EPs

CLONE – Canadian Glam And Glitter Gang Rock Their Tails Off On New Steamed-Up EP ‘KNOCK OUT DROPS VOL. II’

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Great extended plays

7 November 2023

Band: CLONE (Vancouver, Canada)
Who: A female-fronted collective of musicians from various eclectic backgrounds
who bonded over their shared love of 70’s rock, specifically glam rock. They produce
rock anthems that fuse punk with glitter and power with pop.

New EP: KNOCK OUT DROPS VOL. II

Kelly Zombor (guitarist): “Our goal was to capture the raw energy and bombastic spirit of 70’s glam and spin it with our punk meets modern pop vibe. We really feel like we achieved that. We also wanted to capture the live feel of our current lineup. To that end, we gave ourselves a tight, 3 day schedule to complete six songs. After 3 days we actually recorded 7.”

Royal Queen video

TUTV: One of the most exiting/thrilling no nonsense, party-orienated rock eras was
the 70s one with British glam and glitter icons such as T.Rex, The Sweet, Roxy Music, David
Bowie and Suzi Quatro and America‘s pin-up punks like The Runaways and New York Dolls.

CLONE love them all and let us hear it loud and clear on this new banging, stomping
and pumping EP with 7 catchy-as-hell firecrackers, punked-up with crazy guitar fireworks, walloping drumming and the drop-dead gorgeous queen Juniper Watters spicing up all tunes with her sultry and vocal bravado. Rock chicks like Joan Jett, Miley Cyrus and Pat Benatar come to mind. Wild, right? You betcha.

New Year’s Eve is getting near. KNOCK OUT DROPS VOL. II is an ideal effervescent sonic cocktail to get nuts and drunk to when the clock strikes midnight. Start practicing right now, right here.

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CLONE: Instagram – Facebook

MEGA INFINITY – Experimental New York Duo Released Their New Sonic Chameleon Of An EP ‘CHAOS MAGICK’

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New extended plays

11 October 2023

Band: MEGA INFINITY
Who: Michi (Turk) DiGiulio and Mike DiGiulio from Long Island, NY. The two
met while working in a grocery store. Michi’s store transferred them far from
their home to Massapequa. They weren’t excited to go so far for a minimum
wage job, but had a good gut feeling that it would be the right move for them
as a musician.

The coronavirus pandemic happened so they were stuck in their house and started
writing a lot of songs. Their debut album Rainbow Heartache came out in December 2021.

FFO: Sonic Boom Six, Rage Against the Machine, Just Friends,
Don Broco, 100 Gecs, Flying Raccoon Suit, Nova Twins

The tantalizing tandem just released their brand-new 4-track EP, named CHAOS MAGICK. A sonic chameleon, jumping from left to right and back. Check out the 4 tracks one-by-one.

– CHAOS MAGICK –
Featuring Simple Minded Symphony

A dazzling rollercoaster mixing post-punk zip, tense spoken-word
fragments, ska vibrations and classic guitar-rock. Fireworks.

– DUDE POISONING –

Don’t call Mich a bitch, or you’re gonna pay for this.

This twisted belter features a tsunami-rap
cameo by Common Sense kid.


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– LOOK ALIVE –

Pithy reggae/ska pop tune injected
with crazed guitars and muscular drums
and enriched with spunky duet vocals.


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– YOU OUGHTA NOW –

Alanis Morissette‘s big hit’s chorus
intertwined with hip-shaking Ska
hooks and Mich‘s crystal clear
vocals shining in the middle.


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IN FULL on Spotify


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MEGA INFINITY: Twitter – Instagram – Linktree
TUTV: Blog – Facebook – Instagram

SLEAFORD MODS Have MORE UK GRIM To Offer With New 5-Track EP

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New striking strokes

20 September 2023

Last March British rap-punk poets SLEAFORD MODS
released their 12th longplayer, titled UK Grim

Today they announced a new EP with 5 new songs recorded
at the album sessions. Therefore, the duo named the EP simply
MORE UK GRIM. It’s out on 20 October via Rough Trade.

Along with the news we get a taster called BIG PHARMA.

Jason Williamson (vocalist): “Big Pharma was written in the opening chapters
of autumn 2022 when Covid kicked in again. It carries a lot of the normal Sleaford
Mods absurdism, but also looks at the ongoing fascination with trying to find truths in information wholly pushed by very questionable people,” Williamson said, continuing:

The term ‘Big Pharma’ has been uprooted from its original place, one that rightly
threw critique at the pharmaceutical industry as it produced more and more products
that would ruin lives on a mass scale. Instead now, Big Pharma is more familiar as a
term used by right wing and industrial groups trying to mask the financial aims of their arguments with some kind of critical thinking panache-type legitimacy.

It just feels wrong. It feeds on hopelessness, widespread fear and generations of unfettered misinformation linked to the limited critical perception we as the masses are burdened with.”

It’s SM by numbers, but I like their numbers.

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SLEAFORD MODS: Instagram

MATTHEW RYAN JACOBS – Americana Romanticism The Canadian Way With His New EP ‘THE TROUBLE IN ME’

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16 August 2023

Artist: MATTHEW RYAN JACOBS
Who: A singer/songwriter from Kitchener Waterloo Ontario, CA.
Incorporating everything he loves into his sound. From Delta Blues
to alternative rock, to singer songwriters like Bob Dylan and Tom Petty.

New EP: THE TROUBLE IN ME

Jacobs about the EP: “The EP took a bit of a different approach than my last one.
My last EP ‘Living in Between’ had a bit more of a blues influence, and a few tracks that
weren’t really single material but added a cool element to the overall EP. With The Trouble
in Me I wanted it to be difficult to pick which songs to release, I wanted each one to be able
to stand on its own.

There is definitely more folk, and I don’t want to say pop, but pop elements to this one;
and that could just be because the songs are better. Lyrically there is a consistent theme of moving on, getting older, and getting over some poorer choices from the past. At points it can very dark, but I think there is plenty of optimism to balance it out. Once again, everything was recorded by Ben Kempel and myself, and mixed by Ben.”

TUTV:: This is Americana romanticism performed the Canadian way. Melancholic, sincere, tender and telling/singing real-life stories. A lot of singer-songwriters/crooners, now and then, such as Matt Bernigner, Jeff Buckley, Nick Drake, Dylan, and many more do not write about the birds and bees, no, they look in-and-outside of their hearts and souls, they register the accompanying emotions and most of them conclude that life isn’t a walk in
the park, as we all experience(d) one way or another. Primus inter pares, Nick Cave even went so far, after investigating the pitch-black side of his mind, that he wrote an album full of murder ballads.

Mind you, Jacobs doesn’t go that far but also looks back and forth, scanning his life from
an introspective point of view. For example, Street Lights is about the inescapable fact that ‘in the end we’re all going to die’. And the title track is about keeping your individualism and not changing who you are to fit whatever people think you should.

He embeds his feelings, reveries and meditations into bittersweet slo-mo tunes, beautifully arranged and grippingly orchestrated. When acoustic and gently weeping electric guitars, a warm 60s-sounding organ and subtle piano play meet each other,
you’re not far away from dreamland. And last but not least there’s Jacob‘s impassioned
and arresting voice, completing the sonic collage he painted here.

Listen/enjoy.


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MRJ: Instagram – Website

British Starry-Eyed Voice PEARL Shines On Debut EP ‘WHERE I GO’

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23 July 2023

British singer-songwriter/producer PEARL who grew up in the English countryside,
much of her childhood centred around building dens in the forest, has released her delightful 4-track, titled WHERE I GO

“PEARL is my birthstone and holds a lot of symbolism
for me. I finally feel grounded and sure of myself.”

The EP showcases four tracks which touch on the theme of acceptance. Each song
was written as a way of processing emotions and events and moving on from them
in a positive way.

PEARL explains: “Writing these songs was a really reflective process, I would look back at a memory, make sense of it, and plot a path through. It was really cathartic. Music is very visual for me, and I love to create little worlds around it. This EP is verdant, a secret spot in the garden with round velvet chairs, cocooned and warm, with soft edges and lots of plants. I look at the music as biophilic, the synths, drums and production are the architecture, and my voice, the organic sounds, and the lyrics are the green and natural elements that run through…I’ve
always had an overactive imagination!”

TUTV: PEARL’s voice is the star in the middle, operating in a universe where you also can listen to Cocteau Twin‘s shiny vocalist Liz Fraser and Kate Bush‘s moonstruck moments. An instrumental instrument for four melodic ruminations, four sonic rainbows in the air and yours to take and to embrace. Where I Go is indie synth pop for dreamers who love to look at the bright side of life but fully know that reality can be a drag. Four-star debut. Another proof of how music can have a healing and soothing power.

VIDEOS for Years and Go!

FULL EP


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PEARL: Facebook – Instagram

THE SWEDISH RAILWAY ORCHESTRA Hypnotize With New 43-Minute Acid House Trance EP ‘CONNOTATIONS’

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8 July 2023

Artist: SWEDISH RAILWAY ORCHESTRA
Who: The moniker and brainchild of Dublin DJ,
musician and producer Rob Smith.

New EP: CONNOTATIONS
It follows last year’s album Dance To The Drum Machine.
You can buy the EP on CD for €6. Any purchase of the Dance To
The Drum Machine vinyl (currently on offer at €12) will come with
a free copy of the CD. Order infohere.

Smith: “I wanted to make essentially one really, really long track. That is
what’s happened here, so I’ve had to splice them into 6 different sections,
and the result is very cool and interesting.”

TUTV: Connotations is a 43-minute old skool acid house trip with non-stop
Krautrock dynamics and hypnotic shake-your-hips triggering electronics that
create an e-tastic trance in which you can lose yourself in, the whole fucking
boom-boom night. Sonic stimulations for your mind, body and soul. And so
much cheaper than your shrink and your gym.

The ongoing synth-sparkling extravaganza at work here, spiced with echoes of
techno champs such as The Chemical Brothers, Leftfield, Boards Of Canada, Orbital,
Death In Vegas and LCD Soundsystem, is what Saturday Night Fever misfits need to
survive all BS going on in our intolerant world right now. Count me in.

STREAM/BUY


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TSRO: Facebook – Instagram – Spotify

OTTO VON RUGGINS And KONGRESS Will Boggle Your Mind With Four Psychedelic Brainbreakers Annex Four Psych-O-Delic Videos

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5 July 2023

Artist: KONGRESS

Who: The musical project of 60s survivor Otto von Ruggins.
An experimental, New York based, act being around for light-years,
mixing Space-Goth-Tribal-New-Wave rock and other me(n)tal bangs.
Think legendary eccentrics Devo fooling around with avant-garde
freaks The Residents.

The mysterious Kongress unity returns with a new EP baptized SUMMER DAYS.
Sometimes I wonder if this project is 4 real and is not some sci-fi creation of Space
Odyssey maestro Stanley Kubrick pretending it’s human. Anyway, listen/watch and
have a Close Encounter of the Third Kind experience after the melancholia of the title
track.

– SUMMER DAYS –

A ’Sodom & Gomorrah’ video according to Otto von Ruggins‘ wife and founding
member of Kongress, actually pays homage to the Largest Art Parade in America,
The Coney Island Mermaid Parade. Summer pop fever in colorful motion from the
past, when there was still hope.

I see trees of green
Red roses too
I see them bloom
For me and you
And I think to myself
What a wonderful world
Louis Armstrong

– FUTURE LOOP –

Hey! Hey! Hey! Hey! Hey! Hey! Hey! Hey! Hey!

“Money is the root for all evil
It’s the cause of most wars
Tap into the FutureLoop and prepare
Let Religion provide you with Civilty
It’s time for the New 10 Commandments”

This a techno banger for spaced-out trips
on Judgment Day and to start all over again
afterward from zero with 10 new rules.

– SUGAR DADDY –

A razzle-dazzle synth–missile with a whirlwind
of rappin’ samples. Beastie Boys fight again
for our right to party.

– ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE –

Rapid-eye-movement surreality on film with lyrics
fed into ChatGPT with Mind-Blowing results.

Make America Intelligent Again.
And fuck Trump, of course

All together streaming on Spotify


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KONGRESS: Website Instagram

LAMBRINI GIRLS – Riot Grrrl Punk Sensation Race Faster Than A Ferrari On Their Debut EP ‘YOU’RE WELCOME’

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1 July 2023

Brighton’s amazeballs LAMBRINI GIRLS are punk’s new sensation of the year
to Turn Up The Volume‘s ears and eyes, and not only to my ears/eyes, check out
above the renowned critics who are raving about them too. The three cast iron
battle-axes just released their 6-track EP, titled YOU’RE WELCOME.

Expect 6 Apocalpyse-punk-now cannonballs, 6 in-your-male-macho-face
firecrackers, 6 full-speed- garage rock Lamborghinis. Holy burning shit!

TRASHING
CRASHING
SLASHING

HELLISH
DEMONIC
MANIACAL

BITCHY
BOILING
BANGING

AWESOME
BONKERS
BERSERK

CHAOTIC
MENTAL
GAY

CUTTING
BITING
RIOTOUS

LOUD
VERY LOUD
BEDLAM

BEST BAND IN THE WORLD

YOU’RE WELCOME.
HERE.


“You’re welcome”


Ferrari bass player

LG: Instagram – Facebook

(Live photos by Turn Up The Volume)

Irish Industrial Bulldozers JAPANESE JESUS Invite You To A Hellish ‘DEPRESSION BREAKFAST’ EP

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Standout extended plays

26 June 2023

Band: JAPANESE JESUS
Who: 2 Irish mavericks from West Limerick.
Bertie Kelly (Vocals, Guitars, Bass)
and Denny Dunworth (Drums).

Debut EP: DEPRESSION BREAKFAST
Enough decibels to scare Russia the hell
out of Ukraine.

Track-by-track.

– INSIGNIFICANT –

This brutal bulldozing opener sets the tone for the EP. More decibels than your ears can handle at times. Chainsaw guitars and psychotic drumming clash and crash into each other. Industrial havoc bringing metal-punk turbine Al Jourgensen and Ministry to mind.


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– TENSION –

A merciless sledgehammer doing your head in with its droning drum ferocity,
a bass that’s going in overdrive, schizo guitars and in your face sneers. Wowzers.


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– EAMON DUNPHY (IS ALWAYS GRAND) –

68 seconds of straightjacket paranoia.


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– LACTOSE –

Perfect brainbreaker to kick your hangover into oblivion.


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– DEPRESSION BREAKFAST –

The title track closes this standout EP with a reflective reality check resonating
somehow like slacker expert Dinosaur Jr wrestling between heaven and hell.

FULL EP
Stream/buy


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JJ: Facebook – Instagram

JIBBERNAUT And PHUTURE MEMORIEZ – Nerve Wrecking Synth Punk Disco By Madcaps For Madcamps

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Standout extended plays

17 June 2023

Artists: JIBBERNAUT and PHUTURE MEMORIEZ
Who: Two Canadian synth-punk acts coming together to split up songs.
EP: COULROPHOBIA

Get ready for 4 brainbreakers, for 4 mind-bashers, for 4 pop-phobic sledgehammers.

– JIBBERNAUT –

CLOWN SCHOOL


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A head-hammering synth-riff to get rid of your hangover so
you can restart to party. Beware: “She’s gonna kill for men”

NO ONE’S LAUGHING NOW


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Play this battering banger immediately after Clown School,
so you can keep on jumping up and down like a kangaroo
on acid.

– PHUTURE MEMORIEZ –

BALLOON DOG


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What the fuck is this?
Horrific brainwashing.

MR GIGGLES


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What the fuck is this?
Schizo synth psychopathy.

Who the fuck is this?

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FULL EP
Buy/stream


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PHUTURE MEMORIEZ: Instagram
JIBBERNAUT: Instagram

NERVE WRACKING COLLECTIONS (label): Facebook