Famous Producer RICK RUBIN About His High School Days
9 April 2025
Already a beard, Rick?
Month: April 2025
STEREOLAB Return Next Month With First Album In 15 Years – Hear First Energetic Single ‘AERIAL TROUBLES’
Daily electricity to load your batteries
9 April 2025
Photo credit Joe Dilworth
Band: STEREOLAB
Who: Renowned Anglo-French guitar/synth-pop outfit formed in London in 1990.
Led by the songwriting team of Tim Gane and Lætitia Sadier. They took a 10-year-long hiatus between 2009 and 2019. So far they released 10 LPs and a new one is waiting
in the pipeline.
New single: AERIAL TROUBLES
New album artwork
The first one from their upcoming 11th album, their first in 15 years.
It’s baptized Instant Holograms On Metal Film and will make all their
loyal fans happy from 23rd May on.
After a short music intro, Stereolab energizes
your ears and mind with a winsome tune.
WATCH
STREAM
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EU TOUR
USA/Canada/Mexico TOUR
No Retirement For THE DAMNED – US Tour Under Way
9 April 2025
Smash up that orange idiot while you’re there, guys.
JUKEBOX 2025 – Week 15 – Five New Rad Tracks Added Twice A Week
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
Photo credit: Ebony Alexander Media
Band: VIRGINS
Who: Belfast-based shoegaze band who transcend that reductive tag to deliver a noise which is thrillingly loud and weightily light. Last year they released their notable debut album nothing hurt and everything was beautiful.
Track: BLOOMS
Heavenly melodiousness, edged layers of shoegazing guitars, forceful
drumming, crystalline vocals, and a non-stop bass riff pushing the pace
throughout combine for a breathtaking score.
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Photo Credit: Meg Moon
Band: THE BEACHES
Who: 4 Canadian pop-rock indies.
Track: LAST GIRLS AT THE PARTY
Third single from their 3rd LP, called
No Hard Feelings, out August 29th.
Instantly sticking, surf-pop shaker.
The key word is: irresistible.
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Art design by Jason Zucco
Band: REAL BEAUT
Who: Rackety rockers
from Boston.
Track: POLITICS ON THE INTERNET
Piece from their new 4-track EP, named
Politics. Stream/buy here.
“‘Politics on the Internet’ is about caring for yourself enough not to engage in the beast battle all the time. You can talk to your brothers, parents, and friends. There are minds you can change in this world if you disagree with them, but some dope on the other end of a keyboard isn’t going to open their mind because of the intelligent quip you made on the socials. Prioritize your family and fight locally. Flinging verbal excrement at a screen isn’t the way. Love yourself, love others. Love, sex, being strong through kindness, the weight of political turmoil and technology on what is human in humanity.”
Holy fuck. This guitar-pyrotechnics juggernaut
has a knockout vehemence that floors you in
150 seconds. To hell with shitty politics on the
Internet, Real Beaut are the real riff-raging
deal.
Band: THE SONIC REDEMPTION
Who: Belgian raging rock’n’roll preachers
spreading the gospel of raw, high-octane
music.
Track: PISSING CONTENT
From their new 6-track EP, named
Preaching To The Wasteland.
Stream here.
Prepare your ears for a spasmodic sucker-punch.
Paranoid guitars, badass bass/drums, stressed vocals.
All ingredients you need for a sonic molotov cocktail.
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Artist: FIR CONE CHILDREN
Who: The musical moniker of
Berlin-based indie Alexander Donat.
Track:YOUR VOICE
From the get-go Donat takes you on a head-rotating and power-driven ride.
No brakes, no breakes. Always pedal to the metal. Raise your voice and absorb
this flat-out ripper. Bingo.
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THE BEATLES Released Hit Single ‘TICKET TO RIDE’ 60 Years Ago Today
Top singles from the past…
9 April 2025
The invincible masters of big tunes and catchy melodies THE BEATLES
released hit single TICKET TO RIDE 60 years ago today, on 9 April 1965.
The song was written by John Lennon. It topped the UK Charts.
Their 7th consecutive No.1 in their home country. Also at #1 in
the US, Canada and in several European countries.
Let’s take a ride.
THE BEATLES: Facebook
ARCADE FIRE Have Bagged Their 7th Album – Hear The Sterling Lead-Single ‘YEAR OF THE SNAKE’
Daily noise that works faster than a stream of caffeine
9 April 2025
Press photo by Danny Clinch
Kicky Canadian collective ARCADE FIRE have their 7th album, named
Pink Elephant ready for release on May 9th. Pre-order info here.
2025 is the YEAR OF THE SNAKE in the Chinese
Zodiac and also the title of the lead single.
It’s a sublime tune, with its hypnotic guitar riff, the non-stop
banging drum beat and the intertwined vocals of Win Butler
and his spouse Régine Chassagne. Vintage Arcade Fire.
Sterling stroke.
“It’s the season of change, and if
you feel strange, it’s probably good,
It’s the year of the snake,
so let your heart break.”
IGGY POP – 1977 & 2025
1977
Cleveland, Ohio
2025
Europe/UK
All dates here
At the age of 77, the passenger still can’t stop having lust for life.
Historic performance on Dutch TV in 1977.
Manic Street Preacher NICKY WIRE About His Dear Band Mate RICHEY EDWARDS Who Disappeared 30 Years Ago
8 April 2025
Richey on the left
Last February it was 30 years ago that former manic street
preacher Richey Edwards disappeared. A body was never found.
Manic Street Preachers released their 15th LP ‘Critical Thinking’ last February.
MARK STEWART – Hear The Haunting First Single ‘MEMORY OF YOU’ From Upcoming Posthumous Solo LP Out In July
Daily electricity to load your batteries
8 April 2025
In two weeks it’ll be 2 years since MARK STEWART, one of the most adventurous/inventive/original post-punk & dub artists/performers
ever, passed away, aged 62.
He was a founding member of genre-bending new wave group THE POP GROUP
who shocked lots of right-wing ears and minds with their two first LPs, Y (1979)
and For How Much Longer Do We Tolerate Mass Murder? (1980).
Afterward everybody went his own way, but they reunited in the 21st Century for
2 more longplayers, Citizen Zombie (2015) and Honeymoon On Mars (2016).
As a prolific solo artist he scored 9 albums, collaborated with countless
other artists, and caused poigant waves with his Mafia outfit.
With The Pop Group – Belgium 2017 – Photo by Turn Up The Volume
Great news for fans like myself, just came in.
English indie label Mute Records issued this statement.
“Mute is extremely honoured to announce Mark Stewart’s new solo album THE FATEFUL SYMMETRY, a vital masterwork completed early 2023. Testifying to his prolific, unrelenting ingenuity, and signifying one of his most intimate, empowering statements, The Fateful Symmetry is a fierce and beautiful manifesto for a better world. ”
Album artwork
Mark Stewart about the record: “When you look outside the prescribed consumer world, you’re suddenly floating in something you don’t understand. Everything you were taught is wrong. You realise the whole political system is an illusion, it’s a scam. It’s this whole sort of Matrix thing. And suddenly you feel like one of those space walkers, floating in this black universe. But then, you find some rainbow dust.”
Pre-order info here.
Discover first single MEMORY OF YOU.
Haunting, synth-symphonic and boom-tastic.
THE UNDERGROUND YOUTH Release Soothing Night-In Soundtrack ‘DÉCOLLAGE’
8 April 2025
New album artwork
Manchester‘s psych post-punk mavericks THE UNDERGROUND YOUTH,
orchestrated by voice/face/songwriter Craig Dyer released their 12th LP,
titled DÉCOLLAGE.
Press info: Self-written, recorded and produced by Dyer, ‘Décollage’ is an exercise
in artistic deconstruction in both name and form, marking a decisive musical shift
for The Underground Youth.
Dyer about the new album: “Décollage is the art of creating an image by ripping, tearing
away or removing pieces of an original existing work. My idea was to apply this technique
to music. My idea was to apply this technique to music.
Serge Gainsbourg
“I built walls of static coated hip-hop drum samples, layers of Lee Hazlewood style string arrangements and Serge Gainsbourg inspired mellotron melodies, then I began tearing
away at these beautiful, chaotic walls of noise.”
Lee Hazlewood
It’s a trip-hop infused soundtrack to a collection of lyrics dealing with adoration, ancestry, originality, hallucinations of revolution and a hope that something better can be born from
the ashes of the horror that exists in our world.”
TUTV: Décollage doesn’t sound like a traditional record to my ears, it sounds more like listening to a film noir score with a friend, who came over on a lazy night for a drink and
a chat. Relaxing, charming and soothing music like this is the perfect match for such occasions.
Singles: You (The Feral Human Thunderstorm) / One of The Dreamers / Calliope
– YOU (The Feral Human Thunderstorm) –
Orchestral splendour
– CALIOPE –
Spine-chilling musing
– ONE OF THE DREAMERS –
Tantalizing romanticism
ALBUM