8分強のニューシングル「Bad Moons」は、5月1日発売の待望の新作アルバム『American Football (LP4)』から初公開となる楽曲だ。元々2曲に分かれていたものを統合した完成版は、圧倒的な感情の深みを余すところなく表現している。LP4では、人生の厳しい現実と真正面から向き合い、中年期の混乱、妥協、悲嘆、そして苦労して得た視点について考察している。作曲とレコーディングのプロセスを一新したバンドは、これまでで最も音的に野心的なアルバムを完成させた。重層的で不協和音に満ち、時に挑発的でありながらも、常に深い感情が込められている。
「Bad
Moons」は、バンドがSNS投稿で5月リリースを発表した『LP4』の正式告知と同時に公開された。元々は2曲に分かれていた本作は、ソニー・ディペリ（DIIV、julie、These
New
Puritans）がプロデュースを手掛け、8分間に及ぶ楽曲となっている。アレックス・エイシー＆レミ・ベルヴィル監督によるスローモーション・モンタージュのミュージックビデオも同時に公開された。
Luby Sparksが2026年2月11日に世界発売されたプレイステーション5 (PS5)、Xbox Series X|S、PC (Steam) 用ゲーム「ROMEO IS A DEAD MAN」用に書き下ろした海外でも話題の新曲「Liar」。ゲームの映像を使用したOfficial Lyric Video (Director : Yudai Isizuki)とSUPER DOMMUNEで行われたライブ動画をLuby SparksのYouTube CHにて公開。
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Luby Sparks' new song “Liar,” written specifically for the game “ROMEO IS A DEAD MAN” released worldwide on February 11, 2026, for PlayStation 5 (PS5), Xbox Series X|S, and PC (Steam), has become a hot topic overseas.
The Official Lyric Video (Director: Yudai Isizuki) using footage from the game and the live video from SUPER DOMMUNE are now available on Luby Sparks' YouTube channel.
・Luby Sparks - Liar (ROMEO IS A DEAD MAN Opening Theme) Official Lyric Video
Luby Sparksが2026年2月11日に世界発売されたプレイステーション5 (PS5)、Xbox Series X|S、PC (Steam) 用ゲーム「ROMEO IS A DEAD MAN」用に書き下ろした新曲をリリース。
「ROMEO IS A DEAD MAN」は、世界に熱心なファンを持つ、ゲームディレクターの須田 剛一が代表を務めるGRASSHOPPER MANUFACTURE INC.による新作でLuby Sparksは、オープニング、ゲーム内、エンディング用に4曲を提供した。
ゲームのオープニングに起用されている「Liar」は、「ROMEO IS A DEAD MAN」の世界観にあわせたインダストリアル・オルタナティヴ・サウンド。2月13日にデジタルでリリースされる。また、「ROMEO IS A DEAD MAN」オープニング映像もYouTubeにて公開。
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Luby Sparks has released a new song written specifically for the PlayStation 5 (PS5), Xbox Series X|S, and PC (Steam) game ‘ROMEO IS A DEAD MAN’, which was released worldwide on 11 February 2026.
‘ROMEO IS A DEAD MAN’ is the latest title from GRASSHOPPER MANUFACTURE INC., led by game director Goichi Suda, who boasts a passionate global fanbase. Luby Sparks contributed four tracks for the opening, in-game, and ending sequences.
The opening track for the game, ‘Liar’, features an industrial alternative sound tailored to the world of ROMEO IS A DEAD MAN. It will be released digitally on 13th February.
Additionally, the ‘ROMEO IS A DEAD MAN’ opening video has been released on YouTube.
10月にはタイでの海外公演、2023年3月全米7都市にて「US Tour 2023」、9月「Strawberry Music Festival 2023」を含む中国全7都市「China Tour 2023」、10月韓国、11月インドネシア「Joyland Festival」へ出演を行うなど海外での展開も積極的に行なっている。2024年5月にリリースした「Songs for The Daydreamers」EPに続き、2025年1月24日にも「Songs of The Hazy Memories」EPをリリース。
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Luby Sparks is a Japanese alternative rock band formed in 2016. The band’s current lineup is Natsuki (bass, vocals), Erika (vocals), Tamio (guitar), Sunao (guitar), and Shin (drums). The band’s self-titled debut album, Luby Sparks (2018), was recorded in London with Max Bloom (Yuck/Cajun Dance Party) as a co-producer. In 2019, they released a single titled “Somewhere,” which was remixed by Robin Guthrie (Cocteau Twins).
In May 2022, Luby Sparks released their second album, Search + Destroy, which is produced by Andy Savours, a Mercury Prize-shortlisted producer and engineer in London, who is known for working with My Bloody Valentine, Black Country, New Road, and Rina Sawayama. The album launch show at WWW X in Shibuya held in June was successfully sold out.
In October, they performed in Bangkok, Thailand. In March 2023, Luby Sparks were actively expanding overseas with their first headline US tour around seven cities (New York, Boston, Philadelphia, San Francisco, Seattle, San Diego, and Los Angeles). In September of the same year, they were touring in seven cities in China, including a show at Strawberry Music Festival 2023, followed by a performance in Korea, and the worldwide festival Joyland Festival 2023 in Indonesia. Following the release of the last EP Song for The Daydreamers released in May 2024, new EP Song of The Hazy Memories will be released on January 24th, 2025.
Le Makeup、今年リリース予定のアルバムからの先行シングル第2弾「block party」。幾多に重なる歌声と、アンビエンスを感じさせる繊細なピアノがループするミニマルなトラックに、強さと弱さの間で揺れる感情を吐露したようなリリックが印象的な楽曲。ヴィジュアル・アーティスト、jvnpeyによりMusic Videoも公開。
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Le Makeup, a new lead track ‘block party’ from his upcoming album which would be released in 2026.
A track featuring layered vocals and delicate piano that evokes ambient sounds, looping in a minimalist arrangement, with lyrics that seem to pour out emotions oscillating between strength and vulnerability.A music video has also been released by visual artist jvnpey.
Singer/Producer.He began seriously pursuing composition while attending Kwansei Gakuin University, subsequently releasing works on various domestic and international labels. Released the album “Binetsu” in 2020. He's performed in China, South Korea, the Netherlands, Denmark, and Germany.
In February 2023, released the album ‘Odorata’ featuring contributions from Dove, gummyboy, JUMADIBA, Tohji, and Tamaki Roy. It garnered attention, including coverage by Pitchfork.
In May 2024, released the album ‘Premonition’ with Seigen Ono participating as mastering engineer. Held his first solo concerts, titled ‘Premonition’, in Tokyo and Osaka.
A new album is scheduled for release in 2026. From the album, ‘hajimari’ (6 February) and ‘block party’ (25 February) will be released as advance digital singles.
全13曲にわたり、Glassio（サム・R）はシューゲイザー、2000年代初頭のエレクトロニカ、サイケデリック・フォークの要素を織り交ぜ、記憶とメロディが共に漂う音響世界を創り出す。 アルバムは明晰夢のように展開する——混乱から始まり（「Join the Club」「Give Me Back My Future」）、自己不信と憧憬の渦をくぐり抜け（「I’m So Far Away」「Downtown Hero」）、最終的に終曲「Take a Look at the Flowers」で優雅な受容へと至る。この曲はアヴァンポップアーティスト、マッジとの輝かしいコラボレーションだ。
Glassio’s third album, The Imposter, is a luminous meditation on identity, doubt, and the quiet act of returning to oneself. Written after a transatlantic move from New York to London and in the wake of newfound sobriety, the record unfolds as a self-portrait in motion — a dream-pop opus about shedding illusion and rediscovering purpose in creation.
Across its 13 tracks, Glassio (Sam R.) weaves together elements of shoegaze, early-2000s electronica, and psychedelic folk, creating a sonic world where memory and melody drift in tandem. The album moves like a lucid dream — opening in disorientation (“Join the Club,” “Give Me Back My Future”), spiraling through moments of self-doubt and longing (“I’m So Far Away,” “Downtown Hero”), and ultimately arriving in grace and acceptance with the closing track, “Take a Look at the Flowers” — a radiant collaboration with avant-pop artist Madge.
“That song became my way of ending the loop,” Sam explains. “After all the searching, it’s just about stopping for a second — seeing what’s still blooming around you. It’s the record’s exhale.”
At its core, The Imposter asks a question that has haunted artists for generations: If you were denied the right to create, would you still know who you are? This inquiry surfaces most directly on “Hit or Bliss,” a spoken reflection that reframes the classic Rilkean test of creation as survival. The album doesn’t offer easy answers — instead, it finds beauty in uncertainty, empathy in imperfection, and purpose in the impulse to keep making.
“For a time, I lost my sense of self,” Sam admits. “I’d been performing roles — for people, for the industry, for an idea of who I thought I was supposed to be. This album was me stripping all that away and finding the real voice underneath.”
From the pulsing nostalgia of “Heartstrings” to the spectral shimmer of “Al Pacino” and the introspective haze of “I’m So Far Away,” each track feels like a page from an artist’s internal dialogue — by turns playful, melancholic, and transcendent. Even the most outward-facing songs hum with inner reckoning.
While Glassio’s earlier work drew comparisons to the escapist bliss of acts like Hot Chip and M83, The Imposter inhabits a more vulnerable register — one where self-awareness replaces spectacle, and the line between persona and person begins to blur, meshing strands of New Wave, Shoegaze, Electronica and Dream-Pop all in one.
It’s a record born from confrontation: with addiction, with artistic doubt, with the quiet fear of being forgotten. But in the end, The Imposter offers a different kind of faith — the faith that what’s real can’t be performed.
“A maker makes,” Sam says. “That’s what they are. I had to stop running from that.”
By the time “Take a Look at the Flowers” featuring Madge closes the record, the tension has softened. What began as a battle with identity ends in a gentle realization: the self was never lost — it was waiting beneath the noise all along.
過去のリリースはBBCラジオ1のオルタナティブ番組でオンエア、Spotifyの「All New Rock」プレイリストに選出。音楽メディア、LADYGUNNからは「飽和状態の音楽シーンで際立つ、オルタナティブロックとポップへの独自のアプローチ」と称賛。 EARMILKはデニスのボーカルを「異次元から送り込まれたかのような衝撃的で誘うような歌声。最高の形でオルタナティブロックの荒削りと大気的な物語性を融合させ、ノワール調の映画的な世界を創り出す」と評した。
「aiming alone」
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Nashville-based artist and producer Mel Denisse has always leaned into duality. Whether she’s blending left-field pop with jagged alt-rock or threading delicate vocals through dissonant, distorted production, Denisse is drawn to the clash with her newest genre-defiant single, "aiming alone".
She shares, " 'aiming alone’ details wanting to be understood with urgency, while still feeling sealed off behind glass. On the other side, the world watches and speculates, close enough to see you, never close enough to meet you. That distance becomes the point: the two realities can’t be reconciled. The outro carries that into finality – an acceptance of the lone road, and the resolve of aiming alone."
Previous releases earned spins on BBC Radio 1’s Alternative Show, placement on Spotify’s All New Rock, and praise from tastemakers at LADYGUNN, who applauded her “singular approach to alt-rock and pop, setting her apart in a saturated landscape,” calling it “refreshing, essential listening for those craving authenticity in an age of imitation.” Meanwhile, EARMILK described Denisse’s vocal performance as “striking and inviting, as if dispatched from another dimension, in the best way possible, creating a cinematic, noir-drenched world that blurs alt-rock grit with atmospheric storytelling.”
今週、コビエラがリリースした新曲「Trial By Fire」は驚くほど宣言的で内省的な楽曲であり、完全にコミットする勇気と、結果を悔やまず、受け入れる姿勢を探求しています。アコースティックギター中心のフォーキーなソングライティング、そしてアトモスフェリックなコビエラの歌声が美麗な印象を放つ。本作はまた、ソングライターの寝室をもとにした日常の情景を映し出す映画的な映像と共に公開された。映像には、日本の旅行ガイドブックなども映し出される。
断定的でありながら内省的な最新シングル「Trial By Fire」は流れに身を委ねる勇気と、結果を苦々しさなく受け入れる姿勢を探求する。 プロデューサー兼ミキサーのジャクソン・ヘイルとの思慮深い歌詞と控えめなプロダクションを通じ、イアン・コビエラは努力、脆弱性、真実を根幹に据えた音楽の領域を切り拓く。
イアン・コビエラは新曲について、説明している。「最近、ただそれ自体のために過去を見つめ直す時間を過ごした。全てを正直に受け止め、その滑稽さと不変性の中で自分自身を笑うために」 『Trial By Fire』はまさにその感覚を捉えている――全力を尽くし、逆の結果を得ながらも、なぜかそれでいいと思えること。これまで避けてきたテーマと向き合いたかった。宣言も挑戦も愛している。それらは何よりも勇気を宿している。私は全力を注ぎ、最善を尽くしている」
「Trial By Fire」
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Leaving behind classical piano to pursue songwriting, Ian Cobiella is a Los Angeles singer-songwriter who blends classical training with the influence of his Cuban-Bolivian upbringing.
He draws inspiration from folk, alternative, and classical songwriting traditions, seeking to write songs that sit with discomfort rather than rushing past it, and letting emotional honesty lead the way. His production favors intimacy over excess, magnifying missteps and attempts for what they are.
His latest single, "Trial By Fire", embodies this approach. Declarative and reflective, the song explores the courage it takes to commit fully, and accept outcomes without bitterness. Through thoughtful lyricism and understated production with his producer and mixer Jackson Haile, Ian Cobiella continues to carve out a space for music rooted in effort, vulnerability, and the truth.
He shares, "I’ve recently spent some time looking at my past just for the sake of it; to be honest about it and to laugh at myself, in all of its ridiculousness and immutability.
"Trial By Fire" captures exactly what that feels like––giving everything I can, getting the opposite outcome, and somehow being fine with it. I wanted to wrangle with some themes I’ve been uncomfortable exploring before. I love declarations, I love attempts; these to me hold more courage than anything. I’m giving it my all and trying my best."
新曲｢back for me feat. YONCE｣が10インチレコードで発売予定。この楽曲は、ラッパーが関わってきたミュージシャンとの共同制作。三浦淳悟(Ba)、佐藤優介(Pf)、斎藤拓郎(Gt)、石若駿(Dr)によるバンド編成でレコーディングを敢行。さらにYONCE(Suchmos / Hedigan's)をフィーチャリングに迎え制作した一曲。ミックスは浦本雅史、マスタリングはColin Leonardが担当。
ニューシングルはピアノの演奏を交えたジャジーなR&B/ヒップホップ。ローファイからの影響も感じられる。心地よいメロウな雰囲気からKid Fresinoによるソフトなラップが叙情的な空気感を放っている。印象的なアートワークの写真は志賀理江子(child's play 2011)、レイアウトは鈴木聖によるもの。10インチレコードにはB面に同楽曲のインストゥルメンタルが収録される。
2015～2017年に放送された『京都人の密かな愉しみ』、2017年～2022年に放送された『京都人の密かな愉しみ Blue 修業中』に続く第3シリーズである。
第1シリーズ以来の、暮らしの中の気高さや気品、愛嬌をクラシカルな佇まいで表現する空気を受け継ぎながら、微かにパリの雰囲気をまとった新しい楽曲群が誕生した。エンディング曲「Mal Také Ebisu」は、京都に伝わる童謡「丸竹夷」と「寺御幸」をもとにアレンジしたもので、第1シリーズのエンディング曲「京都慕情」が好評を博した武田カオリがボーカルで歌う。
マット・ジョーンズ・アンド・ザ・ボブスは単なる復帰ではない——彼らは前進している。かつてないほど力強く、確固たる決意をもって自らの物語を世界に届けようとしている。時代を超えながらも新鮮な音楽で、彼らはリスナーの心に消えない刻印を刻み続ける準備が整っている。その始まりとなるのが、2枚目のスタジオ・フルアルバム『Matt Jones and the Bobs』である。
Emerging from the heart of Southwest Virginia, Matt Jones and The Bobs have woven a tapestry of raw emotion and timeless storytelling since their formation in 2011. The band first came together during their time at Radford University, where Matt Jones (vocals, guitar) and his bandmates—affectionately known as “the Bobs” —took their shared passion for Americana, roots, and classic rock, and transformed it into a sound that resonated with listeners on a deeply personal level. Their debut album, “Brother's Hymn”, released in 2014 while they were still in college, marked the beginning of their journey into the world of music. With tracks that captured the essence of small-town life, love, loss, and the everyday struggles that come with growing up, the album quickly gained a loyal following for its honest songwriting and gritty performances.
But like many bands that start in their youth, the road ahead was not without its twists and turns. After years of intense dedication to their music, the members of Matt Jones and The Bobs took a step back in 2015, each pursuing individual careers, business ventures, and entrepreneurial pursuits. The band entered a hiatus, but the bonds forged through years of creating music together remained unbreakable. For ten years, the members thrived in their own respective worlds, but the pull of music—the connection to their roots, their storytelling, and their shared experiences—was always there, simmering under the surface.
Fast forward to 2024, and Matt Jones and The Bobs have reunited, bringing their signature sound back to life with renewed energy and purpose. Though they’ve stepped back into the world of music after a decade, their roots in Americana, folk, and southern rock remain as strong as ever. However, this new chapter carries fresh twists—a subtle infusion of 90s influences, a bit of grunge grit, and more expansive instrumentation that complements their established sound. The heart of their music remains, however, unwavering: a commitment to capturing the emotional essence of life, love, heartbreak, and the triumphs and trials that make us human.
The band’s songwriting is nothing short of iconic, blending storytelling with profound vulnerability. Each song is a narrative—a glimpse into the human experience through the lens of Matt Jones' deeply personal lyrics. From tales of love and heartbreak to reflections on death, struggle, and the perseverance needed to keep going, the music continues to strike a chord with listeners. It’s a sound that feels both familiar and fresh, a nostalgic journey through the ups and downs of life that feels like an old friend whispering in your ear.
The music of Matt Jones and The Bobs isn't just a collection of songs; it’s an invitation to relive the highs and lows of existence. It’s a sound that will transport you back to moments of personal significance, where the struggles and joys of life feel not only relatable, but necessary for growth. With each note, they invite their audience to embrace their own stories, finding solace in the knowledge that they are not alone in the journey.
As they step into this exciting new phase of their career, Matt Jones and The Bobs continue to honor their roots while exploring new sonic territory. They’ve grown, they’ve evolved, but the heart of the band—the soul of what made them so beloved in the first place—is as powerful as ever. Matt Jones and The Bobs aren’t just back—they’re stepping forward, louder, stronger, and more determined than ever to share their stories with the world. And with music that is as timeless as it is fresh, they are ready to continue leaving an indelible mark on the hearts of their listeners beginning with their second full studio self titled album "Matt Jones and the Bobs".
Their latest single is an Americana-meets–folk rock anthem is a heartfelt track rooted in vulnerability and timeless storytelling. The song is "a tribute to the people who keep us grounded when the world feels like it’s falling apart. It’s about friendship, love, and the calm you find in the one person who never waivers," Matt Jones shares. "It’s a still reminder that even when life spins out, the right person can hold you steady.” Leaning into breezy soundscapes driven by warm, layered guitars and melodic riffs, Matt's vocals anchor the track in honesty and soul. The music video features him performing in comforting places in his hometown like the harbor, lookout point, and under a tree in the park, echoing the song's theme of finding calm in the midst of struggle.
