The now 77-year-old Jamacian icon GRACE JONES is still awesome. She started a new tour in Australia and for the whole length of her timeless cracker Slave To The Rhytm she did her by now classic hula-hoop antics.
Way to go, Grace.
Hello, music junkies.
Another 5 new, stellar tracks have been
added to Turn Up The Volume’s Jukebox.
All for your aural pleasure.
ALL TOGETHER
TRACK BY TRACK
Band: TWISTED TEENS
Who: 2 garage punk dropouts
from New Orleans.
Track: CIRCUS CLOWN
Cut from their new, 2nd LP,
called Blame The Clown
Track: CIRCUS CLOWN
TUTV: These New Orleans motherrockers move ‘n groove with tenacious
vigor. They don’t fool around, they entertain your ears and body with
confident swagger. They ramble and they rattle. They rule.
Enter the circus here.
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Instagram – Spotify
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Artist: ROB ZOMBIE
Who: The notorious and bombastic metal rock shocker, born
Robert Bartleh Cummings, has been destroying stereos since 1985.
Track: BLACK RAT COFFIN
Nasty slice from his brand
new LP The Great Satan.
TUTV: After all his crazy years, Zombie still comes up
with industrial-rock dynamized headbangers like this
dirty drone-drone-drone rat-race.
Helter-skelter!
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Instagram – Linktree
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Band: DOPAMINE FIX
Who: Fresh-Irish indie duo who’s manifesto says a lot about them:
“With a nod to the Dadaists, we create Post Punk, Experimental and
Electronica which aims to unnerve, to disturb and to question.”
Track: REAL
“This piece speaks from inside the aftermath: after the damage, after the noise,
when certainty has begun to fail. In a world shaped by artificial intelligence, disinformation and continuous media manipulation, perception is no longer shared. Reality becomes something assigned rather than lived.”
TUTV: Dopamine Fix offer a voltaic, jump-up-and-down earworm
that bangs and booms from start to finish, like disco legends Erasure
with a punky vibe. Trust me, they’re for real, and they produce real
sonic stimulants.
Play that funky music, here and now.
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Photo: Cat Meade
Band: CAPE CRUSH
Who: Power-emo rockers
from Boston, MA.
Track: PLACE MEMORY
New piece from their new,
forthcoming album.
Ali Limpkin (vocalist and guitarist): “The term ‘Place Memory’ is the supernatural theory that a place can hold an energetic memory, like when you hear ghostly footsteps or a disembodied voice, that perhaps you’re not hearing something intelligent, you’re hearing a repeat of that memory played back to you as if on tape. Or maybe you’re hearing your sister on the other side of the veil? The song talks about the choice we don’t make becoming a sister ship bound for a different route. One that we can only wave at from the shoreline.”
Design credit: Katie Scarlett @katie.scarlett
TUTV: Who said indie guitar pop is dead? Go away. On second thoughts stay
and try to not lose yourself in this 6-string whirlwind steaming all over you.
You will fail.
Cape Crush rush and race rivetingly with no intention to slow down
on their swift run. One word. Electromagnetic. I told you, doubters.
Listen and get my drift.
Applause! Applause!
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Band: TELENOVA
Who: Dreamy guitar pop
trio from Malbourne, AU.
Track: EMPIRE
Piece from their brand new
full-length The Warning.
TUTV: Here’s a feather-light pop tune for a sunny spring,
colored with sparkly guitar riffs, sweet mixed emotions
vocals and a head-nodding beat.
Bubbly. Bouncy. Breezy.
Instagram – Linktree
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4 March 2026
60 years ago today, on 4 March 1966, JOHN LENNON‘s said in an interview with British newspaper The London Evening Standard that The Beatles were “more popular than Jesus“.
This quote drew no attention in the UK, but when republished in the US a few months later, angry reactions flared up in Christian communities. Extensive protests broke
out with some radio stations banning Beatles songs, and their records were publicly burned.
Years later…
“Christ, you know it ain’t easy
You know how hard it can be
The way things are going
They’re gonna crucify me”
4 March 2026
Promo photo by Nadav Kander
As announced before PETER GABRIEL has his 11th LP o\i bagged
and ready for release. Exact date TBA. It’s the follow-up to 2023’s
album i/o.
So far, the once-upon-a-time frontman of prog rockers Genesis has delivered
2 previews, with Been Undone and Put The Bucket Down, and now the man
drops another taster. A dreamy and trippy tune, titled WHAT LIES AHEAD.
The accompagning artwork is quite eye-popping.
4 March 2026
Artist: CMAT
Born Ciara Mary-Alice Thompson 30 years ago, in Dublin, Ireland.
She released her exultant 3rd LP Euro-Country last summer.
Track: THE JAMIE OLIVER PETROL STATION
Key single from the album.
Below you can watch CMAT in action at the Lowlands festival in the Netherlands last year.
Her vocal performance, her flamboyant presence, and her funnily cool band are just eye-and-ear-popping.
Supercalifragilisticexpialidocious!
GREEN MAN FESTIVAL
Glanusk Estate in the Bannau Brycheiniog
National Park, Crickhowell, Wales, UK
20/23 August 2026
3 March 2026
“War, huh, yeah
What is it good for?
Absolutely nothing, uhh
War, huh, yeah
What is it good for?
Absolutely nothing
Say it again, y’all
War, huh (good God)
What is it good for?
Absolutely nothing, listen to me, oh”
War, I despise
‘Cause it means destruction of innocent lives
War means tears to thousands of mother’s eyes
When their sons go off to fight
And lose their lives
I said, war, huh (good God, y’all)
What is it good for?
Absolutely nothing, just say it again
War (whoa), huh (oh Lord)
What is it good for?
Absolutely nothing, listen to me
It ain’t nothing but a heart-breaker
(War) Friend only to The Undertaker
Oh, war it’s an enemy to all mankind
The thought of war blows my mind
War has caused unrest
Within the younger generation
Induction then destruction
Who wants to die? Oh
War, huh (good God y’all)
What is it good for?
Absolutely nothing
War, huh (good God y’all)
What is it good for?
Absolutely nothing, say it again
War (whoa), huh (oh Lord)
What is it good for?
Absolutely nothing, listen to me
3 March 2026
Hurray!
With his new album Idols 2 he just completed his Idols project.
3 March 2026
British psych-rock vets, fronted by charismatic vocalist/songwriter Crispian Mills,
released their debut LP, titled K, back in 1996. It made them instant indie stars.
Last month they launched their 8th full-length, the magnificent WORMSLAYER.
The record, named after a 9th-century Indian poet king, is stuffed with top-flight
pop-edelia tunes, elevating it to a must-hear on repeat level. Mills lifts his troops
to ecstasizing heights of nostalgia. Retro delirium at its todays best.
New album means a new tour to promote it.
Last Friday, they landed in my hometown of Ghent, Belgium.
Oh my, oh my, KS still nails it on stage as they used to do so.
I saw them 4/5 times back then, and every gig was a smasheroo).
The band started with the LP’s key single Lucky Number. From there, with
almost the full tracklist of the new opus, the Brits stormed through a superlative
1 1/2 hour set.
Of course, Crips was the magnet in the middle. His marvelous guitar play mesmerized throughout. Backed by his spellbound assistants, the elated audience went through a trancy show. Not one dull moment.
Visually, our eyes were mostly fixated on the big screen behind the 4 humans. Non-stop full-spectrum, swirling, and high-contrast patterns of hallucinatory hues created a surreal spectacle. Phantasmagoric.
As expected, the encores featured old hits Hush (Joe Hush/Deep Purple cover),
Tattva, and Govinda, but also beatle George Harrison‘s 1970 humdinger
Isn’t It A Pity.
To be honest, I never thought I would listen to a formidable Kula Shaker again,
and I would witness a memorable live performance of them. Hail hail!.
ALBUM
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SETLIST
Lucky Number
Good Money
Charge of the Light Brigade
Broke as Folk
Natural Magick
Infinite Sun
Shower Your Love
Grateful When You’re Dead / Jerry Was There
Be Merciful
The Winged Boy
Day For Night
Wormslayer
Encores:
303
Tattva
Hush
Isn’t It a Pity
(George Harrison cover)
Govinda
Instagram – All Albums – Short Bio
Live photos by Turn Up The Volume
3 March 2026
The National‘s MATT BERNINGER and the late Johnny Cash‘s country star
daughter ROSANNA CASH team up for a cover of The Velvet Underground‘s
1970 pearl WHO LOVES THE SUN.
It’s part of the theme music for the comedy show
Sunny Nights on an Australian streaming service
called Stan.
Berninger says that he got involved through Sunny Nights
director and executive producer Trent O’Donnell:
“I’ve been a Trent O’Donnell fan for a long time. We became good friends
when he cast my brother Tom in an episode of his show No Activity, and
we’ve had a close, creative bond ever since.”
BERNINGER/CASH
Nice take
VU
Unbeatebale