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  • “This is the new sound – it’s hyper, it’s energy, it’s urgent.” Nine Van Halen albums to listen to and one to avoid

    Van Halen albums have it all: One of the most innovative guitarists of all time, your choice of rock star frontmen, and great tunes
  • BEAU – Bonfires Of The Soul

    BEAU – Bonfires Of The Soul

    Cherry Red 2026 Not one to be nixed for heretical thought he’s been exhibiting over the years, the minstrel of Leeds leads a vicious assault on the woes shaped by our times. Being caustic is a typical modus operandi for … Continue reading

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  • “It’s like The Who channelling Cheap Trick, filled with catchy pop songs slathered with hard rock guitars.” How the folk songs of Pope John Paul II buried one of rock’n’roll’s great lost albums

    Signed by Heart’s management and to the same record label as the head of the Catholic Church, TKO toured with everyone from Cheap Trick and The Kinks to Foreigner and Van Halen: It wasn’t enough
  • Review HELL BOULEVARD “Made in Hell”

    “Made in Hell” is actually made in Helvetia, as the guys from Hell Boulevard are from Switzerland. Founded in 2014, the band made their debut in 2016 with an album called “Inferno”. Since then, the four-piece band has released two more albums, with “Made in Hell” marking their fourth release. Six years after revealing “Not… Continue Reading →
  • BETH HART Unveils A Special Digital Deluxe Edition Of ‘You Still Got Me’

    Photo: Greg Watermann

    The Grammy-nominated US powerhouse singer-songwriter Beth Hart extends an iconic chapter, announcing a special digital deluxe edition of her acclaimed 2024 album, You Still Got Me – set for release on 17 June via Provogue. Hart will also be sweeping across Europe, playing shows from May to July and returning again in November. A September tour of the U.S.A. will also soon be announced.

    Reinvigorating the record, the deluxe edition unlocks six tracks that were only previously available on a limited-edition box set, beginning with the jazzy blues sizzler, ‘Mean Ole Man Of Mine’.

    “Mean Ole Man Of Mine” tells the story of a girl drawn to a wild, larger-than-life man—someone rough, unpredictable, and unapologetically bold. He wears a cattail for a tie, not because of fashion, but because he just ripped the tail right off.  She wants a man that’s blowing people away in the alleyway – a real freakin’ pimp.

    The sultry groove of “Stuff For You” offers another slice of Beth Hart magic. The deluxe edition turns up the heat with extended versions of “Savior With A Razor,” featuring the unmistakable guitar firepower of Slash of Guns N’ Roses, along with “Wonderful World,” “Wanna Be Big Bad Johnny Cash,” and “Don’t Call The Police.”

    The original album made a powerful global impact, storming the charts at #1 on the US Billboard Blues Album chart, #1 on the UK Jazz & Blues chart, and Top 10 across Europe. With over 11 million streams worldwide, it stands as a testament to Hart’s magnetic artistry and enduring connection with audiences.

    Adding to the excitement, Hart will embark on a tour performing 39 shows across the UK, Germany, Italy, Greece, Sweden and beyond—bringing her electrifying, soul-baring live performances to stages across the continent.

    You Still Got Me, exemplifies her ability to seamlessly navigate across genres, breaking boundaries between blues, rock, and Americana. There were a number of singles from the original release; from the gritty, high-energy rocker ‘Savior With A Razor,’ featuring Guns N’ Roses’ Slash, to the tender ballad ‘Wonderful World,’ inspired by her family.  ‘Big Bad Johnny Cash’ track draws on the signature sound of Cash’s most iconic hits, blending Hart’s rich vocals with a steady, hypnotic groove that channels his rebellious spirit and the uplifting ‘Little Heartbreak Girl’ further highlights her knack for crafting empowering anthems that resonate with audiences.

    If you have ever seen Beth Hart live or immersed yourself in her music, you know she pours every ounce of herself into her songs. Firebrands inspire; it’s what attracts people to them. We all have our “Me” when she sings “You still got me” – a loved one, a friend, a pet, a place, a memory, a song. Beth Hart continues to inspire.

    Tracklisting
    1. Savior With A Razor ft. Slash
    2. Suga N My Bowl ft. Eric Gales
    3. Never Underestimate A Gal
    4. Drunk on Valentine
    5. Wanna Be Big Bad Johnny Cash
    6. Wonderful World 
    7. Little Heartbreak Girl,
    8. Don’t Call The Police
    9. You Still Got Me
    10. Pimp Like That
    11. Machine Gun Vibrato

    Bonus Track List:

    12. Savior With A Razor (feat. Slash) – Extended Version
    13. Wonderful World – Extended Version
    14. Mean Ole Man Of Mine
    15. Wanna Be Big Bad Johnny Cash – Extended Version
    16. Don’t Call The Police – Extended Version
    17. Stuff For You

    Beth Hart will be sweeping across Europe for a huge tour from May to July and November. A September 2026 tour in the U.S.A. to be announced soon.

    EUROPE
    MAY 4, 2026 –  Auditorium Parco della Musica – Roma, Italy
    MAY 7, 2026 –  Gran Teatro Geox – Padova, Italy
    MAY 9, 2026 – Dom Muzyki i Tanca – Zabrze, Poland
    MAY 11, 2026 – Hala Orbita – Wroclaw, Poland
    MAY 14, 2026 – The Beacon – Bristol, UK
    MAY 16, 2026 – Usher Hall – Edinburgh, UK
    MAY 18, 2026 – Royal Concert Hall Nottingham – Nottingham, UK
    MAY 20, 2026 – The Glasshouse International Centre for Music – Gateshead, UK
    MAY 24, 2026 – De Roma – Antwerp, Belgium
    MAY 26, 2026 – Rockhal –  Esch-sur-Alzette, Luxembourg
    MAY 28, 2026 – Prague Congress Centre – Prague, Czechia
    MAY 30, 2026 – Freiluftarena B – Graz, Austria
    JUNE 2, 2026 – De Roma – Antwerp, Belgium – sold out
    JUNE 4, 2026 – New Theatre Oxford – Oxford, UK
    JULY 1, 2026 – Lycabettus Theatre – Athens, Greece
    JULY 4, 2026 – Donaubühne – Tulln, Austria
    JULY 6, 2026 – Posthalle – Würzburg, Germany
    JULY 8, 2026 – Jahrhunderthalle – Frankfurt am Main, Germany
    JULY 10, 2026 – Parkbühne (Clara Zetkin Park) – Leipzig, Germany
    JULY 14, 2026 – COS Torwar – Warszawa, Poland
    JULY 16, 2026 – Veszprémfest 2026 – Veszprém, Hungary
    JULY 18, 2026 – “Yunak” stadium –   Sofia, Bulgaria
    JULY 21, 2026 – Schwabenhalle Augsburg – Augsburg, Germany
    JULY 23, 2026 – Z7 Open-Air – Pratteln, Switzerland
    JULY 25, 2026 – Winterbach Zeltspektakel – Winterbach, Germany
    JULY 27, 2026 – Stadthalle – Rostock, Germany
    JULY 29, 2026 – Seebühne Bremen – Bremen, Germany

    USA
    September 2026 tour in the U.S.A.

    EUROPE
    NOV 4, 2026 – Helsingin Jäähalli – Helsinki, Finland
    NOV 7, 2026 – B-K – Stockholm, Sweden
    NOV 9, 2026 – Sentrum Scene – Oslo, Norway
    NOV 11, 2026 – Fiskepiren – Stavanger, Norway
    NOV 13, 2026 – USF Verftet – Bergen, Norway
    NOV 16, 2026 – Falkoner Salen – Frederiksberg, Denmark
    NOV 18, 2026 – Musikhuset Aarhus – Århus, Denmark
    NOV 21, 2026 – Kuppelsaal IM HCC – Hannover, Germany
    NOV 23, 2026 – Leverkusener Jazztage – Leverkusen, Germany
    NOV 25, 2026 – LOKSCHUPPEN DILLINGEN – Dillingen/saar, Germany
    NOV 27, 2026 – Halle Münsterland – Münster, Germany
    NOV 29, 2026 – L’Olympia – Paris, France

    Tickets are available HERE.

    Beth Hart Online 
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  • Top 10 U2 Songs

    Formed in 1976 while at school in Dublin, U2 is an Irish rock band consisting of Bono (real name Paul Hewson, lead vocals), The Edge (real name David Evans, lead guitar), Adam Clayton (bass), and Larry Mullen Jr. (drums). The band was signed to Island Records a few years after forming and released its debut album, Boy, in 1980. At the turn of the decade, a new wave sound was developing that fell somewhere between the punk-inspired sounds of the Sex Pistols and the Ramones and the more pop-oriented sounds of Blondie and the Undertones. U2 did not follow the lead of that changing trend. The album’s opening track, “I Will Follow,”

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  • Berlin’s Güner Künier Unleashes Neue Deutsche Welle Mischief in Video for “Kes”

    Neue Deutsche Welle was never merely a genre tag; at its best, it was a license for mischief, machinery, and bad behavior. Güner Künier carries that lineage into Kes, a Berlin-born blast of clipped rhythm and crooked wit that struts into the old house of social obedience and starts kicking the furniture over.

    Künier, born in Izmir in 1990 and raised in Flensburg after her family moved to Germany when she was three, had already lived a few creative lives before arriving here: teenage bands, industrial engineering studies in Berlin, acting, then a jump into solo work in the early 2020s. That unlikely route gives Kes its charge. You can hear the compression in the track, all that pressure transformed into a sharp, gloriously unruly statement.

    The song works like a blade flashed under fluorescent light. The beat is insistent, mechanical in the best possible way, with that stern body language you get from classic DAF when the groove lands like a command barked across concrete. Around it, the synths jab and smear and squeal with the kind of pop perversity that suggests Nina Hagen after too much coffee, or Malaria! smuggling art-school menace into a back room with a broken drum machine and a stack of bad memories.

    Künier’s a knockout presence: she never sounds like she is delivering a slogan laminated for safe public display. She sounds alive to the insult, alive to the absurdity, alive to the old rotten scaffolding of patriarchal power and fully prepared to laugh in its face before setting a match to it. Kes is about autonomy, reclaiming speech, about making yourself heard in a world built to reduce women to decor, but it gets there with style, with speed, with a delicious sense of danger and cartoon exaggeration.

    That spirit carries straight into the video, directed and arranged by Magnus Krueger, with photography by Schwund & M.K., styling by Klara Johanna Michel, and a special guest appearance by Cosey Mueller. The clip plays like a bizarre romp through a heightened realm somewhere between Pee-wee’s Playhouse and The Twilight Zone, all goofy velocity and crooked glamour, with Künier moving through it like the only sane person in a rubber room. Behind the madness sits Fabio Buem’s production, engineering, mixing, and mastering, which keep every element lean, loud, and slightly unhinged.

    Kes feels like a public disruption. Bless it for that.

    Watch the video for Kes below:

    Listen to Kes via Spotify, or below, and purchase the single here.

    Upcoming shows include France, the UK, and Germany.

    • 24 Apr Laval, France · La Fosse TICKETS
    • 25 Apr Lannion, France · La Mutante – Manoir de Trorozec TICKETS
    • 26 Apr Saint-Brieuc, France · Bonjour Minuit TICKETS
    • 06 May Strasbourg, France · Strasbourg Music Week · Karmen Camina TICKETS
    • 14 May London, England · Shacklewell Arms TICKETS
    • 06 Jun Dunkirk, France · Fête d I’îlot · Les 4 Écluses TICKETS
    • 24 Jun Lärz, Germany · Fusion Festival SOLD OUT
    • 03 Jul Biel, Switzerland · Summer Fest · Terrain Gurzelen TICKETS
    • 18 Jul Attendorn, Germany · Gauklerfest (Stage 2) TICKETS
    • 07 Aug Heidelberg, Germany · Metropolink Festival für urbane Kunst TICKETS
    • 10 Sep Dortmund, Germany · subrosa
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