Month: October 2023

Waking Up With BLACK SABBATH And ”WAR PIGS’ – Horribly Relevant Again

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Daily noise that works faster than any stimulant

27 October 2023

BLACK SABBATH in 1970.

33 years later and the world still is
ruled by devastating WAR PIGS!

“Generals gathered in their masses
Just like witches at black masses
Evil minds that plot destruction
Sorcerers of death’s construction
In the fields the bodies burning
As the war machine keeps turning
Death and hatred to mankind
Poisoning their brainwashed minds
Oh lord yeah!

Politicians hide themselves away
They only started the war
Why should they go out to fight?
They leave that role to the poor

Time will tell on their power minds
Making war just for fun
Treating people just like pawns in chess
Wait ’til their judgement day comes
Yeah!

Now in darkness world stops turning
Ashes where the bodies burning
No more war pigs at the power
Hand of God has struck the hour
Day of judgement, God is calling
On their knees the war pig’s crawling
Begging mercy for their sins
Satan laughing spreads his wings
oh lord yeah!”


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Toronto Songstress HARLEY OLIVIA Takes New Sky-High Flight With Bodacious Banger ‘HAUNTED’

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New striking strokes

26 October 2023

Artist: HARLEY OLIVIA
Who: Up and coming
Toronto songstress.

New single: HAUNTED

Olivia: “This song is special to me because it is a reminder of why I clipped my wings.
I was terrified of change, but something amazing always lies on the other side of fear!
I KNOW I am meant to sing… after countless flights and countries visited, singing is still
the only thing that makes me feel like I can fly!”

TUTV: Haunted is a bold banger with Olivia‘s imposing voice as the heroine
in the middle. She has the gusto of young Madonna and the rock bravado,
Miley Cyrus and the monumental vocality of Sharon den Adel, the majestic
frontwoman of Dutch symphonic metal pop act Within Tempation.

I know these are big names, but I always trust what my trained ears tell me.
Mind you, the bodacious bombast at play here will overwhelm you too.

Olivia sounds gorgeous, delivered a gorgeous tune, and looks gorgeous.

After giving up her flight attendant job she’s on a new sky-high
flight she loves with her heart and soul. Have a great journey.

Fasten your seatbelts.


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HARLEY OLIVIA: Facebook – Instagram
TUTV: Facebook – Instagram – Twitter

EAD WOOD – British Indies Stun With High-Voltage Pop Blast ‘MIDLIFE’

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Daily electricity to load your batteries

26 October 2023

Band: EAD WOOD
Who: A quintet from Bristol, UK whose lo-fi slacker indie-rock/folk sound is bathed in lap steel guitar, harmonica, and ambient sounds, with Clash describing them as “defiantly original”.


EP Artwork – Out 10 November

New single: MIDLIFE
Piece from the upcoming ‘A Sparkling Gift’ EP, out 10 November

Ed Soles (frontman) “I quit my steady job a few years back to allow more
time and energy to put into music. It didn’t quite go to plan and the music
industry is a tricky beast to navigate, but if you don’t gamble, you’ll never
know.”

“I was late to everything, but I was early
to my midlife crisis. It hit me like a sack
of shit, and I really didn’t like it.”

TUTV: What starts as a cheerful pop lullaby with sprightly vocals, detonates
quickly with a wall-of-roasting sound of high-voltage electricity as if all 5 band
members plugged in a guitar and turned the amps to the max.

This fulminating process occurs twice before speeding to a mind-bending finale
peppered with a flipped-out saxophone. Touchdown. We have a clear-cut winner.
Beware, your eggs may get smashed.

WATCH/LISTEN

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MICK JAGGER And LADY GAGA With Sublime Vocal Performance In NYC At Small Album Launch Gig In NYC

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26 October 2023

Two weeks ago, eternal rock icons THE ROLLING STONES released their
first proper album in 23 years (their 24th British and 26th American one)
with the critically lauded HACKNEY DIAMONDS.

Mick Jagger is 80, Keef Richards turns 80 in December and Ron Wood is 76
and they look in absolutely great shape as they showed once again on
their album launch club gig in NYC last weekend.

On one of the singles – a classic gospel ballad – named SWEET SOUNDS OF HEAVEN,
Lady Gaga joined Jagger for some sky-high scraping vocals. Fantastic on record, but equally sublime live.

CHECK IN.

THE STONES: Instagram – Facebook

American Hardcore Ska-Punk Turbo PWRUP Will Be Your New Favourite Halloween Band

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26 October 2023

Band: PWRUP

Who: Hit team, founded in 2018, in Western Massachusetts creating music they hadn’t heard before. With influences ranging from punk, hardcore, and ska to metal and prog rock, their unique style would include tight vocal harmonies, fast and heavy riffing, dance breakdowns, and melodic horn parts.


📸: Joe MacFadzen

New album: JUST DEVILS

Aaron Hibbert (vocalist/guitarist): “Just Devils is the farthest most of us have ever pushed
the envelope musically and we are so unbelievably excited for people to finally hear it.”
Brian Westbrook (drums, vocals, producer) “I hope I’m still alive by the time this album comes out.”

TUTV: Have yourself a headbanging Halloween party at your local graveyard with
your new favourite Halloween band PWRUP. This Western Massachusetts turbo will
wake up the dead for you with their new head-over-heals brouhaha longplayer.

Be ready for a hysterical mishmash of hardcore ska-punk missiles. No breaks, no brakes, no mistakes. Always fast-forward in overwhelming overdrive with disordered guitar solos, supersonic drumming, ear-splitting screaming and a wall of illegal decibels. Think Metallica playing dead metal faster than a comet while horns blow your ears to pieces.

A sonic tsunami of smashing pumpkins.

Advice: Go to the gym every single day and work out hard for a couple
of hours until 31 October in order to be in perfect moshpit shape to go
berserk with your beloved devils on All Hallows’ Eve.

RELEASE THE BATS


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BUY


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PWRUP: Facebook – Instagram
TUTV: Facebook – Instagram – Twitter

Waking Up With British Indie Celebrities YARD ACT And Their ‘DREAM JOB’

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Daily noise that works faster than any stimulant

26 October 2023

British indie rockers YARD ACT shot to the top like a
comet last year with their ace debut LP The Overload.

Last summer they came back with a high-caliber, stand-alone single,
named The Trench Coat Museum. A harbinger for album number two.
WHERE’S MY UTOPIA shows up on 1 March 2024. Pre-order info here.

First single DREAM JOB is an awesome funky-bass-driven earworm
with frontman James Smith telling about his dream post-Brex-shit job.

Smith: “In part, I was scrutinizing and mocking myself for being a moaning ungrateful little brat, whilst also trying to address how the music industry is this rather uncontrollable beast that hurtles forward unthinkingly and every single person involved in it plays their part. Myself included, obviously. As with pretty much everything else going through my head last year, trying to find the right time to articulate the complexity of emotions I was feeling and the severity to which I was feeling them couldn’t be found — or accommodated, so instead I tried to capture it in a pop song that lasts less than three minutes once the fog had cleared a bit. It’s good and bad. I’m still glad that everything that happened to me happened.”

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YA: Facebook – Instagram
TUTV: Facebook – Instagram – Twitter

THE DAMNED FEW – Dynamite Dutch Turbo Blows Off The Roof With Titanic Single ‘SOMEDAY’

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New striking strokes

25 October 2023

Band: THE DAMNED FEW
Who: Muscular rock 4-piece
from The Netherlands

New single: SOMEDAY
It follows the torrid lead-single from their
forthcoming, self-titled debut album.

Dion Legebeke, the sultry frontwoman wrote
the song in 10 minutes while lying on a coach.

“Some songs just come out of nowhere. Sometimes life isn’t all sunshine, rainbows
and baby kittens. Sometimes life is dark, shitty, cold and empty. But if we pretend
often enough that everything will turn out okay, maybe everything will turn out okay.”

TUTV: The explosive vocal vehemence of Courtney Love and
the titanic blues-rock bombast of Led Zeppelin. Wow, right?
You betcha.

Someday is a quiet/Loud/quiet/Loud roller coaster, scraping the sky, coming
back, and thundering upwards again. Hungry guitars shift from moody vibrations to volcanic eruptions and Legebeke‘s vocal cords’ capacity blows your house’s roof off. Overwhelming stuff, dynamite execution.

WATCH/LISTEN/HEADBANG

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THE DAMNED FEW: Facebook – Instagram

TUTV: Facebook – Instagram – Twitter