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I wanna be happy

Even if I said I could

But what if I’m lonely

And the darkness bleed when I shook

To celebrate the release of Mouth Ulcers’ debut EP, Silent Pictures, the band has released a video for the title track directed by frontman Zak Watson. Following the spectral layering of “Space,” the London quartet now pares its visual language down to a single blue chamber, where performance, memory, and private distress are pressed into the same cold frame.

The title “silent pictures” calls back to cinema before synchronized speech: an art built from faces, gestures, shadows, and the sudden eloquence of a cut. Gothic rock has long carried that visual grammar into music. The warped interiors of The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari, the advancing silhouette of Nosferatu, and the deathly poise of early screen horror survive in the genre’s high-contrast lighting, looming shadows, romantic morbidity, and sense that the performer has been supernaturally summoned rather than merely photographed.

Watson’s video understands that inheritance as atmosphere rather than costume. It begins in a wash of blue so dense that the band seem suspended inside a photographic negative. High contrast strips the room of softness: faces turn pale, instruments gleam, and every movement acquires the blunt clarity of evidence. The setup is simple, and Watson uses that simplicity as pressure, keeping the camera close enough to catch the musicians as they tighten around the song.

Formed in London in 2025, Mouth Ulcers have moved quickly from studio experiment to sold-out rooms in Britain and the Netherlands. Across Silent Pictures, traces of Bauhaus, The Chameleons, The Damned, The Cult, and the early Horrors surface without hardening into a pastiche of these influences. Written between July 2025 and early 2026, its songs settle into distinct temperaments, united by the private ache beneath the band’s dramatic poise.

The title track circles a wish for happiness that keeps collapsing into loneliness, pain, and the erosion of memory. Repetition gives time a physical presence, as though each return to the refrain has removed another object from the room. Watson sings with a restrained intensity, while Josephine Rose, Jamie-Lee Culver, and David Zbirka supply a disciplined force around him. The performance becomes an act of endurance, with four people holding their places while something inward begins to give way.

“It’s music for the dark nature that’s lurking beneath the ‘perfect’ world,” says the band. “It marks just the start of how we’d like to start our journey as a band and we hope everyone enjoys listening.”

The video gives gothic style the discipline of precision. Its blue palette carries emotional weight from the opening frame. It flattens distinctions between skin, fabric, wall, and metal, turning the band into figures caught inside the same cold exposure. Cuts arrive with measured sharpness. A guitar neck crosses the frame; a cymbal flashes; Rose’s presence gives the image another point of tension. The camera studies the slight strain of a mouth, the angle of a shoulder, and the instant before a drum strike lands.

Watch the video for Silent Pictures below:

The Silent Pictures EP presents Mouth Ulcers as a band alert to the theatrical inheritance of goth and equally attentive to bodily signs of distress. As the song closes, no cathartic gesture settles the unease; the image leaves the musicians inside their blue chamber, still playing against time. For a debut statement, the restraint is persuasive. Mouth Ulcers have found a visual language spacious enough for private dread, desire, and the slow disappearance at the song’s centre.

Listen to “Silent Pictures” below and order the EP here.

Live Dates

• 29 Jul – Paper Dress Vintage, London (UK) (sold out)
• 14 Aug – District, Liverpool (UK)
• 29 Aug – Hit The City, Eindhoven (NL)
• 6 Oct – Sneaky Pete’s, Edinburgh (UK)
• 7 Oct – Beyond The Music, Manchester (UK)
• 17 Oct – Neighbourhood Festival, Manchester (UK)
• 29 Oct – They’re Gonna Be Big Festival, Paris (FR)
• 30 Oct – Grenswerk, Venlo (NL)
• 31 Oct – London Calling Festival, Amsterdam (NL)
• 6 Nov – Kentish Town Forum, London w/ The Mission (UK)
• 7 Nov – The Warehouse, Leeds (UK)
• 28 Nov – Post Punk Strikes Back Festival, Porto (PT)
• 8–11 Jan – Rockaway Beach Festival, Bognor Regis (UK)

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Elton John’s music has been shaped not only by his unmistakable piano and voice, but also by the exceptional musicians who have stood beside him in the studio and onstage. From longtime collaborators such as Nigel Olsson and Davey Johnstone to the many players who joined during different eras, this complete list traces the band members who helped build the sound behind one of rock music’s most enduring careers. Over the decades, Elton John’s backing band has undergone several changes, with a core group of musicians who have frequently collaborated with him on numerous tours and studio recordings. This ensemble

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California musician Justin Chamberlain, recording and performing as Soft Vein, has spent the past few years working within darkwave’s familiar gothic architecture: lowered lights, severe bass lines, vocals pressed close to the ear. On Learning to Talk, the third single from his forthcoming new album, that architecture opens outward: its shadowed interior remains intimate, but the walls recede, and the windows admit a softer light, revealing a more expansive new-wave sound shaped by tenderness, hesitation, and the peculiar courage of allowing oneself to be known.

Co-produced with Nouvo Testamento’s Andrea Mantione, the track proceeds with measured assurance at the pace of two bodies discovering a common rhythm. A rounded bass figure steadies the song while electronics ripple across the mix, occasionally gathering into broad, luminous swells. Chamberlain sings in a breathy register that suits the lyrics’ concern with communication beyond speech. His phrasing has the careful looseness of someone choosing honesty before certainty, and the restraint gives each line an intimate pressure.

The song’s premise is simple enough: lovers meet during the blue hour, lower their defenses, and learn to read gesture as language. Yet Chamberlain finds complexity in the exchange. Hands become a grammar; movement supplies punctuation; silence carries its own fluent charge. The romance grows through mutual attention, and the music follows suit, allowing desire to accumulate through repetition, texture, and small changes in intensity.

This deepens a notable turn in Soft Vein’s development, extending the more pronounced new wave direction established by the previous two singles. Much of Chamberlain’s earlier work as Soft Vein drew its drama from darkwave severity, with atmosphere coiling tightly around the singer; Learning to Talk, by contrast, favours a more refined synthpop profile, admitting warmth while preserving the music’s emotional density. His voice sits near the centre, while the arrangement keeps shifting around him, as though the song were adjusting to each new degree of closeness.

There is also a timely anxiety beneath its sensual ease. In the digital age, Intimacy often becomes entangled with self-consciousness, social performance, and the pressure to explain every feeling. Chamberlain imagines a different kind of connection, built through physical closeness, a temporary surrender of control, and the comfort of being understood without having to speak. In that light, the morning promised in the song’s refrain becomes evidence that the sensual encounter has endured the vulnerability of being fully seen.

Listen to Learning To Talk below and order the single here.

Mixed by Chamberlain and mastered by Jason Corbett at Jacknife Sound, Learning to Talk reaches a plush, dreamlike conclusion while retaining its poise. The final passages expand gently, giving the song the sense of a private revelation becoming spacious enough to inhabit. Soft Vein has made a romantic track with composure, sensuality, and precision, suggesting that his forthcoming album may find its richest material in the fragile distance between what lovers say and what their bodies already know. Its elegance comes through patience, while its romance rests in the risks each partner quietly accepts. The result feels generous, poised, and alive to each tremour of recognition.

Catch Soft Vein live:

• Jul 23 Dickens Calgary, AB
• Sep 11 Zebulon Los Angeles (LA), CA
• Sep 20 Photo City Music Hall Rochester, NY
• Sep 22 Mahall’s Lakewood, OH
• Sep 24 Underground Music Cafe Minneapolis, MN
• Sep 26 White Rabbit Cabaret Indianapolis, IN
• Sep 30 Club Dada Dallas, TX
• Oct 2 Paper Tiger San Antonio, TX
• Oct 3 White Oak Music Hall – Upstairs Houston, TX
• Oct 8 New World Music Hall Tampa, FL
• Oct 9 Respectable Street West Palm Beach, FL
• Oct 10 The Abbey Orlando, FL
• Oct 14 Stanczyks Music Bar Durham, NC

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Rock legend Alice Cooper has announced another run of dates on his ongoing Alice’s Attic tour. Just two days after the European leg of the tour ended in Italy, the indefatigable 78-year-old has announced a new run of shows in the US.

The new dates – which are in addition to Cooper’s upcoming European tour with Hollywood Vampires, his UK book tour, and another four Welcome To My Nightmare dates in Las Vegas with magician and illusionist Criss Angel – kick off at the Louder Than Life festival in Louisville, KY, on September 17, and conclude on November 21 at the Grand Theatre at Grand Sierra Resort + Casino in Reno, NV.

The new dates will presumably give American fans another chance to witness new guitarist Anna Cara in action. The 22-year-old Brit joined Cooper’s band in April to cover for Nita Strauss, who gave birth in May and has not yet announced her return to the band.

Full dates below.

Hollywood Vampires: European Tour 2026

Aug 12: London O2 Arena, UK *
Aug 14: Cardiff Castle, UK $
Aug 15: Scarborough Open Air Theatre, UK $
Aug 17: Glasgow OVO Hydro, UK
Aug 18: Manchester AO Arena, UK *
Aug 19: Birmingham Utilita Arena Birmingham, UK *
Aug 21: Colchester Castle Park, UK $
Aug 22: Halifax The Piece Hall, UK $
Aug 25: Nürnberg PSD Bank Nürnberg Arena, Germany
Aug 26: Paris Adidas Arena, France
Aug 28: Cologne Lanxess Arena, Germany
Aug 30: Hamburg Barclays Arena, Germany
Sep 01: Novegro-Tregarezzo Parco della Musica di Milano, Italy
Sep 02: Este Castello Carrarese, Italy
Sep 03: Arena Zagreb, Croatia
Sep 05: St. Pölten VAZ, Austria
Sep 06: Praha Sportovní hala Fortuna, Czechia

* with The Jesus and Mary Chain
$ with The Damned

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Alice Cooper: Alice’s Attic tour 2026

Sep 17: Louisville Louder Than Life, KY
Sep 19: West Springfield The Big E Fair, MS
Sep 20: Ottawa CityFolk Festival, ON
Sep 22: Niagara Falls OLG Stage at Fallsview Casino, ON

Oct 27: Clearwater Ruth Eckerd Hall, FL
Oct 30: Richmond Altria Theater, VA
Oct 31: Atlantic City Tropicana Casino & Resort, NJ
Nov 01: Bethlehem Wind Creek Bethlehem, PA
Nov 04: Hershey Theatre, PA
Nov 06: Windsor Caesars Windsor – The Colosseum, ON
Nov 07: Kalamazoo Wings Event Center, MI
Nov 08: Waukegan Genesee Theatre, IL
Nov 10: St. Louis Stifel Theatre, MO
Nov 11: Park City Hartman Arena, KS
Nov 14: Indio Fantasy Springs Casino, CA
Nov 15: Prescott Valley Findlay Toyota Center, AZ
Nov 17: San Diego Cal Coast Credit Union Open Air Theatre, CA
Nov 18: San Jose San Jose Civic, CA
Nov 20: Wheatland Hard Rock Live at Hard Rock Hotel + Casino, CA
Nov 21: Reno Grand Theatre at Grand Sierra Resort + Casino, NV

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Alice Cooper: Devil On My Shoulder UK book tour 2026

Oct 11: Cardiff New Theatre
Oct 12: Cambridge Corn Exchange
Oct 13: London Palladium
Oct 14: Brighton Dome
Oct 16: Manchester Opera House
Oct 17: Stockton Globe
Oct 19: Glasgow Pavilion Theatre
Oct 20: Wolverhampton Civic Hall

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Alice Cooper and Criss Angel: Welcome To My Nightmare residency

Nov 27: Las Vegas Criss Angel Theater at Planet Hollywood Resort & Casino, NV
Nov 28: Las Vegas Criss Angel Theater at Planet Hollywood Resort & Casino, NV
Dec 03: Las Vegas Criss Angel Theater at Planet Hollywood Resort & Casino, NV
Dec 04: Las Vegas Criss Angel Theater at Planet Hollywood Resort & Casino, NV

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REVIEW BY DAVID TAYLOR AND PHOTOS BY ROBERT A CHADWICK | Go Venue Magazine

It was a hot one on Sunday, July 12 when Night Ranger came back to La Vista, Nebraska this time playing outdoors at the Astro Amphitheater.

Drew Cagle & The Reputation from Central Illinois was the opener. I was unfamiliar with this hard rock band, but I was impressed by the end of their set. These young guys, led by lead singer, Drew Cagle, were all incredible live musicians. They performed all original material that sounded great. I do wish they didn’t these mini outros to their songs towards the beginning of their set, it made it confusing if the song ended or not. But, regardless, great opening set for the evening. Night Ranger could’ve chosen a contemporary of theirs, but I’m glad they chose these young guys because they put on an incredible live performance.

Finally, the Nebraska crowd was ready for some Night Ranger. They put “Fight For Your Right” by the Beastie Boys to get the crowd pumped then they played the Godzilla theme music. What struck me the most about these guys is they had so much fun on stage and never took themselves too seriously. It was like watching a band play a party in your backyard. It’s kinda a miracle that you have three original members Jack Blades (bass and vocals), Brad Gillis (guitar), and Kelly Keagy (drums and vocals) performing so well. Like Jack Blades was running all over the stage and Brad Gillis is still in great shape, all around their 70s. They also had a mini acoustic set, including them performing a cover of Don Henley’s “The Boys of Summer”. They even played some Damn Yankees, including “High Enough”. They played the hits towards the end of their set, ending with “(You Can Still) Rock in America”. And the concert got done around 8:45, which is a huge win in my book. I was really impressed by Night Ranger. Whereas their contemporaries maybe have one or two original members but maybe don’t have that talent that they used to, Night Ranger still does and I do believe they are worth your time and money.

Night Ranger

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Drew Cagle & The Reputation

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