Month: March 2026

MILES KANE Celebrated His Birthday In BELGIUM With A Riff-Ripping Sing-Along Show

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20 March 2026

Britpop rocker MILES KANE released his 6th full-length Sunlight In The Shadows, 
last October. Another feel-good record jammed with a series of rapturous rippers
and a couple of romantic ballads. No-nonsense, top-quality entertainment.

Last Tuesday, he landed, as part of a UK/Europe/US tour, with his band
in Antwerp, Belgium, only 2 years after his previous passage in our country.

Kane is a riveting rocker at heart and demonstrated that once again with a non-stop
salvo of jagged jackhammers, new and old, with a slower one here and there to refill the tank. No less than 8 tracks out of the new album’s 12 were integrated into the 18-song set. And they all fitted perfectly next to the golden oldies.

The 1500-cap venue loved (me included) every single second of his whirlwind performance. Live favourites Troubled Son, One-Man Band Rearrange, Inhaler,
Coup De Grace, Don’t Forget Who You Are, and ebullient climax Come Closer
went down a storm and were the expected standouts.

The euphoric spectators were clearly longtime fans. They sang, clapped, and cheered without interruption, propelled by the man’s highly charismatic magnetism and his overwhelming guitar riffage.

No much talk in between songs, except for the moment after finishing an enwrapping rendition of power ballad My Love, when his manager came on stage with a birthday cake for Miles, who turned 40. The whole venue chanted “Happy Birthday,” of course, and he was clearly touched by the loud, clear ovation.

Only smiling faces after the show. Again, music showed its
formidable force and immense impact on people’s state of mind.

TRACKLIST

Sing a Song to Love
Electric Flower
Rearrange
Troubled Son
Cry on My Guitar
Without You
Love Is Cruel
Inhaler
Sunlight in the Shadows
Blue Skies
Colour of the Trap
My Love
Heal
Walk on the Ocean
Coup de grace
Never Taking Me Alive
Don’t Forget Who You Are
Come Closer

NEW ALBUM


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PLACEBO Announce Reimagined Version Of Their 30-Year-Old Debut Album And TOUR DATES

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19 March 2026


Re:Created album artwork

Celebrating three decades since the release (17 June 1996) of their debut LP,
British power-pop rockers PLACEBO, with original members, vocalist-guitarist
Brian Molko and bassist Stefan Olsdal, will release a RE:CREATED version.

It’ll feature new, reworked and embellished versions of all
10 tracks from the original album plus two bonus tracks.

Pre-order info here.

Placebo explains: “We think of this record as a director’s cut. We haven’t recreated
it from scratch. We went back to the original master tapes and brought 30 years of
playing these songs live back into the record.

This project was about finally finishing the record, dragging it into the 21st century
sonically, while preserving the integrity and the spirit of the original. It’s not about
improving it, there’s nothing wrong with it, it’s about completing it.

It’s a celebration of where we began, and a meeting point between who we were then
and who we are now; a way of honoring that innocence, while letting the songs exist
with the scale, confidence, and energy of the band we’ve become”.

The band will play several UK and European shows to celebrate the event.

ALL DATES HERE.

Don’t do it, Brian, there’s a lot of work to do.

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JUKEBOX 2026 – WEEK 12 – Five New Rad Tracks Added Twice A Week

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Hello, music junkies.

Another batch of 5 new, top-notch tracks have
been added to Turn Up The Volume’s Jukebox.

Listen up.

ALL TOGETHER


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TRACK BY TRACK

Band: MIRROR REVELATIONS
Who: Psych-rock outfit from Mexico.

Track: DESAFIAR
New piece from their upcoming 2nd LP, titled Ígnea.
It’ll see the day of light on May 22nd through Fuzz Club.

“Desafiar is about resisting control and the impulse to break free from it. Built on a hypnotic bass and drum foundation, the song moves forward like a mechanical pulse, as the synthesizers and vocals repeat and insist, until the tension finally breaks. It’s the moment when control cracks and disobedience becomes inevitable.”


Album artwork

TUTV: OMG! This psychedelic Krautrock-like comet makes your head spin uncontrollably, makes your bloodstream go out of control, and makes dopamine stream like a tsunami through your brain. About a thousand guitars roar nonstop, while pounding percussion clobbers mercilessly. Warning: once you get on board, you can’t get off.

WTF!

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Band: MOSS SIDE SAUNA CLUB
Who: Up-and-coming indie outliers
from Manchester, UK.

Track: FANTASY
Their brand new, 4th single.

“This feels like it’s got everything that made our first singles so interesting and then some,
with just enough finesse and polish to feel like we’ve finally got our big girl pants on. It’s just as jagged, gritty and angular in the verses but absolutely floating and heavenly in the choruses.”

TUTV: Wake up, nightclubbers! Time to shake your pelvis to this jumpy-funky,
bass-booming whirlabout. Alternating sultry/pithy duet vocals, some Freak Le Chic
guitar vibes, and a head-in-the-air chorus combine for a spin-around thrill.

Move on up.

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Photo by Miles Kalchik

Band: STUCK
Who: Jangly rock
trio from Chicago.

Track: SICKO
New cut from their 4th LP, named
Optimizer, out on March 27th.

TUTV: Nervous, cranked-up guitars at a nerve-racking speed and neurotic vocals
get under your skin from start to finish. Think Parquet Courts on speed. Sick stroke.


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Band: POND
Who: Popular psych-rock vets from down under,
who have (so far) 10 albums on their résumé.

Track: TERRESTRIALS

“This song is about the weirdest of all the terrestrials, people. Hellbent on flying away
from or killing our home soil, with a big appetite for destruction, guns, roses. We can
love and connect and nurture and inflict unbearable cruelty. You all know this but,
yeah, it’s kind of a great mystery isn’t it?”

TUTV: Bam-bam-bam goes the beat. Pond return with a both glittery
and zonked-out tune with a supercharged finale. Welcome back.

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Credit Jack Nielsen

Band: THRILLHOUSE
Who: Brighton-based
singer-songwriting duo.

Track: THE TIDE
New piece from their upcoming 2nd LP,
baptized Smile. Out on April 3rd.

“The Tide takes listeners on a relatable emotional journey. It captures that introspective moment many of us recognise: the sudden realisation that we often only appreciate how good something was once it’s already gone — very much in line with the idea that “the grass is always greener on the other side.”

TUTV: This is an instantly sticking beauty of a warm, folky song. Sepia-colored, melancholic, and romantic. Think Mumford Sons and The Lumineers. Both acoustically designed and fully orchestrated with emotive and enticing vocals. A tune that triggers daydreaming. So welcome in these troubled times.

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JETHRO TULL – Their Prog Rock Classic ‘AQUALUNG’ Is 55 Today

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19 March 2026

British prog rock icons JETHRO TULL (1967–2012, 2017–present) led on one leg
by charismatic Scottish vocalist/flautist/guitarist Ian Anderson, have released their
4th LP AQUALUNG on 19 March 1971, today 55 years ago

The LP has generally been regarded as a concept album with a central theme of
“the distinction between religion and God“. The album’s “dour musings on faith and religion” have marked it as “one of the most cerebral albums ever to reach millions of rock listeners“. Academic discussions of the nature of concept albums have frequently listed Aqualung amongst their number.

The album’s original cover art by Burton Silverman features a watercolour portrait
of a long-haired, bearded man in shabby clothes. The idea for the cover came from a photograph Anderson‘s wife took of a homeless man.

Anderson later felt it would have been better to have used the photograph rather than commission the painting. Also, he recalled later that he posed for a photograph for the painting.

AllMusic said in retrospect: “In the space of one album, Tull went from relatively unassuming electrified folk-rock to larger-than-life conceptual rock full of sophisticated compositions and complex, intellectual, lyrical constructs. While the leap to full-blown prog rock wouldn’t be taken until a year later on ‘Thick as a Brick’, the degree to which Tull upped the ante here is remarkable.”

KEY SINGLE

ALBUM


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And their not done yet.

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ADRENALINE SHOTS – Today: Hipsters WET LEG With Gorgeous Live Perfomance Of ‘CHAISE LONGUE’

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19 March 2026

Isle Of Wight hipsters WET LEG – Rhian Teasdale and Hester Chambers – went like
a comet to stardom with their 2 albums, prizewinning self-titled debut from 2022
and last year’s follow-up Moisturizer.

TUTV‘s WL favorite still is their punchy pop pearl CHAISE LONGUE from
the debut LP. Here’s a gorgeous live rendition at Glastonbury 2022.

Hurray!

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THE PRODIGY Released Their Flaming Techno Hammer ‘FIRESTARTER’ This Day 30 Years Ago

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Top singles from the past

18 March 2026

British techno titans THE PRODIGY released their
UK No. 1 single FIRESTARTER today, 30 years ago,
on 18 March 1996.

It featured on their 3rd LP
The Fat Of The Land.

The ferocious hammer credited, among others, The Breeders’ Kim Deal,
as the looped wah-wah guitar riff in the song was sampled from the band’s
track S.O.S. from the album Last Splash.

R.I.P. Keith Flint.

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LIME GARDEN – British Guitar Pop Amazons Drop Another Electric Earworm With ‘DOWNTOWN LOVER”

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Daily electricity to load your batteries

18 March 2026


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Band: LIME GARDEN
Who: 4 guitar pop Amazons from
Brighton(UK) on their way to stardom.

Track: DOWNTOWN LOVER
Brand new, 4th shared piece from their upcoming,
2nd album named Maybe Not Tonight. It’ll land on
April 10th.

Chloe Howard (vocalist/guitarist): “Downtown lover came from three chords and
my need to investigate my regular avoidant behaviour within romantic relationships.
I saw the phrase ‘downtown love’ in an article online talking about some peoples
constant need for something new or attention in general when dating.

Through recognising this in myself and in an attempt to try and understand why
I act the way I do, I threw this one out in a matter of minutes on my acoustic guitar.”

Another buzzing and fuzzing earworm
to play out loud wherever you are allowed
to do so without getting the police on your
back.

Instore Dates

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DOWN THE LEES – Passionate Powerhouse Trio Released Live Goosebumps Movie/Album ‘THIS WHAT IT FEELS LIKE’

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18 March 2026

Band: DOWN THE LEES
Who: A passionate powerhouse trio, rooted in Vancouver and Belgium, and now based
in the Okanagan Valley, by guitarist/vocalist Laura Lee Schultz, with Andy Ashley on drums
and Chris Carlson on bass.

So far, DTL have released 4 albums. 360 1/4 Degrees (2008), The Guest Room (2008),
Bury The Sun (2019), and Dirt (2024). You can and should, if you haven’t already, check them all out via Bandcamp or Spotify.

Three records that show the evolution in the trio’s towering noise-rock escapades,
marked by an inflaming emotionality, a torch-burning feverishness, and frontwoman Schultz sky-scraping vocals. Her poignant lyrics are embedded in a wall of astonishing thunderstorm-sound, creating a trance-like atmosphere that mesmerizes.

Following album No. 3 the band toured and filmed a high-concept concert at
the Mary Irwin Theatre in Kelowna, Canada. It features 5 tracks from Dirt, 3 from
Bury The Sun and the stupendous non-album track Midi-Doric.

One of the best live records I heard in a long while.

Get ready for a relentless roller coaster,
a gigantesque noiz tour de force,
a bone-chilling experience.

MOVIE

BUY/STREAM ALBUM


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Ghent, Belgium, 2019 – Photo by Turn Up The Volume