Fair warning to all those who might be entertained; there’s more than one bad reason that a person came alone… Released via Tri-Tone Records / Republic of Music, on July 2nd, The Heat Inc. unveil Mind Control – a towering new single that threads the anthem from past to present, as one of the band’s most accomplished and arresting releases to date.

Built around a long-simmering chorus melody and lyric that had existed in fragments since as early as 2014, Mind Control became the result of old ghosts colliding with new vision. What began as half an unfinished idea eventually found its missing piece in the riff and verse of “Belacqua” — an unreleased track originally written years earlier by frontman Jon Dodd in a previous band with current bassist, Nico Rigot.

“Marco had this Chorus melody, I think and I had the lyric for the chorus for years,” vocalist Jon Dodd explains. “We struggled to make it into a whole song, then suddenly I noticed that it fit with the main verse riff and maybe the coda of an old track Nico and I had played in our previous band but never recorded. One day everything just locked into place.”

That collision of timelines gave birth to the song’s strange emotional landscape: a darkly theatrical world populated by memory, regret, and reckoning.

“I couldn’t get a verse lyric down for it until tracking at Woodworm,” Dodd continues. “Then I realised there was this figure — a ringmaster of sorts — guiding a tour of unhappy tourists around a carnival where the exhibits feature lovers you’ve known and possibly wronged in the past. The chorus became a kind of cautionary reprisal to anyone who might enter.”

The result is quintessential The Heat Inc. — balancing crushing weight with haunting melody while refusing to settle into either extreme. It’s a tightrope the band have spent their careers learning to walk.

“Any number of bands can go heavy and there are a lot of bands out there that do easier numbers as a habit,” Dodd says. “But very few can do both in one evening and not seem like two totally different bands. There is a very succinct blend of heaviness with melody that we try to maintain at all times without thinking too hard about it.”

That balance comes from chemistry forged over years together. Marco provides “the vision,” while Nico and Maurizio form “a rhythm section built to untune the sky.” The songs themselves now arrive with greater instinct than ever before.

“We definitely understand one another better now. Stuff comes together faster and we have a pretty keen sense for what’s going to work before getting stuck in the weeds. We’ve always been okay with going for the gentle, melodic number, but now we can do that while still maintaining an intensity that doesn’t overthrow an otherwise beautiful song.”

For The Heat Inc., Mind Control is less a reinvention than a refinement — the sound of a band that knows exactly who they are and have stopped trying to get in their own way.

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NEW MINI ALBUM ‘FUTURE PRIMITIVES’ TO BE RELEASED JULY 31^ST VIA ARMALYTE INDUSTRIES –

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Formed in 2023, Concrete Hyena is a collaboration between vocalist Jay Butler, formerly of 90’s underground Punk heroes Realtv, and post-millennial Major Label USA chancers Grand Theft Audio – and producer Jim Davies, original guitarist for the fledgling dance act Prodigy, who penned the indelible riffs that would launch a million gurns, as well as being guitar slinger in the aural assault of Pitchshifter. Two battered refugees from the Nu Metal wars, joining forces together to bring about the downfall of mankind, aided by live by bassist Toshi formerly of the Professionals/Hey Hello!

Featuring the singles ‘Cut Me Mick’ and ‘Patchwork Guilt’, their crushing debut mini album ‘Future Primitives’ is released this coming July 31^st via Armalyte Industries and will be preceded by new single ‘Hi! I’m Radio Mike’, which is out on Friday 3rd July. The single comes with two new remixes by dARKMODE and The Joy Thieves.

 ‘Hi! I’m radio Mike!’ is Concrete Hyena’s feel good summertime ode to long lost autonomy. It’s a pulsating electronic clash of genres that tangles the listener up in its throbbing beats and guitar blasts.   

“It’s a sonic love letter to the hit machines and radio stations that keep workday toes a’ tapping and empty minds fapping, with its tongue firmly in its cheek,” explains frontman Jay Butler. “This clash of irony and disco will carry you through the next 3 minutes 40 of life’s scorching monotony like an aural life raft – your productivity is UP – your thinking is DOWN – but promotion awaits … now just sing me to the middle of a panic attack.” 

‘Hi! I’m Radio Mike’ – the feel good shit of the summer. Watch the video HERE

With the ‘Future Primitives’ mini album conceived and written during 2025, Concrete Hyena are a musical regurgitation of shared experience, post-millennial storytelling with a side order of powerhouse hooks, eternal optimism and mixed disgust, cock blocking beats and solid intent. Encompassing Butler and Davies shared love of both guitar and electronic music, it inserts multiple fingers into multiple genres – Hard. Concrete Hyena are a sonic headlock, a vocal half nelson – a technical KO.

Also featured on the album are appearances by Jason Bowld (Bullet For My Valentine / PWEI) and Ritch Battersby (The Wildhearts).

‘Hi! I’m Radio Mike’ EP track-listing.

1. Hi! I’m Radio Mike 

2. Patchwork Guilt (Heat Treatment Remix by dARKMODE)

3. Hi! I’m Radio Mike (The Joy Thieves Remix)

‘Future Primitives’ track-listing.

1.  Patchwork Guilt

2.  Hi! I’m Radio Mike

3.  Last Song We’ll Ever Sing

4.  Cut Me Mick

5.  Guns And Ammo

6.  Dark Times On Floor 94

7.  Oddball

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Legendary UK indie-punk outfit Midway Still have officially announced the upcoming release of their highly anticipated new EP, ‘What If….?’, arriving July 31^st via Bitter And Twisted and the band start their UK tour this month.

Featuring four brand-new tracks, the EP captures the band’s signature fusion of raw, distorted guitar walls and infectious, bittersweet melodic sensibilities—a sound that originally helped define the UK’s 1990s rough-edged indie scene alongside contemporaries like Mega City Four and Leatherface.

Recorded and produced by the band, ‘What If…?’ finds the trio delivering some of their most urgent and lyrically sharp material to date. Lead single ‘Could Have Been’ serves as the perfect introduction to the record, blending driving rhythmic urgency with the poignant, introspective songwriting fans have loved for over three decades.

“We wanted this EP to capture the energy of our live shows but with a sharper focus,” says frontman Paul Thomson. “The songs came together quickly, dealing with themes of regret, ageing and lost opportunities. It feels like a natural evolution while staying true to the noisy guitar DNA of what Midway Still has always been.”

First bursting onto the scene with their 1991 debut single ‘I Won’t Try’ and the critically acclaimed Roughneck album ‘Dial Square’, Midway Still established themselves as masters of melodic, fuzz-drenched punk rock. Over the years, the band has maintained a fiercely loyal cult following, proving that their knack for soaring choruses wrapped in heavy distortion is entirely timeless. “What If…?” honours that legacy while proving they are far from done making vital new music.

‘What If…?’ will be available on all major streaming platforms, including Spotify and Apple Music, as well as a limited CD run available through midwaystill.bandcamp.com.

‘What If…?’ track-listing:

• Could Have Been
• Don’t Wanna Feel Anymore
• Nothing In Your Way
• Never Made It Happen

Catch Midway Still on tour this month with Dealing With Damage and Mega Fishy Four at the following dates:

14^th Liverpool, The Tunnel

15^th Leeds, Hyde Park Book Club

16^th Newcastle, Little Buildings

17^th Birmingham, The Hare & Hounds

18^th London, The Hope & Anchor (* supports for this gig are The Charlemagnes/Mezzanine)

19^th Worthing, Audioactive

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Social Distortion have recently released their long-awaited eighth album ‘Born To Kill‘ via Epitaph Records. The new record wastes no time letting the listener know where its heart is: its hard-charging title track — named as one of ROLLING STONE’s Best Songs of 2026 So Far — paying respects to Lou Reed (“Rock ’n’ Roll Animal gonna come your way!”) and Iggy and the Stooges (“The agenda is yeah to Search and Destroy”) and lionizing David Bowie (“It’s a Rock ’n’ Roll Suicide”) on “Partners In Crime.” This is a man, a band, and a record that wear their influences proudly while creating timeless anthems and ballads that chart Social Distortion’s path forward while celebrating its storied past.

Co-produced by Mike Ness and Dave Sardy, and featuring guest appearances from Benmont Tench of Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers and Lucinda Williams, and collaborative cover art by Ness and Shepard Fairey, ‘Born To Kill’ is the latest installment in a remarkable catalog that spans nearly three generations, including Mommy’s Little Monster (1983), Prison Bound (1988), the RIAA gold-certified Social Distortion (1990) and Somewhere Between Heaven and Hell (1992), White Light, White Heat, White Trash (1996), Sex, Love and Rock ’n’ Roll (2004), and Hard Times and Nursery Rhymes (2011).   

Fresh of a hugely successful European tour in support of Born To Kill, including sold-out headline shows in Berlin, London, Amsterdam and Munich, as well as appearances at major festivals including Rock am Ring, Rock im Park, Download Festival, Hellfest, Vainstream, Les Eurockéennes and Rock Werchter, the band will return to the road on 17 July, kicking off a North American tour with special guests The Descendents and The Chats. 

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The surviving members of Sorry and The Sinatras are set to reunite for a special one-night-only performance under the name “The Sinatras” at the Scott Sorry Memorial Birthday Show, taking place on October 30, 2026, at KK’s Steelmill in Wolverhampton.

Guitarists Rich Jones and Dave Kerr will come together to celebrate the life and legacy of their friend and bandmate Scott Sorry, who sadly passed away in October 2025 following an 8 year battle with brain cancer.

The performance will also serve as a tribute to the band’s other fallen members drummer Lenny Thomas in 2016 and bassist Roger Segal in 2022.

Jones and Kerr will be joined by acclaimed drummer Karl Rockfist (Danzig, Michael Monroe) and bassist/vocalist Billy Liar to complete the lineup for this unique performance.

“Sorry & The Sinatras was more than a band” comments Jones “it was a gang of great friends playing rock & roll the way the lord intended – loud, fast and furious! I’m incredibly proud to get the opportunity to honour Roger, Scott and Lenny as we blast our way through these songs for one last time. Dave & I are also very fortunate to have Karl Rockfist and Billy Liar join us as honorary Sinatras – I honestly can’t think of anyone better for the job. So let’s kick off this night right and get everybody singing loud enough that even our old friends can hear it. This one’s for you, fellas.”

Dave Kerr “I am truly honoured to be playing Sorry and the Sinatras songs again with Rich, Billy and Karl in tribute to our brothers Scotty, Roger and Lenny.

Sorry and the Sinatras was the perfect embodiment of Scotty’s love of chaos and a huge chorus – a white knuckle, full-tilt, wrecking ball of a band that I will forever be grateful to have been a part of and more so to call these guys my friends. I can’t wait to bring that spirit and energy to the already amazing lineup at KK’s for the STILL KINGS show.”

The Sinatras will kick off proceedings at the Scott Sorry Memorial Birthday show which is set to include many of Scott’s friends and bandmates.

Other confirmed musicians making guest appearances throughout the night include Scotts former Wildhearts bandmates Ritch Battersby & CJ Wildheart, Dregen (Backyard Babies), Warner E Hodges, Sami Yaffa (Hanoi Rocks/New York Dolls), Tom Spencer (The Professionals/The YoYo’s), The Scott Sorry Band and many more.