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They want you to embrace
Your own faceless mirror
They want to steal your soul
They’re counting on your fear

They’re standing in your way
They’re saying “I fucking dare you”
They’re inside your home
They’re laughing, saying “I fucking dare you”

Chat Pile - “Christabel ‘26”

https://chatpile.bandcamp.com/track/christabel-26

#AlternativeMusic #metal #sludge #noise #NuMetal

They want you to embrace
Your own faceless mirror
They want to steal your soul
They’re counting on your fear

They’re standing in your way
They’re saying “I fucking dare you”
They’re inside your home
They’re laughing, saying “I fucking dare you”

Chat Pile - “Christabel ‘26”

https://chatpile.bandcamp.com/track/christabel-26

#AlternativeMusic #metal #sludge #noise #NuMetal

They want you to embrace
Your own faceless mirror
They want to steal your soul
They’re counting on your fear

They’re standing in your way
They’re saying “I fucking dare you”
They’re inside your home
They’re laughing, saying “I fucking dare you”

Chat Pile - “Christabel ‘26”

https://chatpile.bandcamp.com/track/christabel-26

#AlternativeMusic #metal #sludge #noise #NuMetal

They want you to embrace
Your own faceless mirror
They want to steal your soul
They’re counting on your fear

They’re standing in your way
They’re saying “I fucking dare you”
They’re inside your home
They’re laughing, saying “I fucking dare you”

Chat Pile - “Christabel ‘26”

https://chatpile.bandcamp.com/track/christabel-26

#AlternativeMusic #metal #sludge #noise #NuMetal

Album Review: The B-52s - "Cosmic Thing"

https://aeschtunes.com/2026/08/11/album-review-the-b-52s-cosmic-thing/

#Music, #MusicReview, #TheB52s, #80s, #80sMusic, #1980s, #1980sMusic, #AlternativeMusic, #AeschTunes

I finally found music by General Havoc - basically Cornershop before they moved to Leicester. They're not that different to some of the songs on the first two EPs by Cornershop (there are early versions of Moonshine and England's Dreaming)

https://musicbrainz.org/artist/4173ed17-1116-4ab3-8dba-320fb6e333aa
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KJgFTA9pfjE

#TheGeneralHavoc #GeneralHavoc #Cornershop #Preston #Leicester #music #punk #AlternativeMusic

♫ Top 5 artists of the Last.week: Pixies (23) NTS RADIO (12) New Radiant Storm King (11) The Police (11) Curve (10). #myweekcounted 297 Scrobbles with Lastfm #music via @lfm_blue

#Pixies #NtsRadio #NtsLive #NewRadiantStormKing #ThePolice #Curve #AlternativeMusic

Album Recommendations – July 2026

I’ve given up on trying to regularly write reviews of new albums, but I still want to share albums I enjoyed.  Below are several new (and new-ish) albums – no ratings, no criticism – just music I enjoy listening to and hope you will to.

Album: Wendy Eisenberg
Artist: Wendy Eisenberg
Genre: Folk Rock, Country Pop
Release Date: April 3, 2026
Label: Joyful Noise
Favorite Tracks:

• Take a Number
• Meaning Business
• Old Myth Dying
• Vanity Paradox
• The Walls

An avant-guarde approach to folk music combined with introspection and a sense of hopefulness shape this album by the Brooklyn-based singer/songwriter.

Album: Nine Inch Noize
Artist: Nine Inch Nails, Boys Noize
Genre: Industrial Techno
Release Date: April 17, 2026
Label: The Null Corporation, Interscope
Favorite Tracks:

• Heresy
• Parasite
• Came Back Haunted
• As Alive As You Need Me to Be

Nine Inch Nails (Trent Reznor and Atticus Ross) and Boys Noize (Alexander Ridha) collaborate on this compilation of live and remixed tracks from the Nine Inch Nails catalog. While I initially thought it was a mashup of boy bands with industrial techno, it’s still pretty cool if not legendary.

Album: Gongbu
Artist: Balming Tiger
Genre: Alternative K-Pop
Release Date: May 19, 2026
Label: Awal Recordings
Favorite Tracks:

• Janjan
• Home
• It’s the Night

Balming Tiger is classified as K-Pop which is kind of absurd, since K-Pop is a whole music industry not a genre. And as an experimental music collective, Balming Tiger doesn’t even fit a genre.

Album: Ultra
Artist: Six Sex
Genre: Perreo, Electroclash
Release Date: June 6, 2026
Label: Dale Play
Favorite Tracks:

• LOVE ME HATE ME
• CALIENTE
• BEAUTY privilege
• no more porn

Argentine Francisca Cuello electronic dance project Six Sex is kind of like if someone crossed reggaeton with Charli XCX.

Album: Olivia Rodrigo
Artist: you seem pretty sad for a girl so in love
Genre: Indie Rock, Dream Pop
Release Date: June 12, 2026
Label: Geffen
Favorite Tracks:

• drop dead
• stupid song
• maggots for brains
• the cure
• what’s wrong with me
• expectations

Olivia Rodrigo was born in 2003 but is keeping the sounds of the 80s & 90s alive with her mix of synthpop, power pop, pop punk, and thoughtfully-worded ballads.  She even features a guest appearance by Robert Smith of the Cure!

Album: Floyd Mercantile
Artist: Peter Mulvey & Jenna Nicholls 
Genre: Folk, Singer/Songwriter
Release Date: June 12, 2026
Label: Righteous Babe Records
Favorite Tracks:

• Some People
• Dreamers Awake
• Butterfly Kisses

Floyd Mercantile is the name of a store in rural Virginia where singer songwriters Peter Mulvey and Jenna Nicholls, and guitarist Ross Bellenoit recorded this album.  It includes original works by Mulvey (whom I’ve been following for a long time) and Nicholls (who is new to me but has a lovely voice) and classic pop songs from the Great American Songbook, all in a folk/jazz style.

Album: Public Luxury
Artist: Downtown Boys
Genre:  Punk Rock
Release Date: June 26. 2026
Label: Sup Pop
Favorite Tracks:

• No Me Jodas
• The City Begins
• Yellow Sun
• You’re A Ghost
• Public Works

The socialist punk rock band from Providence, RI return with their first album since 2017’s Cost of Living.

…and here’s the brilliant and insistent ‘We’re Interested’ by Fini Tribe in which my quoted line in the previous post appears, a song more about Edinburgh than any I can think of.

The Union Canal is a bloodline that courses through that band’s early history in Edinburgh.

Enjoy the mid-1980s Edinburgh footage in the video!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VRjQyPn6M1Q

#FiniTribe #Edinburgh #PostPunk #NewWave #AlternativeMusic #EdinburghMusic #ChrisConnelly

Head and Feet Blues (SONG)

One of my favorites when Jeremiahs Run was still performing live.

This is a story about a man who split himself in two.
One part stayed the same the other just grew and grew.
One part stayed in one place, the other up and joined the ratrace.
He had his head in one place and his feet in another.

Head in one place feet in another. You got your head in one place, your feet in another. Your heart’s disconnected one way or the other. Head in one place feet in another.

The part that never changed was always true,
it was always old and the growing part was always new.
While one part was dying from entropy the other part was dying from too much speed,
Head in one place feet in another.

Head in one place feet in another. You got your head in one place, your feet in another. Your heart’s disconnected one way or the other. Head in one place feet in another.

I heard a story about a man who split himself in two.
One part stayed the same, the other just grew and grew.
I got to wondering when the story was through which part was me and which part was you.
Head in one place feet in another

Head in one place feet in another. You got your head in one place, your feet in another. Your heart’s disconnected one way or the other. Head in one place feet in another.

Song written October 27, 1998

Brenda Spencer, who in 1979 became the first school shooter in a long line of them, denied parole today. When asked why she did it: "I don't like Mondays". This became the title of a song by Bob Geldof and the Boomtown Rats. https://youtu.be/SaHAvEEbQOE?si=KfntSD-_Iy2SsiuE #bobgeldof #boomtownrats #idontlikemondays #schoolshootings #guncontrol #postpunk #music #alternativemusic

Back on the radio tonight!

2000GMT - 98.0FM and www.phoenixfm.com

#radio #communityradio #indiemusic #alternativemusic #brentwood #billericay #theworld #98fm