Weekly Music News 07.02.26
The musician מתי כספי passed away on February 8, 2026 at the end of a battle with cancer, at the age of 76.
כספי, one of the prominent creators and composers in Israeli music, was considered a central figure in shaping local pop and rock from the seventies onward. During his many years of career he composed, arranged and produced dozens of albums and collaborated with the best artists in Israel. His passing marks the end of one of the most significant and influential periods in Israeli music.
From here we want to send our deepest and sincerest condolences to the guitarist of the band "Walkways", בר כספי, son of מתי כספי, and to his dear family.
After "שמועות" - the first catchy single the band released in December 2025, the band "המלך מסודידס" is releasing a second single called "דלתות", from a new album on the way. "מסודידס" are already pulling in a more complex and dynamic direction, even somewhat progressive, including even an arrangement for a string quartet.
Two weeks ago the band "Red Band" released an English cover of the song "עוד חוזר הניגון" by נתן אלתרמן.
We very very very much recommend going to the "Red Band" Facebook page and seeing what פיליפ thought of the performance!!
Lyrics: נתן אלתרמן, Music: נפתלי אלטר, Translation: ארי פפר, Arrangement and music production: דן איילון, Vocals: ארי פפר, Bass, drums, guitars, percussion, programming: דן איילון, Cello and string arrangement: מאיה בלזיצמן
Guitarist and producer Cole Rolland has released the official music video for the song "Breathing" featuring Alissa White-Gluz.
The piece presents a collaboration between Rolland, who became famous for metal versions and viral YouTube pieces, and the former "Arch Enemy" singer. This is Alissa's first appearance since she left "Arch Enemy".
The band "Puscifer" released another single this week, "Bad Wolf", from the album that came out today, see below....
The band "The Black Keys" is releasing the official music video for the song "You Got To Lose".
The song is the first single from the upcoming album "Peaches!", due out on May 1, 2026.
The eldest daughter of Chris Cornell, Lily Cornell Silver, shared this week for the first time two songs by the band she formed, called "Josie on the Rocks". According to a post she published on social media, the band was formed about five years ago, around 2021. The group managed to record two songs and film a video, but after the tragic death of the drummer Graham, the project stayed out of the spotlight. Now the two singles "Not You" and "Super Sonic" have been released.
The band "Green Day" performed at the opening ceremony of the Super Bowl LX event held at Levi's Stadium in Santa Clara. The group, which includes Billie Joe Armstrong, Mike Dirnt and Tré Cool, opened the event with a medley from the album "American Idiot" with the songs "Holiday", "Boulevard Of Broken Dreams" and the title track "American Idiot", just before the game in which the Seattle Seahawks beat the New England Patriots.
After the performance the band wrote on social media that it was an extraordinary energy and that it was a home-field show for them.
The band "SUBMASQ", which we love so much, is releasing its third EP "Oedipus" today. As part of the Oedipus complex theme, the band performs very special covers on the EP of songs like "Mother" by Danzig to "Mama" by Genesis and one special cover of "Mutter" by Rammstein performed in Yiddish.
Listen to the EP on: Spotify
The musician Brad Arnold, lead singer and founder of the band "Three Doors Down", passed away this week at the age of 47 after a battle with cancer. Arnold was diagnosed in 2025 with stage 4 kidney cancer. In a statement published by the band on social media, it was announced that he died on February 7, surrounded by his wife Jennifer and his family, after a brave battle with the illness.
Arnold was one of the founders of 3 Doors Down in the late nineties and served as the band's lead singer and main writer throughout its entire journey.
The musician "TX2", chosen as one of the promising names by Kerrang! for 2026 as part of the Sound Of 2026 list, is releasing his debut album "End Of Us" today. An album that presents a direct connection to the audience he built around him through the X Movement community, a community that promotes messages of inclusion and emotional radicalism. The album marks TX2 as an artist who arrives with a tight-knit community and a clear sound from the very start. If you smirked at the word "community", calm down, because this young guy has a crazy fan community!!!
Listen to the album on: Spotify
And continuing with the video... the band "Puscifer" released last week its fifth album "Normal Isn't", the first in about five years. The album includes 11 tracks, among them "Thrust" and "Bad Wolf", and presents a darker sound with post-punk influences and prominent electronics. According to Maynard James Keenan, the album reflects the sense of frustration and chaos of the present time, with a freer and more direct approach in the creative process.
Alongside the album's release, the band announced a North American tour that will launch in the coming months.
Listen to the album on: Spotify
This week it was reported that a private group of forensic investigators claimed that its findings do not match the immediate death by self-inflicted gunshot that the Seattle police announced regarding the death of Kurt Cobain. The unofficial team re-examined an autopsy report and photos from the scene and raised doubts about the accepted version. Following the publication, both the Seattle police and the King County medical examiner's office issued official statements.
As a reminder, Cobain, lead singer of Nirvana, was found dead on April 5, 1994, and his death was determined at the time to be a suicide by self-inflicted gunshot. The authorities stressed that there is no new information that justifies reopening the case.
The bands "Behemoth" and "Slaughter to Prevail" received notices this week from the authorities in Turkey that their shows planned to take place this week were cancelled. Slaughter to Prevail were due to perform on February 10 at the Zorlu Performing Arts Center, and the next day Behemoth's show was planned, but both shows were cancelled by decision of the authorities. Behemoth published an official statement on social media expressing disappointment and apologizing to the fans, and noted that it tried to hold a dialogue with the local authorities but the decision remained in place. According to the band, religious figures called its music "satanic propaganda". The lead singer of Slaughter to Prevail, Alex Terrible, also addressed the cancellation on social media and expressed disappointment with the move.
The band "Twisted Sister" announced the cancellation of the tour planned for 2026 to mark 50 years since its formation, due to health problems of its lead singer Dee Snider. In September 2025 the band announced its intention to hold a limited number of shows, a decade after its official farewell tour. It has now been announced that Snider had to withdraw from the shows following a series of health challenges, and in a joint statement by guitarists Jay Jay French and Eddie Ojeda it was written that the band's future will be determined in the coming weeks, and that further updates will be provided later.
The band "Bring Me The Horizon" released a first trailer for its new concert film L.I.V.E. In São Paulo Live Immersive Virtual Experiment. The cinema event will be screened for only two evenings, on March 25 and 28, in cooperation with Trafalgar Releasing, Sony Music Vision and RCA. The film was recorded in front of about 50 thousand viewers at Allianz Parque stadium in São Paulo, and presents the band's biggest headline show to date.
The musician, lead singer of the Italian metal band "Rise Of Voltage" and Olympic skier Dominik Paris, won a bronze medal in skiing at the 2026 Winter Olympics. Paris, 36, is considered one of the veteran athletes in the sport to win an Olympic medal in recent years. Alongside his skiing career, he serves as the lead singer of the Italian metal band Rise Of Voltage, which he founded in 2017 in the city of Merano in South Tyrol together with his brother Lukas Paris and their friends Frank Pichler and Florian Schwienbacher.
New York City will honor the memory of Jimi Hendrix with a street naming in his honor in the Greenwich Village neighborhood.
On February 24, 2026 at 11:00, an official ceremony will be held in which West 8th Street will be named Jimi Hendrix Way. The ceremony will take place near the building that housed Electric Lady Studios, which Hendrix founded in 1970.
The studios, founded on Hendrix's initiative, became over the years one of the most prominent and influential recording centers in New York.
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