Having fearlessly plumbed the murky depths of our archives, Sub Pop’s crack team of archivists have resurfaced with glad tidings! The Go’s Free Electricity, the group’s storied, long-lost album, will finally see worldwide release on Friday, September 4th, 2026! The ten-track long player was written, composed, and arranged by Bobby Harlow (except track one, which was written by Harlow and Dion Fischer; and track five, written by Harlow and Cary Loren).
 
Free Electricity was mixed and produced by Matthew Smith, engineered by Jim Diamond at Ghetto Recorders, and mastered by Jim Kissling at Jim Kissling Mastering in Detroit, Michigan.
 
The Go’s Free Electricity features highlights such as the title track, “All Dimensions Are Loose,” and “Secular Century Man,” and is available now to preorder on CD/LP/Digital from Sub Pop. LP preorders from megamart.subpop.com in North America, Mega Mart Europe in the UK and EU, and your local record store will receive the limited Loser edition on Metallic Gold vinyl (while supplies last).
 
More on The Go’s Free Electricity by Matthew Smith:
The Go appeared in Detroit in 1998, and I immediately became a fan. I’d been waiting for Detroit to produce a group this good since Brownsville Station broke up, and here they were, except I liked The Go even more than all their hometown predecessors. I eventually was asked to produce their first two albums, so I was granted the rare opportunity to be the producer of my favorite rock and roll group.
 
The first was the debut album Whatcha Doin’, and the second was the mysterious, legendary “lost” album, Free Electricity.
 
After a few bass and lead guitar personnel shakeups, and a lot of touring in the U.S. following the release of Whatcha Doin’, The Go were back in Detroit with a bunch of new songs which they wanted to record immediately. We again went to Ghetto Recorders, and were in there for a week, maybe two weeks? The Go played these songs at full blast in the studio, getting them all on tape in just one or two takes. The atmosphere surrounding these sessions was one of openness and creativity, so the overdubbing process was an avalanche of ideas, coming down really fast, and going to tape effortlessly.
 
The title track might have ended up sounding like a more traditional rock and roll song, but I suggested they do a take with the lead guitar blasting non-stop, something which made the dynamics more like that of a free jazz ensemble. When I sat down to mix the track, the reverb tank seemed to open up like a giant hole in the earth’s crust and suddenly what came out of the speakers was a big, cavernous sound, like some haunted frequency beamed across the time barrier from the Grande Ballroom circa 1968. At this point, the mixing board felt more like a Ouija board. We were going where the music was leading us, and the strange sounds just kept on coming.
 
There’s a heavy jazz influence on this record. We were all listening to a lot of ‘60s free jazz, so it seemed quite normal (to some of us) that the mixes tended to sound a bit more like records by Pharoah Sanders and Sun Ra than the records being made by our peers in the rock and roll scene.
 
Perhaps this was perceived as a strange approach back in the year 2000, and there certainly were some people who felt we were totally out of control and maybe a bit crazy, but The Go were only as out of control as their musical and literary heroes, like the Fugs and Allen Ginsberg and the Bonzo Dog Band and Nilsson and lots of other individualists who inspired them. 
 
Guest appearances by Cary Loren from Destroy All Monsters and John Olson from Wolf Eyes only reinforced the album’s musical direction. Anyway, “weird” or not, this was an inspired recording made by an inspired group of musicians. There was a feeling of excitement and adventure happening at these sessions, and I think we captured that feeling on tape.

The Go
Free Electricity
 
Tracklisting:
1. Free Electricity
2. Secular Century Man
3. All Dimensions Are Loose
4. Peacock Angel
5. Pharaoh’s Tomb
6. Into Outer Space
7. Turnin’ On
8. Blood Red Sun
9. Muthers of the Earth
10. Golden Dawn
 

Today, Friday, June 26th, Downtown Boys have released Public Luxury, their enthralling new album, out now worldwide from Sub Pop. The band is celebrating the album’s entry into the world with a poignant new video from animator Romy Matar for album standout “Yellow Sun,” which The Skinny notes, “there’s a melodic softness that reveals a fragility under the surface, something which might even appeal to fans of The Killers.”
 
Band member Joey La Neve DeFrancesco elaborates further on the song and visual: “‘Yellow Sun’ is a song for Lebanon, written as Israel’s ongoing invasion and occupation of the country began in 2024. The lyrics were inspired in part by the work of Lebanese poet and painter Etel Adnan, especially the poems “Beirut 1982” and “The Arab apocalypse,” which she wrote during Israel’s earlier occupation of Lebanon from 1982-2000. As with Ednan’s work, the song is meant to name the horrors (“phosphorous skies,” “every day an angel explodes”) while also insisting on the possibility of a new day: “The trees grow in every direction / I’m still heavy with love…
 
“The accompanying video by Lebanese animator Matar is a fable-like tribute to the decades of displacement and hostility faced by the indigenous shepherds and rural communities of Palestine and Lebanon since 1948. It also contains visual references to Adnan’s paintings.”

Downtown Boys are announcing a new UK and EU late fall/winter headlining tour, which begins on December 4th in Amsterdam, NL at Paradiso, and runs through December 21st in Rome, IT at Monk. Tickets for these shows are on sale now.
 
Downtown Boys’ previously announced US live dates for summer and fall 2026 are underway, with an album release show and benefit tonight, June 26th, organized by Willimantic Records for the Covenant Soup Kitchen & Food Pantry at St. Paul’s Episcopal Church in the band’s second “hometown,” Willimantic, CT. The band’s US touring schedule continues through Saturday, September 26th in Mississauga, ON at Second Summer Festival.
 
Please find a current list of dates below.
 

Today, June 25th, Australia’s Girl and Girl have shared two new digital singles, “Hell” b/w an official video for their song “It’s Dead.”

The band’s front person, Kai Aubort, shares this about the video/single for “It’s Dead”: “We’re always hinting at death in our music, talking about it in such roundabout ways, so I thought it was about time I just came out and said it … IT’S DEAD!!!!”
 
You can watch the official video directed by Alexandros Kalas below. 

The “Hell” and “It’s Dead” singles are Girl and Girl’s first new material since the release of the band’s 2025 singles “Okay” and “The Cow,” and their 2024 debut full-length, Call A Doctor, which Rolling Stone Australia called “emotional mayhem that’s relatable and very catchy.”   The band is also announcing a seven-date Australian run, beginning on July 17th at Coolangatta, QLD, with additional shows in Brisbane, Sydney, Melbourne, Byron Bay, and the Gold Coast. Please see a full list of shows below.   Fri. Jul. 17 - Coolangatta, QLD - Coolangatta Hotel (Inner Realm Party) Sat. Jul. 25 - Brisbane, QLD - The Junk Bar (18+) Sat. Jul. 25 - Brisbane, QLD - The Junk Bar (All Ages) Fri. Jul. 31 - Sydney, NSW - Northies Sat. Aug. 01 - Melbourne, VIC - The Curtin Fri. Aug. 07 - Byron Bay, NSW - Byron Arts Factory Sat. Aug. 08 - Gold Coast, QLD -  Super Secret Block Party

What people are saying about Girl and Girl: “A fantastic debut from a sparkly and singular new band.” [Call The Doctor] NME   “A perfect dose of indie – punk rock at its best.” - [“Hello”] Happy Mag   “A warped mix of Talking Heads, Rolling Blackouts and bits of post-punk but led by a man with a mullet and one of their aunts plays drums in the band!” - [SXSW Review] BBC 6 Music   “Brisbane four-piece Girl and Girl are ones to watch in the world of sharp-tongued raucous-riffed garage rock…Girl and Girl’s all too rare multigenerational collaboration brings a fresh angle on the post-Strokes garage rock sound.” KUTX Radio   “Girl and Girl recall the stalwarts of 2010s garage rock, their affinity with jangly guitars and buoyant rhythms undercut by feverishly intense playing and a cloying sense of claustrophobia.” [Call The Doctor] DIY Girl and Girl “Hell” + “It’s Dead”

Today, Thursday, June 18th, 2026, Cartel Madras returns with the sleek drum and bass single “EVIDENT 2 ME,” a new collaboration with Toronto-based producer Jide.

“EVIDENT 2 ME” is Cartel Madras’s first transmission since the release of their acclaimed 2021 project The Serpent & The Tiger. The duo arrives with vengeance on their mind and adventure laid out before them.

Blending militant rap, electronic music, jungle, industrial textures, and cinematic worldbuilding, “EVIDENT 2 ME” pushes Cartel Madras deeper into their own universe: one unconcerned with trend cycles and obsessed instead with atmosphere, tension, and transformation.

The song is available now worldwide on all streaming services from Sub Pop and in Canada through Royal Mountain Records. The official video for “EVIDENT 2 ME” was directed by FOREIGNERZ (@sansfuccs).
 
This weekend, Cartel Madras team up with Toronto producer Jairus Sharif for a performance at the 2026 edition of Sled Island Festival in Calgary, AB, supporting labelmates Clipping at The Palace Theatre on Saturday, June 20th. Additional live dates will be announced soon.
 
Cartel Madras is currently at work on their full-length studio album due out early 2027 on Sub Pop Records and Royal Mountain Records.
 
About Cartel Madras
Following the release of Cartel Madras’s 2021 project The Serpent & The Tiger, sisters Eboshi and Contra spent the years that followed dismantling and rebuilding the project’s foundations entirely. Refining their sound and visual universe behind the scenes, the duo emerged for select moments: appearing on Clipping’s “Mirrorshades Pt. 2” from Dead Channel Sky, opening for M.I.A. during her debut performance in India in 2023, and landing music within the EA Sports FC universe.
 
In 2026, Cartel Madras returns with a new single, “EVIDENT 2 ME,” a drum and bass collaboration with Toronto Producer Jide, that finds Eboshi and Contra with vengeance on their minds and adventure laid out before them.
 
Born in Chennai, Tamil Nadu, and raised in Alberta, Cartel Madras crafts a cultural syncretism of house, trap, punk, industrial electronics, and razor-sharp rap. Known for explosive live performances that channel the energy of underground queer and punk scenes, the duo has built a reputation for music that is confrontational, playful, cinematic, and impossible to pin down. In 2018, they signed to Sub Pop Records, releasing three acclaimed EPs alongside a growing body of striking visual work directed and produced through their own multidisciplinary practice.
 
Cartel Madras has shared stages with artists including JPEGMAFIA, Jack Harlow, Wu-Tang Clan, clipping., Mac DeMarco, and supported Sudan Archives. Alongside their music career, Eboshi and Contra have expanded their artistic universe into film, installation, and visual storytelling through their production house FOREIGNERZ, creating immersive worlds that blur the boundaries between music, cinema, fashion, and contemporary art.