NOTHING shares "never come never morning" + new album due 2/27

NOTHING SHARES NEW SINGLE “NEVER COME NEVER MORNING” US TOUR LAUNCHING MARCH 4TH A SHORT HISTORY OF DECAY DUE OUT FEBRUARY 27, 2026 VIA RUN FOR COVER

NOTHING by Luke Ivanovich A Short History of Decay PRE-ORDER: bandofnothing.lnk.to/ashod  “never come never morning”  LISTEN: bandofnothing.lnk.to/ncnm WATCH: bandofnothing.lnk.to/ncnm/youtube (February 23, 2025) - Ahead of the release of their new album and launch of their upcoming tour dates, NOTHING share their new single and video for "never come never morning," the latest offering from their forthcoming album A Short History of Decay, due February 27th via Run For Cover. "never come never morning" complements their previously released singles "Toothless Coal," “Cannibal World,” and "Purple Strings" by showcasing a grinding industrial side of the band that sits closer to genre stalwarts My Bloody Valentine vs. the Madchester-indebted baggy sound of "Cannibal World" and the stripped-down, acoustic guitar-led track “Purple Strings,” where the band’s typical vocal filters are absent. Always exploring new ways to bend sound and pushing the limits of genre conventions, these singles lay the foundation for the wide-ranging sound that defines Nothing's upcoming album. Due February 27th, the band’s fifth studio album stands as their most sonically expansive and emotionally direct work to date: a widescreen reckoning with time, truth, and the body’s slow unraveling. Recharged by a newly solidified lineup featuring guitarist Doyle Martin (Cloakroom), bassist Bobb Bruno (Best Coast), drummer Zachary Jones (MSC, Manslaughter 777), and guitarist Cam Smith (Ladder To God, Cloakroom), A Short History of Decay captures frontman Domenic “Nicky” Palermo at his most unflinching, confronting aging, illness, and the weight of memory with startling clarity. After two shows in Tokyo with Whirr in February, NOTHING return stateside for an extensive North American headline tour, followed by a UK run. Supporting NOTHING across North American dates are Full Body 2, Cryogeyser, and Violent Magic Orchestra. Shows culminate at the band’s own festival, Slide Away, which takes place across multiple dates this May in New York City, Chicago, and Los Angeles. Joined on Slide Away by bands such as Hum, Chapterhouse, Swirlies, and more NOTHING will celebrate the 10th anniversary of their seminal album Tired of Tomorrow with special guest lineups in each market. Tickets are available here: https://laylo.com/bandofnothing/m/VG0Tgb. See below for the full touring schedule. Tour Dates 3/4 - Baltimore, MD @ Baltimore Soundstage ~ 3/5 - Carrboro, NC @ Cat's Cradle ~ 3/6 - Asheville, NC @ Eulogy ~ 3/7 - Atlanta, GA @ Masquerade - Heaven ~ 3/8 - Birmingham, AL @ Saturn ~ 3/10 - Dallas, TX @ Trees ~ 3/11 - Austin, TX @ Mohawk ~ 3/13 - El Paso, TX @ Lowbrow Palace ~ 3/14 - Phoenix, AZ @ Crescent Ballroom ~ 3/15 - San Diego, CA @ SOMA Sidestage ~ 3/18 - Los Angeles, CA @ Belasco ~ 3/19 - San Francisco, CA @ The Regency Ballroom ~ 3/21 - Portland, OR @ Revolution Hall ~ 3/22 - Seattle, WA @ Crocodile ~ 3/26 - Minneapolis, MN @ Fine Line ~ 3/27 - Chicago, IL @ Metro ~ 3/28 - Cleveland, OH @ Grog Shop ~ 3/29 - Detroit, MI @ El Club ~ 3/30 - Toronto, ON @ Opera House ~ 3/31 - Montreal, QC @ Bar Le Ritz ~ 4/2 - Cambridge, MA @ The Sinclair ~ 4/3 - Brooklyn, NY @ Warsaw ~ 4/4 - Philadelphia @ Union Transfer ~ 4/8 - London, UK @ Rough Trade LDN 4/9 - Dublin, IE @ Button Factory 4/10 - Belfast, UK @ Oh Yeah Centre 4/12 - Glasgow, UK @ Stereo 4/14 - Leeds, UK @ Brudenell Social Club 4/15 - Cardiff, UK @ Clwb Ifor Bach 4/16 - London, UK @ Moth Club 4/17 - Tilburg, NE @ Roadburn Festival 4/18 - Barcelona, ES @ Barcelona Psych Fest 5/15 - New York, NY @ Brooklyn Paramount * 5/22 - Chicago, IL @ Byline Bank Aragon Ballroom * 5/29 - Los Angeles, CA @ Hollywood Palladium * ~ with Full Body 2, Cryogeyser, VMO  * Slide Away Fest with Hum, Chapterhouse, Swirlies, and more Official tour poster

A Short History of Decay album artwork  NOTHING A Short History of Decay Run For Cover Records February 27, 2026  1. never come never morning 2. cannibal world 3. a short history of decay 4. the rain don’t care 5. purple strings 6. toothless coal 7. ballet of the traitor 8. nerve scales 9. essential tremors

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FOO FIGHTERS YOUR FAVORITE TOY NEW ALBUM OUT APRIL 24

FOO FIGHTERS
YOUR FAVORITE TOY
NEW ALBUM OUT APRIL 24
FIRST SINGLE / TITLE TRACK OUT NOW

Listen to “Your Favorite Toy” HERE and Pre-Order the Album HERE

Try not to choke on the glitter…

“Your Favorite Toy,” the titular first single of Foo Fighters’ forthcoming 12th full-length studio album, has been released.

The first new FF music of 2026, “Your Favorite Toy” is nothing short of an insidious earworm. Jagged guitar shards and sinister keyboard stabs bob and weave atop a relentless rhythmic pulse, as Dave Grohl unleashes a newfound sardonic vocal tone on infectious choruses:

Get back
Hear that, boy?
Someone threw away your favorite toy for good
For good

A perfect first taste and representation of the album of the same name, “Your Favorite Toy” sounds like nothing else in the band’s monolithic discography, while instantly and unmistakably identifiable as Foo Fighters. 

Dave Grohl commented, “’Your Favorite Toy’ really was the key that unlocked the tone and energetic direction of the new album. We stumbled upon it after experimenting with different sounds and dynamics for over a year, and the day it took shape I knew that we had to follow its lead. It was the fuse to the powder keg of songs we wound up recording for this record. It feels new.”

Preceded by its title track and last year’s incendiary “Asking For A Friend,” Your Favorite Toy will be released April 24th via Roswell Records/RCA Records. Recorded at home, the album was co-produced by Foo Fighters and Oliver Roman, engineered by Oliver Roman and mixed by Mark “Spike” Stent, and consists of the following songs:

Caught In The Echo
Of All People
Window
Your Favorite Toy
If You Only Knew
Spit Shine
Unconditional
Child Actor
Amen, Caveman
Asking For A Friend

Your Favorite Toy’s release heralds Foo Fighters’ massive Take Cover world tour, which kicks off June 10th at Unity Arena in Oslo, following a pair of US festival headlines at Welcome to Rockville and Bottlerock. For more information on the tour, go to https://foofighters.lnk.to/ShowsPR

Foo Fighters are Dave Grohl, Nate Mendel, Chris Shiflett, Pat Smear, Rami Jaffee and Ilan Rubin.

Photo Credit: Elizabeth Miranda

DRILL LOS ANGELES Day 3: WIRE, JULIA HOLTER and more (updated) April 1st 2017

Photos by Alexander Laurence and Liane Chan

All the bands I played in 1980s: The OC and LA scene

All the bands I played in 1980-2012
BY Alexander Laurence

Besides all the noise I made with my brother when I was 10 years old, my music career probably started around the summer of 1981. The plan was to form a band with Patrick Quinn, who I knew in High School. Patrick was good a classical music guitarist and he liked punk rock music. I took guitar lessons that summer and learned to read music. It was very traditional. I remember studying the cover of a Plasmatics single and learned how to do a bar chord. In the Fall of 1981, Patrick moved to SF to go to college and I was still in high school. Through some friends, I met Rick Harrison, and we decided to form a band along with Benny Rapp and Greg Sisson. Greg Sisson was in one the first punk bands from Huntington Beach, called The Slashers.

We called ourselves THE SLIP KIDS. We were named after a song by The Who or China White, a punk band who were our friends. Sisson didn't play with us for the first few months because he didn't have any gear. We rehearsed as a trio for a few weeks. I was horrible. I knew how to play but I had no experience playing with others. Rick Harrison had one song, and I wrote three songs pretty fast. I realized that in this band we lacked a vocalist, a songwriter, but it was okay. I realized that even though I didn't know what I was I doing, I had to be the main songwriter and default leader, even though it was Rick's band. There was a big difference in direction we all wanted to go. Rick and Benny wanted to be like the Damned or Generation X. I was more into the Buzzcocks and Wire. I think that we sounded unique: a combination of lack of ability and the confusion of ideas. None of our songs had titles, but to me a few came to be known as "Genocide" and "Another Reality." It was late 1981, and I was feeling that punk had already been done. What we did was a little pop punk and very limited musically.

(Greg Sisson and Rick Harrison, Slip Kids 1982?)

For a few weeks we practiced with Don Snell, who was a great guitarist and a lot older than most of us.  Me, Rick and Benny were all 17 or so. Don was at least 20. With Don, he was more of a lead guitarist and I played rhythm. With Don, we played all our five original songs, and one song by Don, and also "Untouchables" by Gen X. The song by Don was like a hardcore punk song. It was more like an instrumental song. I was thumbs down on that one. It was actually more like a weak song by Wire. The band was getting ready to actually play a show. We all hung out in Hollywood one night. Benny told me how they wanted Frank Martinez (at one time in The Vandals) to be the lead singer. In my own mind I wanted to be the lead singer, and I wanted Craig Stonoff (Movement) to be the guitarist. 

A week passed and I was out of the band, and Frank and Greg Sisson were in. A few months later I heard THE SLIP KIDS were playing at a party at a friend's house. I watched them and was bored. Rick nodded his head when they played one of my songs. It all sounded a little dated to me. It took so long to write songs and find people to play with, by the time the songs were actually played to an audience, it was a little dull. I remember trying to start another band very quickly. I heard that Don Snell and Jeff Milucky were forming a band, and I wanted to join, but that never happened. Stonoff wasn't really doing Movement anymore, but he was very negative about any new bands. He was really jaded.

Around this time I wrote my first decent song entitled "Powerline." 

I found a flyer in Zed's Records in Long Beach. There were two guys in Palos Verde looking for a guitarist. I was getting better at guitar and had taken a class in music theory. I taught myself how to play a little piano. One of these guys in PV was Steve Brown (later he would be in the SF band Broom). These guys were great musicians. They could play anything. We played during 1982 when I was 18, and they were closer to 15. We were more like some post punk bands like Magazine and Joy Division and Outer Circle. I played guitar and keyboards. The drummer played a different beat on each song. We had slow songs and fast songs. I had a big tape recorder and recorded most of our practices. We created a ton of material quickly. We had one song called "The Other Room." I met this guy named Adam who wanted to play with us, but Adam ended up playing with Jesse Rodrigues from Movement. It was a long drive to Palos Verde, and sometimes we wouldn't practice for a month. I had left high school and a few months had passed. When I came back to Palos Verde, Steve Brown was playing with a whole new group of guys. It was more rock oriented. By the end of 1982, I was more into Birthday Party and stuff like that. The Palos Verde Group never had a name, and soon we went our separate ways. We did have one song that was a little like Nirvana "Smells Like Teen Spirit" and I had written a song with very similar chords to Mazzy Star "Flowers in December" in 1982. We were a little more advanced and probably could have done something interesting.

Towards the end of 1982, I had met Jeff McCann. He had just moved to Huntington Beach from Texas. The band we formed was called SATAN'S CHEERLEADERS. It was mostly Jeff's esthetic and style. We played a bunch of instrumentals by The Cramps, Pink Floyd and The Rolling Stones. For a while it was just me and Jeff, and then we were joined by a guy named Mark. It was the first two guitar and drums, no bass guitar band that I knew about. Some girl who played bass in our band was in The Cramps for a few years. I think now that Jeff was ahead of his time. I wanted to write some original songs, but my songs didn't really go with this band, which was more like a psych garage band. I quit some time in 1985, and was replaced. I met up with Jeff again at Long Beach State, and we played for fun again, in 1988, after they had played a few gigs. They were doing this retro garage rock instrumental thing in 1983, and now, a few decades later, it seems like every other band now is like that.

                                       (Mark and Jeff from Satan's Cheerleaders)

Satan's Cheerleaders live at Safari' Sams 1985: https://archive.org/details/sc1985-10-10

At the same time I had try to form a band with Greg Yalch. We were in this band called MASQUE for a few weeks. But the other guys wanted to be a Bauhaus clone band. I wrote a few songs with Yalch. One has survived called "So Happy." By 1983, when there was idle time, we were joined by Clark North (who is now an important Tattoo Artist). We hung out more than actually did anything. I left and was replaced by Brad Logan and Rob Whitecotten. They called themselves Cinema of Cruelty, or COC. I remember one show at Clark's house by Edison High. Greg used to play me wild tapes of his new band. Logan quit and went on to join a hundred punk bands. Some new guys joined and they called themselves THE BELLJAR. I saw them play at Safari's Sam in 1986, and Greg was the only original member left. It was a far different band, more like The Doors and the paisley underground bands. The Belljar was one of those bands that wore a lot of black and could be taken as a Velvet Underground revival band. Greg Yalch got heavily into drugs and the band broke up by the end of the 1980s. 

 

The Bell Jar (Greg Yalch, left, and Clark North)

I also played with Sharon Vaughnn in a band called HOUSE OF CARDS. I had met her when she worked at Fedco. Sharon was in a rockabilly band. Me and Sharon played with a number of people. One who I remember was Dave who later played in Swamp Zombies. I saw them play a few years later in San Francisco. I was originally the guitarist, but Sharon found some guy who wanted to play guitar and wanted me to play bass. I lasted a few weeks. I heard that they played some places like Radio City, where many of these bands also played.

From 1982 to 1985 I was always making tapes. I had a little recording studio in my bedroom. I would record demos all the time with anyone who would come over. I had a drum set in the corner of my room that belonged to my girlfriend. Mark Held and I had a band called FUMES. We also did some rap songs in 1984 and performed them live at a poetry night at Safari Sam's in 1984. Our best songs were "Recovery Room" and "Fuck The World." They were like anti-punk songs. I recorded a lot of dub reggae tracks. I recorded hours of drums tracks, in case I wanted to use them as a backing track. The Mark Held stuff was more experimental. More anti-rock. In my own mind I wanted to do something more like Eno and Talking Heads. 

Mneumonic Devices

THE IMMACULATE CONCEPT 1985
a film by Alexander Laurence

By 1985, I did record some songs with Ann De Jarnett (Mneumonic Devices). I started making 8mm films and most of the stuff we did was like soundtrack music. Ann De Jarnett and Greg Yalch were in my first film The Immaculate Conception (1985). For about a year all we did was films and photography. I sold my guitar and my amp and retired from bands for at least a year.

For about a year, I didn't do much music. I started to take college more seriously. But I still had time to try out for a goth band. I was in EX-VOTO with Larry Rainwater and Greg Bevington for about a week. I couldn't play it with a straight face. It was like a Sisters of Mercy clone band with drum machine. We played songs by Steppenwolf, Joy Division, and Bowie. I couldn't get the guitar part right in their song "In The Modern Time." They wanted me to make noise and play power chords, and not play any real guitar stuff. It was secondary. The bass riff was on top of everything. They were goths.

Ex Voto

I had lost focus. I was never going to be in a proper band. I was in the middle of an English Lit degree. But in 1987 some things happened. Wire reformed. I had written a ton of poems. Patrick Quinn was going to move back to the west coast from Boston. I had envisioned a band ever since the days when I hung out with Ann of Mneumonic Devices. It was like a band that combined rock and classical influences. I had written about 30-40 songs. This new band I called THE ELIZABETHANS. But Quinn didn't actually move back to California until 1989, and when we started to play the new songs, he struggled. We could only play the simplest stuff, the drones of songs like "Heliotropes Turn Black." Then we co-wrote a bunch of songs together, but there was no band. Just a massive amount of songs on tape and ideas. As the years went on, it was easier to record songs, and do demos. I started out with a two track tape machine, where you could only record live takes, or music, and dub in the vocals.

In the meantime I recorded some stuff with Devin Rench. We called out new band VICTIM. It was more industrial sounding. We had a friend who worked for Yahama and we recorded a few tracks at his studio. I showed Devin the songs I had written previously. He wasn't interested. Devin wanted to write his own lyrics and wanted me to do the music. We tried to play some parties with backing tracks but it never really worked. 

That is mostly what I did during the 1980s.

PS.

1) I probably only played two real gigs in the 1980s.

2)  I wrote about 100 songs during this time.

3) I also wrote 20 short stories and 3 novels.

4) I focused on going to college during the later part of the 1980s.


5) There was no internet in the 1980s, so you had to do demos and play live shows to be noticed.


6) The bands I was in, Ex-Voto, Satan's Cheerleaders, The Belljar, released records years later after I had left the band.


7) All this happened in LA and Orange County.


8) There were hardly any PR people in the 1980s. Now there are 3 publicists for every journalist.


9) There were no computers like today and no itunes in the 1980s. If you wanted to hear a record you had to own the record.


10) I realized that I didn't have the patience for bands. I moved to San Francisco in 1988. Things would be a lot different there during the 1990s.

Scott Sellers RIP 2017. Top left with blonde hair. 

Other guy in these photos is Clark North, now a famous tattoo artist based 

in Las Vegas. Both were in The Bell Jar and Bar Twang Blues.

Temples Sign To V2 Records, Announce New LP + Share "Jet Stream Heart" Single + Video via FLOOD | 'BLISS' LP Out 2026 via V2 Records

Temples Sign To V2 Records, Announce New LP, Share "Jet Stream Heart" Single + Video via FLOOD BLISS LP Out 2026 via V2 Records

Photo Credit: Jimmy Fontaine PRE-SAVE: Temples - BLISS LP Pre-Save LISTEN & SHARE: Temples - "Jet Stream Heart"  Stream | Watch PRAISE FOR TEMPLES "No matter where they were working on music and regardless of what influenced their style, Temples has created a sound that is uniquely theirs, genre-bending, and loved by fans across the globe." -The Aquarian "an album fizzing with ideas, bursting with kinetic energy and balancing an immediate impact with an enduring, timeless intensity" -Paste "huge, monolithic, reaching-for-infinity psych-rock" -Stereogum "Renowned for their mesmerizing live performances" -The Big Takeover "Like many young bands before it, the four-piece from Kettering in Northhamptonshire embraces — and proudly plays up — the influence of The Beatles and other '60s legends, notably The Byrds. But Temples' music claims its own place, weaving these inspirations into crazy-beautiful and richly idiosyncratic music." -NPR After celebrating the ten-year anniversary of their debut album Sun Structures—marked by a 2024 U.S. anniversary tour—British neo-psychedelic rockers Temples return today with the announcement of their new LP, BLISS, alongside their signing to V2 Records. Hailed upon their debut by Noel Gallagher of Oasis as “the best new band in Britain,” Temples re-emerge with renewed intensity on lead single “Jet Stream Heart,” a menacing, funky, and hypnotic groove that signals a bold evolution for the band. On the track the band shares, "We always strive to make a bold sonic statement. The feeling of music in a club is visceral, almost like you're directly wired into the song. Mainlining the rhythms to the heart. This song explores the feeling of being seduced by music, being pulled into a sonic jet stream, and having to give in to the magnetic feeling of certain music. Sampling in music has always been an interesting creative approach to me, but I liked the idea of actually sampling our own music. Sometimes even sampling the song that you are currently producing to evoke the feeling of a sample from an old record, without the need to get it cleared by the original artist." "Jet Stream Heart" blurs genres, and blurs the line between what’s a synth and what’s a guitar/bass. Using home made fuzz pedals and odd studio gear to create anything but conservative sounds. BLISS ushers in a new chapter for Temples, showcasing their most experimental, polished, and confident work to date. "Jet Stream Heart" is out February 20, 2026 via V2 Records. Temples - "Jet Stream Heart" (Official Video) BLISS LP - TRACKLISTING Jet Stream Heart Revelations Megalith Glimmer Blue Flame Vendetta Jaguar Horizon Waiting On The Echoes Fantasy Realm TEMPLES BIO: This British neo-psychedelic band formed in Kettering, England in 2012 and consists of singer/guitarist James Bagshaw, bassist Tom Walmsley, keyboardist/guitarist Adam Smith, and drummer Rens Ottink. Their unique sound is a blend of vintage inspired production reminiscent of 1960s psychedelia and fresh, modern groove. Celebrating 10 years since their debut album Sun Structures was released and earned a great deal of recognition, they have since become one of the most forward-thinking and endlessly inventive rock bands today. TEMPLES LINKS Website | Instagram | Facebook | Tiktok | YouTube | Spotify | Apple Music