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Brisbane alternative rock rising stars Garden Eyes release their pensive debut EP, Selfish Art, a wistful reflection on the complexities of love, loss, mental health and self-worth. Across the past year, Garden Eyes have steadily uncovered pieces of their debut, releasing five of the EP’s seven tracks ahead of today’s full release. Fever Dream, Speak […]

Amy Speace’s The Days of Letting Go carries a deeply reflective folk sensibility, balancing spoken passages with a fuller band arrangement that gradually gives the song emotional weight. The guitars, upright bass, cello, keys and drums create a warm, organic backdrop, while Speace’s vocal delivery keeps the storytelling intimate and grounded. There is a strong sense of memory and loss running through the song, but the arrangement avoids becoming overly heavy, allowing the words and changing dynamics to do much of the work. The spoken verses give the track an almost cinematic quality, placing the listener inside a personal story before the music opens up around it. Amy Speace brings a lived in quality to the performance, making the song feel less like a conventional ballad and more like a carefully unfolding piece of storytelling. The Days of Letting Go finds real emotional strength in restraint, atmosphere and the quiet process of moving forward.

Sometimes letting go is its own kind of journey.

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Counter Intuitive artist and modern day emo powerhouse Leisure Hour have today released their full length record …that one day. The new album is the second instalment of Leisure Hour’s …and to think trilogy, out everywhere now via Counter Intuitive Records/Civilians. Over the past 18 months, Leisure Hour has become a household name within the […]

Canadian hardcore heroes Comeback Kid have unleashed their new single Yesterday’s Gone, featuring Brendan Garrone of Incendiary. The track arrives as the latest preview of the band’s highly anticipated eighth studio album, Chosen Hell, due November 6 via SharpTone Records in the U.S. and Dine Alone Records in Canada. “We wanted to play to our […]

Buddy Guy is showing no signs of slowing down.

Fresh off a major stretch that included a performance at Eric Clapton’s Crossroads Guitar Festival and his 90th birthday celebration at Radio City Music Hall in New York City, the blues legend has revealed that a new studio album is coming in 2027.

Guy’s team announced the news on social media, confirming that the upcoming record is being produced by Steve Jordan and will feature an impressive group of musicians.

“A brand new Buddy Guy studio album is coming in 2027! Produced by Steve Jordan, the album features an incredible lineup of musicians: Willie Weeks, Isaiah Sharkey, Ivan Neville, special guest Kim Wilson, and more,” Guy’s team shared.

The announcement came on the same day as Buddy’s Got the Blues: A 90th Birthday Concert Celebration at Radio City Music Hall, where several of the musicians involved with the upcoming album were also scheduled to perform.

“We can’t wait for you to hear what they’ve been cookin’ up in the studio. Stay tuned,” Guy’s team added.

The forthcoming project will follow Guy’s 2025 studio album, Ain’t Done With the Blues, which arrived shortly before his 89th birthday and featured guests including Joe Walsh, Peter Frampton, Joe Bonamassa, Christone “Kingfish” Ingram and The Blind Boys of Alabama.

The 2027 album continues an active period for Guy even after reaching his 90th birthday. In late September, he appeared at Eric Clapton’s Crossroads Guitar Festival in Austin, Texas, joining a lineup that included Clapton, Jimmie Vaughan, John Mayer, Derek Trucks, Susan Tedeschi, Joe Bonamassa, Gary Clark Jr., Billy Gibbons and others.

Days later, the celebration shifted to New York for Guy’s 90th birthday concert at Radio City Music Hall on October 1. The all-star event brought together musicians from across the blues and rock worlds to honor one of the genre’s most influential figures

Additional details about the 2027 album, including its title, track listing and release date, have not yet been announced.

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The Rolling Stones have released the latest video from their Foreign Tongues album, and they’ve plundered Hollywood again to find a suitable personality to lead the performance.

The video for Mr Charm features Swedish actor Alexander Skarsgård, who counts Zoolander, Generation Kill, The Legend Of Tarzan, Godzilla vs. Kong, The Northman and Big Little Lies among his credits, but is probably best known for his role as tech mogul Lukas Matsson in the popular HBO drama series Succession.

Skarsgård is the latest star to appear in a video for a song from Foreign Tongues, following Anya Taylor-Joy and Charles Melton (Jealous Lover) and Odessa A’zion (In The Stars). On the band’s previous album, Hackney Diamonds, the video for lead single Angry was enlivened by a star turn from Hollywood A-lister Sydney Sweeney.

In August, Mick Jagger and producer Andrew Watt spoke to Variety about the making of Mr Charm, revealing how the song originated in a demo guitar riff played by Jagger, before guitarists Keith Richards and Ronnie Wood added their parts. Steve Winwood contributed organ, and Jagger singled out the groove created by drummer Steve Jordon for specific praise.

“It’s connected with dance,” said Jagger. “The drums, the feet, and also the spitting out of the lyrics on a song like this, where you’ve got a lot of words coming at you very quickly, and they’ve got to be in time.”

Earlier this year, Wood confirmed that Mr Charm, which includes the lines, “Who would you really trust? Is it Boeing, is it NASA, is it mad mogul Mr. Musk?” was the Stones’ commentary on the perilous state of the world.

“We have to try and keep the smile on people’s faces as well as being blatantly honest with them, you know, about that sickness in the land,” Wood told Classic Rock. “There’s a lot of bad things going on.

“Apart from the crazy people we have running things, there’s the climate and the crazy weather we’re having. The hot is getting hotter, the cold is getting colder, and ne’er the twain shall meet, you know?”

The B-Side of Mr Charm is Bad Luck Hideaway, a 2015 recording featuring late Stones drummer Charlie Watts. This song was originally released as a bonus track on the iTunes version of Foreign Tongues.

Showing Teeth recently released her debut EP, A Fate Worse Than Loneliness, and left listeners wanting more. We spoke with her about the story behind the record, her views on the music industry, survival, and her creative process.

Reuel

Hello! I’m very happy to chat with you. How are you doing?

Showing Teeth

I’m good! I’m very happy to be on tour and see so many friends!

Reuel

Amazing! You’ve recently released your debut EP, A Fate Worse Than Loneliness. What inspired the title, and how do the songs’ themes relate to it?

Showing Teeth

I started writing music for myself (and what would become Showing Teeth) after a very dark chapter in my life that I am grateful for. I left family and relationships completely behind to free myself of a very negative hold they all had on me. Being raised in a sheltered, christian-conservative environment, I had an extremely warped view of what I was supposed to be as a woman, and it drove me to developing severe mental illness and trauma with the entire world around me. I was scared of everything and so angry. A Fate Worse Than Loneliness was my initial attempt at just dumping all of those emotions into something. Each song goes into a different emotion; or even a different stage of grief. The EP title comes from the lyrics in Shallow Grave: “I sacrifice my loneliness for something much worse, I beg a God for changes but I can’t be heard.” Basically for me, I felt far more lonely being in an environment that was harming me than I do now on my own. I love being alone so much.

Reuel

You’ve released three tracks from the EP as singles. Should listeners expect more of that same vibe from the rest of the record, or do the unreleased tracks carry some surprises?

Showing Teeth

Showing Teeth is a singer/songwriter project so it’s not a traditional metal band and I wanted that to be clear in the EP. So no, all the songs are pretty different. I’m very inspired by many genres of music and I like to let my lyrics and storylines guide me to the instrumentals no matter what genre it turns out to be.

Reuel

Releasing your debut is no doubt a huge milestone for any musician, but it’s also challenging. What was your favorite and least favorite part of working with your bandmates on A Fate Worse Than Loneliness?

Showing Teeth

I don’t have bandmates, but I do have people I love to collaborate with! I like to collaborate on instrumentation because I am a genuine music fan and at the end of the day, someone who plays guitar all the time will probably play guitar better than me! My favorite part of collaboration is the trust people put in me and my writing. I get nervous sometimes when I’m telling someone else how to play their instrument, but everyone I work with really trusts my vision and it’s so rewarding after years in the music scene not feeling heard. And the best part about working with other musicians is everyone has their own “voice” on their instrument, and I love really making that clear. I want everything to sound truly human and unique and give those people their flowers. My least favorite thing if I had to pick something is, because it is just me at the end of the day, if I start to hate a demo, there’s no saving it. Even if my producer hears an idea I had and loves it, I just can’t accept any serious alterations from someone else. It feels like it’s not my emotion anymore and I lose the connection with it. So I can get stuck on a lot of demos.

Reuel

If all the tracks on A Fate Worse Than Loneliness came to life and became real people, which one of these songs would be your best friend?

Showing Teeth

Probably Paradigm. That song is about accepting loss but still believing in change. I think that song is a lot like me, so we would be friends.

Reuel

You’re kicking off a tour with President right around the EP’s release date. Which track from your EP are you most excited to play live for a larger audience and see their reaction to it?

Showing Teeth

I’ve been playing some unreleased songs that have been resonating with me and that’s been the most fun. I’m actively feeling all of those emotions on stage and I can tell that speaks to a lot of people. I love having that experience with others. I think everyone just wants to feel something.

Reuel

What musicians can you credit as the ones who inspired you, personally, in your life or career as a musician?

Showing Teeth

As a person, I am super inspired by Matt Halpern. Periphery was a band I worshiped growing up, and honestly still is THAT band for me. Matt’s willingness to meet with me as just a fan of his, and to then listen to my demos and offer to play drums on them was a life changing experience for me. Getting to know him more, we are very similar people emotionally and I think that’s why we connected so fast musically. I really credit him in helping me develop my confidence as a writer, he is always cheering me on.
As a performer and writer, I am incredibly inspired by George Clarke from Deafheaven and Ethel Cain. Very different artists, but live shows that changed me as an artist and a music fan. You can really feel everything they are feeling on stage.

Reuel

We have readers from all around the world, including women who still face barriers, and even persecution, in the music industry. What message would you like to share with those who dream of pursuing a music career?

Showing Teeth

Write everything down and record every idea; never stop documenting your art and your passion. And never lose your love for music and being a fan! Reach out to artists and ask questions. Some may not see it, but you never know who will answer. People crave authenticity, so truly just be yourself and make the music you want to make. Your music family will find you. And most importantly, there’s no specified way you’re “supposed” to be as a woman and an artist, but you should allow your experiences as a woman to inspire your art. We all desperately need more of that in the world right now.

Reuel

This is brilliant advice. Thank you for your time!

The post Interview | Showing Teeth: “There’s No Specified Way You’re ‘Supposed’ To Be As a Woman” first appeared on FemMetal – Goddesses of Metal.

CATASTROFE CLUB have reached the point where the extinction of humanity begins to sound suspiciously like good news. On Un Dia Mejor, Josep M. Herrera and David Molina survey civilization’s wreckage with the composure of two men who have already accepted that we’ve been hurtling toward disaster since about WW1.

The Granollers duo’s fourth single previews UN FUTURO TRANQUILO, their fourth album, due this October through Periphylla Records. Following the trilogy that defined their earlier work, the record opens another chapter for a project whose interests have always stretched far beyond any useful genre designation. Post-punk, darkwave, electronics, post-rock and pop all pass through the machinery, with Herrera’s rough spoken delivery sitting somewhere between public announcement, philosophical complaint and the guy at the end of the bar who has finally assembled enough evidence to prove civilization was a clerical error.

Un Dia Mejor begins amid catastrophe. Lights die, people run through darkness, civilization appears to reach its conclusion, and somehow the central idea remains stubbornly hopeful. The song imagines collapse as an opening rather than merely an endpoint, asking why humanity remains frightened of change, love and the possibility of an existence radically different from the one it has built for itself.

CATASTROFE CLUB can stare directly at environmental ruin, social collapse and human stupidity while maintaining an odd serenity, as though extinction might finally allow every other creature on Earth a decent night’s sleep. Musically, the group pushes further into post-rock scale and cinematic space while keeping their electronic foundation intact. Layers accumulate gradually around bass, keyboards, guitars and programming, giving the track a broad horizon without losing the dry, severe personality that has followed Herrera and Molina throughout their catalogue. Their stated influences include Sigur Rós, Idles, Fontaines D.C., Astrud and Los Punsetes, though those reference points function more like distant road signs than destinations.

The accompanying video extends the song’s worldview through a montage of retrofuturist imagery, historical disorder, and footage of the duo performing. Visions of technological progress collide with reminders of twentieth-century chaos, creating the uncomfortable sensation of watching humanity repeatedly advertise tomorrow while wrecking today.

Watch the video for Un dia mejor below:

Tension sits at the center of UN FUTURO TRANQUILO. CATASTROFE CLUB imagines a peaceful future precisely because humanity may no longer occupy it. There is cruelty in the joke, certainly, but also a strange tenderness toward whatever survives us.

For these two chroniclers of decline, a better day may still be coming.

We simply might not be invited.

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Interview by Ali Williams THE CRIBS are bringing ninth album Selling A Vibe to Australia this October, and Ryan Jarman is considerably happier about the shows than the long-haul flight. It will be their first national tour since 2018; the pandemic prevented an Australian visit for 2020’s Night Network. Ahead of the return, the guitarist […]