Grown up babies
Bristol‘s post-punk oldtimers GLAXO BABIES return after 35 years with a new album.
It’s named Men Of Stone and will attack your speakers from November 14th onward.
Album artwork
Check the title track.
Top singles from the past
28 August 2025
Iconic hard rockers AEROSMITH released WALK THIS WAY,
one of their biggest hits (more than 600 million streams on Spotify),
on 28 August 1975, today 50 years ago. It peaked at #4 in the US
and #8 in the UK.
It was the 2nd single from their Toys In The Attic album.
It helped Aerosmith to break into the mainstream in the 1970s, it also revitalized their career in the 1980s when it was covered by hip hop trio Run DMC (in collaboration with Aerosmith) in 1986. This cover was a touchstone for the new musical subgenre of rap rock.
AEROSMITH
RUN DMC
28 August 2025
Photo by Alex Cox
Veteran guitar rockers SUPERCHUNK from North Carolina entered
the scene back in 1989, and are still alive and kicking around.
Their 13th LP, baptized SONGS IN THE KEY OF YIKES is out now.
Mac McCaughan (guitar/vocals and co-founder of Merge Records): “It’s always
been the case that everyone is going through something that you may not be aware
of. This is currently more true than ever—but also the case that we are all going through
some things together. In the face of that, what good is art and where is happiness
found? (Spoiler alert: I don’t know.)”
Pitchfork: “At times, bursts of velocity push the group toward a kind of transcendence, particularly when the spiky “Everybody Dies” is chased by the galvanizing gallop of “Stuck
in a Dream.” The moments of speed also lend a sense of urgency to McCaughan’s nagging anxiety, which complements the barbed melodies and gnarled chords; every element
suggests that he’s searching for a way outside of his head.”
TUTV: Superchunk have no intention to reinvent the rock wheel, and why should they,
as long as they come up with action-packed and sticky guitar tunes like you find a bunch
of them on this new record. They’re definitely aware of the distressful times we’re going through.
And they don’t ignore our daily shit race, but as with most of us, they have more
questions than answers. Why not take all possible opportunities to have some fun,
now and then? Songs In the Key Of Yikes is one of those moments. Press play and enjoy.
All 5 Singles
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ALBUM
TOUR DATES
During OASIS‘ reunion concerts there’s an
interpreter signing for hearing-impaired fans.
This one is simultaneously, dancing enthusiastically, even nodding
to Liam’s trademark swagger as she signed to ‘Morning Glory’.
FAN-TASTIC
Watch this ! “Bucket Hats off All to 3 ladies from ISL interpreter/ performance interpretive at Oasis Live 25 #inclusion #OasisDublin @liamgallagher @oasis #OasisLive25 credit @VoicesI91624 @voicesforchangeIreland pic.twitter.com/W6qJfPSlLm
— Ken Sweeney (@KenSweeney) August 17, 2025
27 August 2025
Belfast‘s notorious, politically and socially outspoken rap trio KNEECAP make headlines these days with being under attack by British justice, being banned at festivals, and with other related problems for their loud and clear, ongoing support for Palestine.
Some hypocritical Western governments act as if the
band is the problem, not Israel‘s demolition of Gaza.
I hope now that they won’t be attacked by some French art purists who could possibly
be offended by the band’s advertisement poster (on top) for a couple of upcoming gigs
in Paris.
Daily noise that works faster than a stream of caffeine
27 August 2025
Artist: THE BERRIES
Who: Actually, there’s only one Berrie, LA-based musician
named Matthew Berry, who started his career with bands
such as Happy Diving and Big Bite.
Track: WHITE PEACH
Final preview of his brand new 4th,
self-titled album out this Friday.
Driven by a hypnotzing piano riff and groovy guitar vibrancy
this juicy berry will arouse all you sleepyheads out there.
27 Augsut 2025
Two days ago Halford celebrated his 74th birthday.
The metal veteran loves Tony Bennett and he has the
intention to cover some of his songs on record,
whether you like it or not.
Full Halford interview with NME right here.
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
The 5 fresh ones
TRACK BY TRACK
Band: OMNI
Who: Post-punk indies from Atlanta, producing
exciting havoc since 2011. They have, fabricated
4 albums, so far.
Track: HIGH CEILINGS
New stand-alone single.
Droning jingle-jangle electricity.
Think Tom Verlaine‘s 70s Television.
Instagram – Spotify
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Artist: ANNA VON HAUSS WOLFF
Who: Swedish art-pop songstress-musician
and organ pipe organist, active since 2008.
Track: STARDUST
Piece from her upcoming 6th LP, named
Iconoclasts. It comes out on October 31.
Bombastic pop delirium.
Astounding vocal impulsion.
Instagram – Spotify
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Photo by Neil Davidson
Band: SKLOSS
Who: Psychedelic husband-and-wife duo started during the awful lockdown.
Surrounded by drums and amps and the need to play loud, their sound became
a response to the crazy world.
Track: VETO POWDER
A bonus piece from their debut
album The Pattern Speaks,
which landed last March.
“Veto Powder is a bonus track from the Pattern Speaks album and is one of the first songs we wrote as a band. It’s also an anti-war song. May we someday have the vision and courage to celebrate the infinite beauty in each other.”
Scuzzy and fuzzy
psych disturbance.
Instagram – Linktree
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Band: THE BETHS
Who: Popular guitar pop
outfit from New Zealand.
Track: STRAIGHT LINE WAS A LIE
Title track from their upcoming 4th LP,
out this Friday.
“I thought I was getting better
But I’m back to where I started
And the straight line was a circle
Yeah, the straight line was a lie”
On November 10, PATTI SMITH‘s debut LP,
her magnum opus, HORSES, turns 50.
Of course, it’ll be celebrated with an anniversary edition, featuring several previously unreleased tracks. Along with the proper album, we get her 1975 audition tape for RCA,
an alternate take on Birdland and Snowball, a non-album track.
In many cases, previously unreleased tracks are just
average songs. Not here. This is vintage young Patti.
Instagram – Linktree
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TURN UP THE VOLUME
27 August 2025
Band: WOLF ALICE
Who: Lauded British guitar pop quartet, fronted
by the charismatic vocalist Ellie Rowsell.
New album: THE CLEARING
Their 4th one.
NME says: “After the chaos of your twenties, over the threshold of your thirties, you’ll
often find a sense of calm. You’ve spent a decade of adulthood figuring out who you are
and what you want from life through trial and messy error. Now, more settled in your sense
of self, you get to take a breather and enjoy what you’ve happened upon through the madness.
‘The Clearing’, Wolf Alice’s sublime fourth album, represents that moment of clarity and peace, and leaving your youthful turmoil behind – even if you know there’s more disorder to come before you pop your clogs. Fittingly, it’s a record that builds on everything the four-piece have done so far on their musical journey and moves it forward in an assured, accomplished way that can only be achieved with time and experience.
TUTV: With their previous album, 2021’s Blue Weekend, the band already moved
on from indie guitar pop and glitzy rockers to more orchestral, singer-songwriter compositions, which fit vocalist Ellie Rowsell wonderfully well.
With The Clearing, the changing, musical process is complete. It’s now more
ELLIE + THE WOLF (yes, FLORENCE + THE MACHINE territory) than before.
The quartet operates here in the stylistic modern-day pop world of artists such
as Chapelle Roan, Suki Waterhouse, Horsegirl, Lucy Dacus, and yes, even the sugary
The Last Dinner Party.
Overall, the British press applauds the change as if WA invented the genre. Nope,
they just decided to join the immensely and globally successful pop universe of the past
10 years, putting glamorous Ellie Rowsell in the middle, more than ever. Not really what I hoped for, but in a bigger market, they’ll become bigger stars than they already were.
SINGLES
ALBUM
27 August 2025
What? RADIOHEAD at the top of the
Billboard Hot 100 with Let Down,
28 years after it came out?
I love it. Let Down, is one of my absolute favs from their 1997 masterwork
OK Computer. And I’m not alone in this. It has more than 337 million
streams on Spotify, that’s 100+ million streams more than lead single
Paranoid Android.
It should have been No. 1, 28 years ago too, but hey, better late than never.
