Month: January 2023

FLEETWOOD Topped The UK Album Charts This Day 45 Years Ago With ‘RUMOURS

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Back in time

28 January 2023

While punk was busy to explode in the UK and the USA in 1977, massive bands and artists still dominated the charts. Like FLEETWOOD MAC II (the original, blues-oriented, band was formed in 1967 by Peter Green, Mick Fleetwood, Jeremy Spencer and John McVie. After Green and Spencer left the late great Christine McVie joined in 1970 on keyboards. Lindsey Buckingham and Stevie Nicks came in 1974).

45 years ago, on 28 January 1978, their masterpiece LP RUMOURS hit the spot
on the UK Album Charts. The longplayer has sold over 40 million copies worldwide
since its release.

Singles/clips: Go Your On Way / Dreams / Don’t Stop

– GO YOUR OWN WAY –

– DREAMS –

– DON’T STOP –

Full album

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FLEETWOOD MAC: Website – Facebook – Tour


Back sleeve

BOB DYLAN Releases ‘FRAGMENTS’ – The Final Chapter Of His Bootleg Series Is Out Today

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28 January 2023

The final chapter of the famous BOB DYLAN Bootleg Series is out today.

The deluxe box edition titled “Fragments: Time Out Of Mind Sessions (1996-1997)” celebrates the 25th anniversary of his prizewinning album Time Out Of Mind which
was released on 30 September 1997.

Content: Fragments follows the evolution of songs written for the album, from
intimate early incarnations in the previously unreleased 1996 Teatro sessions through incandescent live renditions from 1998-2001. Also included is a brand new mix of the original album.

Formats: 5CD or 10LP Deluxe Edition and a 2CD
or 4LP Highlights version.bootleg series. All details
right here.

Have a great Bob Dylan day.
60 songs – 6 hours.

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BOB DYLAN: Website – Bio – Discography

Los Angeles’ Electro-Punk Whirlwind SEXTILE With New Capricious Roller Coaster ‘CRASSY MEL’

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New striking strokes

28 January 2023

Band: SEXTILE
Who: Electro-punk act from Los Angeles, led by
key members Brady Keehn and Melissa Scaduto.

So far they fabricated/released 2 albums:
A Thousand Hands (2015) and Albeit Living (2017)
and one EP (2018).

New single: CRASSY MEL

It follows the two new songs – Modern Weekend
and Contortion – that the duo shared last year.

Crassy Mel is a weird beast of a jackhammer. It detonates like an electronic
whirlwind, spiced with hyperkentic bongos, and pushed by Scaduto‘s sneering
vocals. But soon the track derails as if synth-wizard Aphex Twin sneaked into
the studio for some head-twisting sequences before glowing synths fade out
slowly. A 3.28-minute roller coaster, ladies and gents.

Tune in.

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SEXTILE: Facebook – Instagram

THESE THRILLING LIES… Welsh Eccentrics Jamming Their Tails Off

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Daily electricity to load your batteries

28 January 2023

Band: THESE THRILLING LIES…
Who: Eccentric post-punks
from Swansea, Wales

New single: NO FOOD

“This song is self-explanatory in the sense that the simple lyrics are an immediate
and passionate response to the continuing normalisation of food banks in our country.
It seems that something culturally and politically has gone terribly wrong for this to be considered acceptable. The gulf between the haves and have-nots is forever widening
and most of the haves seem to be increasing their contempt for everyone else.”

TUTV: These Welshmen are not your average safe-sounding rock band.
They’re DIY eccentrics jamming their tails off on No Food. A crashing and
slashing cry-out growing in anxiety and fretfulness along its chaotic course.

Imagine John Bonham‘s ghost on drums, assisted by a wayward bassist,
a sultry 60s Hammond organ, psycho guitars, schizo synths and a demonic
vocalist, mixing prog-rock and garage punk into a messed-up rumpus to
scare corrupt politicians with. Sounds wicked, right? You bloody betcha.

Are they mad? Yes, they definitely
are. For the right reasons that is.

Join the trashy revolution.

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TURN UP THE VOLUME JUKEBOX 2023 – New Tracks Added Every Week

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Turn Up The Volume’s Jukebox, weekly updated

In order to not miss a beat Turn Up The Volume scans the musical
horizon daily (doing it for years now, actually) to stay in touch with
all new things sonically great and shares the results on a weekly
basis.

10 new ones this week with…

Death Valley Girls
Ultra Sunn
Clarence & The Modern Life
Miya Folick
Jethro Tull
slowthai
Sextile
Fucked Up
Princess Ugly
Mudhoney

Press play.

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SUGARBUNNY – Vocal Passion And Sonic Melodrama On Debut Single ‘SUN’

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Daily electricity to load your batteries

27 January 2023

Artists: SUGARBUNNY
Who: Fresh Belgian outfit, fronted by grand vox and songwriter
Hannah Vandenussche (from magical electro act Rumours) and backed
by seasoned musicians, bassist/co-songwriter Mirko Banovic (damn I
miss Arno), drummer Joris Casier (Stake) and Jasper Morel (Black Box
Revelation.

Debut single: SUN

TUTV: What an arousing debut. Sun shines through its vocal passion
and sonic fervency. Hannah Vandenbussche‘s supreme vocality brings the
energy-charged resonance of Florence Welch to mind, while her surrounding
musicians build a towering wall-of-melodramatic as big as the Cathedral
of their hometown. As I said, what an arousing debut!

“You, you can have it all if you want
You can even pull the heartstrings
You can take me anywhere
To the sun where we can be
You can put my mind at ease
Until the city wakes me up
Will you take me as I am”

Listen and watch femme fatale Sugarbunny in the twilight middle.

SUGARBUNNY: Facebook – Instagram

Still Light & Thunder With Legendary Hard Rockers URIAH HEEP On New LP ‘CHAOS & COLOUR’

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New longplayers

27 January 2023

English longtime hard rockers URIAH HEEP started making lots of
noise back in 1969, 53 years ago. The band was formed by guitarist
Mick Box, the only original member left today, and the late big voice
David Byron.

So far Heep recorded/released 24 studio LPs and #25, titled Chaos & Colour
is out today and Heep hero and Mick Box has some great news…

Singles/clips: Save Me Tonight / Hurricane

– SAVE ME TONIGHT –

– HURRICANE –

Full Album

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URIAH HEEP: Website – Facebook – All Albums