Month: December 2024

BENJAMIN BOOKER – Modern Day Soul & Blues Voice Drops 3rd Album ‘LOWER’ On 24 Jan 2025

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25 December 2024


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Artist: BENJAMIN BOOKER
Who: modern day soul/blues
singer-songwriter from Virginia.

Album: LOWER
His first one in 7 years, 3rd overall.
Release: 24th January 2025

Pre-order info here.


New album artwork

Press info: “The new album, Lower, mixes experimental hip hop, dream and noise pop,
and singer-songwriter music into something that is entirely his own. Through the changes,
Booker’s lyrical exploration of pain and longing have been persistent.”

Singles (shared so far): LWA in The Trailer Park / Show And Tell / Same Kind Of Lonely

– LWA IN THE TRAILER PARK –

– SHOW AND TELL –

– SAME KIND OF LONELY –

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PAPA ROACH – Rock Oldtimers Claim That Their Upcoming North American Tour Will Be The Best Damn One Of 2025

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25 December 2025

Californian rap-rock-metal oldtimers PAPA ROACH started their turbulent ride
back in 1993. Yes, 31 years ago. And their fire still burns. Next year they’ll make
a lot of noise in North America with a tour they billed as The Rise Of The Roach
one.

“We can’t wait to bring the Rise Of The Roach tour to North America next
year. ‘Rise Against’ are legends in their own right, and will bring another
dynamic to this tour. With both our bands celebrating our 25+ year legacy
and deep catalogues, we are truly blessed to be able to put this show in
front of fans.”

“This will be the best damn tour of 2025!”

No, not the last resort yet.

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LAMBRINI GIRLS – British Smash And Trash Sensation Release Debut Album ‘WHO LET THE DOGS OUT’ On 10 January 2025

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Coming Up

24 December 2024


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Band: LAMBRINI GIRLS
Who: Sharp-cutting riot girrrrlzz – vox/guitarist Phoebe Lunny and bassist
Lilly Macieira – with a razorblade tongue and an insatiable appetite for
moshpits.

Album: WHO LET THE DOGS OUT
Release: 10 January 2025

Pre-order info: here


Photo by Turn Up The Volume – Lille, France – 24 February 2024

Press info: “The album rips through a laundry list of social ills. Sirens blare over a heavy distorted bass and a live drum breakbeat. The band dance between upbeat poppunk, dirty grunge tones and discordant post-punk. There’s even some noise-popcheer for putting yourself first, whether it’s having an autistic meltdown or doing apoo at your mate’s house.

With instrumentals that inhale you like a Level 5 tornado and sentiments that make you want to kick the nearest door through, it’s a take-no-prisoners debut from one of the UK’s most fun and fearless bands.”

Singles (shared so far): Love / Big Dick Energy / Company Culture

– LOVE –

– BIG DICK ENERGY –

– COMPANY CULTURE –

TOUR 2025

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BIG BLASTS FROM THE PAST – 10 Classic Albums Turning 40 In 2025

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Back in time

24 December 2024

Band: NEW ORDER
Album: Low Life
Their 3rd one,
#7 in the UK.

Melody Maker said: “The album boasts the most articulate sound
since The Cocteaus’ Treasure, elevating depression to ecstasy.”

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Band: THE POGUES
Album: Rum Sodomy & The Lash
2nd LP, #13 in the UK.

The album’s title is taken from a quotation attributed to Winston Churchill:
“Don’t talk to me about naval tradition. It’s nothing but rum, sodomy, and the lash.”

NME wrote: “A collection of free-ranging stuff to be sure. It’s never
sentimental, it’s rarely polite, and it’s certainly not ordinary.”

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Artist: TOM WAITS
Album: Rain Dogs
9th LP,
#188 in the US,
#29 in the UK.

The Village Voice wrote: “Waits worked out a unique and identifiable lounge-lizard
sound that suits his status as the poet of America’s non-nine-to-fivers.”

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Band: THE FALL
Album: This Nation’s Saving Grace
8th longplayer.

AllMusic: “This collection is ample proof of the pure confidence the group had
at this time. The Fall sound mysterious, down-to-earth, and hilarious all at the
same time.”

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Band: THE CURE
Album: The Head On The Door
6th one, #7 in the UK.

Pitchfork: “Their most focused
pop album. A tight, terrific package.”

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Artist: BRIAN ENO
Album: Thursday Afternoon

AllMusic: “Thursday Afternoon is an hour-long, uninterrupted ambient piece
created in Eno’s “holographic” compositional style, in which even the most brief
snippet of music is representative of the performance as a whole.”

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Band: TOM PETTY AND THE HEARTBREAKERS
Album: Southern Accents
Their 6th LP,
#7 in the US.

AllMusic: “An ambitious album, attempting to incorporate touches of soul,
psychedelia, and country into a loose concept about the modern South.”

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Band: THE CULT
Album: Love
Their second LP,
# in the UK.

AllMusic: “Considering the musical schizophrenia that would plague each
subsequent Cult release, Love just may be the band’s purest moment.”

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Band: THE JESUS AND MARY CHAIN
Album: Psychocandy

NME said: “A great searing citadel of beauty whose wall of noise,
once scaled, offers access to endless vistas of melody and emotion.”

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Band: HÜSKER DÜ
Album: Flip Your Wig
4th longplayer
#1 Indie charts UK

AllMusic: “Flip Your Wig would be a remarkable record on its own terms, but the fact that it followed New Day Rising by a matter of months and Zen Arcade by just over a year is simply astonishing.”

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BIG BLASTS FROM THE PAST – 10 Classic Albums Turning 50 In 2025

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23 December 2024

Artist: BOB DYLAN
Album: Blood On The Tracks
His fifteenth and one of his most
memorable LPs.

All Music: “This is hardly nostalgia, this is the sound of an artist returning to his strengths, what feels most familiar, as he accepts a traumatic situation, namely the breakdown of his marriage. This is an album alternately bitter, sorrowful, regretful, and peaceful, easily the closest he ever came to wearing his emotions on his sleeve.”

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Band: FLEETWOOD MAC
Album: Fleetwood Mac
Their 10th.

Pitchfork said: “Though far from their debut, the band’s 1975 self-titled album felt like a debut: a pop-rock statement and the unexpected intersection of two parallel spheres that offered something genuinely new.”

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Artist: NEIL YOUNG
Album: Tonight’s The Night
His sixth LP.

The record was dedicated to Danny Whitten, guitarist of Crazy Horse,
who wrote the song ‘I Don’t Want To Talk About It’ made famous by Rod
Stewart.

Rolling Stone wrote: “Tonight’s the Night finds Neil Young on his knees at the top of the heap, struggling to get back to his feet… Crying over the death of his real and imagined friends, Neil Young seems at once heroic and mock heroic, brave and absurd. Like the best of both, he leaves us as he found us, ravaged but rocking.”

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Artist: PATTI SMITH
Album: Horses
Her stunning debut.

Rolling Stone wrote: “Patti Smith’s debut album was a declaration of committed mutiny,
a statement of faith in the transfigurative powers of rock & roll. Horses made her the queen
of punk before it even really existed, but Smith cared more for the poetry in rock.”

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Band: PINK FLOYD
 Album: Wish You Were Here
9th longplayer, dedicated to the late
flamboyant co-founder Syd Barrett.

The Village Voice wrote: “The music is not only simple and attractive, with the synthesizer used mostly for texture and the guitar breaks for comment, but it actually achieves some of
he symphonic dignity (and cross-referencing) that The Dark Side of the Moon simulated so ponderously.”

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Band: LED ZEPPELIN
Album: Physical Graffiti
Zep‘s 6th, a double one.

Billboard wrote: “The LP is a tour de force through a number of musical
styles, from straight rock to blues to folky acoustic to orchestral sounds.”

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Band: NEU!
Album: Neu!
3rd one.

AllMusic: “This is music not only for traveling, from one place to the
next, but also for disappearance into the ether at a steady pace.”

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Artist: BRIAN ENO
Album: Another Green World
His third.

Pitchfork: “Brian Eno has done everything from producing huge pop stars to creating tiny art installations to touring with rock bands to inventing ambient music. Another Green World remains his definitive album.”

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Band: QUEEN
Album: A Night At The Opera
Their majestic 4th.

MOJO wrote: “An imperial extravaganza, a cornucopia. A band of hungrily
competitive individualists on a big roll of friendship and delight.”

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Artist: DAVID BOWIE
Album: Young Americans
9th longplayer.

Rolling Stone: “The music works best when Bowie combines his renewed interest in soul
with his knowledge of English pop, rather than opting entirely for one or the other.”

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INFADER – Belgian Rock Force Take You On A Rough Ride With New Single ‘SILENCE SO LOUD’

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Daily electricity to load your batteries

23 December 2024

Band: INFADER
Who: 4-piece from Antwerp, Belgium. They skillfully combine influences from
the early 2000s with principles from classical music in a powerful, modern rock
sound. Think Muse, Dead Poet Society en Triggerfinger.

Track: SILENCE SO LOUD
From their 2nd EP that will land
on 25 February 2025.

TUTV: Prepare for a head-twisting rollercoaster. The rough ride starts with a titillating
riff-driven groove and near-whispering vocals and moves slowly but surely to a stoner rock eruption that triggers your headbanging appetite while the vocalist’s towering pipes scrape the sky. This turbulent smash up/down process repeats itself a couple of times until your speakers can’t bear the tension anymore and you’re left behind, out of breath. Volcanic stuff to crush depression with.


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THE MURDER CAPITAL – Irish Mavericks Launch 3rd Album ‘BLINDNESS’ On 21 February 2025

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Coming up

23 December 2024


New album artwork

Band: THE MURDER CAPITAL
Who: Irish mavericks who released 2 remarkable
LPs so far. When I Have Fears (2019) and Gigi’s
Recovery (2023).

New album: BLINDNESS
Release: 21 February 2025

Pre-order info here.

Press info: “Blindness is the vividly realised, clear-sightedly ambitious new album from Irish band The Murder Capital. The sound of a band firing on all cylinders that bristles with energy yet intimate and simultaneously expansive. Eleven songs that don’t hang about in terms of grabbing the listener.

There’s a wider, richer perspective animating the Murder Capital’s new set of songs, brought on from the diverse insights the five members were bringing to the creative process, differing worldviews arising from their literal new positions in the world.”

Singles (shared so far): Can’t Pretend To Know / Words Lost Meaning

– CAN’T PRETEND TO KNOW –

– WORDS LOST MEANING –

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THE LUMINEERS Wish You A Merry Christmas

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23 December 2024

Three years ago famous American folk/pop/rock celebs
THE LUMINEERS fabricated a Xmas song of their own
and named it This Is Life (Merry Christmas).

It’s cheesy, but not too cheesy.
It’s Xmassy, but not too Xmassy.
It’s catchy, very catchy.

Sing along folks,
hand in hand around
the green tree.

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