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On A Violent Power and Bontempi Pop 3, Danz CM treats synthesizers less like collector’s trophies than working machinery, using vintage hardware to build pop that moves, mutates, and occasionally grins at its own oscillations. The equipment may be old, but the decisions feel immediate: basslines snap into position, keyboards dart through the margins, and every unusual texture seems enlisted because it can push the song somewhere useful.

A Violent Power is the straighter shot. Constructed entirely from analogue synths, it runs on a rigid new-wave pulse that suggests Kraftwerk’s immaculate engineering after somebody slipped a little danger into the control room. Berlin and Ladytron provide useful coordinates, particularly in the marriage of cool surfaces and emotional excess, yet Danz gives the track enough pressure to keep the references from swallowing it. The song concerns surrendering to an overpowering emotion, and the arrangement keeps tightening around that idea, adding momentum until submission starts sounding suspiciously pleasurable. Synth lines rise, retreat, and lock together with the tidy aggression of machinery designed for dancing.

Then Bontempi Pop 3 wanders into stranger territory and steals the double single. Its breakbeat shuffles with trip-hop weight while an Italian Bontempi toy organ squeaks, chirps, and zips across the track as though somebody left a children’s keyboard unsupervised in an experimental studio. Broadcast supplies some of its crooked sweetness, while the toy-box melodies carry the idyllic whimsy of Danish synth band Moral, and the repetition has Stereolab’s playful momentum. Just this side of psychedelia, the arrangement keeps producing small surprises without turning into a crowded demonstration of gear. The subject is time: specifically, the desire to escape its disappearing act by occupying the present more completely. That could easily become heavy-handed philosophy, but Danz wisely gives the idea movement rather than solemnity. The beat keeps walking forward while those peculiar keyboards seem determined to distract the clock.

Together, the singles reveal a musician with enough technical command to know that technical command is boring when displayed for its own sake. Live guitars, acoustic drums, motorik rhythms, layered vocals, and banks of synthesizers enter according to function rather than prestige, allowing touches of Nation of Language, Chromatics, Ladytron, Stereolab, and Broadcast to flash past without turning the songs into record-collection bookkeeping.

A Violent Power provides the immediate hook, but Bontempi Pop 3 supplies the mischief. One is streamlined and commanding; the other keeps poking holes in its own geometry.

Listen to A Violent Power/Bontempi Pop 3 below or via the streaming service of your choice here:

Originally from New York’s Catskill Mountains and now based in Los Angeles, Danz CM first built an audience during the 2010s as Computer Magic, operating with a staunch DIY approach that eventually produced records including 2015’s Davos and led to considerable success in Japan, where her music appeared in campaigns for Panasonic and Kewpie Mayo. After retiring the Computer Magic name, she moved further into composition and instrumental arrangement, scoring independent films including While Mortals Sleep and Gary Hustwit’s The Map. During the pandemic she also founded Synth History, the print publication devoted to synthesizers, electronic music, and the people behind them, while continuing to write, produce, mix, art-direct, and release music through her own Channel 9 Records. Recent releases have moved from the ambient abstractions of MYTHS to the krautrock excursions of 2025’s LÄRM!, alongside tours supporting LCD Soundsystem and Ladytron.

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Carrie Okay, a new supergroup from LØLØ, salem ilese and Alna, have unveiled their first song, and it is very much on brand for the trio.

Titled ‘High In A Drugstore’, it is a return to the early 00’s era of soft pop-rock, but with a modern twist. It’s flowery, breezy and beautiful, but littered with heartbreak and anguish. The sort of song that finds you in your life at the right time and right place, and makes you realise you’re not the only person going through such pain.

As a first swing, it is as good as it gets.

The band had this to say about it:

Heartbreak makes us do the strangest things. We’ve all had those nights where we’re convinced leaving the house will fix everything, and somehow, we end up in a random place having an existential crisis. Whether it’s hallucinating an ex at your local Denny’s or taking a gummy and ending up out of your mind at a 7-Eleven, you never know where a broken heart will take you. The irony of ending up high in a drugstore… a place where people often go to find a cure, only to realize there’s nothing on those shelves for missing somebody. After writing ‘High in a Drugstore,’ we realized we loved the song way too much to try to pitch it to another artist. So we did what any reasonable girl would do in that moment… start a girl band. We’ve loved every second of creating Carrie Okay and feel so lucky to work with each other and the amazing Andrew Goldstein on creating such a fun project.”

And Andrew had this to add himself about working on the project with the trio:

Working with Carrie Okay is different from working with other artists. Each member is already an accomplished songwriter and artist in their own right, so the creative process moves incredibly fast. I’m constantly in awe of how seamlessly they come up with concepts, lyrics, and melodies, often building three-part harmonies while we’re still writing the song. You get to hear the music come to life in real time. It’s rare to work with three people who are this talented individually, but in Carrie Okay they bring out something really special in each other. It’s an absolute joy to be a part of.”

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Steve Cropper & The Midnight Hour have released “My Angels Are Calling,” featuring Queen guitarist Brian May on lead vocals and ZZ Top’s Billy Gibbons on guitar.

The soulful ballad appears on Cropper’s posthumous album, Watching The Tide, which is out now via Provogue/Artone Label Group. The album was released following Cropper’s death in December 2025 at age 84.

“My Angels Are Calling” brings together Cropper, May and Gibbons, with May also writing the lyrics and co-writing the music. The song opens with the sound of waves before May takes over on vocals. Near the end of the track, May calls out, “Go Billy!” before Gibbons delivers the closing guitar solo.

“Brian is singing from Steve’s point of view,” producer Jon Tiven said of the song. “Looking back over his life and his road. It’s very powerful.”

May reflected on the collaboration and how the song changed following Cropper’s death.

“We were all incredibly sad at Steve´s passing, and I was already collaborating with Steve and his band on a track for this album. The backing track which Jon Tiven, producer of the album and a very old friend of mine, sent me includes Steve Cropper´s unmistakable riff in a style which has influenced us all massively over the years. As soon as Steve was gone, I could hear something different in my head – a tribute to Cropper himself. The way I saw it, I wanted to try to step into his mind at the moment when he knew it was time to move on. So in the track I´m attempting to speak with his voice, and I felt that spiritually he would find a way of bringing his usual optimism into play. In the song, the angels are calling, and it seems to me that, along with being grateful for his wonderful life, he would imagine heaven to be something like going back to sitting on the dock of the bay, a moment in time that he shared with Otis Redding creating that immortal hit, ‘Dock of the Bay’. Having Billy Gibbons play a spectacular solo for me is the final wonderful bonus to this experience. The whole band did a terrific job, and I´m very proud to be a part of it.”

The title Watching The Tide references one of the defining songs of Cropper’s career, Otis Redding’s 1967 classic “(Sittin’ On) The Dock of the Bay,” which Cropper co-wrote with Redding.

Cropper worked on the album with Tiven and Midnight Hour vocalist Roger C. Reale. Recording took place at Nashville’s historic RCA Studio C, with a band that included vocalist Ana Grosh, drummer Nioshi Jackson and engineer Eddie Gore on keyboards and percussion.

The album also features guest appearances from Eric Clapton and The Rolling Stones guitarist Ronnie Wood.

Wood contributes slide guitar to “Until Now.” According to Tiven, Wood quickly agreed to participate after hearing about the project.

“Ronnie Wood got back to me about 10 minutes after I sent off my email: ‘Oh, this looks like a lot of fun. I’ll jump in.’”

Clapton appears on “Ticket First,” the first song released from Watching The Tide. Tiven recalled telling Clapton after hearing his contribution, “Man, you just turned that song inside-out – I think we’re gonna have to give you a writer’s credit.”

Clapton responded, “Well, anything to get my name next to Steve Cropper’s…”

Cropper died on December 3, 2025. One of the most influential guitarists and songwriters in American music, he was a central figure in the sound of Stax Records as a member of Booker T. & the M.G.’s and as a session musician, songwriter and producer.

His credits included work with Redding, Wilson Pickett, Sam & Dave, Eddie Floyd and numerous other artists. In addition to co-writing “(Sittin’ On) The Dock of the Bay,” Cropper co-wrote classics including “In the Midnight Hour,” “Knock on Wood” and “Green Onions.”

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As it happens, yesterday was the 30th anniversary of Outkast’s beyond-classic sophomore album ATLiens, which still sounds futuristic today. As it happens, yesterday was also the day that Netflix announced André 3000, the more enigmatic half of Outkast, will appear in its forthcoming live-action series Scooby-Doo: Origins. Zoinks!

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Michael Bormann’s Jaded Heart have released a video single for the track ‘Stop Those Rainy Days‘ today. ‘South West‘ stands for melodic hard rock with strong guitars, catchy melodies and powerful choruses. The album combines classic elements of 80s hard rock with a modern production while maintaining the distinctive musical character of Michael Bormann. Following the […]

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(written by Islander) We have some history with the Kentucky band Tombstalker, starting with an article back in 2012 about metal in Kentucky (here), following that the next year (here) with a review of their self-titled EP, then including some commentary in 2015 about their fine and ferocious debut album Black Crusades, and then gleefully […]

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Posted on August 28th 2026, 4:44pm

James Marriott has announced a HUGE show taking place next month in the UK, and it’s going to be a one-off.

James will be taking over the iconic Brixton Academy in London on September 17, with support coming from Chloe Slater and Hannah Grae.

He had this to say about the announcement, stating, ““Brixton has been my dream venue for many years now, having seen a multitude of artists there that are so so important to me (including Tyler the Creator’s first show back in the UK). Years ago it was teased that we’d support another artist there and I remember crying with a member of the band thinking about playing on that stage.

To think now, a matter of years later, we’re not only playing it, but headlining it, is astoundingly special to me. It’s been in the works for a while now, and I couldn’t be happier to be sharing the news with people. It’ll be a celebration of everything that brought me here, and multiple pointers to the future of my solo project.”

Tickets will be on sale from 10am on September 04.

James kicked off 2026 with the release of a sensational track, that being ‘California Rain’. Here it is, as a treat.

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The group previously found themselves in a similar situation with their cover of “Zombie”.

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