R & B Cocktail With LOVE ITOYA And Her Effervescent Debut EP ‘INTRODUCTION’

28 September 2021

Artist: LOVE ITOYA
Who: A 24-year R&B/Soul Greek Nigerian singer, songwriter,
performer, dancer, artist, born and raised in Thessaloniki, Greece.

Debut EP: INTRODUCTION
Released: 24 September 2021
Order-info: here

Itoya: “Introduction” was written by my true life experiences and
also has a message of empowerment and advice to the world.”

Turn Up The Volume: Itoya is a natural-born singer and entertainer. Her glorious soul voice – think Béyonce and Neneh Cherry (yes that good) -sounds so spirited, so brisk, so
real and human that your stream of adrenalin explodes and euphoria takes over. Her 6-track debut EP couldn’t have come at a better time. After about 18 freedom-limiting and depressing months – we can dance in the streets again, side by side.

Finally, we can enjoy life again while swaying and swinging our hips to this exotic R&B jamboree injected with reggae sparks (Pepper Dam / Real Love), Motown inspired disco fervor (Ups & Downs) and passionate, mixed emotions (Consideration, with a flashy guitar solo, should be a hit worldwide)). All irresistible tunes, richly orchestrated and greatly arranged. And yes, Love Itoya looks totally gorgeous. What an introduction!

Stream/buy the EP here…


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LOVE ITOYA: Facebook – Instagram

SONIC TIDES Impress With Boisterous Debut EP ‘SIX SIDED SQUARE – 1st’

27 September 2021

Band: SONIC TIDES (Liege)
Who: Belgian 5-piece that produces a big subversive sound
ranging from noise rock to psychedelic. You can dive into their
duality between dissonant sounds and hypnotizing and
neurotic harmonies.


(photo: Gaux Mar)

Info: “The release of this EP is the result of the group’s work during the pandemic,
traveling between several atmospheres; frantic and dissonant sounds of “Foreseen
Failure” to melancholy vocal harmonies and the soaring atmosphere of “Through
My Bones”. This debut EP offers a glimpse into the alternate universe of Sonic Tides.”

About the artwork: “We were fortunate enough to be able to work with Robby Staebler
aka UVWAYS (All Them Witches) for the artwork for the first EP. We have always greatly appreciated his creations and visuals. He made the artwork for the EP directly from our
music. It was both an honor and a pleasure to be able to collaborate with him.”
”

Turn Up The Volume: From noise bulldozer Foreseen Failure to Black Sabbath
drone with a blues edge The Grass Grows. From bass-driven slo-mo jam Disruption
to quiet/Loud/quiet tour de force Through my Bones that leaves you behind, puzzled
and dazed with your ears ringing for a couple of minutes. An intense experience.

Top debut EP.

Test your speakers here…

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SONIC TIDES: Facebook

Mythical Prog Rock Symphonies – Swedish Act EYEMOUTH Eclipses You With Their New EP

7 September 2021

Band: EYEMOUTH
Who: This musical project started in Gothenburg, Sweden in 2014 and presents a soundscape based on electronic backgrounds and a more classic rock instrumentation blended with mellotrons, vibraphone, santur, harmonium and other alluring sounding instruments. In short, atmospheric psychedelic darkness with occult undertones.

New EP: ECLIPSE
Released: 20 August 2021

Eclipse, together with the previous EPs Cut (2020) and Spiral (2019) concludes a trilogy full of contradicting elements like nature, machines, birth, death and so on. The band recommends you to dive into the dark and vast oceans, and let yourself drift along with the unknown currents for a while.

Turn Up The Volume: Eyemouth is not a band, it’s a sort of spiritual experience, going from the unreal to the real and back. This EP contains six tracks but you really need to listen to it as a unity, as an entwined whole in order to capture the full sonic and lyrical picture.

Eclipse is one long mythical prog rock symphony with classical music structures that enhance the otherworldly euphony while Marcus Lilja‘s spooky voice wanders throughout like the untraceable ghost in the Blair Witch Project. Enigmatic, poignant and soul-stirring are the keywords. Put on your headphones, close your eyes and let this spellbinding trip lead you to the unreal and back. Enjoy the voyage.

Stream/buy Eclipse here…


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Eyemouth: Marcus Lilja, Joakim Åberg

All songs written and produced by Marcus Lilja
Recorded at All Harmonics Studio, Gothenburg, Sweden
Mastered by Daniel Johansson at Welfare Sounds
Cover layout by Håkan Aspnäs

ECLIPSE out now – available via Apple Music and Bandcamp

Living Legend PATTI SMITH Just Released A 7-Track EP ‘LIVE AT ELECTRIC LADY’

31 August 2021

Artist: PATTI SMITH
Active: Since 1967 / 11 studio albums

New EP: LIVE AT ELECTRIC LADY

Living legend Patti Smith has a live EP out as part of Spotify and Electric Lady Studios‘s
live registrations, also featuring Japanese Breakfast, Faye Webster, Bleachers, and more.

Her 7-track performance contains five of her own songs and two covers.
Bob Dylan’s ‘One Too Many Mornings’ and Stevie Wonder’s ‘Blame It On The Sun.’

Patti: “We are very proud to be part of Spotify’s Live At Electric Lady series, our favorite recording studio. It was a unique challenge and offered us an exciting and innovative
platform. We are grateful to Spotify for their generous support and willingness to
present a live performance with all its possibilities of risk and revelation.”

Tune in here…

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PATTI SMITH: Website

When Does DAMON ALBARN Sleep? GORILLAZ Drop New 3-Track EP ‘MEANWHILE’

29 August 2021

Band: GORILLAZ (UK)
Active: 1998-present / 7 studio albums so far

New EP: MEANWHILE

This new 3-track extended play celebrates the legendary the Notting Hill Carnival in London, once the inspiration for The Clash‘s debut single White Riot. Unfortunately, the carnival is cancelled this year due to the pandemic, something the 24/7 music-making Damon Albarn didn’t want to pass just like that.

Meanwhile features rappers AJ Tracey and Jelani
Blackman
and dancehall artist Alicaì Harley.

Carnival starts here…

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GORILLAZ: Facebook

Golden Voice ANGEL OLSEN Released Her 5-Track Covers EP ‘AISLES’

22 August 2021

Artist: ANGEL OLSEN
Who: Singer-songwriter from Chicago with a
golden voice, so far she made 5 studio albums

New EP: AISLES
Five covers of 80s hits
Released: 20 August 2021

Olsen picked 5 feel-good electro-pop hits from the eighties,
slowed them down, drenched them in a dream-synth bath,
and let her golden voice glide all over it.

All tracks…

‘Gloria’ – original by Umberto Tozzi
‘Eyes Without A Face’ – original by Billy Idol
‘Safety Dance’ – original by Men Without Hats
‘If You Leave Me’ – original by OMD
‘Forever Young’– original by Alphaville

Stream ‘Aisles’ EP here…

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ANGEL OLSEN: Facebook

Sultry Blues Punk Fire With Miami Gang BRUVVY – Here’s Their Brand New Debut EP ‘LITTLE HEAT’

20 August 2021

Band: BRUVVY.
Who: Steamy team from Miami, Florida

Debut EP: LITTLE HEAT

Turn Up The Volume: Imagine heavy blues-rock titans Led Zeppelin fronted by sexy loudmouth Cherrie Curry of 70s punk sensation The Runaways. That’s precisely how
this pumped-up Miami punk fury rattles and rolls on debut EP Little Heat.

Five red-hot-blooded, adrenalin-injected jackhammers, tons of Jimmy Page-like riffage, Bonham slams and lots of sneering and screaming by spitfire Liz Varum. Watch your
back Starcrawler, Bruvvy is breathing down your necks. Little heat, big fire.

Liz Varum (vocalist/songwriter) “We’ve grown so much since our first three singles and you can really hear how our sound has evolved and matured. When the band first started it was solely based on partying and you can hear that come through the lyrics, with very simplistic arrangements. For example, the first 3 singles are all about sex. As we started to take the band more seriously, our lives began to change and with that we faced more obstacles in the way friends and family perceived us.”

Time to turn up the heat and stream the whole EP
below while Liz tells us more about all 5 tracks…

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– U THINK THIS SONG IS ABOUT U –

“I wrote the lyrics while working at a super dead end server job where I was very
underpaid and was in an emotionally abusive relationship with my boss. I realized
that I was so desperate to get a paycheck that I was willing to persevere through
emotionally destructive behavior.”

– HOT FOR SALE –

“The lyrics came to me when I realized that I reached the point where people stopped considering me cute for playing in a band and I was now at the make it or break it age
where I had to either make this into a career or be rejected by society. I came to a boiling
point when my boss at the time told me how unlikely it was that I was going to make it in
the music industry and that I should always have a backup. Being that it was my millionth
time hearing this, I got overwhelmed and decided to write a song dedicated to all the people who have underestimated me in the past.”

– ATTN. –

“This is about shifting my gears to giving this band my full attention,
instead of any other thought that was clouding my mind at the time.”

– FAKE IT –

“Faking orgasms.”

– PROOF –

“I wrote this shortly before quitting that same dead end job. The song was written
as a mantra for myself. It is my evidence for others and myself that i am worthy
of reaching my biggest goals in what I want to do.”

Thank you Liz for your input.
May the road rise with Bruvvy!

BRUVVY: Facebook

ACE! ACE! ACE! – German Turbo Trio LOBSTERBOMB Released Their Chaotic Debut EP ‘GO! GO! GO!

3 August 2021

Band: LOBSTERBOMB
Who: Loud trio from Berlin formed in
a basement in 2020 featuring. Nico Rosch,
Vik Chi and Crayon Jones.

New EP: GO! GO! GO!
The EP approaches themes of personal introspection, desire for change
and individual growth through a lens of energetic, raw and catchy indie
garage rock. Recorded DIY style by the band and mixed by Peter Thoms
from popular German punk band Akne Kid Joe, ‘Go! Go! Go!’, examines
common feelings of frustration, doubt and fear along with a sense of
optimism that positive change is within reach.

Turn Up The Volume: After slam dunks Wake Up and I Want Noise (both
were ‘Pick Of The Day’ on TUTV!) I instantly became a fan. Why? This trio is
a sharp-cutting punk-and-roll turbo. They want noise, chaos, and danger.

So, what you get here is Bikini Kill‘s raw outcries, Courtney Love‘s glamorous
guts, B-52‘s love shack swagger, and catchy aaah-aaahh-aaaah chants. This is
a red-hot 5-track Riot Grrrl EP. Lobsterbomb are ready to go! No brakes for
these German gunslingers. You should be a fan too.

Ace! Ace! Ace!

Buy/stream Go! Go! Go! here…


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LOBSTERBOMB: Facebook


Cool as fuck!

(photo by Andi Riekstina)

Shadowy Synth/Guitar Reflections – British Duo TMFC With New EP ‘THE SPACE IN BETWEEN Pt. 1’

Extended plays…

19 July 2021


(photo INNO media)

Band: TMCF (UK)
Who: Pop duo unafraid to blend ambience with indie hooks to
create a psychedelic experience. Formed in a time of hopelessness.

New EP: THE SPACE INBETWEEN PT1

“We had the opportunity to dig deep introspectively and remember why it is we
make music in the first place. The reason is that music more than a choice, more
than a commodity – on a very human level, to us and to so many people, it is a
part of who we are… During the production of this EP, we were able to feel gravity
again, let our feet finally re-connect with the ground during this crazy time, and
once again fall in love with the process of creating music.”

Turn Up The Volume: Expect an instrumental synth/guitar opener (The Space
In Between
), a shadowy prog-roller-coaster with electrical twists and turns, and
a magnetic bass riff (Thaumaturgy), darkwavish pop-scapes (From Green To Grey
/ Collapse
), a sparkling dreamtune (The Lions Den ) and a euphonic, vocal symphony
with mellow piano touches (Soon The World Goes Black). Sounds intriguing, right?

Play this EP a couple of times in a row, so your hungry
ears can slowly discover the layered moodiness of it.

Dive into the space in between here…

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TMCF: Facebook

BLONDIE In CUBA – Stream New Live EP ‘VIVIR EN LA HABANA’…

17 July 2021

Band: BLONDIE
Active: 1974–1982, 1997–present
11 studio albums (so far)

New EP: VIVIR EN LA HABANA
Info: Live versions of 6 Blondie songs recorded when
the band played in Cuba for the very first time in 2019.
It’s the soundtrack to the Short Film of the same name.
More info here.

The 6 tracks…

The Tide Is High
Long Time
Wipe Off My Sweat
Heart Of Glass
Rapture
Dreaming

The limited blue vinyl edition is already sold out (actually from
the moment you could pre-order it) but you can stream the EP
here on Spotify…

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BLONDIE: Website