{"id":615577,"date":"2026-06-01T17:20:18","date_gmt":"2026-06-01T17:20:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/615577\/"},"modified":"2026-06-01T17:20:18","modified_gmt":"2026-06-01T17:20:18","slug":"classic-rock-tracks-of-the-week-june-1-2026","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/615577\/","title":{"rendered":"Classic Rock Tracks Of The Week: June 1, 2026"},"content":{"rendered":"

Such was The Warning’s dominance in our most recent Tracks Of The Week contest (98% of voters picked their song Ego as their favourite) that we’re considering erecting a statue of them in the Classic Rock office. Very few can mobilise their fanbase so effectively, and for that, they should be saluted.<\/p>\n

The Warning – Ego (Official Video) – YouTube
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Greece’s Fuzzrider and East Anglia’s The Darkness appeared in the very minor medal positions, but their time will come again. Unless, of course, they come up against The Warning, of course. In which case, they’re screwed. This week’s entries are below.<\/p>\n

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Twin Atlantic – Don\u2019t Quit It<\/p>\n

These Scottish rockers make like a scrappier, funkier Muse on Don\u2019t Quit It \u2013 a big juicy alt rocker, swaggering along with a deliciously thick bassline, peaking with one of their biggest, brightest choruses yet. “It\u2019s about not being able to quit something,\u201d frontman\/writer Sam McTrusty says, \u201cor someone, that no matter how much it hurts or drags you down, or disappoints or frustrates you sometimes, you can\u2019t help but love it and need it.\u201d First-class summer holiday fun, with mass singalongs surely in its future.<\/p>\n

Twin Atlantic – Don’t Quit It (Official Lyric Visualiser) – YouTube
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\nGreta Van Fleet – Play Your Games<\/p>\n

They’re back! After a quieter stint \u2013 in which, among other things, guitarist Jake Kiszka embarked on a successful side venture (roots-infused rockers Mirador) with Ida Mae singer\/guitar-slinger Chris Turpin \u2013 Gen Z’s darlings of luxury Zeppelin-fried nostalgia are back with this rollicking marriage of sunkissed dreaminess and uninhibited rock’n’roll bravado. Inspired by an early demo of theirs, it captures a feeling of looking back fondly at more innocent times. To think, they’re still barely out of their twenties.<\/p>\n

Greta Van Fleet – Play Your Games (Official Video) – YouTube
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\nJayler – Hate To See It End<\/p>\n

These young Brits have their hearts (and wardrobes) in the 70s, and a tour with Deep Purple in the diary for this year. Armed with rock\u2019n\u2019rollers like this bright-eyed number \u2013 kicked up with a touch of early Supergrass-esque breeziness \u2013 they shouldn\u2019t struggle to pick up some new fans. \u201cHate To See It End is about that moment when you feel something slipping through your hands,\u201d the band explain, \u201cwhen you know it matters, but you can\u2019t stop it. It\u2019s raw, it\u2019s honest – and it\u2019s about not following the crowd when everything in you says go your own way.\u201d<\/p>\n

JAYLER – Hate to See it End (Official Video) – YouTube
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\nKoyo Bloom – Discipline<\/p>\n

Previously known as KOYO and leaning further into proggy tendencies, the newly branded Koyo Bloom mix up a gauzy, beguiling alt cocktail on Discipline. What starts out as a simple blues-based guitar line blossoms deftly into a pensive summery delight \u2013 light and airy but full of clever touches, interesting vocal harmonies and the sort of emotional shadows found in so much of the best \u2018feelgood\u2019 music. It all bodes extremely well for their new album, Distance, coming soon.<\/p>\n

Koyo Bloom – Discipline (Official Video) – YouTube
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\nTarja \u2013 The Trace Outlives<\/p>\n

Few do heavy, black-corsetted theatre with as much feeling and finesse as Tarja Turunen. Inspired by the Japanese phenomenon of \u201cJohatsu\u201d people who deliberately disappear from their lives, The Trace Outlives combines silky symphonic layers with tight, suckerpunch guitars and emotional intensity, Tarja\u2019s elegant soprano soaring, birdlike, over the top of it all. More of that can be found on her new solo album, the snazzily named Frisson Noir, which comes out this month.<\/p>\n

Tarja – The Trace Outlives (Official Video) – YouTube
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\nSplit Dogs – Be Somebody<\/p>\n

Part punked up boogie, part pub-rock party and about twenty parts all-inclusive carnage, Be Somebody is kicked up by a raucous video shot at the 49 Social Club in Weston-Super-Mare. Expect leather, pints, a glittering bodybuilder, a woman doing a crossword puzzle and guitar-powered joie de vivre for days. \u201cWe put on a decent spread of sausage rolls and cheese and pineapple on sticks,\u201d singer Harry relates, \u201chired Elvis to perform a set and had a good old knees up. The vibe was Martin Parr meets David Lynch. The music video is a love letter to our community. Loud, brash, sweaty and unapologetically alive! Up the Punx!”<\/p>\n

SPLIT DOGS-BE SOMEBODY (OFFICIAL VIDEO) – YouTube
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\nTom Morello – Adjourn It<\/p>\n

Some musicians wear their political colours quietly. Tom Morello is quite clearly not one of those people, and with gnarly bangers like this to show for it, why would he do otherwise? Completed by System Of A Down\u2019s Serj Tankian at the mic (not to mention Morello\u2019s son, Roman, on additional lead guitar duties), Adjourn It makes a catchy opening case for his next solo album, turbocharged by the injustices of our age and a fuckload of moreish riffage. Nice.<\/p>\n

Tom Morello – \u201cADJOURN IT\u201d – YouTube
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\nThe Band Feel – Twice Alive<\/p>\n

Hotly-tipped (by us, at least) St. Louis rockers The Band Feel are back with a new single that kicks off with the kind of riff Ritchie Blackmore might have come up with during Rainbow’s heyday, then proceeds to get blusier and wilder, veering into the kind of territory explored by Rival Sons at their most feral. There’s even an insouciant “Woo!” at one point, as if to emphasise that Twice Alive couldn’t be any more fun if it were covered in silly string, glitter and foam.<\/p>\n

“Twice Alive” – THE BAND FEEL (Official Music Video) – YouTube
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