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Talking Heads continue their 50th anniversary celebrations with ‘Tentative Decisions: Demos & Live’, a 3CD deluxe set packed with unreleased early demos and live recordings. offers an unprecedented look at Talking Heads’ earliest years. the 3CD collection charts the rapid evolution of the original trio—David Byrne, Chris Frantz, and Tina Weymouth—through a trove of newly unearthed demos and live recordings. The set also includes 10 early demos and a live track recorded at the Ocean Club in 1976.

The earliest recordings on “Tentative Decisions” reach back to The Artistics, the band Frantz and Byrne formed while they were students at the Rhode Island School of Design. Recorded in 1974 at Frantz’s apartment on Benefit Street in Providence, the demo represents the bands earliest known recordings

In the liner notes, Frantz says The Artistics’ aspiration to become the RISD house band—entertaining friends with covers of The Kinks, Motown, and Al Green—changed when they began writing their own songs. “One day, David knocked on the door of the painting studio Tina and I shared,” Frantz recalls. “He played us the first verse and chorus of ‘Psycho Killer,’ which sounded promising.” Byrne asked Weymouth, who spoke French, to write lyrics for the bridge while Frantz added some verses—and so it began. 

Talking Heads helped shape modern new wave music and expand the creative possibilities of the music video—most recently with the premiere of a new “Psycho Killer” video directed by Mike Mills and starring Saoirse Ronan.

This release follows the last year’s Black Friday RSD vinyl release of “Tentative Decisions” which effectively offered CD 1 of the new deluxe on clear vinyl. That same vinyl edition is now available to full retail on black vinyl, accompanied with the same seven-inch single (with A and B-sides of ‘Psycho Killer’ and ‘Warning Sign’). The set builds on last year’s 11-song collection adding 15 unreleased demos made for CBS in September 1975, and more than a dozen unreleased live recordings from the band’s first two years in New York. 

CD 2 offers more demos, this time 15 Columbia/CBS demos from September 1975, all of which are previously unreleased.

The disc offers 17 live cuts from 1976 and 1977, from three different gigs. The October 1976 performance at Max’s Kansas City took place just a few weeks before the group met with Seymour Stein and signed to Sire Records. The January 1977 show at The Jabberwocky Club in Syracuse was shortly before Jerry Harrison joined.

“Tentative Decisions: Demos & Live” will be released in March 2026, via Rhino/Sire Records

Rush continue their comprehensive reissue programme with a super deluxe edition of their 10th album, 1984’s “Grace Under Pressure”.

This album represented a bold new phase for the Canadian prog heroes. The band had recently parted ways with producer Terry Brown – who’d worked on every Rush album since 1975’s Fly By Night – and opted to produce themselves, with assistance from Peter Henderson, the man behind the desk for Supertramp’s gargantuan hit Breakfast In America. The result was a set that expanded upon the synth soundscapes of previous album Signals (1982), while its angular guitar sound complemented the dystopian visions of drummer Neal Peart’s lyrics. 

Available as either a 4CD+blu-ray or 5LP+blu-ray box set, it’s the album’s first time on CD since a limited-edition Japanese release in 2009. Disc one features the original 1984 stereo mix, newly remastered from the original analogue stereo master tapes by Sean Magee at Abbey Road.

Disc two gives fans the chance to hear how Grace Under Pressure may have sounded had Terry Brown been on board, thanks to a new stereo mix by the producer from the original multi-tracks. CD3 and CD4 (or LP3, LP4 and LP5) are devoted to the first-ever release of the complete 21st September 1984 show at Maple Leaf Gardens, Toronto, originally released in part as the Grace Under Pressure Tour VHS and later released (again, in incomplete form) as a bonus CD with 2006’s Rush Replay X 3 and as a standalone live album in 2009. The 20-track show has been newly mixed from the original multi-track masters. 

The blu-ray features the album newly mixed by Richard Chycki in Dolby Atmos & 5.1 surround plus Terry Brown’s new album mix in hi-res stereo. And in terms of visuals, the blu-ray also includes the Toronto concert newly remastered in HD with the audio with Atmos, 5.1 and Stereo options, all newly mixed by Terry Brown. Lastly, the album’s four music videos are remastered in HD and presented in 5.1 surround and stereo. This appears to be a great disc, although Rush’s frustrating habit of ‘locking’ these in with enormously expensive box sets, continues.

The super deluxe edition also includes a hardcover book including sleeve notes written by Geddy Lee and brand-new illustrations for each song by Hugh Symes (who has also ‘re-imagined’ the album cover). And there’s memorabilia galore, including an LED light-up display, replicas of the GUP tour book, Toronto concert ticket and poster, GUP Tour backstage pass, six-page press release and three band photo lithographs.

“Grace Under Pressure” Super Deluxe Edition is out 13th March via Capitol/UMe.

“God Bless The Blake Babies” is the fourth studio album by the Blake Babies, released in 2001, marking their brief reunion. The Blake Babies, formed in the late 1980s, are known for their melodic sound and introspective lyrics.

“God Bless The Blake Babies” reflects their evolution as a band and includes a mix of new material that resonates with both old fans and new listeners. The reunion for this album was significant as it brought  back the original lineup, allowing them to revisit their musical roots while exploring new themes and sounds.

We are very excited to release “God Bless the Blake Babies” on vinyl for the first time ever to celebrate it’s 25th Anniversary. This label-exclusive reissue is limited to 500 units worldwide and available on black, midnight blue, or splatter vinyl in a gatefold jacket.

Reissue artwork prepared by Aaron Tanner. Vinyl mastering and lacquers cut by Scott Hull at Masterdisk. Records pressed at Gotta Groove Records in Cleveland, OH.

We are thrilled to release ‘God Bless The Blake Babies’ on vinyl for the first time ever to celebrate its 25th Anniversary. This exclusive pressing is limited to 500 units

Mitski releases her eighth studio album, “Nothing’s About to Happen to Me” via Dead Oceans. Supported by a live band and orchestra, “Nothing’s About to Happen to Me” finds Mitski immersing herself in a rich narrative whose main character is a reclusive woman in an unkempt house. Outside of her home, she is a deviant; inside of her home, she is free.

Across the album, she balances closeness with distance – songs that feel personal without asking for anything in return.

Standout singles include “Where’s My Phone?,” “I’ll Change for You,” and “If I Leave.” The album was produced and engineered by Patrick Hyland and mastered by Bob Weston, with assistance on drums and logistics from Kris Bulakowski. Continuing the musical through line established with “The Land Is Inhospitable” and “So Are We“, the album features live instrumentation by The Land touring band and ensemble arrangements.

Joy Oladokun has signed to Concord Records and shared her first new music of 2026. “I wrote ‘Nothing Comes Easy’ about how getting hurt can happen quickly but healing takes time,” she says. “This past year, I dealt with a lot of change in my personal life and career and for a moment it felt like nothing good would ever come again. In my backyard, there is a planter filled with the most resilient sunflowers I’ve ever seen. I wrote this song about watching them find life over and over again and how they taught me to celebrate good things because oftentimes they have fought hard to be good.

Olubukola Joy Oladokun, born on April 1992, is an American singer-songwriter. With her soulful voice and heartfelt lyrics, she captivates audiences around the world. Joy’s music combines elements of folk, pop, and R&B to create a unique sound that resonates with listeners of all ages. Her powerful storytelling ability shines through in every song she writes. Whether performing solo or collaborating with other artists, Joy’s passion for music is evident in every note she sings.

Oladokun has released a handful of singles since 2024’s great album “Observations From A Crowded Room”, but “Nothing Comes Easy” is her first new music of 2026.

She shared some insight about the new song: I wrote “Nothing Comes Easy” about how getting hurt can happen quickly but healing takes time. This past year, I dealt with a lot of change in my personal life and career and for a moment it felt like nothing good would ever come again. In my backyard, there is a planter filled with the most resilient sunflowers I’ve ever seen. I wrote this song about watching them find life over and over again and how they taught me to celebrate good things because oftentimes they have fought hard to be good.

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Lande Hekt has shared the title track to her upcoming album Lucky Now. “Although I list some pretty specific things in this song, it is aimed to be a broad song about personal freedom and moving onto better things,” Lande says. “The specific landmarks I have listed refer to getting a touring visa denied right before a big tour, changing the direction of my then band’s career, a fire that burned down our local venue that I worked at and near enough lived at leading to a drinking problem and then getting sober!”

Lande Hekt has quietly become one of the UK’s best underground songwriters. On her 2021 debut full-length “Going To Hell” and 2022’s “House Without a View“, she explored her queer identity, sobriety, and childhood trauma through the lens of heartfelt, conversational indie-pop, which led to spots opening for the likes of Alvvays, Throwing Muses and The Beths.

“Lucky Now” is the second single and the title track from the album “Lucky Now“, out 30th January 2026 on Tapete Records.

Winged Wheel is a band that includes Whitney Johnson (Matchess, Circuit des Yeux), Cory Plump (Spray Paint), Matthew J. Rolin (Powers/Rolin Duo), Steve Shelley (Sonic Youth), Lonnie Slack, and Fred Thomas (Idle Ray, Tyvek). You could practically them a supergroup. The patient, exploratory “Desert So Green” is their third album, following 2024’s “Big Hotel”. Working out of a studio on the outskirts of Chicago, the band embraced a more cohesive approach, foregoing some of the jammy tendencies of their previous records for deeper experimentation.

“So, how did this band even happen?” That’s the question most often asked of “Winged Wheel”, a creatively and geographically scattered collective who have somehow congregated to make a noise that’s unexpected but undeniable. With each player living in a different city and bringing their own unique element to the group’s chain reactions. Early long distance file-trading between a few members yielded 2022’s “No Island”, a debut album that was accidentally really good.

Good enough for the band to expand their membership and meet in person for the sessions that became 2024’s “Big Hotel”, a surgically-assembled murk of high energy kosmische rock with jammed-out tendencies. Fast forward just a little and all of a sudden the band that started out as a passing idea has completed multiple tours, become a taper’s dream with sets that drift through structure and improvisation, and ridden the momentum to places unforeseen on their third album, “Desert So Green”.

released January 9th, 2026

Winged Wheel :
Whitney Johnson
Cory Plump
Matthew J Rolin
Steve Shelley
Lonnie “Palmtree” Slack
Fred Thomas

Meek “specialises in a philosophical strain of song writing,” which is evident across “The Mirror.” There’s a tender power, countered by immutable vulnerability. With an uncanny curiosity, he reveals the uniqueness in the mundane. “The Mirror” searches for new meaning and the familiar is reframed through Meek’s singular voice.

On “The Mirror”, love, as an idea, is always close – but in its reflection comes an afterimage of the way things could be and how they’ve been before. Meek holds the absurdity of devotion, the choice to love – with equal parts ache and grin, as on today’s single, ‘Gasoline’. He sings, “Making words up while we made love / one month and she’s in my blood.”

Emerging from a decade of work together in Big Thief, the partnership of Meek and producer James Krivchenia arrived from the idea to combine the band’s live, kinetic energy with an oblique electronic world. From production projects including Big Thief’s “Dragon New Warm Mountain” “I Believe In You” and his recent solo record, , Krivchenia’s work is enlivened through electronic elements, always seeking to deepen sound. The concept for “The Mirror” welcomed a collective atmosphere in which simultaneous experiment could occur – the musicians responded to each other in real time, while their instruments triggered modular synthesizers.

For The Mirror, Meek and Krivchenia welcomed in friends, family, and longtime collaborators including Adrianne Lenker, who contributed vocals, Adam Brisbin on guitar, and Ken Woodward on bass. New creative partners and longtime friends like composer and ambient musician Alex Somers joined in on synthesizer, toy microphone, an old piano, and Mary Lattimore brought in the sounds of her prismatic harp. A rotating cast of four drummers: Jesse Quebbeman-Turley, Jonathan Wilson, Kyle Crane, and Krivchenia provide a wide dynamic arc of grooves. Germaine Dunes, Staci Foster, Jolie Holland, and Lenker sing as a choir on many songs. Meek’s brother, Dylan Meek contributed piano, keys, and vocals. Adrian Olsen created a wide range of sounds and melodies with modular synths.

With his songwriting acting as a compass to the recording process, Meek invited interaction, instead of limiting the tracks to something controllable. The album was recorded in Meek and Dunes’ Los Angeles log cabin studio, Ringo Bingo. Meek recorded vocals outdoors on the front porch, looking through the living room window where the band played inside.

Just months after Big Thief had released one of top favourite albums of 2025 with “Double Infinity”, Big Thief guitarist Buck Meek announced his next solo album, “The Mirror”, due late February via 4AD Records. It was made with his Big Thief bandmate James Krivchenia and Big Thief vocalist Adrianne Lenker contributes to it too, so it shouldn’t be a big surprise that you can hear a lot of Big Thief’s magic coming through on lead single “Gasoline.”

It’s the kind of strummy folk rock that Buck Meek does so well, but it’s also got some of those art rock tendencies that came through on “Double Infinity“, making it just a little more far-out than what we usually get from Buck’s solo career.

Buck Meek’s new album, “The Mirror”, is out 27th February on 4AD.

Snail Mail, the project of Baltimore singer-songwriter Lindsey Jordan, has announced her third studio album, “Ricochet”, her first in nearly five years. It’s due out March 27th via Matador Records.

With the announcement comes lead single “Dead End”, a taste into the 90s alt rock direction of the record. “Dead End” mourns the simplicity of a suburban adolescence. Of the music video she co-directed with Elsie Richter, Jordan shares, “We shot the video for ‘Dead End’ in random places all around rural North Carolina between the hours of 5pm and 4am on one of the coldest nights of my life. The goal was to be inconspicuous with the fireworks, but someone called the cops on us.”

While Snail Mail’s earlier albums focused primarily on the trials and tribulations of young love, “Ricochet” further explores Jordan’s philosophies on mortality and identity. This record also marks Jordan’s first full release following her vocal polyps recovery.

“Ricochet” is out March 27th.