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For independent dance artists, owning the record is increasingly only one part of the equation. The bigger play is owning the ecosystem around it. London DJ, producer and vocalist DJ YUKI pushes further into that model with The Baddest, released VIA her own GLAZD Records.Built around a rolling house groove, driving bassline and YUKI’s own vocal, the track keeps its architecture deliberately direct. Rather than treating the voice as decoration, repetition becomes the main production device; a phrase engineered to move quickly from performer to dancefloor. DJ YUKI says:The Baddest is basically a daily affirmation with a bassline.That description pretty…
Spike (Quireboys)Steve ConteVoices From The PoolMonty Oxymoron (The Damned)Rebellion FestivalBlackpoolAug 2026My oh my Rebellion Festival how much you have grown! Blackpool is full of punks of all shapes and sizes and nations and generations for a record breaking seven days this year and opens with this event on the Monday.Just down the road from the Winter Gardens is Viva, a large seventies style caberet venue that is perfect for a sit down curtain raiser on the world’s biggest punk festival. Easing the punk army into their bacchanalian week of noise and excess is a stripped down bill that works with…
Photo by Alejandro Menéndez VegaOf all the recent musicians we have sadly lost in recent times, the tragic news of the passing of Raul Malo last year was one of the most gut-wrenching for me. He was only 60 years old but had announced in 2024 that he was suffering from cancer, and the world lost a truly shining light in the annals of americana.He’d begun blasting his way into the punk clubs in Miami before he fronted the wonderful Mavericks for over thirty years. He was such a captivating presence on stage, with his gorgeous, rich, and heartbreaking vocal…
TNA Wrestling today confirmed that it has signed Gabby Forza, as first reported by Instinct Culture. Terms were not announced. A powerful, multi-sport athlete, Gabby has been wrestling professionally for close to four years and has competed in France, Japan and Canada. She was trained by Brian Myers, Bear Bronson and Pat Buck. GETTING TO KNOW GABBY FORZA: She has dual citizenship: U.S. and Italy. “My mother was born in Rome and visits family there every year. My dream is to wrestle in Italy for my family,” she said. Is a lawn gnome aficionado and enthusiast. “I am a collector…
Credit: Eve AlpertWell that’s it from us for this week. If you’re an AUK supporter your new playlist will be with you at 5pm. We leave you dear reader with a new song from Nate Amos aka This is Lorelei which as you’ll hear isn’t really americana by even our own indie-twisting definition of it, but the video is just exceptionally good, as is the song itself once it worms its way into your head. Oh No Now My’s earthy guitar riff, yearning harmonies and hypnotic drums meld into a beamed-in folk-pop anthem that’s spellbindingly offbeat in Amos’ signature style,…
Southern rock debut for Canadian five-piece.Hailing from Ontario, Canada, The Wild High are a five-piece built around singer-songwriter Jon Harvey (formerly of the band Monster Truck). Harvey describes the band as “a chosen family of musicians (who) collaborate from a place of love, joy and gratitude”. Their first album, Listen To The Wild High, is an independent release available through their Bandcamp page, and (deliberate choice) not currently on any streaming platform.The Wild High exist in a southern-rock/roots-rock kind of place, and if The Allman Brothers, Lynyrd Skynyrd or the Drive-By Truckers are your cup of tea, then you’re likely…
A powerful message that’s relayed with the kind of vigour and skill needed to make people sit up and listen.“In his oval room, in his rockin’ chair / He’s the president, but I don’t care / He’s a business man, he got business ties / He got dollar signs in both his eyes,” Margo Price sings on Oval Room, a song it would be natural to assume was written by Price about current US president, and former reality TV star, Donald Trump, but in fact, it was originally penned by one of Price’s heroes, Blaze Foley, way back in 1984…
Cristina Jul photoAt once nostalgic travelogue, introspective head-trip, and rootsy showcase, Madrid-born Juana Everett’s second album should be her breakthrough record. Past Lives in California swims headfirst through the murky waters of transit, both literal and metaphysical. Bring Me Back skips like a stone across water, its robust rhythm yielding one of her best pure americana songs. Pinecrest looks more inward with snapshot lyrics about leaving Los Angeles to sit on the porch and listen to the rain. What A Swell Party finds her in Joshua Tree, “where I feel free / A pair of boots, a bikini and a…
Credit: Dogwood TalesThis week’s podcast features the band Dogwood Tales in conversation as they wait for their album, Every Star In Rockingham County, to come out on 28th of this month. There’s also a couple of new tracks from artists on New West Records, Richard Thompson and Josh Rouse. There’s a rare sighting of the Black-capped Chickadee with Freddie Trujillo and a new song from The Morning Line. There’s a track from the recently rave-reviewed Paul McClure, The Good of It and The Bad of It. And finally, to celebrate two more Neil Young charity tribute albums: Hearts of Gold…
An extensive list of names, spread across a huge range of musical genres, have been announced for the 2026 edition of Rock En Seine at the Domaine National De Saint-Cloud from Wednesday 26th to Sunday 30th August.So how is this year’s festival shaping up? Headliners Tyler The Creator, Lorde, Nick Cave And The Bad Seeds and The Cure will be supported by a wide range of acts from the international rock landscape, including US hiphoppers Clipse, Swedish electrop-pop superstar Lykke Li; the iconic and radical Peaches; Scottish veterans Mogwai; and the legendary Mael brothers, aka Sparks, nearing 60 year devoted…
As a father of two young children, my home is an ongoing battleground between maintaining a shred of cultural sanity and surrendering to the hypnotic pull of toddler entertainment. Over the years, I have patiently endured endless hours of talking animals, singing tractors, and secondary animated characters with questionable accents. But there is one absolute titan of pre-school programming that strikes pure, unadulterated dread into my soul: CoComelon.For the uninitiated (you don’t know how lucky you are), CoComelonis not merely a show. It is an unrelenting, hyper-vibrant sensory assault featuring giant-headed, pastel-coloured toddlers singing nursery rhymes on an endless, auto-tuned…
Margo Cilker returns with a new album, Little White Cross, released on October 9 via Fossil Records – a new label Cilker has recently launched with fellow musician ISMAY. You can hear the title track below, originally written and recorded by Cilker’s friend Christy Hays. The album was recorded in at The Bunker in Lockhart, Texas,withBruce Robison,the writer/producer behind work by Charley Crockett, Lee Ann Womack, George Strait and The Chicks. “You could definitely call it a concept record. If that concept is that I got really sad and went to Texas,” she says.“I had some material so dark I…