{"id":581772,"date":"2026-08-03T12:57:23","date_gmt":"2026-08-03T12:57:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/581772\/"},"modified":"2026-08-03T12:57:23","modified_gmt":"2026-08-03T12:57:23","slug":"classic-rock-tracks-of-the-week-august-3-2026","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/581772\/","title":{"rendered":"Classic Rock Tracks Of The Week: August 3, 2026"},"content":{"rendered":"

They’ll be throwing up the bunting in the streets of Gillingham as news breaks that local heroes The Zac Schulze Gang have triumphed in our latest Tracks Of The Week contest, ferried there by their Robert Johnson-inspired single Hellhounds On My Trail. So congratulations to them on what might be the most historic event the town has seen since the Dutch navy sailed up the Medway in 1667.<\/p>\n

The Zac Schulze Gang – Hellhounds On My Trail (Official Music Video) – YouTube
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Congratulations also to King Kraken, who finished well back in second place, and to Halestorm, even further adrift in third. Let’s agree to meet back here in a week to see who triumphs in this week’s rock’n’roll rumble.<\/p>\n

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Airbourne – Here She Comes<\/p>\n

The latest riffer-rolla\u2019 from the Aussies\u2019 long-awaited self-titled new album (the follow-up to 2019\u2019s Boneshaker) is a jubilant affair, packing the lovable, slightly mad energy of a galloping pack of labradors crashing a beach party. It\u2019s only rock\u2019n\u2019roll, but sometimes that\u2019s precisely what you need. After over two decades in the game, few really get that \u2013 and don\u2019t fight it \u2013 quite like Airbourne.<\/p>\n

Airbourne – Here She Comes (Art Track) – YouTube
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\nHannah Wicklund – Red Gorilla<\/p>\n

Written ten years ago \u2013 in the shadow of the controversial death of Harumbe the gorilla at Cincinnati Zoo \u2013 Red Gorilla is a deliciously juicy, funky hit of bluesy rock with an environmentally conscious heart. All raw soul and swagger, no flab or faking it. \u201cHuman beings are but a small piece of a far greater ecosystem, and we must radically choose to care for our environment,\u201d South Carolinian singer\/guitarist Hannah says, \u201cor we will be even more lost as a species than we are right now.\u201d<\/p>\n

Hannah Wicklund- Red Gorilla (Official Music Video) – YouTube
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\nBrothers Osborne – R.I.P<\/p>\n

Few bands nail that sweet spot between currntry and plain old rock\u2019n\u2019roll as happily as these six-foot-something Maryland-turned-Nashville siblings. On R.I.P that feels as true as ever, its rollicking, Stetson-topped heartbeat teamed with a bang-on-the-money groove. At under two minutes it\u2019s on the \u2018punk\u2019 side for the Bros, but if the idea was to whet our appetites for what\u2019s coming next they\u2019ve succeeded. \u201cR.I.P. is us getting back to our musical roots,\u201d lead guitarist\/older brother John says. \u201cThis new music is a rear-view glimpse into where we came from while still driving forward into the new and the unknown.\u201d<\/p>\n

Brothers Osborne – R.I.P. (SELLOUT EDIT) (Official Audio Video) – YouTube
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\nBleeker – Outside<\/p>\n

Soaring, punchy alt rock\/power-pop anthemic sensibilities \u2013 with a mahoosive chorus \u2013 are the order of the week with this Ontario five-piece\u2019s latest. The sort of track that makes them sound like a much bigger band, Outside has hints of Sugar and The Struts in its biting combination of sweetness and shadows, and feels like something a festival crowd would hungrily lap up over a few beverages and group hugs on a hot summer evening. Find more on their next album, Elephant, which comes out in September.<\/p>\n

Bleeker – Outside (Official Video) – YouTube
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\nGreta Van Fleet – Saw You Stand<\/p>\n

Teamed up with genre-hopping producer Mike Elizondo (Tedeschi Trucks Band, Turnstile, Eminem…) for their next album, Palace Of The People, Greta Van Fleet deliver arguably the ballad of their career with Saw You Stand. Hard-hitting, bright-eyed but tender, it finds them prizing incisive songwriting above noodly nostalgia theatrics. And anyone who normally finds Josh Kiszka\u2019s vocals a bit too Jon Anderson-shrill for comfort may warm more readily to his stellar performance here \u2013 still high, still mighty, but married to a tight, on-the-money melody and weighted with real depth, reflective of an eventful few years.<\/p>\n

Greta Van Fleet – Saw You Stand – YouTube
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\nBywater Call – Way To Go<\/p>\n

Building upward from sweet, stripped-back Delta-fried opening notes, Way To Go finds the rising Canadian ensemble at their heartwarming, boot-stomping best. A stirring, thoughtfully written melody around which gospel-fresh harmonies, guitars and horns swirl, natural as sunlight on water, with a touch of bittersweetness in the background. If you\u2019re a fan of Tedeschi Trucks Band, Blackberry Smoke and others in their rousing, soulful southern rock camp, and you haven\u2019t heard Bywater Call yet, for god’s sake check them out now.<\/p>\n

The Band Feel – Stay Around<\/p>\n

St Louis rockers The Band Feel still sound like a band who could have parachuted into the set of Cameron Crowe’s Almost Famous without anyone noticing they were from the future, but Stay Around does at least tinker with the formula a little. The Free-style riff is augmented by a chorus that leans into power pop, with perfectly pitched harmonies and a wibbly-wobbly keyboard that may or may not have been beamed in from deep space. Excellent stuff, as usual.<\/p>\n

THE BAND FEEL – \u201cStay Around\u201d (Official Music Video) – YouTube
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\nCam Cole – Get Up Ya Honky Tonk\u00a0<\/p>\n

Cam Cole’s Fourth album, Lost In Creation, is out in October, and Get Up Ya Honky Tonk is a taster from what promises to be an uncompromising blast of twisted sonic savagery from the one-man London-based grunge-blues explosion. Cam’s vocals sound like Butthole Surfers’ frontman Gibby Haynes might were he guesting on a Jon Spencer single, and there’s also a bit in the middle where everything slows down and gets kinda spooky before business is rowdily resumed. What a lovely racket.<\/p>\n

Cam Cole – Get Up Ya Honky Tonk (Official Music Video) – YouTube
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