THE FLAMING LIPS’ Conductor WAYNE COYNE About The Days Before Computers
24 April 2026
As a fervent Flaming Lips I’m grateful for the invention of computers.
Month: April 2026
JUKEBOX 2026 – WEEK 17 – Five New Rad Tracks Added Twice A Week
Hello, music junkies.
Another batch of 5 new, stellar tracks have
been added to Turn Up The Volume’s Jukebox.
Listen up.
ALL TOGETHER
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TRACK BY TRACK
Band: MORN
Who: Fresh, bloodthirsty indies
from Monmouth, South Wales.
Track: THE STANDARD MODEL
One of two new pieces, along with I Watched You As Your Mind
Slipped Far Away (Away From Me). Available both on 7″ vinyl
from May 1st on.
“The Standard Model’ has been with us since the birth of our band. Although it hits
hard, it’s our least serious, most purely fun and ecstatic song. We built it by stitching
two catchy riffs together”
TUTV: Blimey. Guerilla guitars explode in your face from the kick-off, followed
by a turbulent, gassed-up race, dynamized with urgent vocals. These jittery
juveniles are going places.
Keep your ears and eyes peeled.
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Band: TOOTH
Who: New indie guitar rock sensation from England.
NME says: “The London four-piece have asserted themselves as
a guitar-wielding voice for a new generation with their angsty and
introspective sound.”
Track: RESTLESS IN BLOOM
Title song of their upcoming
debut EP, out in June.
TUTV: Shoegazy guitar layers, a restless rhythm section, and ardent
vocals dominate this swivel-eyed stunner until it transitions into an
unexpected, calming finale.
Up and down we go.
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Photo by Royal Cream
Band: THE AFGHAN WHIGS
Who: Cincinnati‘s rock bigshots who celebrate
their 40th birthday this year with a big tour and
some new music.
Track: DUVATEEN
It follows last month’s
crackerjack cut House Of I
TUTV: Vintage Whigs torch-burner, swollen
with all-out zeal and piercing avidness.
Happy anniversary, guys.
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Artist: LENNY KAYE
Who: Best known as the longtime guitarist, for
more than 50 years, of Patti Smith‘s band.
Track: GOIN’ LOCAL
At 79, and after a zillion years in the music business, Kaye will release
his solo debut album. It’ll land on July 17th. Tracklist and info here.
“I feel like I’m a new artist. I think this album will surprise those
who think they know me from what I’ve done previously.”
TUTV: Well, you’re obviously never too old to put out your debut LP.
Of course, after half a decade of electrifying Patti Smith’s backing band,
Kaye knows all the tricks to deliver some good old rock ‘n’ roll buzz.
Because the night belongs to Kaye.
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Band: QUICKSAND
Who: Post-hardcore vet rockers from NYC,
1990–1995, 1997–1999, 2012–present.
Track: GET TO IT
Along with Regenerate, two hefty previews from their upcoming new
album, 5th full-length and first in 5 years, Bring On the Psychics. It’ll hit the
streets on July 17th. More info here
TUTV: I wonder where vet bands like this still get their red-hot-blooded
appetite for titanic tunes from? Quicksand are back on fire, folks. Fervent fire.
Bingo!
Amazing Album Artwork – Cover Of New One By Hip Hop Duo BLU & EXILE
24 April 2026
Press
Band: BLU & EXILE
Who: Renowned American hip-hop duo, formed in 2007,
composed of rapper Blu and hip-hop producer Exile.
Album: TIME HEALS EVERYTHING
Simple, but wonderful artwork.
ALBUM
DIVIL – Irish Rock Trio Debuts With Impassioned ‘THANKS A MILLION’ Anthem Of Hope Through Friendship
24 April 2026
Photo by Meghan Law
Band: DIVIL
Who: An Irish trio of childhood friends from Dublin. Spending their childhoods learning instruments together in primary school, the trio had fallen out of touch as adults. They hadn’t been in the same room together for nearly a decade, until the night of bassist Conor Cusack’s father’s funeral.
Then Connor was diagnosed with cancer. In the wake of these life-altering events, music becomes their way to reconnect, process grief, and lean on each other in ways words alone cannot.
Track: THANKS A MILLION
Their first single. It’ll feature on their debut EP,
titled Divil I, planned for release on June 19th.
Artwork EP
“The song is about hope in the form of friendship. It’s about your friends checking in to see if you’re alright after you’ve been in a self-inflicted depression. I have this image of being stuck in a box bedroom suffering, the door opens with the lads checking that I’m ok. I respond, ‘I’ll be right here, thanks a million’.”
TUTV: Finding comforting companionship, and mental support through friendship
is the storyline in this avid anthem of hope for a better future. Universal sentiments embedded in a mid-tempo, electrically-charged stunner.
In these hectic times of intolerance, social inequality, and war-greedy
world leaders, close friends are a welcome force of togetherness.
Vocalist Danny Dempsey McMahon‘s relieved and impassioned vocals and his spot-on, direct, and honest lyrics lift Thanks A Million to a most gripping and emotional level.
Superb debut stroke.
You can stream the song on several platforms. Links here.
UNCUT Magazine – New Issue With Cover Stars THE SMITHS
24 April 2026
On June 16, indie icons THE SMITHS‘s
masterpiece The Queen Is Dead turns 40.
In this month’s UNCUT cover story, the band’s Mike Joyce (62 now)
reflects on the ineffable spark behind so much great music.
“On a personal level, being in The Smiths was massively intense. That feeling between four people in a band doesn’t happen very often. With The Smiths, it was everything — the four
of us, every single day. We all understood what we had, and that’s what set us apart from
any other band I’d been in.”
Also in this issue Ringo Starr regaling us with his side-hustle in country music, a return
to Talk Talk’s magnum opus Spirit Of Eden, plus more new interviews with The Lemon Twigs,
Jeff Parker, Radiohead’s Ed O’Brien, The Human League, Laurie Anderson, and an extended report from the opening night of Springsteen’s Land Of Hope And Dreams tour in Minneapolis, and much more to read.
This month’s Free CD features 15 new tracks by
Kevin Morby, Brown Spirits, Tamikrest, Aldous Harding,
and 11 more.
You can purchase a copy and have it sent to your home address. Info HERE.
NEIL YOUNG Reveals More Details Of New Upcoming LP With THE CHROME HEARTS
23 April 2026
Photo by Turn Up The Volume – Brussels, September 2025
A couple of weeks ago imperishable rock star and political activist NEIL YOUNG
said in a press release that a 2nd LP with The Chrome Hearts was in the making.
Young who cancelled all his planned concerts for this summer gave more details
regarding the upcoming album via an update on his Archives website. He revealed
that 3 of the songs were written more than 60 years ago.
Young: “It’s quite a special album to me. Music is a gift and when it comes
like this I really feel it. Everything here feels so good. I hope you will agree.”
He goes on to say that the album includes five news song, noting
they recorded four on day one in the studio, and the fifth on day two.
“We were then out of songs. We needed more. The next morning I had a song going
through my head and was playing it. I checked it out in the archives and found it was
from 1963, unreleased.”
“There were three more. I found the three others with it, also
unreleased. Three 60 year old songs and five brand new ones!”
Yep, that’s some more details, but the album’s title and exact
release date (somewhere this summer) is still unknown.
First album with The Chrome Hearts, named
Talkin’ To The Trees was released last year,
in June.
No Retirement Yet For DEEP PURPLE
23 April 2026
As the saying goes, “you’re never too old to rock ‘n’ roll.”
DEEP PURPLE (1968–1976, 1984–present / 23 LPs with 2024’s
‘=1‘ as the most recent one) are one of the many examples.
The band still features 3 key members, drummer Ian Paice (aged 77),
bassist Roger Glover (aged 80), and powerhouse voice Ian Gillan (aged 80)
and they still tour nonstop around the globe.
This summer they return to America.
Still smoking.
MGK & FRED DURST Unleash Maddening Moshpit Anthem ‘FIX UR FACE’
Vitalizing tunes that work faster than a stream of caffeine
23 April 2026
mgk/fd press
Sharp-mouthed rapper MGK , formerly known as Machine Gun Kelly invited his
nu-metal buddy FRED DURST, frontman of Limp Bizkit for 32 years now, to join
him for a new maddening moshpit anthem, named FIX UR FACE
MGK: “I called up my friend Fred Durst. I said, ‘Sir,
drop something on this. The rest is history.”
The accompanying video clip is directed by @samcahill. It was shot
all around the world, from Prague to Ireland to London to Germany to
the States.
Jump! Jump! Jump!
Jump! Jump! Jump!
RAMONES – New York’s Punk Pioneers RAMONES Released Game Changing Debut Album 50 Years Ago Today
Significant longplayers from yesteryear
23 April 2026
The New York punk pioneers RAMONES (1974 – 1964 / 14 studio albums)
released their self-titled debut LP on 23 April 1976, today 50 years ago.
All 4 original members Joey, Tommy, Dee Dee,
and Johnny are already gone. R.I.P.
The New York Times said back then: “What the Ramones do is deliver a nonstop
set of short, brisk, monochromatically intense songs. Conventional considerations of
pace and variety are thrown calculatedly to the winds. The ingredients are simplicity
itself. The effect in the end amounts to an abstraction of rock so pure that other
associations get left behind.”
TUTV: In my punk book, this gabba gabba hey debut was a game-changer.
Turning bubblegum pop into sickly catchy and speeding blitzkrieg electricity
was just jaw-dropping. Without a shadow of a doubt, da brudders’ best exploit.
A timeless document in rock history. Hail hail!
Singles.
– BLITZKRIEG BOP –
– I WANNA BE YOUR BOYFRIEND –
ALBUM
TRICKY Will Launch His 15th Album ‘DIFFERENT WHEN IT’S SILENT’ In July – Discover First Single ‘OUT OF PLACE’
23 April 2026
Tired of his limited role with Massive Attack, trip-hop bigwig TRICKY (born Adrian
Nicholas Matthews Thaws in Bristol-UK 58 years ago) wanted to do his own thing.
So, 31 years ago (I know, sounds like ages), he
left MA and started his significant solo career.
On July 17th, he will launch his 15th full-length.
It’s named Different When It’s Silent. Tracklist
and pre-order info here.
Press info: “‘Different When It’s Silent’ follows a prolific period of activity. Since 2020’s ‘Fall to Pieces’ LP, Tricky has released music under several different guises, all via his own label, ‘False Idols’. Yet returning to an album under his own name took on a different shape. For Tricky it was another side project, until ehis manager Alan McGee felt the songs clearly belonged to a Tricky record.’
Tricky (who lost his daughter Mina, who took her own life, in 2019) : “Since my daughter died, I want to work. I want to do stuff. But all the press, being on camera, everything just changed when she died. I’ve never been a pop star as such but: that made me even more
want to go in the background.”
In 2020, he released his heart-wrenching LP Fall To Pieces that dealt with his terrible loss.
“Emotionally, I’m saying I’m ready to start my life again. I’m looking forward to touring. I want to record. I was emotionally paralysed. Now I’m moving again. And sonically, this lets people know: if you have your own sound, you’ll never go out of fashion. When genres come and go, you’ll still be there. This album says that – nothing sounds like it.”
The lead single is titled OUT OF PLACE and features
his collaborator of late, Marta Zlakowska, on vocals.