New Music: For You

           

The new single from the French artist Requin Chagrin "For You" is arriving now, taken from the bands forthcoming album "Décollage" available here https://requinchagrin.lnk.to/Decollage , the video has been directed by Simon Noizat.

New Music: Island Of One

           

Miki Berenyi Trio's new song "Island Of One" is trippy and hypnotic, and it reminds more of Stereolab than Lush. Along with the studio recording, they've shared a video where they play a longer version of the track live in studio. Benreyi said: "Island Of One" took shape because I became quite obsessed with the track "Just A Western" by Nilüfer Yanya last year, and the Latin-y beat got me inspired. But I wanted a lively, catchy song to add to our live set, so it ended up less laidback and more 60s-breezy with some driving, scratchy guitars — once all three MB3 members pile in on the embellishments, a song ends up a fair distance from where it started! As ever, recording and production took place in our various home-studio set-ups, and the song was mixed by our brilliant Bella Union labelmate, Paul Gregory... the video was directed by Sébastien Faits-Divers

New Music: Winter Sky

           

Big Country’s co-founder and longest-serving band member, Bruce Watson, has announced that as of 1st January 2026 the band will move forward under the name Big Country Redux. 2026 marks the 25th anniversary of the passing of songwriter, frontman, and co-founder Stuart Adamson. Now there's a new single off "Winter Sky" taken from the forthcoming album Eastworld releasing Sept 2026. The track FeaturesMick McNeill of Simple Minds on accordion.

New Music: Stop

           

Embrace are approaching their 30-year milestone with a startling sense of clarity. Their upcoming album, Avalanche, marks a departure from the self-imposed pressures of their arena-filling past, leaning instead into a raw and uncomfortable honesty. Band's new single "Stop" is the heartbeat of this shift; born from a realisation of life’s fragility, the band views the fleeting nature of existence not as a tragedy, but as a liberating reason to drop the act and actually live in the moment. Of the single, vocalist Danny McNara comments: The track "Stop" pretty much says it all. It’s the clearest statement of where my head was at when we started this record. I was thinking a lot about scale, the fact that we’re on a rock spinning through space at a million miles an hour, heading into absolute nothing, with almost no control over the big picture. One day everyone and everything we’ve ever known will just be a fine layer of calcium, and there’s nothing we can do to change that. Oddly, I don’t find that depressing. I find it freeing. If none of this is permanent, then the pressure we put on ourselves, to be better, bigger, fixed, sorted, is kind of absurd. That song is a demand, to myself as much as anyone, to stop, look around, and actually live in the moment.

In Memoriam: Iconic And Veteran Actor "James Tolkan" Dies At 94

James Tolkan, the veteran character actor best known for his stern authority roles in "Back to the Future" and "Top Gun," has died at the age of 94.  James Tolkan, known for his roles as an authoritarian figure in the Back to the Future and Top Gun films, has died. He was 94.

Tolkan died Thursday in Lake Placid, New York, where he lived, his booking agent, John Alcantar, said Saturday. A brief obituary published on the Back to the Future website said Tolkan died "peacefully", but no cause of death was given.

In Back to the Future, Tolkan portrayed the bow tie-wearing vice-principal Gerald Strickland, who eyeballed students for trouble in the halls of the fictitious Hill Valley high school – in particular Marty McFly, played by Michael J Fox. "You got a real attitude problem, McFly," Tolkan's character says in the 1985 film.  "You're a slacker. You remind me of your father when he went here. He was a slacker, too."

Tolkan also appeared in Top Gun as commanding officer Tom "Stinger" Jardian. Near the end of the film, when Jardian asks Tom Cruise’s character, Capt Pete "Maverick"  Mitchell, about his choice for future duty, Mitchell replies that he wants to be a Top Gun instructor. "God help us," Tolkan's character replies, laughing. Tolkan's big-screen résumé also included The Friends of Eddie Coyle, The Amityville Horror, Wolfen, WarGames, Masters of the Universe, True Blood and Opportunity Knocks.

Born on June 20, 1931, in Calumet, Michigan, James Stewart Tolkan cycled through Chicago after his parents divorced and wound up in Tucson, Arizona, where he graduated from Amphitheater High School in 1949. After a stint in the U.S. Navy, he attended Coe College and the University of Iowa, came to New York with $75 in his pocket and studied with Stella Adler and Lee Strasberg at The Actors Studio, where Beatty was a classmate in 1956.

He made his onscreen debut in 1960 on an episode of ABC's Naked City, and in 1966 he understudied for Robert Duvall before replacing him as bad guy Harry Roat in the original Broadway production of Wait Until Dark, starring Lee Remick. 

Later, Tolkan played insurance investigator Norman Keyes on five episodes of NBC’s Remington Steele and several characters over 21 installments of A&E’s A Nero Wolfe Mystery (he directed a couple of episodes as well). He also guest-starred on Miami Vice, The Fresh Prince of Bel-Air, The Wonder Years, Leverage and many other shows.

Survivors include his wife, Parmelee, who worked at the American Place Theater as a costumes and scenery painter. They met on the set of the 1971 off-Broadway play Pinkville when he was acting in it and she was a prop girl, and they married that year in Lake Placid. Donations in his memory can be made to your local animal shelter, animal rescue organization or Humane Society chapter.

Tolkan also played Napoleon and his look-alike in Woody Allen’s Love and Death and was the crooked accountant known as Numbers who works for Big Boy Caprice (Al Pacino) in Warren Beatty’s Dick Tracy.He appeared in three movies directed by Sidney Lumet: as a cop in the Pacino-starring Serpico, as a determined D.A. in Prince of the City and as a judge in Family Business.On Broadway, Tolkan portrayed salesman Dave Moss in the original 1984-85 production of David Mamet’s Glengarry Glen Ross. (Ed Harris played the character in the 1992 movie adaptation.)

Tolkan is survived by his wife of 54 years, Parmelee Welles.

New Music: Days We Left Behind

           

Paul McCartney announces the released of his brand new album "The Boys Of Dungeon Lane" due out this 29th., May. The album title comes from a lyric in this track "Days We Left Behind". I was thinking just that, about the days I left behind and I do often wonder if I'm just writing about the past but then I hink how can you write about anything else? said Paul himself. This nostalgic new single suggests a convincing mature style, without the unnecessary straining for relevance that marred some recent solo releases

New Music: Bad Husband

           

"Bad Husband" is the latest single from Trashcan Sinatras, taken off their upcoming seventh album Ever The Optimist, due out July 31 via TCS Recordings. Featuring vocals from Camera Obscura's Tracyanne Campbell. Bad Husband” is an upbeat, primary-colored hop that cheerfully contradicts its subject matter, with Campbell’s voice wrapping around Francis Reader’s lead as both protagonists admit their failures with surprising joy. Reader sums it up perfectly: "Never has separation sounded quite so celebratory." The accompanying video, directed by Chris Dooley and shot in Los Angeles, stars real-life married actors Paul F. Tompkins and Janie Haddad Tompkins, whose improvised exchanges blur the line between performance and documentary reality.

New Music: Shush

           

The acclaimed singer-songwriter, pianist and composer Tori Amos recently shared a new single, "Shush," from her upcoming new album In Times Of Dragons. "Shush" follows "Stronger Together," the lead single from the album that featured supporting vocals from Amos' daughter. The new single expands the mythic landscape of In Times of Dragons, with a battle-hardened "lizard demon" billionaire standing at its center. "He represents what we're dealing with right now," Amos explained. "He sees congressmen, senators, and even probably presidents, as people who answer to him and other billionaires, who don't think you and I should vote. He's trying to develop the kind of feudal system we had hundreds of years ago." "But it doesn't look like it once did," she continued. "We don't look like we're in the trenches, in the muck. We have all the cool, digital devices now. So, it looks different. But it has the same philosophy." In Times of Dragons arrives on May 1st via Universal/Fontana 

New Music: Conflagration Mindset

           

Last year, Tim Darcy, formerly of Ought and currently of Cola, was one of many musicians whose homes were destroyed in the LA wildfires. On Cola's new song "Conflagration Mindset," Darcy sings about robotically marching on while forces far beyond you have thrown your life into chaos: "A decent way to dress it up/ Cold beer in a hotel cup/ I’m alone, but I’ll gas the car/ In conflagration mindset." A stark and bleary post-punk song about stark and bleary situations. Here's what Darcy says about it: This track began as a wintry-cold synth and drum machine exploration that Evan sent around. Ben and I were hanging out at his apartment and were immediately taken with it and started messing around with finding ways to play aspects of his synth part on bass and guitar, a fun challenge we continued to explore even in the studio as we played with blending the synthetic and live versions of the track.

New Music: Like A Cardinal

           

Just like going back to 2004, Hawthorne Heights are back with a brand new single "Like A Cardinal" the band is so excited to finally give this one and so proud to announce a new tour, and new song, and a new era of Hawthorne Heights. About the video, it was filmed, produced, and edited by Austin Voldseth