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Philadelphia-based indie rocker Mallory Hawk used to lead the Brooklyn punk band Customer, and she’s played in groups like Trace Mountains and M(h)aol. Later this summer, Hawk will release Chinook, her first solo album, and it’s a record worth getting excited about. We’ve already posted her early single “Felicity” and “Revolver.” Today, she shares “Caretaker,” a new song that doesn’t sound much like either of those ones. It doesn’t sound anything like the Caretaker, either.

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Dee Palmer, the composer, arranger, and keyboardist best know for her tenure in Jethro Tull, has died. According to a note from Jethro Tull’s Ian Anderson, Palmer passed away at home in Shropshire supported by family members after a long illness. She was 88.

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Death Angel guitarist Ted Aguilar has offered his take on what he sees as a loss of individual identity in modern metal, in a new interview with Pipeman of the “Music Feeds the Soul” podcast.

On the diversity that defined the Bay Area thrash scene, Aguilar said (transcribed by Blabbermouth): “The cool thing about the Bay Area is that every band was different. Anthrax sounded different from Overkill, Death Angel sounded different from Testament. Even the vocalists sounded different — Mark [Osegueda] doesn’t sound like Chuck Billy. Chuck Billy doesn’t sound like Sean Killian, and no one sounds like Zetro [Steve “Zetro” Souza of Exodus]. All the vocalists were very unique on their own.”

That distinctiveness, Aguilar said, is what he finds lacking in much of today’s metal: “There’s some incredible players out there. They could run circles around us. But I’m talking about identity — I can’t tell who from who. You know, it’s oversaturated with a lot of bands that basically sound the same. Some of it may be YouTube and social media, where everyone is trying to follow a template of what they think works. Back in our day, you had to figure things out. You had to be a band together, in a room with everyone learning from each other, bouncing ideas. There’s something about that organic chemistry that comes through in the music.”

Death Angel is currently on the second leg of their “Act III” 35th anniversary U.S. tour, which launched May 1 in Phoenix, Arizona with support from Vio-lence and Incite. The run wraps June 21 in Santa Cruz, California.

Death Angel was formed in 1982 in Daly City, California by members of the Pilipino-American Galeon family. The current lineup features vocalist Mark Osegueda, guitarists Rob Cavestany and Aguilar, bassist Damien Sisson and drummer Will Carroll. The band received a Grammy nomination for Best Metal Performance for the song “Humanicide” (2019). Their most recent studio album is Humanicide (2019, Nuclear Blast).

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Later this summer, Mike D will become the first Beastie Boy to release a solo album. Fifteen years after the Beasties dropped Hot Sauce Committee Part Two, their final album, Mike will hit us with Thank You, the new LP that he recorded under the name Mike D 5D. Even before he started dropping singles, Mike D went viral for performing Beasties classics with Very Nice Person, the band led by his sons Skyler and Davis Diamond. They’ve been playing smaller shows for the past month or so. Over the weekend, Mike and his sons made their TV debut on the BBC institution Later… With Jools Holland.

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Demon/Edsel [Release date 26.06.26] The second (after Cologne) of three live albums recorded in Germany 1976, Ritchie Blackmore’s Rainbow were promoting their Rainbow Rising LP to huge acclaim. The three albums were originally issued as double CDs a few years … Continue reading →

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Pattern-Seeking Animals’ sixth album “Grimalkin” will be released on August 21, 2026, on GEP Records. It will be available as CD, LP, digital download as well as streaming on all of the usual platforms.

The word “grimalkin” originated in 16th-century English as a variation of “graymalkin” (“gray cat”) and was later popularized by Shakespeare’s Macbeth as the name of one of the witches’ familiars, a cat companion with magical and supernatural associations.

The first single “Maybe All a Dream” is out now.

1. Maybe All a Dream
2. A Flower Yet to Grow
3. Jade Sky
4. Things I Don’t Do
5. Break Away
6. Traveler on the Wrong Road Home
7. Slowly Falls the Flying Man
8. I Dream the World

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Rounder Records [Release date 12.06.26] Move over Live And Dangerous, and Get Yer Ya Ya’s Out there is a new contender for best live album ever, and it comes in the form of a female resident of Kansas City, Samantha … Continue reading →

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