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  • Festival Review: 2000 Trees 2026 Day 2 – Thursday 9th July

    Discoveries, Goosebumps & Main Stage Magic After easing into the festival on Wednesday, Thursday was when 2000 Trees really began to feel fully alive. The sun was already making its presence known, but nothing was stopping people from heading out early, grabbing a coffee, and diving straight into another day of discovering new music. One … Continue reading Festival Review: 2000 Trees 2026 Day 2 – Thursday 9th July

  • Flotsam and Jetsam’s ‘Rats In The Temple’ Proves Thrash Metal Still Has Teeth — Album Review

    Flotsam and Jetsam’s “Rats In The Temple” is a fierce, focused thrash metal triumph, proving the veteran band still has plenty of fire left after nearly four decades.

    The post Flotsam and Jetsam’s ‘Rats In The Temple’ Proves Thrash Metal Still Has Teeth — Album Review appeared first on Audio Ink Radio.

  • Premiere; ELECTRIC STATE ‘After The Fall’

    After having a bit of fun with the Mandalorian-inspired This Is The Way, Perth rockers Electric State get back down to business with the blistering After The Fall, the debut single from their forthcoming second album, Standing On The Edge, due for release on January 8, 2027 via XMusic. What do you do After The […]

  • Complete List Of Rolling Stones Songs From A to Z

    Complete List Of Rolling Stones Songs From A to Z

    The Rolling Stones’ catalog stretches from early rhythm-and-blues covers and British Invasion singles to country, psychedelia, soul, funk, hard rock, live recordings, archival outtakes, Hackney Diamonds, and the 2026 album Foreign Tongues. This complete A-to-Z guide gathers studio songs, B-sides, reissue tracks, live performances, promotional recordings, bonus tracks, and unreleased titles spanning more than six decades. The Rolling Stones formed in London in 1962 and developed a sound rooted in American blues, rhythm and blues, and early rock and roll. The classic early lineup featured Mick Jagger, Keith Richards, Brian Jones, Charlie Watts, and Bill Wyman, with pianist Ian Stewart

    The post Complete List Of Rolling Stones Songs From A to Z appeared first on ClassicRockHistory.com.

  • Amplifier Heads – Super 8


    Smack dab in the middle of this most wonderful year for music — a year in which many have observed that real deal rock ‘n’ roll has come back with a vengeance — it seems fitting that we would be treated to a new full-length album from The Amplifier Heads. Super 8 releases tomorrow on the world-famous Rum Bar Records. It is, by my count, the band’s sixth LP. And it’s almost certainly the finest effort yet from Sal Baglio and friends. It’s essentially a sonic journey through rock ‘n’ roll history — a history that is, in fact, still being written. As you would expect from an Amplifier Heads album, the menu is packed with a variety of popular flavors. You’ll hear hints of everything from the blues and first generation rock ‘n’ roll to the British Invasion to garage rock to power pop to glam rock to the Rolling Stones to OG punk rock. If the firecracker opening track “Rock N’ Roll Riot” had been the whole record, Baglio could have dropped the mic and declared victory. But that’s just a starting point, and Super 8 keeps on bringing the hits. Life is too short to waste on filler. 

    Off the bat, “Rock N’ Roll Riot” is a pure jolt of raucous energy to get you moving and shaking and dominating your day. It literally starts at the beginning — time-traveling back to the Moondog Coronation Ball in Cleveland in 1952 and rocketing forward into the world-altering sonic explosion that soon followed. On the sexy and sticky-sweet “Hot Stars,” the time machine stops off in the early ’70s for a rendezvous with Marc Bolan. “A Song Called Sha La La” takes it back to the ’60s and slyly pilfers a melody from The Troggs. Baglio, as he longs for someone out there to write another timeless rock ‘n’ roll radio smash, proceeds to will that very thing into existence. Just like that, you’ve got an opening 1-2-3 punch that few albums will ever beat. But wait! There’s more! “They Don’t Dance Anymore” is a reflective ballad longing for a time when rock ‘n’ roll ruled the airwaves and all the kids still knew how to groove. “A Girl Named Chop Suey” is kickin’ livewire garage rock that winks and nods in the direction of “Louie Louie.” “Can’t Put My Finger On It,” which is a little bit country and a whole lot of rock ‘n’ roll, is an earworm of master class status. “Superstar” sounds like the best song Dave Edmunds never wrote. “Hot Wax” takes us back to a moment in time when rock ‘n’ roll was climbing mischievously out of the womb of rhythm and blues — a suitable last stop on this full circle journey through time and sound. 

    It’s hard not to look back at last year’s tremendous Peppermint Kicks album Pop Rocks In My Chewing Gum (which Baglio co-authored) and note that Super 8 seems to have been made from the same magical stuff. Sometimes The Amplifier Heads sound like an intergalactic rock machine, but on this record, they’re sticking to Planet Earth and the scorching sounds that pumped new life into it in the latter half of the 20th century. As a songwriter, Baglio has never sounded more inspired. Joined by Kevin “King” Rapillo on drums and Brad Hallen on bass (along with some special guest stars on a few tracks), he exemplifies everything that rock ‘n’ roll ought to be and still can be. There’s no need for bells and whistles when you can conjure this sort of glorious and rousing racket that comes roaring out of the garage and into the dive bars and dance halls. These guys truly put their soul into this record, and the joy is palpable in every note. This is the work of a child of the ’60s who fondly recalls the majestic past but isn’t resigned to being stuck in it. 

    Is Super 8 a throwback record? Yes and no. The whole point of all this time traveling is to remind ourselves why we still love rock ‘n’ roll and why we all remain so passionate about its preservation. All of you out there playing in bands, running labels, promoting music, buying records, hosting radio shows, writing reviews, and going out to see bands don’t even have to question why you do it. This is the music that sets our souls on fire. Who wants to live in a world without rock ‘n’ roll? Thankfully we’ll never have to (as the first half of 2026 has made evident). Gather ’round, true believers, and behold the gospel according to The Amplifier Heads!

  • Melvins’ Buzz Osborne Used To Tease Mike Patton For Faith No More Influencing Nü-Metal: “I’ll Take Nirvana And Soundgarden And You Can Have Limp Bizkit And Korn”

    “I mean the whole nü-metal thing to me it all sounded like Helmet ultimately. It just all sounded like Helmet.”

    The post Melvins’ Buzz Osborne Used To Tease Mike Patton For Faith No More Influencing Nü-Metal: “I’ll Take Nirvana And Soundgarden And You Can Have Limp Bizkit And Korn” appeared first on Theprp.com.

  • MSG Suing Wired Over Article Alleging Company Kept Database Of LGBTQIA Celebrities

    A week ago, Wired published a report alleging Madison Square Garden Entertainment Corp. maintains a database of LGBTQIA celebrities. At the time, MSG said they’d be suing Wired over the article. As promised, that lawsuit was filed today.

    The post MSG Suing <em>Wired</em> Over Article Alleging Company Kept Database Of LGBTQIA Celebrities appeared first on Stereogum.

  • LA DISPUTE Add Second Melbourne Show

    Conceptual band La Dispute has announced local supports for their No One Was Driving the Car Australian headline tour, which will be hitting our shores in October 2026. The band have also added a second show in Melbourne at 170 Russell on October 20, tickets are on sale now. La Dispute will be promoting their […]

  • Mayday: Air Disaster (2026)

    The corporate homsars got ahold of this one, so it has different names like “Air Crash Investigators” outside the JCSA, but this is a collaboration between Canadian filmmakers, the Smithsonian, and National Geographic that takes a Forensic Files approach to technical failures in aviation.

    Now, very little will displace Forensic Files as the best television program ever made, but Mayday: Air Disaster follows the same format: backtrack from the event to the diagnosis to ultimately show us what really went wrong.

    Expect top-notch acting. These Canadian actors are probably dead from fent overdoses now, but they are quite talented, just not in the “Hollywood” way of being charismatic and vague. They act out not just the event, but the investigators who have to dig through the wreckage and find the cause.

    In that lies the appeal of this show: it is really a detective series or a horror movie masquerading as a documentary. The unknown strikes and a plane goes down; the detectives move in to use forensic methods (and ruthless interrogations) to figure out who screwed up and where, then fix it.

    You might notice that this completes the arc of not just horror, but westerns and detective fiction: something against which we are powerless appears, and we gradually learn enough to at least mostly defeat it. This also fits within the Forensic Files or American Detective world.

    Watchers of this program could not be blamed if they never get on a plane again, but the richness of technical detail, the clarity of the logical analysis, and the bravery of the people involved create an almost theological faith in function over appearance.

    Nothing else on television comes really close. This series is a confrontation between human solipsism and the whole of reality, and it shows us slowly winning the war against the limits in our heads.

  • Riot Fest Drops Wild List of William Shatner’s Rider ‘Demands’

    Riot Fest claims actor William Shatner has made a long list of demands ahead of his performance on the final day of this year's festival. Continue reading…