Month: March 2019

Toronto’s Foursome THE FAME Kicks Ass on New Single ‘CHERRY LIPSTICK’…

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Daily fuel to load your sonic batteries…

19 March 2019

After their euphoric debut single Wide Awake Toronto rockers THE FAME present their second corker, titled CHERRY LIPSTICK. Imagine Weezer turning into an inflammable glam rock act. Expect tons of hooky riffs, a battering drums/bass tandem, electrical guitar solo’s, a massive chorus and a hot lipstick topic. Big bang! Fat slam! Kick ass stuff! Here we go…


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THE FAME: Facebook – Instagram – Website


You can also stream CHERRY LIPSTICK on Spotify

Happy 60 To TERRY HALL

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19 March 2019

Terence Edward Hall better known as TERRY HALL was born in Coventry, England on
19 March 1959. Happy 60! He is most famous for being the frontman of ska legends
THE SPECIALS (who released new LP Encore last month) but he was also involved in several side-projects such as Fun Boy Three (1981-1983), The Colourfield (1984-1987),
he recorded two solo albums and collaborated with a series of musicians. Here are 3 big tracks to celebrate this special artist’s 60th birthday…

– GHOST TOWN –
(with The Specials – 1981)

– IT AIN’T WHAT YOU DO IT’S THE WAY THAT YOU DO IT –
(with Fun Boy Three featuring Banarama – 1982)

– THINKING OF YOU –
(with The Colourfield – 1985)

TERRY HALL: Fanpage Facebook / THE SPECIALS: Facebook

HISTORY – 19 March 1971

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19 March 2019

On 19 March 1971, forty-eight years ago today the late great rocker MARC BOLAN
(30 September 1947 – 16 September 1977) and his band T.REX scored their very first
number one hit single (of a total of four) on the UK singles chart with stone gold classic cracker HOT LOVE. C’mon, let’s start that fabulous glam groove…

T.REX: Biography – Facebook

Sound-Exploring Los Angeles Duo TANGIENTS Reinjects COCTEAU TWINS Banger ‘HAZEL’…

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Daily fuel to load your sonic batteries…

18 March 2019

Los Angeles duo TANGIENTS is a “two-sided enigma, a dichotomy, a shadow and its’ reflection. Maybe they have something to prove. Maybe they can’t decide if they’re a modern day post-punk outfit or an early-80s-inspired shoegaze dreamscape weavers. Maybe it doesn’t matter, because it hits.”

Their brand new single is a cover of HAZEL, a stomping song by Scottish ethereal dream pop legends COCTEAU TWINS released as a B-side on their 1983 single ‘Peppermint Pig‘. The breathtaking performance of TANGIENTS inventive interpretation of this track is just astonishing. Massive tribal drums inject this reverberating banger with a gigantic beat from the get-go. When jigsaw guitars and singer Chelsea Ray‘s voodoo vox kick in Siouxsie and The Banshees pop up instantly in your aural imagination and when a sinistrous bass tries to take control in the final minute you’ll experience an imposing sonic finale. This is not a cover, it’s a ravishing recreation.

Inhale the energy right here…


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TANGIENTS: Facebook – ‘Hazel’ on Apple Music

Scottish Legends PRIMAL SCREAM Release Double Singles Compilation Album ‘MAXIMUM ROCK ‘N’ ROLL’

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18 March 2019

On 24th May Scottish legends PRIMAL SCREAM – one of Turn Up The Volume‘s all time favorite bands – will release a 31 SINGLES compilation (2CDs/2LPS) entitled ‘MAXIMUM ROCK ‘N’ ROLL‘. Info and pre-order facilities here . Check the tracklist below…

CD/LP 1

1. Velocity Girl / 2. Gentle Tuesday / 3. Imperial / 4. Ivy Ivy Ivy / 5. Loaded / 6. Come Together / 7. Higher Than the Sun / 8. Don’t Fight It, Feel It / 9. Movin’ on Up / 10. Rocks / 11. Jailbird / 12. (I’m Gonna) Cry Myself Blind / 13. Kowalski / 14. Star / 15. Burning Wheel / 16. Swastika Eyes / 17. Kill All Hippies

CD/LP 2

1. Accelerator / 2. Miss Lucifer / 3. Autobahn 66 / 4. Some Velvet Morning / 5. Country Girl / 6. Dolls (Sweet Rock and Roll) / 7. Sometimes I Feel So Lonely / 8. Can’t Go Back /
9. Uptown (Weatherall mix) / 10. 2013 / 11. It’s Alright, It’s OK / 12. Goodbye Johnny /
13. Where the Light Gets In / 14. 100% or Nothing

Here’s one of the killer singles KOWALSKI‘ (1997)…

PRIMAL SCREAM: Website – Facebook – Discography

HISTORY – 18 March 1972

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18 March 2019

Living legend NEIL YOUNG scored his only No 1 hit in the US with ‘HEART OF GOLD’ – probably his most famous song ever – 47 years ago today, on 18 March 1972. The wonderful track, with backup vocals by James Taylor and Linda Ronstadt was also part
of his masterpiece album Harvest. Here’s that diamond…

NEIL YOUNG: Facebook – Website

Toronto Dream Pop Duo HUSH PUP Invites You To Their ‘OASIS’…

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Relaxing vibes for the laziest day of the week…

17 March 2019

Toronto duo HUSH PUP, formed in 2012, makes music “that sounds a lot like driving
at night through the board game Candy Land, soft cotton candy trees brush up against the windows of your glass car as you ride toward a friend’s cabin nearby the molasses swamp.”

They will release their new LP PANACEA on 22nd March. Ahead of it here’s utopian single ‘OASIS’. A psychedelic pop rainbow with glimmering guitars and hazy vocals that take you to a carefree zone somewhere up there. The accompanying video is a colorful beauty.

Listen/watch and dream away…

HUSH PUP: Facebook


New album PANACEA out 22nd March – All info on Bandcamp

HISTORY – 17 March 2010

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17 March 2019

On 17 March 2010, nine years ago today, American singer-songwriter ALEX CHILTON passed away, only 59, due to heart problems. He became famous as the teenage singer
of sixties band The Box Tops who had a big hit in 1967 with their cover of The Letter, a song written by country musician Wayne Carson Thompson. Afterward Chilton formed the influential rock band Big Star (1971–1975, 1993–2010). Here is, to remember, this special artist, his fascinating 1978 solo single BANGKOK…

ALEX CHILTON: Biography