Memorable live moments…
Watch THE LIBERTINES at Glastonbury Festival in 2015, playing a stormy version of ‘DON’T LOOK BACK INTO THE SUN’, one of their best songs ever, from their excellent second, self-titled album that came out in 2004.
Here we go…
THE LIBERTINES: Facebook
28 November 2019
Psych junks WICKED SHIMMIES out of Chickasha, Oklahoma are back with a fresh wacko single. I know these guys love to mess with your brain cells and probably with their own too. But their new single, called ‘HI-FI DOG FOOD’, starts with a pretty chill out jam driven by a playful, groovy drums/bass beat with spacey guitars floating all over it. Both mind-pleasing and stimulating… so far.
But around the 2.20-minute mark it’s ‘what the hell is going on’ time. Everything turns fuzzy, spooky and eerie for a while until someone, out of the blue, starts to talk excitingly, as high as a dog on a can of mushrooms, about seeing UFOs and extraterrestrials, not for long as the track fades out suddenly. I think the CIA showed up and cut off the power. Over and out, end of story, back to boring Earth.
Have a bite and tell me
what YOU experienced…
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WICKED SHIMMIES: Facebook
Clips that will have an impact on your eyes and your ears…
28 November 2019
LADY LAZARUS is the solo project of California-based singer-songwriter Melissa Ann Sweat. Last month she released her fourth album, titled ‘IMPOSSIBLE JOURNEY OF MY SOUL TONIGHT’. An intriguing and genuinely moving, cathartic work, covering some of her darkest experiences and most profound emotions.
She has now shared a video for one of the key tracks of the record. ‘I RECALL JULY’
is about “a stormy relationship that reached a sudden culmination and breaking point,
though the good times and the love we shared live on in memory” says Lady Lazarus.
Watch the sensual clip here…
New LP ‘IMPOSSIBLE JOURNEY OF MY SOUL TONIGHT’ available
on Bandcamp and iTunes. You can stream it also on Spotify.
Lady Lazarus guided Turn Up The Volume through her new
album track by track. You can read the feature here.
28 November 2019
Artist: OLLIE TREVERS
Who: A London based singer-songwriter, who studied at Leeds College Of
Music and ICMP. He was in several bands before deciding to become a solo
artist. He started writing and performing music from fourteen years old and
cannot remember a time when he didn’t want to be an artist.
New Release: 5-track EP titled ‘CORDELIA‘,
it’s his second EP and came out on 15 November.
Sound: Ollie Trevers is blessed with a phenomenal voice and a tremendous skill
for writing captivating and spine-tingling songs with a wayward, unconventional
and venturesome touch as the late great songwriters Jeff Buckley and Elliot Smith
did so touchingly brilliant. His new second EP ‘Cordelia‘ features songs about all
things human. About personal observations, heartache, solitude, worthlessness,
catharsis and emotional claustrophobia. The way he performs each and every
song is most gripping and absorbing. Pure heart and soul bewitchment.
Here are his wholehearted meditations…
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On the video for key track ‘Stage Of Fools’ you
can watch Ollie Trevers in action with his band…
OLLIE TREVERS: Facebook
Knockouts from the past…
28 November 2019
R.E.M. scored their first Top Ten Hit in the US with single ‘THE ONE I LOVE‘
on 28 November 1987, 32 years ago today. It peaked at #9. A track from their
fifth album ‘Document. Michael Stipe revealed in a 1987 interview that the song
was actually, despite the title “incredibly violent. It’s very clear that it’s about using
people over and over again.”
Oops, this is not a love song…
R.E.M.: Facebook
New sonic impulses…
27 November 2019
London‘s indie popsters GENGAHR will release their third longplayer ‘Sanctuary‘
on 31 January 2020. Ahead of it here’s new single ‘HEAVENLY MAYBE‘, a funky
dance tune you can sway your hips to from start to finish.
Here we go…
GENGAHR: Facebook
Remarkable live moments…
Cape Town‘s garage misfits THE MEDICINE DOLLS went bonkers a couple of days ago when playing live on a roof in their hometown for Discovertv South Africa. Watch the rollicking band performing their smashing signature track COVERED IN FILTH right here…
You wanna hear more from this band? Check their Spotify-page.
And here’s the interview Turn Up The Volume! had with them last April.
THE MEDICINE DOLLS: Facebook
Daily fuel to load your sonic batteries…
27 November 2019
Last August North Of England steamrollers called PRYSM released one of the most thundery crackers of the year with the multi-layered, tumultuous stunner ‘Destiny’.
But they still have some inflammable fuel left in the tank before 2019 expires.
The band just dropped fresh crushing cut ‘TURN IT UP’. It starts with a throbbing drums/bass beat, but soon razor-sharp vocals and a wall-of-howling-guitars kick in.
From there on it’s full force ahead like an uncontrollable tsunami of high-voltage electricity, like a sonic whirlwind, like an illegal decibels abuse. Oh yes, indeed,
rock ‘n’ roll can make you lose control!
Tune in and turn up the heat…
PRYSM: Facebook
Knockouts from the past…
27 November 2019
THE STREETS‘ mastermind MIKE SKINNER, born on 27 November 1978, celebrates his
41st birthday today. Although it’s a sad love ballad let’s toast with ‘DRY YOUR EYES‘, as it was Skinner‘s greatest hit ever. NME called the track “a hairs-on-the-back-of-your-neck ballad for jilted lovers. Rarely has Skinner sounded so vulnerable, poignant and, well, normal.”
Here we go…
THE STREETS: Facebook
