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When I connect withVampiro over Zoom, we’re already on brand before the interview even begins. His camera won’t work. Settings are broken, logo showing, no face. The man who spent decades wrapping himself in darkness, ritual and theatricality is now literally a disembodied voice. Somehow, it fits. We’re speaking ahead of what’s being billed as his final matchatJCW StrangleMania– a farewell wrapped in Juggalo chaos, underground mythology and punk spirit. It’s happening in Las Vegas, at a casino, with a crowd that has followed him through generations, evolutions and reinventions. Physically, he’s hurting. Mentally, he’s buzzing. “My body is kind…
By the time most bands reach their fourth album, they’re already talking about “eras,” reinventions and anniversary shows. Guided By Voicesare about to release their44th. At this point, the number barely registers as strange – it just feels like the natural outcome of a universe powered byRobert Pollard’s bottomless songwriting and a band that’s built to keep up. On the other end of a Monday connection – afternoon in New York, evening here in the UK –Doug Gillardtalks about that universe with the calm of someone who lives inside it every day. He’s the guitarist, arranger, songwriter and quietly crucial…
Credit: Ebru YildizListen to the first single to be taken from it below.Grammy-nominated singer-songwriter Tift Merritt has announced Sugar, her first album in nearly a decade, due out June 26th via One Riot which is described as “defining new chapter for the North Carolina-bred artist, long regarded as one of Americana’s most influential voices.”Merritt stepped largely out of the spotlight following her 2017 albumStitch of the World, turning her focus toward raising her daughter, serving as a Practitioner-in-Residence at Duke University, helping shape the hotel reinvention of The Gables in Raleigh, NC, and advocating for musician rights through the Artist…
Sola Rosa Returns With In The Mids A Full Circle Moment.After more than two decades of crafting genre blending soundscapes, Andrew Spraggon’s long running project Sola Rosa returns with its eighth studio album, In The Mids, arriving 10 April 2026.Across the years, Spraggon has refined a signature blend of electronic production, R&B, funk and soul, all grounded in hip hop’s rhythmic swing and a deep love of dance music. In The Mids builds on that DNA but pivots inward. This time it is more studio focused, more layered, and driven by groove and mood rather than live band dynamics.The album…
Gucci Mane drops a new song, “CRASH DUMMY”, addressing the recent controversy that Pooh Shiesty robbed him at gunpoint. Pooh Shiesty is still being held in federal custody while facing charges connected to an alleged armed robbery involving rapper Big30. Listen below: View Original Article Here
Polish artist and songwriter ALICJA steps forward with Pray. A multi-layered build where gospel roots, hip-hop weight, and pop structure converge into a performance designed for scale.Emerging from a 30-session studio process and a self-built choir recorded layer by layer, Pray – released via Tenace Records – moves beyond format. Shifting from stripped gospel intention into something more volatile and modern. The track now sits at the centre of ALICJA’s Eurovision run, carrying both personal narrative and broadcast ambition as it transitions from studio system to live staging. From early momentum across streaming, radio, and pre-party circuits to co-signs from…
CUPRA embeds the RAVAL inside Manchester’s live music system with Chase & Status and Lancey Foux, turning a city-scale premiere into a performance-led rollout across electronic and rap.CUPRA RAVAL Launch, ManchesterCUPRA shifts format. No showroom, no static reveal. Manchester becomes the stage as the RAVAL lands through live culture, not presentation.Chase & Status at CUPRA RAVAL, ManchesterAt Projekts Skatepark, Lancey Foux opens with a high-impact set, positioning the car inside the performance itself. Energy scales fast as Chase & Status take over, delivering a headline set that converts the space into an open-air arena. A defining moment lands with a…
The self-proclaimed “Glam Punk Goth ’n’ Roll” outlaws Gypsy Pistoleros have officially unleashed their most theatrical and feral statement to date. Their new album, Dark Faerie Tales: A Fairytale for the Damned, arrived last month via The New Church Records and Plastichead. Produced by long-time conspirator Dave Draper, the record is a high-voltage collision of glam excess, punk danger, and gothic theatre.To celebrate the release, the band recently shared a savage video for their third single, “King of Almost Everything”. The track serves as a cinematic takedown of false idols and hollow power, further cementing the band’s reputation for unapologetically…
Americana favourite delivers the final chapter of his adventurous Sagebrush Trilogy that concludes with the mythological and wide-ranging story of the ‘Outlaw’ Billy MacLane.Readers of Americana UK are likely to be very familiar with the backstory of Texan singer-songwriter Charley Crockett, the country’ outsider’ as he likes to be called, so that he is differentiated from the commercial country music that typically emanates from the recording studios in Nashville. He is, nevertheless, a true country roots artist in the manner of the likes of Marty Robbins, Willie Nelson, or Waylon Jennings, so it is quite appropriate that his latest album…
An evocative and wistful album of reflections on lost love and the life ahead.A good singer-songwriter record generally requires the artist to match their voice with a winning combination of perceptive, memorable lyrics, strong melodies, and skilled instrumentation and arrangements. Jordan Renzi and her band hit all those buttons on her new album, On Your Side. It weighs in at 30 minutes, and there is no fat or filler here. The wistfully romantic lyrics are mercifully free of cliché (not an easy thing to do), and the songs sound like the poetic expressions of lived experience and hard-gained wisdom.Jordan Renzi,…
This is a compelling acoustic version of Heart’s Too Heavy, from the album High On Tulsa Heat, my favourite of all John Moreland’s albums. The track is a howl of anguish from Moreland, who must have been going through a dark time when it was written, and who seems to have demons from his past:“And I’m pulling up devils from the long dark past / And the pain starts piling up too fast / I can pin down the minute that I lost my buzz / Thought I was somebody nobody could love”It is the way of the world that…
When not getting rizzy with it or taking aim at toxic situationships, Broadside ponder mushroom clouds and impending doom, and somehow manage to fit these in among their high-energy sound without them seeming out of place. There’s an aspect of being in it together, or a desire to run away from all the ugliness with a significant other or chosen tribe, which glues all of the chaos and wonder of this record together. Blissed Out, again delivering that same sonic euphoria, sees Oliver sharing what it means to purposefully choose peace over self-sabotage, and on closer Is This It?, he…