Californian one-man band Ten Cent Club switches between Tom Waits-alike songs about casual violence, a pastoral instrumental and jazzy late night songs on his debut EP Postcards From The Sun. www.herecomestheflood.com/2025/12/ten-...

Montreal based quartet The Wesleys have unveiled a video for Magic Wand, a track from their Explosive Device EP. www.herecomestheflood.com/2025/12/the-... #thewesleys #video #music

Welsh synth duo Martyrs made a video for snowglobe, a track from their sno-fi ep of which proceeds the will be donated to Cancer Research UK. www.herecomestheflood.com/2025/12/mart... @martyrsmusic.bsky.social

Johnny Dowd has announced the release of "Live at the Downstairs". His debut album Wrong Side of Memphis gets an expanded reissue on vinyl, which comes with a bonus LP with "the original Johnny Dowd band doing psychedelic versions of the Wrong Side tunes." www.herecomestheflood.com/2025/12/john...

As per usual the four Phish shows @ New York City's Madison Square Garden (December 28-31) are offered as pay-per-view webcasts in HD or UltraHD 4K. www.herecomestheflood.com/2025/12/phis... @phish.com @phish.net

Leicester based jangle pop act Shopfires upped the ante on the new single We Could Fall Apart, adding orchestral elements to make the hurt of the lyrics a bit more bearable. www.herecomestheflood.com/2025/12/shop... @shopfiresmusic.bsky.social #music #review

These stripped down versions blow the studio versions out of the water, with the urgency of making it work from the get-go. www.herecomestheflood.com/2025/12/remy... #remyvankesteren #inconcert

The Melody Chamber have unveiled a video for This Train, a track from their self-titled debut album: "a collection of melodic post-punk songs that will be embraced by fans of The Smiths, The La's and Echo & the Bunnymen." www.herecomestheflood.com/2025/12/the-... @themelodychamber.bsky.social

French grunge duo Half Dollar Dog are not in a festive mood on their seasonal single Small Town Xmas. They are loud, they are pissed off and they obviously needed some release from the rampant hypocrisy that is part of Christmas. www.herecomestheflood.com/2025/12/half... #halfdollardog #review

Multi-instrumentalists Mike Keneally and Marcelo Radulovich take it slow on Friday, the fifth album of their week day album series. Maybe their minds were already engaged with the looming promise of a relaxing weekend for this one. www.herecomestheflood.com/2025/12/mike... #music #review

It wasn't hard coming off technical playing and playing the simplistic eighth notes the Ramones were known for. I'd always listened to jazz drummers, and they played with their wrists, fast like that. So I was able to do it right away. www.herecomestheflood.com/2025/12/word... #markyramone

Thijs Kuijken's indie folk project I am Oak are playing four shows in the UK to promote the new album Time Drifts. www.herecomestheflood.com/2025/12/i-am... #iamoak #inconcert #folk

Rock band Florida were so busy making the guitars on their new single University Dropout Blues sound nasty in a 80s post-glam kind of way that they forgot to take care of the vocals which got buried too deep in the mix. www.herecomestheflood.com/2025/12/flor... #music #florida #review

San Diego based Mike Mills created a kind of "J'accuse" with No ID. People are fucked when they are not able to proof their identity in a world where privacy and basic protection from the powers that be are in serious jeopardy. www.herecomestheflood.com/2025/12/redu...

Singer-songwriter Lexytron has made a video for Stone Cold. Work on the song began a couple of years ago during a stay in Sweden, when she had to walk home at night, after all means of transport had ceased to run, and it was -20℃. www.herecomestheflood.com/2025/12/lexy... #lexytron

Patti Smith will play a bunch of shows in Europe next year. There is a gap between the shows in Belgium and Ireland, so don't be surprised about an announcement of a bunch of UK dates in the near future. www.herecomestheflood.com/2025/12/patt... #pattismith @tivolivredenburg.bsky.social

Gemini for all your alternate lifespans and countries of origin. And generic plain wrong portraits as well.

His guitar is mixed up front, spewing out a by bevvy of licks and jangling chord changes that will haunt guitar teachers as their pupils will be quizzing them to learn. www.herecomestheflood.com/2025/12/the-... @dunbartunes.bsky.social

They have as grown as musicians, not in "the look mom no hands" kind of way, but they dare to make jump cuts, throw in a few bars of full-on 60s cheesy sci-fi TV theme music or turn the blues inside out (and backwards) when the mood strikes them. www.herecomestheflood.com/2025/12/the-...

Beat, the supergroup that bring 80s King Crimson to Europe next year, have added a show in Zamek W Ćmielowie in Poland. Adrian Belew, Steve Vai, Tony Levin and Danny Carey will be performing @ Stratocastle on July 17. www.herecomestheflood.com/2025/12/beat...

A slow song, looking back on the innocent days when they were young and having a ball messing around in the white stuff was all that was needed to have a great day. www.herecomestheflood.com/2025/12/mart... @martyrsmusic.bsky.social

Starting on December 28: HCTF's best of 2025. 28-12: 20-16 29-12: 15-11 30-12: 10-6 31-12: 5-1 #bestof2025 #music #reviews

They have released a lot of music, but until now a hit record has failed to materialize. Maybe Ripped Blue Jeans will make a splash, as it ticks all the boxes of high energy punk with a pop twist: upbeat, deceptively simple lyrics and singalong potential. www.herecomestheflood.com/2025/12/wast...

Watch the video of the in-studio performance by Scottish band The Beta Band on The Afternoon Show @ KEXP radio in Seattle, recorded on October 13, 2025. www.herecomestheflood.com/2025/12/the-... #thebetaband #kexp #inconcert

Their popularity reached a peak in 2009 with the release of their Fruit album. For reasons unknown it was decided that it needed an expanded reissue, with nothing really worthwhile being added. www.herecomestheflood.com/2025/12/the-...

The incomparable Jonathan Richman will be back on the road with drummer Tommy Larkins in 2026. He might play some tracks from Only Frozen Sky Anyway, an album which had Jerry Harrison, his bandmate in the Modern Lovers, in the producer's seat. www.herecomestheflood.com/2025/12/jona...

For Thursday, the fourth album of their week day album series, multi-instrumentalists Mike Keneally and Marcelo Radulovich went back a couple of decades, using cassettes that were recorded decades ago and use them as stepping stones for twisted party songs. www.herecomestheflood.com/2025/12/mike...

I have been steadily exchanging a rock audience who were nervous about what they had just bought for a jazz audience who not only were happy with their purchase, but are increasingly coming again. www.herecomestheflood.com/2025/12/word... #billbruford

It crops up every Xmas and I always post it, because I love it. Ian Curtis at his office Xmas party.

German musician Markus Guentner moves at glacial pace on The Silver Path, a drone track created by atmospheric electronic textures. It opens up after a bit, offering a glimpse to the road he is trying to find. www.herecomestheflood.com/2025/12/mark... #markusguentner #music #review

It is a collection for anyone who hates the fluff that is piped ad nauseam through the crap sound systems in stores that makes shopping such a maddening experience in this time of the year. www.herecomestheflood.com/2025/12/the-... @somehappything.bsky.social

Montreal based disco-tinged punk rockers The Fake Friends make a case for the losers with their Sucker Born Every Minute, the people for fall for obvious ploys and then have a drink to forget about it. I www.herecomestheflood.com/2025/12/the-... #thefakefriends #music #review #video

He has just broken up with his lover, a hard rain is coming, his bags are packed, so it seems that he is good to go, telling himself that "there ain't sense in stalling". www.herecomestheflood.com/2025/12/kyle... #kyleharvey #music #review

Watch Rich Hope tearing up the place with his band in his hometown Vancouver, performing It Come Alive. www.herecomestheflood.com/2025/12/rich... #richhope #anza #vancouver #inconcert

The vocal harmonies are spot on. That's where the mileage of the band members comes in - a winning combination of skills and experience. The Gold Needles love a good melody and they know how to bring it home. www.herecomestheflood.com/2025/12/the-... @bigstirrecords.bsky.social #thegoldneedles

18 years ago Led Zeppelin took the stage at the 02 Arena in London as the headliners for the Ahmet Ertegun Tribute Concert. Pretty impressive final hurrah. www.herecomestheflood.com/2025/12/it-w... #ledzeppelin #inconcert

Watch bluegrass virtuoso Billy Strings and his band play four songs a NPR Tiny Desk Concert. www.herecomestheflood.com/2025/12/bill... @npr.org #billystrings #tinydeskconcert

Fuzz driven guitar is king, with making a fuzz being a close second. The trio honour the tradition that a punky pop song should be over and done with within three minutes. www.herecomestheflood.com/2025/12/nerv... @nervoustwitchband.bsky.social #newwave #fuzz

Beat bring 80s King Crimson to Europe next year, with a lengthy tour in June and July. Adrian Belew (guitar, vocals), Steve Vai (guitar), Tony Levin (bass) and Danny Carey (drums) know their shit, so this will be good. www.herecomestheflood.com/2025/12/beat... #beat #kingcrimson #hittheroad

Being a rocker does not always require to plug in and be part of a full band. He reinvented himself as a one-man army. He needed to fight this fight on his own for once. www.herecomestheflood.com/2025/12/scot... #scottcollins #music #review

Nautilus is a grower, from a bunch of songs that strike a chord and have the listener's wreck his or her brain to pinpoint the references, before it takes over and washes all over you. www.herecomestheflood.com/2025/12/hema... #hemantrao #music #review

He doesn't shy away from dissonants or applying jump cuts to ensure that his music takes precedence over whatever someone else might be doing while this album plays. Maycox comes close to minimalist avant-garde, as a juxtaposition for the pastoral treats. www.herecomestheflood.com/2025/12/wood...

Welsh poppy punk quintet Swansea Sound decided to have a bit of fun and join the flurry of seasonal releases with a tongue-in-cheek Christmas mini-album. First world problems, Slade and Cheap Trick (seriously). www.herecomestheflood.com/2025/12/swan... @skepwax.bsky.social #swanseasound

Big guy at Paradiso in Amsterdam for a Claw Boys Claw show with a bit of the lyrics of Jethro Tull's Locomotive Breath on the back of his T-shirt, a song that the band will surely play tonight. @paradisoadam.bsky.social #clawboysclaw

A bit more subdued than its predecessor Tuesday, Kennealy and Radulovich set out to tell a story. It is an album about a day that never actually happened, more likely the summation of various daydreams captured in ambient post-rock musings. www.herecomestheflood.com/2025/12/mike...

Dutch brothers Nolle and Beinte Groen wrote a song about the Luxman L-4 stereo amplifier, which was owned by their dad and planted the seeds for the music they would make with their Baby Condor duo: carefully 70s pop with a bit of jazz and rock on top. www.herecomestheflood.com/2025/12/baby...

When I improvise, I play or sing what I live and feel. To me, it's a statement about the truth. The truth is absolute. And by living it through what and how you speak when you sing and play, it is felt and recognized by the listener. www.herecomestheflood.com/2025/12/word...

Take equal parts of Echo and the Bunnymen and Bruce Springsteen, add some spices from The Police, and presto: four tracks that tell a story that does not end well, safe for the confidence that they are on the right track to gain wider recognition. www.herecomestheflood.com/2025/12/cham... #champ

Ronan Conroy and his brother Niall Conroy started working on The Christmas Card on Christmas Eve in 2023. They recorded a demo that was not worked upon further until November this year, when Ronan decided that it was time to finish the song properly. www.herecomestheflood.com/2025/12/rona...

Indie-pop quintet Gentle Brontosaurus are singing about the hopes and dreams they had in second grade as well as the anxiety of having proper dental insurance on their new single Luxury Bones. www.herecomestheflood.com/2025/12/gent... #gentlebrontosaurus #music #review