Holy Fuck are back with brand new album, Event Beat

11 February 2026

We only just caught this, but our excitement really cannot be measured: Holy Fuck are back with a new album! The Canadian quartet of Brian Borcherdt, Graham Walsh, Matt McQuaid, and Matt Schulz have been one of our absolute favourite bands since we first saw them in 2007, and after six years since Deleter, they are finally returning with Event Beat. Back in 2022, the band reconvened in a rural Nova Scotia village hall, as Walsh explains:

“The catalyst for this record and the beginning of the recordings that we did was us just getting back together again. It was something unique to us. It was all of us living together one in space and with no distractions and just working on music in the middle of nowhere. It’s a way I really like to work. For at least half of the songs on the record, it was just us holed up together. Which was great!”

Borcherdt adds:

“Having our own language that we can speak so easily together is really important to us. We all have our own piece to bring to the conversation, and it’s idiosyncratic to us because we’ve been dedicated to it for so long. Hopefully that’s encouraging to other bands who feel like they’re on a similar path.”

Power outages, a disgruntled neighbour, and other obstacles could not stop Holy Fuck from creating something extraordinary. “That became a production challenge,” Walsh explains. “We still wanted to jam, but while being as quiet as possible. Matt couldn’t hit the drums really loud. So we made these more low-key ambient things. It was like, how quiet can we be and still do what we do?” Borcherdt agrees. “We were making these quite pastoral, vibey soundscapes, and I thought we were going to have an ambient record on our hands. I thought this was going to be almost like new age music or something.”

The human side of their music shines even more through. “What I hope people take away from it is an appreciation is the togetherness and the humanity in the music”, Walsh concluded. “Music should be played and enjoyed together. When that raw punk sound comes off the stage you should just enjoy it and relish that experience. It’s wonderful and awesome.”

Event Beat arrives on March 27th and they’ve already dropped two singles from it, ‘Evie’ and more recently ‘Elevate’, which is offered with a video by John Smith. “I really like those epic techno songs like Orbital and Underworld,” says Walsh of the track. “This was my attempt at something like that. Just dance floor euphoria.”

This is an exciting return from one of the greatest bands out there. After twenty years of making music, Holy Fuck still manage to sound refreshingly new and thrilling. Check out both singles below, we’re playing them on repeat.


Watch Gregory Uhlmann’s live performance video of new single ‘Burnt Toast’

10 February 2026

Following  the whimsical and balmy lead single ‘Lucia’, LA-based guitarist, composer, and producer Gregory Uhlmann has unveiled ‘Burnt Toast’, the second single from his highly anticipated solo debut Extra Stars. A prolific artist with his fingers in many musical pies, Extra Stars sees his many years of collaboration distilled into a stunning collection of fourteen short pieces. Beautiful and blissful, ‘Burnt Toast’ comes with an accompanying live performance video, filmed by Mark Pallman at International Anthem Studios in Chicago. Watch it now.

Extra Stars is out on March 6th through International Anthem.

Carlos Niño & Friends announces new LP Bubble Bath For Giants

10 February 2026

There’s wonderful news from master percussionist, experimental composer, and producer Carlos Niño, who has just announced the release of his new album Bubble Bath for Giants, as part of his Carlos Niño & Friends series. Inspired by the radiance of magical forces that move through us all, his upcoming album is a celebration of gentleness. Niño says:

“Without getting too grandiose about how this album feels or flows to me, I will say that I was really excited when it was finished – 8 pieces, a little over 45 minutes, pretty short and sweet, it highlights my strange Drumming style more than most anything that I have released before – and I was like, this might be my Illmatic! That’s one of the most concise, Masterpiece albums ever made, so no, I am not comparing mine to it, but I am really excited about how unique it is to me, Light-code energetics, togethernesses, Space Collage, Marshall Allen just totally burning up #6., that finale with so many sound sources converging and the Voices . . . starting with a piece that brings my OGs Luis Pèrez Ixoneztli and Bernard Xolotl into shared space, #4., the Single, can’t think of much else that sounds like that one…Anyways, it’s hear for you…Thanks for listening!”

A huge collaborative effort, Bubble Bath for Giants features a host of artists from his Musical Community, including Luis Pérez Ixoneztli, Bernard Xolotl, Aaron Shaw, Surya Botofasina, Nate Mercereau, Laraaji, Darius Jones, Sheila Govindarajan, Idris Ackamoor, Deantoni Parks, André 3000, Marshall Allen, Sam Gendel, Sibusile Xaba, Mia Doi Todd, Anisia Uzeyman, Saul Williams, Jojo Abot, Jowee Omicil, and Aztlan Unearthed.

We’ll have to wait until March 20th for the album to be out but we can already hear the first single ‘Visions by the Fire’. Celestial and comforting, ‘Visions by the Fire’ is brimming with love and beauty. Take a listen below.

Bubble Bath for Giants is out March 20th through his CNF imprint, with a vinyl pressing by Good Neighbor and digital exclusivity through Niño’s Bandcamp page.

Triple Blind set to release new album, Cold Walk, later this month

09 February 2026

Photo: Annie del Hierro Jost

Triple Blind is the collaborative project of bassist Nick Jost (Baroness), saxophonist Kyle Nasser, drummer Peter Kronreif, and keyboardist Dov Manski, all longtime friends coming from different corners of the creative music world. The group first came together during the Covid-19 lockdown, working remotely and building music from MIDI sketches and home recordings. That resulted in their 2021 self-titled debut album, which earned them a Chamber Music America New Jazz Works grant, with Nasser as composer.

The four-piece are following it up with a new record titled Cold Walk. Unlike their previous album, Cold Walk was recorded live in a single room at Dreamland Recording Studios, with a focus on collective playing and real-time interaction. “Despite the difference in recording format”, as the press release describes, “the group maintains the pop sensibilities and pairs them with improvisational abstraction to great effect.”

Cold Walk is set for release on February 27th and Triple Blind have already shared two singles from it, the title track and more recently ‘Yarn Spin’, a mean and playful track described as “fun to horror movie soundtrack and back again”. Listen to both below.


Ishmael Ali’s upcoming solo debut album, Burn the Plastic, Steal the Copper, out next week

08 February 2026

We’re just days away from the release of Burn the Plastic, Sell the Copper, the solo debut album from cellist, guitarist, improviser, and composer Ishmael Ali. A key figure in the Chicago’s avant-garde scene, Ali is known for his work on the fringes of jazz, improvisation, and electronic music, and collaborations with the likes of Kahil El Zabar and the Ethnic Heritage Ensemble, Avreeayl Ra, Angel Bat Dawid, Josh Berman, Jason Stein, and many more.

Straddling the line between avant-garde and pop in a unique and exciting way, Burn the Plastic, Steal the Copper marks a bold step forward for Ali. The album’s title is inspired by a friend’s remark about some old, faulty cables in the studio. “The phrase,” Ali says, “kind of stuck with me. I’ve been trying to finish a solo record for a long time and have a lot of music in a lot of different conceptual worlds.” It also reflects the themes that run throughout the record about the sense of stripping things down to their essential and questioning the value of what we hold onto. Burn the Plastic, Steal the Copper features a range of collaborators from the Chicago music scene, including Ed Wilkerson Jr., Corey Wilkes, Jim Baker, Brianna Tong, and Bill Harris, all shifting effortlessly between collective improvisation and intimate solo moments, always anchored by Ali’s cello.

For a taste of what’s to come ahead of the album’s release on February 13th through Amalgam Music, check out the bonkers, brilliant and compelling ‘Every Circle a Moon’. The track comes with an accompanying video made by Ali and Augustine Esterhammer-Fic.

Fabiano Do Nascimento shares rework of ‘O Tempo (Foi O Meu Mestre)’

07 February 2026

As we mentioned last month, Fabiano do Nascimento is bestowing us with Vila, a follow-up to Cavejaz, which was one of our Album Picks of 2025. A collaborative effort, Vila sees the staggeringly talented guitarist, composer, and producer team up with trombonist and arranger Vittor Santos, who helms a 16-piece orchestra for the affair. After introducing the album with the gorgeous and engrossing ‘Spring Theme’, Fabiano has unveiled a second single, ‘O Tempo (Foi O Meu Mestre)’. Majestic and jubilant, the track is a new re-working of his own song, released originally in 2017 in his classic Tempo Dos Mestres. Listen to it below and grab the album when it drops on February 27th through Far Out Recordings.