July/August 2026

The next release from our small (but mighty) label, Dangerhouse Skylab, will hit the shelves on 3 July, in the form of Arsene Obscene and the Loozers’ (already) fourth album. This Is Not a Guitar...12 ultra-effective tracks, most clocking in at under two minutes, true to their roots (the Ramones 76, the Misfits, the Spits, 70s power pop...), eleven originals and a cover of the Byrds CTA 102... DSL 121, 300 copies, co-produced with Mono-Tone Records – adding a few more sparks of Nice-style DNA to our catalogue!

We’re also delighted to release, on our small (but mighty) label Dangerhouse Skylab, the first EP from Lyon-based band Rupture... A superb punk rock band featuring members from Segments, Rondells, Le Parti, Horsebites, Top Secret, Flash Falcon and many others, they deliver four furious tracks of punk rock in French, S/T, DSL 124, 300 copies, artwork by Brulex...

Swami John Reis has announced his fifth and latest solo album for August; it’s titled Navajo White and is, of course, being released on Swami...

THE Roberta Lips are releasing two new tracks as a single: Coup De Bluff / Como Tu (Le Cèpe / Les Disques Mauvais Garçons)...

News from Rogue Rcds: a single by Mourning After, Let The Love-In Begin, and an EP by Screamin’Kick, Kings Of The Past...

The Boys are back with a new single, Damn Those Eyes / Nevermind The Botox, announced on Damaged Goods, ahead of a new album due in December 2026... Remaining from the original line-up are Matt Dangerfield and Casino Steel, joined by Chips Kiesbye and Kent Norberg (Sator) as well as Martin H-Son (Backstreet Girls)...

Big Crown is releasing Marco Benevento’s debut album Glera...

Merge has announced a reissue campaign for Reigning Sound’s back catalogue, kicking off this summer with Time Bomb High School, featuring a new sleeve designed by Greg Cartwright...

Jack White has announced his new album, Frozen Charlotte, for mid-July, and we should be getting a few copies of the blue vinyl edition...

Fabienne Delsol is back with her fifth album, Indigo Red, which looks very promising: six original tracks and four covers of songs by the Silver Apples, Françoise Hardy, Count Five and Sharon Tandy (Damaged Goods)...

Cuir is back with Monoface, a new 8-track release on Offside...

Following two LPs on Trouble In Mind, The Tubs have announced a new album on Merge, Hard Life, due out in September...

Emma Ruth Rundle’s sixth album, These Killing Times, is being released in a stunning limited-edition sunburst pressing...

Caméléon Rcds is reissuing Christel Ruby’s extremely rare EP Le Soleil Du Vietnam, and is also releasing a double CD dedicated to the catalogue of DMF, a Normandy-based label active between 1963 and 1967...

Music On Vinyl News: Cuby and the Blizzards’ Desolation, Art Blakey’s Album Of The Year and Chippin’In, Barney Wilen’s French Story (Movie Themes From France) , Golden Earring’s One Last Night, as well as two new volumes in their series of double albums dedicated to the Trojan label: Keep The Pressure (Beverley singles 66–67) and Intensified Sounds (Beverley singles 67–68)...

The sixth volume in the double singles series published by Chaputa features The Outlets and the Thingz...

Guerssen are still celebrating their anniversary and have announced singles by Sound Barrier My Baby’s Gone, Weird Herald’s Saratoga James, and United States Of Existence’s Return To Psychedelic, as well as a reunion album by the latter, Lavender Glory Trip, and a reissue of Earthen Vessel’s album Hard Rock...

Montreal-based Taxi Girls are finally releasing their debut album Static on Wild Honey...

Chaputa has announced a new single by Thee Strawberry Mynde, produced by Graham Day, Actions... The label has also announced a new album by the Sewergrooves, The Acoin Session...

Ghost Highway has announced the new album by Australian band The Volcanics, Too Late To Run...

Hey Suburbia is reissuing The Bones’ brilliant debut album Screwed, Blued and Tattoed...

Les Archives de la Zone Mondiale have announced an upgraded edition of the book dedicated to New Rose, due out on 30 October... The first edition sold out before it even had a chance to exist, so this new, expanded edition is very welcome – reserve your copy...

The latest releases from Beast Rcds are incredibly exciting; in addition to Public House and Dion Lunadon’s albums—announced last month, we’ve received three more new releases: the Movie Star Junkies’ new album Walk On Bones, Hana & Jessie Lee’s Bad Habits Say What You Mean, and the first LP (compiling two EPs) from the brilliant Where’s Jimmy...

The Sleeveens, a band from Nashville, are a great find... Their debut album, released in 2024, was already promising, and their new album National Anthems, out this year on Goner, is absolutely brilliant – glam/pub/punk rock’n’ roll...

A third album has been announced for Berlin’s S.U.G.A.R., who remain loyal to Alien Snatch: III... The label has also announced the new album from California’s Sweet Reaper, Still Nothing...

Upcoming releases from Pop Superette: an EP by THE Boots, Tout Va Bien, an EP by Eric Charden, Charden Face à Charden, and a Beathoven anthology LP, Here’s Tas-Mania...

THE Osees have announced their next album for late September; it’s titled Off Course and is being released on Deathgod Corp...

The good news is that a label has decided to reissue All’s album Pummel – packed with power pop/punk gems and originally released on Interscope in 1995 – the bad news is that it won’t be cheap...

Born Bad are reissuing Mar-Vista’s album Visions Of Sodal Ye as a double LP; it’s been impossible to find since its release on Le Kiosque d’Orphée in 77... A beautiful experimental record, somewhere between krautrock and folk, well worth discovering...

The 177th issue of Shindig is on its way, featuring the New York Dolls on the cover, with articles on Thin Lizzy, Georgie Fame, the Tokens, Supertramp, the Golden Earrings...

Alien Nosejob’s next album is titled How a Mosquito Operates and is being released on Iron Lung...

Permanent Rcds is reissuing the album by Zipper, the proto-punk/heavy psych band led by Fred Cole (Dead Moon), originally released in 1975...

Ty Segall’s next album will be titled Chrome and is due out in late August on Drag City...