Nick Heyward
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Girlhood
U.K.’s buzz-heavy indiepop duo GIRLHOOD are gearing up to tackle the U.S. with their fourth album (and first to be written in a room together) THIS WILL MAKE SENSE IN THE END which will be released on November 5, 2026 via OK! Good Records. Built around the voice and writing of singer-songwriter Natalie Holmes, the […]
Best Ex
New Jersey-based songwriter Mariel Loveland has built a career chronicling coming of age, one chapter at a time. First, writing poetry in the margins of her math homework, then touring the world in the scrappy Warped Tour-era punk band Candy Hearts, sharing stages with pop punk heavyweights like New Found Glory, Weezer, and Man Overboard. […]
Jack Grisham And The Life Undone
Jack Grisham and the Life Undone is a new project by Jack Grisham and Lars Triesch. Grisham is known as the frontman of TSOL and later The Joykiller. He has been active for over four decades—in literature, film work, and most importantly independent music—with more than 70 million streams and over 2,000 live shows under […]
NEW YORK TIMES: Soft Cell Finds an Ending Back Where It All Began
SOURCE By Jim Farber Sept. 21, 2026 Last October, the musicians who comprise the synth-pop group Soft Cell, Marc Almond and Dave Ball, had the chance to hear the final mixes of the album they’d been working on for months. “Afterwards, we were both really happy,” Almond recalled. “Dave was absolutely buoyant. He was even looking […]
SPIN (print): Don’t You Want My Tainted Love (The Human League and Soft Cell)
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SPIN: Soft Cell’s Marc Almond Never Says Never to Anything
SOURCE Written by Lily Moayeri | August 31, 2026 – 9:30 am Soft Cell in 1981. (Credit: Peter Ashworth) Never tell Marc Almond he can’t do something he’s determined to do. Earlier this season at the Hollywood Bowl, his group Soft Cell was second on an all-star bill featuring Alison Moyet and the Human League. After an unforgettable set, Marc […]
US WEEKLY: Most Anticipated Albums of Fall 2026: Carly Rae Jepsen, Orville Peck, Tinashe and More [SOFT CELL]
SOURCE By Nicholas Hautman August 28, 2026 Summer may be winding down, but music fans have plenty to look forward to this fall.From long-awaited returns and career-defining new chapters to final bows and deeply personal statements, the season’s release calendar is stacked with something for every kind of listener. Carly Rae Jepsen, Orville Peck, Tinashe and Leon Bridges are among the […]
the black watch
John Andrew Fredrick–guitars, percussion, vocals Rob Campanella–guitars, bass Chandler Fredrick–bass, backing vocals Andy Creighton–guitars, bass, drums, strings arrangements, backing vocals The praise heaped of late upon John Andrew Fredrick’s long-standing and astonishingly productive Los Angeles indie band–from the likes of Mojo, Shindig!, The Big Takeover and even Prog Magzine–has been nothing less than, well, remarkable. […]
TEXAS MONTHLY: It’s the Summer of Butthole Surfers. Even They Aren’t Sure Why.
SOURCE By Dan Solomon July 21, 2026 Austin’s Butthole Surfers weren’t just iconic, they were iconoclastic. There were the unhinged live shows—not so much concerts as performance art, in which front man Gibby Haynes would strip to his underwear, or fire a shotgun, or set a cymbal on fire, or hide condoms filled with fake blood under his […]