PICTURE THIS – Summer Is In The Air
I want one.
Month: April 2025
JUKEBOX 2025 – Week 16 – 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
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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Album Tracks That Should Have Been Singles – ‘FUCKIN’ IN THE BUSHES (2000) By OASIS
16 April 2025
Band: OASIS
Track: FUCKIN’ IN THE BUSHES
Album: Standing On The Shoulder Of Giants
Their 4th one, released in 2000.
It’s not constructed as a single – no verse, pre-chorus, chorus, verse. Noel wrote
it – with Led Zeppelin in mind – specifically to have a killer intro for their concerts
(Liam used it later to start his solo shows too). And it worked brilliantly, therefore
it was worth a single. Anyway, for me that is.
Click to go straight to YT and watch/hear
Fuckin’ In The Bushes at Wembley, London,
on 21 July 2000.
Can you imagine! Because of the song’s title you
need to check into YT to see the footage. It’s 2025.
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The concert was recorded and released on CD, named
Familiar To Millions, a couple of months later.
THE DIRTY NIL – Raw And Rough Canadian Rockers Wanna Be Your Dog
Daily noise that works faster than a stream of caffeine
16 April 2025
Band: THE DIRTY NIL
Who: Canadian rock force, busy
since 2006, but only 4 LPs so far.
The band is ready to embark on a long tour across the USA. All dates here .
To warm up the fans, they launched a video with their smoking-hot cover of
The Stooges punk classic I WANNA BE YOUR DOG, as performed on Oct 5,
2023 at their show at Toronto’s Danforth Music Hall where the group invited
George Pettit of Alexisonfire and Dead Tired on stage to go ballistic along.
AWESOME!
JOEY RAMONE Who Passed Away Today 24 Years Ago About Three Chords
15 April 2025
Joey Ramone, born Jeffrey Ross Hyman, passed away on 15 April 2001, today 24 years ago.
AMUSED – Young Belgian Garage Punk Dogs Produce Raw Power With Their Debut Slam ‘BLOSOM’
Daily electricity to load your batteries
15 April 2025
Band: AMUSED
Who: 3 noise-hungry
indies from Belgium.
Track: BLOSSOM
The trio’s debut single.
TUTV: Let me introduce you to the bastard grandsons of Iggy Pop and The Stooges.
These three juveniles develop a similar barbed wire swagger and produce a similar
high-voltage havoc.
All what these punk brats need to shake up the neighbourhood are psychotic guitars,
a maniacal drummer, a clamorous vocalist who tries to scream himself out of his straightjacket and a nasty haymaker of a tune. Raw power guaranteed. From now
on Amused want to be your dog.
15 April 1967 – FRANK And Daughter NANCY SINATRA Said Somethin’ Stupid 58 Years Ago
15 April 2025
Father and daughter SINATRA scored a No 1 hit in the US
58 years ago today, on 15 April 1967 with SOMETHIN’ STUPID.
Also #1 in the US, Canada, South Africa and
several other countries around the globe.
The classic cracker was written by American folk singer-songwriter
C. Carson Parks. He recorded it with his wife Gaile Foote, shortly
after Frank and Nancy covered it and the rest is history.
NANCY SINATRA: FACEBOOK
Charismatic GARBAGE Frontwoman SHIRLEY MANSON Reacts To British Gutter Newspaper The DAILY MAIL
Charismatic Garbage frontwoman Shirley Manson hit back on Instagram
at English gutter newspaper Daily Mail with a screenshot of a an article in
which the DM claimed the rock band looked “unrecognisable” in their new
promo photos for their upcoming album.
So the looks/photos/promos of a rock band are important news, today?
In a world that struggles to survive amidst wars and delusional politicians?
You still look the same DM, full of childish shit.
Garbage unleash their new 8th album, baptized
Let All That We Imagine Be The Light on 30th May.
Here’s first single There’s No Future In Optimism
ANIKA – Wayward Songstress Fights Her Mind-Threathing Demons On New Stupefying Album ‘ABYSS’
15 April 2025
Press
Artist: ANIKA
Who: British, Berlin-based songstress. She released two splendid
albums with indie band Exploded View and has her 4th solo one
out now.
Album: ABYSS
Press info: “Anika channels her frustration, anger, and confusion with the world.
The album captures raw energy with minimal overdubs, resulting in a visceral and
urgent 10-track journey fueled by intense emotions.
Abyss reflects Anika’s desire to create a space where people can unite and feel free to express themselves amidst the chaos of the world. With influences ranging from 90s grunge and Courtney Love to Patti Smith and Genesis P-Orridge, the album is driven by
a rebellious spirit.
Album artwork
AllMusic says: “Anika may be known for her aloof persona, but emotion has always been a vital part of her music — and never more so than on Abyss. She brings just enough range to Abyss to avoid monotony, letting the personal bleed into the political… Confrontational in ways quiet and loud, Abyss is a testament to Anika’s fierce artistic independence and gift for haunting moods. Full review here.
TUTV: Abyss is sonically, her most heavy-laden longplayer. From revved-up pop crazing (Hearsay / Honey / Last Song) to psych rock shocks (Abyss / Oxygen / Out Of The Shadows).
It’s Anika Vs Anika and the outside world as she makes clear in Walk Away with the lines “The truth is, I don’t really like myself / And the truth is / I don’t really like anyone else.”
Anika still struggles with all kind of demons (media moguls, a broken relationship, being trapped in your own narrative, patriarchy, toxic masculinity and other mind-destroying dangers). Eventually she’s at her best when she faces and fights her worst nightmares and she knows she’s not alone. We’re all in it together. We should try not to hate each other and be tolerant for a chance. L’union fait la force. 2025 is Anika‘s year.
SINGLES: Hearsay / Walk Away
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Wake Up And BREATHE Along With THE PRODIGY At COACHELLA FESTIVAL
Daily noise that works faster than a stream of caffeine
15 April 2025
Last weekend Coachella Festival (Coachella Valley, Indio, California) experienced its
first weekend of its 24th edition featuring techno titans THE PRODIGY who lost their
main frontman Keith Flint 5 years ago when he took his own life (March 2019).
After the fateful event the band, obviously, needed a break to mourn and reflect.
In the summer of 2022, they announced their return to the stage with a 10-date tour
of the UK, to coincide with the 25th anniversary of their 3rd LP The Fat Of The Land.
Last February the band told in a press statement
that a new album is coming sometime this year.
And last Friday they breathed at
Coachella Fest and shocked the
desert.
BREATHE