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Gareth’s looking forward to Belgian festival Alcatraz for the umpteenth time (lucky dog), and who better to tell him about it that festival organiser Mario Poncin? We’re just over a month away from Alcatraz, with this year (2026) being its eighteenth year. How are the preparations going so far? It’s busy times, of course. But … Continue reading Interview: Mario Poncin – Alcatraz Open Air

Memory of your touch

Won’t leave me alone

Desire rarely makes a clean exit. It usually lingers on, as pressure, an afterimage in the body—a memory whose touch survives long after the moment itself has disappeared. Somewhere between attraction and estrangement, intimacy becomes less like comfort than possession: a presence carried silently beneath the surface. Subject Sue’s “Under My Skin” inhabits that residue—the body as an archive, longing as a shadow, and absence refusing to remain absent.

On her first single from her forthcoming debut EP, and its accompanying video, the Amsterdam-based artist blurs lust and romance, intimacy and alienation through a nocturnal fusion of ethereal darkwave, synthwave, and deep dub techno. Pulsating electronics, submerged rhythmic pressure, and spectral vocal harmonies turn private fixation into something physical—part memory, part possession, and impossible to shake.

Subject Sue’s music occupies the blurred territory between lust and romance, intimacy and alienation. Drawing inspiration from Amsterdam’s queer nightlife and its fragile oscillation between euphoria and estrangement, she constructs a cinematic nocturnal world in which pleasure and unease are rarely separated for long. Synthesizers flicker like light across a crowded dance floor, while her voice appears to move through the music as both narrator and apparition.

On “Under My Skin,” that tension becomes physical. A deep, dub-informed pulse advances beneath glassy synthesizers and drifting layers of vocals, allowing the song to feel simultaneously spacious and claustrophobic. Its rhythm belongs to the nightclub, but the emotion unfolding above it is private: the uneasy persistence of another person’s touch and the inability to dislodge their memory from the body.

The song’s lyrics reduce that fixation to a few repeated images—a shadow trapped inside the chest, the memory of touch, and the compulsion to keep someone under the skin. Repetition turns the words into an incantation. What begins as longing gradually resembles possession, as though the absent figure has been absorbed and preserved somewhere beyond conscious control.

Before launching Subject Sue, the artist studied Visual Arts, exploring alter egos and the private realities people construct around themselves. Over time, she shifted from observing those ideas at a distance to embodying them through Subject Sue—a persona through which identity, fantasy, desire, and self-invention could become inseparable.

That visual background is central to the accompanying video. Saturated in arterial red and deep shadow, the clip initially places Subject Sue behind a translucent surface, her profile and outstretched hands reduced to blurred fragments. At other moments, she appears as a solitary silhouette dancing inside a narrow halo of light, her movements poised somewhere between seduction, ritual, and confinement.

The image continually changes its relationship to her body. Severe black-and-white close-ups bleach her features into graphic abstraction, while double exposures split her face into competing identities. Digital blocks assemble and disassemble around her silhouette; figures multiply into pairs and triptychs; and gestures are repeated until they seem detached from the person performing them.

Elsewhere, fogged surfaces obscure the body almost completely, leaving only a mouth, a hand, or the suggestion of movement behind a veil. These images transform the song’s central metaphor into something visible: a person trapped beneath a membrane, close enough to touch but impossible to reach clearly. The more the video attempts to reveal its subject, the more she fragments into shadows, projections, and unstable copies.

By its closing passage, the red-lit figure has multiplied across the screen before dissolving into a stark negative image surrounded by disembodied hands. Subject Sue becomes less a fixed individual than an alter ego in constant mutation—watched, desired, divided, and reconstructed beneath the pressure of memory.

Watch the video for Under My Skin below:

“Under My Skin” is out now on all streaming platforms. Listen to the single here.

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In September and October, Turnstile will commence with their second part of North American touring in support of their latest album Never Enough.
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Death doomers Abyssal Rift are streaming “Sphere Of Perpetuity”, the latest new preview track off their upcoming sophomore record Relics Of Great Ash.
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Parkway Drive are taking things right back to their roots with a special tour which will see them performing their first two albums in full.

It feels like the roots of this announcement can be found in the core of their recent 20th anniversary arena shows, where they would perform a medley of tracks from ‘Killing With A Smile’ to rapturous reaction. That looked a bit like this every night.

Well, now the band are bringing not just that record but also 2007’s ‘Horizons’ to stages across Australia. Two nights in every city, one album a night. Oh, and there will also be plenty of hits, too.

Vocalist Winston McCall had this to say about the event, stating, “This idea kicked off when we started working on the ‘KWAS’ medley for our last tour. Revisiting ‘Killing With A Smile’ with a fresh perspective lit a spark that remained after we finished up, so we figured rather than let the spark die, let’s take it and create something special. For all the people who have waited to hear these songs live again, for all the people that never got the chance to see these two albums on stage, for ourselves reconnecting with the core energy at the heart of this band, this tour is for all of us. Some of these songs haven’t been played live in over a decade, some have never been played at all. You wanted it, now you got it, so let’s make this moment worth the wait.”

Here are all the dates:

AUGUST

01 – PERTH Metro City (Killing With A Smile)
02 – PERTH Metro City (Horizons)
04 – ADELAIDE Hindley St Music Hall (Killing With A Smile)
05 – ADELAIDE Hindley St Music Hall (Horizons)
09 -MELBOURNE Forum (Killing With A Smile)
10 – MELBOURNE Forum (Horizons)
12 – SYDNEY Enmore Theatre (Killing With A Smile)
13 – SYDNEY Enmore Theatre (Horizons)
15 – BRISBANE Fortitude Music Hall (Killing With A Smile)
16 – BRISBANE Fortitude Music Hall (Horizons)

Tickets will be on general sale from June 25 at 10am local time.

The band last released new music last year around their 20th anniversary tour in the form of ‘Sacred’. That sounds a lot like this:

We chatted to vocalist Winston McCall all about the tour and the celebration on an episode of 7of30, which you can check out below:

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Bulgarian melodic death metal ensemble Deadscape welcomes Krisi Borisova as their new vocalist. The group has also released a brand new single/video “Withstand The Cold Winds”, featuring new vocalist.
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On Wednesday, June 24th Canadian roots, rock, and soul band Bywater Call are excited to announce the release ‘Is This Thing On?‘, leading up to the July 29th release of their highly anticipated fourth studio album ‘Broken Souvenirs‘ featuring the critically acclaimed singles ‘No One Else‘, ‘Only‘ and ‘Hold Me Down‘. The album is available […]

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Deep Purple are releasing their new single, “Guilt Trippin’,” today—just a few days before the worldwide release of their new studio album, SPLAT!, on July 3. What begins with a deceptively gentle piano intro develops into one of the most unpredictable and rousing moments on SPLAT!—and one of Ian Gillan’s most impressive vocal performances on the album. Behind… Continue Reading →