MINISTRY Ready To Release Their Last-Ever Record

August 15, 2026

It’s been a bountiful forty-five-year run for MINISTRY – if one’s willing to discount the gap between 2008 and 2011 – but now Al Jourgensen is ready to fulfil his promise and bring the ensemble to a glorious end by releasing an album that will be their final offering. Slyly named “Hate To Go: Take Out Or Delivery” and set to appear on October 30th, the American band’s seventeenth studio opus – prefaced by the tellingly titled single “Burned Out” – sees the brief return, for the first time in more than two decades, of former bassist Paul Barker, which givs the whole affair a sense of coming full circle.

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Fred Frith And The Kreusch Brothers Access Urban Romanticism

August 13, 2026

Less than a year after Fred Frith offered his fans not one but two fresh collaborations, he’s ready to present another one. This time the British multi-instrumentalist conspired with the Kreusch brothers, fellow guitarist Johannes Tonio and pianist Cornelius Claudio, to create a tuneful suite that explores reflective moods via drone and repetition which, nevertheless, propel the listener’s focus forward. Still, it’s all about spontaneity and playing around with various techniques and aural post-modernism, where constructing and deconstructing sound follow and complement each other.

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Israel Nash Reframes “Sweetheart Of The Rodeo”

August 11, 2026

Some listeners assume that a relatively recent trend of tribute records to entire albums leads to fragmentation of their original concept due to different musicians’ involvement in such homages, and it indeed ruins the flow – which can’t be said of a single-artist or single-collective approach to covering classics. That’s why platters like Booker T. & the M.G.’s “McLemore Avenue” worked so well – and that’s why the forthcoming offering from Israel Nash, unsophisticatedly titled “Sweetheart Of The Rodeo” and set to reframe THE BYRDS’ groundbreaking country-rock opus, should deliver on its promise too.

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Interview with Steve “Boltz” Bolton

August 9, 2026

It’s not necessary for a serious musician to be a character, but it surely helps, especially when the musician in question steadily refuses to take himself, albeit not his performances, seriously. Still, Steve Bolton, affectionately known as Boltz, couldn’t be anyone else, what with the arc of his career – if “arc” is an adequate geometrical term for zigzagging from the irreverent ATOMIC ROOSTER to the highly respectable Paul Young and then his own projects like DEAD’S MAN CORNER, from frolicking with John Otway and Richard Strange to touring the world with THE WHO because Pete Townshend happened to be a fan.

Leading the resurrected ROOSTER for the last ten years and having issued “Circle The Sun” in 2025, their first fresh album in decades, Bolton’s been busy lately working on this record’s sequel, yet Steve has so many stories to tell that he felt obliged to be generous with his time and delve into the most salient moments of a life well lived.

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Taj Mahal And Toumani Diabate’s Classic Unfolds Anew

August 8, 2026

Of all the original American bluesmen, Taj Mahal has always seemed to be the closest to his chosen genre’s African roots, and yet, when the veteran teamed up with Toumani Diabate, venerated Malian master of the kora, back in 1999 to record a joint album, many were taken by surprise. “Kulanjan” – that was the title of their work – turned out to be arresting and still underrated, despite the accolades courtesy of Barack Obama ten years down the line, which is it’s about time to reassess this latter-day classic.

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