24 March 2019
Dublin born singer/songwriter SINEAD O’CONNOR‘s second, breakthrough album ‘I DO NOT WANT WHAT I HAVEN’T GOT’ hit the top spot of the UK albums chart 29 years ago, on 24 March 1990. Her cover of the Prince written ballad ‘NOTHING COMPARES 2 U’ was released as the second single off the LP and made O’Connor a superstar. I guess anybody with a little bit of interest for music knows the moving, accompanying clip…
SINEAD O’CONNOR: Website – Facebook – Twitter
Brand new sonic impulses…
23 March 2019
Band: DELAGOON
Who: Fervent 4-headed squad with Stockholm’s best looking haircuts. They’re
“The” Swedish boy band on crack with an indie soul but without the ugly paisley shirts.”
Track: TIME
Score: After a couple of singles and their firm 2017 EP New Sensation these Swedish rockers just launched new red-hot single TIME. A nasty ripper fueled by a firework of dueling guitars and propelled by a slashing rhythm section while minatory vocals roll
all over it. Wiry stroke! Boisterous electricity! Catch their hectic drift right here…
DELAGOON: Facebook – Spotify
23 March 2019
Finally with their seventh album OUT OF TIME Athens rockers R.E.M. scored their very
first Number One LP in the UK. It hit the top spot on 22 March 1991, 28 years ago today. Worldwide 18 million copies were sold of ‘Out Of Time‘ giving the band a massive global status. Here’s the brilliant first single off the longplayer that helped achieve the overall success of the full length…
R.E.M: Website – Facebook – All Albums
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R.I.P.
Daily fuel to load your sonic batteries…
22 March 2019
Turn Up The Volume fell in love with ZINNIA, the Toronto-based art pop project of
Rachael Cardiello, on hearing her previous stirring musing LUPINS. Now on her new
single BULLETS she displays again her enraptured songwriting skills.
“Bullets was written four years ago on an old upright at my mom’s house in Montana. I’ve carried it with me since then and sifted it through many arrangements and band settings. Though written in response to specific events, it has been heartbreaking to see the song
remain relevant over these past years as the same struggles appear in the lives of those
close and far” says Cardiello.
‘Bullets‘ is a powerful piece of dramatic pop magnificence with Cardiello‘s mesmerizing
vox along side overwhelming synth parts growing crescendo along the way and lifting
the song to arresting heights. So impressive, so exquisite and so awe-inspiring. Zinnia definitely deserves a place next to first-class singer/songwriters Sharon Van Etten and
St. Vincent. No doubt about that.
Capture the spine-tingling splendor right here…
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ZINNIA: Facebook – Instagram – Twitter
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22 March 2019
Scottish indie rockers IDLEWILD have been around for quite some time now.
They will release their eight album, entitled INTERVIEW MUSIC next April.
After launching melodic pop rainbow single ‘‘Dream Variations’ last month
the band now present new cut SAME THINGS TWICE. A booming corker with
a banging chorus. It’s hooky, edgy and flashy. Catch the robust dynamic here…
IDLEWILD: Facebook
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22 March 2019
Five years after their triumphant 2015 album Currents Kevin Parker and his orchestra return with new track ‘PATIENCE‘. A frisky and soulful dance tune. Both zippy and mind-relaxing. Here’s the audio clip…
TAME IMPALA: Website – Facebook – Tour Dates
22 March 2019
BRINGING IT ALL BACK HOME is living legend BOB DYLAN‘s, who’s 77 now, fifth LP.
A 24 karat masterpiece, half electric/half acoustic. All killers no fillers. It was released on
22 March 1965, 54 years ago today and still sounding sprightly and absolutely timeless!
It was the LP he wanted to make so eagerly to distance himself from the folk elite so he could evolve as an artist. Some months later when he played the famous Newport Folk Festival (Rhode Island, US) he started his set with the electric songs from the LP. A great part of the audience booed him. A year later also English crowds criticized Dylan for being
a traitor to folk music and becoming a rock ‘n’ roll artist. As usual, he didn’t care, rightly so, what the people taught and followed his own chosen path with several fantastic albums (and also a string of awful ones).
Here’s the amazing first single off that outstanding longplayer. Subterranean Homesick Blues with its rap-like vocals and its inventive video, actually one of the very first modern promotional film clips ever (remember it was 1965). It opened the eyes and ears of many contemporary artists and record labels. Dylan was ahead of his time…
Album in full…
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BOB DYLAN: Website – Facebook – All Music
Sonic knockouts from the past…
22 March 2019
‘The Story Of The Blues’ by WAH!
First of all happy 61 to PETE WYLIE (born 22 March 1958) who was actually WAH!
He started his musical career in 1977 in Liverpool with lead vocalist Ian McCulloch
(Echo and The Bunnymen) and bassist Julian Cope (Teardrops Explodes), with whom
he formed the band Crucial Three. With three big ego’s the trio lasted for about… six weeks. Wylie played in some other groups before starting new incarnation Wah! Heat, shortened to WAH! later on, for his hit single THE STORY OF THE BLUES (part 1 & 2)
which reached #3 on the UK Singles Chart in late 1982. Here we go…
PETE WYLIE: Short Bio
Brand new sonic impulses…
21 March 2019
Early January South-London‘s most notorious misfits FAT WHITE FAMILY dropped lead single FEET from their upcoming, third, album. A karma-like chant with a ghostly and magnetic vibe. A totally different beast compared to their The Fall influenced post-punk mayhem of the early days, although their controversial appetite for shock treatment is
still intact. Oh yeah, the gang just shared another cut from the new LP. ‘TASTES GOOD WITH THE MONEY’ is their ode to good old rich West-London. The song is a contagious, groovy, sing-along humdinger featuring a sequence with their amigo Baxter Dury. The clip is directed by electro-dance artist Róisín Murphy and is a freaky, deranged, horror-ific and totally bloody parody. C’mon let’s join the mess right here…
FAT WHITE FAMILY: Facebook
New album SERFS UP! out 19 April – pre-order facilities here
(photo on top: Turn Up The Volume!)