Month: November 2018

LIONS OF DISSENT Spreads Amplified Disco Fever With New Single ‘TURN UP THE STRUGGLE’…

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Daily fuel to load your sonic batteries…

21 November 2018

Band: LIONS OF DISSENT

Who: “From cryptic beginnings 3 years ago as a multimedia solo project, 2017 saw Lions
of Dissent suddenly explode into a 3D technicolour reality. A band choosing to embrace
a more collective and collaborative ethos.A sonic and visual space odyssey, orbiting its own sphere – self-producing every aspect of their creative output, from design and screen printing to
curating their own photo-shoots and video content, but with a predominant focus on the most important part, music.”

Track: TURN UP THE STRUGGLE – New single out via Lion Rebel Recordings on 30th November. Described by singer/songwriter Tim Baker as “a dream-like parallel musical universe where NYC 79 meets WLV 18”. No idea what he’s talking about, but it sounds clever.

Score: Get ready to shake your booty, ladies and gents. Here’s a swooshing disco banger that will have a resistless impact on the whole of your body and all of your senses. The oiled motor of this cracker is an ongoing drum/bass beat you simply can’t resist. Add sprightly guitars, bouncy keys, stimulating male/female vocals, an uplifting chorus and what you get is amplified dance ebullience. Saturday night fever all over again but with more punch, more fervor and more glam and glitter. We all know life is a struggle, but don’t let that stop you from going bonkers now and then. Here’s the fuel to get you going…


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Landmark Album ‘THE KINKS ARE THE VILLAGE GREEN PRESERVATION SOCIETY’ Released 50 Years Ago…

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Going back in sonic history looking for memorable albums…

21 November 2018

Band: THE KINKS

Album: THE KINKS ARE THE VILLAGE GREEN PRESERVATION SOCIETY – the band’s sixth LP

Released: 22 November 1968 – 50 (!) years ago

ALL MUSIC review: “Ray Davies’ sentimental, nostalgic streak emerged on Something Else, but it developed into a manifesto on The Village Green Preservation Society, a concept album lamenting the passing of old-fashioned English traditions. As the opening title song says, the Kinks – meaning Ray himself – in this case, were for preserving “draught beer and virginity,” and throughout the rest of the album, he creates a series of stories, sketches, and characters about a picturesque England that never really was… there are endless layers of musical and lyrical innovation on The Village Green Preservation Society, and its defiantly British sensibilities became the foundation of generations of British guitar pop.”
Full review here – Score: 5/5

TURN UP THE VOLUME! says: An album that influenced about a million songwriters
over the years and still is a reference record for many musicians today. Ray Davies‘ rich composition talent shines terrifically well on this landmark longplayer.

ALBUM in full…

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THE KINKS: Website – Facebook – Discography


50th Anniversary Edition out now – all info here

Legends THE POGUES Had A Romantic ‘SUMMER IN SIAM’ Back In 1990…

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Clips that have a lasting impact on Turn Up The Volume’s eyes and ears…

Shane MacGowan at its moonstruck best
Unreal romanticism at its very best
And that piano play is just awesome…

When it’s summer in Siam
And the moon is full of rainbows
When it’s summer in Siam
Though we go through many changes

When it’s summer in Siam
Then all I really know is that I truly am

In the summer in Siam
In the summer in Siam
In the summer in Siam

When it’s summer in Siam
And the moon is full of rainbows
When it’s summer in Siam
When we go through many changes

When it’s summer in Siam
Then all I really know is that I truly am


SUMMER IN SIAM – single from their 1990 album HELL’S DITCH 

NICOLE ATKINS And MARK LANEGAN Cover GUNS ‘N ROSES In Appealing Duet…

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21 November 2018

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Nashville based singer-songwriter NICOLE ATKINS just shared her alluring version of the Guns N’ Roses classic ballad NOVEMBER RAIN with vocal assistance of great vox Mark Lanegan. Man of many bands, countless collaborations and some impressive solo work. Although their voices resonate differently in tone, timber and color, this appealing duet of both crooners works amazingly well. Catch the beauty here…


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London’s MODERATE REBELS Announce Second Album And Share Lead Track ‘THE VALUE OF SHARES’…

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20 November 2018

London’s variable and still mysterious outfit MODERATE REBELS (although the new press photos reveal 4 female members instead of 2) are about to release the follow-up album to their lo-fi pop debut The Sound Of Security. New longplayer SHARED VALUES will hit the streets on 30 November via Everyday Life Recordings.


SHARED VALUES out 30 November – pre-order facilities via iTunes

The self-proclaimed anti-music project says about the new record: “We went into the studio with a couple of songs to record an EP, and we ended up with an album-length EP. We like to just let things happen and for songs to mostly write themselves. It’s a case of mucking around and seeing what feels right and what doesn’t. We say it all the time, but it’s important to note – we don’t intend anything. We don’t feel like ‘artists’ with grand statements to make.”

Ahead of the fresh full lenght’s launch here’s, following earlier shared cuts I Love Today  , Beyond Hidden Words and Science & Faith, lead track THE VALUE OF SHARES. Another magnetizing mantra-like mind-ripper with fuzzy guitar flashes and ongoing vocal repetition of the main line ‘I Like You / You Like Me’. You bet I do. Catch their feverish drift here…


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(photo: Moderate Rebels press)

Birmingham’s Newcomers THE TABOO CLUB Impress With Tenebrous Reflection ‘BIBLE JOHN’…

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Daily fuel to load your sonic batteries…

20 November 2018

Band: THE TABOO CLUB

Who: A fresh quintet formed only this year in Birmingham, UK.
“The Taboo Club are entirely of their own, comprising of and expressing the values
of its individual members to create something heart-breakingly cathartic – a sound
that commands attention and welcomes intimacy.”

Track: BIBLE JOHN

Score: Close your eyes and you’ll hear atrabilious echoes of Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds‘s profoundest moments and the Tindersticks gloomiest sentiments. Indeed, Bible John has that tenebrous timbre, that abstruse toughness that has the cutting strength to penetrate the dark side of confused souls. The combination of singer Rob Lilley‘s sonorous, crooning vox and the saturnine orchestration of this slow-moving melancholic contemplation works frighteningly perfect. Music to be played on a jukebox, late at night, in a shadowy bar at the edge of the town where all the lonely ones look for a bit of comfort. Feel it here…


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MY BLOODY VALENTINE Released Debut Album ‘ISN’T ANYTHING’ 30 Years Ago…

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Going back in sonic history looking for memorable albums…

19 November 2018

Band: MY BLOODY VALENTINE

Album: ISN’T ANYTHING – the band’s debut longplayer

Released: 21 November 1988 – 30 years ago

ALL MUSIC‘s reflections: “Though it’s often seen as just a precursor to their magnum opus ‘Loveless’, in its own way My Bloody Valentine’s “Isn’t Anything” is nearly as groundbreaking as their 1991 masterpiece. Not only was it the most lucid, expansive articulation yet of the group’s sound, it virtually created the shoegazing scene and spawned legions of followers …The album’s tightly structured songs still bore traces of My Bloody Valentine’s previous incarnation as jangly indie popsters, but Kevin Shields and company crafted wide-ranging experiments within those confines… ‘Isn’t Anything’ captures My Bloody Valentine’s revolutionary style in its infancy and points the way to ‘Loveless’, but it’s far more than
just a dress rehearsal for the band’s moment of greatness.” –
Full review here – – Score: 4.5/5

TURN UP THE VOLUME! says: Haunting melodies, compelling song structures,
mind-bending effects, controlled chaos and an overall striking aurality.

ALBUM in full…

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MY BLOODY VALENTINE: Facebook – Discography

INTERPOL – New York Cared Back In 2002…

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Clips that have a lasting impact on Turn Up The Volume’s eyes and ears…

‘NYC’ by INTERPOL
Spooky and mysterious
Awesome guitar lines
‘The subway is a porno‘
Obscure SF-like clip…

I had seven faces
Thought I knew which one to wear
I’m sick of spending these lonely nights
Training myself not to care
The subway is a porno
The pavements they are a mess
I know you’ve supported me for a long time
Somehow I’m not impressed
But New York cares (got to be some more change in my life) x 4
Subway she is a porno
And the pavements they are a mess
I know you’ve supported me for a long time
Somehow I’m not impressed
It’s up to me now turn on the bright lights
Oh, it’s up to me now turn on the bright lights
New York cares (got to be some more change in my life) x 4
It’s up to me now turn on the bright lights
(Got to be some more change in my life)
Oh, it’s up to me now turn on the bright lights
(Got to be some more change in my life)


From their 2002 TURN ON THE BRIGHT LIGHTS album – stream it here

PERFUME GENIUS Shares Brand New Afflictive Cry Of Despair ‘NOT FOR ME’…

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New sonic impulses…

19 November 2018

After reworking ‘Alan‘, the closing track of his 2017 album No Shape with streaming benefits going towards American immigrant rights organization Immigration Equality, Mike Seattle’s singer-songwriter Mike Hadreas aka PERFUME GENIUS has just launched new afflictive song called NOT FOR ME. An intimate, yet painfully captivating cry of despair caused by being unloved, by being ignored. “I’ve never known love or been shown love, you’ll see / Ballads are being sung, but not for me” he regrets deeply. Listen here…

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Georgia’s Stirring Collective PYLON REENACTMENT SOCIETY Grooves On New Single ‘MESSENGER’…

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Daily fuel to load your sonic batteries…

19 November 2018

Band: PYLON REENACTMENT SOCIETY

Who: Stirring collective out of Athens, Georgia that formed in 2014 with former
Pylon‘s near legendary frontwoman Vanessa Briscoe Hay right in the middle.

Pick: MESSENGER – brand new single

Score: This is an ongoing drum/bass pushed groove that gets your hungry ears’ attention from the get-go. When the jangling guitars kick in followed by frontwoman Vanessa Hay‘s vocal reflections on love and war the whole sonic picture comes together organically. And when this crackerjack’s intensity grows as the beat goes on it only gets funkier and zippier. Top cut. Enjoy the lively vibe right here…

You can pre-order the single and its B-side via Bandcamp


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