Month: December 2024

10 BEST GIGS OF 2024 According To The Ears/Eyes Of TURN UP THE VOLUME

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31 December 2024

Band: FAT WHITE FAMILY
Who: British misfits team led by maestro Lias Saoudi.
One of the best live bands of the past 15 years. Hands
down.

They released their 5th and unquestionbly their best
longplayer this year with Forgiveness Is Yours.

Trix Club, Antwerp – 1 June

No rest for the wicked.

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Band: Lambrini Girls
Who: Hefty post-punk
turbo from Brighton, UK.

The grrllzz have their debut LP Who Let The Dogs Out
out on January 10th. They will be all over the place.

L’Aeronef, Lille, France – 17 February

Earthquake experience.

Instagram – Spotify
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Band: ILA
Who: Belgian top rock/pop outfit
fronted by charismatic songwriter
Ilayda Cicek.

They scored one of the best debut
albums of the year with Anya.

Charlatan, Ghent – 14 November

Magnetism in motion.

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Artist: LIAM GALLAGHER
Who: Our kid.

O2 Arena in London, 6 June.

We all felt supersonic.

Instagram – Spotify
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Band: DITZ
Who: Overwhelming post-punk
bulldozer from Brighton, UK.

On 24th January Ditz will launch
their second album, titled Never Exhale

Sonic City Fest, Kortrijk Belgium, 10 November

Illegal amount of decibels.
Helter skelter.

Instagram – Spotify
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Band: FRANK CARTER & THE RATTLESNAKES
Who: British tattoo artist and his gang.

Authors of one of the best longplayers
of 2024 with Dark Rainbow.

Ancienne Belgique, Brussels – 26 February

Passion, passion, passion.

Instagram – Spotify
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Band: THE NEW EVES
Who: Otherwordly all-female
indie act from Brighton, UK.

Botanique, Brussels – 24 May

Bizzare and different.
BRILLIANT!

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Band: YARD ACT
Who: Rap-pop-rock indie
celebs from Leeds, UK.

With Where’s My Utopia they
delivered their 2nd triumphant LP.

Botanique Nights Fest, Brussels – 28 April

Party from start to finish.

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Band: WARMDUSCHER
Who: Disco punk cowboys from the UK.

This hit team nailed it with this year’s
album Too Cold Too Hold (their 4th).

Botanique, Brussels – 24 May

Imagine James Brown being a punk.

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Artist: RICARD ASHCROFT
Who: British power pop expert

Lokerse Feesten, Belgium – 6 August

Bittersweet symphonies.

Instagram – Spotify

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BIG BLASTS FROM THE PAST – 10 Classic Albums Turning 20 In 2025

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Back in time

31 December 2024

Band: THE WHITE STRIPES

Album: Get Behind Me Satan
Their 5rh LP. #3 in the UK and the US.

Pitchfork: “On their fifth album, the White Stripes’ ambitions finally seem to outpace their limited musical vocabulary. Making an almost-entirely clean break with the jet-fueled blues
rock of Elephant and De Stijl, they forsake electric guitar on all but a couple of tracks, working instead with pianos, acoustic guitars, marimbas, and other assorted oddball percussion.”

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Band: EDITORS

Album: The Back Room
Their first one. No. 2 in the UK.
No21 in the USA.

Pitchfork: “They imitate bands with dramatic vocalists … but the best moments
on The Back Room aren’t the theatrical ones—it’s when the four of them are playing
and discovering their own chemistry”.

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Band: OASIS

Album: Don’t Believe The Truth
Their 6th. #1 in the UK, #12 in the USA.

AllMusic: “Don’t Believe the Truth the closest Oasis has been to great since the
summer of Britpop, when they were the biggest and best band in the world.”


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Band: dEUS

Album: Pocket Revolution
4th longplayer. No 1 in Belgium.

AllMusic: “The group offers an album that refuses to be pinned down to a single
style. Despite the extended break between albums, dEus picks up right where they
left off with The Ideal Crash.”

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Band: BLOC PARTY

Album: Silent Alarm
Their debut. No. 3 in the UK.

NME: Varied in tone and stylistically uncategorisable, one thing
is clear about Bloc Party’s debut album: it’s bloody brilliant.


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Band: HARD-FI

Album: CCTV
1st full length.
No. 1 in the UK.

The Guardian: “Hard-Fi’s edge over more derivative rivals lies in a formula
that delivers old Specials and Clash reggae vibes with the big-tune ratio of
a boy band.”

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Artist: BRUCE SPRINGSTEEN

Album: Devils & Dust
The 13th. #1 both in the UK & US.

Rolling Stone: “In striking and affecting ways, his most audacious
record since the home-demo American Gothic of 1982’s Nebraska.”

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Band: QUEENS OF THE STONE AGE

Album: Lullabies To Paralyze
4th LP. #5 in the US, #4 in UK.

NME: ‘Lullabies To Paralyze’ will use its enigmatic mysticism to lull you into
a blissful daze so you don’t at first notice that the riffs have broken your neck.
Better. Than. Sex.”

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Band: THE ROLLING STONES

Album: A Bigger Bang
22nd LP. #2 in the UK,
#3 in the US.

The Guardian: “There is a sense of finality about A Bigger Bang. It may not be quite
the blazing ship to Valhalla they intended, but then nor is it the unmarked grave you
might expect.”

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Band: LCD SOUNDSYTEM

Album: LCD Soundsystem
Debut one. #6 in the US,
#20 in the UK.

AllMusic: “Like just about everybody else these days, Murphy’s more skilled at creating isolated tracks than making full-lengths, even though this particular full-length has few weak spots and unfolds smoothly as you listen to it from beginning to end.”

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HEARTWORMS – Flamboyant London Songstress Will Drop Her Party Debut LP On 25 February 2025

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Coming up

31 December 2024

HEARTWORMS is the psych-pop project of fast up-and-coming British
songstress Jojo Orme. She drew a lot of aural attention with last year’s
4-track EP A Comforting Notion

Her debut LP, named Glutton For Punishment
will start and end parties from 25th February on.

Pre-order info here.


Album artwork

Press info: “Formidable South London auteur Heartworms releases her highly anticipated debut album Glutton For Punishment – on Speedy Wunderground. Produced by longtime collaborator Dan Carey, Glutton For Punishment combines the propulsive, motorik tendencies of gothic stalwarts Depeche Mode, with the lyrical dexterity of PJ Harvey, and the off-kilter rhythms of LCD Soundsystem into a powerful sonic onslaught that is entirely Heartworms.”

Single

Tour 2025

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THE FLAMING LIPS Will Fight The Pink Robots In UK/Ireland And Europe In 2025

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31 December 2024


Amsterdam, 2018 – photo by TUTV

Oklahoma‘s psych-rock heroes THE FLAMING LIPS‘ 10th longplayer YOSHIMI BATTLES THE PINK ROBOTS turned 20, already two years ago, but they still keep on celebrating the anniversary. They did it in the US last and this year and in 2025 UK/Ireland/Europe will enjoy the Lips‘ spectacular live rhapsody.

The Flaming Lips are among my all-time favorite bands (on/off stage),
so I just bought my first concert ticket (Antwerp, Belgium) for 2025

UK/Ireland

EUROPE

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New UNCUT Magazine Issue With Cover Star KATE BUSH

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31 December 2024

In this new Uncut issue an evelatory lost interview from 2011 with living legend Kate Bush talking about fame, the internet, pop music, fantastical creatures and the time she nearly burned her house down.

Also in this new issue: Bob Dylan, The Weather Station,
The Damned, Quincy Jones, and The Go-Betweens.

New albums: Julian Cope, Sun Ra Arkestra, James Blackshaw, Lilly Hiatt
and The Last Poets; archive releases by Dennis Bovell, Terry Riley, Television,
Tom Waits, Mercury Rev and Laura Nyro; Big Star and The Saints live.

This months Free CD titled Noctures containes
12 tracks of the best new music of the month.

You can purchase a copy and let it
be sent to your home. Info HERE.

CIRCA WAVES – Liverpool’s Guitar Pop Band Shares Their Upcoming 6th Album With The World On 31 Jan 2025

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30 December 2024

Liverpool‘s rock indies CIRCA WAVES rose to fame since they hit the scene in 2013.
On January 31st the band will launch their 6th album, titled DEATH & LOVE PT. 1 . Frontman/songwriter Kierdan Shuddall talked to NME about the new record. You
can read it here.

Singles (released so far): We Made It / American Dream / Like You Did Before

– WE MADE IT –

– AMERICAN DREAM –

– LIKE YOU DID BEFORE –

UK TOUR 2025
(More dates TBA)

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BIG BLASTS FROM THE PAST – 10 Classic Albums Turning 25 In 2025

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Back in time

30 December 2024

PrimalTerminator

Band: PRIMAL SCREAM

Album: XTRMNTR
6th one, #3 in the UK.

AllMusic: “XTRMNTR is a nasty, fierce realization of an entire
world that has also lost the plot. It’s simply a protest, sonically
as well as lyrically, and maybe this would be a fine time to once
again rally behind something worthwhile.”

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Artist: PJ HARVEY

Album: Stories From The City, Stories From The Sea
Her 5th longplayer. #23 in the UK. Platinum in the US.

NME: “A magnificent, life-affirming opus.”

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Band: THE WHITE STRIPES

Album: De Stijl
The duo’s 2nd one. No. 137
in the UK. No. 38 in the US.

Rolling Stone: “Feisty and clever. Like everything about the White Stripes,
the album proves that you don’t need bombast to make a blues explosion.”

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Band: RADIOHEAD

Album: Kid A
4th LP. No. 1 in the UK, US, Ireland,
Scotland, New Zealand and Canada.

The Guardian: “Even listeners raised on krautrock or
Ornette Coleman will find Kid A a mystifying experience.”

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Artist: RICHARD ASHCROFT

Album: Alone With Everybody
Solo debut.

NME: “Ashcroft’s newly discovered stability has done nothing
to blunt his powers of communication or reduce his belief in
the apocalyptic potential of music.”

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Band: SHELLAC

Album: 1000 Hurts
3rd full length.

AllMusic: “True to Shellac form, the record is a sound purchase.
Within the domain of atonal, anti-commercial rock & roll, very
few are on their level.”

R.I.P. Steve Albini.

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Band: THE DELGADOS

Album: The Great Eastern
3rd longplayer. #12 in the UK, #37 in
their home country Scotland.

DIS: The Great Eastern is a majestic
journey of astounding beauty.

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Band: GRANDADDY

Album: The Sophtware Slump
Second LP.

The New York Times: “A heart-achingly beautiful requiem for
a culture in which progress and technology have led to alienation
and disposability”.

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Band: QUEENS OF THE STONE AGE

Album: Rated R
Second one. #16 in the US,
#54 in the UK.

AllMusic: “R is mellower, trippier, and more arranged than its predecessor, making
its point through warm fuzz-guitar tones, ethereal harmonies, vibraphones, horns,
and even the odd steel drum.”

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Band: AT THE DRIVE IN

Album: Relationship Of Command
Their 3rd. #33 in the UK,
#116 in the US.

BBC Music: “Mesmerising. A statement of
grand intent that could never be followed.”

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RAMONES Live On New Year’s Eve 1977 In LONDON

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30 December 2024

Punk heroes, the RAMONES played on New Year‘s Eve of 1977
at the iconic Rainbow Theatre in London, supported by Scottish
punks The Rezillos and Billy Idol‘s Generation X.

The gig was later eternalized on a live
album, titled It’s Alive released in 1979.

Gabba Gabba Hey!

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