On a day that The Beatles and the Rolling Stones each received Grammy Awards, proving as soon as once more occasion organisers have their heads firmly wedged into the distant previous the place rock music is anxious, we’re delighted to convey you music from bands who have not been round for greater than six many years. They make up our Tracks Of The Week choice, and so they’re beneath.
However first, final week’s triumphant trio. Ricky Warwick’s horse broke the tape first, a size forward of Dorthy feat. Slash, with Larkin Poe coming in third. So this is Ricky once more. Properly carried out to him.
Does that 25% tariff apply to Rush albums? Followers must know.
Joe Bonamassa and Sammy Hagar – Fortune Teller Blues
Through which Joe Bonamassa and Sammy Hagar mix their appreciable musical may on a music that lurches slowly into gear, with a malevolent JoBo riff offering the underlay for a SaHa vocal that roars and soars and suggests his abilities stay solely undiminished. The sound has moved on just a few months from the late 60s British blues explosion sound that is proved such fertile floor for Bonamassa of late, and is as a substitute wealthy in early 70s blues-rock vibes. Somebody go the patchouli.
Saxon – 1066
Solely Saxon might write in regards to the yr during which the Anglo-Saxon rule of England got here to an finish and make it sound like a celebration, however that is Biff and the boys for ya. 1066, which is powered by a riff Rudolf Schenker could be pleased with, can also be one thing of a historical past lesson, during which the listener is suggested that “Harold had crushed the Vikings at Stamford / Routing Hardrada the tip of an age” and “The arrows got here flying and pierced Harold’s eye / The Normans had been victors, the tip of the Saxons.” Terrific stuff.
Kelsy Karter & The Heroines – Daughter Of The Evening
The geographically extravagant Kelsy Karter (born in New Zealand, raised in Australia, Los Angeles-based) and her band The Heroines (from Derby, UK), are again with a completely slick efficiency video, providing but extra proof that Karter and her krazy krew are ones to observe. It is primarily a pop music dressed up in rock star clothes, however we love a great refrain so we’re not complaining. New album Love Made Me Do It got here out on Friday.
The Final Internationale – Grasp
New York’s The Final Internationale are at all times price a pay attention, and new music Grasp isn’t any exception. Singer Delila Paz delivers a sometimes tour-de-force efficiency above a musical backing that is so epic and completely trendy we are able to see it soundtracking the tip credit of a film a couple of big house battle the place the universe nearly ends however is saved on the final minute. “We have performed this music reside on acoustic as soon as, however we up to date the lyrics and recorded a full-band studio model for you,” say the band. “Who’s prepared?” Properly, we’re, clearly.
Manic Avenue Preachers – Brushstrokes Of Reunion
The Manics examine the sound of Brushstrokes Of Reunion to The Waterboys and early R.E.M., however we’re additionally listening to The Remedy, as if Robert Smith had briefly stepped out of the periods that produced In Between Days and James Dean Bradfield stepped in to rattle off some information vocals. Even though the Manics of 2025 do not sound very similar to the Manics of 1994, a few of their logos – the epic sweep of their writing, the jubilant choruses – are nonetheless very a lot in place.
The Wildhearts – Troubador Moon
In keeping with The Wildhearts’ label, new album Satanic Rites Of The Wildhearts harks again to the sound of their traditional debut Earth vs The Wildhearts, and so we’re clearly all in a tizz. “It’s a tough rock album for individuals who love laborious rock!” says Ginger Wildheart, in an announcement that makes our tiny hearts flutter with anticipation. The proof of the pudding can be within the consuming, after all, and Troubador Moon finds frontman Ginger in reliably dependable kind – the music is nice – however does the sound match the clattering depth of The Wildhearts’ greatest materials? You be the decide.
Motorpsycho – Stanley (Tonight’s The Evening)
Adventurous Norwegians Motopyscho have now been with us for greater than 30 years (nonetheless nicely in need of The Beatles’ complete), and proceed to journey to surprising musical locations. The band’s newest journey “owes rather a lot to Slade and Kiss and different 70s energy pop retailers”, they are saying, and we are able to hear that all through Stanley (Tonight’s The Evening), which bumbles alongside prefer it’s using a Raleigh Chopper house to observe Ed Stewart and Noel Edmonds current High Of The Pops throughout an power disaster.
Stereophonics – There’s At all times Gonna Be One thing
Make ’em Snicker, Make ’em Cry, Make ’em Wait is the title of the Stereophonics upcoming thirteenth album, and so they stay unwavering of their dedication to by no means journey exterior their Stereophonics-shaped field. No excursions into polka or drill’n’bass for Kelly Jones and the opposite fellas, however then once more, why would they? There’s At all times Gonna Be One thing is straight away acquainted, like pulling on a stunning heat cardigan and settling down in entrance of an open hearth with a dram of GlenDronach Allardice 18 Single Malt. Slippers non-obligatory.
