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Hedvig Mollestad Thomassen is a songwriter/musician hailing from Ålesund, Norway, and the leader of both the Hedvig Mollestad Trio and the Hedvig Mollestad Weejuns. Weejuns are a trio named after a slang word for Norwegians, featuring Hedvig Mollestad on guitar, Ståle Storløkken on organ and synth and drummer, Ole Mofjell. The band released their debut self-titled album in 2023, which was unusual in that it was a live album; however, it was a powerful way to announce themselves to the world. Bitches Blues is the follow-up to that album and is the band’s first studio album.
18 Sept 2026
A Julian Cope Primmer
Erupting into the mainstream on February 19th 1981, The Teardrop Explodes’ debut ‘Top of the Pops’ television performance featuring their brassy, bouncy hit ‘Reward’ is to this day probably the moment from which most people recall Julian Cope. If your image of Julian remains that of an earnest young budding pop star sporting a fleece-collared flying jacket and a shaggy bowlcut of shoulder-length tresses, if you failed to maintain pace with his entry into the cosmos, if you dismissively describe him (as I’ve seen thereabouts) as “a Smash Hits pin-up”, you have one hell of a lot of catching up to do. Musique Machine have tasked me with leading their readers through the psychedelic jungle and beyond, here, and I have to say that Julian probably merits the ‘beginners’ guide to’ / ‘recommended records’ treatment more than just about any other artist in the music sphere, at least in terms of how public perception and the ‘reality’ (if such a word is appropriate in this extreme case) have a near-unbridgeable gulf.
10 Sept 2026
Goh-Ka finds these Japanese experimental metal warriors in very fine form, with their genre blending magic at its most focused, technical, and inspired. The eleven-track album somehow manages to perfectly balance metal craft and moody-to- dramatic genre mixing, with often tuneful & decidedly groovy moments.
Pre-Historic Metal is the twenty-first studio album from the Norwegian two-piece Darkthrone. It’s an eight-track affair that’s a rough ‘n’ ready mixing pot of 70's & 80’s metal styles, with a few non-metal genre twists' n' turns to add the element of unpredictably/ surprise to the mix.
Dans L'ombre is a sluggishly churning ‘n’ shredding example of long-form walled noise from this highly prolific Bordeaux-based project. The single ‘wall’ featured here runs at eighty-two minutes- remaining thick, heavy, and muddy throughout.
Marshmallow — Marshmallow( Blu Ray)
16 Sept 2026Extreme Private Eros: Love Song 1974 — Extreme Private Eros: Love Song 1974 ( Blu Ray)
16 Sept 2026Black Leather Jesus — Leather Narcissus
16 Sept 2026Doomed Life — No Tuck Summer
16 Sept 2026Sourlung/ No Fun HNW — Split
16 Sept 2026Acausal Intrusion — Vomit Meditations
16 Sept 2026Green Carnation — A Dark Poem, Part III: The Messiah Complex
15 Sept 2026The Double — The Double( Blu Ray)
15 Sept 2026
Orchestra Of The Upper Atmosphere Interview
Early this year, the band released their most recent album Theta 7, on Discus Music-which is sadly to be their last. Band leader Martin Archer kindly agreed to give us an email interview, discussing the project's history & why they’ve decided to call it a day.
Vacant Align Interview
Active since October 2025, Wisconsin’s Vacant Align is one of the more atmospheric and texturally inventive wall noise projects to appear in some time. It’s a project that takes its time in releasing work, and you can certainly hear it, as each of their releases so far is a perfectly crafted blend of expressive and engaging textures. Behind the project is John Engman, who very kindly agreed to give us an email interview
Jasper Sharp interview
In the year 1971, Nikkatsu, the oldest/ at one point, the biggest film production company in Japan. Did something quite daring/ some would say crazy- they completely switched over their production to softcore adult films, which would become known as Roman Porno. Between 1971 and 1988, the company produced around 850 of these titles. The thing that made these films stand out from general softcore films is the often creative & inventive choices made- yes, the films primal focus is sleaze, but great examples of the genre are so much more than that. In the last year or so, there has been a spate of reissues of films in the genre from labels such as 88 Films, Third Window Films, and Klubb Super 8. One of the key figures/contributors behind these releases is Jasper Sharp- one of the world's experts on the genre, and the wider Pink genre it’s connected to. Jasper kindly agreed to give us an email interview discussing his history with the genre, his contributions to releases, and the new/updated edition of his book Behind The Pink Curtain: The Complete History of Japanese Sex Cinema on Fab Press.
King Futile Interview
King Futile is the new project from Scotland-based Lea Cummings( Kylie Minoise, Official Music Team, etc), and it’s a big departure from his normal noise or retro sample & electronica sound. It's lo-fi acoustic music, with an outsider feel, and often quite tongue-in-cheek/ sharply sarcastic tone to the lyrics. So far, the project has put out three albums- Casual Misery, How To Have Fun, and Zen As Fuck. I tracked down Lea for an email interview.
