This is the same man who released a full politically
charged album with Metallica in 1988, named
…And Justice For All.
Why this nonsensical remark, Mister Hatfield? Just do what you want to do,
but don’t tell others what they should do according to you, macho millionaire.
13 October 2026
I listen regularly to that banging-the-guitar band Radiohead, Thom.
Full Thom Yorke feature in NME right here.
Hello, music junkies.
Another batch of 5 new, stellar tracks has
been added to Turn Up The Volume’s Jukebox.
Turn it up.
ALL TOGETHER
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TRACK BY TRACK
Credit: Matt Spratt
Band: MADRA SALACH
Who: Fervent folk sextet
from Dublin, Ireland.
Track: RIBBON FACTORY
Newest preview single from their upcoming debut LP,
named Gorda (Irish for ‘hunger’). It will come our way
on Jan 15th. Pre-order info here.
Paul Banks (frontman and lyricist): “The ideas of longing and yearning, all the kinds of hunger, they slot into where we are as 21st-century Irish people. The more I’ve thought and written about Irishness, the more I’ve seen how strange a history and a position and a culture we have.”
TUTV: Amplified Irish folk roots delivered with poignancy and passion.
© Steve Gullick
Band: LO MOON
Who: Pithy rockers from Los Angeles.
They have, hitherto, 3 albums to be
proud of.
Track: SATELLITE
New single. First in 2 years.
TUTV: Puissant dream rock with Johnny Marr-esque guitar radiance.
Band: FLORENCE ROAD
Who: Guitar pop indies from Ireland ready to connect
with the world with their upcoming debut full-length.
Details TBA.
Track: WISH UPON YOU
TUTV: Full-hearted and glowing indie guitar pop.
Exhilarative tune juiced with rhapsodic vocals.
Band: MAN WITH A MISSION
Who: Barking Japanese rockers from Tokyo.
Their distinguishing feature is that all of the members wear differently
designed wolf masks during both their concerts and their music videos,
and each member has a wacko name.
Track: MAN WITH A MISSION
Kamikaze Boy (bassist): “I created Firestarter with the idea of making a powerful
song that could push these young characters forward on their adventure as they carry
the burden of a cruel fate.”
TUTV: Japanese noise dogs rage against the machine.
Band: FONTAINES D.C.
Who: The high-spirited Irishmen who
are enjoying a supersonic career.
Track: WHERE IS GONE?
3nd appetizer from their upcoming 5th LP
Dopamine Chamber, out this Friday.
It features celeb songstress Rosalía.
TUTV: The sound of silence.
13 October 2026
Paul Frederic Simon was born on October 13, 1941 in Newark, New Jersey.
Happy 85 to the eminent singer/songwriter and graceful pop voice. He started
his brilliant career with Art Garfunkel back in 1956, yes, 60 years ago! They scored
hit single after hit single and they had several million-selling LPs. They went their
own way in 1970.
Simon recorded 14 solo studio albums,
with In The Blue Light (2018) as his most
recent one.
Three memorable moments.
– SOUNDS OF SILENCE –
– STILL CRAZY AFTER ALL THESE YEARS –
– YOU CAN CALL ME AL –
No, three songs are not enough to honor the legend.
So let’s play his Greatest Hits on this festive day…
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PAUL SIMON: Biography – Facebook
(Image on top: Cover of his ultimate collection album)
Vitalizing tunes that work faster than a stream of caffeine
12 October 2026
Band: TWISTED TEENS
Who: Two adult punks based in the Holy Cross
neighborhood of New Orleans, Louisiana.
Track: STALKS
Newest piece from their upcoming album No. 4. It’s baptized
The Holy Cross Tigers, and it will drop on November 6th.
Tracklist and order info here.
Album artwork
Subpop Records say about the album: “Holy Cross Tigers is the fourth Twisted Teens
album but the first that feels immediately and entirely relatable. It is a blown-out transmission from the lip of heartbreak, a place where even the lucky have been and from which they have hopefully returned. That is, it sounds an awful lot like the truth.”
TUTV: Stalks is what edgy DIY garage punk is about. Cracked guitars, cracked drums
and cracked vocals interblend to fabricate some kickass hurly-burly that cannonades
with keen-edged sassiness. Let’s stalk them.
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Press credit
Band: BODEGA
Who: Zesty rock team
from NYC.
Album: ALL INSIDE AQUARIUM
Their 4th.
Press info: “‘All Inside Aquarium’ sees the band expanding far beyond their minimalist post-punk origins towards soaring anthemic rock, sans the ‘indie’. Sonically, the band aimed for “this late ’80’s/early 90’s Stone Roses-meets-Janes Addiction thing, with more riffing and guitar solos.”
Where the band’s earlier material took a more explicitly sociopolitical bent, Hozie and Belfilgio’s writing on All Inside Aquarium is deliberately more concerned with the personal, poetics, and play.
Album artwork
TUTV: Bodega never made world-shattering records, and All Inside Aquarium isn’t world-shattering. Bodega always made uncomplicated and galvanizing records, and this one is their most uncomplicated and galvanizing one. A let’s have fun album. And fun we have, folks.
They jump from funky crackerjack rockers (the title track / Weather Me / Pick Up The Check / Slow Train) to easygoing, poppy guitar tunes (Literary World / Oxygen / Olivia) without trying to overdo it in any way whatsoever. Straightforward and simple. Paul Weller would say “that’s entertainment“.
SINGLES
ALBUM
Significant longplayers from yesteryear
12 October 2026
Irish rock jumbos released their 2nd album, named
OCTOBER on 12 October 1981, today 45 years ago.
The album was lyrically inspired by the memberships of Bono, the Edge, and Larry Mullen Jr. in a Christian group called the Shalom Fellowship, and consequently it contains spiritual and religious themes. Their involvement led them to question the relationship between the Christian faith and the rock and roll lifestyle, and threatened to break up the band.
Bono: “I remember the pressure it was made under, I remember writing lyrics on
the microphone, and at £50 an hour, that’s quite a pressure. The ironic thing about
October is that there’s a sort of peace about the album, even though it was recorded
under that pressure.
I think October goes into areas that most rock ‘n’ roll bands ignore.
When I listen to the album, something like ‘Tomorrow,’ it actually
moves me.”
TUTV: I’m a sizeable U2 fan but
this album is somehow a bit too
bombastic for my liking.
Singles.
– GLORIA –
– FIRE –
ALBUM
12 October 2026
Photo by Turn Up The Volume – Rock Werchter, Belgium – 6 July 2026
Band: BASHT.
Who: Serrated post-punks
from Ireland.
Album: POOR ADVICE
Their brand new debut.
About the artwork: “We thought it was perfect to have the child – Harley – be shooting at something. It’s like he’s the kid shooting at the establishment, shooting at the stained-glass that you might find in a church. He’s taking shots at what he perceives to be the authority in his life, and he’s questioning what he’s been told from an early age.”
Album artwork
Mojo Magazine says: “The LP’s 10 squally, dynamics-rich songs skewer
ld Ireland Catholicism, the nanny state, and their hair trigger fragility of
peaceful existence.”
TUTV: Fresh Dublin‘s deep-seated, unambiguously
opinionated and socioemotional kneecap post-punks
make their mark.
Photo by Turn Up The Volume
12 October 2026
As BOB DYLAN nears UK shores once more and a box set of his extraordinary
1976 shows emerges, MOJO digs in, and reflects on Dylan’s other ground-breaking
tours, including 2026’s, with its mysterious rotating cast of guitarists.
Also in this issue: Amy Winehouse’s Back To Black; inside Roxy Music’s For Your Pleasure; Chuck Berry’s rock’n’roll legacy; Queens Of The Stone Age return from the brink; Fela Kuti against the world, Bernie Taupin; Fontaines DC; Jimmy Webb; Alice Cooper; Simple Minds; Brian Epstein; Tony Iommi and more.
This month’s Free CD is titled Mystical Children: The Men And Women Of
Rolling Thunder. Being 15 tracks by Dylan’s all-star cohorts on his landmark
tours, ’75-’76. Includes: Joan Baez, Scarlet Rivera, Kinky Friedman, T Bone Burnett,
David Mansfield, and an exclusive track from Dylan’s upcoming 1976 live box set.
Great songsmith. Great song. Great video.
Reveries for the laziest day of the week
11 October 2026
📷 Ward Dhoore
Artists: LOST IN SEPTEMBER
Who: Musical project of Belgian singer-songwriters
Alain Quateau en Renilde Gees who started making
music together, more than thirthy years after they
first met.
Track: ENDLESS FLIGHT
Their newest piece.
“It’s a very personal song about a dark fear that you cannot easily put into words. When
you love someone very much, with everything you have, the thought of letting go is one of the hardest things. And at the same time, there is something wondrously beautiful in that: perhaps letting go is sometimes the most beautiful thing you can do. Endless Flight is about feelings you would rather not express out loud, but which are there nonetheless.”
TUTV: Starry-eyed Simon and Garfunkel mellifluousness lightens this stripped-to-the-bone, piano-guided ballad up. Soul-stirring vocals and affecting chorus harmonies turn Endless Flight into a euphonic lullaby for dreamy fall moments, when you look out the window, watching leaves swirl while figuring out what is going on in your mind.
Poetry in melancholic motion.