OASIS – Manchester City’s Road Football Stadium – 27 April 1996
Manchester legends OASIS played the first of two sold-out shows at their beloved Manchester City’s Road Football Stadium on 27 April 1996 – 22 years ago today.
Two historical rock and roll events. Here are 3 unforgettable moments…
* SWAMP SONG – the euphoric opener…
* LIVE FOREVER – magic…
* SUPERSONIC – give me gin & tonic…
OASIS: Website – Facebook – Twitter
Clips that will have an impact on your eyes and your ears…
26 April 2018
Belgian electro collective RUMOURS released one of the most fascinating albums of
the year (so far) last month with MEGAMIX. Besides touring the new record they keep
the flaming fire going with a new clip for ‘PEW PEW’, the prime party cracker on the fresh LP. If you’re planning a ‘dance-yourself-dizzy‘ trip to sunshiny Ibiza in the near future to go bananas each night in one of the fancy discos over there make sure you get in the right healthy shape. Watch the hilarious video and trim yourself as insane as the band does. Jump, sway, sweat and shake that booty, ladies and gents. Here you go…
Don’t stop sweating yet, push yourself to the limit before flying to hot Ibiza and trying to
be a hero(ine) on the dance floor. Here are some more Mega challenges for your limbs…
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RUMOURS: Facebook
Available on iTunes
(pic on top by JL/Turn Up The Volume!)
‘Dreams‘ by JAPANESE BREAKFAST
Original by THE CRANBERRIES
Michelle Zauner from Philadelphia indie rockers Little Big League has been covering
THE CRANBERRIES‘s 1992 twinkling debut single DREAMS live with her solo project JAPANESE BREAKFAST for a couple of years. And now she recorded and released her touching interpretation of that melancholic beauty for Spotify’s singles series. Here is
the sparkling version…
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‘Dreams’ was on the Irish pop rockers’ 1993 debut album
Everybody Else Is Doing It, So Why Can’t We?
Here’s THE CRANBERRIES original version…
Rest in peace, Dolores O’Riordan…
Daily fuel to load your sonic batteries…
26 April 2018
Artist: MUTE CHOIR
Who: “Iran born Sam Arion escaped at the age of 18 to the city of Toronto in Canada. The music of his project Mute Choir is, above all else, about freedom. Freedom to live your life however you choose, and freedom to follow your creative vision wherever it leads. But in order to understand freedom, one must experience its opposite. He produces a distinctive blend of untamed electro-rock and introspective balladry with an eye on the ever-elusive goal of making dance music with a message.”
Track: ELECTION SEASON
Score: This booming electro roller coaster will blow you off your socks. ‘Election Season’
is an astonishing trip that will make your adrenalin’s stream go out of control. Even when he’s fighting with self-doubt and he’s going through mixed emotions Mute Choir chooses to keep his body and soul in a state of ecstasy. And so should you and me, with the healing help of this gloriously orchestrated synths spectacle. A sonic razzle-dazzle to lose yourself completely in. Shake your booty right here…
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MUTE CHOIR: Facebook – Instagram – Twitter
ELECTION SEASON will be on debut album BEHIND BARS – out 8 June.
Remarkable albums from the past
‘Broken English’
MARIANNE FAITHFULL
Released: 2 Nov 1979
Seventh studio album
THE GUARDIAN says: “In theory at least, there were more opportune moments in pop history for a forgotten 60s legend to stage a comeback than the late 1970s. Admirably less tolerant than subsequent generations of the idea that the 60s were a matchless cultural high-water mark, punks made a great pantomimic show of disdaining the preceding decade. “No Elvis, Beatles or the Rolling Stones/ In 1977,” sang the Clash. And yet the punk generation seemed to make an exception for Marianne Faithfull. McLaren attempted to cast her as Sid Vicious’s junkie mother in The Great Rock’n’Roll Swindle. The songs on her 1979 comeback album, Broken English, were premiered at a gig at the Music Machine in London, the bearpit venue where Bob Geldof was punched in the face in the middle of a Boomtown Rats gig and Richard Hell received such a grim reception that Rotten, of all people, took the stage to ask for calm. “Punk,” Faithfull later recalled, “made Broken English possible. The record careers by, its 35 minutes as bracingly full of venom and spite as anything her punk admirers could muster. For Faithfull, it seemed to work as catharsis.” – Full review here.
TURN UP THE VOLUME‘S favorite track: title track BROKEN ENGLISH
Album in full…
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MARIANNE FAITHFULL: Facebook – Website – Discography
Clips that will have an impact on your eyes and your ears…
25 April 2018
LAY LLAMAS is the mind-expanding sonic project of experienced Italian sound explorer Nicola Giunta. Assisted by an extensive squad of like-minded musicians his new album, titled THUBAN will be out next June. Ahead of that release here’s new track/clip HOLY WORMS. An atmospheric and cinematic groove, obviously inspired by Eastern vibes and African beats à la 80s Talking Heads. Dancey, trippy and sunlit. Watch here how divine worms move to tropical beats…
LAY LLAMAS: Facebook – Twitter / Label: Rocket Recordings
New album THUBAN out 15 June – All info here
Daily fuel to load your sonic batteries…
25 April 2018
Hello world! 11 May 2018 is DOOMSDAY! That fateful day Manische Musikkapelle ELEFANT‘s debut LP KONARK UND BONARK will hit your street, your house, your car, your poodle, your goldfish, your IQ, your cheeky Elton John albums and most of all your poor ears. The world will never be the same again. From that diabolic day on all BAD
music will be banned forever and even longer than that. No more posh-pop, no more
hip-plop, no more cock-rock, no more macho-metal, no more corporate-shit whatsoever. From 11 May on only ELEFANT hymns will be tolerated, from morning ’till night, 24/7.
You better start preparing yourself for that evil day and watch/listen on repeat to one
of the longplayer’s dark twists. About dementia. Here’s LORD SLEEP. Hallelujah! Get
used to the idea, ladies and gents: ELEFANT UBER ALLES…
ELEFANT: Facebook – Bandcamp
Your new favorite sonic nightmare, titled KONARK UND BONARK will be
released via 9000 Records/Consouling Sounds – all info right here.
Die Manische Musikkapelle spielt eine Release-Show am Doomsday! Tickets here.
(concert pics: JL/Turn Up The Volume!)
Remarkable albums from the past
‘Red Mecca’
CABARET VOLTAIRE
Released: 15 Sept 1981
Third studio album
ALL MUSIC wrote: “It isn’t without reason that Red Mecca is often referred to as one of
Cabaret Voltaire’s most cohesive and brilliant records. Taken as a whole, the record contains
all the characteristics that have made the Sheffield group such an influential entity when it comes to electronic music of the untethered, experimental variety that isn’t afraid to shake
its tail a little. Unlike a fair portion of CV’s studio output, Red Mecca features no failed experiments or anything that could be merely cast off as “interesting.” It’s a taught, dense, horrific slab lacking a lull.” – Score: 10/10 – Full review right here
TURN UP THE VOLUME‘S favorite track: the haunting LANDSLIDE…
Album in full…
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CABARET VOLTAIRE: Facebook – Discography
Spreading the virus…
Daily fuel to load your sonic batteries…
24 April 2018
FRANKIE TEARDROP DEAD dress and sound like an LSD bunch of ‘flowers in your hair’ misfits who were catapulted from the year 1966 straight into the ugly present to have
‘Joy In Division’. A sort of psychedelic pop jam going on like forever. I like their ghostly vibe, their mind-pleasing flow, their retro 60s look, their Suicide inspired band name and their obscure mojo. Deadly funny or deadly serious? Only they know what they are up to. Anyway this fascinating collective is on its way to something New In Order. Absolutely, this summer they will launch their fresh album “All You Need Is Love and Fucking Peace”. Count me in, outlaws. But first, some divided joy…
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FTD: Facebook
JOY IN DIVISION available here on Bandcamp
Remarkable albums from the past
‘Kiss Me Kiss Me Kiss Me’
by THE CURE
Released: 25 May 1987
Seventh studio album
ROLLING STONE wrote: “Even in a year already marked by sprawling, ambitious double albums from Prince and Hüsker Dü, the Cure’s new Kiss Me, Kiss Me, Kiss Me stands out.
Like ‘Sign o’ the Times’ and ‘Warehouse: Songs and Stories’, this 2-record, 18-song set is about reaching inward. The Cure is trying to deepen and refine an existing sensibility rather than reach outward to expand it. On previous efforts, guitarist and singer Robert Smith has flirted with everything from conceptually orchestrated studio pop (The Top) to sarcastic dance tracks (“Let’s Go to Bed”); now that the Cure has evolved into an actual band, he’s able to consummate those eclectic desires. Kiss Me is a breakthrough all right. For the first time, the Cure’s music is relatively unfettered by pretension and indulgence, and the results are remarkable.”
Score: 5/5 – full review here.
TURN UP THE VOLUME‘s favorite track: JUST LIKE HEAVEN
Album in full…
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THE CURE: Website – Facebook – Discography
Kissing legends…