Friday 13th February 2026
No more fitting band to go berserk to on this Friday the 13th than psycho-billy
freaks THE CRAMPS. They were and still are the devilish priests of graveyard
parties.
No rest for the wicked. Dress/look/scream
like a zombie and scare your neighbours.
Hello, music junkies.
Another batch of 5 new, stellar tracks are
added to Turn Up The Volume’s Jukebox.
All for your aural pleasure.
ALL TOGETHER
TRACK BY TRACK
Artist: KIM GORDON
Track: DIRTY TECH
New piece from her 3rd full-length in 6 years,
titled Play Me. It’ll drop on March 13th. More
info here.
“I was kind of musing about, is my next boss going to be an AI chatbot? We’re the first ones whose lights are going to go out — not the tech billionaires. It’s so abstract that people can’t comprehend.”
TUTV: Former Sonic Youth icon has found her niche as a solo artist. She experiments with synths, loops, overdubs, and other studio tricks, as she does also here again with this 2nd taster from the upcoming 3rd album, appropriately and sarcastically titled Dirty Tech.
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Band: BLEACHERS
Who: The moniker of American multi-instrumentalist/singer-songwriter
Jack Antonoff, who worked under several other aliases and who composed
4 soundtracks, so far, too.
Track: YOU AND FOREVER
The first single from his forthcoming 5th longplayer, titled
Everyone For Ten Minutes, out 22nd May. More info here.
“An optimistic record that feels lovestruck and hopeful.”
TUTV: Bleachers always make me think a bit of Beirut and vice versa.
Both create relaxing atmospherics with multi-layered tunes, inventively
constructed, like Jack Antonoff shows here once more with this new
glorious pop symphony.
Instagram – Spotify
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Artists:
Damon Albarn (Blur/Gorillaz),
Grian Chatten (Fontaines D.C.)
and Kae Tempest.
Track: FLAGS
One of the 23 tracks performed by big-name bands/artists on a new album,
named Help, with all benefits going to War Child. An organisation that shapes
systems that protect and support the well-being of children affected by conflict.
The record is out on March 6th. More info here.
War Child UK: Website
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Band: THE ORIELLES
Who: 3 thrilling indies
from West Yorkshire, UK.
Track: TEARS ARE
Newest single from album #5, named Only You Left.
It’ll come our way on March 13th. Order info here.
Esmé Hand-Halford (bassist/vocalist) about the song: “You could think of
something deeply human. But you could also answer it in a completely linguistic
sense and think of a tear as a symbol or an image.”
TUTV: Near-whispering vocals and musing thoughts about tears
surrounded by creaking guitars until the long acoustic outro.
Instagram – Linktree
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Band: GLADIE
Who: Galvanizing indies from
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.
Track: BRACE YOURSELF
From their third LP, titled No Need To Be Lonely.
Out March 20th. Tracklist and more info here.
TUTV: A hopped-up guitar jam going fast forward,
dumping you in a whirlpool of fuzzy electricity.
Instagram – Spotify
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TURN UP THE VOLUME
13 February 2026
So no songs about Trump?
Brand-new album CARTOON DARKNESS.
Significant longplayers from yesteryear
13 February 2026
English prog-rock legends GENESIS released their 7th studio album,
today 50 years ago, on 13 February 1976. It was the first LP with their
drummer Phil Collins on vocals replacing face/voice Peter Gabriel
who had left the band.
It went to #3 in the UK and #31 in the US.
Upon release, critics were impressed by the improved sound quality
and the group’s ability to survive the loss of Gabriel without sacrificing
the quality of the music.
AllMusic said: “This album is not quite as memorable as Foxtrot or Selling England, largely because its songs aren’t as immediate or memorable: apart from “Dance on a Volcano,” this is about the sound of the band playing, not individual songs, and it succeeds on that level quite wildly — to the extent that it proved to longtime fans that Genesis could possibly thrive without its former leader in tow.”
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The fabulous/controversial/notorious performer/producer, feminist/gay activist
PEACHES, born Merrill Nisker, has her 7th LP, baptized No Lube So Rude out next
week, February 20th.
The Canadian shedevil had a talk with British magazine NME about
the soundtrack (single, album etc) of her life. Full interview here.
At 58 she still looks cool, folks.
The newest single from the upcoming LP, right here.
Daily electricity to load your batteries
12 February 2026
Photo: Miikka Jouhkimainen
Band: WILD BABY
Who: Helsinki-based rock band formed in 2024. Their music blends influences
from Foo Fighters, The Beatles, and Mumford & Sons, yet their sound remains
distinctively their own – organic, energetic, and emotionally charged.
Track: UPSIDE DOWN
Only their third single.
TUTV: Upside Down starts smoothly with silken guitar play, but
when every band member joins in, the decibels go up, the ardour
goes up and Wild Baby work their way to a razzle-dazzle chorus,
before heading to an incendiary finale.
Peppered power pop panache with all cylinders on, a stream
of ripping riffs and vigorous vocals. Finland rocks. Big time.
STREAM
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BUY
12 February 2026
Since Doherty got clean (2019) and lives in France with his family (wife and two children) and his big dog, far away from the temptations of parties and drugs, he has become very busy.
He released albums with one-time outfit Puta Madres (2019), with French musician Frédéric Lo (2022), with his first-and-forever band The Libertines (2024), and a solo
one (2025).
And when he wasn’t in the studio, he went on tour with all
the above bands, that other group, Babyshambles, too, and
solo.
Who wants a fanzine?
Last Sunday, he was in Belgium again after two appearances last year (with The Libertines and solo), assisted by a full band including The Smiths‘ drummer Mike Joyce (now aged 62).
And like I witnessed last year, solo in Bruges, he was in an extremely happy mood, selling old Libertines fanzines (no joke) between the two support acts and playing a formidable show.
He was strolling around the stage, fooling around with band members and interacting with the audience in between songs. Talking about the songs. It was a sort of best of set, with songs from all his projects and, yes, two The Smiths covers (There Is A Light That Never Goes Out / How Soon Is Now?), and a Velvet Underground one, all delivered with a joyous flair and an effervescent spirit.
At the end of the night, three thoughts crossed my mind. He’s (as we know for a long time) a exquiste singer/songwriter who has musical components in his DNA. Secondly, he’s a most entertaining live perfomer and thirdly, he obviously embraces life again after too many turbulent years. Way to go.
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Some of my favorites he played.
THE LIBERTINES
SOLO
BABYSHAMBLES
With Frédéric Lo
THE PUTA MADRES
SETLIST
Last Of The English Roses
Fantasy Live Of Poetry And Crime
I Don’t Love Anyone
Felt Better Alive
Ed Belly
Epidemiology
I Am The Rain
Pot Of Gold
The Day The Baron Died
Salome
Uncle Brian’s Abattoir (Trampoline)
Calvados
Kolly Kibber
Ride Into The Sun (The Velvet Underground)
Stade Océan
How Soon Is Now? (The Smiths)/ Albion
Who’s Been Having You Over?
Time For Heroes (The Libertines)
Fuck Forever (Babyshambles)
Encore
There Is A Light That Never Goes Out (The Smiths)
Live photos by Turn Up The Volume
Vitalizing tunes that work faster than a stream of caffeine
12 February 2026
Band: LIP CRITIC
Who: Motorized indie
crew from New York.
Track: LEGS IN A SNARE
Lead single from their 3rd LP,
titled Theft World. Out May 1st.
More info here.
“Theft World is an ode to the power and pervasiveness of stealing,” says the band of the album. “It’s about taking something ugly and using it to make something cute. It’s about
eating an absurd world and falling in love with it as you digest.”
TUTV: Wham Boom Wham Boom Bam! From the first chord on, you can stamp your feet, spin your head around, and punch your hands in the air. Lip Critic bop to the beastly beat, so does your itching body.
But as the track progresses, the funky ambiance gets ominous, agressive and brutal. Vocalist Bret Kaser goes nuts, the band goes bonkers, your stereo goes berserk, and
your ears go bananas. Hallelujah. Fucktastic, right? You betcha.
WATCH
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TOUR DATES
12 February 2026
It has already been 7 years since Arizona rockers
JIMMY EAT WORLD released their 10th LP, named
Surviving.
But last November, they dropped a new single, called Failure
as part of an upcoming EP, but not a word anymore about that
EP so far. Weird.
Anyway, the band is ready now to celebrate the upcoming 25th birthday
of their 4th full-length BLEED AMERICAN (released 17 July 2001), which
featured their gigantic hit The Middle (more than 1,227 billion streams
on Spotify).
They’ll take the road starting in June.
Jim Adkins (frontman/guitarist) is enthusiastic: “I feel like at this time in our lives, especially for me, it’s important to get back to a place that you can savor. This tour is designed to be an elevated version of our show, a heightened experience with production that reflects 25 years of learning how to stretch artistically in the live environment.” Fans can expect to hear the entirety of Bleed American, along with much more they’ll have to wait to see and hear!”
All Dates here below.
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Significant longplayers from yesteryear
12 February 2026
Canadian prog rockers RUSH started their musical enterprise
way back in 1968. Forty-seven years and 19 LPs later they called
it a day.
But 10 years later, in 2015, they returned to tour. And last year they celebrated
the 50th anniversary of their-self titled debut LP, which got a deluxe reissue
treatment.
Today marks the 45th birthday of their 8th album
MOVING PICTURES, released on 12 February 1981.
It was a big hit, topping the Canadian charts and reaching #3 in both the US and UK.
Promo picture
PopMatters wrote in retrospective review: “Moving Pictures is, without any question, not only Rush’s masterpiece but one of those rare albums that epitomizes an era. It represents both a culmination and a progression: the peak of the band’s development as well as the blueprint for Rush’s subsequent work.”
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