{"id":578495,"date":"2026-08-24T05:06:24","date_gmt":"2026-08-24T05:06:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/578495\/"},"modified":"2026-08-24T05:06:24","modified_gmt":"2026-08-24T05:06:24","slug":"classic-rock-tracks-of-the-week-august-24-2026","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/578495\/","title":{"rendered":"Classic Rock Tracks Of The Week: August 24, 2026"},"content":{"rendered":"

Another tough week in the rock’n’roll mines is over, and this week’s seam of gold belongs to These Wicked Rivers, whose recent single Sing Another Song (featuring Kezia Gill) received enough support to ensure it rode into the sunset victorious.<\/p>\n

Sari Schorr’s Mr In The Middle came in second, while Spiders’ Creature Of The Night managed to clamber onto the bottom rung of the ladder.<\/p>\n

These Wicked Rivers – Sing Another Song Feat. Kezia Gill [Official Music Video] – YouTube
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This week’s UFC of rock music is now underway. Check out the combatants below, and vote for your favourite at the foot of the page.<\/p>\n

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\"Lightning\n<\/p>\n

HOL1D4Y – Autonomatic<\/p>\n

“It\u2019s a word I came up with by combining the words: autonomy and automatic.\u201d says Rival Sons guitar-hero-in-chief Scott Holiday, explaining the title of this latest single from his solo project. \u201cAutonomatic: The built-in or intrinsic desire for autonomy.\u201d Accompanied by a fittingly psychedelic, mixed-media video, Autonomatic offers another enticing taste of first HOL1D4Y album, Topology (out next month and highly recommended), playing out like a riffy, cinematic trip into the desert. Shweeet.<\/p>\n

HOL1D4Y – Autonomatic (Official Music Video) – YouTube
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\nJoyous Wolf – In Your Shadow<\/p>\n

When these guys parted ways with livewire, back-flipping singer Nick Reese (due to \u201ccreative differences\u201d) we wondered if that was it for the punchy, commanding young Californians we first fell for around 2018. So we\u2019re happy to find them on fighting form with this heart-warming highlight from their just-released album In Between, with new frontman Pedro Cordeiro bringing a gravelly, Chris Cornell-infused soulfulness to the mix. Straight-shooting in a good way.<\/p>\n

Joyous Wolf – In Your Shadow (Official Audio) – YouTube
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\nJoanne Shaw Taylor – The Girl That You Loved Before<\/p>\n

Gorgeous Telecaster tones, husky, soul-flecked pop and rock\u2019n\u2019roll abound in this latest chapter in JST\u2019s current hot streak (this appears on her second album in two years, The Trouble With Love, coming out in October). Lush bluesy solo, too \u2013 Jo\u2019s still very much a Stevie Ray Vaughan-raised blueser at heart, on the guitar front, though as TGTYLB reflects, her voice and melodies keep her in more cosmopolitan territory.<\/p>\n

Joanne Shaw Taylor – \u201cThe Girl That You Loved Before- Official Music Video – YouTube
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\nGirish & The Chronicles – Disintegrate<\/p>\n

On this moody, oomphy newbie, Indian hard rockers Girish & The Chronicles swap their hair metal heft and 80s Sunset Strip opulence for grungier sensibilities with some proggy metal bass twangs. Still packs a simple-yet-effective punch though (\u201cthis would happily live on my gym playlist,\u201d one colleague remarked), complete with a flashy guitar solo that harks back to their leather-jacketed roots.<\/p>\n

Girish And The Chronicles – “Disintegrate” – Official Music Video – YouTube
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\nEddie 9V – Whole Lot Coming For You<\/p>\n

Taking flight with Freddie King-laced fire and landing on the right side of ramshackle, the Atlanta singer\/guitarist mixes up a hot cocktail of blues, Southern soul and headshaking vintage rock\u2019n\u2019roll. Feels like it belongs in a different era, in a totally fun way \u2013 the kind of bluesy jam that makes you want to grab the nearest axe and join in. Not hard to believe that it was one Eddie\u2019s favourite tracks to cut, when he made its parent album, Down Here, with Black Keys man Dan Auerbach.<\/p>\n

Eddie 9V – “Whole Lot Coming For You” [Official Music Video] – YouTube
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\nEarth Tongue – Dimly Lit Cadaver<\/p>\n

Returning to their B-movie horror roots with the brilliantly titled Dimly Lit Cadaver and a video shot in the actual Swiss Alps, this might be the finest release yet from New Zealand psych-fuzz duo Earth Tongue. It includes some stellar riffing from Gussie Larkin \u2013 especially the section with the extra grunt that steams in at 2’35” accompanied by some strange burbling \u2013 and brilliantly propulsive drumming from Ezra Simons. Throw in Larkin’s spooky, pagan-chant vocal stylings, and you get the perfect soundtrack for your next coven AGM.<\/p>\n

Earth Tongue – Dimly Lit Cadaver (Official Music Video) – YouTube
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\nGraveyard – A Means To An End<\/p>\n

These Swedish rockers strap on their biggest, stompiest boots for this taste of their forthcoming album, the spicily titled Fever. Fierce, fuzz-heavy and full of ragged punch, A Means To An End finds them swapping woozy retro trappings for a heavier, more straight-shooting approach. Still alluring, still old-soul Sabbathian cool, but now it\u2019s all kicking off on the dirtier, dicier side of their proverbial musical town.<\/p>\n

GRAVEYARD – A Means To An End (OFFICIAL MUSIC VIDEO) – YouTube
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\nDe Staat – The Underdog<\/p>\n

And now for a curveball. Offbeat, contorted and expansive, the Dutch art rockers\u2019 return after two years gains another shot of momentum with this industrial mini-epic. The Underdog builds and builds over cascades of high, eerie organ and vocals, cavernous beats and thunderous basslines \u2013 sort of like Rammstein at a rave with glowsticks, descending into a kind of dystopian nightmare, but really this is very much its own, enigmatic thing. A compellingly odd but hooky taste of their upcoming self-titled album. This divided opinions in the office, and it\u2019ll probably do so among you good folks. But isn\u2019t that the point sometimes?<\/p>\n

De Staat – THE UNDERDOG (Official Music Video) – YouTube
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