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Posted on September 18th 2026, 12:01pm

“Woke Up with a Knife,” the new single from Tender Ender, the moniker of Swiss artist Thomas Schmidiger, takes shape

New Orleans guitarist, singer and songwriter Eric Johanson has unveiled his new single, “Alligator Smile.” The track is the second single from his forthcoming album, The Open Bayou, due October 16 via Johanson’s Levee Ward Records.

“Alligator Smile” follows the August release of “Shake the Fever” and continues Johanson’s move toward a heavier sound while maintaining his blues and Louisiana roots. The track centers on a stripped-down power trio approach, incorporating elements of heavy rock, slide guitar and swampy grooves.

Johanson produced The Open Bayou himself, recording the album over three days while on tour with bassist Will Repholz and drummer Jake Gartenstein. Bill Skibbe, whose credits include Jack White, The Raconteurs and The Kills, mixed and mastered the record.

Throughout the album, Johanson expands on his blues foundation with fuzz guitar, slide and improvisation. The material moves between heavy rock, Louisiana-influenced grooves and more atmospheric territory while retaining the guitar-driven sound that has defined his previous work.

The Open Bayou follows Johanson’s 2023 album, The Deep and the Dirty, which reached No. 1 on Billboard’s Blues Albums chart. He followed that release with Live in Mississippi in 2025.

“Alligator Smile” arrives September 18, with The Open Bayou set for release October 16.

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Rising Los Angeles rockers Dirty Honey, have announced details of their third album. Catch My Butterfly is the follow-up to 2023’s Can’t Find the Brakes, and will be released via Dirt Records on January 15 next year.

The band have also released the first two songs from the album, the thumping anthem Lights Out and the poignant Butterfly.

“Lights Out was the first banger,” says guitarist John Notto. “It’s one of those rare times when I got the solo right on the demo! It’s only one flavour of the album though. There’s so much more.”

Butterfly, meanwhile, finds the band in reflective form. “There are addiction issues in my family,” says frontman Marc LaBelle. “I tried to write from a different perspective – either that of a father to an addicted child or the family member of an addict.

“In this scenario, you’re so overcome with worry about whether or not your loved one is alive or dead at any given moment. My thought was, ‘If you don’t get high, there’s no way that you’re going to catch this person who is so beautiful in your eyes, but so broken at the same time.'”

Catch My Butterfly was produced by John Feldman, frontman of LA punks Goldfinger, who has previously worked with Avril Lavigne, Yungblud, Blink-182, The Struts, Biffy Clyro and many more.

“I’m very proud of our perseverance,” says Labelle. “Any band has to really survive to make a third record. We’ve made mistakes in the studio, gotten over past regrets, lived more, and become better songwriters. All of those things snowballed into Catch My Butterfly.” “

“Catch My Butterfly shows the width of what we can do as musicians and songwriters,” added Smolian. “We’re no one-trick pony.”

Catch My Butterfly is available to pre-order now. Full tracklist below.

Dirty Honey formed in Los Angeles in 2017, and released their debut, self-titled album, in 2021. They’ve supported Guns N’ Roses, the Black Crowes, The Who, Kiss, Rival Sons and Alter Bridge, and in 2022 co-headlined the Young Guns American tour with Mammoth WVH.

Dirty Honey – Catch My Butterfly tracklist

1. Lights Out
2. If It’s Over
3. Numb
4. Wanderlust
5. Good For You
6. Butterfly
7. Good Times Gone
8. American Lies
9. Poison
10. Sweeter
11. No Way Out
12. New Blood
13. Lullaby
14. I Should’ve Known

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Anxious return today with their new single “Secret Weapon.” The single follows last month’s single “Don’t Move” and the two

C’mon Tigre return with “The Beautiful Glitch,” the new single from their forthcoming album LUMINA, due for release on October

Before Sunrise unfolds with remarkable patience, allowing atmosphere to do most of the talking. The sound of shoreline waves immediately establishes a sense of place, while a warm drone settles underneath and distant piano notes gradually emerge from the background. Nothing arrives too quickly, and that restraint gives every small change in texture and harmony a greater presence. The piece feels suspended between night and morning, with the organic sounds keeping it grounded while the electronic layers create a more dreamlike space around them. Rather than building toward a dramatic climax, Morouj lets the composition breathe, making subtle shifts in distance, tone and density feel like events in themselves. There is something quietly cinematic about the whole arrangement, but its strength lies in how natural and unforced it remains. Before Sunrise is ambient music at its most spacious, immersive and intimate.

A quiet place between darkness and daylight.

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Melrose Avenue have shared a sensational cover of Bring Me The Horizon’s ‘Drown’, released in collaboration with ‘Songs That Saved My Life’.

The Australian band have put their own stamp on the 2014 track, one that’s overspilling with raw emotion and passion.

Having been performing the cover at their live shows for a while now, there’s been a huge demand for an official recording of the band’s rendition, and it makes perfect sense that it arrives as part of the ‘Songs That Saved My Life’ project.

An initiative built around the songs that have played a vital role in the lives of both artists and fans, proceeds from the project are currently benefiting four charities: Crisis Text Line, Superbands, The Trevor Project, and To Write Love On Her Arms.

Take a listen to Melrose Avenue’s rendition of ‘Drown’ below.

Melrose Avenue are set to return to the UK and Europe for a run of shows beginning in January.

Here are all the dates:

JANUARY

27 DUBLIN Academy
28 BELFAST Limelight 2
30 GLASGOW The Garage
31 LEEDS The Key Club

FEBRUARY

01 MANCHESTER Club Academy
03 BIRMINGHAM Institute2
04 LONDON Electric Ballroom
06 UTRECHT Tivoli Vredenburg Pandora
07 ANTWERP Kavka Zappa
09 PARIS Trabendo
10 COLOGNE Live Music Hall
11 HAMBURG Gruenspan
12 COPENHAGEN Hotel Cecil
13 OSLO John Dee
14 STOCKHOLM Kollektivet Livet
16 HELSINKI Tavastia
17 TAMPERE Olympia
18 TALLINN Paavli Kultuurivabrik
19 RIGA Palladium
21 WARSAW Proxima
22 BERLIN Columbia Theater
24 PRAGUE Rock Café
25 VIENNA Flex
26 BUDAPEST Analog Music Hall
27 BOLOGNA Locomotiv Club

MARCH

01 ZURICH Dynamo
02 MUNICH Technikum
03 BARCELONA Razzmatazz 3
05 MADRID Revilive
07 LISBON República da Música

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Club Cactus, the duo formed by musicians Anthony Laguerre and Jean-Michel Pirès, presents “Ya Lil, Ya Sbleen,” taken from their album 3,