THE CORAL – Out Of The Blue, Melancholic Psych-Pop Folk Vets Drop New Familiar Sounding Album ‘388’

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21 May 2026

Back in 2002, Liverpool‘s psych-folk-pop-rock ramblers THE CORAL
drew instant ear-attention with their dynamite self-titled debut LP.

Over the years, they scored some other damn fine records.

And this morning, after rubbing my eyes, I found out that the Scousers put a new
full-length, their 13th, online, named 388. A press statement informed me that the LP was being released under the cover of a physical format-only distribution and quietly stocked on independent record shop shelves. There you go.

“Recorded in two weeks and inspired by Rocksteady, vocal groups of the early 60s, Ethiopiques compilations and “the highs, lows, births and deaths of the last three decades”
11-tracks bring the band back to the essence of being The Coral.”

TUTV: I had a couple of listens, and it’s pure The Coral. Over the years, they got mellowier, more relaxed, more melancholic, more dreamy, and more sepia-colored. No, nothing new here. It’s all what I just said. Charming, hum-along, mid-tempo tunes for romantic sunsets.

To make the surprise complete, we can enjoy a studio-shot
video for the album’s opening track, Let The Music Play.

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TOUR DATES

Fri 12 June: Southampton, Southampton Summer Sessions w/Amy MacDonald
Thu 18 June: Halifax, The Piece Hall w/Amy MacDonald
Sat 27 – Sun 28 June: Chelmsford, State Fayre 2026

Sun 12 July: Walton-on-Thames, The Electric Heart Festival
Sat 18 – Sun 19 July: Birkenhead, We Are Wirral 2026
Fri 24 July: Sheffield, Tramlines Festival
Thu 23 – Sun 26 July: Wadebridge, Rock Oyster Festival
Fri 31 July: Kendal, Kendal Calling

Fri 21 Aug: Trentham, Trentham Live w/Madness
Fri 28 Aug: Southsea, Victorious Festival 2026
Sat 29 Aug: Manchester, Wythenshawe Park w/Courteeners
Sun 30 Aug: Kingham, Big Feastival

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JUKEBOX 2026 – WEEK 21 – Five New Rad Tracks Added Twice A Week

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Hello, music junkies.

Another batch of 5 new, stellar tracks have
been added to Turn Up The Volume’s Jukebox.

Turn it up.

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Artists: ARAB STRAP
Who: Trippy Scottish electro-pop vets, Aidan Moffat and
Malcolm Middleton (1995–2006, 2011, 2016–present).

Track: YOU YOU YOU
First single from their new full-length Half-Told Tales,
their 9th, out on September 4th. Tracklist here.

AS: “A disco-metal sound and lyrics that explore
overcoming troubles and tumultuous times”.

TUTV: Trip Trip Trip! Hip Hip Hip!

“I’ve got a portly paunch I just can’t shift/I feel undesired, dismissed, adrift/
My get-up-and-go is long gone/ and the days keep dragging on/ But I’ve got
you, you, you,.”

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Band: GETDOWN SERVICES
Who: Wacky and ironic disco-rap-punk duo from Bristol, UK
who made an instant impression in their home country with
their festive 2023 debut LP Crisps, followed by a couple of EPs.

Track: CAN’T DIE LIKE THAT
New single from their forthcoming 2nd LP, titled
Massive Champion. Out 14th August. More info
and tracklist here.

TUTV: Bluesy swagger, hip-funky wigwagger.


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Artist: TRICKY
Who: The bigwig trip-hop dropout and former Massive Attack
member, born Adrian Nicholas Matthews Thaws in Bristol, UK
58 years ago.

Track: BECAUSE I DON’T KNOW
New piece from his forthcoming, 15th full-length,
named Different When It’s Silent. Out July 17th.

TUTV: Groovin’ in the darkness.

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Artist: BLONDSHELL
Who: American singer-songwriter
Sabrina Mae Teitelbaum

Track: HEART HAS TO WORK SO HARD
First single from her upcoming, 3rd LP.
Details TBA.

“This song is really about friendship and betrayal, getting stuck in a dynamic and letting things fester. It’s about pain and confusion — no one trains you for the ups and downs of a friendship between two women — but it’s also about a love so enduring that you find compassion no matter what.”

TUTV: Another blondshell bombshell.

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BAND: GURRIERS
Who: Fast-rising, voltaic indies
from Dublin, Ireland.

Track: NOBODY’S COMING TO SAVE YOU
Title song from their upcoming, 2nd LP.
Out Sept 25th. More info here.

“It’s a song that feels hopeless on its first listen, but if you look at it more deeply it’s a call to action, no one is going to rise up if everyone expects someone else to do it. We all have to do our part in creating the change.”

TUTV: Bedazzling post-punk corker. Infectiously nerve-racking.
These Irishmen continue their indie-supertop quest. You bet.

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PIXIES Maestro BLACK FRANCIS Reveals The Music He Plays In His Car

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20 May 2026


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I’m with Francis.

Tour Dates 2026

May

20th – Barbican, York, UK
21st – Alhambra Theatre, Dunfermline, UK
25th – Aviva Studios, Manchester, UK
28th – Royal Albert Hall, London, UK
31st – Live at the Castle, Limerick, UK

June

2nd – Olympia, Dublin, Ireland
30th – Zitadelle Spandau, Berlin, Germany

July

1st – Parkbühne Clara-Zetkin-Park, Germany
2nd – Jahrhunderthalle, Frankfurt, Germany
14th – Parco Della Musica, Milan, Italy
17th – Maassilo, Rotterdam, The Netherlands
18th – Muziekcentrum, Enschede, The Netherlands
19th – PLT, Heerlen, The Netherlands

MARVIN GAYE – Timeless Masterclass Album ‘WHAT’S GOING ON’ Came Out Today 55 Years Ago

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Significant longplayers from yesteryear

21 May 2026

The late soul giant MARVIN GAYE (1939-1984) released his 11th album, the
masterclass opus WHAT’S GOING ON on 21 May 1971, today 55 years ago.

It’s a concept album with most of its songs segueing into the next and has been categorized as a song cycle. The narrative established by the songs is told from the point of view of a Vietnam veteran returning to his home country to witness hatred, suffering, and injustice.

Gaye‘s introspective lyrics explore themes of drug abuse, poverty, and the Vietnam War.
He has also been credited with promoting awareness of ecological issues before the public outcry over them had become prominent.

The album was an immediate commercial and critical success, and came to
be viewed by music historians as a classic of 1970s soul and significant to
the development of progressive soul.

Multiple critics, musicians, and many in the general public consider What’s Going On
to be one of the greatest albums of all time and a landmark recording in popular music.

It went platinum in the UK and gold in the US.

AllMusic wrote in retrospect: “What’s Going On is not only Marvin Gaye’s masterpiece, it’s the most important and passionate record to come out of soul music, delivered by one of its finest voices, a man finally free to speak his mind and so move from R&B sex symbol to true recording artist. With What’s Going On, Gaye meditated on what had happened to the American dream of the past, as it related to urban decay, environmental woes, military turbulence, police brutality, unemployment, and poverty. “

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LITTLE STEVEN’s UNDERGROUND GARAGE CRUISE 2027 (Yes, Next Year) – Rock & Roll For The Rich

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Veteran E-Street Band star LITTLE STEVEN VAN ZANDT and big rock
events promoter Sixthman team up next year for the 3rd edition of
Underground Garage Cruise. The boat will sail from Miami, Fl to Puerto
Plata, Dominican Republic on the Norwegian Jewel on April 24-28, 2027.

Rock and roll for the rich.

Pre-sale info HERE.

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TRIPLE LUTZ – Portland Punks Rant And Rave On Maddening Motherrocker ‘DON’T WAKE DADDY’

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Daily electricity to load your batteries

20 May 2026

Band: TRIPLE LUTZ
Who: Portland, Oregon’s one and only skater Tonya Harding-core band, since 2017. Half queer, half femme, and half bald. Full of frenzied energy and anthemic fury, these rippers never fail to deliver a hot-blooded and impassioned performance, leaving first-timers both enthralled and invested.

Track: DON’T WAKE DADDY

“The track captures the feeling of sneaking through chaos while trying to keep everything from falling apart. A pulsing swamp stomp that delivers a scathing sermon, a foreboding prophecy for religious hypocrites on their judgment day.”

TUTV: Hurry, get in the car and join Triple Lutz to hunt religious hypocrites. Expect
a razor-blade ride, knife between the teeth, with all punk cylinders and punk burners
on. No mercy, no way back. There’s a riot going on, folks, inflamed with this maddening
spit and sneer motherrocker. No rest for the wicked. Hallelujah.

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23 May 2026 Marks The 60th Anniversary Of THE DOORS’ First Historic Gig At The WHISKEY A GO GO In L.A.

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20 May 2026

Sixty years ago, from May 23rd on to August 21st, 1966 blues rock legends THE DOORS had a historic residency as the house band at iconic venue the Whiskey A Go Go on the Sunset Strip in West Hollywood, California.

Co-founder/guitarist Robby Krieger (aged 80 and along with drummer John Densmore, the 2 surviving band members) will play their again in 3 days (poster on top), on May 23rd.

MOTHER Screams Her Heart And Lungs Out On Titanic Debut Slam ‘UNHOLY’

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20 May 2026

Artist: MOTHER
Who: Mysterious debutante. Present on all social
media, but without any specific, personal data.

“Music is the closest thing to creating life I’ll ever know. Every song I write is born from pain, obsession, and survival. When someone truly connects to it, they become part of that creation – not as a listener, but as family. That bond isn’t blood. It’s devotion. That’s why MOTHER isn’t just a name to me – it’s an ideology.”

Track: UNHOLY

“When I wrote ‘Unholy’, I was drowning quietly. Every part of my life felt as though it was rotting at the edges — relationships, mental health, identity, survival. I couldn’t tell whether the voice inside me wanted salvation or self-destruction anymore. I only knew some part of me wanted to disappear. The emptiness, the fractured sense of identity, the feeling of becoming a stranger inside your own body.

“There’s a grief within ‘Unholy’ that mourns a version of myself I’m not even sure ever truly existed. That’s the cruelty of BPD and dissociation — you begin to question your own memories, your own emotions, your own reflection.”

TUTV: (Un)holy shit! What a titanic debut slam this is. Think the metallic symphonic grandeur and orchestral vocality of Within Temptation and Nightwish, the schizophrenic post-hardcore howling of Bring Me The Horizon, and the visual charisma of Alice Glass. Sounds colossal, right? You betcha. Mother screams her heart and lungs out. Sonic exorcism.

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MANIC STREET PEACHERS – Grand Mixed Emotions Opus ‘EVERYTHING MUST GO’ Released 30 Years Ago

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Significant longplayers from yesteryear

20 May 2026

Welsh heroes MANIC STREET PREACHERS released their
4th album EVERYTHING MUST GO on 20 May 1996, today
30 years ago.

The first album without guitarist/lyricist Richey Edwards,
who disappeared mysteriously in February the year before.

Nicky Wire (bassist, lyricist) in an interview with The Guardian in 2016: “We always
wanted to be massive. It would have been great for Richey to have been with us at those
huge gigs. That’s the real sadness. It’s great that he is on the record with some of his lyrics thoug.


Manics on the cover of NME in 1994

James Dean Brandfield (Vocalist, guitarist) in the same interview: “Look, let’s get in
a room together as a band rather than as friends, and see what the dynamic is like without Richey. Writing a song like A Design for Life was a massive relief: it was the only way we could
be ourselves again.”

The record peaked at #2 in the UK.

NME said: “You leave feeling privileged to have experienced such a life-affirming
and tuneful bout of self-counselling, and you feel it’s done them good as well.

‘Everything Must Go’ punches at its own heavy, emotional weight – of recent memory only Radiohead’s ‘The Bends’ can spar in the same ring – but as the right hand pounds you with desolation, the left follows through with a tentative and gentle tickle of optimism.”

TUTV: My all-Manics-time favorite album. A grand mixed emotions opus. The first LP without the sadly missed Richey Edwards. Everything Must Go felt and still feels like a heart and soul tribute to him.”

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