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Posted on June 24th 2026, 7:13pm

With 2024’s This Is How Tomorrow Moves, Beabadoobee stuck mostly to the alt-pop sound she’s known for. Now it looks like the English singer-songwriter — who turned 26 earlier this month — is pivoting to emo. Today, she’s announcing her fourth studio album Pylon, and it features major alternative names like Hayley Williams, Matty Healy, Chino Moreno, Brendan Yates, and George Daniel, as well as low-key legends like Title Fight’s Shane Moran and Pinegrove’s Evan Stephens Hall.

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SWISS POST-ROCK BAND hubris. SHARE 2ND SINGLE ‘DEATH’

NEW ALBUM ‘WHITE SHORES’ RELEASED 10TH SEPTEMBER

“White Shores” is the fifth studio album announced recently from Swiss post-rock band hubris. set for release on September 10th, 2026. 

Following four albums rooted in Greek mythology, composer and founder Jonathan Hohl turns to his other favourite source of inspiration: The Lord of the Rings, but more specifically J.R.R. Tolkien’s exploration of mortality and immortality. 

“The Hobbit was my very first exposure to literature as a child, and after Peter Jackson’s original film trilogy, I became completely obsessed with Middle-Earth,” Jonathan recalls.

In Tolkien’s legendarium, elves in spite of their immortality (a trait often coveted by humans) refer to death as the “Gift of Men.” This paradox offers a striking alternative to the Western perception of death as purely tragic. A “gift” implies something desirable, even fortunate. While Tolkien presents multiple perspectives on death throughout his works, the one that resonated most deeply with Jonathan comes from the main protagonist Frodo’s departure at the end of The Lord of the Rings: “the grey rain-curtain turned all to silver glass and was rolled back, and he beheld white shores and beyond them a far green country under a swift sunrise.” 

In the wake of his grandfather’s passing, this perspective became Jonathan’s emotional and conceptual foundation of White Shores. The album unfolds across five movements, each representing a word in a single sentence: Death. Is. Just. Another. Path. 

The sentence is drawn from Gandalf’s words to Pippin in Peter Jackson’s film adaptation. It was spoken in the face of what appears to be their last moments. This phrase serves as both a moment of respite and a thematic conception. 

With its 5 separate movements, the album also offers a reflection to Dr. Kübler-Ross’s theory on the five stages of grief: Denial, Anger, Bargaining, Depression and Acceptance. 

According to the band new single Death” is, “the song that started it all. It was the first piece I (Jonathan) composed after my grandfather passed away, and those opening chords became the foundation for the entire album. I’ve always seen our records as a single body of work rather than a collection of separate songs, and this album is no exception. 

Each track was written at a different stage of my grieving process. The songs reflect my feelings in those moments as well as the evolution of my understanding of “death” as a concept.   A major influence on that perspective was Tolkien’s work, where elves consider the mortality of men a “gift”. This album became a way of exploring that idea and it all started with this song.”

White Shores was first composed by Jonathan in his home studio before being arranged collaboratively with the creative minds of the remaining three members: Léo Juston, Lucien Leclerc and Matthieu Grillet. After an extensive demo process, hubris. returned to La Fonderie Studio in Fribourg, Switzerland, where they had previously recorded three of their five albums, to track the record over the course of a week. The album was then mixed by Peter Miles at Middle Farm Studios and mastered by former hubris. drummer Nathan Gros.

The album will be available to pre-order soon.

Live shows (European Release Tour Pt. I) 

Follow online – http://hubrisband.com/

Here are some of the best rock songs for guitar beginners — fun to play, easy to learn, and instantly recognisable.

 1. Seven Nation Army – The White Stripes

One of the most iconic riffs ever written.

• Single-note riff
• Great for finger strength and timing
• Sounds impressive even for beginners

2. Smoke on the Water – Deep Purple

The classic “first riff” for most guitar players.

• Very simple power chord shape
• Easy rhythm pattern
• Great introduction to rock timing

 3. Wonderwall – Oasis

A must-know acoustic song.

• Basic open chords (Em7, G, D, A7sus4)
• Great for strumming practice
• Perfect for singing along

 4. Zombie – The Cranberries

Great for beginners who want something powerful.

• Simple chord progression
• Slow tempo = easier timing
• Strong emotional impact

 5. Come As You Are – Nirvana

Perfect mix of simple and cool.

• Clean tone riff
• Repeating pattern
• Great for learning control and feel

 6. Knockin’ on Heaven’s Door – Bob Dylan / Guns N’ Roses

One of the easiest chord songs ever.

• Only a few basic chords (G, D, Am)
• Slow and forgiving
• Great for beginners learning changes

 7. Californication – Red Hot Chili Peppers

A slightly more advanced beginner riff.

• Simple finger positioning
• Great for picking accuracy
• Very rewarding sound

8. Horse with No Name – America

Two chords only.

• Extremely beginner-friendly
• Focus on rhythm and consistency
• Great confidence builder

 9. Sweet Home Alabama – Lynyrd Skynyrd

A fun riff-based song.

• Repeating chord shapes
• Great for coordination
• Very satisfying to play

 10. Highway to Hell – AC/DC

Perfect introduction to rock power chords.

• Simple, aggressive rhythm
• Great for timing and strumming strength
• Instant “rock guitarist” feeling

In this short video, I share a simple thought that came to me mid‑performance, a reminder that people can be wonderful, surprising, confusing, and everything in between.

It’s a light, honest reflection delivered in the middle of a live acoustic set, and it resonated enough that I wanted to bring it here too.

Have a watch below and see if it hits you the same way.

Ünloco will also be playing a lone stop of the trek.

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Fuming Mouth frontman Mark Whelan really did cheat death. In 2021, Whelan was diagnosed with acute myeloid leukemia. He went through chemotherapy and a bone marrow transplant, and he made it out the other side. Fuming Mouth returned to the stage in 2022, and the Massachusetts hardcore/death metal band released their album Last Day Of Sun in 2023. Next month, they’ll release another LP, and it opens with a song called “Cheat Death.”

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For over a century, black holes were nothing but ghosts in the math. Ever since Einstein first theorized them, these massive cosmic voids that swallow light itself were considered entirely impossible to actually see. Imagine trying to photograph a single grain of sand on the moon while staring through a thick, heavy fog, and that is the exact level of impossible the scientific world was dealing with. But when humanity finally stared into the absolute abyss and got a picture back, it was a brilliant computer scientist named Katie Bouman who took charge of the code that made the invisible visible.

Katie wasn’t even a traditional astronomer when she started; she was a computer science graduate student at MIT. She stepped into a room full of seasoned astrophysicists, a heavily male-dominated space, and brought a completely different perspective. While others were focused on the physical limits of telescopes, Katie realized the answer was buried in the math. She started working on algorithms (the set of mathematical instructions that tell a computer what to do) to piece together a cosmic puzzle that didn’t even have all of its pieces. She didn’t let the fact that she was the “outsider” in the room stop her; instead, she used her unique background as her greatest weapon.

She joined the Event Horizon Telescope project, a massive global effort linking satellite dishes across the world to create one giant, Earth-sized super-telescope. But the data they gathered from space was messy, fragmented, and full of static. Katie led the development of the software that acted like a translator. In simple terms, she wrote the code that took millions of gigabytes of messy cosmic noise and taught the computer how to stitch it into a clear picture. She spent years obsessively testing it, making sure human bias didn’t accidentally paint a picture of what they wanted to see rather than the raw truth of what was actually there.

In 2019, the entire world stopped to look at a glowing, fiery orange ring around a dark center: the supermassive black hole at the heart of the M87 galaxy. Right alongside that historic, haunting image was a photo of Katie, hands clasped over her face, glowing with pure, uncontained emotion as the picture finally rendered on her laptop screen. She became the face of a scientific revolution overnight, instantly proving to every girl watching that women belong at the absolute bleeding edge of discovery.

She did not stop at that one viral moment, nor did she let the sudden internet fame or the critics who tried to diminish her role drag her down. Katie leveled up, becoming a professor at Caltech and continuing to push the boundaries of computational imaging [using computer algorithms to pull images out of hard-to-read data]. Just a few years later in 2022, she was a key player yet again when her team successfully released the very first image of Sagittarius A*, the massive black hole sitting right in the center of our own Milky Way galaxy.

What Katie actually proves is that you don’t always need to have the traditional background to completely change the game. Whether you’re navigating a heavily gatekept scene, fighting for your voice to be heard in a crowded room, or just trying to piece together the messy fragments of your own life, the solution isn’t always about forcing things to work the old way. It’s about writing your own code, trusting your unique perspective, and knowing that even in the darkest, most impossible voids, you have the power to find the light.

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No word from the band yet.

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