Brand new sonic impulses…
20 July 2018
British techno punk legends THE PRODIGY will release their seventh LP, titled ‘No Tourists‘ on 2 November. Ahead of it, the red-hot-blooded dance act just shared a clip for the first single ‘NEED SOME 1’. A razor-sharp firestarter, a storming steamroller, a sweltering smack, a burning whack! Catch the dynamite smack right here…
THE PRODIGY: Facebook – Website
Going back in sonic history looking for memorable albums…
20 July 2018
Band: SUPER FURRY ANIMALS
Album: PHANTOM POWER – sixth longplayer
Released: 21 July 2003 – 15 years ago
PITCHFORK wrote: “Six albums deep into their career, Super Furry Animals have
world-built an entire mythology of Welsh mysticism, Beach Boys homages, and Pete
Fowlers bubbly cartoons to such a point that slipping into Phantom Power comes as
a comfortable, pleasant exercise. If ‘Phantom Power’ sounds like a tame record to your
ears in comparison to the Furries past extroverted wackiness, dig between the mesas to
find the bones, blood, and booze.” – Score: 9/10 – Full review here
TURN UP THE VOLUME: The wayward Welsh daydreamers shone again…
Album in full…
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SFA: Facebook – Discography
Welsh legends…
THE GLÜCKS – Ghent Fest, Belgium – 19 July 2018
What the fuck! Belgium‘s sweatiest, thrashiest and steamiest 2-motor garage rock engine nailed it again. Yes, folks, furious amok runners THE GLÜCKS played a smashing set yesterday at Ghent Fest. These two mind-twisting drums/guitar misfits turn into an unstoppable volcanic eruption the second they hit the stage. They scorch, whizz, roar, scream, rumble, twist, shout, yell, rebel, steam, blaze, boil, burn, electrify, steam, whirl, discharge, thunder, smash, rock, drumfire, trigger, resonate, blister, inflame and turn
a hungry crowd into a state of trippy ecstasy. They all did this and more once again, last night in my hometown. Heavy shit! Smoking stuff! Fierce noise! Red-hot blitzkrieg! Hot-blooded performance! Hail hail The Glücks! New video ‘Why Do I Love You?’ will give you
a cracking idea of their psychobilly power…
And here are some yesterday’s visuals…
Hit! Hit! Hit!…
Spitting fire…
“My name is Tina too!… Tina Turner”
The one and only real Tina…
Mean machine…
Go totally nuts on new
album RUN AMOK…
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THE GLÜCKS: Facebook –Twitter
(concert pics JL/Turn Up The Volume!)
Daily fuel to load your sonic batteries…
19 July 2018
Band: THE CHEAP THRILLS (Liverpool, England)
Track: ACCIDENT PRONE – “Whether it’s breaking hearts or your ma’s
favourite tea cup this new song is for you”
Score: This is a roaring wall-of-tons-of-guitars-corker pushed by a throbbing rhythm section while dynamic vocals turn up the soaring intensity to a blistering emo-level.
Catch the glowing drive right here, right now…
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THE CHEAP THRILLS: Facebook – Website
KEVIN MORBY – Boomtown Festival, Ghent, Belgium – 17 July 2018
Last Tuesday exquisite Texan singer-songwriter KEVIN MORBY landed with his excellent band in sunny Belgium to play the Boomtown Festival in Ghent. His delightful set of moony daydreams and upbeat country rock beauties enamoured a fully crowded square in the middle of this historic town. The title track of his newest album CITY MUSIC never sounded so appropriate and set the tone for a full hour of tempting and touching songs selected from his four albums…
Some visuals from the show…
Shiny moments…
Magical melodies…
Heartwarming vox…
Touching troubadour…
Excellent band…
KEVIN MORBY: Facebook – Website – Discography
CITY MUSIC in full…
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(pics by Turn Up The Volume)
Daily fuel to load your sonic batteries…
19 July 2018
Turn Up The Volume featured Newcastle upon Tyne‘s indie rockers SWINE TAX several
times before, so we’re in pole position to judge and announce that their new single
NEVER ENDING is, without a shadow of a doubt, their very best release (so far). It’s
about “a person, defiantly trying to hold back the tides of time and is determined to cling
onto a transitory pleasure, which in reality, will nevertheless fade from their memory and eventually disappear forever” explains the band.
Sonically ‘Never Ending‘ is nothing less than an effervescent masterstroke. A multifaceted crackerjack that will activate your bloodstream’s flow every single second of its huge impact. This is intoxicating guitar pop at its very British best. High-spirited, perfervid,
totally electrical and injected with a monumental, hair-raising chorus with an anthemic resonance. Catch the imposing impressiveness right here…
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SWINE TAX: Facebook – Twitter
Available on iTunes and Bandcamp
Going back in sonic history looking for memorable albums…
19 July 2018
Band: CYPRESS HILL (Los Angeles, US)
Album: BLACK SUNDAY – 2nd longplayer
Released: 20 July 1993 – 25 years ago…
ALL MUSIC wrote: “‘Black Sunday’ made Cypress Hill’s connection to rock & roll more explicit, with its heavy metal-like artwork and noisier, more dissonant samples (including, naturally, stoner icons Black Sabbath). It’s a slightly darker affair than its groundbreaking predecessor, with the threats of violence more urgent and the pot obsession played to the hilt. Black Sunday is overall a consistent, engaging listen, especially the flawless first half or so.”
Score: 4.5/5 – Full review here
TURN UP THE VOLUME says: without a shadow of a doubt their
best doom doped work ever…
TOP TRACKS: Insane In The Brain / I Ain’t Goin’ Out Like That / A to K
* INSANE IN THE BRAIN
* I AIN’T GOIN’ OUT LIKE THAT
* A TO K
ALBUM in full…
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CYPRESS HILL: Facebook – Website – All Albums
DIANE GRACE – Kinky Star, Ghent, Belgium – 17 July 2018
From Antwerp, Belgium here’s chaotic noise beast DIANE GRACE. A clamorous band you can scare your neighbours with, a theatrical turmoil band you can go totally berserk to, a tumultuous band capable of starting ketchup revolutions in shitty nightclubs, a punk band for psychic patients, a harebrained band of wackos you can cause PANIC with…
Yesterday night they did it again in my hometown Ghent, sounding, looking and acting completely… whizzy, scuzzy, frizzy, queazy, snazzy, exequy, zincky, quacky, jimply, blowzy, jockey, frowzy, jiminy, jangly, jingly, cozily, frouzy, frenzy, manicly, floozy, godverdomme, jalopy, veejay, litzy, peppery, jinny, skivvy, beastie, qwerty, chips with paprika, arty, hazily, japery, chubby, jetway, chuffy, whacky, alkoxy, miljaar, packly and kinky. I have actually no idea what all these bloody words exactly mean, I
just picked them because their nutty sound matches last night’s liberating spirit. I am
sure, this diabolic three-headed monster doesn’t give a flying fuck either of how people perceive them as artists. That is what makes their exuberant sonic exorcism so damn fascinating. Don’t try to analyze them, don’t try to put them in a box, don’t try to even understand them. Just e-x-p-e-r-i-e-n-c-e them…
Some yesterday’s visuals…
Heeeeeellllll yeahhhhhh…
Play that funky music, white boys…
Neanderthal man on a rip-roaring mission…
Back to earth…
DIANE GRACE: Facebook
(concert pics by JL/Turn Up The Volume!)
Going back in sonic history looking for memorable albums…
18 July 2018
Artist: SPARKLEHORSE
Album: GOOD MORNING SPIDER – second longplayer
Released: 20 July 1998 – 20 years ago
PITCHFORK wrote: “Mark Linkous’ second album as Sparklehorse shines an old light on impossible things. He found the purity of pop music and then lacerated it with the quirks and imperfections he cherished. Its songs bleed in and out of each other: an organ drone ends one track and begins another, a strand of tape hiss winds through the work. You can hear machines starting up and stopping again, fingers squeaking across the frets of an acoustic guitar. Linkous had a tendency to sing close enough to the microphone that you could hear the spittle crackling off his teeth, like he’s whispering in your ear or through a tin can strung up with twine.”
Score: 9/10 – Full review here
TURN UP THE VOLUME says: Mark Linkous‘ wayward, delicate, vulnerable, ugly/beautiful, quiet/loud, scary, confused, profound, gloomy, paranoid, raging songwriting – in sound and vision – is nothing less than genial…
TOP TRACKS: Pig / Maria’s Little Elbows / Sick Of Goodbyes
* PIG
* MARIA’S LITTLE ELBOWS
* SICK OF GOODBYES
Album in full…
https://open.spotify.com/album/4FWzJKnZMl51qBHzmKClqP?si=rPRLE7-YQY-Psz_G37iyjQ
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SPARKLEHORSE: Facebook – All Albums
R.I.P.
