Month: November 2025
BILLY IDOL Who Celebrates His 70th Birthday About Rock Music
30 November 2025
Billy Idol was born named William Michael Albert Broad
in Stanmore, Middlesex, UK on 30 November 1955.
Happy 70!
THE LEMON TWIGS – The Beatles Fanatics Go Back In Time Again With New Tune ‘I’VE GOT A BROKEN HEART’
Long Island‘s brothers Brian and Michael D’Addario artistically know as
THE LEMON TWIGS‘s are 60s pop fanatics, with a non-stop appetite for
Beatles-esque tunes.
Last year they scored big time with their
5th LP called Dream Is All We Know.
Now, at the end of this year, they shared two new songs,
of which I’VE GOT A BROKEN HEART is another sonic
proof of their All You Need Is The Beatles obsession.
Amazing Album Artwork – Cover Of New UNIDAD IDEOLOGICA Album
Band: UNIDAD IDEOLOGICA
Who: Hardcore outfit from
Bogota, Columbia.
Album: Choque Asimétrico
Their 2nd one. Out next week,
on December 5th.
Taster.
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APHEX TWIN – One Song Two Versions
New striking strokes
30 November 2025
Electro nerd and sometimes DJ Richard D. James aka APHEX TWIN started his – now you see me, now you don’t – Odyssey in 1988. He has, so far, 6 albums under his belt, with Syro from 2014 as the most recent one.
Now and then he drops shreds of music on the internet, which he did now again with two versions of a piece, named Zahl am1. The name is a reference to the Zähl, the soundboard he used to mix the track.
The art accompanying both tracks is a photo of the electronic music pioneer at the beach in Italy with a woman, who Reddit sleuths have identified as filmmaker Cordelia Angel Clarke.
James posted them on his favorite streaming platform Soundcloud and added this: “got many requests for this one from a few years back, italy, pic with my love from scilly recently…need sun…relentlessly raining in uk…mixed down on the zahl, think theres better mixes, will upload if i find em,”
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Image Of The Day – BAXTER DURY In MANCHESTER
Following his rad new album Allbarone
showy songsmith BAXTER DURY hit the
road.
Here’s an idea of what happened
in Manchester this past week.
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HEISA – Three Belgian Noiz Musketeers Pierce Your Ears On Record And On Stage
Band: HEISA
Who: Three Belgian
post-punk crusaders.
Last March, this 3-motor noiz engine dropped their 3rd LP, named TROIS (THREE).
Without a shadow of a doubt, the most balanced, the most arousing, and the most
vitalizing noise rock record I heard this past bloody year.
Never a dull moment. Heisa grab you by the throat for 40 wicked minutes,
and you won’t protest for one second. The cliché all killers, no fillers is so
accurate here.
Single ‘The Harmonist’
Every sonic juggernaut stands as tall and proud as the Eiffel Tower. There’s always
an enigmatic anxiousness in the air that tests your nerves and boggles your mind.
Heisa tease you with voltaic foreplay riffs before diving, head first in an orgastic burst
of demonic hullabaloo.
Primal screams out of the darkness, schizophrenic guitars and raw and rough post-punk dynamics work together to create a hell-raising turbulence. Think Fugazi and The Jesus Lizard having a LOUD sonic fight.
Single ‘Flowers’
Last Thursday, the three punk musketeers came, saw, and conquered my hometown of Ghent (Belgium). On stage, the amps, the decibels, and the volume go up, even way more than on record. Hallelujah. Run to the hills.
Screamo bassist/keyboardist Jacques Nomdefamille leads the troops vocally with
his vociferous cry-outs. He’s backed by a two-man artillery of blistering guitarist Koen Castermans and muscular drummer Jonathan Frederix. From the first chord on, all hell breaks loose, and the turmoil continues until the last rowdy riffs hit your baffled ears.
Now and then, the band needed a breather themselves to reload the batteries, as it was a very busy year, with gigs in several European countries, promoting that stupefying album. But it didn’t stop them from playing one of the best shows I’ve seen all year. Fact!
With this masterstroke of an album under their belt and with their fireworks on stage,
I’m quite sure that 2026 will take Heisa to an even higher level.
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Live photos by Turn Up The Volume
5 Best Albums Of The Month – NOVEMBER 2025
29 November 2025
Band: WHOLES
Album: A MASS IN THE WATER.
The LP 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.
TUTV: It’s a both scary and flabbergasting opus that takes a lot of courage to make and share with the world. The album’s ominous dynamics, distorted vocals, and riff-roasting razzmatazz resonate like if you are listening to the soundtrack of a modern-day horror movie.
Vanwymeersch and Wholes created their own Dante’s Inferno.
Bloodcurdling, pitch-black, and bone-chilling. Helter-skelter.
SINGLE
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Band: THE BELAIR LIP BOMBS
Who: Swirling indies from
Montreal, Canada.
Album: AGAIN
Their 2nd one.
TUTV: Just one spin and I knew this LP was a winner. Ace tune, after ace tune, after
ace tune. Guitar pop at its most move ‘n groove exciting. In the middle, vocalist and
guitarist Maisie Everett draws all attention. Wonderful voice, striking performance.
And she’s backed by a well-oiled rockin’ engine. Trust me, these Aussies are going
places, very soon.
SINGLE
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Artist: HEAD ON STONE
Who: The solo project of Belgian songstress
Nele Janssen, frontwoman of post-punk turbo
Peuk.
Album: STONY BEDS Debut LP
TUTV: Nele Janssen bewitches with her crystalline voice and enchanting piano play. Intimate, passional and heartfelt. From a Peuk scream to a solo whisper. A beautiful,
soul-stirring record that silences you from start to finish.
Eleven bittersweet reveries for the midnight hours. Stony Beds is an ideal companion
for cold winter nights, while relaxing with dimmed light on your couch and your favourite drink at hand.
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Band: PICTURE PARLOUR
Who: Amplified pop duo, featuring Liverpool’s songstress
Katherine Parlour and North Yorkshire-born bassist Ella Risi.
Album: THE PARLOUR
Their debut.
TUTV: PP offer sinewy pieces of a high rock-punk-and-blues calibre,
all delivered with lots of gusto and bold brio. They fuzz and buzz
throughout the whole record. 40 minutes of barbed electricity.
SINGLE
ALBUM
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Artist: MAVIS STAPLES
Who: Legendary soul/blues/rock voice who, along with family, had a long and
greatly accomplished career under the name of The Staple Singers (1948-1994).
She’s 86 now, singing and swinging like a 36-year-old.
Album: SAD AND BEAUTIFUL WORLD
Produced by Brad Cook, the album spans seven decades of the American songbook,
a range nearly as vast as Mavis’ career, and includes reinventions of timeless songs
by Tom Waits, Sparklehorse, Gillian Welch, Frank Ocean and more.
Cook imagined an album in the tradition of Nitty Gritty Dirt Band‘s Will the Circle Be Unbroken, a group of artists coming together to celebrate community. In this case,
one centered on Mavis. Collaborators include Buddy Guy, Bonnie Raitt, Jeff Tweedy, Derek Trucks, Katie Crutchfield, MJ Lenderman, and Justin Vernon.
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ALBUM
DREAMWAVE – British Pysch Rock Indies Pulverise Your Ears With Their New Single ‘MURMERS ON THE DUNES’
Daily electricity to load your batteries
29 November 2025
Band: DREAMWAVE
Who: Psych-rock indie quartet
from Bristol, UK.
New single: MURMERS ON THE DUNES
The track arrives alongside the announcement of their upcoming
EP Drifter, now available for pre-order as a vinyl pressing paired
with their previous EP Moondogs on Side A.
TUTV: No intro. From the very first second, a tsunami of pulverising guitars hit your startled ears, while eldritch vocals come on top of all the commotion. It all resonates
as if freakin’ Killing Joke is back with one of their trademark wallops that make your
hair in the back of your neck stand up. Wowzers.
The last minute is one long outro, giving you the chance to recover
from what just happened, before you press the repeat button.
Blimey.
ABBA Scored Their 9th And Final No. 1 Hit In The UK With ‘SUPER TROUPER’ Today 45 Years Ago
Top singles from the past
29 November 2025
With SUPER TROUPER Swedish global pop icons ABBA scored their 9th and final
No. 1 hit in the UK. It occupied the top seat today 45 years ago, on 29 Nov 1980.
The song – with lead vocals by Anni-Frid Lyngstad – had the working title ‘Blinka Lilla Stjärna‘ (i.e. ‘Twinkle Little Star’. It was the last track to be written and recorded for the album of the same name.
The song’s name refers to the Super Trouper, a type of spotlight used in large venues.
“Tonight the super trouper lights are gonna find me
Shining like the sun (super trouper)
Smiling, having fun (super trouper)
Feeling like a number one”
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