Band: RONKER Who: Post-hardcore-punk 4-piece from Belgium.
They released their cooking debut EP Self Loathing Self Help
last year.
New single: SLOW MURDER
The first shared piece from their upcoming debut LP Fear Is A Funny Thing Now Smile Like A Big Boy (FIAFTNSLABB). It’ll hit planet Earth on 10 May via Labelman. Pre-order info here.
“‘Slow Murder’ acts like a hand grenade sized song full of dissonant aggression, fueled by the ability to put things in perspective. The song is the ideal appetizer for the upcoming record. It kickstarts a new campaign for RONKER in which the goal is simple: take on all naysayers of crossover.”
Album artwork
TUTV: Ronker grab you by the throat from the get-go with psychotic guitars, freaked-out drumming and demonic vocals. They waste no time, they commit slow murder in exactly 131 seconds. The sign is on the wall. This 4-motor generator is coming after your soul and wants to mess up your mind. We don’t know yet if it helps to smile to avoid fear for the final breakdown, what we do know is that there’s much more hectic punk havoc to come.
Wake up world,
these motherrockers
only got started.
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.
Check the 10 new rad cuts just
added to this rad 2024 playlist.
ALL TOGETHER
. TRACK-BY-TRACK
1. ‘Eat It And Beat It’ by SHEER MAG (Philadelphia)
Philly‘s garage punks SHEER MAG launch their 4th album, titled Playing Favorites on March 1. And they keep on throwing new tracks
off it around. The 4th one is named EAT IT AND BEAT IT, a raw rocker
that rattles and rolls all the way. Hail hail.
Sheer Mag: “‘Eat And Beat It’ is an anthem for the next generation. The legacy acts that we grew up admiring and styling ourselves after aren’t going to be around forever, and nor should they be. It’s high time for a new cohort to take over and carry the torch for rock and roll in the 21st century.”
Oliver Hohlbrugger is a Norwegian singer-songwriter, multi-instrumentalist, and
producer who carves out his own high energy 60’s pronto-punk/psychedelic pop.
He obviously has a very hot spot for the jangly side of legends The Velvet Underground.
His velveteen VU tribute is part of his new, upcoming album ‘Nothing’s Changed Everything Is New’ to be released digitally and on vinyl on 19 April 2024 via REVIR / Moon Flower Music.
The track is an intoxicating psych jam that goes on like forever. High-energetic electricity.
‘Mindcave’ was heavily inspired by FrodoBagg ins’ harrowing escape through the labyrinthine tunnels of Shelob’s Lair, home to the giant spider in ‘Lord of the Rings’.
Its frantic tempo mirrors the panic of the chase, underscored by the haunting lines”
Gravity apparates, and breaks in the depths of the cavity.”
These steamrolling Brits go fast-forward with no brakes nor breaks. It’s like if
a whole army of guitars try to crush your ears, assisted by distressed vocals.
Glorious. Striking stroke.
The brothers Robinson return with their 9th LP, called Happiness Bastards on March 15.
They still do what they did their whole career, playing vintage old-school blues-rock with flaming brio.
Stefski & Hutch is a rock band founded in 2016 by a songwriter born in Paris and
a guitarist, composer and producer from Warsaw. New cooking Selling Lies, is a protest song addressing the confusion resulting from the flood of information and disinformation.
No, they’re not the legendary glamorous detective duo. They’re a high-voltage
tandem that combines hard-rock riffs with garage-punk gusto. And the candescent telling lies chorus completes the sharp-cutting fake news message.
Lisbet Fritze and Louise Foo have shared artistic trajectories for half of their lives. As Glas, the duo reveals a patchwork of everyday observations rooted in significant life changes while their alternative pop sounds convey a quest for balance, riding the line between doomy drama and playing it cool.
New piece Hungry Moon“raises the impossible questions about the well-being of our planet, addressing big-scale frustrations while simultaneously delving into human feelings of big dreams, loss and insufficiency. Musically, we also wanted to create a duality with two distinct vocal parts. Almost like a duet between night and day. In one, dreamy vocals are interwoven into a fabric of layered guitars, creating a chant. In contrast, the other features a groovy, spacious arrangement with dry vocals.”
Hungry Moon mesmerizes and magnetizes with its part ghostly, part crystalline vocals,
its shoegazy dreamy feel and its moony atmosphere. Beguiling and compelling.
Hudson Valley-based singer-songwriter Jack Manley gears up for his upcoming
debut EP Unmeasurable Terms, out on May 10. Pre-order info here.
Smack Water is a “relaxed yet aggressive vibe—I wanted this song to have
a lot of space and attitude with moments of distortion, swells and feedback,
so that it raises the stakes as the tune progresses.”
I hear echoes of the late great Alex Chilton. Jangly and rousing, soothing and
entrancing with commanding vocals. An electrical and melancholic thrill.
10. ‘New’ by LUNAR PATHS feat. Ben Keaton (Chicago)
Veterans of the original UK northern goth scene, Lunar Paths are a transatlantic musical duo. With memorable hooks woven through intricate, powerful percussion, laced together with haunting vocals, their eclectic sound shares traits with goth & alternative indie artistes.
New is a psychedelic and darkwavish slo-mo trip with a trancy effect.
Its glowing, shadowy The Cure-like guitar radiance and its hallucinatory
female/male vocals lead to an eerie experience. Intriguing stuff.
BON SCOTT, the original crazed frontman of Australian hard riff-rock turbine AC/DC
died 44 years ago today, on 19 February 1980. After a heavy night’s drinking in London ,
he was found in a friend’s parked car. The coroner’s report stated that he had “drunk himself to death”, after suffocating on his own vomit. R.I.P.
Band:ENGLISH TEACHER Who: Fast up-and-coming indies
from Leeds, UK
NME said: “A vital voice from the heart of UK guitar music. The band have
swiftly become one of the most promising new British prospects of the last few
years, with songs that find humour and relief in the strange world around us.”
The band dropped another piece, single #5, named R&B.
Lily Fontaine“Decision paralysis is an ache that has murmured in me through sitting
on smaller fences, through to questioning my theology, my sexuality, my career and so on. Watching Jaco Van Dormael’s incredible sci-fi/fantasy Mr Nobody put the cause and effect of this issue into perspective; my life has been consistent in its inconsistency. 12 different houses across the country and mixed-race I’ve always been a bit in-between and I think that’s where this song, and a lot of the songs we’re due to release, come from.”
R&B is another wayward slice of ET pop intensity. It starts a bit like a Dry Cleaning track with a rigid bass riff and Fontaine‘s spoken word vocals, but turns quickly into a strenuous stormer fueled with schizo guitar frenzy, jittery drumming and Fontaine‘s feverish impact.
Wake-up people,
there’s a lot to
learn here.
All 5 singles
.
Last week ET played in Brugge, Belgium supporting Dublin‘s stellar Sprints. After a couple
of songs you just knew/heard/felt that English Teacher is gonna be huge just like Sprints‘ frontwoman Karla Chubb told the crowd afterward.
Who: A talented artist from Solomon Islands known for her unique blend of electronic and retro genres. With her mesmerising vocals and vibrant energy, she captivates listeners worldwide.
TUTV: In these anxious times of wars, waves of human intolerance and far-right world leaders, radiant tunes like this one are very welcome. Yes, Energy will give you a lot of energy. Its hip-shaking ska/reggae catchiness triggers your best dance moves and causes heart-and-soul delight.
It’s a honey-sweet, uplifting earworm that makes your day on the spot and puts a big smile on your face. It’s the kind of sonic booster that creates lust for life. The sunlit vibe and feel-good bliss gives you a cloud nine experience. Big fun.
Last week, on Valentine’s Day, Los Angeles’ popular rock/pop Amazons WARPAINT celebrated their 20th birthday as a band. Not that they a prolific band with only
4 albums in those 20 years.
Jenny Lee (singer/bassist): “I feel like there’s so many lives lived in the last 20 years.
Different scenes, every couple of years something changes up. To look back to 2004,
it feels like I’ve lived many lives. And it’s also gone by so quick too that it’s a trip, it’s
psychedelic.”
For the occasion they recorded/released a one-off musing single COMMON BLUE
