Turn Up The Volume’s LIVE archives
Who: Blues-punk man/wife duo Jon Spencer and Christina Martinez who also played
together in Pussy Galore. Jon Spencer is actually best know for his Blues Explosion
band.
Ghent, Belgium, 2017
(pics by Turn Up The Volume except the last one)
Daily electricity to load your batteries
27 June 2024
Great BS art-work
London‘s techno act LEG PUPPY 2.0 must be the hardest working one in EBM land.
Last May they released their umpteenth album in a very short timespan. It’s titled Humanity 2.0. Their best so far, thematically and sonically. You can read TUTV’s
review here.
And they already have a new statement to share with us.
The late genial pop-art artist Andy Warhol (1928-1987) had a
pretty sharp vision on art: “Art is what you can get away with.”
LP 2.0 take the quote a step further now, and made a song
about it, titled ARTISTS GETTING AWAY WITH BULLSHIT.
So, if logic works here then ART = BULLSHIT.
And that is what Warhol actually meant, I guess.
And it sounds like this.
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And some more BS, including 2 remixes
and 1 instrumental version.
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R.I.P.
Daily electricity to load your batteries
27 June 2024
Californian noise explores XIU XIU aren’t the lazy kind of artists. In their 22 years of recording they made 13 LPs, with last year’s sublime Ignore Grief as the most recent
one.
In the meantime, they moved from L.A. to Berlin where
they experienced a new stream of inspiration.
Enter album #14. It’s named, take a deep breath…
13″ FRANK BELTRAME ITALIAN STILETTO WITH BISON HORN GRIPS.
It comes out on September 27. More info here.
I have no idea what they want to express with this title.
What I do know is, that this is a Frank Beltrame knife.
The first single is titled COMMON LOON. A pretty accessible
electronica piece of music propelled by a steadfast drum beat.
Jamie Stewart (vocalist/instrumentalist): “The song “Common Loon,” for us, is about reveling in perversity, cuckooness, queerness and/or the unquenchable personal requirement to wild out. As MASSIVE fans of Alicia McDazzler’s [McDaid] work, we could think of no one else more qualified to embody those ways of being and no one else who would crank them up further than we would have ever imagined. She is an inspiration and icon to all LOONS!”
Its video clip was directed by performance artist Alicia McDaid. McDaid also stars in the video as a slew of characters, including, but not limited to: Britney Spears, Smurfette, Anna Nicole Smith Joker, Led Zeppelin groupie, Jason Voorhees, Frida Kardashian, goth Monica Geller, Carmela Soprano, Bret Michaels,, Andy Warhol and more.
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XX: Instagram
26 June 2024
Nothing… as far I can see.
26 June 2024
Experimental prog-jazz-rock luminary and improvisation wizard FRANK ZAPPA
(1940-1993) and his MOTHERS OF INVENTION turned traditional guitar rock
upside down from the mid-60s on.
They released countless studio albums, and several live LPs, although Zappa
used to say about the live ones: “It’s pretty hard to record what we do because
it gets so loud and ugly.”
Another concert album from the archives is now available. It’s the registration
of their 3-set concert at the legendary L.A. nightclub Whisky A Go Go in 1968.
It’s spread over 5LPs/3 CDs including some collector’s stuff. Order info here.
Press info: “On July 23, 1968, Frank Zappa and The Mothers of Invention took over the Whisky a Go Go for an all-night affair. The entire evening was recorded with the possibility of an album project. Although bits and pieces were released by Zappa over the years, a full live album never happened, and the tapes sat in the Vault for 55 years. Now all three sets by The Mothers are being released with brand new 2023 mixes on 3-CD, 5LP and a 2-LP Highlights edition with liner notes by Joe Travers, Pamela Des Barres (The GTO’s), and an interview between Alice Cooper and Ahmet Zappa.
It’s a historic document that shows the geniality of his orchestrated cacophony on stage,
switching all sort of genres from left to right and coming up with freakish improvisations. There’s also a lot of his legendary comical chatter in between songs too. A must-have for Zappa addicts.
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Every week 10 new rad tracks added
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.
FULL JUKEBOX
240 songs
The 10 new ones added this week
TRACK-BY-TRACK
Band: THE RETROGRADE
Who: Intense rock unit
from Tallahassee, Florida.
Track: WHAT CAN BE DONE
Aerosmith-like blues rocker from this hefty quartet’s
brand-new sizzling debut LP That’s The Spirit.
Linktree
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Band: FUCKED UP
Who: Post-hardcore-punk
noise veterans from Toronto.
Track: ANOTHER DAY
The title track of their new, upcoming 7th album, out in
September. It’s a loud and clear celebration of cannabis.
Get high here.
Linktree
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Artist: OLI BARTON
Who: High-vocal-powered
British songwriter.
Track: YOU JUST PLAYED MY MIND
The B-side of his previous single
‘It’s Over Now’‘s reissue on vinyl.
B-side? I don’t think so. This is a high-octane
stunner with an A-side quality. Touchdown.
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Instagram
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Band: GHOST
Who: Swedish theatrical pop-metal band fronted
by singer-songwriter, actor, and filmmaker Tobies
Jens Forge aka Papa Emeritus IV
Track: THE FUTURE IS A FOREIGN LAND
An amplified, melodic, easy-listening, power
pop tune and some glowing rockabilly echoes.
Sweet guys, sweet ghost, sweet song.
Instagram
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Band: HUGE MOLASSES TANK EXPLODES
Who: Italian outfit who offer a kaleidoscopic experience,
ranging from rugged and evocative beats to dreamy
soundscapes, inspired by post-punk and psych-wave.
Track: BOW OF GOLD
Single from their upcoming 3rd full length,
named ‘III’, and coming out in September.
Psych-pop at its dreamiest best.
Harmonious and starry-eyed.
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Instagram
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Artist: YUNGBLUD
Who: English, flamboyant superstar
Track: BREAKDOWN
A song that deals with his mental health problems.
All proceeds go to mental health caring organisations.
Part melodic pop, part waterfall rap. Ace!
Instagram
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Band: WHOLE
Who: Indie/electronic/wave
duo from Berlin.
Track: BEAST
Single and opening piece of their
brand-new album Hydra.
Both haunting and infectious
with an early Depeche Mode
sonority.
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Instagram
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Band: HEARSING
Who: Long-time American
musical friends.
Track: MONTAUK
Opener of the tandem’s fresh
5-track debut EP Pastoral.
Americana melancholia that triggers
your daydreaming moments.
Linktree
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Artist: KIM GORDON
Who: Former Sonic Youth heroine who just
released her 2nd solo album The Collective
Track: ECPR
A new stand-alone piece that clearly was
recorded during the album sessions.
Slo-mo industrial spoken-word musing as we
get/got many on her new and first solo LP.
Linktree
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Artist: ALICE GLASS
Who: The Canadian co-founder and
former frontwoman of electronic act
Crystal Castles
Track: REMAINS
A first slice of the upcoming collaboration
with hip-hop New York musician Clip.
Sounds like a lullaby, rapped-up at times,
and recorded in a fishbowl.
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26 June 2024
Promo press photo by Gilbert Trejo
Punk legends X hit the underground scene of Los Angeles back in
1977, they had a couple of hiatuses but never called it quits until
now.
All 4 original members, John Doe, Exene Cervenka, DJ Bonebrake and Billy Zoom,
announced in a press statement that they finished the recordings of their 9th
and final LP.
They named it SMOKE & FICTION and will share it with
their old and young fans on August 2. More info here.
A farewell tour is also planned.
But first and foremost the lead single BIG BLACK X
Exene Cervenka: “X is a great band name; also a bad idea sometimes when it gets lost in print or on the marquee. Gotta have a sense of humor. We all did in the early days. Los Angeles was a carnival of weirdness back then, with left over traces of silent movie stars, long haired hippies, bikers, and brand new self-defined punks doing anything we wanted. When we started touring the country we found like-minded people everywhere, and somehow they all found us. Even if the X was lost on the old marquee.”
X celebrate themselves with this sassy steamroller.
They really do the good punk times roll again.
Fuck X plagiarist Elon Musk.
BIG BLACK X
25 June 2024
40 years ago today, on 25 June 1984, the late musical genius
PRINCE (1958-2016) released his massive masterpiece album
PURPLE RAIN.
It was his 6th LP and was the soundtrack of the film of the same name that hit
the cinemas the year before. It topped the album chart in the US, in Australia,
in Canada, in The Netherlands and was Top-10 in countless other countries.
The magical title track.
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PRINCE: Website – All Albums
