JUKEBOX 2025 – Week 33 Five New Rad Tracks Added Twice A Week
In order to not miss a beat TURN UP THE VOLUME scans the musical
horizon daily, for 10 years now, to pick ace tracks and add 5 new ones
twice per week, to the one and only JUKEBOX playlist that matters.
ALL TOGETHER
The 5 fresh ones
TRACK BY TRACK
Band: THE LIVING PINS
Who: Flaring indie duo – Carrie Clark and Pam Peltz who found each other on
the edge of the delicately ramshackle playground of the 1990s Austin (Texas)
music scene. They released their 4-track debut EP Let It Be So in 2023,
followed by some ace singles.
Track: 108
Their newest single.
Pam: “108” is like 1980s Austin, downtown around 6th St. and Lamar, when there were abandoned car dealerships and weeds growing everywhere and driveways to nowhere.
I would be walking around in the extreme heat, almost so hot I couldn’t see. But loving it,
cuz I kind of love the Texas heat, which I know is wrong.”
Carrie: ” One of the things that I love about the Texas heat is that it feels purifying.
It burns your soul clean. It’s almost like you’re going through this baptism of heat to
really feel like you’re at home in Austin. You get the baptism of cold in Barton Springs,
but the rest of the time, walking down the street, it’s a baptism of heat.”
TUTV: Expect another foot-tapping living pins cherry bomb, powered by gloriously
creaking guitars and a sing-along/hum-along chorus. Funky and groovy kick, all
day long.
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Band: LOS PALMS
Who: rock trio Adelaide, Australia who deliver a soundtrack soaked in vintage fuzz.
Their signature “desert jangle” sound, has 60s garage, spaghetti western and modern
psych influences.
Track: WAY TOO COLD
Newest single from their upcoming debut LP,
entitled Sorrows. It’s out on August 29th.
“Way Too Cold is four minutes of sunburnt ‘60s jangle, stomping choruses, and a dark psych detour before slamming back for the kill. The video rips through Los Palms’ South Australian stomping grounds, A tribute to the country towns and rugged coastlines carved into the band’s DNA.”
TUTV: Jingly jangly guitars, a galvanizing groove, vivid vocals, back-up harmonies
and a peppy chorus combine for an electrifying psychedelic thrill. The 60s were
and still are an uplifting and exciting force.
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Band: IT’S KARMA IT’S COOL
Who: Psych pop rock
outfit from Lincoln, UK
Track: 21st CENTURY MEDS
Newest single from their upcoming new,
3rd album, titled ‘One Million Suburban Sunsets‘.
Jim Styring (frontman/songwriter): “The song is about living in this modern world, doing what it takes to get by and basically survive. We all need something to get us through these troubled times, so we all self medicate. Be that with drugs (legal or otherwise), alcohol, or any addictive behavior, whatever it may be, we’re all looking for that magic ‘something’.
But the song’s not judgemental, I’m just saying ‘look, this is how society has got us all, we’re all hooked on one thing or another, numbing ourselves behind a wall of 21st century medication. Perhaps it’s time to take a step back and look at ourselves”
TUTV: 21st Medicine Meds races and rushes like today’s merciless rat race, propelled
by layers of aggressive guitars, full-energetic percussion and feverish vocals. Listen to
it 3 times in a row per day, and 6 times on Sunday. It can help you to tranquillise your insecurity about these confusing times’ insanity.
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Band: ESCAPE GOATS
Who: 3 indie noiseniks from Glasgow, Scotland who
are among us only since the early days of 2024.
Track: ROMPECABEZAS
2nd single of the year.
I had no clue what that title means. So I googled it. It’s Spanish for
thinking very hard about a problem to try to find the solution to that
thing, not always successfully, but the expression is about trying. Well,
I guess this is what the band had in mind.
“A three-minute blast, capturing the feeling of being pulled in conflicting directions,
playing on double meanings and pseudowords, paired with angular guitars and
powerful drums.”
TUTV: No songs about the birds and the bees for these fortissimo Scots.
They have an unyielding appetite for boisterous guitar rampage and capricious,
yet sticky melodiousness, sturdy drum/bass firepower and full-throated vocals.
Crackajack stroke.
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Band: MAGNETIC SKIES (London, UK)
Who: Synth-pop trio formed in 2019 with a
shared love of 80s synth-driven post-punk.
They released their debut
album Empire Falling in 2023.
Track: BACK TO LIFE
2nd shared single from their forthcoming album,
named Fragments. It’s out in November.
“‘Back To Life’ explores the tension between our deep, universal connection and the fragmentation we face in the modern world, It’s about sensing that chaos, feeling the
void, the noise, and still holding on to the hope that we can come back from the edge.
It’s a call to reconnect, to bring something broken back into wholeness.”
TUTV: Shiny synth-pop delight from start to finish. Again, the trio wrap an elevating
tune in a sphere of electronic bliss juiced with alternating, heartening harmonies.
Exhilarating piece.
“We are made of stars / we are meteor showers /
losing all control / empty out the soul.”
