[31 Tracks, Are You Trying to Destroy the Dancefloor?! My Knees Buckled When The Avalanches Dropped the Full Tracklist for Their Star-Studded New Album 'No Bad Memories'] Hey, hey, hey! It's your man Funky Dave Monroe—living and breathing for the groove, the guy who starts instinctively stepping the second a bassline drops, even while waiting in line at the supermarket checkout! Emergency alert to groove addicts brothers and sisters nationwide. If you’re sitting at desk right now, you better stand up and stretch immediately. A ridiculous tidal wave of sound just rolled in from Australia! That's right, those sampling and dance music wizards, The Avalanches, have just dropped the complete tracklist for their 4th studio album, 'No Bad Memories'! …

【A strike from 24-year-old hotshot Mathias Lattin! The night of the drop for "Cadillac Assembly Line," the new single from Kingfish's new label】 Sipping cheap bourbon late at night while tuning my ear to a distorted guitar tone. This is my humble slice of happiness, but tonight, I nearly dropped my glass. It was so shocking that the cat curled up in my lap bolted upright and scrambled straight up the curtains. Christone “Kingfish” Ingram, the young emperor of the current blues scene and Grammy-winning guitarist. The new label he launched in partnership with Exceleration Music, Red Zero Records, has just unleashed an absolute monster as their very first act. His name is Mathias Lattin. And believe it or not, he's only 24. When I was 24, my only memories are falling behind on studio equipment payments and throwing out my back while hauling a senior musician's amp, slapped with a pain-relief patch. Yet this young guy has already shared the stage and held his own with battle-tested legends like Buddy Guy, Jimmie Vaughan, Eric Gales, Kenny Wayne Shepherd, Samantha Fish, and even Joe Bonamassa. His resume is so stacked it made me instinctively reach for the antacids. …

【【Metal News】The metal scene is too chaotic! From Sleep's space trip to Doro's insane cover, and ex-Danzig's hilarious health battle, a soul-shouting round-up!】 Hey hey hey, crank your amp volume up to 11 and clear out your ears! I’m Johnny Thunderstone, the guy who’s jammed his head a little too close to the front-row speakers at a live venue and now lives with a constant high-pitched mosquito "REEEEE" ringing in his left ear! This week in the metal world is as sharply tingling to my stomach as the time I bought one too many distortion pedals in the studio and nearly got served divorce papers by the wife. I’m bringing you the absolute best scoops that made me let out a weird "Gwah!" while checking the news on my commuter train, earning me double-takes from the salaryman sitting next to me—all delivered with the sheer momentum of a headbang! --- …

【[OBITUARY] The queen of smoky low vocals Cassandra Wilson passes away at 70—Oh great groove that kept our hips shaking from the freakish polyrhythms of M-Base, may you be eternal!】 Hey hey hey! Groove addicts across the nation, are your hip isolations ready!? It’s Funky Dave Monroe, the funky correspondent for JOCOLLA Music News! But hey today, we gotta turn down the volume on the bass amp and wipe away the tears pooling behind our sunglasses. An absolute giant has departed for the giant dancehall in the sky. Two-time Grammy-winning legendary singer Cassandra Wilson has passed away at the age of 70 in her hometown of Jackson, Mississippi. Local TV station WLBT reported the news incorporating the mayor’s statement, sending shockwaves through soul and jazz heads worldwide. …

【A roar that shakes the late-night lower back pain! Wash your soul away with the "Shake ‘Em Down Tour" featuring Samantha Fish and Cedric Burnside】 It was one of those nights when I was pouring cheap bourbon into a cheap glass, listening to the ice cubes clinking and melting away. Piercing slide guitar notes suddenly burst from the speaker, causing me to ungracefully choke on my drink and cough violently. "Hey now, who's out here grabbing my heart with their bare hands in the middle of the night?" I muttered to myself, but the culprit was instantly obvious. It was Samantha Fish. Looks like she's at it again. Word just came in that the "Shake ‘Em on Down Tour"—the hit showcase hosted by Samantha Fish, who keeps on rocking the sacred grounds of the blues—is returning in the fall of 2026 with a killer lineup. The moment I saw the names listed as co-headliners, even a dried-up old middle-aged guy like me almost let out a low, weird shriek of "Whoa!" right there on my commuter train. …

【【TEARS GUARANTEED】The trailer for Rush's legendary drummer Neil Peart's 96-minute documentary is finally out! From a raging Till Lindemann to the return of Aura Noir, heavy music news is blowing up big time!】 Can't stop your ears from ringing? Bring it on, that's the heartbeat of rock 'n' roll! I'm Johnny Thunderstone, the blasting shock trooper of JOCOLLA Music News! Headbangers across the nation, stop putting ice on your necks right now and sit seiza-style in front of your amps. A bombing run of insane news has just arrived. The official trailer for 'No One’s Disciple', a feature-length documentary chronicling the life of the late, great Rush drummer and deity of all drummers Neil Peart, has finally been unleashed upon this world! And that's not even all. We've got Rammstein frontman Till Lindemann dropping wildly ferocious live footage, plus news of a shocking comeback from Norwegian black-thrash heavyweights Aura Noir. Come on, can my heart even handle this double-bass barrage!? …

[Hips Automatically Swinging Warning Issued! All Humanity Dancing Wildly to the Supreme Funky Remake Wowed by 90s R&B Legend Shawn Rivera] Hey hey hey, groove addicts of the entire galaxy, are you alive out there?! It’s your writer, Funky Dave Monroe! I’ll confess, right out of the gate. This morning, while brushing my teeth and listening to this new track, I shook my hips a little too violently to the insanely pleasant snare attack and rolling bassline. As a result, I scored a critical hit on the roof of my mouth with the tip of my toothbrush and writhed in agony alone in the bathroom. But I have zero regrets. Because the sound entering my ears was **100% top-grade funk drugs**! Shawn Rivera, founding member of Az Yet—that legendary vocal group that colored the 1990s—has kicked down a brand new door to his solo career, dragging an incredible, top-tier groove right along with him! …

【A gritty roar that sets nights with backaches ablaze! Samantha Fish leads the chilling winter "Shake ‘Em on Down Tour"】 The ice in a glass of cheap whiskey makes a lonely, clinking sound. When the season arrives when the night chill sinks into your bones, an old injury and a dry soul need blues that smell like dust rather than neat pop music. No, let's be honest. For a sorrow-soaked middle-aged man like the writer of this piece, the blues is no longer music—it's basically a medicinal pain relief patch or something. Into that chilled body, wonderful news has dropped like tossing an oversized alcohol lamp straight at it. Grammy-nominated, highly skilled guitarist and singer Samantha Fish has announced the upcoming "Shake ‘Em on Down Tour," a famous tour that she herself hosts. This tour is no ordinary gig. It is a three-way showdown of the soul, featuring three fierce talents who slash through the massive sea of trees known as the blues from completely different angles. …

【Wash your necks and wait! Thrash living legends Testament tease studio entry & Darkest Hour drop news of ferocious new record "Suffer Divine"!】 Hey hey hey! All you headbangers nationwide, how are your ears holding up?! Me? My ears have a constant high-pitched ringing from years of front-row pit life, but two mega-ton, ultra-heavy metal news flashes have just dropped that completely blow away even that kind of blast-beat hearing loss! The moment I read this news on my commute train, I almost instinctively busted out a full-swing air guitar without caring who was watching—yes, it’s me, Johnny Thunderstone! Today, we bring you red-hot, up-to-the-minute studio updates from Bay Area thrash metal treasures **Testament** and melodic death metal/metalcore heavyweights **Darkest Hour**, who take melancholy and brutality to the absolute limit!…

[Can't stop stepping in the desert!? Rumors surface that Tame Impala and Dua Lipa are frontrunners to headline Coachella 2027!] Hey everybody! Are you shaking your hips to those funky beats today? I'm your groove-addicted writer, Funky Dave Monroe! Out of nowhere, some huge news just dropped, and I have to share how I reacted. When I saw the breaking news alert on my phone while waiting in line at the supermarket checkout, I got so excited I instinctively busted out an air-slap-bass solo right there, prompting the cashier to calmly ask, "Are you paying with PayPay?" That's right—we're talking about massive, top-tier rumors regarding the headliners for Coachella 2027, one of America's biggest outdoor music festivals! According to reports from music media outlet Stereogum—citing information from industry publication HITS Daily Double—none other than Tame Impala, masters of psychedelic, supreme euphoria, and Dua Lipa, the absolute queen of modern disco-pop, are being floated as headliner candidates for Coachella 2027! …