Porch Light, the young Minneapolis rock band, probably have a bone to pick with Noah Kahan. Type their band name into any DSP and you’re greeted with a song from Kahan’s recent blockbuster The Great Divide, a problem they weren’t facing six months ago. The good news is Porch Light have the juice, so they may outlast this Kahan obstacle the same way Wednesday outlasted Netflix’s Wednesday in the seach bar.
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The EP opens with “The Passenger.” This track possesses a hint of nostalgia, driven by a sly yet intense rhythm. The theatrical vocal performance draws the listener in, creating an immersive experience. Occasionally, the lead voice is accompanied by a higher-pitched harmony, adding a distinctive quality to the song. The western atmospheres within the arrangement further enrich its atmosphere, providing a cinematic quality to the listening experience.
Next is “Edge of Town,” which begins with a mysterious arpeggio. The rhythm here is subtle, as a unique vocal effect is introduced. The lead vocals again harmonize with a higher octave, lending a somewhat prophetic nature to the performance. The instrumentation is particularly notable; various elements come together in a way that reveals a wealth of details. A chime can be heard on the left side, while guitar and the rest of the groove reside on the right at various points throughout the song. This intentional separation opens the sonic space effectively. There are vocal embellishments that feel almost dreamlike, enhancing the overall texture of the track.
“Fear Has Gone” follows, evoking an image of a ghost town. The slow, languid rhythm mimics the dry air of a desert landscape. The composition has a unique cadence, sincere and at times psychedelic in its approach. Each note is deliberate, contributing to an experience that feels immersive.
The track “America” reminds one of passages found in the work of Blind Melon. The vocal delivery stands out, as usual, showcasing great talent. The genuine sounds strike a chord, allowing the listener to feel the nuances of fingers moving along the guitar strings. The reverberation of the room adds a layer of authenticity that is hard to overlook.
Closing the EP is “New York City,” a fantastic track infused with a nocturnal quality. It features a rhythm that resembles the ticking of time, creating a suspended feeling. This composition serves as an evocative ending to the collection. Throughout this EP, the band blends folk and alternative styles, showcasing an incredible vision.
The Tortugas’ EP touches on various themes. It delves into lost love, political upheaval, and the unique beauty found in England’s eastern flatlands. The group achieves this through an exceptional instrumental palette that skillfully intermingles cello with resonator guitar. Notably, they incorporate found-object sound effects, which adds depth to their offering.
The band’s lineup includes Bob Meltones on bass, guitar, and engineering; Giles, who provides drums and percussion; and Drew Webster, responsible for slide guitar and lyrics. They welcome the enchanting Sophie Vaughan on vocals and cello, whose contributions elevate the overall sound.
“Rooks” is a diverse musical exploration. Each track flows seamlessly into the next, ensuring a continuous journey that invites deep reflection. The unique voices and instrumental arrangements create a rich auditory experience that resonates on multiple levels.
The Tortugas have crafted an EP that successfully captures complex emotions through lyrical content and musical composition. Their innovative approach encourages listeners to engage thoughtfully, reflecting on the narratives presented while enjoying the intricacies of their sound.
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Greta Van Fleet have announced details of their forthcoming fourth album Palace For The People, and shared a new single Saw You Stand.
Earlier this year, the band alarmed fans by posting the message “Thanks for the wild ride” on their social media channels, leading many to speculate that the Michigan quartet were breaking up. These fears were allayed in May when the group released the single Play Your Games.
Recorded in Tennessee in the spring of 2026, Palace For The People was co-produced by the band and Mike Elizondo (Turnstile, Fiona Apple), and will be released on Republic Records on October 9.
“As much as it is a Greta Van Fleet record and a rock and roll record at its core, in its heart, it’s a very modern record,” says guitarist Jake Kiszka.
A press release for the record reveals that its title was inspired by iconic London venue Alexandra Palace, which the quartet headlined in 2022.
“A friend explained that the elaborate grandeur of this Victorian-era ‘palace’, originally named ‘The Palace Of The People’, was created as a gathering place for the public,” the statement reads. “Unlike most lavish buildings of the time, this one wasn’t created for the Monarchs nor the wealthy aristocrats of the day, but for everyone to ‘escape and wonder’, a truly modern concept for the time. Fast forward to 2026, Greta Van Fleet began to wonder: what would a palace for the people mean today? And how do we get there?
“I can’t tell you how many people have come up to me and said, ‘This is my best friend. We met through your music or at your show,’ explains bassist/keyboardist Sam Kiszka, “and we realized, the music is our palace!”
“We love each other just as much as ever, if not more, because we’ve got to spend quality time together off of the road,” his brother Josh adds. “We’ve grown closer, and we have more to say and share than ever.”
“The minute the four of us step into a room with the shared goal of creating, there is very little that can stop us,” says drummer Danny Wagner.
Watch the video for Saw You Stand below.
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Greta Van Fleet have announced their fourth studio album, Palace For The People, arriving October 9 via Republic Records, and released the new single “Saw You Stand” today. It’s the Frankenmuth band’s first full-length since 2023’s Starcatcher. The album was recorded in Tennessee in the spring of 2026 and co-produced by the band with Mike Elizondo, whose credits include Turnstile, Eminem and Fiona Apple. “Saw You Stand” is a ballad, and it follows the album’s first single, “Play Your Games.” The announcement lands the same day the band plays a rare sold-out club show at Chicago’s Metro.
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Three years is a long time in this band’s world. Starcatcher came out in 2023, they toured it into the ground, and then they mostly vanished. Now they’re back with a title that sounds like a manifesto, and honestly? It kind of is.
Palace For The People drops October 9 through Republic Records. Eleven-plus tracks are still under wraps at the time of writing — the band has only confirmed two so far, “Play Your Games” and today’s “Saw You Stand.”
The band recorded it at their own studio in Tennessee in spring 2026, and they did it the old way: no press, no tour dates hanging over them, no label breathing down their necks. Just four guys in a room. They pulled from unfinished demos and half-written songs going back years, mixed those with brand new material, and let it build.
Jake Kiszka’s summary of what came out the other side: “it’s a very modern record” — even though, in his words, it’s a rock and roll record at its core.
That’s the tension worth watching here. Greta Van Fleet have spent their entire career getting told they sound like 1971. If Jake is out front saying modern before anybody’s even heard the thing, that’s a band getting ahead of the conversation on purpose.
LIVE & LOUD: Stream the World’s Hardest Radio Station 24/7“Saw You Stand” is out everywhere now, and it’s a ballad — which is a swerve after “Play Your Games” came out swinging.
The band’s framing is that it’s equal parts intimate and cinematic, and that it catches them at their most emotionally open. Take the press-release language with the usual grain of salt, but the sequencing tells you something real: they led with the loud one, and they’re following it with the vulnerable one. That’s a band signalling the record has range, not just riffs.
Josh Kiszka says the time off actually made them tighter — that being off the road let them spend real quality time together, and they came back with more to say. Danny Wagner put it more bluntly: once the four of them are in a room with a shared goal, not much stops them.
Believe it or not, that’s not just band-speak in this case. Look at the timeline.
Here’s the part most outlets are going to skip.
Greta Van Fleet did not play a single live show between September 2024 and May 2026. Twenty months. For a band that had been an arena machine since they were barely out of their teens, that’s an eternity.
They broke the silence with a one-night-only show at New York’s Bowery Ballroom in May — a 575-capacity room, for a band that has sold out Wembley Arena. Tonight they do it again at the Metro in Chicago, another sold-out club date, deliberately shrinking the room to launch the era.
And they weren’t idle in the gap. Sam Kiszka and Danny Wagner played on The Dreamin’ Kind, the 2026 album from Pennsylvania singer-songwriter Langhorne Slim. Jake Kiszka turned up in the Bruce Springsteen biopic Springsteen: Deliver Me From Nowhere, playing a guitarist in a New Jersey club band. And Jake’s other project, Mirador — the band he started with Chris Turpin of Ida Mae — put out a new EP called The Gathering At Badon Hill.
So: a scattered, low-key, deliberately unglamorous two years. Then a record. That’s how you avoid burning out at thirty.
This is the best story in the whole announcement, and the press release buries it.
Back on their sold-out 2022 world tour, Greta Van Fleet headlined London’s Alexandra Palace — the enormous Victorian pile that locals call Ally Pally — before going on to sell out Wembley. While they were there, somebody told them the building’s origin story.
Alexandra Palace was originally called The Palace Of The People. In an era when every grand building in Britain got put up for monarchs or aristocrats, this one was built for everybody. A place for regular people to escape into and be amazed by. In the 1870s, that was a genuinely radical idea.
Fast forward to 2026 and the band started asking what a palace for the people would even look like today.
Sam Kiszka’s answer came from fans. He says he’s lost count of how many people have walked up to him and said this is my best friend, we met through your music. His conclusion: the music is the palace.
Corny? Maybe a little. But it’s a hell of a lot more interesting than naming your album after a tarot card, and it gives the record an actual thesis. Themes across Palace For The People are humanity, connection, resilience and transcendence — which, coming from a band that grew up in Frankenmuth, Michigan and got famous getting compared to Led Zeppelin every day of their lives, reads as a group figuring out what they actually want to say.
Mike Elizondo is not the obvious pick, and that’s the point.
The man co-produced Turnstile. He’s worked with Eminem, Fiona Apple, Dr. Dre and Mastodon. He is not a classic rock guy. He’s the producer you call when you want a heavy band to sound like it exists in the present tense.
That’s the single most useful detail in this whole announcement. If you want to know whether Palace For The People is going to sound different from Starcatcher, you don’t need to wait for the record. You just need to look at who they put in the chair.
We’ve watched a lot of legacy-adjacent rock bands try to modernize in 2026 — from Anthrax breaking a decade of silence to Mastodon rebuilding after Brent Hinds to Marilyn Manson swinging for a direct sequel. Greta Van Fleet are in a different spot than any of them. They’re not trying to recover. They’re trying not to calcify. Different problem, and arguably a harder one.
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Loaded Radio has been on these guys since their four-show 2021 run and the Light My Love live video, and this is the most interesting move they’ve made yet.
October 9. Mark it.
Palace For The People is out October 9, 2026 via Republic Records.
“Saw You Stand,” released July 31, 2026. It’s a ballad, and it’s the second single from the album after “Play Your Games.”
Yes. Starcatcher came out in 2023, so this is their first full-length in three years.
The band co-produced it with Mike Elizondo, whose résumé includes Turnstile, Eminem and Fiona Apple. It was recorded at the band’s studio in Tennessee in spring 2026.
London’s Alexandra Palace, which the band headlined on their 2022 world tour. It was originally named The Palace Of The People and was built as a public gathering place rather than a venue for royalty or the wealthy. Sam Kiszka has said the band came to see their own music as that palace.
Josh Kiszka on vocals, his twin brother Jake Kiszka on guitar, their brother Sam Kiszka on bass and keys, and Danny Wagner on drums.
No full tour has been announced yet. The band played a one-night-only show at New York’s Bowery Ballroom in May 2026 — their first live show since September 2024 — and are playing a sold-out show at Chicago’s Metro on July 31.
Palace For The People is either the record that breaks Greta Van Fleet out of the retro box for good, or the one where they overthink it. We’re betting on the former — but tell us what you think in the comments.
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After reaching crushing new peaks and delving into the deepest, darkest and most personal depths of their storied career during its opening chapters, the Norwegian prog bards Green Carnation are ending their critically-acclaimed album trilogy with a bold and uncompromising exclamation. A Dark Poem, Part III: The Messiah Complex comes out September 4, 2026 on Season of Mist.
“A Dark Poem is by far our biggest achievement since Light of Day, Day of Darkness”, Green Carnation vocalist Kjetil Nordhus. “Our new album trilogy returns to the epic storytelling that put us on the map back in 2001. While the reception to Part I and Part II has been overwhelmingly positive for us, we do believe that Part III saves the best for last”.
Green Carnation have released the title track as the second advanced single from A Dark Poem, Part III: The Messiah Complex. By performing a prog miracle, trilogy highlight “The Messiah Complex” reveals a dark truth about human nature.
“The title track from Part III of A Dark Poem is about our need to find external excuses for our behavior”, Green Carnation bassist and primary lyricist Stein Roger Sordal says. “This is nothing new, but with our uncritical way of working with our increasingly digital world, we seem unable to cope with the consequences of our actions”.
“‘The Messiah Complex’ is a standout song in the trilogy”, Nordhus adds. “The vibe to this song is quite unique for us, but it doesn’t take long to recognize that it is still very much a Green Carnation song. Bjørn’s guitar work lifts the song up, together with Jonathan’s drumming and, of course, Stein Roger’s bass and vocals during the bridge”.
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Tracklist
1. Unconditional Artificial Chemistry (6:09) [WATCH]
2. The Messiah Complex (6:48)
3. Broken Souls, Common Enemies (8:45)
4. A Dark Poem – Orchestral Suite (16:47)
Full runtime: 38:31
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