Archive: 2026

Surfing the Tube is a daily recap of recent must-see YouTube happenings, from music videos and live performances to interviews and everything in between. Jeff Tweedy: “Music is My Savior” A few months out from releasing his latest project, Twilight Override (a grand triple album), prolific Wilco frontman Jeff Tweedy gets interviewed on CBS Sunday […]

Puscifer, at this point in their storied discography, are more defined by the spaces they’ve left open than the ones they’ve occupied. The amorphous brainchild of Maynard James Keenan has been one of the most imaginative bands of its time, stretching its songwriting and open-mindedness to rock’s most experimental corners, employing loose definitions to set […]

Party goodies and introspection copiously consumed together are the breakfast of champions for Philly-based psych-rock duo, Kewl Haze (not to be confused with the cannabis strain). The twosome’s full-length debut, Suburban Sherpa, can black out all of your adult problems. Kewl Haze’s clandestine chemists Dan Scott Forreal and Derek Sheehan—both accomplished multi-instrumentalists, producers, singers, songwriters, […]

“Sticking” with our tribute to the late great Ian Dury this week, for today’s Tuesday’s gone, we are spotlighting this classic performance of one his trademarked jams, the fantastically funky: “Hit Me with Your Rhythm Stick”. Indeed, as mentioned on yesterday’s Manic Monday, Dury was a master wordsmith who often enjoyed including playfully suggestive double-entendres […]

Germany and Netherlands-based Progressive Death Metal band Alkaloid have recently released their first-ever live album,Bach Out of Bounds,that combines many “firsts” for them, since it was also the first time they performed work by another artist in a focused way, and the first time they collaborated with other musicians. It was all the product of […]

Rolling Blackouts Coastal Fever—the Australian quintet of  Fran Keaney, Joe White, Marcel Tussie and brothers Tom and Joe Russo—have shared their first new music since the release of their widely acclaimed third album, Endless Rooms (2022). New single, “Sunburned in London,” released thid via I Oh You is a sprawling tune with post-punk nods and plenty of the band’s vibrant guitar rock […]

Greg Loiacono & Stingray have released “Nothing Can Come Between Us,” (below) a reimagining of the classic Sade song. Over the last two years, the Northern California–based collective has been steadily building a following throughout the region, fine-tuning a retro soul sound that makes reinterpreting Sade a natural extension of their musical identity. A lone […]

Melt Citizen is the one-man garage/punk project of Mikey Isaac Peregrino. Since his 2020 debut under the alias, Peregrino has proven to be a prolific and forward-thinking addition to the DIY punk scene, releasing several EPs and four full-length albums. The most recent, TEARJERKER, arrived in the brisk January of 2026 in a cloud of […]

Daniel Young is a singer-songwriter, guitarist, drummer, sound engineer, and producer from Salt Lake City. He grew up on the side of a tall mountain, and that sense of forceful elevation informs all of his work. Young’s been recording and performing for over two decades—and he’s not that old, which tells you much of what […]

Philadelphia-based rock ‘n’ roll artist Low Cut Connie announced his new album Livin in the USA will be released July 3 via Contender Records. Alongside the announcement, Adam Weiner has shared a statement about the album, which can be read in full HERE. Also today, Low Cut Connie released the album opening title track “Livin in the USA” which can be heard below Read […]

In extended retrospect, it takes careful perusal of Lynyrd Skynyrd’s timeline to discern the significance of the band’s fourth studio album, the now fifty-year-old Gimme Back My Bullets (released 2/3/76).  After all, it was not as commercially successful as its predecessor, 1975’s Nuthin’ Fancy, or its successor two years later, Street Survivors. And not only is the latter […]

The 2026 Grammy Awards—officially the 68th Annual Grammy Awards—were held on Sunday, February 1, 2026, at the Crypto.com Arena in Los Angeles. While the televised broadcast (credit where it’s due for addressing global issues head-on) largely centered on pop stars who hardly lack recognition, a significant number of awards were handed out earlier in the […]

As we turn the calendar to February, and with Valentine’s Day just around the corner, it often feels natural to reach for records that feel a bit more soulful or sensual in nature to help get you in the mood for the inevitable sappiness of the season. But if you’re looking for cliché soppiness from […]

With the recent passing of the Grateful Dead’s Bob Weir at 78, there are fewer legends who dedicated their life completely to music. George Porter Jr. is absolutely one of those legends and, lucky for us, is still going strong at the same age of 78. The Meters member is a lifelong collaborator and bringer […]

A benefit concert was held at First Avenue in Minneapolis on January 30th, with 100 percent of the proceeds donated to the families of Renée Good and Alex Pretti, who were killed in recent ICE-related incidents that intensified tensions across Minneapolis. The show sold out within minutes, despite temperatures hovering between six and eight degrees—an […]

Friday, January 30th marked the release of JoyRide (REVIEW), Steve Poltz’s 14th solo album. On the night before the release, Poltz hosted a celebration of this new music and life in general with a show at Portland, Oregon’s Mission Theater. Starting with the album’s last track, “Hairlift,” Poltz delivered two hours of his unique delivery […]

Surfing the Tube is a daily recap of recent must-see musical YouTube happenings, from music videos and live performances to interviews and everything in between. Willie Nelson – Heart Of America (From The Gray House Original Soundtrack) Willie Nelson gets patriotic on his brand new song “Heart of America”, released with an accompanying music video. […]

It is hard to believe we have reached the final New Music Friday of the first month of 2026, and what a start it has been. So far this year, music fans have been hit with an overabundance of terrific releases from across the genre spectrum, and the month isn’t going out without one last […]