Band:ICEAGE Who: The Danish indie glam rockers, fronted by songwriter/poet Elias Bender Rønnenfelt, who released 2 solo full-lengths in the
past 3 years.
Band: BOARDS OF CANADA Who: Veteran Scottish electro/ambient duo.
Track: PROPHECY AT 1420 MHz
One of two new cuts from their 5th longplayer,
their first in 13 years, named Inferno. It’ll come
our way on May 29th.
TUTV: The Scots still float around in their electronic bubble.
I wonder if they recorded their new tunes while in space with
the Artemis II crew recently.
Another batch of 5 new, stellar tracks have
been added to Turn Up The Volume’s Jukebox.
Let’s roll.
ALL TOGETHER
. TRACK BY TRACK
Photo Credit: Heather Saitz
Band: MOONRIIVR Who: Seasoned rock tandem
from Toronto, Canada.
Track: FORCE OF HABIT
Piece from their new album Moonriivr Vol. 2, out
later in the year.
“A song about letting go of the past and searching for a new way forward.”
TUTV: Oh yeah! Brace yourself for some movin’ and groovin’ electricity. Force Of Habit is a riff- ripsnorter with retro-rock reverberations and
eagerly echoing vocals. Back to the future.
TUTV: Soft Cell on adrenaline. Erasure on amphetamine. Enriching electro pop nirvana
at its most beautiful. Ignore the outside bedlam for about 6 minutes on repeat. The beat goes on and on and on. Twirl yourself dizzy.
Band: CRISPY DANGER Who: A fresh, red-hot act fronted by siblings, residing in Melbounre (Australia).
Formed last year, the trio’s soul comes from a heavy metal heritage, yet their music combines riff-driven rock with catchy pop sensibilities and hard-hitting lyrics, carving
out a genre unique to themselves.
TUTV: Outta Control is a bad-ass and bass-tastic sledgehammer with all amps up,
decibels up, and uproar up. Agitated vocals, combative drumming, a Slash guitar
solo, and a mammoth chorus mingle into a bashing debut burst.
Band: WAVES CRASHING Who: Alt-rock outfit from Olympia, Washington.
Track: MARINE GARDEN
New single from their upcoming sophomore full-length,
named In The Blur. Out May 20th. Tracklist and order info here.
Lyrically, it’s a meditation on presence and release, tracing the sensation
of shedding mental weight against a backdrop of ocean air and open sky.
TUTV: At the core Marine Garden is a well-pitched lullaby, warmed by The Cure-esque
guitar glow, a firm beat, and longing vocals. An ear-pleasing musing that triggers melancholic reflections.
TUTV: It’s a mid-tempo, 60s psychedelia-echoing, guitar-layered tune, juiced
with good old-fashioned Hammond organ-like warmheartedness and dreamy
vocals.
New piece from their upcoming 11th LP. A project performed entirely
in Spanish that aims to highlight their Latin roots and reconnect directly
with their cultural heritage. Tracklist & release date TBA.
TUTV: Vamos, rapeemos. Cypress Hill let pelvis move from left to right and
back to the accordion’s ambiance. Sickly sticking melodia. Fix yourself a
cocktail and sway your body to the party beats.
Band: FACS Who: Chicago-based art rock/post-punk trio
formed in 2017. So far, they have released
5 full-lengths.
Track: PARALLEL LIVES
The band will be on tour in Australia
with Chimers, and to commemorate,
they’ve bagged a split 7″.
TUTV: The electrically-rampant debates open with out-of-tune guitars, progress lazily,
and freak out from the 3-minute mark. Kafkaesque unbridledness for chaotic minds.
Band: BUTTHOLE SURFERS Who: The Texan post-rock-punk veterans who
came together in 1981 and unleashed 8 albums
to this day.
Track: IMBUYA
Title cut from their brand new 4-track EP (2 studio, 2 live tracks).
Stream here.
TUTV: This messy, speed-up psych jam with neurotic drum ‘n’ bass percussion
in the back is a flipped-out stunner. The surfers age backwards. Whoopee-doo.
Artist: SUKI WATERHOUSE Who: Songstress, actress
and model from London.
Track: TINY RAISIN
New single from her forthcoming 3rd album, called Loveland. It comes our way on July 10th.
Waterhouse: “A love song at its core. It’s a song that stands by the fact that real love in its truest essence can be chaotic, ridiculous, and imperfect, while still being something that is absolutely worth choosing over and over again at the end of the day.”
TUTV: Power pop glamour with witty lyrics and fabulous vocals. Dumpfounding class.
Track: WHAT FUTURE
The title song of his
upcoming album, out
this Friday, May 1st.
Carr: “I’ve been putting together these sounds for many years but this
is the first time where I thought ‘this doesn’t really sound like anything else
and decided to put it out.”
TUTV: Techno daft-punk on the run. Electro rock shock. Winding mix of paranoic synths, bass booms, and some helium-infused Carr interventions. Good grief. What a brainfucker.
“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.
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.
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.
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.
Carried by introspective lyrics, the song navigates the disorientation
of trying to hold something together that’s already slipping away.
TUTV: This bass tanked-up groove gets under your skin without asking. There’s a kind
of imminent tension up in the air thoughout this hypnotic ride and when anxious guitars take over somewhere in the middle, it’s amps and heat up. This mind-boggling slice of psychedelic fever will bend your head for some time.
Artist: GRAHAM COXON Who: Blur‘s guitarist/co-songwriter who also has 8 solo LPs, and
two with his wife under the moniker The Waeve, on his résumé.
Track: BILLY SAYS
A piece of a never released album, calledCastle Park from 2011,
that will finally gets its release, this summer, on June 19th.
TUTV: Coxon was/is a rocker at heart who loves to get his guitar sparkle riffs to catchy tunes. Keep it simplea and catchy is the message. And it works (as it did always before).
TUTV: Sounds like if Green Day are playing Dead Kennedys killers. Full steam ahead.
Fast and furious. I’m pretty sure these there fired-up teens stole half of their parents record collection and got inspired to; dive head first, into the chaotic times we live in
and go after the empty-headed idiots who rule the planet. That’s punk for you, folks.
“I hate to admit it but this song was a turning point for me. My last band faded away, I’d lost touch with my friends, we were in this new dark era of American Society, and I just felt like if I didn’t squeeze with all my might I’d float off into the abyss. I wasn’t looking to start a band, but ‘Kingdom Comes’ became a guiding light for the kind of music I wanted to make.”
TUTV: From a heart-rending Matt Berninger-like start to electrifyng blues-weeping guitars. From intimate reflection to soul-stirring excorcism. Visceral passion in magnetic (e)motion.
TUTV: Joy to the world. These special guys offer a crazed corker
going wham bam bloody wham bam while rapping vocals roll all
over the boisterous beats.
“This song is about only picking fights that you know you’ll win. It came about because
the heating wouldn’t come on once and I thought about when we bang things to make
hem work. The sense of victory you get when you feel like you’ve physically intimidated
an inanimate object into doing what you want is bizarre and pathetic and really
funny.”
TUTV: Getdown Services serve a new get up, jiggle and let your pelvis have some fun
tune. This witty duo master the needed tricks to activate your lazy ass and make it
wobble.
Band: KASABIAN Who: Celebrated vet rockers
from Leicester, UK.
Track: GREAT PRETENDER
Newest shared piece from their upcoming
9th full-length, called Act III. Out on July 17th.
TUTV: Simple dance tune, gratifying outcome. No rock swagger anymore (miss that badly). Vocalist/songwriter Pizzorno changed Kasabian‘s musical course after firing charismatic frontman Tom Meighan in 2020.
Gabriel: “Of all the songs that I’ve written for i/o and o\i this is probably the poppiest for me.
It takes me back to my schooldays, in some ways, because before there was Genesis we were effectively trying to be songwriters more than musicians. I think this song connects me back to some of those roots and the sort of thing that I was working on then and trying to master.”
TUTV: Gabriel does here what he already did on his previous album i/o, coming
up with electro-juiced compositions driven by funky beats and throbbing, rhythmical dynamics. No sledgehammers anymore.
TUTV: From the kick-off motorik, repetitive synth-layered beats drive you mad. Intimidating vocals augment the tense danger that hangs all over Manifest and haunts your confused psyche. In short, a drilling hammer to crush the demons in your mind for the rest of the day.
Artist: ADAM DONEN Who: South Africa-born, Germany-based multidisciplinary
artist who writes, directs, composes, and invents new art
forms. More info here.
Track: BIBLE STORIES
The title song of his upcoming album
“In my head, ‘Bible Stories’ was sung by a character not a million miles away from the guy Mick Jagger sings as in Sympathy for the Devil or The Judge in Cormac McCarthy’s Blood Meridian. The key difference, though, is that he’s always regarding himself so much: in the midst of a genocide, you imagine him worrying about whether the photographer’s catching his good side.
He’s waltzing devil-like through this incredible evil, seemingly loving every moment, you get this sense that in part, maybe most of all, he’s performing for himself, so he doesn’t have to face what’s under the costume.”
TUTV: I know this will sound weird, but what I hear here is as if Leonard Cohen muses
all over a spooky, nightmarish, sonic cascade. The near-breathing vocals echo the late legendary crooner’s bluesy timbre, while the manic musical progression gets under your skin without asking. Intriguing and transfixing experience.
Artists: BROTHER DYNAMITE Who: New York City-based indie pop/rock duo of Shawn Moynihan
and Alan Miller playing and writing songs together in various bands
since high school.
In 2022, they released their debut album If We Dare.
“If there’s ever been someone in your life that you wished a little karma upon, this song is for you. Or is this song about someone in particular? We’ll leave that to the listener to decide.”
TUTV: From the get-go, this bright-eyed and bushy-tailed rockin’ jam activates all your
itchy limbs. Your time has come to tap your feet to the beat, clap along, sing/hum along, and then run for cover.
Band: SUGARPUNCH Who: Ferocious rock indies from the Netherlands. They got together in the spring
of 2020, in the middle of a tumultuous epidemic, aiming at world dominance.
“Window is a peephole into the dark, shameless desires that go hand in hand with obsession. Through the eyes of a stalker, we look at a one-sided desire stemming from a kind of God complex. It plays with delusions that the desired person should feel honored in order to be loved by the stalker. She portrays herself as a sort of ‘hero’ who will take away his loneliness.”
TUTV: Wowzers. After an eerie vocal intro, all hell breaks loose. Window is a merciless uppercut propelled by schizoprenic guitars, a clobbering drum/bass artillery, and sky-scraping singer Janneke screaming her four lungs out in the middle. Think The Offspring fronted by Courtney Love. Advice, have a look under your bed before you press play and start the fireworks.
Band: OCTAVIAN WINTERS Who: 4-piece, born into the ghostly isolation of San Francisco in 2022. Their sound
mirrors the surrealism of that time, weaving threads of the visceral and ethereal
together into shimmering instrumental layers, with vocals that alternately soar
and dive.
TUTV: Dark Gothic waves flood your stereo. Big bass/drum beats, distorted guitars, shadowy synth-reverberation, and spine-tingling combine for a towering rersonance.
Think Bauhaus, think Killing Joke.
Track: OUT COME THE FREAKS
Lead single from the upcoming, final LP, titled Dancetaria. It was finished before co-founder Dave Ball passed away last October.
The song features Nona Hendryx‘s (once a member
of soul-disco trio Labelle) powerhouse voice.
TUTV: Back to the glittering 80s disco boom. Shake your booty.
Band: EMPTY HEAD Who: Noise-rock outfit
from Liege, Belgium
Track: CONQUEST
New piece from their upcoming debut
album Freakshow, out on May 29th.
The song takes aim at the hatred spread by the modern
era’s “big bad wolves”, and flips it into a wild trance.
TUTV: Expect a blasting-banging psych-rock jackhammer that attacks your eardrums the way you like it. It’s a sick bastard of a track for these sick times. No mercy for the bad guys. Get in your car, and zigzag your way through your conquering race.
Band: LIGER Who: Alternative rock team from Aachen, Germany, originally formed in Bristol (UK),
with a sound that sits between Shinedown, Beartooth, and Architects, emotional, powerful, and modern. Big hooks and a distinctive lead vocal meet an intense, high-energy live performance.
They released their debut full-length Rednight in 2020.
Track: CALL ME
First shared piece from
their upcoming EP.
Single artwork
TUTV: Holy smoke. A gigantic wall-of-insane-guitar sound explodes from the start. Call Me is a muscular whopper that never slows down and that trashes your stereo
non-stop, meanwhile the vocalist screams his 4 lungs out. Blimey, what a volcanic discharge. Alert your neighbours before you press play.
TUTV: This sonic trip is a feel-good, accordian-juiced, Americana voice jam. Groovy and funky. Everybody’s happy. Midway, a voltaic guitar solo pops up and country guest singer Elias Smith adds some soulful energy. Slowly but surely, the track heads towards a head-spinning climax. Dope stroke.
