Month: May 2021
Toronto Stormers THE EFFENS Turn Up The Heat With ‘VENOM DENIM’
Daily electricity to load your batteries…
30 May 2021
Band: THE EFFENS (Toronto, Canada)
Who: “Hyper-strange post-grunge and glam pop four piece who seem to
take in all the vagaries of the internet age and recycle them into something
unique and fantastic.”
Pick: VENOM DENIM – opener from the band’s 4-track EP Eventually
About: “You can never truly take away the parts of your life that an ex has
helped shape. “Venom Denim” is about all the marks and residue left, even
after you’ve broken free of a relationship.”
Score: Ongoing guitar drones create an inflammatory wall-of-rip-roaring
sound with the impact of a drilling hammer. Rattling drums increase the
fervency of the emotive heat at play, while a mysterious female voice
echoes in the back now and then. Pretty puissant, pretty tenacious, pretty
steamy while the intensity goes through the roof. Strike!
Turn up the heat…
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THE EFFENS: Instagram
SPARKS & Friends Reveal Sparkling Movie Track ‘SO MAY WE START’
29 May 2021
The Mael brothers, better know as SPARKS wrote not only the soundtrack
but also the script for upcoming music movie Annette. The film will open
the 74th annual Cannes Film Festival on July 7.
This is the trailer…
One of the songs is SO MAY WE START.
A sparkling pocket pop opera song with
Adam Driver and Marion Cotillard joining
Sparks.
Check it out…
SPARKS: Facebook
Single This! DEAD KENNEDYS
BLACK MIDI Confirms Experimental Brilliance On Second Album ‘CAVALCADE’
29 May 2021
Band: BLACK MIDI
Who: Young tremendously compelling guitar-noise-explorers
from London scoring one of the best albums of 2019 with their
otherworldly debut Schlagenheim.
Album: CAVALCADE
Released: 28 May via Rough Trade
Order info: here
Info: Black Midi began writing music for a new album in late 2019, not long
after the release of their debut studio album, Schlagenheim, in June of that
year. The band chose to have a less improvisational approach to writing their
second studio album, in contrast to Schlagenheim which was crafted around
jam sessions. Prior to the recording sessions for the album, guitarist Matt
Kwasniewski-Kelvin took a break from the band, citing a need to focus on
his mental health, he took part in the writing sessions for Cavalcade, however.
The Guardian says: “It’s a successful evolution: the maelstrom of moods stormed
across the LP is masterful, from Hogwash and Balderdash’s slapstick skronk-funk riffage…
To focus on whether it lives up to the hype is to miss what Cavalcade shows us: a freakish, feverish parade of our inconceivable world and all its extremities, half-measures be damned.” Full review here. Score: 4/5
Turn Up The Volume: From outlandish sonority – think Scott Walker – to Zappa-esque adventurousness, from a ‘normal’ song (Marlene Dietrich to free jazz weirdness. The sonic mind of this impressively inventive band is both inscrutable and intriguing. Cavalcade confirms the experimental brilliance of their debut LP.
Singles: John L / Slow
– JOHN L –
– SLOW –
Full album…
BLACK MIDI: Facebook
(pictures by Turn Up The Volume! Brussels 2019)
Moshpit Madness – Welsh Trio SHLUG Drops Debut Single ‘THE SCENT OF ROY KEANE’
29 May 2021
Band: SHLUG (Cardiff, Wales)
Who: Three peas in a pod that
are constantly exploding.
Pick: THE SCENT OF ROY KEANE – debut single
“Written in a point of adolescence, ‘The Scent Of Roy Keane’ tackles
masculinity along with the question – what really turns a boy into
a man? Is it through protein shakes? Or is it by pissing all over the seat?
Either way, you decide. Just get the conversation going,” says vocalist
Ellis Acton-Dyer.
Score: Moshpit madness. Hefty hardcore. Rip-roaring racket. Add
red-hot-blooded vocals and you know your stereo will have a hard
time, but it’s definitely worth it. This my generation blast kicks you
up the ass, wakes you up and helps you to crush your nasty demons.
Yes, way cheaper than therapy.
Unleash the beast here…
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SHLUG: Facebook
LIVE! RAP! LIVE!
Author Of Tons Of Hits With CREEDENCE CLEARWATER REVIVAL – Happy 76 To Legend JOHN FOGERTY
28 May 2021
John Cameron Fogerty was born in
Berkeley, California on 28 May 1945.
Happy 76 to a natural-born rocker and author of countless hits
as the charismatic frontman of legends Creedence Clearwater
Revival (also covering some songs of other artists, like I Put A Spell
On You and Run Through the Jungle). With the band he released 7
studio albums, solo he recorded 10 LPs (so far).
Maestro of a travelin’ band
who wanted to stop the rain
and put a spell on you
when the bad moon rises
above the green river
and down on the corner
where Susie Q looked
out her back door
Three big CCR/John Fogerty moments…
– BAD MOON RISING –
– SUZIE Q –
– TRAVELIN’ BAND –
JOHN FOGERTY: Facebook
Don’t Mess With Chainsaw Girls ALICE & ALICE…
28 May 2021
Artist: ALICE LONGYU GAO
Who: A resilient DJ, songwriter, record producer and
performance art practitioner girl from China, living
in Los Angeles. Longyu means “dragon and universe,”
her last name Gao means “magnificent.”
New single: LEGEND
Brand new cut featuring Goa‘s heroine Alice Glass.
“I saw Alice Glass added my song to her Spotify profile playlist. As a longtime
fan of hers, I couldn’t believe my little songs got my icon’s attention. I thought
a rad Alice x Alice song would be unstoppable. So I immediately reached out
and sent 3 ideas I made for a potential collaboration with her. I highlighted
LEGEND – ALG Mix’s demo specifically because I just knew this one was the one.
Alice Glass and Jupiter Keyes worked with me remotely and they made the final
LEGEND come together as an incredible and empowering song. I want this song
to equip underrated girls with confidence. We are the source of creativity, love and
justice. Never seek validation from people who are insecure in themselves. They are
never going to show love and they are going to do you wrong. Stay queen and avoid
the toxicity.”
Get ready for a booming banger, a sharp-cutting-and-knife-edged
rap rant. Warning: don’t mess with chainsaw duo Alice & Alice.
Fuck you if you insecure
Bitch I’m fucking Alice
I know, you talking shit you embarrassed
I know, you mad cause I’m the raddest
You could never catch me in Lululemon
ALICE LONGYU GAO: Facebook
Alice, who the fuck is Alice?
(image from FB Alice Longyu Gao)
Tsunami Of Industrial Noise Drones – Test Your Ears With ‘A NEW ONTOLOGY OF EVIL’ By PRIMTIVE KNOT
28 May 2021
Band: PRIMITIVE KNOT
Who: Enigmatic one-man-band
obsessed by dark spirituality
Album: A NEW ONTOLOGY OF EVIL
New ideas
Old fears resurface
The architecture of the mind
Asserts itself
Shaping the land
Constructing the earth
In our own image
Turn Up The Volume: Imagine Nine Inch Nails in a drone contest versus
Ministry with Front202 as the jury. Get the mind-blowing picture? Prepare
your noise-addicted ears for a tsunami of deafening intimidations, repetitive
Kraut-sludge-rock aggression and slash and crash sledgehammers. Would be
a perfect soundtrack for horror classic The Return of the Living Dead. If you
don’t want to end up in jail you better alert your neighbours before you press
play. Capice, all you EVIL motherrockers out there waiting for Doomsday?
Rapid eye movement video for highlight for Goddess, Destroyer
Stream full album here…
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Buy A New Ontology Of Evil on Bandcamp