Month: April 2019

BECK Shares First Single From New LP – Here’s The Jumpy ‘SAW LIGHTING’…

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Brand new sonic impulses…

16 April 2019

Musical centipede BECK has already shared two new tracks this year. And here’s another fresh one, called SAW LIGHTING written and produced together with Pharrell Williams.

A press statement says this is officially the first single from Beck‘s upcoming new LP entitled HYPERSPACE. Planned to be out “at an as yet undetermined point in the space
time continuum.”

Listen to ‘Saw Lighting‘ here…

BECK: Facebook

(photo on top: FB Beck)

LED ZEPPELIN – 16 April 1970 – ‘A WHOLE LOTTA LOVE’ Goes Gold

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Knockouts from the past…

16 April 2019

The classic LED ZEPPELIN track ‘WHOLE LOTTA LOVE’, released as a single almost everywhere in the world, except in the UK was certified Gold in the US on 16 April 1970, 49 years ago today after selling over one million copies. The band’s record label Atlantic Records also wanted to launch this gigantic rocker in the UK as a single and had pressed initial copies for release on 5th December 1969. But giant (literally) band manager Peter Grant refused categorically. He wanted no exception regarding Zep’s no-singles policy for the British market (the reason for this strategy was to maximize album sales).

Anyway, here’s that towering ripsnorter with its king-sized riff.


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Experienced Welsh Team KEYS Launches New Teasing Jam ‘BLACK AND WHITE’…

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Daily fuel to load your sonic batteries…

16 April 2019

Band: KEYS

Who: An experienced Welsh team with several albums, EPs and singles on their CV. Producing music that “touches on the wide eyed wonder and boundless possibilities of
the sixties pop song, West Coast harmonies, Motown backbeat and the aggression of post
1968 proto-punk, sets them apart as true believers in the communion of Rock and Roll.”

Track: BLACK AND WHITE – new single from upcoming LP

Score: Probably the track with the longest foreplay I heard in years. ‘Black And White‘ is an electrical jam that grows slowly but surely towards its orgastic climax. A teasing cut with a chillin’ swagger inviting you to walk cool, look cool and sound cool. Now put on your black sunglasses and act as if you were born to move to this bad-ass groove…


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KEYS: Facebook – Twitter

HISTORY – 20 Years Ago TOM WAITS Released His ‘MULE VARIATIONS’ LP…

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16 April 2019

Living legend TOM WAITS released his 12th studio album MULE VARIATIONS today
20 years ago, on 16 April 1999. It won a Grammy for ‘Best Contemporary Folk Album‘.
Folk album? Sounds more like a heartfelt blues record to my ears. Whatever. Big one.

Turn Up The Volume‘s favorite tracks: Big In Japan / Hold On /
Cold Water / Filipino Box Spring Hog

– BIG IN JAPAN –

– HOLD ON –

– COLD WATER –

– FILIPINO BOX SPRING HOG –

Album in full…

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TOM WAITS: Facebook – All Albums

COURTNEY BARNETT Shares Video Clip For Her New Track ‘EVERYBODY HERE HATES YOU’…

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Clips that will impress your ears and your eyes…

We, the fans (I’m still thrilled about seeing her eye-to-eye in a small Brussels club back in 2014 when she played for about 100 people – pics from that gig below), know for some time now that COURTNEY BARNETT is one of the coolest, most creative and most down
to earth singer/songwriters walking this planet. Following her 2018 album Tell Me How You Really Feel here’s new single EVERYBODY HERE HATES YOU. It’s vintage Barnett swagger, vintage Barnett melodiousness, vintage Barnett sadness. She said she wrote it while listening to a lot of Jeff Buckley. Listen/watch here…

Brussels 2014…

(pics by Turn Up The Volume!)

HISTORY – 15 April 1996 – MANIC STREET PREACHERS Release Their Classic…

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15 April 2019

Twenty-three years ago, on 15 April 1996, Welsh legends MANIC STREET PREACHERS released A DESIGN FOR LIFE. One of those once in a lifetime classics you can listen to forever and ever. The timeless song featured on Everything Must Go, the first album without Richey Edwards  who disappeared the year before on 1st February 1995.

A Design For Life peaked at #2 on the UK singles chart and despite
the group’s countless other masterpiece songs this lifelike diamond is,
to Turn Up The Volume‘s manics hooked ears, the 24 karat gold pièce de
résistance of their impressive and incomparable canon. Impossible to
get tired of this authentic standout beauty…

We don’t talk about love
We only want to get drunk
And we are not allowed to spend
As we are told that this is the end…

MANICS: Website – Facebook – Discography

Belgian Groove Machine MILLIONAIRE Launched Brand New Funky Kick ‘DON’T’…

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Brand new sonic impulses…

15 April 2019

It was Queens Of The Stone Age‘ frontman Josh Homme who produced, back in 2005, one
of the darkest rock albums Turn Up The Volume ever heard. Oh yeah, check out Paradisiac by Belgian groove machine MILLIONAIRE to experience something really pitch black. We had to wait for the kaleidoscopic follow-up Sciencing until 2017. But last weekend the Tim Vanhamel led squad already returned with some new stuff launched especially for Record Store Day.

New smoking single DON’T is an ominous funky kick fueled by a mighty disco stomp. Another nasty corker that will have an impact on your hips. Check the sultry vibe here…

MILLIONAIRE: Facebook

London’s SUPER PARADISE Takes You On Roller Coaster With New Ripper ‘6.30’…

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Daily fuel to load your sonic batteries…

15 April 2019


(photo: Nika)

Band: SUPER PARADISE

Who: “Formed by Francesco Roma and Nicolò Spreafico in Milan, the band brought their self-styled dream garage sound to London, releasing their debut album in 2016. From here it’s become a relentless live project, playing numerous scuzzy headline and support shows across the city’s buzziest venues, honing their distorted and hook-laden tunes. Joining Francesco and Nicolò for this endeavor is Anna Arfen (keys), Charlie Davis (bass) and Bradley HillierSmith (Drums).”

Track: 6.30

Score: Blitzkrieg guitars are unleashed from the get-go, echoing vocals jump in shortly after, flashy synths also want their piece of the action and when you think this speedy ripper will roar madly all the way through the tempo drops, slow-mo drums take over
for a second and you suddenly realise these noiseniks actually are busy to mess up your poor mind, your already spinning head and your by now dangerously beating pulse. And they bloody succeed. This unpredictable uppercut takes you on a pell-mell roller coaster and will knock you out with its trashy finale. Wanna join this bonkers ride? Here you go…


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SUPER PARADISE: Facebook – Bandcamp

‘Rock Lobster’ By THE B-52’s – Released 40 Years Ago…

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Knockouts from the past…

15 April 2019

‘Rock Lobster’ by THE B-52’s

Today 40 years ago, on 15 April 1978 the then far-out funky looking band THE B-52’s
out of Athens, Georgia released their spaced out and eccentric single ‘ROCK LOBSTER’.
It was actually produced in two versions, one by DB Records (the one we’re talking about) and a longer version featured on the group’s kooky self-titled debut LP (1979) issued by Warner Bros. The single peaked at #56 in America but hit the top spot in Canada. Put your wig on, here we go…

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THE-B52’s: Facebook