JUKEBOX 2026 – WEEK 33 – 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.

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Band: ROYAL BLOOD
Who: Celebrated blues rock duo from
Worthing, England who started up in 2011.

Track: TEN OVER TEN
Lead single from their forthcoming 5th full-length,
named Dead Company that will come our way
on November 13th. Pre-order info here.


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The duo entered the studio in 2025 with no deadline, no distractions
and a simple ambition: to see what was possible with two people,
12 notes and infinite outcomes”.

“The song strips everything back to its core. Immediate
and uncompromising, it captures Royal Blood at their
most powerful”.

TUTV: Royal Blood by numbers. Rip-roasting riffs, aggressive
drumming and sinewy vocals. Simpe but loudly efficient.

Here we go.

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Band: SYNVILLA
Who: Swedish experimental rock collective from Gothenborg.
A multidisciplinary project where music and video art
merge into something both seductive and threatening.

They’ve 2 albums under their belt, so far.

Track: MILKY BREATH
Piece from their upcoming EP, called Grindmother.

TUTV: Fascinating and eerie. Scary and hypnotic. Synvally drag you in their obscure
and mysterious world with a jagged jam. Creepy vocals grab your shocked attention
on the spot while the band throw themselves in psychedelic extravaganza with
breakneck riffage. Advice: best listened to for spine-chilling effect in a dark room.

Far-out.

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Artist: THE TALLEST MAN ON EARTH
Who
: Popular Swedish songsmith Kristian Mattson
who launched his career 20 years ago.

Track: DELIVER ME FOR TRYING
Newest single from his 8th longplayer,
named Just Beyond Endless Mountain.

Matson: “Somewhere along the way I’d developed this immature aversion to the whole cultural inheritance I grew up with. I’ve read an incredible amount, not just about the music, but about how people actually lived in the old days. I think that’s part of why this record feels more like me than anything I’ve made before. This album really comes from somewhere.”

TUTV: An acoustic, finger-picking country-ish folk
musing, fired-up vocals. Gung-ho piece of music.

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Artist: SOUTHPAW GRAMMAR
Who: Singer-songwriter and producer from Derby UK. He delivers
high-energy live performances and a sound that feels both nostalgic
and urgently contemporary. His music speaks directly to the realities
of working-class life while delivering dancefloor-ready grooves.

Track: TROUBLE COMING
New single.

“The song tackles political tribalism, online hostility and economic inequality without descending into slogans or partisan rhetoric. The song reflects on how quickly neighbours become opponents, friends become ideological rivals and public debate collapses into accusations and insults.

Instead of offering easy answers, it asks listeners to step back from the noise and remember the shared humanity that exists beyond headlines, algorithms and social
media timelines.”

TUTV: This UK garage grime piece brings The Streets‘vibrant vibes too mind. Trouble Coming bounces around in your head after a couple of spins. Its groovy flow and chantlike chorus activates swaying body motion.

Southpaw Grammar looks at our collapsing world and, as (almost) all of us, he sees messed-up societies all over the planet where intolerance, bigoted extremism, and narcissistic politics dictate our lives. Suffocating trouble is already here; the only way
to survive is in togetherness.

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Artist: KRISTIN HERSH
Who: Prolific singer-songwriter luminary, best
known for her illustrious band Throwing Muses.

Track: 101RUN
New piece from her 12th solo album, titled Sugar On Blackstone.
Out September 18th. Tracklist and details here.

TUTV: Again, Hersh‘s peculiar vocal timbre commands your aural attention.
Sonically, 101run is an electrically driven, capricious yet alluring reflection.


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EELS – Mark Oliver Everett’s Orchestrated Band Released Their Masterly Debut Album ‘BEAUTIFUL FREAK’ 30 Years Ago Today

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13 August 2026

Much-lauded Los Angeles-based band EELS fronted and orchestrated by
compelling singer-songwriter Mark Oliver Everett released their staggering
debut LP BEAUTIFUL FREAK today 30 years ago, on 13 August 1996.

It was the first album as Eels, but before, Everett
already produced 3 LPs under his own name

#5 in the UK / #114 in the US

Artwork: Everett had suggested having a little girl with big eyes on the cover.
The girl that came in to have her picture taken incidentally looked “like a miniature
Susan”
to him, referring to his ex-girlfriend and the subject of the song ‘Susan’s House‘.

Q magazine wrote: “A complete musical vision, a genre-spanning
soundscape that reels you in with its myriad hooks.”

TUTV: This debut still stands out on Eels‘ catalog (15 LPs so far,
and #16 Cookie Happened, landing on October 16th).

Striking Singles.

– NOVOCAINE FOR THE SOUL –

– SUSAN’S HOUSE

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GILLA BAND – Irish Chainsaw Rock Indies Release 4th LP ‘PUGNELLO’ On September 25th

13 August 2026

Band: GILLA BAND
Who: Raw Irish post-punk
chainsaws.

Album: PUGNELLO.
It’ll show up on Sept 25th.
Order info here.

Press info: “Gilla Band never know where they’re going next. For over ten years now,
the Dublin quartet have been redefining what you could loosely call “rock music” in the 21st century, influencing a wide swath of similarly forward-thinking guitar acts along the way.

In the 4 years since previous album Most Normal, each member embarked on other
artistic endeavors. All their extracurricular activity existed in parallel with the exploratory route towards Pugnello, but also informed the band as they reconvened to crystallize the album’s vision.”

Check the 2 razorblade-cutting previews, shared so far.

– PLACEHOLDER –

– GIRAFFE –

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Summer Of 1966 – August 12th – Today 60 Years Ago THE WHO Released Single ‘THE KIDS ARE ALRIGHT’

Every day of this summer we go back to the same summer day somewhere in history

12 August 2026

THE WHO released their single THE KIDS ARE ALRIGHT
on 12 August 1966, today 60 years ago.

Pete Townshend: “When I wrote this song I was nothing but a kid, trying to work
out right and wrong through all the things I did. I was kind of practising with my life.
I was kind of taking chances in a marriage with my wife. I took some stuff and I drank
some booze. There was almost nothing that I didn’t try to use. And somehow I’m alright.”

The song appeared on their debut LP My Generation. It wasn’t a big hit,
reaching No. 41 in the UK and No. 85 in the US, but it became an anthem
for the Mod subculture of Britain in the 1960s.

“Sometimes, I feel I gotta get away
Bells chime, I know I gotta get away
And I know if I don’t, I’ll go out of my mind
Better leave her behind with the kids, they’re alright
The kids are alright, the kids are alright, the kids are alright”

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THE FAMILY BATTENBERG – Welsh Indie Gunslingers Shoot From The Hip With ‘BED BUG’

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12 August 2026


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Band: THE FAMILY BATTENBURG
Who: Fiery Welsh indie rockers from Cardiff who got
critics’ attention with last year’s EP Spider Rock Forever.

FFO: T. Rex, The White Stripes, The Stooges, Slade and Ty Segall.

Track: BED BUG
Lead single from their forthcoming debut album,
named Super Deluxe on November 20th. Details here.
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About the song: “A lot of our songs sound like they’re about shagging, but aren’t, except this one sort of is. Bed Bug is about mites. How would a bed bug feel about getting obsessed with the person in the bed? We wrote it in a tent backstage at a festival in Orléans, France.

Even then we knew we wanted it to sound big. We’d spent nine months of 2025 not coming up with any new songs we were happy with, but this one thankfully broke our streak, and came to define the outlook of the new record”.

TUTV: Hair-raising riffage, a pressurising rhythm section, and fuzzy vocals cause a pulverising effect on this garage punk roundhouse, while the hypnotic chorus petrifies. This is not a new Ty Segall left-right sucker-punch, but it certainly matches his bewildering, psychedelic impact. These Welsh indie gunslingers shoot from the hip.

Bullseye.

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August 12th – NATIONAL VINYL RECORD DAY

12 August 2026

Today, August 12th, is NATIONAL VINYL RECORD DAY.

“When vinyl records first came on the market, they had other names. Some of them
were a gramophone record or a phonograph record. They are also called records for short. The analog sound storage medium consists of a flat disc. The sound is recorded
by inscribing it on a modulated spiral groove.

Depending on the speed at which the sound was recorded, the vinyl record will
need to be played at a corresponding speed on the record player. This is referred
to as rotational speed. The revolutions per minute (RPMs) of the more popular
vinyls are:

45s
33 1/3
78s

Other features of vinyl records included reproductive accuracy or fidelity (High Fidelity
or Hi-Fi, Orthophonic and Full-Range), their time capacity, long-playing or single, and the number of channels of audio provided (mono, stereo or quadraphonic).”

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TRICKY Who Released His Supreme 15th Solo LP Starts First North America Tour In 8 Years On September 18th

12 August 2026


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Trip-hop luminary TRICKY (born Adrian Nicholas Matthews Thaws in Bristol, UK, 58 years ago) released his supreme 15th full-length Different When It’s Silent 3 weeks ago.

TUTV said: The longtime trip-hop master didn’t/doesn’t change his sonic palette for
the past few years/albums. Not necessary whatsoever to my satisfied ears. His
tense and tenebrific trademark synth-grooves, mostly mid-tempo, still have a transfixing and
chilling effect.

And as ever, a vocal partner (in the early years Martina Topley-Bird, then Marta Zlakowska and Francesca Belmonte as the most notable) is an instrumental part
of Tricky‘s overall bewildering sound.

This time it’s young, riveting Bristol voice Mitch Sanders who co-stars for the greater
part with Tricky‘s whispering vocals in the back, engendering the familiar, spookish twilight atmosphere. Again Tricky makes you feel comfortable in his cliffhanging cosmic space.”

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The Black METALLICA Album Was Released Today 35 Years Ago

Significant longplayers from yesteryear

12 August 2026


Rolling Stone – August 1991

Metal giants METALLICA released their hugely successful, critically and
sales-wise, self-titled album, known as The Black Album, on 12 August 1991,
today 35 years ago. It was their 5th one.

It debuted at number one in ten countries and spent four consecutive weeks at
the top of the Billboard 200, making it Metallica‘s first album to top the album charts.
With over 30 million copies sold worldwide, the record is one of the best-selling
longplayerts worldwide.

The LP was a change in Metallica‘s direction from the thrash metal style of the band’s previous four studio albums towards a more commercial, heavy metal sound. Despite
this, it still had characteristics of thrash metal.

Title: The group had many discussions about the album title. The original working title
was Married to Metal as a result of Hammett, Ulrich and Newsted‘s divorces, but was downplayed as a running joke, according to Ulrich. Other names considered were Five and the title of one of the songs, but eventually chose an eponym because they “wanted to keep it simple.

Artwork: The album’s cover depicts the band’s logo angled against the upper left corner and a coiled snake derived from the Gadsden flag in the bottom right corner. For the initial release, both emblems were embossed so they could barely be seen against the black background, leading to the LP’s nickname The Black Album.

Rolling Stone said: “Several songs sound like hard-rock
classics. Metallica is an exemplary album of mature but
still kickass rock & roll”.

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