Punk rock guitarist Brian Baker shares a quieter, deeply observant side of life on tour in his new photo book ‘The Road’, a striking collection of images gathered over years of global touring with Bad Religion, Dag Nasty, and beyond. Rather than stage lights and spectacle, the book focuses on the in-between moments, capturing roadside signs, religious iconography, diner meals, unsettling figurines, and well-worn guitars with a careful, curious eye. Midwest Book Review calls it “an illuminating compendium” and “highly recommended,” while Dying Scene notes how the largely context-free images invite viewers to tell their own stories. Designed in collaboration with Jennifer Sakai and published by Akashic Books, ‘The Road’ offers a grounded, intimate portrait of touring life that finds beauty and meaning in the overlooked and the mundane.
Brian Baker Captures Life Between Shows In New Photo Book ‘The Road’
MaveriX Ride Cowpunk Fury And Defiance On New Single “I Hate You All”
South Milan trio MaveriX fuse melodic punk rock with country grit on their raw new single “I Hate You All”, a blistering, ironic blast aimed at conformity and polished social façades. Formed by Nicc, Drago, and Teo, the band quickly earned a reputation as the European Social Distortion, following the buzz of their debut album ‘COWPUNK!’ on Rocketman Records and relentless touring across Italy, Sardinia, Switzerland, and Belgium, including a 2024 support slot with Punkreas. Built on spaghetti western-infused riffs and a raucous group-chant chorus, the track captures the unease of feeling out of place and channels it into something loud, defiant, and oddly communal, marking the first step toward a new EP due in Spring 2026.
Another Realm Unveil Dark Symphonic Rock Epic On New Album ‘Origin’
Another Realm is the symphonic rock and metal project of guitarist, composer, and producer Steven Morrison of Tysondog and vocalist and songwriter Philip Stuckey of Stuckfish, and their second album ‘Origin’ expands the scope of their dark fantasy vision. Following their self-titled debut ‘Another Realm’, the new record is built around a story-driven concept exploring the creation of the world and its evolution, blending myth, legend, and historical ideas into a philosophical narrative. Drawing on Stuckey’s acclaimed prog rock work with Stuckfish and Morrison’s decade-long tenure with NWOBHM mainstays Tysondog, ‘Origin’ lands as an ambitious, immersive journey that fuses symphonic grandeur with metallic weight and thoughtful storytelling.
Rosie Carney Opens A Dreamlike New Chapter With “Fragile Fantasy”
Irish singer-songwriter Rosie Carney shares her second new single, “Fragile Fantasy”, co-produced by Ross MacDonald of The 1975 and Ed Thomas. The track follows “Here”, her first release since the acclaimed 2022 album ‘i wanna feel happy’, and continues a striking sonic evolution. Built on floating, dreamlike synths, the song carries Carney’s emotional clarity into a more expansive, fantasized sound.
“I wrote Fragile Fantasy when I began to reminisce about my childhood – something I often find myself pining for,” Carney says. She traces the song back to a youth shaped by imagination and the challenge of reconciling fantasy with reality, recalling a formative moment with a teacher who encouraged her to “learn how to be humans in this life.” That blend of wonder, vulnerability, and self-reflection gives the track its emotional core, breaking open questions of love, fear, and belonging.
Developed over months of sessions in London, “Fragile Fantasy” pulls from shoegaze, alt-pop, and electronic textures while staying rooted in Carney’s raw songwriting voice. Mixed by Jonathan Gilmore, the song lands with warmth and openness, marking a confident step forward. It also serves as the first glimpse of a larger body of work to follow on the newly announced label cool0nline, signaling a creatively rich new era for Carney.
Interpol And Bloc Party Unite For Era-Defining UK And Europe Arena Tour
Interpol and Bloc Party announce a major co-headline tour across the UK and Europe in November and December 2026, bringing together two of the most influential guitar bands of the last three decades. Spanning 18 dates, the tour begins in Copenhagen before travelling through key European cities and arriving in the UK for a wide-ranging arena run that concludes with two nights at London’s Olympia.
Across the tour, both bands draw from their 20-year-spanning catalogues, including Bloc Party’s landmark debut ‘Silent Alarm’ and Interpol’s seminal sophomore album ‘Antics’. Having previously toured the UK together in 2004 and reunited for co-headline shows in Australia in 2023, this run revives a longstanding musical partnership. The pairing lands with renewed force, offering a shared bill that reflects parallel legacies shaped by urgency, melody, and atmosphere.
Interpol also return to Coachella in 2026 and head to South America for shows in Peru and Bogota, alongside appearances supporting Deftones at Lollapalooza dates in Argentina, Chile, and Brazil. New music from the band arrives in 2026. Together, this tour frames both acts at a moment of reflection and momentum, reconnecting audiences with songs that helped define modern indie and post-punk.
Interpol And Bloc Party Co-Headline Tour 2026 Dates:
10 November 2026 – Copenhagen, Royal Arena
11 November 2026 – Berlin, Uber Arena
12 November 2026 – Hamburg, Barclays Arena
14 November 2026 – Dusseldorf, PSD Bank Dome
16 November 2026 – Paris, Le Zenith
17 November 2026 – Amsterdam, AFAS Live
18 November 2026 – Brussels, Forest National
20 November 2026 – Birmingham, Utilita Arena
21 November 2026 – Cardiff, Utilita Arena
23 November 2026 – Manchester, Aviva Studios
24 November 2026 – Manchester, Aviva Studios
26 November 2026 – Brighton, Brighton Centre
27 November 2026 – Brighton, Brighton Centre
28 November 2026 – Sheffield, Utilita Arena
30 November 2026 – Dublin, 3Arena
02 December 2026 – Glasgow, OVO Hydro
04 December 2026 – London, Olympia
05 December 2026 – London, Olympia
Ho99o9 Return To UK And Europe With Horror-Fueled ‘Tomorrow We Escape’ Tour
Ho99o9 announce their long-awaited return to the UK and Europe with a major headline tour in February 2026, celebrating their recent album ‘Tomorrow We Escape’. The duo’s live reputation is legendary for its raw intensity and cathartic release, and this run brings that confrontational energy back across clubs and festivals. Joining them for the full tour is N8NOFACE, fresh off the road with Limp Bizkit and riding momentum from his album ‘As Of Right Now’.
Released via 999 Deathkult and Last Gang, ‘Tomorrow We Escape’ is Ho99o9’s third full-length and their most emotionally direct statement yet. The album fuses experimental hip-hop, digital hardcore, punk, metal, industrial, and electronics into a volatile and personal whole. Featuring collaborators including Nova Twins, Chelsea Wolfe, Greg Puciato, MoRuf, and Pink Siifu, the record lands as urgent, expansive, and deeply human. Mixed and mastered by Trayer Tryon of Hundred Waters, it sharpens the chaos with clarity and space.
The February tour traces a wide arc across Ireland, the UK, and mainland Europe, offering a rare chance to experience Ho99o9’s explosive live show firsthand. Alongside the tour, the duo also appear on NOWHERE2RUN’s track “Little Prince”, taken from the EP ‘What Did You Do?’, released via NOWHERE Recordings. Together, these releases underline a band operating at full force, channeling confrontation, collaboration, and hard-won survival into sound.
UK And Europe Tour Dates:
03 February 2026 – Whelan’s, Dublin
04 February 2026 – The Garage, Glasgow
05 February 2026 – Brudenell, Leeds
06 February 2026 – The Brook, Southampton
07 February 2026 – The Dome, London
09 February 2026 – Cactus, Bruges
10 February 2026 – Melkweg, Amsterdam
11 February 2026 – Bi Nuu, Berlin
12 February 2026 – Loppen, Copenhagen
13 February 2026 – Slaktkyrkan, Stockholm
16 February 2026 – 2 Progi, Poznań
17 February 2026 – Hydrozagadka, Warsaw
18 February 2026 – Flucc, Vienna
19 February 2026 – MENT Festival, Ljubljana
20 February 2026 – Circolo Magnolia, Milan
21 February 2026 – Marché Gare, Lyon
24 February 2026 – Stereolux, Nantes
27 February 2026 – Trabendo, Paris
28 February 2026 – Kulturfabrik, Esch-sur-Alzette
01 March 2026 – L’Aéronef, Lille
Maximo Park Celebrate 20 Years Of Indie Classic ‘A Certain Trigger’
Maximo Park mark the 20th anniversary of their beloved debut ‘A Certain Trigger’ with a special deluxe reissue that celebrates the album’s enduring impact. Available as a single LP, double gatefold LP, and triple LP collection, the release revisits a record that helped define a generation of indie music while still sounding sharp, restless, and alive today.
The expanded editions dig deep into the band’s archive. The double and triple vinyl include Missing Songs featuring tracks like “A19”, “Isolation”, and “My Life in Reverse”, while the triple LP adds a full disc of Rarities and B-Sides with cuts such as “Wasteland”, “Limassol (First Avenue demo)”, “The Coast Is Always Changing (Dilston Road demo)”, and “Kiss You Better (BBC Radio 2 Janice Long session)”. These rarities also appear on a dedicated CD, rounding out a thoughtfully curated release.
Reflecting on the reissue, singer Paul Smith says, “We’ve worked hard to make this reissue worth the listener’s while, and to celebrate both the album itself and the context in which we made it. Delving into the archive has stirred so many memories – mostly good ones! The album documents a time and place in our lives, but we had no idea that it would eventually serve the same purpose for so many other people.” Produced by Paul Epworth and released on Warp, the Mercury Prize-nominated album arrived with enduring singles like “Apply Some Pressure”, “Graffiti”, and “Going Missing”, securing its place as a scene staple that still carries urgency and joy two decades on.
Adults Stitch Indie Pop Chaos And Hope Into New Album ‘A Pocketful Of Seeds’
adults’ new album ‘a pocketful of seeds, ideas, loves, fears and hopes’ brings together two years of ideas, moments, and emotions into a restless, lived-in whole. The record drifts through indie pop, jangle, shoegaze, emo, and country, capturing songs written in the gaps between everything else. The band describe it as a collection of deeply personal songs about growth, change, loss, and love, set against the constant hum of a world that strains optimism. The result feels messy in the best way, full of motion and feeling.
Recorded over three months across rooftops and warehouses in South London, the album marks the longest recording process adults have ever undertaken. Long-time collaborator Rich Mandell helped stitch together patchworks of riffs, loops, and overdubs into something more intentional and coherent. The enthusiasm around the record centers on its energy and warmth, with its loud amps, layered textures, and playful experimentation landing as vibrant and human.
Opening track “dead red” slowly unfurls from a wiggly synth before building into something insistent and charged. While not overtly political, the songs carry an undercurrent of radical change and learning how to respond to harm with growth rather than damage. Singles like “flag”, “crying”, and “patterns” highlight the band at their hook-filled and optimistic best, while tracks like “chest pains” and “partner song pest chains” show off their fast, scrappy edge. The album holds frustration, care, and hope in equal measure, tied together by noisy, awkward pop instincts.
Adam Ross Teams With C Duncan On Sun Chasing Pop Single “Drink The First Light”
“Drink The First Light” is the new standalone single from Adam Ross, featuring fellow Scottish songwriter C Duncan. Out now on Fika Recordings, the track marks one of the poppiest and most polished moments of Ross’s solo work, driven by melody, texture, and a bright sense of momentum that feels immediate and open-hearted.
The song began life as an experimental home recording before growing into something sleeker and more abstract. Ross describes it as a departure from his usual narrative-heavy writing, allowing the production to lead the emotion. The response to the single highlights its warmth and clarity, with its hook-forward approach landing as buoyant, confident, and quietly infectious.
Lyrically inspired by seasonal shifts, “Drink The First Light” frames sunlight as a necessity, written from the perspective of an inverse vampire craving brightness and optimism. Duncan, initially brought in as a mixing engineer, added instrumentation and vocal harmonies that deepen the track’s glow. The single follows Ross’s 2024 album ‘Littoral Zone’ and serves as a joyful palette-cleanser before work begins on his next full-length release.
American Lips Return With Jagged Art Rock Full Length ‘On Strike’
Montreal and Los Angeles trio American Lips return with ‘On Strike’, out now via Ancient Fashion Records. The jagged art rock full-length locks into absurdist humor, tightly wound rhythms, and splintered guitar lines that feel restless and deliberate. The record lands with immediacy, delivering sharp songs that buzz with urgency and a crooked sense of fun.
Fronted by Adrian Popovich of Tricky Woo and FRVITS, the band channels raw drive through a playful, serrated lens. Bassist and vocalist Jessica Bruzzese and drummer Sebastien Grainger of Death From Above 1979 bring muscle and precision, grounding the chaos with control. The response to the album has been lively and energized, with its dry wit and wired grooves hitting as cathartic and confidently alive.
Following ‘Kiss the Void’ and the maxi-single ‘Waste of Crime / Labor of Hate’, ‘On Strike’ arrives as a pointed manifesto for the burnout era. Songs like “Cardboard Trash”, “On Strike”, “Sleep”, and “Got It Made” skewer consumer culture, exhaustion, and hollow empire myths. Recorded at Ancient Fashion East in Montreal and Ancient Fashion West in Lucknow Ontario and Los Angeles, and mixed by Grainger, the album sounds noisy, human, and resolutely present.