Vitalizing tunes that work faster than a stream of caffeine
11 November 2025
Piano rock pioneer JERRY LEE LEWIS (1935-2022) released his most
famous exploit with GREAT BALLS OF FIRE today 68 years ago, yes 68.
It topped the UK Singles Chart, and went to #2 in the US.
Your nap is over, folks.
Here comes the Killer.
11 November 2025
New York‘s guitar rock luminaries INTERPOL and British post-pop-punk
kingpins BLOC PARTY will visit Europe and the UK together next year.
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: THE HIVES
Who: Notorious Swedish
punk dropouts.
Track: ROLL OUT THE RED CARPET
Final single from their 7th full-length The Hives Forever,
Forever The Hives, which was released last August.
Boiling punk ‘n roll
blitz, The Hives way.
Överväldigande!
Instagram – Spotify
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Ditz at Pukkelpop Fest in Belgium – August 2025 – Photo by Turn Up the Volume
Band: DITZ
Who: Post-punk turbo
from Brighton, UK
Track: DON ENZO MAGIC SALESMAN
One of two brand-new songs – the other one is called
Kalimba Song – since the release of their astounding 2nd LP
Never Exhale last January.
As fans (like me) know, Ditz operate in
a very dark place where surreality rules.
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Instagram – Linktree
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Band: THE CHURCH
Who: Psychedelic rock vets
from Sydney, Australia.
Track: SACRED ECHOES (Part Two)
Steve Kilbey (frontman): “Bleak and yet beautiful. It is unlike any previous Church song
ever with its almost orchestral climaxes and its sombre mood. The lyrics and voice are the weariness at the point where hope and hopelessness merge. The music is by turns delicate
and sparse turning into a churning monstrous racket. Intense, forlorn and exultant!”
Entrancing.
Enthralling.
Enchanting.
Instagram – Spotify – All Albums
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Artist: WRECKLESS ERIC
Who: 70s English punk veteran (now 71)
who never stopped being active.
Track: LADY OF THE MANOR
New single from his new, forthcoming album, named
England’s Screaming, out on November 21st.
A goosebumps cry out that grows in
evocative intensity along the way.
No rest for the wrecked.
Instagram – Linktree – All Albums
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Artist: HAYLEY WILLIAMS
Who: Frontwoman/songwriter of highly
popular rock band Paramore.
Track: SHOWBIZ
The closer from her new solo longplayer
Ego Death At The Bachelor Party.
Sugary pop lightheartedness.
11 November 2025
A couple of weeks ago, Foo Fighters had already announced
tour dates for the US in 2026, with Queens Of The Stone Age
as guests.
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Photo by Laurens Wille
Band: WHOLES
Who: A fresh, rowdy hit team led by Belgian, musical chameleon Wolf Vanwymeersch,
who played with several bands (pop, rock, sludge metal) and released a pure singer-songwriter pearl with solo debut album The Early Years back in 2022. Wholes are what remains after a soul has been detonated, what struck those around it, what could no longer be contained.
Album: A MASS IN THE WATER.
Out this Friday, November 14th.
Pre-order/buy HERE. Your Xmas
will never be the same again.
Press info: “The full album is an intense and raw reflection of grief, trauma, and the desire
for healing. ‘A Mass In The Water’ roughly describes the last day of Wolf Vanwymeersch’s father, who took his own life during a psychotic episode. The album balances between mockery, anger, powerlessness, grief, understanding, compassion, and love.
All the emotions that accompany suicide are reflected in the songs. Dark, haunting lyrics intertwine with distorted voices, atonal fuzz guitars, and explosive outbursts. Experimental
riffs and hypnotic rhythms meet noise, punk, metal, and avant-garde. ‘A Mass In The Water’
is a powerful portrait of transience, emotional scars, and the human urge to face and
process pain, and find a fragile yet essential path to reconciliation.”
Check out the 3 schizophrenic singles.
MODERN DAY DRAMA
TILL WE DON’T MEET AGAIN
POIDS LOURD
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On the road right now.
For the first time in 8 years.
Daily electricity to load your batteries
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Karla Lopresti Photography
Artists: ARROWS OF ATHENA
Who: Cinematic Boston alt-rock duo – Scott Lerner (guitars, bass,
synths, recording) and Jac-Lyn Gibson (vocals, lyrics, visuals), who
released their swirling debut album The Ghost Archives last year.
Track: ABANDONED LOVE
Their first new music since the LP.
Press info: Abandoned Love and all its glitzy ambition picks up right at the prior beat.
At its white-hot core, it’s a song about connection; a love song for modern-day chaos,
a celebration of an intimate relationship in impersonal times, and how the bond that we share with the one we love is often enough to weather all of life’s never-ending storms
and stresses.
Gibson: “The concept of our busy lives and coming home to one another at the end
of the day just spilled out of me. I think it’s a great testament to how love, although
sometimes abandoned, can conquer all.
The song has the rock edge, with my love for a good pop hook, some sexy lyrics,
that I hope won’t embarrass my kids! – and a dancey beat. What could go wrong?!”
TUTV: Abandoned Love is a disco-beat-stoked showpiece. An orchestral,
towering, and catchy rock titillation that triggers your aural attention in
an eye/ear blink. Gibson‘s full-hearted vocals star upfront. Yes, genuine love has
a vigorously rescuing passionateness. Embrace this overpowering tour de force. It rocks!
STREAM
BUY
Significant longplayers from yesteryear
10 November 2025
PATTI SMITH (78 now) released her debut magnum opus,
HORSES today 50 years ago, on 10 November 1975.
It peaked at #47 in the US, but went on selling for decades afterword.
Recognized as a seminal recording in the history of punk and later rock
movements, Horses has appeared in numerous lists of the greatest albums
of all time.
Rolling Stone said: “Wonderful in large measure because it recognizes the overwhelming importance of words” in Smith’s work, covering a range of themes “far beyond what most
rock records even dream of.”
The music was informed by the minimalist aesthetic of the punk rock genre, then in its formative years. Smith and her band composed the album’s songs using simple chord progressions, while also breaking from punk tradition in their propensity for improvisation and embrace of ideas from avant-garde and other musical styles.
The title Horses reflected Smith‘s desire for a rejuvenation of rock music, which
she found had grown “calm” in reaction to the social turmoil of the 1960s and
the deaths of numerous prominent rock musicians of that era.
Recognized as a seminal recording in the history of punk and later
rock movements, Horses has appeared in numerous lists of the greatest
albums of all time.
SINGLE
ALBUM
10 November 2025
Band: SORRY
Who: Indie alt-pop outfit
from North-London.
Album: COSPLAY
Their 3rd.
NME says: “Unsettling, ephemeral and irresistible. Sorry’s mystique has never been greater, and they’ve never been more intriguing.”
Track: CANDLE
A straightforward, rollicking footstomper.
Irresistible drive. Irresistible tune.
ALBUM
