Goth Celebs PUSCIFER About Queer Disco Queen PEACHES
21 February 2026
Yes, she is.
Brand new PUSCIFER album.
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New PEACHES single.
JUKEBOX 2026 – WEEK 8 – Five New Rad Tracks Added Twice A Week
Hello, music junkies.
Another edition of 5 new, stellar tracks are
added to Turn Up The Volume’s Jukebox.
All for your aural pleasure.
ALL TOGETHER
TRACK BY TRACK
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Band: PULP
Track: BEGGING FOR CHANCE
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.
TUTV: The common people of Pulp rock out for charity.
War Child UK: Website
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Band: SPECIAL FRIEND
Who: French-American indie
guitar pop, based in Paris.
Track: CLIPPING
New appetizer from their upcoming 3rd album, named
Clipping. It’ll arrive on March 20th. More info here.
TUTV: Lazy groovin’, lazy movin’. Echoes of slacker rock.
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Band: FOO FIGHTERS
Who: Former Nirvana drummer Dave
Grohl fav grunge rock toy, since 1994.
Track: YOUR FAVOURITE TOY
Title piece from their upcoming 12th LP,
which will show up on April 24th.
TUTV: The Foos punk their butts off as never before on this raging ripper.
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Band: U2
Who: You know who.
Track: AMERICAN OBITUARY
Opening piece from their brand new anti-political
violence EP, titled DAYS OF ASH, featuring 6 songs.
TUTV: I wondered when Bono would jump on the fence and critise, rightfully so, all BS going on right now in the US. Here he is with his mates translating their dissatisfaction with Trump’s Ubermensch politics into a raucous rocker.
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Photo by Neil Krug
Artist: THUNDERCAT
Who: Singer-songwriter, record producer, and bass player
from Los Angeles, California, doing his thing since 2000
Track: SHE KNOWS TOO MUCH
Single from his forthcoming 5th LP, first in six years, called Distracted.
Out April 3rd. It features vocals by the late rapper Mac Miller (1992-2008),
a good friend and multiple collaborator of his.
TUTV: Shake your booty to the funky beat, folks.
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THE BEATLES Released Hit Single ‘NOWHERE MAN’ Today 60 Years Ago
Top singles from the past
21 February 2026
THE BEATLES (1960-1970) released NOWHERE MAN, one of the many highlights
of their game-changing LP Rubber Soul as a single in America and Canada, this
day 60 years ago, on 21 February 1966.
The song was written by John Lennon and credited to the Lennon–McCartney
partnership. Both in the US and Canada the song topped the charts.
Lennon reflected in a 1980 Playboy interview: “I’d spent five hours that morning
trying to write a song that was meaningful and good, and I finally gave up and lay
down. Then ‘Nowhere Man’ came, words and music, the whole damn thing as I lay
down.
The song is generally credited as being among the first
Beatles ones, not pertaining to themes of romance or love.
“He’s a real nowhere man
Sitting in his nowhere land
Making all his nowhere plans for nobody
Doesn’t have a point of view
Knows not where he’s going to
Isn’t he a bit like you and me?””
STONE – Liverpool Punk Rockers Unleashed Their 2nd Album ‘AUTONOMY’
21 February 2026
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Band: STONE
Who: Post-punk-rock indies from
Liverpool, who formed in 2019.
Album: AUTONOMY
Their 2nd one, following their
attention-grabbing, 2024 debut
Fear Life For A Lifetime.
Press info: “Ever since their rapid rise in the depths of lockdown,
Liverpool’s Stone have tended to thrive best when leaning into the
chaos.
Having further sealed themselves as a vital force on the global punk scene with their 2024 debut album Fear Life For A Lifetime, the band are back with a follow-up that’s loaded with their most reflective and bruising work to date. Autonomy comes as a fierce testament to the band’s resilience, fighting spirit and togetherness.”
TUTV: Loads of bursting post-punk brawniness. Loads of stooked guitar oomph.
Loads of barnstorming vocality. But (oops, there’s a but) a lack of really memorable
tunes you want to go back to in a flash.
The Beatles-esque title track, steamed-up singles Monkey See Monkey Do and
Money (Hope Ain’t Gone), riff-ripsnorter Stack Up Thd Reasons and fiery fulminations
Moulin Rouge and Sweet Heroine are muscular blowups that have an immediate impact,
but no a very lasting one. The rest of the songs are just variations, sonically that is,
of the aforementioned pieces.
Loads of evaporative vitality to make you jump out of your bed in the morning, but once you’re alive and ready to kick, you change the tune, well, I do. Yep, mixed emotions about Stone‘s 2nd longplayer.
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ELVIS COSTELLO Was The ‘KING OF AMERICA’ 40 Years Ago Today
Significant longplayers from yesteryear
21 February 2026
First-class songsmith ELVIS COSTELLO (born Declan Patrick MacManus 71 years ago
in London) had his 10th album (out of a total of 32, so far), named KING OF AMERICA released on 21 February 1986, today 40 years ago.
Co-produced by Costello and his musical pal T Bone Burnett, the album originated following a series of tours the two made under the name The Coward Brothers.
The longplayer reached number 11 in the UK and number 39 in the US.
Hailed as a return to form for Costello and his best record in years, the album was
praised for its production, depth and vocal performances. Mixed reviews found the
LP too complex and lacking accessibility to attract new fans.
Later reviewers call King of America one of Costello‘s best works, praising its
personal tone and the songwriter’s growing maturity, and arguing the album
anticipated Costello‘s various musical excursions and collaborations in the
following decades.
Melody Maker said at the time: “He’s still this blighted isle’s
finest songwriter, a force, who at his best, is simply beyond peer.”
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New MOJO Magazine Issue With Two Different Covers – JOHNNY ROTTEN And MILES DAVIS
21 February 2026
British music monthly MOJO has a new issue
out, available with 2 different front covers.
One, with JOHNNY ‘ROTTEN’ LYDON, celebrates the Golden Jubilee
of UK PUNK’s Year Zero. The other salutes MILES DAVIS – music’s
ultimate re-inventor – who would have been 100 this spring.
Inside the magazine, premier punk historian Jon Savage revisits 1976 while new
interviews with Sex Pistols Steve Jones, Paul Cook, and Glen Matlock take us back into
the trenches. Meanwhile, Davis’s extraordinary life and work prompt an in-depth exploration – from bebop to space-funk and beyond.
Also in the issue: Grateful Dead’s Bob Weir eulogised; Flea flies solo; The Specials’ Terry
Hall remembered; Courtney Barnett returns, unheard Beach Boys; unseen Kinks; The Black Crowes; Happy Mondays; Shabaka Hutchings; The Hold Steady; Funkadelic; Faust; NRBQ;
Osees; David Bowie’s gaff; all back to Michael Imperioli’s; and more.
This month’s FREE CD features The Classic Sounds Of Miles Davis & Friends. Fifteen giant steps in jazz featuring this month’s co-cover star as band leader or key sideman, with Charlie Parker, Cannonball Adderley, Sonny Rollins, ‘Rubberlegs’ Williams, and more!
You can purchase a copy and have it sent to your home address.
With the Johnny Rotten cover, right here.
With the Miles Davis cover, right here.
DREAMWAVE – British Psych Rock Indies Aflame On New Combative Corker ‘OVER YOU’
Daily electricity to load your batteries
20 February 2026
Band: DREAMWAVE
Who: A diverse psychedelic rock group from Bristol, South West England, known for their explosive live presence, playful personality, and genre-blurring songwriting. Drawing from garage rock, acid punk, and dream pop, the band move effortlessly between raw, high-energy performances and soft, floating moments of introspection.
Track: OVER YOU
Brand new single.
Press info: “With Over You, the band lean into their raw, high-energy roots — driving rhythms, sharp-edged guitars, and a restless momentum that reflects their reputation for explosive live shows. It sits firmly in the louder, more visceral side of their catalogue, built for packed rooms and late-night singalongs.
TUTV: Puzzling pysch rock at its flaming best. Think Black Angeles on a rowdy roll after a rambunctious helter skelter intro. Roisterous guitars are creating havoc everywhere, while an unfaltering drum/bass collaboration takes care of the combative corker’s bracing beat, and echoing vocals reverbarate left and right. Sinewy score. All cylinders on.
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PAUL McCARTNEY – First Post-THE BEATLES Solo Single ‘ANOTHER DAY’ Released 55 Years Ago
Top singles from the past…
20 February 2026
PAUL McCARTNEY release one of his countless hits, named
ANOTHER DAY on 19 February 1971. That’s, yes 55 years ago.
It was his debut single as a solo artist following The Beatles‘ split
in 1970. McCartney credited his wife Linda as a co-writer.
#4 in the US, #2 in the UK.
The song’s story is about the daily routine of a lonely woman, using
an observational style similar to the narrative of his 1966 Beatles ballad
‘Eleanor Rigby’
Another Macca day.
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PEACHES – Disco Queer Icon Effervescences, Sonically And Lyrically, On 7th LP ‘NO LUBE SO RUDE’
20 February 2026
New album artwork
Artist: PEACHES
Who: The fabulous/controversial/notorious performer/producer and
feminist/gay activist born Merrill Nisker, 58 years ago in Toronto, Canada.
New album: NO LUBE SO RUDE
Her 7th one.
Press info: A brash, unapologetic blend of electronic, dance, punk, industrial, and pop music, No Lube So Rude exists at the intersection of the personal and the political, where the body serves not only as a sexual and spiritual vessel, but also as the front line in a battle for basic human rights.
Peaches’ lyrics are bawdy and explicit here, laced with biting sarcasm and clever
wordplay, but they’re also surprisingly vulnerable, offering up a candid look in the
mirror from a post-menopausal queer icon reckoning with a society that’s come
to expect silence, if not outright erasure.”
Peaches: “When the world is friction, lube isn’t a luxury. It’s a necessity. It’s how you turn
that friction into pleasure, into power, into pride. I want people to understand that they can still have a voice no matter who they are or what the world says about them. Now more than ever, there are so many forces that just want you to give up and be quiet. If this album can help you resist that, then that’s what it’s for.”
DIY Magazine (UK) says: “Describing Peaches’ lyrical content as sex positive is, let’s face it, a bit like describing the sky as blue. On her seventh studio album, the Canadian musician spreads her brash and ultra-horny sentiment across another collection of vibrant, high-energy bangers.”
TUTV: I’ll let Peaches first do some talking:
“I’m a horny little fucker, and I’ll put you in a squeeze I’m a horny little fucker, and I’ll bring you to your knees / I’m a horny little fucker, and I’ll put you in a squeeze / I’m a horny little fucker, and I’ll bring you to your knees / I’m a horny little fucker, fucker, fucker, fucker, fucker, fucker.”
Now, rush to the dancefloor. Jump here, jump there, jump everywhere. Peaches is on
fire, producing queer disco rampage, delivered in a stream of bass-booming layers and peppered with sassy synths. Merril Misker is still highly nightclub relevant and one of the best party mavericks around.
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