It reached the top of the UK Singles Chart on 26 June 1965,
this day 60 years ago. It also topped the US, South African
and Irish charts, and was a Top-10 single everywhere else.
“Hey, Mr. Tambourine Man, play a song for me
I’m not sleepy and there is no place I’m going to
Hey, Mr. Tambourine Man, play a song for me
In the jingle jangle morning I’ll come following you”
Ahead of its release, the band have shared 3 tasters/singles. They produce a peppy
mix of Britpop swagger (The Charlatans, The Stone Roses), shoegaze (Swirlies, Drop Nineteens, Catherine Wheel) and slacker rock (Dinosaur Jr, Sebadoh). Actually all you need to start
a 24-hour rave party.
First single from their upcoming 5th album,
titled Only Slightly Empty. It comes our way
on September 29.
Tony Esposito (vocalist/guitarist): “I do think a lot of this record is about me musically trying to deal with a lot of things that I was feeling but wasn’t talking about. “‘Honestly’ is sort of me making fun of myself and my issues with conflict. The verses and choruses are totally opposite messages from each other — like how sometimes you might talk big behind someone’s back
but then face to face you get more reserved.”
Wake up people,
your fav grim reaper
is in da house.
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.
Track: RADIO WAM BAM BOOM
New single from the duo’s second,
upcoming longplayer.
“‘Radio Wam Bam Boom’ is a big loud bite. It’s an eardrum of rock candy about radio past and present, transistor, satellite, vinyl records revolving, guitar licks dissolving, disc jockeys spinnin’ & rock n roll dreamin’.”
TUTV:Wop bop a loo bop a lop bom bom, tutti frutti, oh rootie. Oops, I’m losing control
of myself, but that’s the vivid vibe vibrating right here. Rock and speedy roll from the
kick-off, diving with guitars first into a sonic whirlwind. As Costello already sung light
years ago, “Radio is a sound salvation, Radio is cleaning up the nation.”
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.
TUTV: It’s summer. Time to stimulate your own aural pleasure with some
70s Freak Le Chic riffs, Motown horns, and seductive, soul-touching vocals. Lexytron activates your hip movements and triggers your disco mood. Tell
her how you feel, and shake your booty.
Artist: TRISTAN TRITT Who: American singer-songwriter who mixes different styles including Southern rock, country, blues and alternative. Born with music in his blood, his father is Grammy-winning country artist Travis Tritt, a young Tristan picked up his first Fender Stratocaster at age 11 and never put it down.
“The song came from an idea I had, while hearing about the parallels between the Cohen
Bros. Classic O Brother, Where Art Thou? and Homer’s Odyssey. I wanted to blend an honest discussion with myself about who I am and where I come from, while also sprinkling a bit of Greek mythology behind it. There is a very special place in my heart, in regards to the relationship between the Father and his Son, so Icarus came to mind.”
TUTV: Expect a slice of passionate singer-songwriting splendor bringing the father/son relationship into a sonic picture. Feverish vocals, electrical riffage, spellbinding tune.
Artist: VLIMMER Who: Prolific, one-man
goth act based in Berlin.
Track: GLEICHBAU
Single from his upcoming, new album.
“Gleichbau” explores the blurring lines between stage persona and everyday self – how hard it can be to locate who we really are when roles start to overlap. There’s a lot of tension in the lyrics, but also something grounding: „Innerlich doch gleich gebaut“ – “Built the same on the inside after all.”
TUTV: Vlimmer drags you into his Peter Hook-like bass-driven universe on the spot,
and cruises you through a dark-capricious-wave trip surrounded by spooky Cure-esque shadows.
Band: THE GLOVE Who: A short-lived project conceived by Robert Smith (The Cure‘s
frontman and Steven Severin (guitarist from Siouxsie and the Banshees)
with Jeanette Landray on vocals.
A couple of weeks ago EVAN DANDO and his band, for
almost 4 decades, THE LEMONHEADS dropped 2 songs.
A new jangly Dando one, called Deep End, featuring backup vocals by Juliana Hatfield and J Mascis on guitar, and a cover of Townes Van Zandt‘s Sad Cinderella.
He now has announced a new album, with new Lemonheads music since 2006.
The longplayer is baptized Love Chant and recorded in Brazil where Dando lives
now. It lands on October 24th. Tracklist and more details here.
Simultaneously we get a 2nd single.
IN THE MARGIN is a swift
guitar-inflamed crackerjack.
Yep, vintage Lemonheads.
Daily noise that works faster than a stream of caffeine
25 June 2025
Belfast‘s sharp-mouthed, notorious rap team KNEECAP – Mo Chara,
Móglaí Bap, and DJ Próvaí – hip & hop around with a knife between
their teeth since 2017.
They released their debut album 3cag in 2018
and went viral last year with follow-up Fine Art.
Lately, they make headlines with their loud and clear, ongoing support for Palestine.
They got heavily critiqued for it when they played Coachella Festival in Indo, California last April.
Then the UK’s right wing politicians jumped into it, and prosecuted Mo Chara after allegedly displaying a flag in support of Hezbollah last November (no verdict yet), and tried to get them banned from playing Glastonbury Festival next week. It gained them, rightly so, countless support from musical colleagues and fans.
To emphasize the whole political charade, the band just released a new single, named THE RECAP, going after Tory politician, business and trade minister Kemi Badenoch who started to hunt them back in 2023 when he withdrew an arts grant awarded to the band.
The trio brought a discrimination case against the U.K. government
and won, donating the proceeds to Belfast community groups. Yes!
