Rock My Coffee

By Jo D. — caffeinating about music since 2016

An album about our glorious age of distraction, and a night in Lisbon that gave us the real high instead. Fontaines D.C. opened their European tour at the MEO Arena, and I was never going to miss it.

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Fontaines D.C. on stage at the MEO Arena: the singer standing on a giant screen bathed in orange light on the left, the band small on a lit stage in front of a shimmering green curtain with fontaines dc projected across it, the crowd in the foreground

The Jacks are back. U2 dropped The Greatest Show On Earth and announced a 2027 stadium tour opening in Latin America with Beck.

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Tour poster for U2’s The Greatest Show On Earth, World Tour 2027: the title stacked in rusted neon letters of every colour in a desert graveyard of old signs at dusk, under a red arrow reading Carnaval De Luz presents and a neon devil in a top hat. A red and gold U2 sign glows in the bottom corner, next to the words with special guest Beck

I cried for a hundred minutes. Not in waves, not at the obvious bits — the whole way through, in a London cinema, in public, like an absolute professional.

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Twelve photos of the band in a grid, duotone yellow and black, portraits and live shots on a scratched black background

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Seen from behind the singer at the front of the stage, one arm raised, facing a packed room with the balcony above, black and white

Stars aligned to seize the power with Yonaka

Roasted on: 06 Oct 2026
Brew time: 13 min

Album artwork: a four-panel collage of scratched photocopies in pink, grey, cream and olive, overwritten with mirrored handwriting and a cross of black tape, Stray Dogs scrawled in blue

Stray Dogs Took Me For A Walk

Roasted on: 30 Sep 2026
Cup score: 84
Brew time: 12 min

The band walking a shoreline in suits, ghosted images of their younger selves layered across the sky behind them

Fifty Songs For Fifty Years Of U2

Roasted on: 25 Sep 2026
Brew time: 16 min

Album cover: three women in pale, torn gowns posed on wet rocks in a shallow sea at dusk, the sky washed pink and lilac behind them

Everything’s Falling takes the hits but punches back

Roasted on: 16 Sep 2026
Cup score: 83
Brew time: 11 min

Slane Castle gig poster: a crouching figure rendered in iridescent pink, green and blue over a dark ground, behind the words SLANE CASTLE in large blue blackletter, with the dates 26 and 27 June 2027 and the support acts listed

Fontaines D.C. at Slane Castle 2027: Two Nights, One Hill

Roasted on: 06 Sep 2026
Brew time: 2 min

Blood Cells single artwork: red blood cells seen through a microscope, framed in the screen of a camera with its playback controls, between BLOOD CELLS and K.FLAY in heavy black capitals on white

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Blood Cells

K.Flay

Released: 2026
On repeat: ∞

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