This weekend, Damon Albarn makes his long-awaited SNL debut with Gorillaz. Ryan Gosling will serve as host, and the promo came out today, with the English frontman mostly stone-faced with no lines.
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Mais je suis à personne
Prends ce poison, mon amour
San Francisco’s Pink Stiletto come crashing in with the smeared-lipstick glamour of a nightclub riot half-buried in the fog of memory, dragging the cold chrome of early EBM, mutant synth-pop, and grubby continental club decadence into the present tense with the bonkers Bananza, a track that feels dubbed from a contraband cassette passed hand to hand behind the venue while the city outside coughs up bad news and broken promises. You can hear the old blood in it: Depeche Mode’s sleek unease, Cabaret Voltaire’s diseased disco intellect, Chris & Cosey’s erotic abrasion, DAF’s body-punch propulsion – but Pink Stiletto yank the bolts loose, hotwire the whole machine, and send it careening down the street with the headlights blown out.
The song moves with a strict, marching throb, a beat built for bodies that have seen too much and still insist on cutting a rug. There’s a tart splash in the synth lines, something wired and slightly wicked. The group calls it a reaction to the present state of things: the killing, the hate, the control, the sickness of public life spreading from screen to skin, and that charge runs through every second of it. Here, the dance floor becomes a place where dread gets burned off through repetition, where panic is drilled into rhythm until the body remembers a freedom the world keeps trying to price out, police, or pin to the wall for inspection.
The video catches that spirit beautifully by keeping it rough around the edges. Shot like a lo-fi camcorder spree outside a factory, it has the feel of an illicit gathering assembled out of instinct and nerve. People move as if they’re trying to outpace the century. The industrial backdrop gives the whole thing a hard, ugly majesty, all Brutalist concrete indifference and mechanical fatigue, while the dancing keeps punching holes through the gloom. Sean McGuirk’s editing and animation preserve the tape-scarred immediacy instead of sanding it down, so the clip lands with the right amount of beautiful damage.
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That rawness matters because Bananza was self-produced, programmed, and recorded to tape, and you can tell. There’s no sterile showroom gleam here, just pressure, personality, and a sense of contact between hands, machines, and nerves. Tobias Lill’s mix and master keep the track lean and dangerous. Minh Tran’s photography and Soft Power Design’s visuals complete the package with style to burn.
With a 7-inch due in April through Bretford Records and Cuerdas Fuera Records, plus a summer EU run in the works, Pink Stiletto sounds like they’ve found the sweet spot where panic, pleasure, and public collapse all learn to move in step.
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Metallica add February 2027 dates to their Sphere residency, bringing the total to 20 shows as Ticketmaster addresses a “targeted attack.”
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South Philadelphia put Bobby Rydell in front of an audience early, and he learned fast how to win a room. Raised in the Lower Moyamensing neighborhood, he started out as a kid who mimicked singers he saw on television. When he was seven, his father took him around Philadelphia clubs to ask if he could sing and do impersonations. By eight, that reputation carried him to the national television talent show TV Teen Club, where he won a contest and was recruited by bandleader Paul Whiteman, a run that lasted for several years and also gave him the stage name
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The Amity Affliction continues to tease the arrival of their much-anticipated new studio record, House Of Cards, with the reveal of a blistering new single, “Bleed”.
Released as the band continues their extensive tour of regional Australia, the latest from The Amity Affliction lands with impact: A ferocious stride forward for the group into a brand new era of artistry.
Where previous single House Of Cards was an emotionally weighted insight into the relationship songwriter Joel Birch and his siblings shared with their mother, “Bleed” has manifested itself into an avenue for Birch to look at public perceptions and personas, versus the reality he exists in every day.
As he explains: “This song is a bit of a ‘fuck you’ to people online who leave comments like they know me personally, or know anything about what’s happening in my life, and a bit of a reminder to myself that I am not beholden to that idea, and I am the person I know myself to be. ‘I bleed the way I bleed…’ is my way of saying that I am the way I am not the way I am perceived to be by people who don’t actually know me and have formed or projected an idea of me onto me by way of social media.”
The release of “Bleed” further positions the House Of Cards era as one of the most exciting and defining for The Amity Affliction — a band that has been driven by the desire to navigate new creative territory, music that empowers both them as a unit as well as their community of fans who have been with them throughout all their previous chapters.
House Of Cards, the first full-length record to feature clean vocalist Jonny Reeves, is a moment of reinvention — and it is one the band is set to unleash in its full glory across a jam packed year of international touring to come.
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Words and photos by: JD Punisher Special thank you to Live Nation The turn of the century saw many things, worldwide panic due to the Y2K bullshit, Spongebob premiered, we got a new Star Wars movie, Michael Jordan retired from the NBA a second time and the world sat and watched the President of the […]Podré jugar tu juego
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After ten years away, BOCANEGRA return triumphantly with a new video for Charlemagne, a track that shoves its way into the room with real purpose. Carlos Bocanegra sets sensual vocals against a brutal mechanical drive, and the tension between those forces gives the song its charge. It feels feverish, cornered, and fully aware of the polite illusions people build to keep power intact.
Charlemagne‘s bite comes from the way it wraps seduction around dread. The song stares straight at manipulation, at the soft smile that conceals the knife, at the fantasy fed to the vulnerable until they begin to suffocate inside it. You can hear a mind waking up in real time, tracing the outline of the trap, clocking the machinery, recognizing how hope gets dressed up, paraded around, and then strangled in the back room. That realization gives the track its emotional voltage. This is not abstract doom for the sake of atmosphere. This is social poison with a pulse.
Because Bocanegra is sung in Spanish, the track adds another layer of tension and urgency that hits the gut before the brain catches up. The words carry the claustrophobia of immigrant life in a country that sells fantasy while grinding people down under it. Charlemagne catches that feeling of being cornered by a system that smiles while it starves you, then turns the pressure into motion. The song understands the dance floor as a site of release, maybe even conspiracy, a place where the body remembers something the obedient mind nearly forgot.
The old touchstones are there if you want them: Nine Inch Nails, Skinny Puppy, Front Line Assembly – even a little INXS’s Michael Hutchence peeks through, but BOCANEGRA are not playing museum curator with industrial relics. They sound like people with history in their blood and current in their nerves, people who know the old machines because they have lived beside them and still found a new way to make them spit sparks. Martin Atkins’ orbit makes sense here; Bocanegra has that same instinct for collision, for beauty under duress, for rhythm as threat and invitation at once.
There is also something downright exhilarating in the song’s turn toward uprising. Beneath all the suffocation and psychic rot, Charlemagne keeps one eye on the people still hidden away, waiting for the right second to step forward and wreck the calm of their oppressors. That tension gives the track its real charge. BOCANEGRA have returned with a song that feels dangerous in the proper sense: alive, alert, and ready to kick a hole in the painted wall.
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BOCANEGRA will be playing with Die Krupps and Ghost Bells in March.
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German guitar wizard Axel Rudi Pell released “Guillotine Walk,” a new digital single and lyric video today. The song is taken from the upcoming studio album Ghost Town.
Axel Rudi Pell says: “The walk to the scaffold! The last thoughts of a condemned man… musically melancholic yet driving and full of power! A great opener for the album and one of my favorite songs!”
Ghost Town will be released on March 20 through Steamhammer worldwide in the following configurations:
The album is available to pre-order here.
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