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THUNDEROR is gearing up for a major moment this June as they bring their high‑energy arena‑rock metal to NXNE, performing June 13 at Bovine Sex […]

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Curse Mackey‘s remix of Jet Cemetery’s Melt Away from The Canary takes the track into a smeared, fluorescent zone where the beat seems to have learned how to levitate while still dragging one boot through the dirt. The track carries the chill of Fever Ray, the low-lit pressure of Massive Attack, and the sleek narcotic drift of Air, but its bloodline runs deeper than reference points. Jet Cemetery’s world is built from Detroit techno’s Black joy, sci-fi dread, fantasy portals, and indigenous meditations on the border between life and death, and Mackey treats that material like unstable matter glowing in his hands.

“Remixing Jet Cemetery was one of those rare experiences where I became a conduit for something that was already waiting to be uncovered,” says Curse Mackey. “The process carried its own momentum, as if the remix already existed somewhere and I was simply helping bring it into the world. What emerged was a dreamy, delightful ghost of the original.”

Mackey has pulled Jet Cemetery sideways, into a room where the walls breathe, and the floor keeps time. The remix moves with strange grace, bruised glamour, and enough psychic static to make Melt Away feel reborn under alien lamps. Mackey keeps the body of the song moving, yet everything around it feels slightly unmoored: vocals drift through the mix like a signal from a closed club on another planet, rhythms bend and bloom, and the production gives each texture the uneasy glow of a memory trying to mutate into prophecy. There is an acid-bath elegance to it, a silvered throb that makes the remix feel both ceremonious and beautifully damaged.

“This remix is Jet Cemetery in another dimension – in Curse’s universe, which runs parallel to our own,” say Jet Cemetery. “Curse is an artist and producer that we have a deep admiration and respect for, and we are honored by his creation. We envision more collaborations in the future.”

The video, directed, filmed, and edited by TaSzlin Trébuchet, follows Jet Cemetery and Mackey through a psychedelic travelogue of performance, tour motion, and strange arrival. TaSzlin Trébuchet and Lars Wolfshield appear caught between stage presence and astral tourism, wandering through collaged images that behave like dream fragments: places glimpsed through a dirty windshield, faces dissolving into color, bodies suspended in the blur between destination and hallucination. The result has the loose fever of a road movie shot by someone who trusts distortion more than exposition.

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Kentucky southern rock mainstays Black Stone Cherry have announced that their highly anticipated “An Evening With” headline tour has been rescheduled to January and February 2027. Originally planned for an autumn run, the extensive trek has also been expanded with five brand-new shows—including stops in Sheffield, Bournemouth, and Frome—bringing the monumental anniversary tour to a … Continue reading Black Stone Cherry reschedule ‘An Evening With’ UK and Ireland tour to early 2027 with extra dates

After nearly five decades together, Soft Cell are preparing to draw the curtain on one of British pop’s most enduring and influential partnerships. Marc Almond and Dave Ball’s sixth studio album, Danceteria, will also be their last.

Conceived as a farewell to a city that helped define them, Danceteria traces a loose passage through early-1980s New York, moving from after-dark excess through dawn-lit reflection and back towards the dancefloor. The album revisits a period that proved formative for both Almond and Ball, who recorded their first three albums in the city and absorbed its particular mix of glamour, danger, decadence and possibility. Across its songs, Soft Cell channels that atmosphere with a sense of scale, humor, and hard-won perspective, bringing together sweeping pop architecture and richly detailed scene-setting.

Long before Soft Cell borrowed its name for a final bow, Danceteria stood as one of downtown New York’s great nocturnal institutions, a club where pop, art, fashion, film, and fame collided beneath one roof. Founded in 1980 by Rudolf Piper and Jim Fouratt, it became a multi-floor playground for live music, DJs, video installations, and exhibition space, treating the nightclub as a cultural laboratory rather than a room with a bar and a sound system. Its celebrated West 21st Street incarnation became a crucial meeting point for new wave, post-punk, hip-hop, and downtown art, hosting New Order, Soft Cell, The Smiths, Run-D.M.C., and Madonna, while Keith Haring, Jean-Michel Basquiat, and Dianne Brill moved through its glittering orbit. Brill, married to Piper, became the club’s unofficial queen and social ambassador, connecting the dancefloor to fashion, art, media, and celebrity culture with lacquered confidence.

That sense of place sits at the center of Danceteria, Soft Cell’s sixth and final studio album. For Marc Almond and Dave Ball, early 1980s New York was more than scenery. It was where the pair recorded their first three albums, absorbed the city’s pleasure, danger, and dirty glamour, and sharpened the Soft Cell language into something elegant, excessive, and sly.

“Danceteria is a love letter to early 1980s New York,” says Marc Almond. “The time we spent there – recording our first three albums – shaped us both as artists and as people. Celebrating that period felt like the right farewell for Dave Ball and the final Soft Cell studio album.”

The album now carries an extra emotional charge. Ball co-wrote and co-produced Danceteria, completing work on it only two days before his death on 22 October 2025. Those closest to the project chose to honour Ball’s wishes by keeping the release exactly as planned. The result is a farewell finished on its creators’ own terms, a final document of a partnership that lasted 47 years and altered British pop with wit, sleaze, vulnerability, and strange glamour.

For Almond, Ball’s absence closes the door on future Soft Cell recordings.

“There can be no more Soft Cell recordings without Dave – it simply wouldn’t be possible,” he says. “The sad truth is that Dave Ball was half of Soft Cell, and apart from performing live, I can’t write Soft Cell songs without him.”

The title track opens the album with a disco-pop rush and a stream of consciousness delivery of fond memories of the place, paired with a joyously odd video by collage artist Vicki Bennett. Its underground glamour brings to mind Dennis Parker, John Sex, and the art-damaged end of Manhattan disco, while Almond’s voice rides over Ball’s John Barry-styled minor chords with theatrical bite.

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Due September 25th 2026, via Republic of Music, Danceteria will be released on vinyl and CD, with the CD edition expanded to 14 tracks through the bonus cuts Crackland and What Is Your Morality.

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The plot ripens.

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Fresh from the huge success of his unforgettable 2025 appearance, Grammy Award-winning singer-songwriter Leo Sayer is heading back to the legendary Mundi Mundi Bash in 2026 after winning over thousands of music fans in the Australian outback. Festival organisers have already hailed him as one of the standout performers from last year’s event, making his return one of the most anticipated moments of this year’s Bash.

In this wide-ranging conversation, Leo takes us back to the very beginning of his remarkable journey, reflecting on his earliest days in the music industry, the songs and artists that inspired him, and the experiences that helped shape one of the most enduring careers in popular music. We also dive into his memorable appearance on The Muppet Show, where he performed alongside some of television’s most beloved characters during the height of his international success.

Along the way, Leo shares stories from more than five decades in music, discusses what makes the Mundi Mundi Bash such a special event, and reveals the one song he most wishes he had written himself. It’s a fascinating chat with a true music icon whose passion for performing remains as strong as ever.

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Only five shows.

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