In order to not miss a beat TURN UP THE VOLUME scans the musical
horizon daily, for 10 years now, to pick ace tracks and add 5 new ones
twice per week, to the one and only JUKEBOX playlist that matters.
ALL TOGETHER
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The 5 fresh ones
TRACK BY TRACK
Band: MCLUSKY
Who: Welsh notorious, outspoken, post-punk crusaders fronted by
Andrew Falkous, also the ringleader of turbo Future Of The Left.
Album artwork
Track: CHEKOV’S GUNS
Piece from their upcoming 3rd LP, their first in 21 years, named
The World Is Still Here And So Are We and out on May 9th.
TUTV: Mclusky still is a hard-slamming drone machine. Falkous still rages and
rampages in a scary and sharp-teethed way, as we hear/saw (and soon again)
him doing it for a long time now.
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Instagram – Linktree
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Band: MOB WIFE
Who: Irish noiseniks who entered the scene back in 2018 and who draw influences from the American underground by way of Metz, Fugazi, Protomartyr and of course, Kiss. They released their debut LP Eat With Your Ears in 2022.
Track: MAKE YOU RICH
The lyrical inspiration for the song comes from an ill-advised foray into the world of
TikTok and the uneasy myriad of anti-feminist, racist and misogynistic content that was being presented as a default on the platform. Written as a satire on the influencer culture being peddled to the masses, written from their viewpoint, particularly basing it around one local influencer.
TUTV: Prepare your ears for an emotive eruption of fiery frustration with so-called influencers on Tik Tok and other socials. It chops over and over again like a sharp-cutting battleaxe, crushing misleading social media shit along the way. Wham bloody wham bam. A sonic sledgehammer to haunt maddening mobs with on the Internet.
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Instagram – Linktree
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Band: PROPAGANDHI
Who: Veteran grunge-metal
trashers from Canada.
Track: CAT GUY
Piece from their upcoming, 8th album,
titled At Peace, out May 2.
Chris Hannah (vocalist/guitarist): “From my songwriting perspective, the thing I was thinking of was capturing a little bit of Judas Priest’s 2018 album Firepower as if SNFU vocalist Chi-Pig was writing the lyrics.”
TUTV: I don’t know if this metallic hammer blow is one to crush moronic vice-president
JD Vance, who stigmatized women without children as ‘cat ladies’, with. But the very thought makes my day. Fuck you, sexist.
Instagram – Website
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Artist: LEXYTRON
Who: “Half Greek, half Persian and half English” – as this musician described herself age 5 – the Manchester-born Lexy found her identity in music early on as a pianist and violinist.”
She’s now based in Auckland, New-Zealand.
Track: KISS ME QUICK
First music in 5 years.
TUTV: Lexytron returns as a happy mother with this entrancing power-pop musing.
Her crystalline voice leads the orchestral glow at work here, and the kiss me quick chorus makes
you stick to this song.
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Linktree
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Artist: MATTHEW NOWHERE
Who: Vocalist, multi-instrumentalist, and producer based in Nevada, who blends vintage inspired sounds from the best eras of music, he shares deeply authentic and soulful music that speak to power of love to overcome all obstacles.
Track: ECHOES STILL REMAIN
Piece from his upcoming, 2nd album, named Crystal Heights, out on May 23rd. More info here.
TUTV: Ambient pop atmospherics calm your busy mind, away from the outside rat race world. This is mind-massage music for relaxing moments. I wonder if you also think that Peter Gabriel is, incognito, on vocals.
Facebook – Bandcamp
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