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Irish guitarist, singer, and songwriter Gráinne Duffy talks about growing up working in her parents’ shop and fuel station and why she believes having something to say matters more than playing great.

From the mind of Curran Reynolds and the efforts of several collaborators comes Body Stuff, a NYC-based hard rock project spanning several regions of sonic territory. When I listen to the new song, “Sacrifice,” a plethora of reminders come to me, from the proto- and early punk of the CBGBs-era, 80s post-punk and New Wave, and even some post-hardcore. It’s a very New York City sound, one that Reynolds seeks to channel into his second full-length album, Body Stuff 5, due out on October 16.

According to Reynolds, the song is “about crossing the line, the point of no return, the beauty of sacrificing for something you love.” He goes on to describe the music video itself:

“I made this music video one morning after watching Jean Cocteau’s film, Blood of a Poet. I loved the scene in that film where the artist is peeping in keyholes in the hotel and I woke up wanting to replicate that. As fate would have it, my building here in Brooklyn was built in the 1850s and one of the doors in my apartment has the most perfect, iconic keyhole.”

Although this kind of noise isn’t exactly standard-fare for many readers, it would be worth looking through that keyhole to add to — and enhance — your musical world. The song is genuinely cool and engaging, and makes me want to check out the rest of Body Stuff. It’s the kind of thing you want to convince the DJ to put on at an 80s night party! Beyond any sort of nostalgia, though, it does present a more promising and daring vision for hard rock than most of what’s left out there. (Also, fun fact, Reynolds was the drummer on Today is the Day‘s excellent 2011 album, Pain Is a Warning.)

You can keep up with the project on Instagram or Bandcamp.

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Decessus – the Chilean death metallers whose vocalist was crowned Miss World Chile – make their UK debut at Download 2026

The Los Angeles-based fearsome foursome Buckets are back with their long-awaited full length sophomore album, Horse To Water. The tracklist of

The Halestorm frontwoman led the glam metal stars for a handful of shows in 2024

It’s still so beatuful that this happened — all of it, every bit. On Saturday night, the city of New York exploded into collective euphoria when the New York Knicks defeated the San Antonio Spurs to win their first NBA Championship in 53 years, thanks to a heroic 45-point performance from future Hall Of Famer Jalen Brunson. You don’t have to be a Knick fan to love that. You just have to love watching collective joy in action — video after video of fans flooding the streets, hanging from streetlights, hugging strangers, blaring Jadakiss. It’s been many, many years since I lived in NYC, and I never claimed the Knicks, but I was elated.

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Steve Hackett and Steve Rothery’s collaborative instrumental guitar album, The Roaring Waves, will be released in August

Two titans of progressive music, Steve Hackett (Genesis) and Steve Rothery (Marillion), come together for the first time on ‘The Roaring Waves’ – Seven instrumental tracks that range from the dexterously ridiculous to the brilliantly sublime, though with one common theme: the profundity of the sea. As Rothery explains: “In winter you could hear the roaring of the of the waves during the stormy weather, Whitby was a very evocative place to live, a very poetic and powerful place to grow up.”

The record has been much talked about over the years, and it will now finally see the light of day on the 28th August 2026 via InsideOutMusic.

‘The Roaring Waves’ has been in the making for the best part of eight years, though the initial idea of the pair making an album together was first mooted around three years before that, but their respective day jobs and touring itineraries kept them from working together for months at a time. Though recording sessions at the Racket Club, and their respective home studios yielded a rich seam of creativity. “It was a bit old school our approach, like the idea of mates getting together in the garage and playing and hanging out” says Hackett of their approach to creativity.

‘The Roaring Waves’ will be available to pre-order from the 26th June, and that date will also mark the first time fans will be able to hear and see what the album is all about, with a first single release.

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St. Louis, Missouri’s Iron Linings formed in 2020 and quickly recorded a debut EP which attempted to meld

One of the biggest hits of Sundance was The Invite, an anxious so-called comedy about a dinner party gone awry directed by Olivia Wilde, with a cast led by Wilde, Seth Rogen, Edward Norton, and Penélope Cruz and a script by Will McCormack and Rashida Jones. That film was acquired by A24, and it’s coming out next month. Sooner than that, we’ll get to hear its original score, composed by the great Devonté Hynes.

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