Month: May 2021
Single This! IGGY POP
‘Home’ (featuring Kate Pierson from The B-52’s) by IGGY POP
Original video clip…
From his 1990 album Brick By Brick
Five Firecrackers To STAY ON TRACK IN THE WEEKEND!
5 new firecrackers to boost your favorite 48 hours…
‘Psalm 23’ by COLD CAVE (L.A./New York)
This darksome Krautrock groove gets under your skin from the get-go and moves like a
nasty serpent. From the nightmare rockers’ new EP Fate In Seven Lessons out 11 June.
Press play…
‘Under The Waves’ by FUZZY LIGHTS (Cambridge, UK)
The song deals with the devastation of coral reefs, ocean resources, and our natural world. It’s a multi-waves-layered cruise, with featherlight romantic vocals à la The Sundays‘ lovely vox Harriet Wheeler, violin flashes, gusty drums and a charged guitar finale. This is a band that cares about nature and their music. From the band’s new 4th album Buriels.
Enjoy here…
‘The Garden’ by 3 LITTLE WOLVES (Birmingham)
Sounds like a little symphonic psych-rock trip starting with a rambling drum riff
that comes and goes and ghostly vocals floating all over it. Sonic spiritually, that
grows on you after a couple of plays.
Here’s why…
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‘Born 2 Boogie’ by SUNSHINE & THE BLUE MOON
Some are born to be wild, some are born 2 boogie as did the late great Marc Bolan
(T. Rex) back in the 70s and these Canadians know how to move and groove too. Glorious organ, glorious flow, glorious swagger, glorious vocals. From their upcoming album, out 25th June.
Turn it up right here…
‘How Dare You Want More’ by BLEACHERS (NYC)
Jack Antonoff and his band premiered this new track on Jimmy Fallon’s Tonight Show.
A tremendously uptight tune with a shake & swing sax climax. From upcoming album
Take the Sadness Out of Saturday Night.
Dance here…
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See/hear you next week, music junkies…
Goth Diva CHELSEA WOLFE Reveals Doom And Gloom Jam ‘DIANA’
28 May 2021
Artist: CHELSEA WOLFE (Roseville, CA)
Who: Goth heroine active since 2009
6 solo albums so far
New track: DIANA
A doom and gloom jam that will feature on an all-star soundtrack album for
a comic-book series called Dark Nights: Death Metal. The compilation includes
comics-inspired songs by artists like Soccer Mommy, IDLES,, Show Me The Body,
and the Mastodon. The LP will hit the streets on 18th June.
Dim the lights, here comes Chelsea…
CHELSEA WOLFE: Website
(image on top: cover of Wolfe’s 2019 album ‘Body Of Violence’)
Single This! ECHO & THE BUNNYMEN
27 May 2021
‘The Back Of Love’ by ECHO & THE BUNNYMEN (1982)
Artwork: painting by British artist Henry Scott Tuke (1858 – 1929) called ‘The Promise’.
Original video clip
LIVE! LIVE! LIVE!
Baltimore‘s passionate electro-pop act FUTURE ISLANDS announced 2021/2022 tour
with veteran rockers Modest Mouse in America and Spanish fury Hinds in Europe/UK.
Future Islands frontman Samuel T. Herring in sweaty action some
years ago in my hometown of Ghent, Belgium. Tremendous gig…
(photo by Turn Up The Volume!)
Happy 64 SIOUXSIE!
27 May 2021
Queen of Glam Goth
Punk lady of the night
Mascara charisma in motion
Kisser in the dreamhouse
Suzy of the Peepshow
Feminist femme fatale
Peek-a-boo diva
Susan Janet Ballion aka Siouxsie Sioux was born in London on 27 May 1957.
Happy 64 to the Queen of Glam Goth. She recorded 11 studio albums with timeless
punk icons Siouxsie And The Banshees (1976-1996), released 4 LPs with The Creatures (the project with her former lover and Banshee drummer Budgie), and one solo album (Mantaray in 2007).
Let’s celebrate with 3 big
Siouxsie moments…
– HONG KONG GARDEN –
(Banshees’ debut single 1978)
– SLOWDIVE –
(Ace track from 1982 album
Kiss in the Dreamhouse)
– STANDING THERE –
(From The Creatures‘ 1989 album Boomerang)
SIOUXSIE SIOUX: Facebook
Game On – Garage Football Gang VAN DAMMES Score With ‘FINALLY THERE’
Daily electricity to load your batteries…
27 May 2021
Band: VAN DAMMES
Who: Garage rockers from Helsinki/Brussels
Pick: FINALLY THERE – new single
A tribute to the Finland national football team which will
finally play in their first-ever major championship as they
attend the EURO2021 in June.
Score: Win or lose this garage hit team has the time of their lives
when they go totally nuts on new ripper Finally There. Imagine Green
Day are kicking ass in the front and Blink 182 cover their backs. This
speedy riff-mad-lets-have-a-ball jackhammer will crush every opponent
without any mercy. Van Dammes should coach Finland’s soccer squad.
Hell bloody goal yeah!
Here’s the kick-off…
Also on Spotify…
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VAN DAMMES: Facebook
Quote Of The Day – ICEAGE Frontman RONNENFELT About Their Producer
(pic by Turn Up The Volume!)
Elias Bender Rønnenfelt, frontman/voice/face of Danish rockers
Iceage about the producer of their new standout album Seek Shelter…
Full Iceage feature here
SLEATER-KINNEY Share Second Taster From New LP – Hear ‘HIGH IN THE GRASS’
New sonic impulses…
27 May 2021
Band: SLEATER-KINNEY (Olympia, Washington)
Active: 1994–2006, 2014–present / 9 albums (so far)
Note: Longtime drummer Janet Weiss left the band in 2019,
leaving the other two riot grlls, Corin Tucker (vocals and guitar)
and Carrie Brownstein (guitar and vocals) behind.
New album: PATH OF WELLNESS
Two years after the St. Vincent produced
The Center Won’t Hold LP.
New single: High In The Grass – 2nd taster
from their upcoming, new LP.
For a moment I thought I heard Kate Bush’s voice.
Find out why here…
SLEATER-KINNEY: Facebook
Path Of Wellness out 6 June – more info here