NEIL YOUNG Reveals When He Will Retire From Music
17 September 2026
Okay, noted, Neil.
This Friday, September 18th, he will release his 50th album,
named Second Song. His 2nd one with the Chrome Hearts.
USI ES & WHOLES – From A Whisper To A Scream In ‘BERLIN’
Daily electricity to charge your batteries
One song: BERLIN
Two versions: By USI ES and WHOLES.
Artist: USI ES
Who: The musical moniker of Belgian singer-songwriter Ester Weemaes. In her attic studio, she interweaves synths and samples with her distinctive, dark voice. Her music balances between darkness and dreaminess, feeling like a blanket wrapped around you: soft yet heavy, with frayed edges.
She released her emotive debut album SideQuest last February.
Usi Es‘s murder-ballad approach on Berlin has been inspired by the migration history
of her Moluccan family, via New Guinea to the Netherlands. Uprooted twice, each time
due to circumstances beyond their control.
TUTV: Her piano-touching version is a poignant, heart-rending and vulnerable one with
Es‘ near-whispering, film-noir voice upfront, joined by Wholes frontman Wolf Vanwymeersch‘ deep vocals on the spine-tingling twilight chorus. Horripilation in the dark.
Photo: Laurens Wille
Band: WHOLES
Who: Belgian raucous noise outfit led by musical chameleon Wolf Vanwymeersch,
who played with several bands before producing pop, rock post-punk and
sludge metal.
They released their dark-noise debut album A Mass In the Water.
Their Berlin delivery balances on the edge of collapse, “You’re Berlin on the border of
falling down / In a Swiss bank that has sold your life”, and sketches a world in which capitalist systems alienate us from one another while simultaneously cultivating a desire for more.
TUTV: Amps up, guitars up, gloom and doom up. The Apocalypse is just around the corner, and Wholes have obviously seen flashes of it. Their view on these collapsing times causes, by now familiar goosebumps reflections.
17 September 1931 – RCA VICTOR RECORDS Present First Long-playing Record 33 1/3 Rpm Today 90 Years Ago
17 September 2026
On 17 September 1931, today 90 years ago RCA Victor Records demonstrated the first long-playing record, a 33 1/3 rpm recording in New York. The venture was doomed to fail, however, due to the high price of the record players, which started around $95 (about $1140 in today’s dollars) and wasn’t revived until 1948.
These 1931 records could hold up to 15 minutes of recording on each side. Unlike
the Columbia LP long-playing 33 1/3 records introduced in 1948, the groove size was
not a “microgroove” but was the same size as for the 78 RPM disc. However, grooves
were somewhat closer together than conventional 78s.
Most of these records were pressed on a new composition named RCA Vitrolac. The label was considered superior to the standard shellac material used in 78 RPM discs of the era. However, over time, Vitrolac proved to wear more rapidly than conventional shellac records, and it did not have a quieter surface.
Initially, the venture was doomed to fail however, due to the high price of the record players, which started around $95 (about $1140 in today’s dollars) and wasn’t revived
until 1948.
HEATHER NOVA – New Single, New Album, New Tour
17 September 2026
Artist: HEATHER NOVA
Who: The much/long lauded
Bermudian singer-songwriter,
59 now.
New album: THE ORCHARD
Her 13th. Out in October.
First single: In The Path Of Hurricanes
A song about the intoxicating feeling of longing that comes
when you feel chemistry with someone, but aren’t sure if
it’s all in your head.
TUTV: The song’s footstomping, iterative, groovy drum/bass beat gets you in
a trance from the first listen. On top of the stream comes Nova‘s gentle and
crystalline voice. Transfixing pop ardour.
TOUR 2027
SPIRITUALIZED Released Masterwork ‘LET IT COME DOWN’ Today 25 Years Ago
Significant longplayers from yesteryear
17 September 2026
Band: SPIRITUALIZED
Who: Former Spacemen 3 member Jason Pierce
and his band, floating in space regulary.
Active: 1990-present / 9 albums thus far.
Anniversary album: LET IT COME DOWN
Released: 17 Sept 2001 – 25 years ago today.
It took Jason Pierce four years to write, perform, produce and release.
The album utilises 115 session musicians, including an orchestra and
the London Community Gospel Choir.
Pitchfork wrote: “With all of Jason Pierce’s tormented vocals, with his talk
of addiction and recovery, of fractured love, of the burden of religion on the
soul; with all this, you’d expect him to be confined to a straitjacket. But rather,
he manages to make it all sound glorious, as if these rock-bottom moments
are equally responsible for the beauty of living, or of not dying.”
Turn Up The Volume: One of the best works of soul space
crusader Jason Pierce and his symphonic orchestra.
KEY TRACK
A jaw-dropping live version of
Lord Can You Hear Me?
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Spiritualized – Amsterdam 2015 – pic by Turn Up The Volume
OZZY & BLACK SABBATH – ‘Back To The Beginning’ Film Next Month
Remember 5 July 2025?
That day, metal paranoid giants BLACK SABBATH, including a short appearance
by sick Ozzy Osbourne, played their final concert in their hometown of Birmingham, with
an impressive supporting cast.
Now the movie of that concert is coming to
cinemas on October 28th, and later online.
More info and tickets right HERE.
Paranoid 4ever.
METALLICA – Next Year NORTH AMERICA
MY LENNIS – Belgian Motherrockers Have New Explosive Barnstormer ‘WIDE AWAKE’ Out
Vitalizing tunes that work faster than a stream of caffeine
17 September 2026
Band: MY LENNIS
Who: 4 Belgian noiseniks influenced by Weezer, Blink 182, Good Charlotte and The Offspring. What started as a trio became a foursome in 2023 with ambitious plans, namely making miles by playing live and diving into the recording studio.
Single artwork
Track: WIDE AWAKE
TUTV: These motherrockers hit bullseye again with this explosive barnstormer.
This is what happens when grunge and punk collide and cause a nuclear reaction.
All you need to blow up your poor speakers is a revved-up rhythm section, a schizophrenic guitarist and a psych-o-tic maniac for a loudmouthed singer. Enter My Lennis. Maddening turmoil, people.
Get up, wide awake,
and release the bats.
LAMBRINI GIRLS – Razorblade Punk Sensation Gear Up For Their 2nd LP
16 September 2026
New album artwork
LAMBRINI GIRLS, the two riotous razorblade girrrrlzz – vox/guitarist Phoebe Lunny and bassist Lilly Macieira – from Brighton (UK) with an insatiable appetite for mass moshpits and kicking political, right-wing asses, rose to fame like a crazed comet in the past few years.
Following, last year’s ferocious punk debut LP, Who Let The Dogs Out,
they went from dusty clubs to big venues, all over the Western world.
Now they have announced their follow-up longplayer.
It’s named NO REFUNDS and will hit the streets on
January 15, 2027.
Tracklist and pre-order info here.
Press info: The follow-up to their acclaimed 2025 debut Lambrini Girls return with
a darker and increasingly more urgent record for a world that, in their own words,
“got even worse”. The band are keeping up an undeniable momentum with their
potent strain of scathing social commentary and barbed humour.
‘No Refunds’ confronts a litany of modern horrors, from genocide and fascism to the rise
of AI, reproductive rights, and the descent into the grubby basement of the ‘manosphere’,
all whilst expanding the sonic world that made Lambrini Girls’ debut so memorable.
Industrial punk sits alongside moments of pop-adjacent immediacy, angular basslines
and unexpected vulnerability, with the duo pairing their most confrontational material
with the dark humour and wit that has become synonymous with the duo.”
The combustible lead-single Cult Of Celebrity was already launched in April.
The 2nd taster is now out,
called Bang Bang Bang.
Let’s go ballistic.
Amazing Album Artwork – Cover Of New One By High-Voltage Shedevil RØRY
For your eyes
16 September 2026
Artist: RØRY
Who: English high-volatge singer-songwriter,
multi-instrumentalist and producer, born
Roxanne Emery. She’s non-binary, and uses
she/they pronouns.
After achieving everything she’d spent her life fighting for, a UK Top 10 album
with her debut Restoration, sobriety, love, family and a second chance at music,
Rory found herself confronting a darkness she thought she’d already survived.
Album: BLOODLETTING
Her 2nd.
Looks painful.
Album artwork
Kerrang says: “Though different emotions are taking centre stage here, RØRY has been real, raw and affecting all over again, and it’s impossible to experience BLOODLETTING without feeling even just a prickle of everything she’s endured over the years.”
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