Quote Of The Day – RICHARD HELL Raving About The SEX PISTOLS
Blank generation punk Richard Hell about Sex Pistols…
Sex Pistols released their earthquake debut LP Never Mind the Bollocks, Here’s the Sex Pist , yesterday 45 years ago.
Month: October 2022
Poster This – LENE LOVICH 1979
Great concert posters from the past
LENE LOVICH
Civic Hall, Guilford, UK
11 May 1979
Still a Lucky Number one.
LENE LOVICH: Facebook
New Motherfucker Of A Metal Punk Storm – IGGY POP Still Is A ‘FRENZY’ Dog
Daily electricity to load your batteries
28 October 2022
Oh my, oh my, oh my, oh my.
Stoogefather IGGY POP still wants to be your dog.
As announced a week ago he unleashed his new single
FRENZY today.
A motherfucker of a punk bomb featuring an all-star band including
Watt, Guns N’ Roses‘ Duff McKagan and Red Hot Chili Peppers‘ Chad Smith.
Iggy Pop: “I’m the guy with no shirt who rocks; Andrew and Gold Tooth
get that, and we made a record together the old-fashioned way.”
I’m in a frenzy
Fucking prick
I’m in a frenzy
Goddamn dick
Turn it up!
IGGY POP: Facebook – Instagram
(Image Iggy Pop: cover of his Anthology album)
Album Of October 2022 – Dark Goth-Wave Hero PIG With ‘THE MERCILESS LIGHT’
28 October 2022
Artist: PIG (London, UK)
Who: Raymond Watts aka PIG has enjoyed a varied career since starting out
as a pioneer member of the mid-1980s industrial rock scene. He toured with
big names such as NIN and Einstürzende Neubauten. He wrote music for
fashion and film artists, exhibitions and so many more artistic collaborations.
New album: THE MERCILESS LIGHT
Info: “What does worldwide quarantine do to our favourite porcine libertine?
Raymond Watts holed up in his sty and created ‘The Merciless Light’, the new album
by PIG. Ably aided and abetted by long time accomplices En Esch and Steve White, Watts also welcomes a new swine to the trough as Jim Davies (Pitchshifter/The Prodigy) adds another new level of impeccable (in)credibility and talent. ‘The Merciless Light’ seethes, swings, seduces and snarls. Extraordinary electronics and a glut of glitz, glam, guitars and grooves create a masterful mélange of mirth from our very own venerable Vicar of Vice.”
Turn Up The Volume wrote: The PIG of darkwaveness hits hard again following his
ace 2020 longplayer Pain Is God. With the new record, he reveals his lockdown blues experiences with 12 doom-and-gloom sledgehammers to crush concrete with.
Prepare your ears for brawny industrial bombast (No Yes More less / Veni Vidi Vici / Feed
The Wound / Taranatula), nightmares in slow-motion (Limbo / Sugar My Pill / The Judas Chair), wham-bam-glam drones (Glitz Krieg / The Dark Room) and the fantastic slow-burning gospel chant of the title track. It’s all there to have yourself a merciless head-banging pig trip. File next to Rammstein’s new opus Zeit.
Singles/clips: The Dark Room / Tarantula
– TARANTULA –
– THE DARK ROOM –
Buy/stream
THE MERCILESS LIGHT
here via Bandcamp
.
PIG: Facebook – Instagram – Spotify
Photography by E Gabriel Edvy
7-Inch History – SKIDS With Stupendous Riff Rocker ‘INTO THE VALLEY’
Great 7″ singles/sleeves/vinyl
28 October 2022
Band: SKIDS
Who: Scottish post-punk band fronted by Richard Jobson and
co-founder, the late Stuart Adamson on guitar, who left soon
to form his own group Big Country
Active: 1977–1982, 2007–2010, 2016–present
Single: INTO THE VALLEY
Released in 1979 – #10 in the UK
A stupendous riff rocker still
sounding alive and kicking today.
45th-anniversary tour.
SKIDS: Bio – Discography – Facebook
Hard Rock Supergroup KINGS OF CHAOS Release New Smoking Sledgehammer Single ‘JUGDEMENT DAY’
Works faster than caffeine
28 October 2022
Matt Sorum is best known as former drummer of
Guns n’Roses and celebrity band Velvet Revolver
with Slash.
He’s also the driving force behind another supergroup named, how inventive,
the Rock N Roll All-Stars who changed their name recently to KINGS OF CHAOS,
had different line-ups and so far no releases except for a Deep Purple cover. This
is gonna change as they just announced their debut longplayer, but don’t hold your breath, it’ll come in the Fall of Winter 2023.
Anyway, guitar freak Slash and fellow Guns n’ Roses mate, bass player Duff McKagan returned to the Kings of Chaos and co-wrote with Matt and Dave Kushner this smoking motherfucker of a sledgehammer called JUDGEMENT DAY
Wowzers!
KING OF CHAOS: Facebook
‘NEVER MIND THE BOLLOCKS HERE’S THE SEX PISTOLS’ Is 45 Today
Back In Time
27 October 2022
Band: SEX PISTOLS
Album: NEVER MIND THE BOLLOCKS HERE’S THE SEX PISTOLS
Released on 28 October 1977; today 45 years ago.
All Music wrote: “While mostly accurate, dismissing ‘Never Mind the Bollocks’ as merely a series of loud, ragged mid-tempo rockers with a harsh, grating vocalist and not much melody would be a terrible error. Already anthemic songs are rendered positively transcendent by Johnny Rotten’s rabid, foaming delivery. His bitterly sarcastic attacks on pretentious affectation and the very foundations of British society were all carried out in the most confrontational, impolite manner possible. The Pistols paved the way for countless other bands to make similarly rebellious statements, but arguably none were as daring or effective. It’s easy to see how the band’s roaring energy, overwhelmingly snotty attitude, and Rotten’s furious ranting sparked a musical revolution, and those qualities haven’t diminished one bit over time. Never Mind the Bollocks is simply one of the greatest, most inspiring rock records of all time.” Score: 5/5.
Turn Up The Volume! says: It’s simply the best punk rock album ever in my book.
All killers, no fillers. Massive machine gun protest killers, thanks to Glenn Matlock‘s
sticky tunes, fueled by Steve Jones‘ awesome riffs, Paul Cook‘s hammering power and
last but not least, the man in the middle: Johnny Rotten!
Without his unique, piercing sneers, biting lyrics, viciously staring eyes, and his charismatic appearance the Pistols would have been a far less memorable animal. I just loved his guts, his performance, and his early visions!
Unfortunately Johnny Forgotten turned into a conscious parody of himself with a pathetic ‘the whole world is against me’ attitude throughout his whole career and I’m a Donald Trump fan. Really sad.
Singles/clips: God Save The Queen / Anarchy In The UK / Pretty Vacant
– GOD SAVE THE QUEEN –
– ANARCHY IN THE UK –
The monster in full…
INNINGS FESTIVAL 2023 In Florida And Arizona
Punked-Up Bubblegum Pop With Trio HAYLEY AND THE CRUSHERS And Their New LP ‘MODERN ADULT KICKS’
Standout longplayers
27 October 2022
Band: HAYLEY AND THE CRUSHERS
Who: One part pop, one part poison, all “poolside glitter punk,”
Hayley and the Crushers from Detroit are a tsunami of bold,
bad girl power.
New album: MODERN ADULT KICKS
Their 3rd longplayer. Order info here.
Info: “Helmed by husband-and-wife team guitarist Hayley Crusher Cain and bass player Dr. Reid Cain ESQ (with Action Ben Cabreana on drums), Hayley and the Crushers’ newly released third album Modern Adult Kicks rollercoasters through the Crusherverse’s quirky underworld with a diary’s worth of intrigue and a splash of high impact gloss.”
Turn Up The Volume: Expect punked-up bubblegum pop. Party tunes wrapped
up in a guitar-riff crazy sound like on Taboo, Cul De Sac Click and Act Now!, California
Sober and amplified pop bliss with early Blondie and Debbie Harry on vocals (She Drives / Lost Cause / Overexposes). Flamboyant stuff all around with multi-colors. Lyrically it’s not really about the birds and bees. Heartbreak, addiction, taboos, and other universal topics pop up. But, hey that’s life. Records like these are made to cheer you up and dance your anxieties away.
Singles/clips: Cul De Sac / She Drives
– CUL DE SAC –
– SHE DRIVES –
– CLICK AND ACT NOW!
Get up, stand up and fight for your
right to start a solo moshpit’.
Stream/buy your kicks
here via Bandcamp…
.
HAYLEY AND THE CRUSHERS: Facebook – Instagram – Spotify
Turn Up The Volume’s HALLOWEEN PARTY PLAYLIST (The Best Around) With 15 Trick-Or-Treating Knockouts
HALLOWEEN 2022
Get your creepy costume out of the closet.
Stick your spiky vampire teeth in your mouth.
Drain some of your blood to smear on your face.
Reserve your place at the local graveyard
for a smashing pumpkin party with these
15 trick-or-treating knockouts.
1. ‘Lobotomy’ by Ramones
2. ‘Devil Gate Drive’ by Suzy Quatro
3. ‘Highway To Hell’ by AC/DC
4. ‘Helter Skelter by The Beatles
5. ‘Hellraiser’ by The Sweet
6. ‘Bullet With Butterfly Wings’ by Smashing Pumpkins
7. ‘Scary Monsters (And Super Creeps) by David Bowie
8. ‘Paint It Black’ by The Rolling Stones
9. ‘I Just Can’t Be Happy Today’ by The Damned
10. ‘Zombie Dance’ by The Cramps
11. ‘Heads Will Roll’ by Yeah Yeah Yeahs
12. ‘Where Is My Mind’ by Pixies
13. ‘Creep’ by Radiohead
14. It’s The End Of The World As We Know It’ by R.E.M.
15. ‘Release The Bats’ by The Birthday Party
Start the party and
dance with your demons…