Month: October 2018

COURTNEY LOVE – ‘Celebrity Skin’ – Live With 1000 Italian Musicians…

Posted on by JL

Ecstatic live performances…

Three years ago Foo Fighters played  ‘Learn To Fly‘ with 100 Italian musicians.  Last July, the Italy’s Rockin 1000 returned once more to perform with Courtney Love at That’s Live 2018, a charity event that took place at Florence’s Artemio Franchi Stadium. Two Hole songs were performed: Celebrity Skin and Malibu. Now we can see some totally ecstatic footage of the first. Oil your lungs and scream along right here…

Courtney Love‘s band Hole celebrated the 20th anniversary
of their kick-ass Celebrity Skin  album last month…


Stream album here

THE WATERBOYS – Bestseller ‘FISHERMAN’S BLUES’ Came Out 30 Years Ago…

Posted on by JL

Going back in sonic history looking for memorable albums…

16 October 2018

Band: THE WATERBOYS (Edinburgh, Scotland)

Album: FISHERMAN’S BLUES – the band’s 4th LP

Released: 17 October 1988 – 30 years ago

ALL MUSIC review: “Mike Scott had been pursuing his grandiose “big music” since he founded the Waterboys, so it came as a shock when he scaled back the group’s sound for the Irish and English folk of Fisherman’s Blues. Although the arena-rock influences have been toned down, Scott’s vision is no less sweeping or romantic, making even the simplest songs on Fisherman’s Blues feel like epics.” – Full review here – Score: 4.5/5

TURN UP THE VOLUME says: The Scots went back to basics on this one. Traditional Scottish & Irish, country and stripped down rock and roll. And it worked terrifically. It became their best-selling album in the UK.

Top Tracks: Fisherman’s Blues / Strange Boat / And A Bang On The Ear / When Ye Go Away

ALBUM in full (#1 – #13)…

.
THE WATERBOYS: Facebook – Website – Discography

THE JIMI HENDRIX EXPERIENCE Released Mindboggling ‘ELECTRIC LADYLAND’ Album 50 Years Ago…

Posted on by JL

Going back in sonic history looking for memorable albums…

15 October 2018

Band: THE JIMI HENDRIX EXPERIENCE

Album: ELECTRIC LADYLAND – third and final (double) longplayer

Released: 16 October 1968 – 50 years ago

ALL MUSIC wrote: “Jimi Hendrix’s third and final album with the original Experience found
him taking his funk and psychedelic sounds to the absolute limit. The result was not only one
of the best rock albums of the era, but also Hendrix’s original musical vision at its absolute apex. When revisionist rock critics refer to him as the maker of a generation’s mightiest dope music, this is the album they’re referring to”
Full review here – Score: 5/5

TURN UP THE VOLUME says: Eric Clapton was GOD, Jimi Hendrix was the DEVIL.

STANDOUT TRACKS : Voodoo Child (Slight Return) / Voodoo Chile / Along The Watchtower

* VOODOO CHILD (Slight Return) – totally demonic…

* VOODOO CHILE – mindboggling jam extravaganza …

.
* Great info video on Voodoo Child / Voodoo Chile…

* ALL ALONG THE WATCHTOWER – the electrifying Bob Dylan cover…

Double Album in full…

.
JIMI HENDRIX: Website – Facebook – Discography

London’s Punk Trio GIRLS IN SYNTHESIS Spits And Sneers On New Fiery Single ‘FAN THE FLAMES’…

Posted on by JL

Daily fuel to load your sonic batteries…

15 October 2018

Band: GIRLS IN SYNTHESIS

Who: “Formed in late 2016, Girls In Synthesis have quickly forged a fearsome reputation
as one of the most exciting and volatile live acts in London.In equal parts frantic, considered, ear-splitting and melodic, the group take their cues from the early DIY punk and post-punk pioneers.”

Pick: FAN THE FLAMES – title track from their upcoming E.P.

Score: Punk is not dead. Punk is alive and hitting. Living proof is London’s Girls In Synthesis.
Their new hot-blooded slam ‘Fan The Flames‘ is a nasty uppercut pushed by the drummer’s kick-ass battering, the bassist’s pumping cadence and the guitar’s head-splitting electricity. Add the frontman’s spit and sneer vocals and a stirred up scream-along chorus to test the flexibility of your vocal chords to and what you get is a rowdy firecracker to wake up your entire neighbourhood with. Ignite the frenzy right here…


.
GIRLS IN SYNTHESIS: Facebook


FAN THE FLAMES E.P. out 10 November – All info and order facilities here

All You Need For A Body-Trembling Sauna Gig Is Belgian Electro Trash Tandem… ONMENS

Posted on by JL

ONMENS – Cafe Aap, Ghent, Belgium – 14 October 2018

Here are the 5 ingredients you need
for a body-trembling sauna gig…

One: a small place for max 60 people.
Two: a fun-level of alcohol intoxication
Three: a mind-exploding noise band
Four: with a manic street preacher
Five: a red-hot trash earthquake

Something like this…

Yesterday’s body-trembling sauna gig in pictures…


One: a small place…


Two: a fun-level of alcohol intoxication…


Three: a mind-exploding noise band…


Four: a manic street preacher


Five: a red-hot trash earthquake…

Stream/purchase newest ONMENS
album DOOPVONT right here…


ONMENS: Facebook

photos by Turn Up The Volume

TODAY’S YESTERDAY ALBUM – Eponymous Debut LP THE FUTUREHEADS…

Posted on by JL

Remarkable albums from the past…

‘The Futureheads’ by THE FUTUREHEADS
Released: 12 July 2004 – The British band first LP

ALL MUSIC review: “On their self-titled full-length debut, The Futureheads turn
the promise of their early EPs and singles into an almost relentlessly playful, lively,
and smart album of zippy post-punk-pop. Even though shades of XTC, the Jam, and
Gang of Four (whose Andy Gill produced the album) jump out at almost every turn
on Futureheads, the band’s chiming, precise vocal harmonies — which sound more
British Invasion than new wave — give their sound a distinctive kick.”
Full review here – Score: 4/5

TURN UP THE VOLUME! says: With the speedy guitars, the agitated pace, clever harmonies and amazingly catchy tunes it felt like The Futureheads reinvented punk.

TOP TRACKS: Robot / A to B / Decent Days And Nights /
Meantime / ALMS / Stupid And Shallow

ALBUM in full…

.
THE FUTUREHEADS: Website – Facebook – All Albumsµ


Experience The Arresting Vox Of JOHNNY GATES – Here’s ‘BROOKLYN NIGHTS’…

Posted on by JL

Gripping moments for the laziest day of the week…

14 October 2018

Already falling for music as an adolescent Los Angeles based singer/songwriter JOHNNY GATES started his first band at high school and toured the US multiple times afterward. Now he’s here for the first time as a solo artist with debut single ‘BROOKLYN NIGHTS‘.
A nostalgic reflection on Gates‘ romantic nights in Brooklyn with a lover once upon a time. What a towering vocal performance this is, balancing between the zealous intensity of good old Bob Seger and the profound passion of Ryan Adams. Majestic and powerful!
Catch the heart-warming energy right here…

.
JOHNNY GATES: Website – Facebook

GARETH SAGER & THE HUNGRY GHOSTS – New Explosive Party Album ‘JUICY RIVERS’ Out Now…

Posted on by JL

13 October 2018

Edinburgh born artist GARETH SAGER‘s CV is quite impressive: multi-instrumentalist, singer/songwriter, classical music composer, a founding member of funky post-punk
junks The Pop Group, jazzy avant-garde combo Rip Rig + Panic, Bristol rockers Head
and countless collaborations here, there and everywhere. After releasing his gracious classical piano LP 88 Tuned Dreams last year Sager is back with a totally different beast. Assisted by his gang THE HUNGRY GHOSTS he just dropped new album JUICY RIVERS.

It’s party time for all the outcasts, all the misfits and all the bohemians out there. Imagine the genial Mothers Of Invention fronted by the eccentric Captain Beafheart instead of the equally eccentric icon Frank Zappa. That’s my overall exciting feeling after a couple of ‘Juicy Rivers‘ spins. You get all the sonic pandemonium your greedy ears and your fucked up mind need. From elevating glam weirdness (Disco Sofa) to bluesy funkness (Pete Le Beat), from demonic rock (Bar Stool Warrior Chant) to deranged post-punk grimness (Pitbull Watusi) and lots of far-out stuff in between. Throw your straitjacket through the window and shake your lazy hips on repeat right now, right here…


Available here and here