Hall of Ukrainian Rock’n’Roll
In our traditional support of the Ukrainian rock scene, we would like to offer you a story about a remarkable event that took place in western Ukraine in the small town of Manevychi. Every year, at the end of May, all the world's museums hold a night at the museum, and such a night took place in Manevychi, where at the same time the soft opening of the first hall of the future Rock Capital museum took place. The hall is called The History of Ukrainian Rock and Roll and is the first of seven planned halls of the Rock Capital Museum. Perhaps it would not have been so attractive if the Rock Capital Museum had not truly been the first rock museum in Ukraine.
Do you know at least one Ukrainian punk rock band?
Do you know at least one Ukrainian punk rock band? Of course, no one asked me such a question, but I sometimes ask it to my friends. Talking about the glorious traditions of Ukrainian rock n roll, I don't want to miss punk itself. The first thing that comes to my mind is the band Borshch. Some people will say it's not punk rock, and maybe they're right. But musically and lyrically, Borshch has a spark that only lives in this style.
David Bowie’s first address
It remains interesting that even such alien rock stars as David Bowie had his parental home on our unfortunate planet. The future star lived the first 6 years of his life in 40 Stansfield Road, Brixton, London.
Formation of the Ukrainian rock n roll scene
2022 has become too difficult for one of the largest countries in Europe. It is about Ukraine and its heroic people. The passing year has brought devastation and tears, pain and suffering to the country. In its fight against the invaders, Ukraine is choosing its freedom and the right to a democratic future. Today we wanted to remember the glorious past of this musical nation and especially, we are interested in the development of the rock scene in Ukraine, in a country with its ancient roots and culture. How it was and how it was born.
The Radio Addicts – Let’s Party Like It’s The 90s
**There's a particular kind of arrogance that only the very young — and the very good — can get away with. The Radio Addicts have it in spades.**
Moon Construction Kit – Down the West Coast
The opening seconds of *Down the West Coast* arrive like a half-remembered dream: distant guitars dissolving at the edges, a flute curling upward through a shimmer of synths, the whole construction so delicate it seems to breathe rather than play. You hold still. You wait. Olivier Cornu, the Lausanne-based multi-instrumentalist and producer who operates under the name Moon Construction Kit, knows precisely what he is doing with that silence. He is building a room and inviting you into it before you have quite realised the door was open.
Living Theory – Teke Me As I Am
The hardest thing to manufacture in heavy music is the sense that a band has already paid their dues before you ever press play. Living Theory, who have spent years replicating Linkin Park's hybrid grammar across European stages, bring exactly that quality to their debut original single — a kind of earned authority that sits in the groove before a lyric is sung.
Jonathan Lobo – Hero
There is a particular kind of courage involved in writing a song that asks, sincerely and without irony, how you would like to be remembered. Pop music, on the whole, has little patience for such questions. It prefers the transaction: the hook, the drop, the thirty-second skip window. Jonathan Lobo, a Dubai-based lawyer and independent songwriter, appears entirely uninterested in any of that. *Hero*, his latest single, arrives like a letter written by candlelight — unhurried, honest, and slightly terrifying in its emotional clarity.
DadJoke – Fun Intended
The most subversive thing about *Fun Intended*, the debut album from Chicago's DadJoke, is how completely it refuses to condescend. Not to children, obviously — children's music that talks down to its audience is so commonplace as to be unremarkable. No, what Reminick refuses is the more pernicious condescension: the kind that assumes "music for small people" must therefore be small music. This album is enormous. Ludicrously, thrillingly, almost aggressively enormous.
John Lebanon – Kite without a string
There is a particular kind of album that refuses to announce itself. It doesn't arrive with a manifesto or a provocateur's flourish. It simply appears, quietly, like a letter pushed under a door — and you only realise its weight after you've already read it twice.
SI-KEY – THE COLOURS
Let's get the logistics out of the way, because they matter here. SI-KEY — a solitary figure from Telford, that perpetually underestimated town in the West Midlands — recorded this entire debut EP alone, in a spare room, singing into a phone while leaning away from the neighbour's wall. No studio. No band. No budget to speak of. Just ideas, a phone app, headphones, and what sounds like an almost painful reservoir of feeling that had been dammed up for years and finally, mercifully, broke.
Connie Lansberg – Aeroplane
Lead singles are, at their best, a promise. They ask you to trust that whatever lies on the other side of the release date will be worth the wait. Connie Lansberg and Brad Rabuchin's "Aeroplane" — the title track from their forthcoming voice-and-guitar duo album — is the kind of promise that is very easy to believe.
Baïki – KosmoX
Phil from Charleroi has no business being this provocative and this entertaining simultaneously, yet here we are, staring down one of the more audacious singles to emerge from the Belgian underground in recent memory. *KosmoX*, the latest dispatch from his project BAÏKI, arrives gift-wrapped in satirical fury — a gleaming, darkly comic missile aimed squarely at the rotten heart of human self-delusion.
Damien Cain – Caleb (JD Radio Edit)
Some songs arrive quietly and stay forever. "Caleb," the latest single from German-born, Ireland-based singer-songwriter Damien Cain, is precisely that kind of song — one that does not announce itself with fanfare, but settles into the memory like a photograph found at the back of a drawer. Produced by UK hitmaker Jay Dixie, whose credits span Meghan Trainor and Ella Henderson, this radio edit strips away any potential for excess and leaves something genuinely rare: a ballad that earns every second of your attention.
WINACHI – STATE OF MIND
There is a particular kind of song that arrives not so much as a piece of music but as a reckoning. *State of Mind*, the debut single from Warrington's WINACHI and the opening salvo of their forthcoming album, is precisely that kind of song — a three-minute act of self-examination from a band who spent the better part of two years dragging themselves across three continents and only recently stopped to ask whether they were still intact.
Chandra – Nessun Dorma (We Will Win!)
Some songs arrive fully clothed in ambition. You hear the opening bars and understand immediately that whoever made this was not content with half-measures. Chandra's audacious reimagining of Puccini's *Nessun Dorma* — timed with almost indecent precision to the opening salvos of FIFA World Cup 2026 — is precisely such a record: a work that could have collapsed under the weight of its own hubris, and instead stands tall, chest out, arms wide, daring you not to be moved.