Month: August 2025

23 August 1970 – THE VELVET UNDERGROUND Played Their Final Gig 55 Years Ago Today

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23 August 2025

Andy Warhol‘s brainchild THE VELVET UNDERGROUND played their final gig
on 23 August 1970, today 55 years ago, at New York‘s legendary nightclub
Max’s Kansas City.

By then, original members Nico and John Cale had left.

Lou Reed, Sterling Morrison and Mo Tucker were the only founding members left
and were joined by Doug Yule (Cale‘s substitute), and his brother/drummer Billy
Yule who replaced Mo Tucker, for a short time, because she was a young mother
at the time of the band’s last concerts.

Warhol‘s associate Brigid Polk recorded the show (and some previous nights
at the same club too) on a mono portable cassette recorder. These tapes would
lead to an album, named Live At Max’s Kansas City. It was originally released
in 1972 and re-issued in 2016. Have a listen below, sounds like recorded in
a garage. Mind you, a great VU document.

Reed worked as a typist for his father for the next two years, at $40 per week.


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SNÕÕPER – Nashville’s Hurricane Punks Launch New Supersonic Missile ‘GUARD DOG’

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Daily noise that works faster than a stream of caffeine

22 August 2025

Nashville‘s kamikaze pop punk combo SNÕÕPER shook the world 2 years ago, with their rapid-fire debut LP Super Sn​õ​õ​per. 14 songs in 22 minutes, like in the good old Ramones days.

Last June, they dropped a 4-track EP, titled Unknown Caller.

Shortly after, they told us that their sophomore album, called
Worldwide will see the day of light on October 3rd via Jack White’s
Third Man Records.


Photo by Turn Up The Volume – Brussels, May 18, 2025

Along with that info came the aggravated title track
and here’s another supersonic missile with GUARD DOG.

If this explosive grenade won’t make you
open your eyes and ears, I don’t know what
will. Get up and boogie.

WATCH

STREAM/BUY


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DEFTONES Build Titanic Wall Of Passionate Sound On Their 10th Album ‘PRIVATE MUSIC’

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22 August 2025

Nu-metal heavyweights DEFTONES have been around producing decibels of racket
since 1988 (yep, time flies). Now and then, they took a long break to refill their tanks.

It’s been 5 years now since they
released their Ohms album.


Scary album artwork

But the wait is over.

Longplayer number 10, baptized
Private Music has landed today.

Press info: Deftones have always defined boundless creativity in the music space.
Across nine prior studio albums, they have carved out an unmistakable sonic identity, ferocious yet dreamlike, while making space for constant refinement and surprise.

Now, decades on from the groove-forward sound of their era-defining debut, Adrenaline, and following a long line of masterpieces including 2000’s White Pony, 2010’s Diamond Eyes, and 2020’s Ohms — an album that earned them their 2nd and 3rd Grammy nominations — they return with one of the most focused statements of their career: private music.

Meditating on the beauty and peril of nature, the challenge of cultivating a positive mindset, and visions of a journey beyond the physical realm, private music showcases Deftones at their most evolved. At once a psychedelic voyage and a skull-rattling wallop,
it’s the latest peak in a catalog filled with immersive, emotive triumphs.”

NME says: “Another career high from rock’s most reliable band. Deftones’ 10th album is a gift for fans old, new, and certainly finding them in the very distant future. Their peers can’t touch them.”

TUTV: I’m not a manic nu-metal fan, but the titanic wall of sound
on this bursting powerhouse LP has an overwhelming, vivacious
and immensely passionate impact on your ears and your psyche.
And like that a lot. Hallelujah.

SINGLES

ALBUM


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22 August 2025 – PICTURE OF THE DAY

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Former glam rockers ROXY MUSIC have started this year with sharing, on all platforms, themed EPs with a selection of songs from their rich archives. So far they gave us the ‘Rockers’, ‘Dance Floor’, ‘Ballads’, and ‘Art Rock’ EPs.

This is the image coming with the Dancefloor EP, in the similar
glamorous and sexy pinup women style as their first LPs in the 70s.

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SOULWAX Invite Us Again To The Dancefloor With Funky Boomer ‘NEW EARTH TIME’

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Daily electricity to load your batteries

22 August 2025

SOULWAX, the Belgian brothers David and Stephen Dewaele‘s band for 30 years now,
is only one of the siblings’ diverse projects. They DJed the world around as 2manydjs,
had their own Radio Soulwax, and produced/remixed countless other artists.

Early last month we got some great news as the bros announced details of their 6th Soulwax LP. It’s titled All Systems Are Lying and will land on our speakers on October 17th.

Now, following the title track and Run Free we can
funk our way through the day with 3rd appetizer, named
NEW EARTH TIME.

Boom. Boom. Boom.
Make your move, folks.

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OASIS Released Single ‘THE IMPORTANCE OF BEING IDLE’ 20 Years Ago Today

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Top singles from the past

22 August 2025

Oasis here, Oasis there, Oasis everywhere.

Their massive reunion tour is on its way to America. Yesterday their 3rd LP
(the messed-up one) Be Here Now turned 28 and today, 20 years ago, the
2nd single, titled THE IMPORTANCE OF BEING IDLE from their 6th album
Don’t Believe The Truth (the underrated one), came out.

The song was (of course) written, produced, and sung by Noel Gallagher.

Gallagher said later in an interview: “It sounds like songs from two British bands, The Kinks and The La’s. In particular, the guitar playing, as well as the sentiment expressed, is noticeably similar to The Kinks’ “Sunny Afternoon” and “Dead End Street”, while the rhythm is similar to that of “Clean Prophet” by the La’s. He also said that the lyrics are inspired by his own laziness, stating: “Having nothing to do is such a massive job that someone had to write a song about it.”

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21 August 2025 – PICTURE OF THE DAY

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21 August 2025

Last Saturday I was at Pukkelpop Festival in Belgium.

I saw 8 bands/artists and all of them drew attention to the
still ongoing, horrific genocide in Gaza. Kudos to them.

One of them were the so-called controversial (when you condemn Israel out loud,
most hypocritical Western governments label you controversial) Irish rappers KNEECAP
who delivered a tempestuous set. At the end of the show, ‘Free Palestine‘ flickered on
the big screen behind them.

Kneecap at Glastonbury last June.

Photo by TUTV

SOAPBOX – Scottish Punk Pitbulls Produced Barking Havoc At PUKKELPOP In BELGIUM

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21 August 2025

Band: SOAPBOX
Who: Bewildering punks
from Scotland.

Thank you Upchuck for pulling out at the last minute
from Pukkelpop Festival in Belgium last Saturday.

Mind you, they’re a great band, but so are Scottish Oi-Oi punks Soapbox
who filled in the empty spot. What the fuck, what a bang-on discovery.

Although the fact that these maddening motherrockers had to play
at 2.30 pm, they attracted a couple of hundred awake enthusiasts. Why?

Because these Scottish pitbulls steamrolled mercilessly through their set, from start to finish, led by their fired-up loudmouth-frontman who doubled our adrenaline production with his hyperkinetic performance, running and jumping around like a hopped-up, human pogo-stick, igniting the first clashing moshpit of the day.

Behind him, a sizzling three-piece, all locked in, produced a truculent havoc,
blustery enough to start a riot. Soapbox came, saw, and exploded. Hells bells.
Come back soon, hellraisers.

Here’s a blasting live clip from last year that
shows exactly what I just tried to put in words.

And their new 4-track EP Lock In will make you a fanatic fan.


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