Today, global pop star LADY GAGA shared a new album titled HARLEQUIN which is
designed as a companion to the film Joker: Folie à Deux the jukebox-musical Joker
sequel that co-stars Gaga as Lee Quinzel/Harley Quinn, which is out next week, Oct 3.
Gaga covers 13 big-band classics from the 50s/60s.
Her powerful voice fits that good old music just perfectly.
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Band: THE RAPTURE
1998–2014, 2019–present
Who: Alt rock band from New York who made a name
for themselves with their 2nd LP ECHOES (2003)
Track: DOWN FOR SO LONG (2006)
Album: Pieces Of The People We Love
“The best is yet to come.”
Funky kicks!
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 (so far)
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The 10 new ones added this week
TRACK-BY-TRACK
(Photo by Turn Up The Volume)
Band: PRIMAL SCREAM
Scottish veterans, fronted by Bobby Gillespie.
Track: READY TO GO HOME
Another new piece from The Scream‘s upcoming
new album Come Ahead, out in November.
Sounds like Talking Heads backed by a gospel
choir. Hallelujah, brothers and sisters.
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Artist: MISSING PET
Who: The musical project of Toronto-based singer-songwriter
and multi-instrumentalist Adam Marek Platek that germinated
out of the sludge of the pandemic.
“During the pandemic, I felt like a house pet trapped in an unnatural habitat
of my own making. I realized then that something felt off, and was uncomfortably
missing in the life I had spent more than a decade creating.”
Track: I USED TO CARE
From his brand new excellent
4-track EP Sentimental Germ.
Get ready to move and groove to this
irresistibly funky stomper. Bullseye!
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Credit: Doug Coombe
Artist: RONNY TIBBS
Who: Singer-songwriter from Detroit, whose music provides an effervescent
escapism, an effortlessly propulsive and richly evocative road trip in your mind
into a realm where genres blur, nostalgia surges, and eclecticism abounds.
Track: WHAT YOU DO
Cut from upcoming EP Shorthand,
out on October 29.
Tibbs will make your day and your ears with this electrically charged rocker.
Foot on the gas pedal from the kick-off and never looking back. Puisant piece.
Striking stroke.
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Photo by Hallam Mill
Band: BARBARISM
Who: 5-piece This Manchester five-piece have been wallowing in the glittery
sludge of late-stage capitalism. They have considered that maybe, just maybe,
we shouldn’t poison the earth and condemn half the population to misery in
order to meet the gurgling whims of several man-babies with yachts.
Track: TIL ZERO
‘Til Zero is a track about the endurance of the human spirit. Born out of years of pain watching as humanity staggers into the 21st century, these words celebrate the tenacity of the joy of life, and try to find some optimism in the face of despair and destitution. The track concludes by embracing the fact that even if the struggle for a better world is utterly fruitless, there is meaning in the attempt.
Amps up, guitars up, energy up. Til Zero is a jacked jackhammer, solid as
a rock, with out-of-control guitars, frenetic vocals, and an insane bass riff.
Bingo!
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Band: AMYL AND THE SNIFFERS
Australia‘s rock tornado fronted by
the awesome Amyl Taylor.
Track: BIG DREAMS
The latest new piece from the group’s upcoming 3rd LP,
titled Cartoon Darkness, out on October 25th.
Get on your bike and join easy rider Amyl.
Right here, right now.
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Band: DEREK SMITH & THE COSMIC VULTURES
Who: Captivating pop/rock outfit from Boston with
5 LPs under their belt. Check them out on Spotify
right here.
Track: SONGBIRD
“Songbird,” with its rolling propulsion and timeless charm, is a compass for compassion; it’s a way forward, through the highs and lows of life, softening the twists and turns and highlighting the good while snuffing out the bad. Its sound rings out as timeless as echoes of ‘70s AM radio gold canvas a yearning spectrum that soars through the songs that shaped us before touching down in the modern day.”
An Americana power ballad that bewitches, captivates, and triggers instant daydreaming.
Back in the days, lighters would turn on en masse when this kind of emotions-absorbing gem came out of the giant speakers at a concert.
Feel the passion here.
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Band: POINTS
Who: Indie trio from the UK
Track: STEAL TO FEED
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Rob Sanderson (vocals/bass) said: “From the moment we wrote the music, images of a getaway scene in a post-apocalyptic world came to mind, like in the films ‘The Book of Eli’ and ‘Mad Max’. With that, the song evolved into a futuristic Robin Hood story. The classic tale of stealing from the rich to give to the poor. It made me think how better off we could all be if we helped each other, and even if things are looking extremely bleak, there’s probably someone out there trying to make a difference in one way or another.”
Interpol-like guitars, non-stop vocal passion, forth and back progression.
Jump on this rough roller coaster and enjoy a high-powered ride.
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Artist: CARLA AARKE
Who: Songstress from Helsinki
Track: Watercolour
This track also signals her forthcoming
full-length Things I Forgot to Tell You.
Aakre: “‘watercolour’ is an ode to friendship. Sometimes you need someone to remind
you of the beauty around you. With the help of friendship, even in difficult moments, you
can find something you want to cherish.”
Dream-pop at its seducing and entertaining best. watercolour moves swiftly and sensually, circling around magnetic guitar lines and propelled by foot-stomping drum drive, while Aarke‘s arresting vocals roll all over it. Top-drawer tune.
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Band: THE THE
Track: LIFE AFTER LIFE
British veteran singer-songwriter Matt Johnson and his TT moniker is back
with his 1st album in 24 years. It’s named Ensoulment and Life Is life is
one of the highlights of the new moody TT opus.
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Band: THE KILLS
Vocalist Alison Mosshart and guitarist Jamie Hince
Track: MY GIRLS MY GIRLS
From new 5-track EP Happy Girls Sessions featuring
a Billie Eilish cover and non-electric versions of 4 songs
from last year’s album God Games.
How can you not love Mosshart‘s heartfelt voice?
Top singles from the past
27 September 2024
ROY ORBISON (23 April 1936 – 6 December 1988), one of the greatest voices ever,
also known as The Big O scored with OH, PRETTY WOMAN, one of the greatest hits
of his career. It topped the US Charts 60 years ago today, on 27 September 1964.
Along with that other diamond ‘Running Scared‘ it was his 2nd and final No. 1 in his home country. It also peaked at the top of the Charts in Canada, Australia, New Zealand and some European countries.
“Pretty woman walkin’ down the street
Pretty woman, the kind I’d like to meet
Pretty woman, I don’t believe you, you’re not the truth
No one could look as good as you
Mercy”
Daily noise that needs your attention
27 September 2024
Press
Back in 1973 in Texas a woman named Jane Roe filed a lawsuit against local district
attorney Henry Wade to gain the right to abortion as it was protected by the Constitution, but nonetheless forbidden in Texas and several other American states. She won the case but years later, in 2022 the Supreme Court overruled Roe, ending the constitutional right to abortion. A decision that caused/causes a huge shock as it crushed the reproductive
rights of women in the US.
Today former Fleetwood Mac heroine STEVIE NICKS shares a musical
statement about the issue with brand-new song THE LIGHTHOUSE .
Nicks: I wrote this song a few months after Roe v Wade was overturned. It seemed like overnight, people were saying ‘what can we, as a collective force, do about this…’ For me,
it was to write a song. It took a while because I was on the road. Then early one morning I was watching the news on TV and a certain newscaster said something that felt like she was talking to me ~ explaining what the loss of Roe v Wade would come to mean. I wrote the song the next morning and recorded it that night.”
The Lighthouse is a vehement pro-reproductive rights anthem that
overwhelms on the chorus. Nicks‘s monumental voice lights in the middle.
“I have my scars, you have yours
don’t let them take your power
don’t leave it alone in the final hours
they’ll take your soul
they’ll take your power
unless you stand up
and take it back
try to see the future
and get mad
It’s slippin’ through your fingers
you don’t have what you had
you don’t have much time
to get it back”
Wake up people,
support the right
of privacy for women
in the US and the whole
wide world.”
THE LIGHTHOUSE
26 September 2024
We’ll see/hear, Francis. New album ‘The Night The Zombies Came‘ out in October.
Photo by Turn Up The Volume – Lokerse Feesten, Belgium – 5 August 2024
Daily electricity to load your batteries
26 September 2024
Goth icons THE CURE teased the pending arrival of their 14th LP, their first in 16 years, for some weeks. Now we have all main info. The LP’s title is Songs Of A Lost World and it will drop on planet Earth on November 1. Pre-order info here.
New album artwork
And today the first single, named ALONE has arrived.
Smith: “It’s the track that unlocked the record; as soon as we had that piece of music
recorded I knew it was the opening song, and I felt the whole album come into focus. I
had been struggling to find the right opening line for the right opening song for a while,
working with the simple idea of ‘being alone’, always in the back of my mind this nagging
feeling that I already knew what the opening line should be.”
ALONE is an almost 7-minute funeral march, a slowly progressing lament, layered with mourning synths. Smith only starts singing halfway and augments the sombre atmosphere all the way through. After a couple of spins the songs keeps on coming back to haunt you.
This is the end of every song that we sing
The fire burned out to ash and
The stars grown dim with tears
Cold and afraid
The ghosts of all that we’ve been
We toast, with bitter dregs, to our emptiness
All Cure fans already know the song for a long time
as the band played it live a couple of times last year, like here
in Greenwood Village, Colorado.
THE CURE: Instagram
We know that Trump went full tilt orange when he heard that Taylor Swift told
the world that she endorses Kamala Harris. He tweeted: I HATE TAYLOR SWIFT!
You fucking cry baby.
Jane’s Addiction guitarist Dave Navarro isn’t the paranoid fool DT is.
He posted this footage of a JA gig on August 29 show in Tampa, Florida,
where he spotted a fan in front with a Taylor Swift t-shirt on.
Pretty cool, Dave.
26 September 2024
Photo credit: Myles Hendrik
Last year THE KILLS, singer Alison Mosshart and guitarist Jamie Hince,
scored one of the best 2023 albums (in my book) with God Games
Last weekend they launched a 5-track EP,
called HAPPIER GIRLS SESSIONS.
It was recorded at Grammy-winning producer Paul Epworth’s Church Studios in London.
The EP has a physical and digital released. A 7” vinyl features a soulful cover of Happier Than Ever’s titanic hit single ‘Happier Than Ever’ on the A-side and a new non-electric version of ‘My Girls My Girls’, a top piece from that album.
You can buy the 7″ here.
The digital EP features both aforementioned songs and acoustic versions
of three more God Games cuts: 103, New York and Better Days.
How can you not love Mosshart‘s room-filling, heart and soul voice.
HAPPIER GIRLS SESSIONS
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GOD GAMES
26 September 2024
Band: THE SPORKS
Who: Fresh indie trio from
Port Talbot, Wales
Track: RUNAWAY
TUTV: Imagine Julian Casablancas and his Strokes at their moodiest and most reflective selves. Runaway covers the ultimate question for all youngsters: should I stay or should I go? Staying home or go and discover the world. The tone is melancholic and yearning. Mixed emotions at work on this absorbing mid-tempo power ballad juiced with Interpol-like guitar layers and wistful vocals. Don’t run yet, sporks, write some new stuff first.
RUNAWAY