Happy Canada Day! Every year on July 1, Canada celebrates the anniversary of the Canadian Confederation, which brought together the provinces of Canada, Nova Scotia, and New Brunswick into a single unified country. One person celebrating is Bryan Adams, the veteran rock singer-songwriter and proud Canuck.
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Human decency: nice idea, shame about the species.
Florida sludge miscreants Crud have never sounded especially optimistic, but on “Demiurge Blues,” the first single from their forthcoming sophomore album Human Decency, the band returns sounding less like they crawled out of the swamp than like they were dragged back into it with a grudge. The track marks Crud’s first new music since 2019, and while six years of jobs, marriages, kids, distance, and the usual indignities of continued existence might soften a lesser band, Crud appear to have used the time away to make their sludge uglier, stranger, and more purposeful.
Born in Miami in 2015 as a stripped-down two-piece featuring Julie Mejia on bass and Mariel Zayas-Bazan on drums, Crud gradually mutated into their current form with guitarist Kris Garcia and vocalist Andy S. Their early material leaned primitive and confrontational, but Human Decency finds the band working with a broader sense of movement: still low, still mean, still very much allergic to polish, but more dynamic in the way it shifts between crawl, rupture and collapse.
“Demiurge Blues” is a fitting reintroduction. It doesn’t simply lumber; it lurches, convulses, and changes shape, dragging old-school sludge weight through something more frantic and ’90s-scarred. Thematically, the song takes aim at creation, power, and divinity itself, which is about as cheerful as you’d hope from a band returning after half a decade to remind everyone that the world did not, in fact, get better while they were gone.
“Our older material lumbers, but this track is more dynamic, playing with tempo and styles in a way that reads more like a narrative of influences,” says drummer Mariel Zayas-Bazan. “It’s like a eulogy of sludge poured over something raw and urgent from the ’90s. The unexpected arc is what makes it exciting, while still feeling like us.”
Human Decency arrives this September via Totem Cat Records. The album was recorded, mixed, and mastered by Jonathan Nuñez of Torche/Shitstorm at Sound Artillery Studio, with the band emphasizing immediacy over polish and tracking the core of the record in two days. Crud will also join Dopethrone and Fister for a short Southeast run in September, where audiences can experience these new songs at an appropriately unsafe volume.
Listen to “Demiurge Blues” below.
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Cult New York hard rock legends Warrior Soul have announced their 2026 UK Tour, celebrating the 35th Anniversary of their landmark album Drugs, God and […]
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This Week Marks The 54th Roskilde Festival by Alex Maiolo It actually started 55 years ago, but perhaps you remember when the world shut down, recently? Even the world’s most consistently operating music festivals were impacted. Well, especially them. Roskilde Festival at 54 : a celebration Build It And They Will Come In 1971 a […]
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Split Chain have revealed that they have put together a new version of their debut album ‘motionblur’, featuring a whole host of special guests.
‘motionblur’ [DELUXE] will be released on September 11 via Epitaph, and will feature every track from the record rework with guest appearance from a band or artists that Split Chain adore.
The band had this to say about the project:
“We get that everyone interprets music in their own way, and so we invited a bunch of mates to feature across the album, so that we could hear their individual interpretations of the songs. It came out so much better than we could have even hoped, and we truly believe the work and energy that every person has done on every song is incredible. The cast of names on this version on this album is sick, and we know people are gonna love it just as much as we do. We’re so incredibly grateful to every single artist that has helped the deluxe become a reality and we genuinely can’t wait to hear what everybody thinks.”
The full tracklisting looks like this:
1. Under The Wire
2. bored. tired. torn
3. I’m Not Dying To Be Here
4. Rookie
5. who am i?
6. SPIT
7. greyintheblue
8. The Space In Between
9. Subside
10. Headway
11. my mistake…
12. untitled [DLX]
13. sylvia (i won’t belong to you)
14. scatterbrain
15. Under The Wire [DLX] (featuring Day Aches)
16. bored. tired. torn. [DLX] (featuring Concealer)
17. I’m Not Dying To Be Here [DLX] (featuring Slow Degrade)
18. Rookie [DLX] (featuring whither)
19. who am i? [DLX] (featuring Commoner)
20. SPIT [DLX] (featuring False Reality)
21. greyintheblue [DLX] (featuring Ritual)
22. The Space In Between [DLX] (featuring postdrome)
23. Subside [DLX] (featuring Nodding Off)
24. Headway [DLX] (featuring Roman Candle)
25. my mistake… [DLX] (Zetra version)
26. untitled [DLX] (featuring Grove Street)
Whilst the new artwork for the record looks like this:
You can also hear two of the new DLX tracks right, being ‘SPIT’ which features False Reality’s Rachel Rigby and ‘Headway’ which features Roman Candle’s Piper Ferrari.
The band had this to add about what both bring to the table, stating, “Asking both Piper and Rachel to feature on these songs was an absolute no brainer for us. We’re all such big fans of what they do in their own bands and we were so excited to see how they would interpret these songs. Not only that, but being able to have features from bands in both the US and UK scene is so sick.
They both have such distinctive, dynamic and incredible voices and hearing how their own natural flair sits so well in these songs is legitimately insane. They’ve genuinely done the songs incredible amounts of justice, and their unique takes on each have really elevated the songs to a point where they now sit comfortably as their definitive versions. We couldn’t be happier with how the songs have turned out and we’re so excited to be able to tour with them in September.”
As the band mentioned, they will be touring with both bands as support later this year. Here are the dates you need to know:
SEPTEMBER
18 – SOUTHAMPTON The Joiners
19 – BIRMINGHAM The Flapper
20 – MANCHESTER The Deaf Institute
22 – GLASGOW G2
23 – LEEDS Boom
24 – BRISTOL Exchange
25 – LONDON Underworld
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US prog rockers The Mars Volta have announced that they will release a new live album, Lucro Sucio; Unfinished Business, as a digital release on September 4 and as a physical release on October 16.
The band have also shared their brand new single, Cue The Sun/Alba del Orate, which you can listen to below.
The new live album, the band’s first official live release since 2005’s Scabdates, was the result of an interactive campaign which allowed the band’s fans access to live recordings from their 2025 tour, featuring audio previews from multiple live recordings and a voting mechanism that allowed fans to choose which specific performances make the final cut for the album.
Lucro Sucio; Unfinished Business will be available across three distinct configurations, allowing physical collectors to choose between a Special Edition CD Digipak or a limited Edition 2LP vinyl set to be released on October 16, as well as a launch on all major streaming platforms as a digital album enhanced with Dolby Atmos spatial audio on September 4.
Pre-order Lucro Sucio; Unfinished Business.
Never one to do things by halves, David Bowie threw himself the 50th birthday party to end all 50th birthday parties in January1 997, when he staged a show at New York’s Madison Square Garden at which he was joined by a dazzling array of special guests for a once-in-a-lifetime journey through his incredible back catalogue.
The evening saw Bowie share the stage with Smashing Pumpkins Billy Corgan, The Cure’s Robert Smith, Sonic Youth’s Kim Gordon, Foo Fighters, Lou Reed and more, and the celebrations also ended up having an unintended effect on The Cure’s long-term line-up.
Bowie’s Musical Director at the time was Reeves Gabrels, his former Tin Machine bandmate, and it fell upon the Staten Island-born guitarist to make sure each guest joining Bowie onstage had learned their parts ahead of time. Not everyone got the personal touch that he afforded to Robert Smith, however, as Gabrels told this writer in 2021, recalling that the pair ended up going on a three-day drinking bender in New York.
We’ll let the man himself pick up the tale…
“Robert [Smith] was the last one that I got together with,” Gabrels explained. “He came into New York on the Wednesday evening, we got together, we were talking, went through the songs and it was pretty obvious he had done his homework. He was spot on.”
Rather than congratulate themselves on a good night’s work , shake hands and head off to get some solid beauty sleep ahead of rehearsals for the star-studded, prestigious gig which had brought them together, the two musicians instead decided to hit the town together.
“We decided to go out to get a drink,” recalled Gabrels, somewhat underplaying the events to come. “The next thing I remember, it’s Friday, early afternoon and we’re sitting in the lobby of the hotel we were staying in, and we both looked at each other and said, ‘I think we should go to bed now, it’s time for us to get some rest before rehearsals.’ And so he went back to his room and I went back to mine and then late Saturday morning, we got on a tour bus that took us to New Haven to do rehearsals. There’s two days missing from my life. Apparently, we had a really good time!”
They may not remember the specifics of this epic bonding session, but the pair obviously got on incredibly well, to the point where,15 years later, Smith would invite Gabrels to become The Cure’s guitarist, a position the American musician still holds today. We wouldn’t necessarily recommend that you try to steer your next job interview towards a 48-hour sesh with your prospective boss, but if it happens, stay positive, because, undoubtedly, trust, respect and the ability to get on it without a second thought can be seen as admirable qualities even outside the music industry, we’ve heard.
Just don’t blame us if things go tits up, okay? Cheers.