Month: April 2023

PJ HARVEY Announced Her 10th LP – Listen To Ominous Lead Single ‘A CHILD’S QUESTION, AUGUST’

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26 April 2023


Artwork new album

Only 2 days after she teased new music on her socials PJ HARVEY announced
the arrival of a new LP. It’s her 10th and is named I INSIDE THE OLD YEAR DYING.
It lands on 7 July. Pre-order info here.

PJ: “After many years of work I am very happy to release this collection of new songs.
It was a difficult album to make and took time to find its strongest form, but it has
finally become all I hoped for it to be.”

Press statement: I Inside the Old Year Dying marks her first release in seven years, following UK number 1 LP The Hope Six Demolition Project. On this album, which was recorded with long-time creative collaborators John Parish and Flood, PJ Harvey builds
a sonic universe somehow located in a space between life’s opposites, and between
recent history and the ancient past. Scattered with biblical imagery and references to Shakespeare, all of these distinctions ultimately dissolve into something profoundly uplifting and redemptive.

Lead single: A CHILD’S QUESTION, AUGUST
This new piece resonates like a slow-downed
track from her ‘Let England Shake‘ album.

Ominous, somber but also quite magnetic.

PJ HARVEY: Website – Instagram

Noise Bullpits CHAT PILE Split A Loud New 4-Track EP With Noise Bullpits NERVER

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26 April 2023

Two years ago, Oklahoma City‘s rowdy pandemonium rockers CHAT PILE
released a hot-boiling split 7″ with Texan scream team Portrail Of Guilt.

Last year they unleashed their bloody blasting debut LP God’s Country.

And now they return to what they did before. Splitting stuff with another band.
This time it’s muscled Kansas City’s gang NERVER who are the lucky ones. Both
groups have each 2 jackhammering songs on an EP titled BROTHERS IN CRIST.

Play it to the max. Test your stereo’s resilience.
But warn your neighborhood first that a titanic
storm is coming in order to avoid a visit by
the decibels police.

BUY/STREAM here.


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NERVER TOUR

CHAT PILE: Instagram
NERVER: Instagram

UNCUT MAGAZINE Celebrates Iconic Sound-Explorers KRAFTWERK

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26 April 2023

Uncut Magazine celebrates the return to touring of iconic sound-explorers
KRAFTWERK with an Ultimate Kraftwerk Music Guide. From their origins on the
fringes of the German art scene over 50 years ago, the core duo of Florian Schneider
and Ralf Hutter brought their influence to bear on David Bowie and Iggy Pop and an entire
generation of electronic musicians. All you need to know and more about them in this special issue.

Kraftwerk are back on tour soon.

All 2023 Krafwerk Tour Dates HERE.

You can order a copy and let it be sent to your home address. Info here.

ALEX EXISTS Celebrates The End Of A Toxic Relationship With His New Brisk Tune ‘WITH A BANG’

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Daily electricity to load your batteries

26 April 2023


Photo by James Heaslip

Artist: ALEX EXISTS
Who: The musical project of
Toronto‘s resident Alex Pulec.

New single: WITH A BANG

Alex Pulec: “This song is the perfect soundtrack for anyone looking to celebrate the end of a toxic relationship or bad situation. An irreverent romp about celebrating the ending of an era. The character in the song revels in endings, relishing in the opportunity to make a dramatic show out of the “final act.” Inspired by the euphoria of breaking free of a psychological kidnapping or hi-jacking of the soul. Satirizing the strange tendency to glamorize destructive endings.”

TUTV: This feel-you-much-better tune is a brisk post-break-up song celebrating the end of a toxic relationship. Its sensual vibe sticks on the spot. Its trancy, breezy and tingling aura puts a smile on your face from left to right and back, and its electrifying flow impacts your body movements. Free at last. The future looks bright again. One more thing: is it weird when I say Pulec‘s voice resembles the one of Mark Oliver Everett, the Eels mastermind?
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Listen/watch.

Directed by Agata Waclawska

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AE: Facebook – Instagram

PAUL McCARTNEY Book With Rare BEATLEMANIA Photos Out In June

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26 April 2023

In 2020, an extraordinary trove of nearly a thousand photographs taken by
PAUL McCARTNEY himself on a 35mm camera was re-discovered in his archive.

They intimately record the months towards the end of 1963 and the beginning of 1964
when Beatlemania erupted in the UK and, after the band’s first visit to the USA, they became the most famous people on the planet.


Selfies Paris, 1964 (press photo via Macca site)

The photographs are Macca’s personal record of this explosive time, when
The Beatles, were inside looking out and were the EYES OF THE STORM.

The book features pictures of these intense, legendary months – Liverpool, London,
Paris, New York, Washington, D.C. and Miami – and many never-before-seen portraits
of John, George and Ringo.

Paul McCartney: “Anyone who rediscovers a personal relic or family treasure is instantly flooded with memories and emotions, which then trigger associations buried in the haze of time. This was exactly my experience in seeing these photos, all taken over an intense three-month period of travel, culminating in February 1964. It was a wonderful sensation to be plunged right back.”

Help, indeed

Publishing: 13 June 2023.
Pre-order: here.

Trailer

MACCA: Website

Italian Space Rockers ROPSTEN Invite You To Join Their Hallucinatory Trip On New Album ‘ALAMOGORDO’

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26 April 2023

Band: ROPSTEN
Who: Spacey Kraurockers from Italy

New album: ALAMOGORDO


Foto by Michele Spinnato

“Alamogordo is the process of realizing that the fun could end, a new awakening. Although the message can immediately trigger a feeling of anguish, an infantile regression that one does not want to accept, this must not and cannot be seen in the negative sense, but rather a hope, a new awareness of what we have, of its limit and the need to take a step back to protect it, enjoy it and last but not least preserve ourselves. The idea is that this last lap could be the most authentic and valuable. Deeply believing that that remaining lap, if shared, can give something more, that there is another way of seeing and experiencing things. In order not to disrupt our humanity by detaching ourselves more and more from the environment.”

The title track

TUTV: Imagine you awake at night but you’re not sure if you actually are awake or asleep (scary moments, right? At least for me that is) and you think you are floating uncontrollably in an unknown space, a pitch-black space, and you have no clue where you are and what will happen along the way, but slowly the sensation of this 45-minute sonic trip named Alamogordo gets a hold of you and you don’t care anymore what’s real or not, or where you’re are, you just enjoy the hallucinatory experience

These images popped up in my mind when I listened, for the first time, to this instrumental journey with its eight psychedelic jams, infused with haunting guitars, oterwordly synths and Mogwai echos here and there. I propose you to invent your own dream when Alamogordo plays on your headphones. Have a nice flight.

BUY/STREAM here.


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ROPSTEN: Facebook – Instagram

Waking Up Singing ABC

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Daily noise that works faster and harder than any stimulant

26 April 2023

I guess you wonder now and then how this Turn Up The Volume guy’s mind works.
He jumps from pop to hardcore, from EBM to post-punk, from rap to metal, from
soul to blues, from the past to the present and back. Answer: he doesn’t know exactly. What he does know is that he was born a music fanatic and that since then his ears
decide what he likes or not.

That said, back now to the Motown heydays with immortal soul stars THE JACKSON FIVE and one of their many mega hits. ABC topped the US Charts 53 years ago today, on 26 April 1970.

Michael Jackson was 12 then, already demonstrating his outstanding vocal and dance potential. We all know what happened afterward. A fantastic career with a dramatic end. R.I.P.

A.B.C.

THE JACKSON FIVE: Bio – Discography

KERRANG Had A Long Chat With Newcastle’s Clamorous Rockers ENTER SHIKARI

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25 April 2023

ENTER SHIKARI‘s brand new LP A KISS FOR THE WHOLE WORLD was
Album Of The Day (stream below) on Turn Up The Volume yesterday.

Today they’re on the cover of the new issue of KERRANG! And they had
a long chat with the by now legendary British music magazine which went
online in 2001.

Enter Shikari: “There’s always some form of hope ready to
be grasped, there’s always a possibility of something better.”

Full interview HERE.

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ES: Facebook – Instagram

Blustery London Based Duo SHELF LIVES Dash On New Ripper ‘ALL THE PROBLEMS’

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New striking strokes

25 April 2023

Band: SHELF LIVES
Who: Hotly tipped transatlantic duo consisting of Canadian
vocalist Sabrina Di Giulio and Northampton (UK) raised guitarist
and producer Jonny Hillyard – who now both reside in London.

NME about the duo: “The extroverted electro-punk duo we need right now.”

New single: ALL THE PROBLEMS
A power-stroke about ‘the crisis of masculinity,
part of a new upcoming EP.

TUTV: Shelf Lives sound cool, they have this cool ripper and cool vid out and
they look cool. They fuzz, buzz and rush big time on All The Problems. They razzle
and dazzle with electric explosiveness when the steamed-up chorus detonates.

This rad ripper is pushed by slam-bang drum hits, charged with hectic guitar
riffage and injected with the duo’s nerve-racking vocals. If you have problems
you can crush them with Shelf Lives‘s fast and furious frenzy. Do it, baby.

Here.
Now.

Also st(r)eaming on Spotify.

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SHELF LIVES: Facebook – Instagram