PUSSY RIOT Mastermind NADYA TOLOKONNIKOVA’s First Goal
16 June 2026
Photo by Max Avdeev
Watch your back, Vladimir. You’re going down sooner than you think.
New album CYKA (Russian for ‘bitch’) out now.
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Full interview with NME right here.
BOB DYLAN’s Double Masterpiece ‘BLONDE ON BLONDE’ Is 60 Today
Significant longplayers from yesteryear
20 June 2026
The now 85-year-old singer-songwriter genius BOB DYLAN released one
of his solid gold masterpieces, double LP BLONDE ON BLONDE, today
60 years ago, on 20 June 1966.
It was the final album of a trilogy, the eternal troubadour recorded in
1965/1966. The other two being the classic Bringing It All Back Home
and Highway 61 Revisited.
Combining the expertise of Nashville session musicians with a modernist literary sensibility, the album‘s songs have been described as operating on a grand scale
musically, while featuring lyrics one critic called “a unique mixture of the visionary
and the colloquial“. It was one of the first double albums in rock music.
It peaked at #9 in the US and #3 in the UK.
Rolling Stone Magazine called Blonde on Blonde: “the most mysterious, majestic
and seductive of Bob Dylan albums, not to mention the greatest. It remains the pinnacle
of Dylan’s genius. It’s his most expansive music, with nothing that resembles a folk song,
just the rock & roll laments of a vanishing American, the doomed outsider who’s given
up on ever belonging anywhere.” .
Singles.
– JUST LIKE A WOMAN –
(Live)
– RAINY DAY WOMEN #12 & 35 –
(Audio)
– I WANT YOU –
(Live)
ALBUM
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Instagram – Website – All Albums
A compilation of pictures taken by Jerry Schatzberg (who also took the blurred photo for the front sleeve) were on the gatefold sleeve of the first vinyl pressing in 1966.
Amazing Album Artwork – Cover Of Brand New One By Doom Metal Vets WARNING
20 June 2026
Band: WARNING
Who: Notorious British
doom metal vets.
Album: RITUALS OF SHAME
Their brand new one
and first in 20 years.
Sputnikmusic says: “It’s absolutely insane how they can come back after 20 years and drop an album of this magnitude. Sit down, lay back and get lost in the darkness my friends.”
DROPKICK MURPHYS Honor SHANE MACGOWAN & THE POGUES
Daily electricity to load your batteries
19 June 2026
Boston‘s celtic punks DROPKICK MURPHYS cause
sonic havoc and massive sing-alongs since 1996.
They released 13LPs, thus far, over the years and
their gigs are known for being wild fiestas.
On November 13th, a tribute album to the late, incomparable Pogues‘ songsmith
legend and notorious frontman, titled 20th Century Paddy – The Songs Of Shane MacGowan will be released.
It’ll feature a extensive cast of big names such as U2, Primal Scream, Tom Waits,
The Libertines, Steve Earle, Kingfishr, Bob Geldof, Kate Moss, Johnny Depp, Bruce
Springsteen, The Jesus and Mary Chain and a ton more. Full tracklist here.
The album will be available in three physical formats, headlined by
a Limited Edition Deluxe Bookpack. This set includes 3LP, 2CD, and a
60-page book featuring rare memorabilia and liner notes.
Pre-order info here.
One of the guests on the record are, of course, DROPKICK MURPHYS.
They picked The Body Of An American from the Pogues’ masterpiece LP
Rum, Sodomy and The Lash
Rolling Stone says: ‘The Body of an American’ is a masterpiece of contradictions. One of the realest songs ever written about immigration, also one of the best funeral songs, also one of the best drinking songs. But it’s also the realest song about leaving home and laughing it off, when you know in your heart you’ll never return and you’ll never get over the true love you left behind and you’ll never truly have a home again”.
Sing, drink, cry, smile and party.
Image Of The Day – Historic Girl Refs Power
For the first time an only all-woman trio led a FIFA World Cup game.
It happened yesterday for the match between Czechia and South Africa.
The American female referees Tori Penso along with
her assistans Brooke Mayo and Kathryn Nesbitt
made history.
GIRL POWER!
POND – Psych Pop Rockers From Down Under Have Their Bulletproof 11th Album ‘TERRESTRIALS’ Out
19 June 2026
Photo: Kristofski
Band: POND
Who: Popular psych-pop-rock
veterans from down under.
New album: TERRESTRIALS
Their 11th. Out on June 19th.
Pre-order info here.
Press info: “Terrestrials is a cyclone of urgent, scorched earth rock’n’roll, tipping
the hat to the sounds of then while squarely facing up to the here and now.
Conceived from a place of reverence for a particularly potent epoch in Oz rock, Terrestrials mines the sound of open sky melancholia, heat haze sizzling on the plains and jangly pub backrooms that hits an eternally poignant nerve for anyone familiar with the sound, time and place.”
Album artwork
DIY Magazine says: “Pond are devised as a group in which anything goes, something that
has always been both their underlying strength and their weakness. They will always exist in their own weird and wonky world, but it’s a place that everyone should visit every once in a while. The band boil everything down to its very essence.”
TUTV: I’m not a steady Pond follower. Mind you, they accomplished some great things
now and then, but overall, to my ears, they were a band playing always, just under the surface of psych guitar pop splendiness. Not bad, not good (enough), until now.
Terrestrials is packed with a string of vigorous firecrackers with Two Hands, Roebuck
Plains, The Fatal Shore, and Tourmaline as the best of many best. For the very first time, these spunky-funky-punky Aussies will crowd my earphones for a long while. Bulletproof entertainment.
Singles.
– TERRESTIALS –
– TWO HANDS –
– THROUGH THE HEATHER –
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SIOUXSIE AND THE BANSHEES Released Their Post-Punk Landmark Album ‘JUJU’ Today 45 Years Ago
Significant longplayers from yesteryear
19 June 2026
London‘s post-punk pioneers SIOUXSIE AND THE BANSHEES (1976–1996)
released their 4th LP, named JUJU on 19 June 1981, today 45 years ago.
Steve Severin (guitarist/producer): “Juju was the first time we’d made a “concept”
album that drew on darker elements. It wasn’t pre-planned, but, as we were writing,
we saw a definite thread running through the songs, almost a narrative to the album
as a whole”.
It was acclaimed by critics upon its release, with praise given particularly to
John McGeoch‘s unconventional guitar playing and Siouxsie‘s vocal performances.
It remains a critical favourite and is seen as a landmark album of post-punk.
Sounds (legendary British music weekly) wrote at the time: “Siouxsie’s voice
seems to have acquired a new fullness of melody with a rich, dark smoothness.
The way this unit operates is impressively cohesive, like one brain the inventive
musical talents of guitarist McGeoch, drummer Budgie and bassist Severin mesh
perfectly with Siouxsie”.
Singles.
– SPELLBOUND –
– ARABIAN KNIGHTS –
ALBUM
JUKEBOX 2026 – WEEK 25 – Five New Rad Tracks Added Twice A Week
Hello, music junkies.
Another batch of 5 new, stellar tracks has
been added to Turn Up The Volume’s Jukebox.
Turn it up.
ALL TOGETHER
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TRACK BY TRACK
Band: MESH
Who: Electric indie 4-piece
from Philadelphia.
Track: VIOLENT PEASANT
Single from their upcoming debut LP, called No Fun At All.
Out July 24th. Tracklist and pre-order info right here.
TUTV: Think Tom Verlaine’s Television then, and Parquet Courts
now, at their jangliest cutting best. 6-string mania at work.
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Band: FERVENTS
Who: Revved-up Belgian
indie noiz rockers
Track: BROKEN HOME
TUTV: This high-voltage haymaker detonates every time the raucous chorus kicks in and aims at your teeth. Neurotic guitars, hectic drum/bass fervency, and a singer who tests your eardrums’ flexibility combine for a jagged juggernaut that will alert the anti-decibel police.
S-s-strike!
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Band: KIWI JR.
Who: Canadian indies with
3 albums under their belt.
Track: PURE MICHIGAN
Jeremy Gaudet (songwriter): “I‘d been trying to write a song about
the Detroit-Windsor border for a couple of years, American kids crossing
the bridge to the Canadian bars because the drinking age is two years
lower.”
TUTV: This is summer fun, this is sonic adrenaline, this works faster than
a high-energy drink. Think early B-52’s organ days. Jump along, sway along,
and clap along.
Bingo!
Linktree
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Artist: pMAD
Who: Moniker of Irish musician Paul Dillon, who developed a unique sound
that traverses genres from Darkwave Post-Punk to Trash Metal Indie Rock.
Track: NINEFORTYFIVE
From his new album 1 + 1 = – 1.
Details via Bandcamp
The song reflects on time, uncertainty, and the moments
that shape us while still searching for hope through the noise.
TUTV: pMAD has a knack for writing excitatory tunes that make
you move and groove spontaneously. NineFortyNine is no exception.
Embedded in a dark-Gothic-wave orchestration, its drive sticks instantly.
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Linktree
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Band: THE BERNADETTE MARIES
Who: Trio from Brussels, established in 2024. Their sound merges post-punk energy, shoegaze’s dreamy textures, and indie rock hooks. TBM’s music is about love and existentialism, melancholy & meaning of our lives in a world that is slowly falling apart.
Track: MISSING BERNADETTE
Newest single from their first album, named
Soft, set to be released September 18th.
TUTV: Shoegazy slacker electricity to lose your mind in and start daydreaming
on the spot. Layers of distorted guitars, yearning vocals, and a poppy melody
turn Missing Bernadette into a top-tier achievement.
Score!
Linktree – Spotify
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TURN UP THE VOLUME
MUSE Released Fierce Hit Single ‘BLACK MASSIVE HOLE’ Today 30 Years Ago
Top singles from the past
19 June 2026
British rock champs MUSE released their hit single SUPERMASSIVE BLACK HOLE
(more than 978 million streams on Spotify) today 30 years ago, on 19 June 1996.
The song was the lead single of their 4th album Black Holes And Revelations,
written by frontman Matt Bellamy. He said he was influenced by several Belgian
bands, specifically, Millionaire, dEUS, Evil Superstars and Soulwax. Bellamy said that
“these groups were the first to mix R&B rhythms with alternative guitar.
It peaked at #4 on the UK Singles Chart, the highest
singles chart position at that point in time in their
home country.
