Yay! Greg Mendez is back! We last heard from the Philly singer-songwriter in 2024 with First Time / Alone, which was one of our favorite EPs of the year. Now he’s announcing his new album Beauty Land — his debut for Dead Oceans — and a North American tour. The quiet, candid lead single “I…
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Basement have announced details of their first body of work since 2018’s ‘Beside Myself’ and shared two new songs.
‘WIRED’ will be released on May 08 via Run For Cover Records, to which the band have returned following their shift to Fueled By Ramen during the ‘Beside Myself’ era.
The artwork looks like this:
And the tracklisting like this:
1. Time Waster
2. WIRED
3. Deadweight
4. Broken By Design
5. Pick Up The Pieces
6. Embrace
7. Sever
8. The Way I Feel
9. Satisfy
10. Head Alight
11. Longshot
12. Summer’s End
The band have also shared two tracks from the album, which demonstrate two different strings on their bow.
First up is the title track, a spiky, angular epic. Pulling on the bright and breezy nature of alt-rock and grunge back in the 90s, whilst still feeling spectacularly modern and fresh, it is a sensationally catchy and thrilling track to umbrella the record.
Vocalist Andrew Fisher had this to say about it, explaining, “‘WIRED’ is about how sometimes it feels that we are set up to feel and behave in certain ways beyond our control. That no matter how hard you try to hide it, eventually it will come out – either by choice or by force. This song was almost lost – a few of us were into it, but it sort of lost traction for a bit. Then one day it cropped back up, and we put it at the forefront of our minds, and it ended up being one of my favourite songs to perform and record.”
And the second is ‘Broken By Design’, which slows things down to a gorgeously glacial pace. Sun-stained, sentimental and stunningly delicate, it’s the polar opposite of the title track yet still quintessentially Basement.
Andrew had this to add, explaining, “Broken By Design’ is about giving something your absolute best and realising it’s destined to fail. Getting to the other side of the situation, looking back and deciding to do everything differently and feeling grateful for the opportunity to grow. We’ve all done a lot of work on getting better at talking to each other as friends and as bandmates. Sometimes that’s an easy distinction – or rather, not a distinction at all. Other times, the lines are blurred and we lose track of who we are and why we do this. When I’m singing, ‘let’s go back to the start’ I mean to when we did this purely for fun. For an excuse to see each other, to travel, to be creative, to express ourselves through music. We all feel so lucky to be in a position to still get to do this and this album and this song in particular, is us trying to go back to how it should be.”
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Finally! Basement returned in 2024 with their first US headlining shows in five years. I went to one; it was awesome, just pure, sweaty mayhem. They played zero songs from their last record, 2018’s Beside Myself, which I thought was hilarious. Now the beloved emo band is finally announcing that album’s followup, Wired, arriving in…
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New wave and hardcore were both born out of punk, more or less, but the two genres existed in completely separate worlds in the ’80s. Their paths simply did not intersect, except in the form of weird little fun facts, like the story about how Belinda Carlisle was the original drummer for the Germs but she quit the band before they played any shows because she caught mono. But time has a way of erasing distinctions, and that’s how we end up with a charming spectacle like Tommy Tutone frontman Tommy Heath joining Gorilla Biscuits to sing “867-5309/Jenny.”
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Chicago’s Friko announced their new album Something Worth Waiting For last month with the balladic lead single “Seven Degrees,” which we enjoyed enough to name it one of the Best Songs Of The Week. Today Friko are back with “Choo Choo,” a real rocker that’s likely to strike a chord with those of us who…
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ONE OK ROCK have announced a brand-new concert film, DETOX In Cinemas.
Premiering in the band’s native Japan on April 17, the movie will then hit theatres around the world in ‘subsequent weeks’, with a full list of participating venues to come.
To give it its full name, ONE OK ROCK: DETOX In Cinemas captures their show in front of a whopping 70,000 fans at Japan’s Nissan Stadium as part of the DETOX WORLD TOUR. Via a press release, ‘The film’s sweeping panoramic visuals and floor-shaking audio effects bring Nissan Stadium to life, surrounding audiences with the sights, sounds and raw power of the legendary performance.’
Watch the trailer for ONE OK ROCK: DETOX In Cinemas below:
If you fancy seeing them in-person, meanwhile, catch the band live at the following:
ONE OK ROCK 2026 tour dates
March
4 Manila Mall of Asia Arena
8 Singapore Indoor Stadium
12 Melbourne Margaret Court Arena
14 Sydney Hordern Pavilion
15 Brisbane Fortitude Music Hall
April
25 Taipei Dome
26 Taipei Dome
29 Kuala Lumpur Axiata Arena
May
2 Hong Kong Central Harbourfront Event Space
3 Hong Kong Central Harbourfront Event Space
9 Shanghai Hongkou Football Stadium
16 Jakarta Beach City International Stadium
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– March 3rd, 2026 –
BAND TO EMBARK ON A HEADLINE U.S. TOUR IN JUNE 2026
MACHINE HEAD, IRON REAGAN, + HAVOK TO SUPPORT
NEW ALBUM THIS CONSEQUENCE OUT NOW VIA METAL BLADE
Killswitch Engage – Jesse Leach, vocals; Adam Dutkiewicz, guitar; Joel Stroetzel, guitar; Mike D’Antonio, bass; and Justin Foley, drums – will return to the road this summer on a headline run of the U.S. It marks the band’s first U.S. tour since last year’s Summer of Loud run.
The tour kicks off June 3 in Detroit and runs through June 27 in San Francisco, and includes appearances at Milwaukee Metal Fest and DC Warped Tour Weekend. Support will come from Machine Head, Iron Reagan, and Havok. All dates are below.
A variety of pre-sales begin today, March 3, at 2pm ET and run through Thursday, March 5 at 10pm local time. The general on-sale is set for Friday, March 6 at 10am local time. Get tickets here.
“I’m extremely excited to get back out on the road supporting our newest album This Consequence!,” says Leach. “We are hitting major cities and bringing along with us an absolutely killer lineup with the legendary Robb Flynn and Machine Head, thrash masters Iron Reagan, and rounded out by the mighty Havok. This is a stacked and powerful crew of bands that will electrify and dominate wherever we roll up to… so LET’S GO!!!!!!“
KILLSWITCH ENGAGE ON TOUR:
WITH MACHINE HEAD, IRON REAGAN, + HAVOK:
6/03 – Detroit, MI – The Fillmore
6/05 – Minneapolis, MN – The Fillmore
6/06 – Milwaukee, WI – Milwaukee Metal Fest*
6/07 – South Bend, IN – Four Winds Field
6/09 – Raleigh, NC – The Ritz
6/11 – Brooklyn, NY – Brooklyn Paramount
6/12 – Boston, MA – Roadrunner
6/13 – Bethlehem, PA – Wind Creek Event Center
6/14 – Washington, DC – DC Warped Tour*
6/16 – Orlando, FL – Hard Rock Live
6/17 – Atlanta, GA – Tabernacle
6/19 – Dallas, TX – South Side Ballroom
6/20 – Houston, TX – Bayou Music Center
6/21 – San Antonio, TX – Boeing Center at Tech Port
6/23 – Albuquerque, NM – Revel Entertainment Center
6/24 – Tempe, AZ – The Marquee
6/25 – Los Angeles, CA – Hollywood Palladium
6/27 – San Francisco, CA – Warfield
*KsE Festival Appearance
KsE‘s latest album THIS CONSEQUENCE is out now via Metal Blade. Get it here. The album arrived alongside a hugely successful Winter/Spring 2025 tour, yielded a Top 5 single with “I Believe,” which peaked at No. 3, and landed the band on the covers of Revolver and Outburn. The album was another reminder of why KsE, who have earned several gold and platinum certifications alongside three Grammy nominations, remain one of the most enduring bands of the modern metal scene.
ABOUT KILLSWITCH ENGAGE:
Killswitch Engage first shook the structure of heavy music upon climbing out of snowy industrialized Western Massachusetts in 2000. A musical outlier, the band pioneered a union of thrashed-out European guitar pyrotechnics, East Coast hardcore spirit, onstage hijinks, and enlightened lyricism that set the pace for what the turn-of-the-century deemed heavy. 2002′s Alive Or Just Breathing became avowed as a definitive album, being named among “The Top 100 Greatest Metal Albums of the Decade” by Decibel and celebrated by everyone from Metal Hammer to Revolver. Not only did they bust open the floodgates for dozens to follow, but they also garnered three GRAMMY® Award nominations in the category of “Best Metal Performance” in 2005, 2014, and 2019, respectively, a gold certification for The End of Heartache [2004], and a platinum certification for As Daylight Dies [2006]. The group landed three consecutive Top 10 debuts on the Billboard Top 200 with Killswitch Engage [2009], Disarm The Descent [2013], and their career high best bow at #6 with Incarnate [2016]. The latter two releases, along with 2019′s Atonement, would also both capture #1 on the Top Rock Albums and Top Hard Rock Albums charts. The band’s total streams are nearing 3 billion to date, while they’ve remained consummate road warriors who’ve sold out countless headline tours and have shared stages with everyone from Iron Maiden to Slipknot to Slayer to My Chemical Romance to Mastodon to Parkway Drive, which is a testament to their ability to cross genres and appeal to all fans of hard rock. KsE have remained a featured attraction at every major North American and European festival through the years. The band is celebrating an astonishing, 25-year career as one of the most vital and genre-defining bands of the ’00s and continues its incredible legacy.
KILLSWITCH ENGAGE ONLINE:
https://www.facebook.com/killswitchengage
https://x.com/kseofficial
https://www.killswitchengage.com
https://www.instagram.com/killswitchengage
https://open.spotify.com/artist/37394IP6uhnjIpsawpMu4l
https://www.youtube.com/user/killswitchengagetv