Oct 7) and Oxford O2 Academy (Oct 8).
The announcement follows rave reviews of their current studio album Heartbreaks & Last Goodbyes.
Prolific songwriters with a wealth of new material who refuse to be constrained by traditional release strategies, the band’s new partnership with Joe Bonamassa’s Journeyman Records affords them the opportunity to work with the world’s top producers and release a steady stream of high-quality singles on an ongoing basis, cutting through the industry chaos and ensuring new music is accessible to their fans.
Hailing from Southern California, Robert Jon & The Wreck take the Southern rock sound from the East Coast and make it their own. Since their inception in 2011, these native Californians featuring Robert Jon Burrison (lead vocals, guitar), Andrew Espantman (drums, background vocals), Henry James Schneekluth (lead guitar, background vocals), Warren Murrel (bass), and recent member, Jake Abernathie (keyboards), have been electrifying audiences all over the world with their soaring guitar leads, rich vocal harmonies, and memorable tunes.
Watch the official music video for their single "Ashes in the Snow" on YouTube HERE.
As Robert Jon & The Wreck prepare to embark on this next chapter with their highly anticipated April 2026 UK tour, fans old and new are invited to join in the celebration of change, rebirth, and the relentless spirit of rock 'n' roll. Stay tuned for continued updates.
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HOLMFIRTH PICTUREDROME
THURSDAY 18 JUNE 2026
Tickets: The Gig Cartel
Market Walk, Holmfirth, HD9 7DA
https://www.picturedrome.net
DORSET, LOVE ROCKS FESTIVAL
FRIDAY 19 JUNE 2026
Tickets: Sanctuary Promotions
St Leonards Farm, West Moors,
Ferndown, Dorset, BH22 OAQ
https://www.sanctuarypromotions.co.uk
CAMBRIDGE JUNCTION
FRIDAY 2 OCTOBER 2026
Tickets: alttickets.com
Clifton Way, Cambridge, CB1 7GX
https://www.junction.co.uk
NOTTINGHAM, ROCK CITY
SATURDAY 3 OCTOBER 2026
Tickets: alttickets.com
8 Talbot St, Nottingham, NG1 5GG
https://rock-city.co.uk
LIVERPOOL, O2 ACADEMY 2
SUNDAY 4 OCTOBER 2026
Tickets: The Gig Cartel
11-13 Hotham St, Liverpool, L3 5UF
www.academymusicgroup.com/o2academyliverpool
BRISTOL, TRINITY
TUESDAY 6 OCTOBER 2026
Tickets: alttickets.com
Trinity Centre, Trinity Rd, St Jude's, Bristol, BS2 0NW
https://www.trinitybristol.org.uk
LEEDS, PROJECT HOUSE
WEDNESDAY 7 OCTOBER 2026
Tickets: alttickets.com
Armley Rd, Leeds, LS12 2DR
https://projecthouselds.com
OXFORD, O2 ACADEMY 2
THURSDAY 8 OCTOBER 2026
Tickets: alttickets.com
190 Cowley Rd, Oxford OX4, 1UE
www.academymusicgroup.com/o2academyoxford
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*APRIL 2026 UK TOUR
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KING’S HALL, HERNE BAY
TUESDAY 14 APRIL 2026
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Beacon Hill, Herne Bay, Kent, CT6 6BA
www.thekingshall.com
NEWCASTLE, WYLAM BREWERY
WEDNESDAY 15 APRIL 2026
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Palace of Arts Exhibition Park, Claremont Rd,
Newcastle upon Tyne, NE2 4PZ
www.wylambrewery.co.uk/events
MANCHESTER, ACADEMY 2
THURSDAY 16 APRIL 2026
Tickets: alttickets.com
University of Manchester Students Union
Oxford Road, Manchester, M13 9PR
www.manchesteracademy.net
GLASGOW, THE GARAGE
FRIDAY 17 APRIL 2026
Tickets: Gigantic.com
490 Sauchiehall Street, Glasgow, G2 3LW
https://garageglasgow.co.uk
LONDON, 02 SHEPHERD’S BUSH EMPIRE
SATURDAY 18 APRIL 2026
Tickets: alttickets.com
211 Shepherd's Bush Green, London, W12 8TT
www.academymusicgroup.com/o2shepherdsbushempire
SOUTHAMPTON, THE BROOK
SUNDAY 19 APRIL 2026
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466 Portswood Road, Southampton, SO17 3SD
https://the-brook.com
01/02/2026
Faithless Town: New Single Out Now!
Faithless Town released their new single “Little One” on January 23, a heartfelt, melodic reflection on parenthood, hope, and an uncertain world.
Written by frontman Gene Owens for his newborn son, the song reflects on the question of what kind of world we are bringing our children into. “Little One” explores modern division, algorithm-driven tribalism, and ongoing global conflict, balancing uncertainty with warmth, intimacy, and hope.
The track features dreamy guitars, sweeping strings, and lush backing vocals that broaden the arrangement, giving the song an emotional lift while keeping its focus on melody and lyric. It was recorded, mixed, and co-produced by multi-platinum songwriter Greg Camp (Smash Mouth, The Defiant), whose thoughtful production allows the song to feel both personal and cinematic.
The recording features Gene Owens on vocals and rhythm guitar, Chris Witt on bass and backing vocals, Greg Camp on lead guitars, backing vocals, and keys, and Darren Dodd on drums and percussion.
Faithless Town has earned acclaim for releases including American Refugee, Empires, and Into The Light Vol. 1 & 2, with praise from Grimy Goods, Twangville, and Americana U.K.
“Little One” is available now on all major streaming platforms.
For more information, visit FaithlessTown.com and follow @FaithlessTown on Instagram.
Robin Trower Reveals The Live Version Of "Bridge of Sighs" Taken From 'One Moment In Time: Live In The USA'.
Iconic, award-winning British blues icon Robin Trower releases his new album, One Moment In Time: Live In The USA, via Artone/Provogue. Listen and order the album HERE.
One Moment In Time: Live In The USA, is a document of Robin Trower in full flight, just as powerful when experienced through your home speakers as it was for the fans on the front row. “At the very least, you want the audience to be feeling entertained by the end of the show,” he considers. “But I’d really like them to walk out feeling elated. I want them to get something emotionally out of this as well…”
The evergreen guitar icon unveils a live rendition of his pièce de résistance, Bridge of Sighs. Originally released on the 1974 album of the same name, the track has long since taken on a life of its own—effortlessly bridging generations through its tasteful, soulful, and sophisticated guitar work. Over the years, it has been reinterpreted by artists such as Opeth, Ann Wilson, and Steve Lukather, and even makes a subtle appearance on the end of Metallica’s 1998 covers album Garage Inc. as a hidden segment featuring part of the song.
From the 14-song setlist whistlestop tour of Trower’s fabled career, the bluesman has already revealed roaring renditions of Too Rolling Stoned , and the previously released live version of Day of the Eagle. “That album is still a very powerful piece of music. You’ll find no fewer than four songs from 1974’s gold-selling masterpiece, Bridge Of Sighs, still universally hailed amongst the greatest albums from the golden era of blues-rock. “Those songs have to be in there, because they’re the audience’s favourites. “That album is still a very powerful piece of music.”
In the summer of 2025 and riding high on the acclaim for his latest solo album, Come And Find Me (“Trower is to be treasured,” wrote Classic Rock), the guitarist crossed the Atlantic for a 25-date run in the nation that has welcomed him since the start. Almost 60 years have passed since Trower first performed in the Land Of The Free, but as a British gunslinger raised under slate-grey South London skies, he still remembers the culture shock. “I first came here with Procol Harum in the late-Sixties. Back then, it was a different world,” he says.
Trower honed in on the material caught at the Music Box At The Borgata, Atlantic City, New Jersey (14 June) and the Tupelo Music Hall in Derry, New Hampshire (24 June).
Other old favourites include Daydream (from 1973’s solo debut, Twice Removed From Yesterday) and Somebody Calling (from 1977’s In City Dreams). Elsewhere, Trower plays the aces up his sleeve with surprise airings of Rise Up Like The Sun (from 1994’s 20th Century Blues) and Distant Places Of The Heart (from his 2007 collaboration with the late Cream bassist Jack Bruce, Seven Moons).
Trower is no heritage artist, and the cheers are just as loud for the four songs from 2022’s No More Worlds To Conquer, not to mention his stalking take on One Go Round (from Come And Find Me). “I love to play One Go Round live – it’s like a hot knife through butter,” he says of the soul-in-fingers strut.
“I prefer this format because I have more freedom,” he explains. “In a three-piece, everybody is trying to make up for the missing instrument. We’ve got Richard Watts on bass and vocals: a wonderful voice, great musician. Then there’s Chris Taggart on drums, another fantastic musician. I’m very fortunate to play with guys of this calibre. We’ve been working together now for a good ten years. They have to watch me a bit, because obviously I’m leading and they have to follow – but they do a brilliant job.”
Track Listing
1. The Razor's Edge
2. Too Rolling Stoned
3. Wither On The Vine
4. Somebody Calling
5. Distant Places Of the Heart
6. One Go Round
7. It's Too Late
8. Day Of The Eagle
9. Bridge of Sighs
10. No More Worlds To Conquer
11. Daydream
12. Little Bit of Sympathy
13. Rise Up Like The Sun
14. Birdsong
Robin Trower Online
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31/01/2026
Tinsley Ellis Releases New Song And Video For Too Broke.
TINSLEY ELLIS RELEASES RADIO SINGLE AND VIDEO FOR TOO BROKE
Relix Magazine Premieres New Video
New Album Labor Of Love Released January 30, 2026
Labor Of Love is equal parts passion, grace and artistry…earthy, contemplative and gut-bucket. Ellis’ vocals deliver old-world goodness without pretense or artifice. [This is] the real deal for lovers of the bona fide.
–Vintage Guitar
Ellis delivers a masterclass in passionate musicianship. Raw, edgy performances.
–Relix
Labor Of Love is an unqualified masterpiece.
–AllMusic
Atlanta-based blues guitarist, vocalist and songwriter Tinsley Ellis releases his new all acoustic album, Labor Of Love. This is Ellis' second acoustic album (after 2024's Blues Music Award-nominated Naked Truth), and his first acoustic album to contain all original material. The album will be available on CD, Georgia peach-colored vinyl LP and at all digital service providers. It is available to order here. His new radio single, the original Too Broke, hits the airwaves today. Additionally, Vintage Guitar magazine features Ellis on the cover of their newest issue (February 2026).
According to Ellis, Too Broke has lyrics everyone can relate to now. It was inspired, he notes, by blues great Tommy Johnson's Big Road Blues. A new video of the song, directed by filmmaker Tony Bieser, debuted yesterday via Relix magazine. Watch the video below.
With Labor Of Love, Ellis delivers a raw, edgy, self-produced set of 13 original compositions, all performed with pure emotional honesty. The songs spin modern tales of floods, conflagrations, voodoo spirits, personal travails and heaven-sent prayers. From the feral opener Hoodoo Woman to the John Lee Hooker-groove of Long Time to the evocative, Skip James-inspired To A Hammer to the Son House-style stomp of Sunnyland, Ellis inhabits his songs in a way that is simply astonishing.
Each performance carries the weight, experience and hard-earned wisdom Ellis learned over four decades on the road, making Labor Of Love as profoundly deep and moving as any music he has made in his career. It covers the gamut of emotions, finding good times in the hard times, mixing gentle beauty with foot-pounding ferocity.
During a break from the recording of the new album, Ellis spent time in Bentonia, Mississippi, birthplace of Skip James and home to blues legend Jimmy “Duck” Holmes. Ellis soaked up the spirit of this tiny Delta town, hanging out with Holmes and getting a deep insight into genuine Bentonia blues. While there, Ellis performed with Holmes at his famous Blue Front Café, soaking up every moment. “Once I got home,” notes Ellis, “I went right back to the studio and incorporated everything that I just experienced into my music.”
For the album, Ellis used six different open tunings on his beloved 1969 Martin D-35, his 12-string Martin D-12-20, and his 1937 National Steel O Series guitars. He also, for the first time in his career, played mandolin on three of the album’s songs. The instrumentation and the tunings, he notes, create endless possibilities, and he finds himself constantly invigorated by the music.
Ellis has been traveling on his own, performing solo all over the country in his aptly named “Two Guitars And A Car” tour. For Ellis, playing solo, acoustic blues has helped him tap into the raw essence of the music. “I love doing these shows,” Ellis says, “I can be more expressive and emotional as a solo acoustic artist. I just love the sound of acoustic guitar. I always have.” Find Ellis' tour dates here.
“No matter what I play, I like to have an edge, "Ellis says. "For me, just playing this music is a labor of love. I sat at the feet of Muddy Waters, B.B. King, Howlin’ Wolf. I got into this music because of them. I always told myself if I could just make a living playing the blues, I’d be, at least in my own mind, successful.”
Premier Guitar believes he’s more than reached that goal, declaring, “Ellis is a legend of American blues music...he’s an American music treasure. He delivers a sermon on the power and glory of the blues, and is one of modern blues’ greatest performers.”
30/01/2026
Hauntees serves up music from the Twin Peaks bar jukebox.
Helsinki-based goth garage band Hauntees has released the first single, All Over Again, from their upcoming debut album. The hypnotic, dark-toned track draws its striking elements from post-punk as well as goth and garage rock.
Hauntees is a new band, but its members have previously played in groups such as Patsy Walkers, Borderline, Charm Bags, Goo-Hags and Lariots, so the roots of the Helsinki garage scene are well covered.
“We want to reach toward other worlds with our music, beyond everyday reality,” the band says. “When we write songs, we describe them to each other through places, films, and moods.”
Based on feedback, Hauntees’ visual and atmospheric approach to music seems to resonate with listeners.
“It’s interesting that listeners experience our music this way too. We’ve received comments at shows that we sound like the jukebox in the Twin Peaks bar, a foggy forest path, or music that should be played on a road trip across the desert,” the band says.
The band’s debut album Shadows Forming will be released on February 28 on vinyl and digital platforms.
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Line-up:
Aiju Salminen – bass, vocals
Heini Kauppinen – guitar, vocals, organ
Piia Jalkanen – guitar, backing vocals
Teemu Kumpulainen – drums
AUSTRALIAN ALT-FOLK ARTIST TOM WOODWARD RELEASES NEW GOTH COUNTRY RECORD COME COME KARMA.
Acclaimed Australian folk-rock pioneer Tom Woodward releases his seventh studio album, Come Come Karma. The new album follows the release of the grunge-tinged lead single “Phoney Messiah”.
Available today on all major streaming platforms, Come Come Karma features tracks that express optimism tangoing with nihilism, extremism, and self-grandiose helplessness. Produced by Adam Casey and recorded at True Vine Productions over the span of the summer of 2024, the songs on the new album shift gears between baroque folk rock, lo fi psychedelia, and country tinged storytelling. Consisting of twelve thought-provoking tracks that land just over the span of forty-five minutes, the record is great for fans of The Felice Brothers, Bob Dylan, or The War On Drugs.
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“Phoney Messiah”, the album’s centerpiece, features a haunting video that illustrates a nightmare presented in the form of entertainment, highlighting the song’s critique of false prophets in the digital age. A perfect representation of the remaining tracks on Come Come Karma, the track received praises from Honk Magazine and Skope Magazine, to name a few.
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Come Come Karma - Tracklisting
1. Termination Day
2. New Mistake
3. Phoney Messiah
4. If You Wanna Stay Alive
5. Come Come Karma
6. Jack and Jill
7. Fly Back To You
8. Woe Is Me
9. Sails In Your Heart
10. Dancing On A Carousel
11. Hurricane You
12. Strong Strong
Written largely while touring up and down Australia’s east coast, Come Come Karma was shaped vastly by Woodward’s last few years of nomadic travel, building inspiration for the album’s overall concept and themes. Some of which include miscommunication, escapism, and the contradictions of seeking truth in a culture built on noise. With an enviable cache of songs that document his thoughts and experiences, Tom Woodward continues his sonic journey with this release, further cementing his place in the folk-rock atmosphere.
Woodward's songwriting chops have landed him impressive opportunities such as performing at the National Folk Festival, The Multicultural Fringe Festival, and opening slots for Abbe May, The Drones, and Mikelangelo & the Black Sea Gentlemen, to name a few. Beyond accolades, Woodward’s story is one of persistence. A housing crisis pushed him into a life on the road, which in turn pushed him toward full time musicianship. With the release of Come Come Karma, the album proves to be a definition of Tom Woodward’s work for two decades.
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29/01/2026
JON VON BOEHM RELEASES NEW JAZZ FUSION SINGLE “NOT TODAY” NEW ALBUM REFLECTIONS COMING IN MARCH.
Multifaceted artist and acclaimed bass player Jon von Boehm releases the first single from his latest project. “Not Today” is out now, and marks the opening track of von Boehm’s fourth album, Reflections, which is set to drop this March.
“Not Today” is a five minute instrumental track featuring a talented roster of fellow musicians Jon von Boehm has met due to his experience as a session player. Including performances from drummers Marcus Finnie, Cory Ponder, Kyle Edmonston, and Michael Green, along with guitarists Jake Patterson, Cole Clark, and John Gallo, the new single and album demonstrate a high-level of musicianship and emotional storytelling.
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A jammy number, “Not Today” is a medley of jazz fusion, instrumental rock, and old school rhythm and blues. Out today via Space Donkey Records, the track was recorded in 2023 in various studios across Nashville, TN.
Written at a pivotal time in von Boehm’s life where he experienced major personal growth and navigated crucial life transitions, “Not Today” is a great snippet of what’s to expect on the forthcoming full-length album. Born and raised in Erie, PA, Jon von Boehm has maintained an impressive 38-year journey in music, beginning honing his craft in the form of lively church performances, where he harmonized seamlessly with his peers. In his teens, von Boehm explored and fell in love with the invigorating world of jazz, where he fearlessly collaborated with seasoned musicians thrice his age.
Before settling in Nashville, Jon embarked on an enriching journey in FL, where he had the opportunity to study under the guidance of bass guitar virtuoso Jeff Berlin – a pivotal influence in his musical development. Known for intricate playing and dynamic tone, Jon von Boehm is a sought-after session player and live performer that has left an indelible mark on the music world. Reflections, is a culmination of everything Jon has worked on in the past — an extremely personal album that thrives off of cinematic storytelling and the desire to build community through music.
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Beth Hart announces Wille & The Bandits (Acoustic Duo) as special guests on May 2026 UK Tour.
BETH HART
“YOU STILL GOT ME” - MAY 2026 UK TOUR
WITH SPECIAL GUESTS
WILLE & THE BANDITS (ACOUSTIC DUO)
TICKETS AVAILABLE FROM
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“Beth Hart wields her voice like an earth-scorching flame-thrower…Hart shows no trepidation finding the right balance between gusto and good taste.” – MOJO
“Hart as a writer and performer knows exactly what she is doing and her songs are often deeply personal memories put to music, revealing, raw and emotional.” – Blues Matters
Beth Hart is pleased to announce Wille & The Bandits (Acoustic Duo) as special guests on her “You Still Got Me” May 2026 UK Tour. Tickets are available from www.alttickets.com/beth-hart-tickets and Gigs in Scotland.
The UK includes Bristol Beacon (Friday May 15), Edinburgh Usher Hall (Saturday May 16), Nottingham, Royal Concert Hall (Monday May 18), Gateshead, Glasshouse International Centre for Music (Wednesday May 20), and Oxford New Theatre (Friday May 22).
There’s a low-ticket warning for Beth’s concert at Bristol Beacon. Tickets are going fast!
The UK tour celebrates Beth’s critically acclaimed album "You Still Got Me." Released by Provogue/Mascot Label Group, the album is available on CD, vinyl and digital HERE.
Watch the official music video for “Wonderful World” on YouTube HERE.
With a career marked by critical acclaim and countless accolades, Beth Hart has solidified her place as one of the most influential and heartfelt voices in music today. Her journey, marked by triumphs and trials, reflects her relentless dedication to her craft and fans.
Beth’s music, infused with her raw, soulful energy, has captivated audiences worldwide, earning her top spots on the Billboard Blues charts and performances at iconic venues like Nashville's Ryman Auditorium, Amsterdam’s Ziggo Dome and London's Royal Albert Hall.
There is an electrifying connection between Beth and her fans, one that's almost unrivalled. Her ability to touch people with her music and words that cut through straight to the heart means that she lives every word she sings, and fans hang on to each word, living it with her. “You Still Got Me” offers fans a chance to hold and comfort her as she continues to navigate her journey with grace and courage.
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BETH HART
“YOU STILL GOT ME” MAY 2026 UK TOUR
SPECIAL GUESTS:
WILLE & THE BANDITS (ACOUSTIC DUO)
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BRISTOL BEACON
FRIDAY 15 MAY 2025
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Trenchard Street, Bristol, BS1 5AR
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EDINBURGH USHER HALL
SATURDAY 16 MAY 2026
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Lothian Road, Edinburgh, EH1 2EA
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NOTTINGHAM ROYAL CONCERT HALL
MONDAY 18 MAY 2026
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Theatre Square, Nottingham, NG1 5ND
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GATESHEAD THE GLASSHOUSE INTERNATIONAL CENTRE FOR MUSIC
WEDNESDAY 20 MAY 2026
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St Mary’s Square, Gateshead Quays,
Gateshead, NE8 2JR,
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OXFORD NEW THEATRE
FRIDAY 22 MAY 2026
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24-26 George Street, Oxford, OX1 2AG
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BETH HART – BIOGRAPHY
If you have ever seen Beth Hart live or immersed yourself in her music, you know she puts every ounce of her being into her songs. For all those empathetic superpowers, she also needs someone to catch her when she falls. Firebrands inspire; it’s what attracts people to them. However, part of those personalities’ makeup is that they do not wear a harness. They thrive on the freedom and space around them. But, with that comes danger; you need an emotional crash mat, and those save lives. It is something we all need at times throughout our lives.
Beth says about the title track, “This is a true story. I had a moment where I wasn’t in a positive mood, and I was hanging out on the couch, crying pretty hard, and Scott said, ‘Hey, do you need a hug?’ I said, I’ve got nothing inside left to love, and he said, you still got me. I said, hang on a minute; I’ll be right back. I went downstairs and used those words and how he said it. You say something like that, and someone you love says back, but you’ve still got me. It’s true. If I’ve still got him, I’ve still got everything.”
You can see this in the 'You Still Got Me' video, poignantly featuring her beloved husband, Scott. Along with the team around her, provide that surface to fall on when she needs it. Her fans adore her, and the feeling is replicated. You can see that night after night on tour; the adulation she receives and that she also gives back, which is why there is a bond like few other artists have. That connection was forged over the last 28 years of releasing music in which she unapologetically wears her heart on her sleeve – like a warrior. Which is precisely what she is.
It’s okay not to be okay. It’s okay to struggle sometimes, and it takes enormous strength to open yourself up to help. Reaching out a hand to have someone hold on to it is strength. This is something that we can all learn.
Beth says about her writing process, “I never write in terms of thinking it’s going to be an album or go to people. When I write, it’s always for the joy of writing or for the challenge of writing, to seek what’s going on. Sometimes, I go just when I’m sad or scared. If I check in on the piano, it sometimes reveals itself. Sometimes a song comes, and sometimes one doesn’t. Either way, there’s comfort there.”
Beth explains the messaging within the songs: “I leave that up to the listener to decide. Personally, I know what it is for right now. One of the beautiful things I love about songs and albums is that over time, that meaning changes. I like to keep that open because there’s a lot I can learn from it. Often, when I write a song, I know what that means to me at that moment. But a year will go by, and it means something totally different.”
You don’t have to look too hard to find moments of daylight throughout the album. You can see it in the song, 'Little Heartbreak Girl', as it pierces through the clouds like spears of hope and power. “Little Heartbreak Girl, you’re on your own,” she yearns but follows with “Little Heartbreak Girl, stronger than stone.” Still, it’s the lyric “You’re gonna conquer the world” scattered throughout that stands atop the mountain, planting a flag into the stone.
The decadent groove-laden funk of “Suga N My Bowl” features the dextrous fire fingers of Southpaw wizard and longtime friend Eric Gales. Gales says, “It is truly an honour to be part of anything having to do with our friend Beth Hart. She reached out to us, letting us know of this powerful song she’d been writing and workin’ on, and she felt it was a perfect fit for me. Of course, when I heard it, I said, ABSOLUTELY!!! Beth, LaDonna, and I have been good friends for quite some time. And we love her. I’m so honoured that she thought of me to participate on it. It’s a very powerful song!”
“Eric Gales is a badass, and I got very blessed,” Hart says. “I wasn’t there as it was sent to another studio. I heard this from his wife, the gorgeous, talented, badass LaDonna. He came in, they played the first couple of bars of the song, and he said, alright, I got it and did one take, and he’s like, I’m done, I’ll see you later,” she laughs. “That’s how phenomenal Eric Gales is. I love him. I adore him and respect him madly.”
You Still Got Me is Hart’s eleventh studio album, and right here, right now, it finds her riding a career trajectory that has been heading for the stars for several years and keeps soaring. Her most recent albums, ‘ A Tribute To Led Zeppelin’ (2022) and ‘War In My Mind’ (2019), became her highest charting UK and US releases to date, along with crashing into the Top 10 in Germany and France, Sweden, Belgium, Switzerland, Poland, Austria, and The Netherlands.
The album erupts with soaring rocker ‘Savior With A Razor’ featuring Guns n’ Roses’ Slash. She snarls out the lyrics, “Dig my bad bones out the trash, sell my sick soul, keep the cash, kiss the preacher, kiss my ass, I’m a rager, like a saviour, with a razor, I’m takin’ the devil down.” The epic Bond-like anthem thunders with nihilistic defiance as Beth’s vocals take the listener through the shadows and smash through the ceiling as Slash’s guitar wraps around the story in an electric fashion.
Talking about working with Beth, Slash says, “Beth Hart is one of my favourite artists to work with. She is an incredible singer/lyricist on so many levels. But Beth is also as sincere and genuine a friend as they come. She’s amazing.”
“Slash is a real team player,” Beth gushes, “I’ve met some incredible people in this business that are high profilers, and that dude is the best team player I’ve ever come across. He’s just a badass with zero ego and knows a lot about the razor’s edge. I got lucky. I reached out and said, ‘Hey man, would you be at all interested?,’ and he was absolutely down. He was totally into it, and I was just shocked.”
The beautiful piano ballad’ Wonderful World’ oozes optimism. “That song was written for and about my beautiful niece,” she says. “However, as time has gone by, I see that it’s really written for the lineage of the women in my family. All the way down the line: my great grandma, my grandma, my mom, my sisters, my niece, and her daughter. So, it’s the lineage and how imperative it is for me to see that, and what a gift to finally see that.”
She offers up a cautionary tale on “Never Underestimate a Gal,” while the Tom’s Waits-esque “Drunk on Valentine” is a tender, Jazzy, smoky barroom ballad. Her “most personal and powerful song on the album” is the haunting socio-political opus “Don’t Call The Police,” an incredibly raw, upsetting, but an essential observational insight on the George Floyd murder – “I got broken-hearted. How can you watch that and not get heartbroken for him, his family and everyone else on the ground,” she explains.
Moving hearts and souls across the globe, her touring has taken her across the world, filling rooms at iconic venues such as Nashville’s Ryman Auditorium, Amsterdam’s Ziggo Dome, and London’s Royal Albert Hall. Selling out shows worldwide, her recent travels have taken her across the US, Europe, and all the way to India, Morocco, Australia, and Canada.
You Still Got Me was recorded in 2023 and produced by Kevin Shirley at Ocean Way Studios in Nashville, TN – housed in a 100-year-old Gothic revival grey-stoned church in the heart of Music Row. Beth’s working relationship with Kevin Shirley goes back to her three collaboration albums with Joe Bonamassa (Don’t Explain, Seesaw, and Black Coffee) and her 2012 studio album Bang Bang, Boom Boom.
Shirley calls her a “Diamond. A living contradiction.” He continues, “She is rough and hard at the core – shining, sophisticated, and polished at presentation. Beth is one of the most formidable musicians I’ve ever worked with. Immensely talented and gifted. This album shows all the facets of the giant gem that is Beth Hart. Razor-edged tracks that have a samurai sword edge, soft and sultry ballads, and heartfelt emotional messages just made recording this album one of the most special I’ve ever done. You have to love her. There is nobody else like her. She is the best.”
“I’m always very controlling and protective of the songs,” Beth says. “One of the things Kevin told me was, “You gotta make sure to keep in mind that this is going to be really fun. Have fun. Let it go. Don’t be so momma bear protective of these songs. I really had to meditate on that, but I did let go and thank God I did. Kevin is badass. He had a great band, too. Phenomenal.”
There is an electrifying connection between Beth and her fans, one that’s almost unrivalled. Her ability to touch people with her music and words that cut through straight to the heart means that she lives every word she sings, and fans hang on to each word, living it with her. You Still Got Me offers fans a chance to hold and comfort her as she continues to navigate her journey with grace and courage.
We all have our “Me” when she sings “You Still Got Me” – a loved one, a friend, a pet, a place, a memory, a song; even in her moments of fragility, Beth Hart continues to inspire. She buries her hand deep and tears her emotions open so we can all see a mirror into ourselves, reminding us that you can feel low, but your inner strength is so much more powerful.
The multi-award-winning and Grammy-nominated Hart is recognized as one of her generation’s most talented voices; she has played by her own rules. She has collaborated with legends and icons, traversed the globe, topped the Billboard Blues charts six times, gone double platinum and had a string of Top 10 charting albums across Europe, Top 30 Official Billboard US charting albums and surpassed 600 million streaming figures and counting.
Beth Hart is a powerhouse in every sense of the word, and …she is a gargantuan BADASS!
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Ally Venable announces September 2026 UK Tour with special guest Garret T. Willie.
ALLY VENABLE ANNOUNCES SEPTEMBER 2026 UK TOUR WITH SPECIAL GUEST GARRET T. WILLIE
TICKETS AVAILABLE FROM ALTTICKETS,
GIGANTIC, TICKETMASTER, & ALLY VENABLE
"MONEY & POWER" ALBUM OUT NOW
AVAILABLE ON VINYL, CD AND DIGITAL HERE
"Make no mistake, Ally Venable kicks ass."
– Fireworks Magazine
"Ally Venable's new album is a bold, electrifying statement that cements her status as a blues rock powerhouse."
– Blues Matters Magazine
Following her triumphant October 2025 UK Tour, Texas based blues rock guitarist Ally Venable will embark on 10-date UK Tour in September 2026. Special guest on all shows is the celebrated Canadian blues rock phenom, Garret T. Willie.
Tickets for all concerts, except Glasgow and Faversham, are available from altickets.com.
Tickets for Ally’s concert at Stereo in Glasgow are available from Ticketmaster. Tickets for the concert at The Old Brewery in Faversham are available from Gigantic.com.
Ally’s UK tour follows hot on the heels of her critically acclaimed sixth studio album Money & Power. Released by Ruf Records, the album's available on vinyl, CD and digital HERE.
“Money & Power is such a strong statement, especially for women,” says the award-winning Texas gunslinger of her Nashville-recorded album, on which Ally’s crack-squad band is joined by A-list guests Shemekia Copeland and Christone ‘Kingfish’ Ingram.
“All the songs on this album showcase the theme of what it truly means to be a force to be reckoned with. I want this record to wake people up,” continues Ally.
Money and power make the world go round. But in the right hands, music can be every bit as potent. Right now, on the heels of 2023’s acclaimed Real Gone – an album that hit #1 on the Billboard Blues Charts and was still in contention a year later – Ally is rated amongst the best young singer-songwriters in American roots, saluted by Total Guitar magazine in its poll of Top 100 Blues Guitarists.
“With her heels, sequins and Les Paul growling on a leash, she’s one of Ruf Record‘s most head-turning young artists,” wrote Classic Rock, “and while the instrumental prowess can be taken as read, Real Gone marks a growing maturity in the Texan’s songcraft.”
In February 2024, with the dust still settling from Real Gone, the Money & Power sessions saw Ally and producer/drummer Tom Hambridge push through the doors of Nashville’s famous Soundstage Studios. And while the studio band was strictly A-list, as always, Ally’s new songs are the real stars. That attitude is palpable on opener “Brown Liquor,” Ally’s battle cry decorated by a stinging guest guitar solo from the Mississippi hotshot Christone ‘Kingfish’ Ingram.
Money & Power is a modern roots record that plays by its own rules and marches to the beat of its own drum. The same could be said for Ally herself. “I’m thrilled to release this album,” she says. “For me, it’s a sonic embodiment of a woman’s unstoppable ambition, and showcases my musicality on all fronts.”
DHP and Friends in association with The Main Thing
ALLY VENABLE – SEPTEMBER 2026 UK TOUR
*SPECIAL GUEST: GARRET T. WILLIE
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NEWCASTLE, CLUNY 2
TUESDAY 8 SEPTEMBER 2026
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36 Lime Street,
Newcastle-Upon-Tyne, NE1 2PQ
https://thecluny.com
YORK, THE CRESCENT
WEDNESDAY 9 SEPTEMBER 2026
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8 The Crescent, York, YO24 1AW
www.thecrescentyork.com
LONDON, THE 100 CLUB
THURSDAY 10 SEPTEMBER 2026
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100 Oxford Street, London, W1D 1LL
www.the100club.co.uk
NOTTINGHAM, RESCUE ROOMS
FRIDAY 11 SEPTEMBER
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Masonic Place, Goldsmith Street,
Nottingham, NG1 5LB
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NORWICH, THE WATERFRONT
SATURDAY 12 SEPTEMBER 2026
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139-141 King St, Norwich, NR1 1QH
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MANCHESTER, DEAF INSTITUTE
SUNDAY 13 SEPTEMBER 2026
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135 Grosvenor St, Manchester, M1 7HE
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GLASGOW, STEREO
TUESDAY 15 SEPTEMBER 2026
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22-28 Renfield Lane, Glasgow, G2 5AR
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BRISTOL, EXCHANGE
WEDNESDAY 16 SEPTEMBER 2026
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72, 73 Old Market St, Bristol, BS2 0EJ
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FAVERSHAM, THE OLD BREWERY
THURSDAY 17 SEPTEMBER 2026
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Cutting-Edge Bluesman Selwyn Birchwood To Release ELECTRIC SWAMP FUNKIN' BLUES On March 27, 2026.
VISIONARY BLUESMAN SELWYN BIRCHWOOD TO RELEASE ELECTRIC SWAMP FUNKIN' BLUES ON MARCH 27, 2026
New Song, Church Of Electric Swamp Funkin' Blues, Premiered on Monday.
“Selwyn Birchwood is one of the preeminent voices in contemporary blues. He plays like a man possessed…cleverly blending elements of traditional blues, funk, Stax-flavored R&B and psychedelic rock into a cohesive and compelling, expansive and cathartic artistic statement.”
–Guitar Player
“Birchwood is one of contemporary blues’ foremost innovators. Funky, Southern-flavored electric blues…infectious rhythms and inventive soloing.”
–Blues Music Magazine
“Selwyn Birchwood is one of the best blues players today. Ferocious blues guitar…powerful voice…blistering licks galore.”
–Vintage GuitarOn Friday, March 27, 2026, award-winning visionary bluesman Selwyn Birchwood will release Electric Swamp Funkin' Blues, his sixth Alligator Records album. Rolling Stone calls Birchwood “a remarkable, contemporary bluesman…a powerhouse young guitarist and soulful vocalist.” Now, this mesmerizing guitarist, lap steel master and cinematic songwriter unleashes the powerful new self-produced album, Electric Swamp Funkin’ Blues, further blazing his own musical trail. The album will be available on CD, translucent yellow vinyl LP, and at all digital service providers.
The first single from the album, the psychedelic soul sermon The Church Of Electric Swamp Funkin’ Blues, premieres today, along with a striking new video. The song is Birchwood's statement-of-purpose and an open invitation for everyone to join the congregation. As Birchwood sings with foot-pounding fervor, “the music is the mission....[it's the] creation of joyful jubilation.”
Electric Swamp Funkin’ Blues features 10 wildly imaginative, laser-focused, vibrant original songs, produced by Birchwood and recorded in Florida. From the wide-open honesty of Damaged Goods to the up-to-the-minute observations of All Hail The Algorithm and Talking Heads, Birchwood and his band play with honest, emotional intensity. On Labour Of Love he looks at the pains and joys of parenting, while The Struggle Is Real serves as an anthem for our times. Birchwood’s tough, slide guitar opus, What I’ve Been Accused Of, the slow burning, romantic Soulmate and the blazing Should’ve Never Gotten Out Of Bed, all show Birchwood as one of contemporary blues’ most prolific, significant and innovative artists.
Electric Swamp Funkin’ Blues is Birchwood’s own fully realized artistic statement, and the first of his Alligator albums that he has produced by himself. “Producing allowed me to really take the wheel and steer the music to the exact destinations that I wanted to go. It allowed me to present these songs with the full, three-dimensional sound that I have wanted all along. This album is the full realization of the sound I have been cultivating. It tiptoes the tightrope between gritty gutbucket blues and contemporary grooves to create a soundscape that honors the roots but allows listeners to experience the music from a modern vantage point. Sharing songs with this much honesty allows us all to connect to music on a higher level…to feel a little less isolated and a little more ‘seen’ in what can be a hard life at times.”
Live, Birchwood is a true force of nature. A favorite among blues fans and jam band fans alike, his ability to win over an audience—any audience—is proven night after night. With his warm, magnetic personality, Birchwood is as down-to-earth as his music is electrifyingly jaw-dropping. With his band feeding off his energy, the 6’3” musician roams the stage barefoot, ripping out memorable guitar licks with ease, his soulful, rocks-and-gravel vocals impossible to ignore. When he sits down to play his signature model Caladesi lap steel, he magically lifts the crowd into a sweat-soaked state of blissful elation. Mega-star Joe Bonamassa raves, “Selwyn Birchwood has become one of my favorite discoveries. He puts on a great show.”
Says Birchwood, “You would be hard-pressed to find an album or a band that sounds exactly like mine, and that has been and always will be the goal. I pride myself in writing songs so that when you hear a band like us, you hear a band that sounds just like…US!”
According to Guitar World, “Blues star Selwyn Birchwood is the real deal. He puts his own fresh spin on the blues, taking the tradition and making it into something new.”
Francis Rossi: ‘Songbook: Quo – Past, Present, Future’ Tour 2026.
A brand new show, entitled Francis Rossi ‘Songbook: Quo – Past, Present, Future’, will see one of Britain’s most loved and influential musicians take to the road for 30 UK dates from September to November 2026. These shows will go on sale on Friday 30th January 2026 at 10am from www.aegpresents.co.uk/event/francis-rossi/. Fans can also register to gain access to the Francis Rossi AEG Presents Presale on Thursday 29th January at: https://www.aegpresents.co.uk/francis-rossi-presale/ The Francis Rossi ‘Songbook: Quo – Past, Present, Future’ shows will include, of course, a hand-picked host of Francis’ many evergreen Status Quo classics, some deep cuts; and he is also working up a new medley. This tour is the only place to hear Francis’ own selections and interpretations from his incredible catalogue, plus the added bonus of some commentary and insight from the man himself.
Available for the first time on this tour, the strictly-limited VIP Soundcheck Experience ticket will include: Access to soundcheck and an exclusive performance of two songs not featured in the main show; a stage / tech rundown with Francis’ sound engineer; and one of the best seats in the house for the main show. Additionally, VIP ticket holders will receive a limited-edition signed 7” single [available only with VIP access], and an exclusive tour lanyard.
Francis Rossi said, “The pressure is on once more, as I have put together a really packed new show for Autumn of this year. I’ll be keeping a whole lot of the hits in the set, of course, but also mixing it up with a couple of curveballs. These theatre shows are a great way to really connect with the audience, and try something a little bit different.”
Francis Rossi will once again be joined on this tour by guitarist Andy Brook, who co-produced the critically acclaimed 2026 album ‘The Accidental’ with Francis, and appeared on the sold out 2025 ‘Songbook’ tour.
The Francis Rossi ‘Songbook: Quo – Past, Present, Future’ Tour 2026 is a great opportunity for fans to hear many all-time favourites from one of rock’s greatest songwriters, as well as some unexpected gems, it’s a journey through the incredible career of a true one-off artist.
See below for full tour routing
Francis Rossi
‘Songbook: Quo – Past, Present, Future’ Tour 2026
September 2026
Tues 22nd WIMBORNE Tivoli
Thurs 24th CROYDON Ashcroft Theatre
Fri 25th SALISBURY City Hall
Sun 27th CHESTER Storyhouse
Mon 28th FAREHAM Fareham Live
Weds 30th EASTBOURNE Congress Theatre
October 2026
Thurs 1st BASINGSTOKE The Anvil
Sat 3rd WATFORD Colosseum
Sun 4th HARROGATE Royal Hall
Tues 6th WHITLEY BAY Playhouse
Thurs 8th HULL City Hall
Fri 9th STOKE Regent Theatre
Sun 11th WOKING New Victoria
Mon 12th STOCKPORT Plaza
Weds 14th LEICESTER De Montfort Hall
Thurs 15th SCARBOROUGH Spa Grand Hall
Sat 17th SKEGNESS Embassy Theatre
Sun 18th SOUTHEND Palace Theatre
Sat 24th FOLKESTONE Leas Cliff Hall
Sun 25th MILTON KEYNES Theatre
Tues 27th BUXTON Opera House
Thurs 29th ABERDEEN Music Hall
Sat 31st INVERNESS Eden Court
November 2026
Sun 1st EDINBURGH Queen’s Hall
Tues 3rd PERTH Concert Hall
Weds 4th GLASGOW Pavilion Theatre
Fri 6th LLANDUDNO Venue Cymru
Sat 7th COVENTRY Warwick Arts Centre
Mon 9th TORQUAY Princess Theatre
Tues 10th BEXHILL De La Warr Pavilion
27/01/2026
Country Music Icon Dale Watson To Release New Album!
AUSTIN, TX - Dale Watson is thrilled to announce the April 24th release of Unwanted via 40 Below Records, Pre-order here. And he's off to a great start with his first single "Willie Waylon And Whiskey," which was premiered by Holler, and featured in Taste of Country, The Bluegrass Situation and also added to Sirius XMs Outlaw Country, Pre-save here.
With Unwanted, Watson delivers another unapologetic statement from the heart of American roots music. It’s a lean, hard-hitting blast of honky-tonk, outlaw country, western swing, and rockabilly — the sound he named Ameripolitan and has championed for more than 40 years. Entirely written and produced by Watson, the album is another defiant stand from one of American roots music’s true originals.
Recorded in Austin and Memphis, Unwanted draws power from two cities that shaped Watson’s musical life. “Austin taught me how to swing,” he says. “Memphis taught me how to feel.”
Backed by The Lonestars, Watson is joined by Celine Lee, The Memphians, Katie Shore (Asleep at the Wheel), and pianist Matt Hubbard. “Everybody on this record knows how to make the music breathe,” Watson says. “That’s the difference.”
Songs like “Willie Waylon And Whiskey” wear their vices proudly. “I don’t apologize for the way I lived,” Watson says. “Those songs kept me company.” On the other end of the spectrum, the ballad “If You Really Loved Me (Outlive Me)” reflects on loss and survival. “You don’t get to stay this long without losing people,” he adds. “That song came from sitting with that truth.”Unwanted follows a catalog of more than 30 albums, beginning with 1995’s Cheatin’ Heart Attack. “That record convinced me to quit fixing motorcycles and bet everything on music,” Watson recalls. “I figured I’d rather fail at something honest.”
That honesty has earned Watson an international audience and the respect of his heroes. Watson has shared stages and bills with some of the most respected names in American music, including Merle Haggard, Johnny Cash, Willie Nelson, Kris Kristofferson, Ray Price, Loretta Lynn, and Dwight Yoakam — artists who recognized in him a kindred spirit and a deep respect for the tradition.
He’s brought that same unapologetic sound to national audiences through appearances on Austin City Limits, Jimmy Kimmel Live, and The Late Show with David Letterman. Despite such high-profile appearances, Watson remains rooted in the road. “I still play over 300 shows a year,” he says. “That’s where the truth is. That’s where the songs tell you if they’re real.”
Honored as a Texas State Musician and founder of The Ameripolitan Music Awards, Watson sees Unwanted as part of a living tradition. “Outlaw country isn’t nostalgia,” he says. “It’s alive, it’s loud, and it’s still being written.”
TRACK LISTING
1 Willie Waylon And Whiskey
2 She Was My Baby
3 If You Really Love Me (Outlive Me)
4 Gotta Try Harder
5 What The Hell Happened To The Cadillac
6 You've Got My Heart
7 Don't Let The Honky Tonks Go
8 Just Yesterday
9 Life Is Like A Song
10 Never Mend The Broken Spoke
11 If I Can
12 Unwanted
TOUR DATES
01/24/26 HiCo Hall Hico TX
01/25/26 Sundown Llano TX
01/26/26 The Continental Club Austin TX
01/29/26 Parker Jazz Club Austin TX
01/30/26 Bugle Boy La Grange TX
01/31/26 Broken Spoke Austin TX
02/02/26 The Continental Club Austin TX
02/05/26 McGonigel's Mucky DuHckouston TX
02/06/26 Rock 'N' Bowl New Orleans LA
02/07/26 Mid City Ballroom Baton Rouge LA
02/09/26 The Continental Club Austin TX
02/13/26 Luckenbach Texas Fredericksburg TX
02/14/26 Broken Spoke Austin TX
02/16/26 The Continental Club Austin TX
02/20/26 The Lonesome Rose San Antonio TX
02/21/26 Coupland Dancehall Coupland TX
02/22/26 Sundown Llano TX
02/23/26 The Continental Club Austin TX
02/26/26 Parker Jazz Club Austin TX
02/27/26 Blue Note Lounge Oklahoma City OK
03/01/26 The Coda Concert HousJeoplin MO
03/07/26 Broken Spoke Austin TX
03/07/26 Fulton Oysterfest Fulton TX
03/09/26 The Continental Club Austin TX
03/12/26 Poor David's Pub Dallas TX
03/13/26 Chateau Event And Canyon TX
03/14/26 Lazy Days Canteen & Ingram TX
03/15/26 Sundown Llano TX
03/20/26 Back Porch of Texas Abilene TX
03/21/26 FitzGerald's Berwyn IL
03/22/26 Wittenberg - Wittenberg WI
03/23/26 James Ballentine Minneapolis
03/25/26 309 General Restaurant Hot Springs SD
03/26/26 TBD Sheridan WY
03/27/26 Oriental Theater Denver CO
03/28/26 Lulu's Downtown Colorado Springs CO
04/11/26 The Orleans Hotel Las Vegas NV
04/18/26 Broken Spoke Austin TX
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Mexico's Anathoth Releases New Album "Redención".
Hailing from Coahuila, Mexico, metalcore outfit Anathoth returns with "Redención." The album features 8 new songs and 5 remixed tracks from their debut EP, "Eternidad." Fans of bands like Killswitch Engage, All That Remains, and Haste The Day will not be disappointed. Multi-instrumentalist Dan Cuellar fully embraces his heritage, citing, "as [it] is my native language and there is [very little] extreme metal in my country in this language, I have decided to compose and make the effort to spread metal in Spanish."
You can purchase or stream “Redención” from Anathoth now right here.
Suzie Ungerleider announces April UK tour + new single & deluxe edition of Among The Evergreens.
SUZIE UNGERLEIDER ANNOUNCES DELUXE EDITION OF AMONG THE EVERGREENS +
APRIL 2026 UK TOUR AND NEW SINGLE ‘AMSTERDAM’ FT. LUKE DOUCET AND MELISSA MCCLELLAND OF WHITEHORSE
NOMINATED FOR ENGLISH SONGWRITER OF THE YEAR AT THE 2026 CANADIAN FOLK MUSIC AWARDS
Ahead of an upcoming UK tour, acclaimed Canadian singer-songwriter Suzie Ungerleider announces the deluxe edition of her critically acclaimed album Among the Evergreens, out March 13, 2026, on MVKA, and shares a brand new single ‘Amsterdam’, co-written and recorded with Luke Doucet and Melissa McClelland of Whitehorse. Listen here and watch the charming lyric video here.
"This song is a collaboration with my friends Luke and Melissa from Whitehorse about our long and winding musical friendship, on and off stage", shares Ungerleider. "This sing-along tells the giddy story of a shared adventure on a night off in Amsterdam, getting lost and looking at all the lights sparkling on the water in the canals".
With an exciting touring season ahead, Ungerleider is joyfully returning to the place where her songs truly come alive. "There is nothing like experiencing the energy of the people in the room, all listening and feeling together. It is that musical communion that really makes songs complete", she shares.
Among the Evergreens is revered Americana singer-songwriter Suzie Ungerleider's most personal narrative to date. Emerging under her own name in 2021 after retiring from her long-time moniker, Oh Susanna, Ungerleider continues her thrice JUNO-nominated tradition of exquisite storytelling with a record that reflects both where she has been and where she is now.
Divided into two parts, "Then" and "Now," the original album traces songs inspired by the past and the present, as Ungerleider reflects on what it means to be in the middle of life, seeking answers to who she was and who she is now. Her beautifully evocative and atmospheric writing draws listeners into a world that is both intimate and universal, touching on themes of teenagehood, the loss of innocence, love and heartbreak, marriage, motherhood, survival, second chances, fights, forgiveness, and grace.
For the deluxe edition, Ungerleider returns to the heart of these songs, stripping them back to let the lyrics truly shine. Recorded in the south of the Netherlands with renowned Dutch guitarist BJ Baartmans, who also provided accompaniment, the new acoustic versions of ‘Juniper’, ‘Real Estate’, ‘College Street’, and ‘Mount Shasta’ reveal fresh emotional depth, while the collection is rounded out by the stunning new single, ‘Amsterdam’.
UK Tour
Apr 7: Montrose, UK - Montrose Playhouse
Apr 8: Glasgow, UK - The Glad Café
Apr 9: Garstang, UK - Garstang Library
Apr 11: Beccles, UK - Canopy Theatre, Hungate Church
Apr 12: Nottingham, UK - Chapel at The Angel Microbrewery
Apr 14: London, UK - Green Note
Apr 15: Biddulph, UK - St Lawrence’s Church
Apr 16: Sheffield, UK - Café #9
Apr 17: Newcastle, UK - Cluny2
Apr 18: North Newbald, UK - Newbald Village Hall
All upcoming dates and details can be found at www.suzieungerleider.com.
‘Amsterdam’ Single Credits
Composer/Writers: Suzie Ungerleider & Luke Doucet – words and music
Producer: Luke Doucet & Suzie Ungerleider
Recording Engineer: John Dinsmore
Recording Location: Lincoln County Social Club
Mixing Engineer: Jim Bryson
Mixing Location: Stittsville
Mastering Engineer: BJ Baartmans
Musicians:
Suzie Ungerleider – vocals & acoustic guitar
Luke Doucet – electric guitar, bass & vocals
Melissa McClelland – vocals
John Obercian – drums
Jim Bryson - keyboards
Luke Doucet and Melissa McClelland appear courtesy of Six Shooter Records.
John Hollier & The Rêverie Unveil New Single!
Nashville, TN — John Hollier & The Rêverie share their new single, “Somewhere Down the Road,” from their forthcoming album Rainmaker, due March 20, 2026 via Thirty Tigers, while officially launching vinyl + CD pre-orders for Rainmaker.
Originally from Louisiana, the rising singer-songwriter has been relentlessly chasing down not only his unique sound — this searing fusion of rock, soul and alt-country — but also himself in the process. The result is his latest album,Rainmaker, a record showcasing Hollier’s live wire talent and artistic purpose.
When it comes to great stage acts, one of the most difficult things to do is take that you-had-to-be-there energy of one’s live performance and translate that into the studio setting. And yet, this is where the essence of Rainmaker lies — this launching point for what Hollier and his band, The Rêverie, envision. « Onstage, there is pure chemistry, energy, and some magic” Hollier says. It’s special.”
That live wire energy and sonic grit of Rainmaker is no more evident than on the newest single, “Somewhere Down the Road.” With a tone of rolling thunder and lyrics pushing the edge of one’s own sanity, the melody crackles and bursts into this call to the universe for clarity and resolve amid the unknowns of what it takes to chase and hold onto your dreams in real time.
“Been bleeding out my secrets, kicking out the footlights,” Hollier howls. “Empty rooms and last night’s ghosts, honey it’s just how it goes.”
“We wrote and recorded ‘Somewhere Down the Road’ in Nashville,” Hollier says. “It asked for a different approach than what we were used to. It took time to become ours. We finally found the shift with harmonica and acoustic guitars.”
The song offers one of the album’s most reflective moments. “There’s plenty of fire on this record,” Hollier explains, “but this one let some reality seep in. Sometimes it feels like a hopeless mission in a hopeless world. Learning to hold onto memories and moments—that’s what carries you forward.”
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Emerging from rural central Louisiana, Hollier grew up on a crawfish farm in the depths of French-Cajun country. Outside of the usual cultural pillars of football and church, Hollier and his big brother learned to play guitar and sing at an early age. They would perform at church services and family gatherings.
“There was not really a music scene [there], but there were a lot of good musicians,” Hollier recalls. “But, that’s where the initial kind of candle burn began to happen for me, where I started to feel like music was my thing.”
One of those talented local musicians was Hollier’s uncle, who played guitar in a popular Cajun band. And he always left an open invitation to the brothers that if they ever wanted to jump onstage and play with his band, have at it.
“My brother and I could never hang with those Cajun guys,” Hollier chuckles. “They don’t play like country [music] and if they’re good it’s hard to keep up. Especially following the cadence of an accordion.”
But, Hollier wasn’t deterred. When he was onstage, something was sparked, with Hollier continually having these epiphanies while in the midst of a live performance. Out of high school, he started playing with some regional touring acts and began traveling around the U.S. and Canada.
“To be honest, the moment I started writing and performing, I knew this was the only thing I wanted to be doing,” Hollier says. “With a live band, though, you really have to grind. I try to keep this tunnel vision - this is the path, just keep going.”
Eventually, Hollier took off to Nashville to try his luck as a songwriter, maybe even start a group in Music City and see where it would take him. In an effort to fit in and find work, Hollier’s French-Cajun roots began to take a backseat to the modern country sounds echoing out of studios and venues around the city.
“When you move to Nashville, you realize quickly what you’re not, you know?” Hollier says. “And I realized how much my roots mattered to me. But, there’s got to be a way to incorporate that [heritage and feeling] without being a little cheeky or make it feel cringe.”
Cue the formation of John Hollier & The Rêverie. Based on the Old French word “rêver,” which means “to dream,” the band’s name is a purposeful, more so poignant, ode to the definition itself that focuses on “a state of being pleasantly lost in one’s thoughts; a daydream.”
“’The Rêverie is a cultural nod,” Hollier says. “But, it’s also about this dreamlike state, this very meditative space like when we’re working on a song and eventually put the words to it, these ethereal pieces that are like a river [flowing].”
With an array of sonic textures, the fiery ensemble weaves effortlessly between the rock, soul and Americana realms, channeling a road-worn energy reminiscent of Bruce Springsteen, Nathaniel Rateliff, and heartland roots music.
And with Rainmaker now on the horizon, Hollier is ready to return to the stage - the place where these songs breathe deepest; a space that John Hollier & The Rêverie inhabit with grace, grit, and gratitude.
“The last thing you want to do is sound like everybody else,” Hollier says. “When you realize what your strengths are, and then you play to your strengths? That’s how you find your sound — that’s what we’re doing.”
PRODUCTION CREDITS
Written by John Drake Hollier, Ross Ellis, Caitlyn Elizabeth Smith
Produced & engineered by Gabe Rabben
Recorded at The Dog House Studio, Nashville, TN
Keyboards by Elliott Blaufuss
Mixed by D. James Goodwin
Mastered by Daniel Bacigalupi at Infrasonic Sound
Kezia Gill releases new single 'Gut Feeling' and 'All On Red' album ahead of UK tour.
UK HEADLINE TOUR – FEB 2026
Singer/ songwriter and UK country powerhouse, Kezia Gill, has released the new single, ‘Gut Feeling’, taken from her new studio album, ‘All On Red’.
About the track, Kezia says, “The next offering from the 'All On Red' album is a really personal number, born from a situation I found myself in where I had to listen to my inner instinct, against all the odds. That instinct stopped me making a huge mistake, and ultimately led to this entire album being made, so it’s truly a serendipitous track. The moral of the story is that you should ALWAYS listen to that 'Gut Feeling'.”
This single/video follows the release of ‘If Heaven Has a Honkey Tonk’ and ‘Dublin’s Outta Whiskey’, which both garnered major support at UK radio, including Radio 2.
Produced and mixed in Nashville by US artist, Alyssa Bonagura, along with a selection of award-winning musicians, the 11-song ‘All On Red’ is out now on digital release via Snakefarm/Universal with the CD & LP formats following on February 13th (the first time a Kezia record has been pressed onto vinyl, and red vinyl, too!) – available for pre-order here.
‘All On Red’ is a bold new chapter in the career of an artist who continues to secure awards and nominations from multiple bodies allied to the genre, including ‘Entertainer of the Year’ at last year’s British Country Music Association Awards.
Kezia comments, “This is the best album I’ve written; it feels like a body of work that combines the sound and skill of Nashville with what I stand for in terms of storytelling and honesty as a proud British artist. The title of the record encapsulates the process. I went all in... I put it 'All On Red'!”
Drawing on her Celtic heritage — Kezia hails from a musical family of Irish descent — ‘All On Red’ sees one of country’s rising stars hitting the jackpot, so expect heartfelt songwriting, a deep respect for the proud traditions of country music, plus a self-confidence that shines across the record.
It's an album rooted in years of music industry experience, and the culmination of a creative process that draws on blues, Irish folk and Americana just as much as country – traditional and modern. “It’s a Nashville record with a British heart,” insists Kezia, as she describes the genesis of a remarkable album that’s been a lifetime in the making.
The ‘All On Red’ UK headline tour kicks off in February 2026, with Bonagura Special Guesting on all dates. Kezia adds, “It’s gonna be a high energy show – real, raw and rowdy as hell… the only way I know how to be!”
Tickets are on sale now and available here.
‘ALL ON RED’ UK TOUR DATES
Tues 17th Feb – Brudenell, Leeds
Weds 18th Feb – Saint Luke’s, Glasgow
Thurs 19th Feb – Digital, Newcastle
Fri 20th Feb – Rock City, Nottingham
Sat 21st Feb – Club Academy, Manchester
Tues 24th Feb – Waterfront, Norwich
Weds 25th Feb – Islington Assembly Hall, London
Fri 27th Feb – Phoenix, Exeter
Sat 28th Feb – Wedgewood Rooms, Portsmouth
Sun 1st Mar – The Lantern, Bristol
‘All On Red’ album track-listing:-
Life You Always Dreamed Of
Dublin’s Outta Whiskey
Whiskey in a Wine Glass
Love You Next
Ride or Die
Gut Feeling
Money in the Bank
Barbed Wire
If Heaven Has A Honky Tonk
What If
This House Would Sing
Luke Winslow-King's New Album Due March 27th.
Luke Winslow-King is pleased to announce the forthcoming release of his latest album, Coast of Light, due March 27th via Bloodshot Records. The lead track, “Dangerous Blues”, is out now, the accompanying live video has been premiered by Rock 'n Blues Muse, check it out here.
Luke Winslow-King blends jazz, blues, classical, and folk into a powerful, cinematic sound. With fluid guitar work, fearless songwriting, and gruff yet tender vocals, his music leaves a lasting impression. Highly acclaimed for his brilliant songwriting, producing, and playing, The New York Times has praised his music as it “seamlessly melds Delta blues, gospel and jazz themes with personal, simplified lyrics that speak to his personal and artistic evolution.”
Originally hailing from Cadillac, Michigan, and now living in Spain, Winslow-King’s early influences included Muddy Waters, Howlin’ Wolf, Buddy Guy, Jimi Hendrix, and Carlos Santana. After a short stint studying jazz and classical guitar, he began busking on street corners performing Woody Guthrie songs, fell in love with New Orleans spending the next 15 years honing his craft on street, and developing a lifelong friendship with his musical collaborator, guitarist Roberto Luti.
Winslow-King’s new album Coast of Light looks out over the edges of life, death, failure, hope, and love. It evokes his musical journey reflects how the music of Spain has influenced his writing and producing. The album is dedicated to the experience of going to explore the city of Cadiz on the ‘coast of light’, the Atlantic side of Andalusia, and discovering the beautiful seaside, and the passion for flamenco music there creating an esoteric impressionist version of real life that is so deeply reflected in Spanish art.
The 12 songs on Coast of Light, were co-produced by Winslow-King and Roberto Luti at the Jambona Lab Studios in Livorno, Italy. In addition to Winslow-King on guitar, percussion, and vocals, and Luti on guitar, the album features Simone Luti on bass, Piero Perelli on drums and congas, Nicola Venturini on Hammond organ, Fender Rhodes, and piano and drums, and Giacomo Riggi on mallet percussion.
Winslow-King’s previous albums include Luke Winslow-King (2008), Old/New Baby (2009), The Coming Tide (2013), Everlasting Arms (2014), I’m Glad Trouble Don't Last Always (2016), Blue Mesa (2018), and If These Walls Could Talk (2022). He’s recorded with acclaimed artists such as George Porter Jr., Little Freddy King, and John Boutté. He’s shared the stage with Jack White, Taj Mahal, Rosanne Cash, and many others. His original song "Everlasting Arms" was performed by Dr. John in the 'Playing for Change: Songs Around the World' series on YouTube. His music has been featured on Anderson Cooper Live (CNN), NCIS: New Orleans (CBS), and Deadliest Catch (Discovery).
Luke Winslow-King has toured extensively in North America and Europe, appearing on notable stages such as Austin City Limits, New Orleans JazzFest, Azkena Rock Festival (Spain), Tønder Festival Paradiso (Netherlands), Glastonbury (UK), Byron Bay Blues Fest (AUS), and countless more.
Nine albums in, Winslow-King is still chasing new ground on Coast of Light. It’s his most adventurous record yet, with the band stretching out, taking chances, and leaning further into psychedelic and experimental territory. “We’re playing with more genres and tones than ever before,” he says. “It feels natural, and I’m comfortable here. I hope listeners are ready to come along for the ride.”
TRACK LISTING
- What'll We Do
- Coast Of Light
- As Far As We Know
- Dangerous Blues
- She Talks to The Flowers
- Lotus Blossom
- Shoot From The Hip
- Destiny
- Teacher's Desk
- The Silent Hour
- Don't Worry Your Mind
26/01/2026
Inborn Tendency Releases First Full Length "Let There Be Sin".
After a three year long wait, Inborn Tendency releases their highly anticipated full-length record, “Let There Be Sin.” The band describes the album and its creative process as follows:
"This album is the destination of a very long journey, and at the same time, a new beginning. While the process has been incredibly interesting and inspiring, for a band like ours—working primarily remotely—it has required significant effort. We’ve had to invent new ways of working and change many of our internal practices. From the very beginning, our goal was to create a debut so strong that we wouldn’t have to regret it years down the line. We believe we achieved that goal 100%. With the lessons learned, working on the next album will be a much faster undertaking."
The band worked on the album with producer Juho Koskinen, who was responsible for the production as well as the final mixing and mastering.
"When we decided to start working on the debut in 2023, it became clear after a moment of reflection that we wanted an outside producer to provide fresh perspectives on the songs. We were looking for someone with experience producing music beyond just the metal genre. We happened to find Juho through mutual acquaintances, and that same year we released 'Heritage.' From that point on, it was clear that the entire album would be crafted with this team. Remote work has been a necessity and a natural way for us to operate since the band's early days, so the collaboration with Juho ran smoothly. The singles released so far have received excellent feedback on both production and sound, and we believe the full album will live up to the expectations of both fans and new listeners!"
The cover art for the singles and the final album was created by Henri Tervapuro, an artist from Ostrobothnia.
"We started working with Henri years ago when we released the Godkiller EP. Henri’s style of creating graphics through painting works incredibly well for us; it adds just the right amount of edge and narrative to the songs. Henkka got to listen to the tracks and create the first drafts based on pure intuition. This way of working has been very effective, and Henri’s art often brings new, interesting perspectives to the music."
The band's lyrics and songwriting style have been atmospheric and thought-provoking since their inception. The band has refrained from explaining or opening up the themes of the lyrics, aiming instead to let the listener draw their own conclusions from the stories behind the songs. The band describes the debut album as follows:
"The overarching theme of the album is the inherent sinfulness planted in humans from the womb. The songs' themes lead the listener to face their deepest fears and the evil that resides within every human being. Although the stories draw from Christian tradition, they provoke thought about the nature of evil, regardless of one's personal convictions."
"Something new, something old, something of our own, and something stolen," describes Ville Herranen, who is responsible for the lyrics.
24/01/2026
Solomon Hicks drops the groovin’ blues of Flyin’ High (Yesterday) on the day he releases his new album.
Solomon Hicks drops the groovin’ blues of Flyin’ High (Yesterday) on the day he releases his new album.
Watch the video forFlyin’ High (Yesterday)
How Did I Ever Get This Blue? released today via Artone/Provogue
Also, check out Further On Up The Road | Driftin' And Driftin'.
Stream/Pre-Order HERE
The Harlem-hotshot Solomon Hicks today releases his new album How Did I Ever Get This Blue? via Artone/Provogue. You can stream and order it HERE.
To celebrate, Hicks has revealed the video for his new singleFlyin’ High (Yesterday). He takes on the song by the late-Texan blues singer and guitarist Johnny Copeland - father of Shemekia Copeland. The song was originally released on the album of the same name in 1992.
Talking about the song, Hicks says, “That one, I first heard done by a drummer called Barry Harrison. We were playing B.B. King’s in New York, and I remember Barry coming out with this song. And it felt like putting the key in the car ignition and taking off down a dirt road. The song didn’t really hit me until I got to experience life and those highs and lows. It felt good to play a song from a blues artist like Johnny Copeland that you don’t hear as much, and put that guitar stamp on it.”
Flyin’ High (Yesterday) is the latest single to be taken from the album following Driftin' And Driftin' where Hicks put his own spin on the song popularised by the Paul Butterfield Blues Band on their 1967 album The Resurrection Of Pigboy Crabshaw and Further On Up The Road - made famous by Bobby 'Blue' Bland
The album includes untamed reworkings of Adele's Rumour Has It and Bruno Mars' When I Was Your Man (not to mention Hicks' originals, How Did I Ever Get This Blue and I'm Burnin' Up). Far from a 'covers album', each song unfolds as you've never heard it before. "I'm not looking to copy or recreate sounds from the past," he explains..
Hicks is a thrilling paradox, a sonic contradiction. He's an old-soul roots scholar who salutes ancient musical forms – blues, jazz, soul, funk, gospel – but also a renegade gunslinger here to bend, stretch and scratch them for the modern world. His songs range from earworm originals, past pop covers torn up with electronica and punky riffs, to reignited blues standards that prove how potent this genre still is in the right hands.
2026 Tour Dates
Feb 6, South Orange Performing Arts Center, South Orange, NJ
Feb 26, The Funky Biscuit, Boca Raton, FL
Feb 28, 2026, Vero Beach Blues Festival, Vero Beach, FL
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Tangerine Dream - The ‘Sessions IV’ LP, deluxe 2LP, 140g translucent green vinyl edition.
Tangerine Dream
The ‘Sessions IV’ LP
Deluxe double LP, 140g translucent green vinyl edition
Invisible Hands Music are proud to release the ‘Sessions IV’ LP on 20th February 2026, as a deluxe double LP, 140g translucent green vinyl.
The Sessions IV LP contains instant live recordings (about 80 minutes of music) from the 2018 Tangerine Dream line-up of Thorsten Quaeschning, Ulrich Strauss and Hoshiko Yamane, recorded at Internet Festival Pisa, Øya Festival Oslo and Way Out West Festival Gothenburg
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In their imperial years of the 1970s, Tangerine Dream’s live concerts were an electronic exploration, improvised and different every night, with little or no relationship to their smash hit albums, which were similarly esoteric. As the 1980s dawned, their recorded work contained more recognisable themes and they scored some of the biggest films of the decade (Risky Business, Firestarter, Near Dark, Thief, Sorcerer)
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Now, they are returning in part to those pioneering days, and every show includes a section of improvisation, different every night. The best improvisations are being released as ‘Sessions’, and Invisible Hands Music is proud to release them on deluxe double vinyl mastered at Abbey Road by Miles Showell
TRACKLISTING
Side
1
Four Degrees Parallax (Part One)
11.27pm Session, 13th October 2018
Recorded live at Internet Festival, Teatro Verdi, Via Palestro, Pisa, Italy
Side 2
Four Degrees Parallax (part two)
11.27pm Session, 13th October 2018
Recorded live at Internet Festival, Teatro Verdi, Via Palestro, Pisa, Italy
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Persepsjontransformasjon
10:32pm Session, 10th August 2018
Recorded live at Øya Festival, Tøyenparken, Oslo, Norway
Side 4
Gothenburg 2018
4.45pm Session, 11th August 2018
Recorded live at Way Out West Festival, Slottsskogen, Gothenburg, Sweden
Joanne Shaw Taylor Releases Defiant New Single "Hell Or High Water" - A Powerful Blues-Gospel Anthem.
Joanne Shaw Taylor Releases Defiant New Single “Hell Or High Water”
A powerful blues‑gospel anthem confronting inner battles and resilience
Watch the official music video for “Hell Or High Water” HERE
Stream “Hell Or High Water” on all platforms HERE
British blues‑rock artist Joanne Shaw Taylor returns with a striking new single, “Hell Or High Water,” out today via Journeyman Records. The track finds Joanne channelling resilience, faith, and self‑belief into one of her most emotionally charged recordings to date. “Hell Or High Water is a defiant, soul‑bearing Blues/Gospel anthem about surviving the war inside your own head and refusing to give in,” Joanne shares. “It’s about resilience and self-belief even in the hardest of times.”
From its stark opening moments through its hypnotic rhythmic pulse, “Hell Or High Water” builds an atmosphere steeped in tension and release. Joanne’s raw, blues‑soaked vocal performance carries lyrics that wrestle openly with doubt, temptation, and perseverance.
Lines like “Devil on my shoulder keeps whispering in my ear” and the repeated plea “Lord, don’t let me falter” frame the song as a deeply personal reckoning, grounded in honesty rather than polish. Yet even as it explores darker emotional terrain, the song is instantly catchy - anchored by handclaps, a rolling groove, and a hook that lingers long after the final chorus. Joanne’s searing guitar riffs cut through the track with clarity and conviction, and the solo - equal parts grit and grace - reminds listeners exactly why she’s considered one of today’s most formidable blues guitarists.
The release follows a prolific and creatively rich period for Joanne. Over the past year, she released her acclaimed album Black & Gold, along with a Deluxe Edition featuring stripped‑back acoustic versions of fan favourites including “Hold Of My Heart,” “Grayer Shade Of Blue,” and “Black & Gold.”
The album earned widespread praise, with Classic Rock rating it 9/10, Powerplay Magazine highlighting its “pop appeal and smoothness,” Guitarist Magazine noting that it “reinforces Joanne’s place in the firmament of today’s brightest stars,” and American Blues Scene calling it “a deeply personal experience, showcasing the depth of Joanne’s artistry.”
“Hell Or High Water” offers a first glimpse into a new slate of material Joanne plans to unveil over the coming year. While stylistically rooted in the blues traditions that have defined her career, the song reflects an artist continuing to push herself emotionally and creatively, leaning into vulnerability while maintaining the strength that has become her hallmark.
The new single arrives amid an extensive period of touring. Joanne is about to kick off 2026 with a major UK and European headline tour before returning to the United States for a Spring tour spanning the Midwest, Northeast, Southeast, and Florida. Known for her commanding live presence, fiery guitar work, and emotionally immersive performances, Joanne continues to connect powerfully with audiences worldwide.
For more information and to purchase tickets, visit www.joanneshawtaylor.com.
2026 UK/Europe Tour
January 25 - Edinburgh, UK - The Queen’s Hall
January 26 - Buxton, UK - Opera House
January 28 - Blackpool, UK - Opera House
January 29 - Sunderland, UK - The Fire Station
January 30 - Southend-On-Sea, UK - Palace Theatre
February 1 - Antwerp, BE - De Roma
February 3 - Munich, DE - Backstage Werk
February 5 - Hamburg, DE - Fabrik
February 6 - Cologne, DE - Die Kantine
February 8 - Stuttgart, DE - Im Wizemann
February 9 - Zurich, CH - Kaufleuten Festsaal
February 10 - Milan, IT - Legend Club Milano
February 12 - Paris, FR - Alhambra
2026 Spring U.S. Tour
March 18 – Skokie, IL – North Shore Center for the Performing Arts
March 20 - Kent, OH - The Kent Stage
March 21 – Pittsford, NY – Beston Hall
March 22 – Homer, NY – Center for the Arts of Homer
March 24 – Red Bank, NJ – The Vogel
March 25 – Sellersville, PA – Sellersville Theater
March 27 – State College, PA – The State Theatre
March 28 – Annapolis, MD – Rams Head On Stage
March 29 - Oakmont, PA - The Oaks Theater
March 31 - Hobart, IN - The Hobart Art Theater
April 2 – Franklin, TN – The Franklin Theatre
April 3 – Greenville, SC – Peace Center
April 4 – Cornelius, NC – Cain Center for the Arts
April 7 – Orlando, FL – The Plaza Live
April 9 – West Palm Beach, FL – Kravis Center for the Performing Arts
April 10 – Ponte Vedra, FL – Ponte Vedra Concert Hall
April 10-12 Miramar Beach, FL - Sound Wave Beach Weekend +
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Laptop presents new single 'Confused', a sonic response to a fracturing democratic reality.
FOR FANS OF: Sparks, MGMT, LCD Soundsystem, Beck, Talking Heads, Yard Act, Hot Chip, Alex Cameron, The Magnetic Fields, Baxter Dury
INFLUENCED BY:David Bowie, Beck, Ultravox, Talking Heads, Lou Reed, Jonathan Richman, The Magnetic Fields, Devo, Roxy Music, Brian Eno
FOR SHARING
'Confused' video https://youtu.be/nJmOPjmvPZg
Get the single https://ditto.fm/confused_2459a4d0
Bandcamp
https://laptoptheband.bandcamp.com/single/confused
Spotify https://open.spotify.com/artist/3gSWfRMa91c5EAOtR72Dco
'Indie Hero' https://youtu.be/x9M9HfZ4LmE
Get the single https://ditto.fm/indie-hero
'I Don't Know' video https://youtu.be/iufIPNTKq9E
'Additional Animals' video https://youtu.be/C_qAp_89ntU
'Weirder' video https://youtu.be/h1vMNHu09iE
'Christmas Card From a Hooker in Minneapolis' https://youtu.be/UzeO5Sli-EE
Get the single https://ditto.fm/christmas-card-from-a-hooker-in-minneapolis
"An X-Posure hot one.... It is Laptop and "Confused", another taste of the upcoming album, which is going to be called "On This Planet".... sounding so good. Every track from this upcoming album has been sounding fantastic... Really really strong song" ~ John Kennedy, Radio X
"Part psychedelic pop, part alternative dance... Built of post-disco sonic glam, hazy harmonics, seductive synths, and infectious groove" ~ Big Takeover Magazine
"Few artists who emerged in the late ’90s managed to fuse irony, melody, and social awareness with such precision... This is the sound of a legacy that has never stopped listening, never stopped questioning, and never stopped evolving — a legacy that now finds renewed urgency in the present moment. That legacy belongs to NYC alternative pop outfit Laptop" ~ The Spill Magazine
"A witty knowing track with a hooky chorus that carries an important message... an effervescent track about extinction, meat, and the absurd human urge for more, that playfully marries pieces of disco-pop, synth-pop and a splash of new wave" ~ God Is In The TV
NYC alternative pop outfit Laptop presents their new single “Confused” — the emotional and thematic center of their forthcoming album "On This Planet" and their most definitive song to date. Written in response to January 6 (now the 5th anniversary), the track captures the psychological whiplash of watching democratic reality fracture in real time, filtered through the perspective of a man glued to the news, overwhelmed by noise, grievance, spectacle, and historical déjà vu.
Formed in the late ’90s, Laptop released three albums with Island Records with praise from the NME, The Guardian and others for their stylized blend of synth-pop & irony. Now a multi-generational project with Jesse Hartman joined by his son Charlie Hartman, they are not observing the present from a distance. “Confused” is the sound of living inside it — aware of history, aware of danger, and quietly aware that even the people telling us what’s happening may not know what to believe themselves. Yet for all its tension, “Confused” is not humorless. Like much of Laptop’s work, the song is threaded with a dry, unsettling irony — the kind that emerges when reality itself starts to feel absurd.
“‘Confused’ came from the shock of watching January 6 unfold on TV — but the really twisted part is that we’d been in D.C. two days earlier, visiting family, cluelessly being tourists, while staying at the hotel where the lead insurrectionists were actually meeting. We had no idea. But the city felt off — weirdly quiet, strange characters everywhere — like the ’70s version of "Invasion of the Body Snatchers". MAGA evangelicals blowing Jewish shofars, that kind of bizarro-ness," says Jesse Hartman.
"Then we went back to New York, life felt normal again for a moment,, and then a day later we were watching the least normal thing I’ve ever seen unfold. The whole family was completely freaked out, especially Lulu. (“Daddy was confused…Now, he’s flown the coop” – or is it coup? - recalling the ghostly children’s chorus of "Another Brick in the Wall”). Once the song got going, it felt obvious she had to be part of it.”
That generational perspective extends to the artwork. The cover image — a stark, almost African-influenced child’s face — was painted by Lulu herself. Rendered with raw simplicity and quiet distress, the image feels ancient and immediate at once. Lulu belongs to a generation that has grown up with Trump, COVID, lockdowns, and permanent crisis — for whom confusion isn’t a moment, but a condition. Like her voice in the track, the artwork doesn’t explain anything. It watches.
Musically, "Confused" is hypnotic and rhythm-driven, built on a circular, Afro-influenced groove that recalls Fela Kuti’s forward momentum filtered through the nervous minimalism of Talking Heads’ "Remain in Light” era. The track accumulates tension rather than releasing it. It openly channels the philosophy of
Compass Point Studios — rhythm as infrastructure, voices as texture, politics embedded in groove rather than announcement. The song keeps moving, even as clarity collapses. And like the other “On This Planet” album tracks, “Confused” was written and produced by Jesse Hartman, which was tracked in Valencia and overdubbed in Nevis, a place the band came to call the inspiration island.
Pushing the song’s themes into visual satire, the music video is framed as a CNN-style news broadcast, with Jesse Hartman as the anchor — calm, youthful, and unsettlingly composed — delivering chaos with the authority of media normalcy. Denise Gordon and Geddys “Ch4se” Ferguson appear as correspondents reporting from distant, vaguely defined locations, their dispatches fragmented and contradictory. Jesse Hartman hovers as an ambiguous figure — part tyrant, part media creation, part projection — never clarified, never resolved. The result isn’t parody so much as a wry, uncomfortable mirror: a world where information, performance, and power blur until belief itself feels optional.
In 2025, Laptop released several singles - "Indie Hero", "Additional Animals", "I Don't Know", and “Weirder”, mixed by Grammy award-winning producer Mario McNulty (David Bowie, Prince, Nine Inch Nails, Julian Lennon), in addition to a Tom Waits holiday cover, collectively drawing millions of views and reintroducing Laptop’s postmodern humor to a new generation.
“Confused” is out on January 23 via Hurricane Cove Records, available on streaming platforms, including Spotify, Apple Music and Bandcamp. The much-anticipated "On This Planet" album will be released in Spring 2026.
CREDITS
Written by: Jesse Hartman
Published by: Exurbia Music, Inc. (BMI)
Produced by: Jesse Hartman
Jesse Hartman — vocals, guitars, keys, synths, piano, bass, drum machine, percussion
Charlie Hartman — vocals
Marlena “Lulu” Hartman — vocals, synth
Geddys “Ch4se” Ferguson — vocals
Denise Gordon — vocals
Mike Desmarais — drums
Ben Jones — piano
Bruce Irvine (aka The Black Panther) — slide guitar
Lluísen Capafons — conga, percussion
Lee Sullivan — saxophone
Matthew Dakoutro — cello, viola, violin
Siuxx — keys, synths
Engineered by Iñaki Ariste Aznar, Edward Douglas, Jesse Hartman
Mixed by Ray Aldaco, Nicholas Vernhes, Edward Douglas, Jesse Hartman
Mastered by Dave Trumfio
Artwork Painting by Marlena “Lulu” Hartman, Design by Jesse Hartman & Scott Ratner
UPC/EAN 5063858817812
City photos by Tommy Krause. Other photos by Emmanuel Abreau
Publicity by Shameless Promotion PR
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23/01/2026
Brothers Osborne celebrate 10th anniversary of breakout album 'Pawn Shop'.
BROTHERS OSBORNE CELEBRATE 10TH ANNIVERSARY OF BREAKOUT ALBUM PAWN SHOP WITH SPECIAL VINYL EDITIONS, NEW RECORDINGS AND PREVIOUSLY UNRELEASED MUSIC ON FEBRUARY 13.
'Love The Lonely Out Of You (Live Pinebox Version)' Out Now
GRAMMY®-winning duo Brothers Osborne celebrate the 10-year anniversary of their breakthrough album Pawn Shop with the announcement of Pawn Shop (10 Year Anniversary Edition), arriving February 13 via MCA. Fans can pre-save and pre-order the album HERE. The landmark release honours the album that introduced the duo’s fearless sound and helped reshape modern country music. Rolling Stone called the album a “guaranteed show-stopper” highlighted by John Osborne’s “wickedly improvised solo.”
Originally released in 2016, Pawn Shop marked a defining moment for Brothers Osborne, showcasing their sharp songwriting, musicianship, and refusal to conform to expectations. The album became a cornerstone of their career, producing enduring fan favourites including '21 Summer', 'Stay A Little Longer', 'Rum', 'It Ain’t My Fault', and the title track, while laying the foundation for their rise as one of country music’s most respected and adventurous acts.
Brothers Osborne share 'Love The Lonely Out Of You (Live Pinebox Version)', accompanied by a lyric video recorded in John Osborne’s Pinebox studio, watch HERE. Captured in a single take, the performance strips the song down to its emotional core, highlighting the honesty and songwriting that first connected the duo with fans. The release revisits Pawn Shop through the lens of a band now a decade since its debut—while remaining rooted in the same intensity that defined their early work.
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22/01/2026
Raivo Jackson blends blues and spaghetti western vibes on new single – debut album out now.
Swimming Under Ice is the third and final single from Raivo Jackson’s debut album Tangled Up in Roots, out now. The track is one of the album’s most swinging cuts, where the band’s blues-infused groove is given extra color by a spaghetti western–inspired atmosphere.
Swimming Under Ice tells the story of a person who falls in with the wrong crowd and loses their way. It’s a tale about how difficult it can be to find a path back to the surface from deep waters. The song leaves the listener wondering whether a way to safety will ultimately be found or whether the character will remain trapped beneath the ice.
Released on Thursday, January 15, Tangled Up in Roots showcases Raivo Jackson’s versatile and narrative-driven expression, where rhythm and melody go hand in hand with strong, evocative moods.
The album will also be released on vinyl on February 13.
Previously released singles from the upcoming album include Fire Song Revisited and Babes in the Woods.
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Danny George Wilson - New album 'Arcade' out on 20th March - Hear new single 'Distant Seasons'.
Danny George Wilson releases his new album 'Arcade' on 20th March via Loose Music. 'Distant Seasons', the first single to be taken from the album, is available now.
"It’s a song about an imagined return. There’s a wonderfully melancholic string section and arrangement (by producer Hamish Benjamin), which is something of a theme throughout the album. As is the case with the new album, it’s about losing people, time & place. Sonically, it’s both rootsy and experimental…a kind of altered earthiness”.
HEAR NEW SINGLE 'DISTANT SEASONS' HERE
WATCH 'DISTANT SEASONS' VIDEO HERE
'Arcade' finds Danny George Wilson returning to Hamish Benjamin’s studio in East Sussex - five years on from his startling, post-lockdown solo album Another Place – to construct its sequel. With Lewes-based Benjamin and right-hand man Henry Garratt, again given free rein, 'Arcade' presents a fresh collection of sonically inventive, deeply romantic songs, with atmosphere taking primacy over meaning, and narrative dissolving. As Wilson tells it:
“The songs are about the ways we deal with losing people, time, place, or don’t deal with it… Looking back, we discover what was always there, or things that are just easier to ignore - different and contradictory perspectives. And I wanted a chance to work with Hamish and Henry again, and this seemed like their thing, and it was”.
Traditional instrumentation meets technology; the majority of tracks feature a string quartet, while Benjamin and Garratt employ synthesiser and mellotron along with a plethora of guitars. Gerry Love again provides backing vocals with cameos from Emma Tricca and Annie Dressner. Fragile, tender, full of uncertainty, ultimately 'Arcade' is a song-cycle in which the premise of each track subverts the previous, and demonstrates most assuredly, we still move in doubt.
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Brother Wallace - Debut album 'Electric Love' out 8 May - Hear/watch new single - Debut UK live dates in May.
BROTHER WALLACE ANNOUNCES DEBUT ALBUM 'ELECTRIC LOVE'
OUT 8 MAY ON ATO RECORDS
PRODUCED/CO-WRITTEN WITH DAN TAYLOR (THE HEAVY)
SHARES TITLE TRACK AND OFFICIAL MUSIC VIDEO
UK LIVE DEBUT IN MAY AT THE GREAT ESCAPE AND CROSS THE TRACKS FESTIVAL
Some artists spend their whole lives getting ready for the moment the world finally hears them. Brother Wallace is one of them. Today, the West Point, Georgia-bred singer, pianist, and soul revivalist announces his debut album 'Electric Love', out on 8th May via ATO Records, and shares the album’s title track—a Motown-esque number that’s equal parts playful, revelatory, and gloriously cathartic—alongside an official music video.
The track, which has been premiered by The Craig Charles Funk and Soul Show on BBC Radio 6 Music, is a bold first chapter from a voice that feels less like a “new artist” and more like a force that’s been building quietly for years, waiting for the right voltage.
On “Electric Love,” Brother Wallace doesn’t just sing about joy—he fights for it. The song moves like a shot of sunlight through a storm cloud: Stax-and-satin soul, piano-driven, and bursting with momentum, it’s built for the exact moment when you decide you’re not going to let the world harden you. “It’s about choosing connection,” Wallace says. “Finding that current again—the thing that reminds you you’re alive.”
LISTEN TO 'ELECTRIC LOVE'
WATCH 'ELECTRIC LOVE' VIDEO, DIRECTED BY WILL WALTER
Raised in a small rural town where the church was both community and classroom, Wallace began singing early and started formal piano training at six years old. By 14, he was directing a 100-member choir—leading not from ambition, but from instinct. Music wasn’t extracurricular; it was identity. Still, his path didn’t follow the typical industry arc. Wallace built a life at the intersection of art and service, becoming a K–12 music teacher and shaping young voices day after day, even as his own kept growing into something undeniable.
Over time, that “teacher” story expanded into something bigger, including sharing the stage with gospel legend Kirk Franklin performing at Madison Square Garden. But it wasn’t until a chance meeting sparked a creative partnership—one that stretched across years and continents—that Brother Wallace’s vision began assembling into the album it was always meant to become.
That partnership was with Dan Taylor (The Heavy), who became not just a collaborator but a catalyst. Recorded at Real World Studios (the legendary facility founded by Peter Gabriel) and produced/co-written by Taylor, Electric Love captures the breathless immediacy of Wallace’s performances—engineered and mixed by Bob Mackenzie (James Blake, The 1975, King Krule, SAULT) and Jim Abbiss (Adele, Arctic Monkeys). The result is soul music that feels alive in your hands: gritty, radiant, and built around the kind of vocal that turns rooms silent before it turns them inside out.
Across its 13 songs, Electric Love is less a debut than a revelation—a body of work fueled by gospel roots and classic soul lineage (Sam Cooke, Little Richard, Southern soul greats) while refusing to live in nostalgia. Wallace writes in lived-in scenes and hard-earned feeling: heartbreak without defeat, joy without naïveté, vulnerability without apology. The album’s rhapsodic opener “Who’s That?” (released last fall as his first ATO single) entered the Top 30 at Triple A radio in the US for the first time this week—an amazing feat for his first-ever single. Now, the title track “Electric Love” expands the frame: this is an artist building a world where joy is radical, and connection is survival. Now, the title track “Electric Love” expands the frame: this is an artist building a world where joy is radical, and connection is survival.
This spring, Brother Wallace will bring that world to the stage, first supporting St. Paul & The Broken Bones on his first-ever US tour, then heading to the UK to play The Great Escape and Cross The Lines Festival.
For Brother Wallace, 'Electric Love' isn’t just a record. It’s proof of concept: a lifetime of music, faith, teaching, and grit distilled into something that hits like lightning—then stays.
'Electric Love' Tracklist
You’re The Man
Gone With The Wind
Top Shotta
No God In This Town
Who Do You Love?
Any Day Now
Patient Man
Midnight Valley
Jealous
Hope Of Fools
Let’s Get Together
US TOUR DATES, w/ St. Paul & The Broken Bones
17/4/2026 – Charlotte, NC – Fillmore
18/4/2026 – Asheville, NC – Orange Peel
19/4/2026 – Raleigh, NC – Ritz
21/4/2026 – Richmond, VA – Botanical Garden
23/4/2026 – Philadelphia, PA – The Fillmore
24/4/2026 – Washington, DC – 9:30 Club
25/4/2026 – Brooklyn, NY – Brooklyn Paramount
26/4/2026 – Boston, MA – House of Blues
28/4/2026 – Toronto, ON – Danforth
29/4/2026 – Detroit, MI – St. Andrews
1/5/2026 – Chicago, IL – Salt Shed
2/5/2026 – Minneapolis, MN – Palace Theatre
3/5/2026 – Madison, WI – Sylvee
5/5/2026 – Cincinnati, OH – Taft Theatre
6/5/2026 – Lexington, KY – Burl Outdoors
8/5/2026 – Atlanta, GA – Eastern
9/5/2026 – Charleston, SC – Charleston Music Hall
UK/EUROPE TOUR DATES
13/5/2026 - Brighton, UK - The Great Escape Festival
24/5/2026 - London, UK - Cross The Tracks Festival
More Dates TBA Soon
WATCH THE VIDEO FOR 'WHO'S THAT'
PRE-SAVE/ PRE-ORDER ALBUM 'ELECTRIC LOVE'
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Pennsylvania Indie rockers Robin Ross & The Melodynes share 'Echo of Love', a shimmering anthem of sonic intimacy.
FOR FANS OF: Jefferson Airplane, Yes, Jacks Maze, The B-52's, Hawkwind, King Gizzard & The Lizard Wizard
INFLUENCED BY:Led Zeppelin, Pink Floyd, The Beatles, the Rolling Stones, Neil Young, Jacks Maze
FOR SHARING
'Echo of Love' https://youtu.be/gMaupjdK3TI
Spotify https://open.spotify.com/track/76BsqDmfUwBcv0j52f1DKJ
Bandcamp
https://robinross.bandcamp.com/track/echo-of-love
'Mind Space' album pre-order https://robinross.bandcamp.com
'Spill No Mo Wine' video https://youtu.be/ya4lLg9uggA
Bandcamp
https://robinross.bandcamp.com/track/spill-no-mo-wine
Spotify
https://open.spotify.com/track/6uocaaM7H7bEzlIkK5j8MB
Apple Music https://music.apple.com/us/artist/robin-ross/1640503541
Robin Ross & The TW Howlers 'Back To The Forest' EP https://robinross.bandcamp.com/album/back-to-the-forest
'Back To The Forest' CD https://robinrossmusic.com/album/3435543/back-to-the-forest
"Cool, funky basslines and female vocals that move the sound into a melodic punk style characteristic of The Go-Go’s. The song’s raw attraction comes from its intentional lo-fi, DIY late-70s punk sound, with a rough production that feels alive and uncensored. It’s punky, scrappy, and full of personality, a street-spirited hymn that celebrates both chaos and joy" ~ Skylight Webzine
Pennsylvania outfit Robin Ross & The Melodynes welcome the new year with their new single 'Echo of Love', a rhythmic exercise in romantic resonance that captures the high-frequency hum of two souls colliding in perfect, melodic symmetry. A shimmering anthem of sonic intimacy, Ross frames true love as a permanent vibration—one that holds its ground long after the music stops.
This is the second offering from the band's sophomore 'Mind Space' album, forthcoming via RPM Entertainment, which was recorded at Baa Baa Leaf Music Studio on the Mountain in Milford, Pennsylvania. Ross produced and engineered this album, along with famed engineer Jonathan Duckett (Phillip Glass, Kenny G, David Sanborn).
"This is a song based on a very melodic rhythm that moves in sync with the echo of love. Love takes two to bounce feelings back and forth within your heart. Echoes from both hearts bounce until their rhythm collides and creates balance," says Robin Ross.
"Echoes far and near keep us together and will never be apart. You feel it when we hug, you feel it when I look at you. Vibrations keep us strong. Even when you are not around, the echoes vibrate our ground. Like two doves above, so is the Echo of Love."
Robin Ross & The Melodynes is not just about music - it's about big fun between like-minded artists, including Wharton Tiers, JoJo Ellen Gaetani, Katlyn Albrecht, Nancy Isola, TW Howell, Emery Rhodes, Joe (Bass) Torres and Tony Anniello. Their collective good vibes cannot help but seep into the music, carrying over to their listeners.
Earlier, the band shared the lead track 'Spill No Mo Wine', a fun-loving single born from a high-spirited gathering on Lake Huron. In the spirit of The B-52s and The Pretenders, this single flies straight from the bottle right to your dancing feet, capturing the energetic atmosphere of friendship and celebration, using a humorous mishap to explore resilience when life's plans briefly spill out of control.
With musical roots in New Jersey and New York dating back to 1988, Robin Ross has established himself in the bustling artistic community of Milford, PA, A musician, songwriter, and producer with diverse musical endeavours spanning over three decades, he has released numerous albums and played a pivotal role in creating several recording studios, including Triple R Studios and Sound Complex near NYC. Ross' current recording studio, Baa Baa Leaf Music Studio, continues to expand.
In 2025, Ross released 'Back To The Forest', the debut EP as Robin Ross & The TW Howlers, a songwriting project with storied folk-rock artist TW Howell, which received critical acclaim and airplay in dozens of countries.
In the early 1990s, Robin co-founded Laughing Jack, later rebranded as Jack’s Maze, acclaimed for a progressive rock sound reminiscent of Pink Floyd and Led Zeppelin. Alas, life and business took him in a different direction. In 2021, Robin embarked on building Baa Baa Leaf Music Studio and also regrouped with Jack's Maze members Frank Cinquegrana, Scott Cowan, and Joe Torres to create new progressive rock albums. The Forecast is predicting a new Jack's Maze album later in 2026.
As of January 20, 'Echo of Love' is available from fine digital platforms, including Apple Music, Spotify, Amazon and Bandcamp. The full 'Mind Space' album will be released on February 20.
CREDITS
'Echo of Love' written by Robin Ross, JoEllen Gaetani, Wharton Tiers
Robin Ross - guitar, bass, keys
JoEllen Gaetani - vocals
Wharton Tiers - drummer
Emery Rhodes - back vocals
Recorded at Baa Baa Leaf Music Studios (Milford, PA)
Produced & Mixed by Robin Ross
Supervising Engineer: Jonathan Duckett
Photography & videos by Tina Ross
Album artwork & design by Tina Ross
Publishing & booking: RPM Entertainment Enterprises, LLC
Publicity by Shameless Promotion PR
ALBUM TRACK LIST
01. Spill No Mo Wine
02. Mind Space
03. Campfire On The Moon
04. Free the Young
05. Cause I do
06. Taking All Of My Heart
07. Shiny Blue Shoes
08. Sweet Jane
09. Curious Mind
10. Echo of Love
11. Come On In
12. Follow
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Francis Rossi: Exclusive Q&A and album event Union Chapel, Sun 1 Feb.
Francis Rossi
Exclusive Q&A and album playback event
Union Chapel, Sunday 1 February 2026
On Sunday 1 February 2026, Francis Rossi will be appearing at an exclusive event at the Union Chapel, London, to mark the release of his album ‘The Accidental’, which is out on 30 January via earMUSIC. The event will feature a full album playback, and be followed by a Q&A session hosted by Will Hodgkinson of The Times. Ticket and Vinyl album bundles are available here.
Always outspoken, Francis Rossi will talk about his incredible career, the highs and lows, and discuss the journey that has led him to here and now, and this new album.
The record is already garnering great reviews, with Mojo saying, “‘The Accidental’ reinforces his reputation as a pop songwriter… diehards… will find much to savour here”. Classic Rock agreed, “Fans will find much to enjoy.. and tucked away towards the end, Beautiful World, six minutes of glorious old-school Quo”. Powerplay said simply, “An album of consistently great songs”.
Francis Rossi kicked off 2026 in emphatic style with two brand-new songs from the album, ‘Push Comes To Shove’ and ‘November Again’, released last week as a digital double single.
Sunday 1 February 2026, Union Chapel, London
Timings:
1800 - Doors
1830 – Album Playback
1930 – Interval
2000 – Francis Rossi
With Francis Rossi known for his humour, wit and candour, this Q&A will be a no-holds-barred, very much unscripted insight into one of Britain’s favourite musicians.
Orianthi sells out Leeds concert and confirms James Bruner as special guest on her January UK Tour.
ORIANTHI JANUARY 2026 UK TOUR
LEEDS BRUDENELL CONCERT IS SOLD OUT
TICKETS FOR ALL CONCERTS ARE AVAILABLE FROM THE GIG CARTEL
PLUS SPECIAL GUEST: JAMES BRUNER
Following the release of her new album Some Kind of Feeling, critically acclaimed guitarist and singer Orianthi will embark on her UK tour in January 2026. Orianthi’s special guest at all concerts (except Planet Rock’s Winter’s End) is James Bruner.
Orianthi’s concert at Leeds Brudenell on Wednesday January 28th is sold out. Tickets for all other concerts are available from The Gig Cartel.
Dates include Manchester, Band on the Wall (Jan 24), Glasgow, Oran Mor (Jan 25), Leeds, Brudenell (Jan 28 – Sold Out), London, O2 Academy Islington (Jan 29), Planet Rocks’ Winter’s End (Jan 31) and Southampton, The Brook (Feb 1).
Orianthi’s new album Some Kind of Feeling was released digitally by Woodward Avenue Records on June 27th.
The album is available in all formats from https://orcd.co/OrianthiSKOF.
Orianthi produced three songs from the new album including “First Time Blues" feat. Joe Bonamassa, “Ghost,” and “Bad For Each Other.” The remaining seven songs on the album, including the current single “Attention,” are produced by Kevin Shirley (Black Country Communion, Joanne Shaw Taylor, Beth Hart, Joe Bonamassa).
Orianthi’s latest single "Attention” is available on all streaming platforms HERE. Watch the official music video for “Attention” on YouTube HERE.
Though the lyrics of Orianthi’s latest fiery, kick-ass single “Attention,” exposes an annoying ex-lover’s habit of drunk texting to rile up her cooled passions, its title, on a deeper level makes us think about the kind of attention we’ve been paying to the singer/songwriter and virtuoso electric guitarist over the past 20 years.
Seems nothing can ever be written about the multi-talented veteran artist without mentioning her collaborations with Alice Cooper, Dave Stewart and Richie Sambora, and the fact that Michael Jackson hired her for his London performances the year of his untimely death.
Equal “Attention” should also be paid to her success as an artist in her own right, starting with her Top 20 Billboard pop hit “According to You” and gold-selling Geffen album Believe, released in 2009. While playing with legends over the years, she has continued to build her discography with numerous albums on different labels.
Orianthi’s prolific streak of stylistically diverse singles from the new album include “First Time Blues” feat. Joe Bonamassa, “Ghost” and “Some Kind of Feeling.” They exemplify an exciting new phase of her solo career, an era of exciting creativity and powerhouse contemporary rock and roll.
Album Track Listing
1. Attention (3:48)
2. Some Kind of Feeling (4:44)
3. What I’ve Been Looking For (5:15)
4. Sharp Dressed Man (2:46)
5. Ghost (3:29)
6. First Time Blues (feat. Joe Bonamassa) (3:48)
7. Dark Days Are Gone (3:43)
8. Bad For Each Other (3:12)
9. Call You Mine (3:56)
10. Heaven Right Here (4:12)
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The Gig Cartel & Planet Rock in Association with Neil O’Brien Entertainment presents:
ORIANTHI
JANUARY 2026 UK TOUR
TICKETS FOR ALL CONCERTS ARE AVAILABLE FROM
THE GIG CARTEL
PLUS SPECIAL GUEST:
JAMES BRUNER
MANCHESTER, BAND ON THE WALL
SATURDAY 24 JANUARY 2026
Tickets: The Gig Cartel
25 Swan St, Manchester, M4 5JZ
http://bandonthewall.org
GLASGOW, ORAN MOR
SUNDAY 25 JANUARY 2026
Tickets: The Gig Cartel
Top of Byres Road, Glasgow, G12 8QX
https://oran-mor.co.uk
LEEDS, BRUDENELL (SOLD OUT)
WEDNESDAY 28 JANUARY 2026
Tickets: The Gig Cartel
33 Queen's Rd, Burley, Leeds, LS6 1NY
www.brudenellsocialclub.co.uk
LONDON, O2 ACADEMY ISLINGTON
THURSDAY 29 JANUARY 2026
Tickets: The Gig Cartel
16 Parkfield St, London, N1 0PS
www.academymusicgroup.com/o2academyislington
PLANET ROCK’S WINTER’S END
SATURDAY 31 JANUARY 2026
Tickets: Gigantic.com
Trecco Bay, South Wales
www.planetrock.com
SOUTHAMPTON, THE BROOK
SUNDAY 1 FEBRUARY 2026
Tickets: The Gig Cartel
466 Portswood Rd, Southampton, SO17 3SD
https://the-brook.com
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WOODWARD AVENUE RECORDS
https://woodwardavenuerecords.com
ORIANTHI
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21/01/2026
Spencer Mackenzie releases a reimagining of the Rory Gallagher classic "Don't Know Where I'm Going".
SPENCER MACKENZIE
NEW SINGLE – "DON'T KNOW WHERE I'M GOING"
RELEASED FRIDAY JANUARY 16, 2026
STREAM SINGLE | YOUTUBE AUDIO
NEW STUDIO ALBUM – "EMPTY CHAIRS"
RELEASED FRIDAY FEBRUARY 20, 2026
PRE-ORDER CD & VINYL | PRE-SAVE DIGITAL
JUNO nominated and Maple Blues Award winner Spencer Mackenzie releases his fourth single “Don’t Know Where I’m Going” from his upcoming studio album Empty Chairs. The single is available from Friday January 16th on all available platforms HERE, and YouTube.
Spencer cranks up the volume and intensity with a bold new release, delivering a deep, gritty guitar tone and an electrifying, fast-moving rhythm section in his rendition of Rory Gallagher’s acoustic classic, “Don’t Know Where I’m Going.” Reimagined with raw energy and modern edge, the track highlights Mackenzie’s signature blues-rock fire while honouring the spirit of the original. With this release, Mackenzie continues to build momentum toward the highly anticipated upcoming album.
Mackenzie’s new album Empty Chairs will be released by Gypsy Soul Records on February 20th, 2026. The album is produced by 2X Juno nominated producer, mixer and engineer and Emmy Award winning recording mixer Ross Hayes Citrullo, the guitarist of The Commoners.
Spencer's passion for the genre deepens as he explores the works of blues legends while simultaneously being influenced by the bold energy of renowned present-day blues rockers in this highly anticipated new album. This fusion of styles along with Spencer's unique sound in his new upcoming album Empty Chairs embodies this gritty, introspective style with electrifying guitar, punchy riffs, soaring organ, dynamic vocals, and an explosive rhythm section.
With his fluid phrasing, resonant tone, and expressive performances, one could believe Spencer Mackenzie was born on Beale Street. That, however, would be wrong. The lauded JUNO-nominated blues-rock artist hails from Southern Ontario and has steadily earned accolades, and the attention of blues aficionados from around the world. Leaving nothing behind when he steps to the stage, Mackenzie offers show goers a powerhouse performance, commanding his guitar with sophistication and prowess beyond his years.
For nearly a decade, Maple Blues Award winner Spencer Mackenzie has been writing and recording true blues, highlighting the raw emotion and honesty the genre demands. There’s a familiarity and ease with which he approaches the music, as though it flows through rather than from him. The energy of his work is infectious, permeating through the listener until they, too, feel the heartbeat of the blues.
Mackenzie's high-energy, captivating performance is one that grabs the audience from the moment the first note is played. With numerous Canadian, European, and US shows performed, some of his most notable performances include the Montreal International Jazz Festival, Festival d'été de Quebec, Moulin Blues Ospel, Ribs & Blues Raalte and Kulturring Schöppingen Blues Festival alongside acts such as Walter Trout, Fantastic Negrito, Samantha Fish and Jesse Dayton, just to name a few. With an electrifying presence and his new album on the horizon, this left-handed guitar slinger shows no signs of slowing down, delivering performances that leaves the audience buzzing long after the final note.
"The proof, as someone once said, is in the pudding, and Mackenzie is not only
a mean guitarist with a throaty and surprisingly mature voice, but he has an obvious
innate feel for the blues that some players spend a lifetime not connecting to."
– Shane Pinnagar, 100 Percent Rock Magazine (US)
"At 25, Spencer Mackenzie celebrates his first nomination at the Junos for his album Preach To My Soul. He seduces with his powerful voice and expressive guitar playing."
– Sors-Tu Festival d'été de Québec
"Spencer Mackenzie was compared to a young Joe Bonamassa during his introduction – putting undue pressure on him – but in many ways, the comparison fit: His voice is similarly bright and like Joe, Mackenzie’s guitar playing, drawing on the past legends of the blues genre, reveals him as a torchbearer." – Vincent Abbate 30th Schöppingen International Blues Festival Schöppingen (Germany)
"This music will make you feel something, maybe even grab you and shove you up
against the wall. This feels like the beginning of something big, maybe even huge."
– Gonzo Okanagan (Canada)
“His guitar playing, both on Gibson and Fender is equally astonishing. Now that’s so many greats in the genre have already passed away it is very refreshing to hear that such a youngster continues the tradition so richly and passionately.”
– OOR Magazine (The Netherlands)
Empty Chairs is just that, the fusion of styles along with Spencer's unique sound while simultaneously influenced by the bold energy of renowned present-day blues rockers embodies this gritty, introspective style with electrifying guitar.
As previously mentioned, the new album is produced by Ross Hayes Citrullo, a 2X JUNO Award–nominee and Emmy Award winner. With a career defined by passion and creativity, Ross has earned multiple accolades for his work on albums that have topped charts and garnered millions of streams worldwide.
Citrullo’s distinctive approach to production blends artistry with technical mastery, bringing out the best in every project he touches. Now, Ross brings this wealth of experience and vision to this new album, infusing it with the same energy and dedication that has made his previous work celebrated worldwide.
“What we caught on this album is honesty and fire,” says Citrullo. “Spencer’s playing is fearless, his voice wide open, and every take breathes like a live show you don’t want to end. Producing it was about chasing moments you can’t fake—tone that tells the truth, stories that cut deep, and performances that live in the room. It’s the blues, lit up with a rock edge—hitting with modern bite and a timeless feel.”
EMPTY CHAIRS – ALBUM TRACK LISTING
1. Empty Chairs (4:29)
2. Trip (3:25)
3. What You Do (4:28)
4. Don’t Know Where I’m Going (3:11)
5. Till I Get to You (3:57)
6. Frozen Hearts (4:09)
7. Helping Hands (3:18)
8. Why (3:58)
9. Shoot Me Down (4:08)
10. Won’t Find Her (3:18)
11. Evil (3:57)
PRODUCTION & WRITING CREDITS
All songs written by Spencer Mackenzie and Co-Writer Richard Mackenzie on tracks 1,2,6,11
Exception on Track 4- ‘Don’t Know Where I’m Going’ music and lyrics by Rory Gallagher
© BMG Rights Management (US) LLC d/b/a BMG Firefly / BMG Rights Management (UK) Limited / Strange Music Ltd. Used by permission. All rights reserved.
Spencer Mackenzie - Guitar and Vocals
Miles Evans Branagh - Piano, Hammond Organ, Keyboards
Stacey Shopsowitz - Bass on tracks 1-5 and 8-11
Steve Pelletier - Bass on tracks 6, 7
Adam Canon - Drums on tracks 1-5 and 8-11
Matt Burns - Drums on tracks 6, 7
Sandra Bouza and Chantel Williams - Background Vocals
Ross Hayes Citrullo - Background Vocals on track 2
Recorded at RHC Music, Toronto, Canada
Produced, Mixed and Engineered by Ross Hayes Citrullo - RHC Music
Assistant Engineers - Gavin Sharman, Marc Pallascio, Andrew Champion
Mastered by Kristian Montano
ALBUM TRACK BY TRACK
1 – Empty Chairs
A soulful blues rock song that expresses anger and frustration from the perspective of friends and families, who have lost innocent people they love due to gun violence. This can't be the new normal! It's got to change!
2 – Trip
An upbeat, guitar heavy anthem for the people who just want to be noticed and for people who are crying and screaming trying to get out! Whether it’s a dream or reality, let's go on a trip!
3 – What You Do
When we say that we’re fine. Are we really? Or are we just trying to save others over ourselves? ‘What You Do’ is a high energy blues rock song that's meant to bring your attention to the guessing game we all play.
4 – Don’t Know Where I’m Going
A nod to one of the greatest guitar players to ever do it, this rendition of Gallagher's acoustic blues folk number cranks up the volume and takes you down a road with deep, gritty guitar and an exciting fast rhythm section.
5 – Till I Get to You
All the pressure you carry is lifted when you get to the one you love with this soulful acoustic style song about the person that is always there for you, understands you, gets you, and helps you through it all.
6 – Frozen Hearts
This heavy blues rock song is a tribute to the victims of residential schools, who were taken from their way of life, family, culture and stripped of their identity. May the story of the ones who never made it home forever be heard and remind us to carry their memory with love and respect.
7 – Helping Hands
In life there are people who only do something because it benefits them. Sometimes they are the closest to us. "Helping Hands" is a funky blues rock song about moving on from the person that thinks you need them, but they need you more than you need them!
8 – Why
You can do the best job you can, but for someone who doesn't know themselves, it often becomes a thankless job. "Why" is a sad song filled with soulful licks and harmonies that's about doing everything right and getting hurt in return. You can solve all their problems just to be thrown out and left behind wondering why.
9 – Shoot Me Down
How can you hold up both ends if you're the only one? A relationship has two sides. This bare bones slide guitar song is about coming up with every idea for someone, them saying no, then never telling you what they really want. You can’t spend your life making up someone else's mind if all they do is shoot you down.
10 – You Won’t Find Her
It’s not you, it's all me. We both know that's a lie. This heavy riff driven blues rock song leaves you questioning how someone you once loved could go so wrong. You're left confused, searching for answers, until you finally realize you're better off without them."
11 – Evil
No matter how many people tell you to stay away or tell you, you're wrong, sometimes we won’t listen, and we find out for ourselves. "Evil" is a song with a punchy rhythm section and an in-your-face guitar sound, that's about learning how much someone can twist your mind or how blind love can really be.
ABOUT GYPSY SOUL RECORDS
Empty Chairs is Spencer Mackenzie’s third studio album released with Gypsy Soul Records, a label defined by soulful artistry and uncompromising vision along with other extraordinary artist including The Commoners, Samantha Martin & Delta Sugar, Bywater Call, Marcus Trummer, just to name a few. With his continued partnership, Spencer's new album will be embraced and elevated by Gypsy Soul Records, whose dedication to his craft ensures it reaches the hearts and souls across the globe with creativity that knows no bounds.
SPENCER MACKENZIE
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Thunder: out now, legendary ‘LIVE’ album is back; first time on vinyl and digital.
THUNDER
THE LEGENDARY LIVE ALBUM IS BACK – AVAILABLE FOR THE FIRST TIME ON VINYL AND DIGITAL, “LIVE” IS OUT NOW
THUNDER – LIVE can be ordered HERE
British rock legends THUNDER return with a definitive live statement as their iconic 1998 album LIVE is released today in a newly remastered edition. Available now on vinyl, digitally, and as a deluxe digipak, this release captures the band at a pivotal moment in their career and restores the full force of their electrifying stage power with contemporary sonic clarity. As part of the release, the band is also presenting the video for a fan favourite “The Only One,” offering a fresh visual companion that you can watch HERE.
Originally recorded in 1997, LIVE documented THUNDER during a period of renewal and momentum. The album stands as a raw, unfiltered snapshot of a band firing on all cylinders—fuelled by towering riffs, blues-infused grooves, and the unmistakable voice of Danny Bowes, alongside the masterful songwriting and guitar work of Luke Morley. The remastered edition breathes new life into these performances, amplifying the immediacy and intensity that made the original release such a fan favourite.
Formed in the late 1980s, THUNDER have long been one of the most enduring and respected names in British hard rock. Their ability to blend classic rock traditions with arena-sized hooks and soulful authenticity has earned them a fiercely loyal global following. LIVE perfectly encapsulates this identity—powerful yet heartfelt, polished yet spontaneous.
The recordings also mark the arrival of Chris Childs, who joined the band shortly before these shows and has remained a cornerstone of the lineup ever since. The performances crackle with energy and interaction, featuring extended solos, unrehearsed moments, and a palpable connection with the audience. This is not a staged live album—it’s the sound of a band living in the moment.
Remastered in 2025 with great care and respect for the original recordings, this edition faithfully preserves the grit and drive of the performances while delivering enhanced depth and clarity. Released by earMUSIC, it serves both as a tribute to an essential chapter in THUNDER’s history and as an invitation for new listeners to experience the band’s legendary live power.
Spanning 22 tracks, LIVE delivers an abundance of classic material including “Love Walked In,” “Dirty Love,” and many more fan favourites. Bonus content includes additional acoustic and studio recordings, offering further insight into the band’s versatility and musicianship.
THUNDER – LIVE is out now on CD, vinyl, and across all digital platforms and can be ordered HERE.
Thunder
Live (1998)
Release: 16 January 2026
Formats:
Digital / 2CD / 3LP Gatefold / Ltd. 3CD
(inkl. Bonus) / Ltd. 4LP (inkl. Bonus)
Tracklisting:
CD / Vinyl
1. Welcome To The Party
2. Higher Ground
3. Don’t Wait Up
4. Low Life In Hight Places
5. Gimme Some Lovin’
6. Empty City
7. Until My Dying Day
8. A Better Man
9. Does It Feel Like Love?
10. Dance To The Music
11. She’s So Fine
12. Backstreet Symphony
13. An Englishman On Holdiday
14. I’ll Be Waiting
15. Laughing On Judgement Day
16. Like A Satellite
17. Moth To The Flame
18. Living For Today
19. The Only One
20. Love Walked In
21. River Of Pain
22. Dirty Love
Bonus
23. New York, New York
24. Pilot Of My Dreams
25. Everybody Wants Her
26. Lazy Sunday Afternoon
27. Stand Up
28. The Only One (Studio Version)
29. Too Bad (Studio Version)
30. Something About You
(The Nomis Session)
31. This Forgotten Town (Acoustic)
“Live” (1998) Line-up:
Daniel Bowes – Lead Vocals
Luke Morley – Guitar, Vocals, Harmonica
Ben Matthews – Guitar, Keyboards, Vocals
Chris Childs – Bass Guitar, Vocals
Gary “Harry” James - Drums
Instant karma hits hard as NYC's ECCE SHNAK re-envisions ‘Katy’s Wart’ in new supernatural video.
FOR SHARING
'Katy's Wart [Extended Feelm Version]' video https://youtu.be/BdZOGralXkE
'Katy's Wart [Animated Music Feelm Version]' video https://youtu.be/rX9wxPoZpu0
'Joke Oso' album https://ecceshnak.bandcamp.com/album/joke-oso
'Shadows Grow Fangs' EP http://ecceshnak.bandcamp.com/album/shadows-grow-fangs-2
'Backroom Sessions' live EP https://ecceshnak.bandcamp.com/album/backroom-sessions
'Jeremy, Utilitarian Sadboy' video https://youtu.be/Kn3ALhMULbo
'Prayer on Love' video https://youtu.be/6WcIpHkadOk
'Jeremy, Utilitarian Sadboy (Kill Em Mix)' https://open.spotify.com/track/1dzThnJfH5H16t7IiBDQMm
'Prayer On Love (Madison Mars Remix) https://open.spotify.com/track/1m4Cz4eTXktKXZSKjJutM0
"Both jarring and exhilarating... powerful and anthemic. Mind blown!" ~ The Spill Magazine
"Mathy rock ornateness, sub-metal weight, and prog-infused punk— the perfect attraction of opposites. But stand back a bit and contemplate further, and you will find pop infectiousness, classical grace, and even hardcore aggression all working in harmony" ~ Big Takeover Magazine
"Art / alt rock with varied twists of punk, chamber pop, new wave, experimental rock and more besides, there is never a predictable moment in sound or design" ~ Black Noise Zine
Serving as a bridge towards their full-length album 'Dandy Variances' album, out later this year via Records, Man Records, genre-defying NYC outfit Ecce Shnak deliberately revisit 'Katy's Wart', a hidden gem from their 2019 'Joke Oso' album (full name 'Dingleberry IV, Finale: Katy's Wart'). Telling a visceral tale of justice, the new video introduces a cruel madman, who finally meets his end at the hands of five purple goddesses of righteous vengeance.
A blistering indictment of bigotry and cruelty, this surreal narrative was brought to life through a collaboration with some of the industry’s most innovative creative minds. The project’s striking visual identity is the work of the production-direction team of Hollye Bynum and Sam Owens, as well as the band’s own David Roush. The eery and mind-boggling animation was crafted by the industry titans at Titmouse Productions.
The story is presented in two formats: as a three-minute 'Animated Music Feelm Version', and an immersive ten-minute 'Extended Feelm Version' with a dramatic backstory that builds tension and context, centered on a well-dressed maniac lacking basic human dignity, whose harmful acts finally trigger a cosmic intervention. The heroic twin sisters, played by Rachael Rae Robertson and Rebecca Robertson, ultimately fend him off with the help of otherworldly agents of chaotic justice. In a supernatural animated turning point, five spirits are conjured to deliver him a dose of instant karma.
Based in New York City, Ecce Shnak (pronounced Eh-kay sh-knock) is made up of David Roush (composer, bassist and one of two singers), Bella Komodromos (vocals), Chris Krasnow (guitar), Gannon Ferrell (guitar), and Henry Buchanan-Vaughn (drums). With this high-fidelity animation, 'Katy’s Wart' is now a definitive piece of Ecce Shnak lore, bridging their historical catalogue with their ambitious future. In revisiting this slept-on art, they are clearing the path for new music and film works.
2025 was a massive year for Ecce Shnak that saw the spring release of their 'Shadows Grow Fangs' EP, which was recorded and produced by Jeff Lucci, mixed by Nicholas Vernhes (Animal Collective, Deerhunter, Wild Nothing, The War on Drugs) and mastered by Grammy award-winning engineer Joe LaPorta (David Bowie, The Weeknd, Foo Fighters, Vampire Weekend).
They also released their live 'Backroom Sessions' EP and two club anthems - the Bladerunner-esque 'Jeremy, Utilitarian Sadboy (Kill Em Mix)' with German DJ-producer Eskei83 and the buoyant 'Prayer On Love (Madison Mars Remix)', in collaboration with world-famous DJ-producer Madison Mars.
After touring the USA with platinum-selling legends Spacehog and EMF, Ecce Shnak also features on the EMF single 'LGBTQ+ Lover', an epic indie dance track that offers a safe space for the marginalized queer community, the video footage for which was filmed during their recent joint tour.
'Katy's Wart' can be found on digital music platforms, including Spotify, and Apple Music. Ecce Shnak's new album 'Dandy Variances' will be released later this year via Records, Man Records. New live dates will be announced soon.
CREDITS
Written / composed by David Roush
Performed by Ecce Shnak
Sound Engineer: Jeff Lucci at the Art Farm (NY)
Mixed by Bryce Goggin
Mastered by Fred Kevorkian
Released by Records Man, Records
Video produced & directed by Hollye Bynum, Sam Owens & David Roush
Video animation by Titmouse Productions
Artist photos by Tommy Krause
A&R: Beth Narducci for You + Me Entertainment
Publicity by Shauna McLarnon for Shameless Promotion PR
LYRICS
A girl should know it in her heart that her fella abides her always.
Never chiding, always providing,
She should delight in things that are commensurate to her:
Nature and ability, Station and aptitude
And her transcendent graceliness.
Ever-abiding in charms and pleasantries...
Always consoling, always condoning...
Never untidy, never untimely...
Never vituperating, never obfuscating...
Never berating nor defecating...
And all these are a matter of easy regimen, even earthly instinct.
Just make him feel like a teddy bear, getting cuddled all the time,
because the Father's word is the only word
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Pennsylvania Tri-State indie-pop artist Celeste Corsano kicks off 2026 with new 'Space' single.
FOR FANS OF: Kate Bush, Tori Amos, Joanna Newsom, Milla Jovovich, Julia Holter, Bat For Lashes, Faye Webster, St. Vincent, Lene Lovich
INFLUENCED BY:Brian Eno, Joni Mitchell, David Bowie, Fairport Convention, Kate Bush, Elvis Costello, Joe Jackson, John Renbourne, Pentangle, Planxty, traditional Celtic music
FOR SHARING
'Space' single https://distrokid.com/hyperfollow/celestecorsano/space
Bandcamp https://celestecorsano.bandcamp.com/track/space
Spotify https://open.spotify.com/track/634UI58FtIECEKxaE4gA7P
'XS' video https://youtu.be/PLcksdSBnio
'Stuck' video https://youtu.be/xUhburvuS8k
'Shellfish' single https://celestecorsano.bandcamp.com/track/shellfish
'Nightbird' https://celestecorsano.bandcamp.com/track/nightbird
'Sunlight Gazing' single
https://celestecorsano.bandcamp.com/track/sunlight-gazing
Spotify https://open.spotify.com/artist/3R73drKuMXbMcSOVuf77DM
"Immediately evokes the distinctive sounds of Tori Amos, Kate Bush, Joanna Newsom and Julia Holter, yet her own voice shines through with unique character... mesmerizing and fabulously dramatic, marked by a timbre and delivery so attention-grabbing they inspire goosebumps" ~ The Spill Magazine
"More than a distant echo of the fabulous Kate Bush in its sonic DNA... As debuts go, this is spectacular, the calling card for a very special artist" ~ Big Takeover Magazine
"Unique and powerful individuality... every word and breath conveys passion and descriptive revelation, the music embracing each lyric with melodic relish and dramatic flair" ~ Ringmaster Review
Alternative pop artist Celeste Corsano is back to greet 2026 with a new track, called 'Space', a lyrical exploration of the "middle ground", where the ego is surrendered in favor of genuine connection and the sixth in a stellar series released via Montclair, New Jersey-based Magic Door Record Label.
Produced, recorded, mixed and mastered by Ray Ketchem (Guided by Voices, Elk City, Luna, Gramercy Arms) at Magic Door Recording Studio, this song involves contributions by James Mastro (The Bongos, Mott the Hoople, Ian Hunter, Patti Smith, John Cale) and David Nagler (Nova Social, Joan Baez, Aaron Neville, Rosanne Cash, Yo La Tengo).
As with previous singles, her brother Chris Corsano (Björk, Kim Gordon, Thurston Moore) contributed the cover artwork. The track’s philosophy is mirrored in its sonic architecture with a soundscape where the production allows the arrangement to breathe, much like the negative space in a masterpiece. With a sound that feels open and uncluttered, Corsano offers a fresh perspective on the value of intellectual and emotional openness.
"I love the kind of old Bowie feel of this song which was enhanced by the production with the keyboard effects, James Mastro's electric guitar work and David Nagler's acoustic guitar work," says Celeste Corsano.
Rather than fighting for the last word, 'Space' invites us to leave room for listening and change, viewing vulnerability as a catalyst for deeper relationships. Corsano posits that a gentle approach carries more weight than force, much like a feather outlasting a heavy hand. By letting go of the need to "win," we create a sanctuary for understanding to grow and for the subtle, internal forces of love to take hold.
"I'm a person who may argue a point, but also reserve the right to change my mind mid-debate or after a time and say 'hey you're right' or 'I agree with your outlook.' I dislike having an argument based on the outcome of who will be right... "There in the space where no one wins"...where we can find a common ground and move forward...so much more productive. Take your 'self', your pride, fear, or fear of being wrong out of the argument and we learn so much more about who we are and the other person too and the world. In the space that seems 'empty or non profitable' can be the most useful," says Corsano.
"Visual art often uses negative space and it can be the most impactful within its' composition. Also in the Tao Te Ching, Chapter 23, "The Uses of Not' speaks on 'uselessness' or emptiness; "Hollowed-out clay makes a pot. Where the pot is not is where it is useful". It speaks about the aspects of nothingness, in a pot and says the most useful part of it isn't the sides or the handle etc., but the empty space.... In science, space is thought to be empty or an entity if you read about it."
Based in Milford, Pennsylvania (on the border with New Jersey), Corsano's compositions merge introspective writing with audacious arrangements, employing complex rhythmic structures and a vast emotional spectrum that ranges from ethereal contemplation to unbridled energy. Evoking comparisons to such artists as Kate Bush, Tori Amos, Lene Lovich and Julia Holter, her unique persona shines brightly, establishing Corsano as an artist whose intensity and distinctive timbre are truly mesmerizing.
Corsano blazed through 2025 with a string of diverse singles, the latest being 'Shellfish'. Following her initial offerings 'Nightbird' and 'Sunlight Gazing', her singles 'Stuck' and 'XS' were accompanied by animated videos, created by Brother JT. Her fearless storytelling achieves a deeper, more candid truth through the natural application of asymmetric meters and vocal coloring. With disarming sincerity and vulnerability, her messages also resonate with a collective human experience.
Celeste's artistry is inspired by her brothers - percussionist Chris Corsano and Latin roots musician Tony Corsano. Starting off in NYC's music scene, she was inspired by punk, new wave, poetry and art, not to mention countless studio sessions with ex-husband Brad Morrison (producer and Absolute A-Go-Go Records founder), working with the likes of Phish, the Figgs and Spiral Jetty. Initially performing Celtic and Bluegrass, she eventually began writing music rooted in the alternative music scene.
As of January 15th, 'Space' is available from fine online music platforms, including Spotify, Apple Music and Bandcamp, where all releases from her blossoming discography can also be found.
CREDITS
Written by Celeste Corsano
Celeste Corsano – vocals & piano
David Nagler – bass, acoustic guitar & synthesizers
James Mastro – electric guitar
Ray Ketchem – drums & synthesizers
Produced by Ray Ketchem
Recorded, mixed & mastered by Ray Ketchem at Magic Door Recording, Montclair, NJ
Cover artwork by Chris Corsano
Released by Magic Door Record Label
'Stuck' & 'XS' video production & concept by Brother JT
Publicity by Shameless Promotion PR
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Son Little - New album 'CITYFOLK' out 20 March - New single out now - London show in April.
SON LITTLE ANNOUNCES NEW ALBUM ‘CITYFOLK’ OUT 20 MARCH
AN EXPLORATION OF SOUTHERN ROOTS, CO-PRODUCED WITH BEN TANNER (ALABAMA SHAKES)
NEW TRACK 'BE BETTER' OUT NOW
EUROPEAN TOUR IN APRIL, INCLUDING LONDON'S JAZZ CAFE ON 22 APRIL
"The magic at the heart of Son Little‘s music is the way so many of his songs could be standards, but none of them could have come from anyone else” Afropunk
“Son Little is one of the best songwriters working today. He’s honest, unique, thorough, and subtly elaborate. His voice slinks in through the spheres and suddenly he’s inside your soul, telling you the lay of the land”
American Songwriter
Son Little announces ‘CITYFOLK’, his fourth album and first since 2022. Although Little is often placed in the category of “roots musician”, ‘CITYFOLK’ defies genre and lets the evocation of his storytelling pierce through.
“The industry likes to keep artists in little boxes, and for Black artists it has meant being defined by your proximity to ‘urban,’” Little admits. “But my music has always had flashes of country, rock and folk, as well as hip-hop, blues and R&B. So I've always struggled as an artist who kind of, I think, lives in the spaces between genres.”
With today’s album announcement comes 'Be Better', a track that is perfectly apt for the start of a new year. A song about release, resilience, and the quiet power of self-belief, 'Be Better' sheds the weight of old stories and broken expectations, trading despair for movement and renewal; it’s a hymn for transformation, challenging anyone ready to leave the past behind to step forward, even when the road ahead is dark.
LISTEN TO 'BE BETTER' ON YOUTUBE AND SPOTIFY
Now living outside of Atlanta, Livingston attributes the development of ‘CITYFOLK’ to going even further south to record in Muscle Shoals, Alabama, in January 2025. It was there that Little connected with Ben Tanner, a two-time Grammy-winning musician, Alabama Shakes band member and producer of St. Paul & The Broken Bones, John Paul White, Foy Vance and more, to flesh out sketches of songs that he’d crafted through epiphanies about his family’s roots. Already having an understanding of his father’s side, Little views his maternal line as a “mystery unfolding,” but it was in Shoals that the stars aligned, both through retracing his history and formulating an organic chemistry with Tanner.
While assisting with shaping Little's narrative, Tanner says that working with him has driven him to adopt a percussive and multi-layered element to his own music. “There's lots of hip-hop influence and more modern R&B as well as indie rock; I think the musicality that he's bringing to being like a singer-songwriter is unique and different from anybody I'm really aware of.”
Before immersing himself in the home studio of Tanner’s home in Shoals, Little recorded voice note demos with subtle instrumentation that became the album’s framework. The acoustic demos would soon be mixed with drum machine beats before evolving into live material with contributions from a drummer, bassist and horn players. Jam sessions fully brought ‘CITYFOLK’ into existence, while the unchanging southern comfort and musical richness of Shoals remained a backdrop to the album’s hymnal stew. In the late 1960s, the Muscle Shoals Sound Studios housed unbridling protest anthems and melodious love songs that would become the classics of tomorrow. Little’s ‘CITYFOLK’ is a relic in the musical path paved for him.
“Its whole reputation and businesses are thriving because of the spirit of unity,” Little says of the small Alabama town. “I mean, it's all due to music that was created in defiance of that legacy. It's a place that I think really is a symbol of what can be accomplished when those barriers are broken down.”
A few weeks after album release, Little will begin a European run of dates on April 7th; all upcoming dates are listed below.
EUROPEAN TOUR
7 April – Rennes, France @ Festival Mythos
8 April – Amsterdam, Netherlands @ Paradiso
9 April – Rotterdam, Netherlands @ Annabel
10 April – Brussels, Belgium @ Le Botanique Orangerie
11 April – Hamburg, Germany @ Betty
13 April – Berlin, Germany @ Frannz Club
14 April – Prague, Czech Republic @ Cafe V lese
15 April – Warsaw, Poland @ Jasmine
17 April – Cologne, Germany @ Yard Club
19 April – Brighton and Hove, UK @ DUST
20 April – Bristol, UK @ The Croft
21 April – Manchester, UK @ Band on the Wall
22 April – London, UK @ Jazz Cafe - Tickets
25 April – Paris, France @ Alhambra
LISTEN TO 'IN ORBIT' HERE
PRE-ORDER 'CITY FOLK' HERE
www.sonlittle.com
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