Month: July 2025

AC/DC – Australian Hells Bells Icons Released Historic Album ‘BACK IN BLACK’ 45 Years Ago Today

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Significant longplayers from yesteryear

25 July 2025

Australian hard rock champions AC/DC released their 7th LP,
named BACK IN BLACK on 25 July 1980, today 45 years ago
today.

It was the first album with vocalist Brian Johnson following the tragic death
of mad frontman Bon Scott in January 1980. After Scott‘s funeral on 1 March,
the band immediately began auditions for a replacement frontman

According to co-founder and guitarist Angus Young, the album’s all-black cover
was a “sign of mourning” for Scott. Atlantic Records (idiots) disliked the cover, but
accepted it, on the condition that the band put a grey outline around the AC/DC
logo.

By 2024, the blockbuster album has sold over 50 million
copies worldwide (27 million in the US). Historic numbers.

Pitchfork said: “The album didn’t signify any sort of change or cultural marker.
It instead proved the power of stasis, of doing something well, then doing it again
but louder and with more money. In a sense, the success of Back in Black helped
predict the current reboot moment: Give the people what they want, but more.

As ever, AC/DC were their own best messengers for this simple idea, laid bare in
the final moments of their most famous work: “Rock’n’roll ain’t no riddle, man.”

Young: “We’re a rock group. we’re noisy, rowdy, sensational and weird.”

Singles: You Shook Me All Night Long / Hells Bells / Back In Black

– HELLS BELLS –

– YOU SHOOK ME ALL NIGHT LONG –

– BACK IN BLACK –

ALBUM


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MARK STEWART – Posthumously Released Album ‘THE FATEFUL SYMMETRY’ By THE POP GROUP’s Legend Is A Final Treasure

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New significant longplayers

25 July 2025

MARK STEWART, one of the most adventurous/inventive/original
post-punk & dub artists/performers ever, passed away 2 years,
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 first two LPs, Y (1979)
and For How Much Longer Do We Tolerate Mass Murder? (1980).

Afterward, everybody went their 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 7 LPs, collaborated with countless
other artists, and caused poignant waves with his Mafia outfit.

Here’s his new solo one, named THE FATEFUL SYMMETRY
released posthumously by Mute Records.


Album artwork

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. “

TUTV: Posthumous releases of favorite artists have two sides. One, you get reminded about the passing of a beloved musician, and two, you get excited as new material is offered.  In this case, very good new material. No archives dump, or out-takes, weird rarities and other low-quality stuff. The Faithfull Symmetry is a splendid, final opus by a unique musical mind.

Stewart‘s expresses again his mixed emotions about humanity and its messy planet. Both pessimistic and optimistic reflections, but always with sparks of hope. Musically, it’s a very accessible pop record with several crooning musings, This Is The Rain, Twilight Child, Crypto Religion, and the wonderful, goosebumps closer A Long Road (made me instantly think of his good friend and fan Nick Cave).

His characteristic, captivating voice, both heartrending and heartwarming at the same time, feels so real, so close, and as always, engaged and genuine. Mark Stewart was one of a kind and will always be in my book. Thank you, Mute Records, for this posthumous treasure, one to cherish

SINGLES

STREAM/BUY ALBUM


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RINGO STARR’s Son ZAK Once Turned Down Offer To Be BLACK SABBATH’s Drummer

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25 July 2025

Ringo Starr‘s son, drummer Zak Starkey who played for about 30 years with
The Who, several years as a touring member for Oasis, who started Johnny Marr
and the Healers, and was/is involved in other projects as a producer has shared
a screenshot of an email he got in 1993 from Ozzy’s wife/manager, Sharon
Osbourne.

The email was sent ahead of the band’s shows planned
for the summer of 2013. Sharon can definitely crack
a joke.

Image Sharon Osbourne: Cover of her ‘EXTREME’ biography.

GUSH – Flaming Irish Indies Rock ‘YOUR WORLD’ With A Rollicking Burner

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Daily electricity to load your batteries

25 July 2025

Band: GUSH
Who: Fresh and frantic Belfast 4-piece who launched their
cooking 5-track debut EP Exposure Therapy last summer.

TUTV: No, musical Ireland is not just about Fontaines D.C., Kneecap and Sprints,
to name a few big acts. In recent years young Irish indies have formed bands, such
as Chalk, Dark Tropics, Virgins, Silk, Muck Savage, Strand, Some Rain, The Donnys. All
cool outfits (already featured on Turn Up The Volume) you should check out.

And also this one.

Belfast‘s bonkers 4-piece GUSH have their 2nd single of the year out. Your World
is a glammy, full-riff-blooded, rollicking burner. All amps up, all decibels up, with
flaming guitars have an ongoing sonic fight with a badass bass and a chorus that
goes airborne every time it stirs up, powered by frisky vocals.

Get your world rocked right here.


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KEVIN PARKER And TAME IMPALA Are Back With Old Skool EBM Tune You Can Dance To Until The ‘END OF SUMMER’

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Daily noise that works faster than a stream of caffeine

25 July 2025


Press photo by Julian Klincewicz

It has been already 5 years since one-man-dance-pop-band TAME IMPALA
released its 4th LP THE SLOW RUSH. Since then singer-songwriter and
multi-instrumentalist KEVIN PARKER focused on writing film music.

But the wait is over for the millions of TA fans.

New single END OF SUMMER pounds like a heartbeat in overdrive for
7-plus-minutes with Parker‘s helium vocals floating all over it. An old
skool dancefloor filler, a familiar disco killer.

Wake up people,
here comes a fast
rush of blood to
the head.

WATCH

STREAM


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EX-HYENA – Boston’s Acid House Duo Deliver Bleep Stomper ‘THIS IS YOUR LOVE’ For Your Beach Party

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New striking strokes

24 July 2025

Band: EX HYENA (Boston, MA)
Who: The musical project of Bo Barringer and Reuben Bettsak.
They got together in 2020, surfacing through the haze of the
global pandemic and have released 3 albums since.

Track: THIS IS YOUR LOVE
2nd shared piece from their upcoming,
4th full length, named XX Your Love .

TUTV: Order a truck full of sand, let it drop in your garden, install a cocktail bar,
buy the best earbuds you can find in town for your neighbors, invite your friends
and pretend all that you’re on a hot beach of an exotic island with DJs Ex-Hyena
spinning acid house, starting and ending with their brand-new bleep bleep
stomper ‘This Is Your Love‘, all night and all morning long.

You know the drill, 24-hour party
people, shake and sway those hips.

STREAM


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BUY
Remix included


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Nu-Metal Champs DEFTONES Are Pretty Busy – New Single, New Album And Lots Of Live Action

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24 July 2025

Nu metal champs DEFTONES are one of those countless bands that have
been around for decades (in this case, since 1988), disappear for some
years, come back, go on a long holiday and come back again.

It’s been 5 years now since they released
their latest longplayer Ohms. Yep, time
for another comeback.


Oops, scary album artwork

LP number 10, baptized Private Music
is ready to attack their fans’ speakers
from August 22nd on.

First single MY MIND IS LIKE A MOUNTAIN
is a terrifically emotive drill hammer.

And the album will, of course, be followed by live action.

On November 1st, the deafening tune veterans will
organise their 6th own, one-day festival, and in 2026
they fly to EU/UK to cause some sonic havoc.

2026

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BRIGHT EYES – Nebraska’s Indie Stars Go Summer Ska With New Single ‘1st WORLD BLUES’

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Daily electricity to load your batteries

24 July 2025


Press photo by Nik Freitas

Nebraska‘s pop/rock trio BRIGHT EYES, formed and orchestrated by singer-songwriter Conor Oberst released their exquisite 11th LP, titled Five Dice, All Threes, last year.

The Nebraska band are now back with a new single, called 1ST WORLD BLUES
which they teased a couple of days ago on their social media with the message
Ska Is Back on a McDonalds highway sign.

And it’s a ska thrill alright.

Oberst: “It’s an homage to ska in all its waves. From Desmond Decker to Tim Armstrong, we’re just happy to add our track to the bin. The video is inspired by NYC 90s hip hop, which like ska, has a long tradition of unifying people & using celebratory music to convey subversive political themes. To be played loud. Windows down. Summertime.”

Sounds and feels like you’re
ska-ing on a merry-go-round.
Big fun!

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NATION OF LANGUAGE – Brooklyn’s Electro Pop Trio With Trippy Vocal Pearl ‘UNDER WATER’

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Daily noise that works faster than a stream of caffeine

24 July 2025

Band: NATION OF LANGUAGE
Who: Productive electro-pop trio from Brooklyn,
who released 3 albums in 3 years and have another
one canned.

Track: UNDER WATER
3rd single from their 4th LP, entitled Dance Called Memory.
It comes our way on 19 September via Sub Pop Records.

Ian Devaney (frontman): “We’d always had a lot of enthusiasm for the track,
but the studio schedule had gotten a bit unwieldy over the holidays and an arbitrary
deadline had been set to be done with LP4 prior to leaving for a January tour in Australia supporting IDLES.

Before soundchecks on the other side of the planet we hooked up all the synths we’d brought with us in the greenroom, remotely concocting the version you hear now. If it somehow sounds distinctly of the southern hemisphere, now you’ll all know why.”

A sweet, trippy vocal pearl, with some
Perfume Genius echoes. Arresting feat.

Wake up, people,
a nightingale
flies around in
your bedroom.

All 3 singles


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