Month: May 2017

MILLIONAIRE – Impossible To Resist This Staggering Groove From Their New Album…

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After 12 years Belgian eccentric singer/songwriter Tim Vanhamel (one-time member of dEUS, Belgium’s best & most notorious band ever) is back with his band MILLIONAIRE
and third album SCIENCING (note: their second, pitch-black & scorching LP Paradisiac
was produced by Queens Of The Stone Age‘s maestro Josh Homme back in 2005). “It’s not
a reunion, it’s a continuation” says Vanhamel. Anyway here’s my favorite track of the new record. LITTLE BOY BLUE is a mind-boggling, ongoing bass/drums dominated jam that grooves his way, slowly but surely, to an impressive finale. Press the button and join this fascinating trip…

I guess we are in the right mood now
to experience the new album in full…

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MILLIONAIRE: Website – Facebook – Twitter

THE COATHANGERS – High Voltage Punk Party Delirium In Belgium…

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THE COATHANGERS – Trefpunt, Ghent, Belgium – 24 May 2017

My hometown Ghent (Belgium) is a paradise for national and international alternative music. Yearly you can attend countless small festivals giving a podium to all genres of enthralling non-mainstream music. Fabtastic! Yesterday another new event was organized for the very first time. PSYCH OVER 9000 (9000 : postal code of Ghent) presented ten – you already guessed it – psychedelia fueled bands from different continents. It was a really hot (temperature) night with several hot (performances) acts! And the hottest of them all… THE COATHANGERS. A flaming and experienced garage punk rock turbo out of Atlanta, Georgia. After five albums and a million gigs they know perfectly how to start and end a delirious party. You bet! 1-2-3-4! Yes, at times I had hallucinations about the Ramones.
The fervent ladies turned red-hot from the first nasty riff on and never looked back,
except when they swapped instruments in the steamy finale. This is what memorable shows are all about. Sultry, fervid and non-stop energy! When you play this clip at max volume you’ll get an idea of what I try to stutter here…

Live…


Delirium…


1-2-3-4…


PJ Harvey…


Meet and greet…


Happy Birthday, Crook Kid…

And here’s their brand new EP…


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THE COATHANGERS: Website – Facebook – Twitter

(concert pics: Turn Up The Volume!)


Thirsty party indeed…

THE SHIVAS – Sweaty Garage Rock Ecstasy In Belgium…

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THE SHIVAS – Café Afsnis, Ghent, Belgium – 24 May 2017

My hometown Ghent (Belgium) is a paradise for national and international alternative music. Yearly you can attend countless small festivals giving a podium to all genres of enthralling non-mainstream music. Fabtastic! Yesterday another new event was organized for the very first time. PSYCH OVER 9000 (9000 : postal code of Ghent) presented ten – you already guessed it – psychedelia fueled bands from different continents. It was a really hot (temperature) night with several hot (performances) acts! One of them: the stellar trio THE SHIVAS from Oregon, Portland. After seeing/hearing them going berserk I’m quite sure they are the gloriously noisy grandchildren from garage rock legends THE SONICS . Wow! Their live set was steamy, swinging and smoking from the very first kick. This footage will give you an idea about their intensity and glowing fever…

Don’t’ miss this heated three-piece when they invade your neighbourhood. They are on a holy mission to turn you on. Trust me, they can and they will, they showed it yesterday …

THE SHIVAS: Facebook – Twitter – Bandcamp


Sweaty…


Screamy…


And fans of… Death Valley Girls

(pics by Turn Up The Volume!)

UNIFORM With Crushing Soundtrack For ‘THE KILLING OF AMERICA’…

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Noise that thrills us in a way we want to scream out loud…

shoutout

I’m sure UNIFORM – the Apocalypse Now duo out of New York City, consisting of vocalist Michael Berdan and guitarist/programmer Ben Greenberg – produce the loudest, the most crushing and most critical anti-establishment industrial punk noise on the planet right now. This time ‘louder than war‘ is the one and only appropriate description. How do you know, I hear you ask? I saw and, most of all, I heard these two furious misfits last week
in my hometown Ghent (Belgium). An extraordinary, deafening experience it was. I saw several members in the audience looking for earbuds in their pockets. Not for me, I just
let the knockout tornado pierce my body and mind. I got into a kind of surreal trance.
Hell yeah! Curious? Here’s my favorite track of new album WAKE IN FRIGHT. Smashing headbutt THE KILLING OF AMERICA is about the many mass shootings in America in 2016. The supersonic rage will hit you in the face as a tsunami…

“The Gun Violence Archive defines a Mass Shooting as an incident where 4 or more people are injured or killed with a firearm. There were 385 Mass Shootings in America in 2016 resulting in 450 deaths.”


Arghhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh….


UNIFORM: Website – Facebook

(photos by Turn Up The Volume!)

LET THERE BE LOVE….

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Why? Why? Why? Why? Why?
Every time the same question
Every time the same disbelief
Every time the same sadness
Every time the same despair
Why? Why? Why? Why? Why?
When will the madness stop?
When will the killing stop?

Again so many innocent victims, so many deeply heartbroken families
and inconsolable friends. Violence is an ongoing horror since day one
of humankind. It never ever solved problems and it never ever will…

Here’s ‘Let There Be Love‘ by Manchester band OASIS

MANCHESTER BOMBING – Another Inhuman Drama Another Incredible Sadness…

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Tuesday 23 May 2017

Violence in the air, damage everywhere
Murder in my dreams, waking up to screams
I just can’t explain the way I’m feeling sad
Hits me like a train, eating me alive

Walking with the beast, walking with the beast
You can’t get no peace walking with the beast
You can’t get no peace, you can’t get no peace walking with the beast

The ghost in other man, his future’s in his hands
Doesn’t know he’s going down, he still alive as he drowns
His pain heals as disease, handsome every time we breeze
Hits some suffering everyone, he’s sucking on loaded gone

Walking with the beast, walking with the beast
You can’t get no peace walking with the beast
You can’t get no peace, you can’t get no peace walking with the beast