Quote Of The Day – JOHN PRINE About Famous Fans In His Last Ever Interview
The legendary singer-songwriter passed away on
7 April 2020 following Covid-19 complications.
His last ever interview was with British music magazine Mojo. Read it here .
Month: December 2021
Coming in 2022 – First SOFT CELL Album In Over 20 Years
22 December 2021
Band: SOFT CELL (Leeds, UK)
Who: Vocalist Marc Almond
and instrumentalist David Ball
Active: 1978–1984, 2001–2003, 2018–present
Five studio albums, including the new one
New album: *HAPPINESS NOT INCLUDED
Out: Spring 2022
(photo by Turn Up The Volume)
Marc Almond: “In this album I wanted to look at us as a society: a place
where we have chosen to put profits before people, money before morality
and decency, food before the rights of animals, fanaticism before fairness
and our own trivial comforts before the unspeakable agonies of others. But
in the album there is also a belief that there is a utopia if we can peel back
the layers and understand what really matters.”
Singles: Heart Like Chernobyl / Bruises On All My Illusions
– HEART LIKE CHERNOBYL –
– BRUISES ON ALL MY ILLUSIONS –
SOFT CELL: Facebook
Mad & Cool In SPAIN – 2022
Hypnotic Psych Grooves To Dance 2021 Away With – JUJU Released Their New Album ‘LA QUE SABE’
22 December 2021
Band: JUJU
Who: The project of Italian
multi-instrumentalist Gioele Valenti
“Sicilian multi-instrumentalist and producer is a key figure of the European underground music scene. He is one half of acclaimed Occult Psych project Llay Lamas (Rocket Recordings). He is the man behind Herself, a folktronica project that involved the likes of Jonathan Donahue of Mercury Rev, John Fallon of The Steppes and Amaury Cambuzat of Faust and Ulan Bator. He was also the guitarist of Josefin Öhrn + The Liberation. Most importantly, he is the creator of
the unclassifiable JuJu. Championed by Goatman and Capra Informis of GOAT, JuJu have already released three albums (two of which with Fuzz Club Records) and left a permanent mark in the international Psychedelic scene and beyond.”
“JuJu are known for their signature sound merging their Mediterranean influences with styles like Afrobeat, Krautrock, Psychedelia (Occult Psych) and Art Rock. This new album marks a shift to a much more “western” imagery, combining Post Punk, Shoegaze, Darkwave, Industrial, Synthpop, R’n’R with Dance, Club and Disco. Sonically, JuJu have somehow migrated from the South to the North, but without losing the mystical knowledge and experience gathered in their previous wanderings.”
(photo by Turn Up The Volume)
New album: LA QUE SABE (Sapnish for ‘the one who knows’)
Released: 22 October 2022 via Weird Beard Records.
Four years after mind-boggling album Our Mother Was A Plant Gioele Valenti and
his alter ego project Juju return with La Que Sabe. And he’s still playing with our minds with his ongoing groove-tastic jams, with his psychedelia-fueled extravaganza and
24-hour party trips.
From the infectious, repetitive electro-driven rocket Not This Time to the fade-out of closing cut Beautiful Mother Juju pushes your adrenalin production in overdrive. The transcendent vibrations of Nothing Endures, Could You Believe and She’s Perfect put a Krautrock spell on you, Walk The Line has an energetic panache while its haunting choir-like vocals resonate like a manic mantra and Seven Days In The Sun has a soothing effect. Don’t be afraid, all these sonic drug injections are legal.
Still, looking for the soundtrack to dance 2021 away with next week?
Trust me, stop looking, here’s all your mind, heart and soul, and body needs.
Capisce!
.
JUJU: Facebook
(photo by Turn Up The Volume)
Coming In 2022 – 5th LP By Vehement Philly Rockers THE DISTRICTS
22 December 2021
Band: THE DISTRICTS
Who: Indie rockers from Philadelphia, PA
Active: 2009-present / 5 LPs (including new one)
(Pic by Turn Up The Volume)
New album: GREAT AMERICAN PAINTING
Out: 4 February 2022
Order info: here
Info: “The Districts return with their biggest, boldest and most naturally pop album.
It’s upbeat and has a real XTC mid period edge. It’s a bundle of fun and a real surprise.
This record is a new era. The desire to create something larger than yourself, that will
infiltrate people’s hearts like well oiled machines, to paint pictures that will shake them and create a resounding push forward towards something more. In our pandemic isolation, what we wanted was to play a loud collage of music, unconfined by preconceived notions of what it should be, and to transcend ourselves in a room full of breathing, screaming, vibrating human beings – to let the darkness out in a cathartic squeal of noise, eclipsing it with light. We wanted to feel it all at once with you and to escape this fucked up world and find our way into a better one together.
Singles/clips: Do It Over / I Want To Feel It All
– I WANT TO FEEL IT ALL –
– DO IT OVER –
.
This is the astounding song (from 2015 album A Flourish And A Spoil)
that made me fall in love with this vehement band…
THE DISTRICTS: Facebook
Quote Of The Day – Celebrity Skin COURTNEY LOVE About Rock ‘N Roll
Why Courtney Love started with rawk ‘n roll…
Amazing Artwork! ELTON JOHN 48 Years Ago
22 December 2021
Megastar ELTON JOHN topped the UK albums chart
48 years ago today with his 7th LP YELLOW BRICK ROAD.
Here’s the flashy front cover of the album…
Key single…
THE BANKROBBER Shares Another Dream With ‘LEASH DIED (SHOULDN’T CRY)
Daily electricity to load your batteries
22 December 2021
Band: THE BANKROBBER
Who: Italian alt-pop band led by
siblings Giacomo and Maddalena Oberti‘
New single: LEASH DIED (SHOULDN’T CRY)
A new piece from their upcoming, second, album
titled Lighters and Lovers
The Italian band follows their intimate and tender ballad
Carry Me On with this new emotive reflection. But this
shadowy dream is more upbeat and lively although with
a dark twist when a distorted ghost-like voice takes the
song over on the chorus. I’m pretty sure Tame Impala will
like this one.
Tune in here…
.
THE BANKROBBER: Facebook
Inbetweenies! IGGY POP And His All Star Band
What Turn Up The Volume is playing/watching between two coffees
Here comes IGGY POP
with the liquor and drugs,
and a flesh machine and
his all-star band with
whom he recorded his
2016 Post Pop Depression LP….
IGGY POP: Facebook
Coming In 2022 – 14th KORN Album
21 December 2021
Band: KORN
Who: Nu metal titans from
Bakersfield, California
Active: 1993–present
Albums: 14 (including new one)
New album: REQUIEM
Release date: 4 February 2022
Order info: here
Press statement: “It is an album born of time and the ability to create
without pressure. Energized by a new creative process free of time constraints,
the band was able to do things with Requiem that the past two decades haven’t
always afforded them, such as taking additional time to experiment together or
diligently recording to analog tape – processes which unearthed newfound sonic
dimension and texture in their music.”
Lead single: Start The Healing
KORN: All Albums – Facebook
