Pick Of The Day

LAMBRINI GIRLS Go Nuclear On Their New Sassy Sucker Punches ‘GOD’S COUNTRY’ And ‘BODY OF MINE’ – Available Now On 7″

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24 April 2024


Amazing single artwork

Band: LAMBRINI GIRLS
New single: GOD’S COUNTRY / BODY OF MINE

TUTV: From playing in a bar for 30 people last year, in April, in Belgium (I was there)
to the upcoming 800 cap. gig in the legendary London venue Scala half June, to the
iconic Glastonbury Festival at the end of that month.

The plain-spoken feminist Brighton warriors went supersonic the past 12 months, with
their cooking 6-track EP You’re Welcome under their belts, and nothing/nobody will stop them to keep on turning our world upside down as we like it.

They surely play their two new nuclear sucker punches everywhere,
the Brexshit attack on GOD’s COUNTRY and the sharp-knife-cutting
gender-themed BODY OF MINE. Now available on 7″.

Order info right HERE.

Beware music junkies and gig addicts, don’t miss the best band in
the universe right NOW, as they probably tour Mars to play for green
Martian punks by the end of the year.

STREAM both uppercuts here.

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BUY the single here.


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LG: Bandcamp – Instagram

RONKER – The Four Horsemen Of The Apocalypse Dropped Second Mindfucker ‘HIITT’ From Their Upcoming Debut LP

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20 April 2024


Photo © Nathan Dobbelaere

Band: RONKER
Who: 4 noise junkies from Belgium

New single: HIITT
Second shared piece following lead track Slow Murder from their debut album, baptized Fear Is A Funny Thing Now Smile Like A Big Boy, that will land on 10 May via Labelman


Album artwork

TUTV: These schizo noiseniks take you once again on a brain-breaking
roller coaster. HIIT is a maddening mindfucker that will trash and slash your
speakers about halfway when these four Belgian horsemen of the Apocalypse go
in overdrive and aim for a kick-ass knockout.

The ferocious vocalist screams his 4 lungs out again. He’s your next favorite exorcist.
Now, all you psychos out there, get out of your straitjackets, escape from the asylum
and jump up and down on your way home like a kangaroo on dope. Helter skelter.

WATCH/LISTEN

STREAM

Ronker: Instagram

LAS NUBES – Miami’s Volcanic Superheroines Overwhelm With Dynamite Juggernaut ‘WOULD BE’

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19 April 2024

Band: LAS NUBES
Who: Miami‘s music mainstays Ale Campos and Emile Milgrim. Their fuzzy, bilingual,
90s-influenced Punk Rock meets Dream Pop sound earned them opportunities to
with the likes of Shannon and the Clams, Jens Lekman, The Coathangers, Sheer Mag, Mark Sultan, Torche, and Alice Bag.

Iggy Pop: “Las Nubes are far and away the hottest band in Miami, and the most socially relevant. Like the children and the young at heart across North and South America, they rock from the soul, covered in tattoos and attitude. They represent an uncompromising lifestyle trend that is the future. They’re fucking loud, too.”

New single: WOULD BE

Ale Campos “There was a rumor going around about a live-action The Power Stuff Girls series being made by Diablo Cody. It was going to be set in the future and have them portrayed as adults looking back on their lives as crime-fighting little girls who missed out on being kids. I grew up in the ‘90s and PPG was one of my favorite cartoons, so I was really excited about this.

One day Emile [Milgrim] and I were talking about how cool it would be to write the theme song for the show, so ‘Would Be’ was the result of that. It took about 20 minutes to write. At the time I felt like my best years were flying away before my eyes and I used that as inspiration for what it might feel like to be an aging ex-superhero.”

TUTV: Wowzers! Imagine Hole playing Smells Like Teen Spirit with all cylinders and all burners on. Would Be starts like a starry-eyed dream pop tune and explodes 60 seconds later like a flaming volcano with immense forcefulness and overwhelming oomph.

Expect a scorching mid-tempo juggernaut motorized by hysterical guitars and spiced with adrenalized vocals. If the  Power Stuff Girls were a riotous Grrrl punk band, they would sound exactly like this. Pure dynamite!

WATCH/LISTEN

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LN: Instagram – Bandcamp

ILA – Belgian Post-Rock Trio With Highly Impassioned Cry Out ‘BEN ANLAMAM’ From Their Long-Awaited Upcoming Debut LP

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17 April 2024


(Crammerock, Belgium – photo by Turn Up The Volume)

Artist: ILA

Who: The musical project of Belgian singer-songwriter, Ilayda Cicek. Her music is characterized with a unique voice and unadulterated emotions which unmask the inconsistencies of life.

New single: BEN ANLAMAM
The 3rd shared piece, sung in her mother language, from the
trio’s debut album, baptized ANYA, out next week, on 26 April.

Order-info here.


Album artwork

Turn Up The Volume: Over the years Belgian songstress, with Turkish roots, Ilayda Cicek evolved from an acoustic-playing solo artist to an electric trio band with the assistance of
a flamboyant guitarist and a hammering drummer, and released the top-notch 7-track EP Felt in 2021.

And here we are now, a week and a half away from the long-awaited debut LP, with
another splendid taster. On Ben Anlamam, Cicek expresses, with all her heart and her
soul, the painful aftermath surrounding the recent earthquake that destroyed her father’s birth village. Her sky-scraping vocal discharge indicates tension and threat, while a titanic wall-of-sound grabs you by the throat. Breathtaking stroke. The accompanying video is equally spectacular.

WATCH/LISTEN

All 3 singles


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ILA: Instagram

BLUSHING – Texan Shoegazers Go Stratospheric On Blistering Single ‘SLYCE’ From Their Upcoming Third LP

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16 April 2024


Promo photo

Band: BLUSHING
Who: A double husband-and-wife-duo
shoegaze quartet from Austin, Texas

New single: SLYCE

Third shared piece from their forthcoming, 3rd album,
named Sugarcoat, and landing on May 3. More info here.


Impressive new album artwork

TUTV: Slyce is a blistering shoegaze groove that goes stratospheric every time
the imposing chorus kicks in. Layers of galvanizing guitars, a brick-wall solid drum/bass tandem, and hallucinatory vocals combine for a spacey sonic experience. Touchdown.

WATCH/LISTEN

ALL 3 SINGLES


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TOUR

BLUSHING: Linktree

THE ROLLING PEOPLE – Young Dogs Impress With Perfervid Britpop Swagger Single ‘BEFORE IT’S GONE’

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15 April 2024


Press photo via Rob Allen PR

Band: THE ROLLING PEOPLE
Who: Young rockin’ dogs from
Stockport, England.

New single: BEFORE IT’S GONE
The title track of their new upcoming,
2nd EP, out May 31.

Watching the world around them collapse into self-consciousness, fear
and disillusion, the major-venue-bound four-piece go another step to
affirming their youth-borne confidence and infectious, poetic positivity
with another three-and-a-half-minute people pleaser.

Charlie McNichol (frontman) “We wrote ‘Before It’s Gone’ as a continuation of
our new chapter as a band, exploring a richer sound. I wanted to write a song that
had a massive lifting chorus with a more ballady, but still driving and heavy with
the feeling we are on a journey to grab our chance before it disappears. It’s us
exploring the idea of living your own life and doing everything you can to reach
your ambitions.”

TUTV: No, this is not a lost Oasis track, but it has all the sassy swagger, sonically and
vocally, of the Manchester legends, with electrifying Noel Gallagher-like guitar play as we know it from their spellbinding, mid-tempo power ballads. Before It’s Gone is a sing-along anthem that goes airborne on the ablaze chorus with its perfervid resonance. Striking score.

Roll with it, people.


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THE ROLLING PEOPLE: Linktree

ALAN VEGA – Hear Previously Unreleased Other-Worldly Vibration ‘MERCY’ Here

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14 April 2024

A previously unreleased album, named Insurrection by the late
Brooklyn born master of minimalism ALAN VEGA (1938-2016), half
of proto-punk duo Suicide, comes out on May 31st.

The 11 songs LP showcase the unparalleled vision and uncompromising
force from one of the most influential artists of all time.

Liz Lamere (Vega’s widow and collaborator): “Insurrection was created in the time
period around 1997/98, after Mutator and prior to Vega’s 1999 release of 2007 and
captures the intense energy of NYC in the 90s rife with crime, killing, hate, fascism,
racism, and moral bankruptcy. You can hear the tortured souls floating through this
album.”

Jared Artaud (fellow Vega collaborator): “Insurrection hits hard and shows the power
and intensity of Alan Vega’s visionary solo work. It feels like he was trying to break new
ground. There’s always a kind of magic that goes into working on Vega’s music. I feel like
he was tapped into some other dimension. One hand in the gutter and one hand in the stars.”

Order info here.

Ahead of the release comes this taster piece, called MERCY.
Uncanny percussion, ghostly vocals, and other-worldly vibes.


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ALAN VEGA: Bio – Discography

PORTISHEAD Songstress BETH GIBBONS Shares Haunting Piece ‘REACHING OUT’ From Upcoming Solo Debut Album

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13 April 2024

BETH GIBBONS was the voice/face of renowned British trip-hop
outfit Portishead who released (only) 3 LPs between 1994 and 2008.

She’ll have her solo debut album, named PEOPLE OUTGROWN out on 17th May.

The longplayer was recorded over the last decade and includes with production
by Gibbons, James Ford (Arctic Monkeys, Depeche Mode), and Lee Harris (Talk Talk).
It takes inspiration from a time of deep reflection, change, and, “lots of goodbyes.”

Gibbons about the album: “I realised what life was like with no hope. And that was
a sadness I’d never felt. Before, I had the ability to change my future, but when you’re up against your body, you can’t make it do something it doesn’t want to do. People started
dying.

When you’re young, you never know the endings, you don’t know how it’s going to pan out.
You think: we’re going to get beyond this. It’s going to get better. Some endings are hard to digest.”

Following lead-single Floating On A Moment Gibbons presents
a 2nd new track, a haunting piece named REACHING OUT .

The song is accompanied by an amazing video clip.

WATCH/LISTEN

Gibbons: Instagram

SELF HELP – British Indie Upstarts Take You On A Bouncy Ride With Jagged Juggernaut ‘ENRAGE ENGAGE’

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12 April 2024

Band: SELF HELP (UK)
Who: A band from Oxford (UK) that came together in 2018 sharing a love for a diverse, experimental approach to making music. The band create art strictly on their own terms and, in turn, challenge the listener throughout. Indeed, their unforgettable performances leave a lasting effect on music lovers far and wide, with three frontmen often taking turns to lead the charge.

New single: ENRAGE ENGAGE
It follows the superb first one Spaceman.

“The cut is taken from their forthcoming debut album of the same name.
The track perfectly encapsulates the band’s sound in just over four breathless
minutes. The track is a heady mix of sardonic lyricism, dissonant melodies, crunchy
synths, and explosive sonics, as Self Help share their world view with the listener.”

TUTV: Self Help take you on a bouncy roller coaster ride, going forth and back, left and right. Enrage Engage circles around a pulsating Yard Act like groove that gets under your skin without asking, while the song derails in different surprising, up and down directions, now and then.

Mental guitars, jerky synths, brutish percussions, and cocksure vocals work together with vintage indie swagger, British bravado and natural flair, resulting in a jagged juggernaut. Don’t miss these bloodthirsty upstarts, they’re going places.

Enrage
Engage


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SELF HELP: Facebook – Instagram

TYPHOID ROSIE Rock Their Butts Off On New Punked-Up Tribute Single ‘SOMETHING TO FIGHT FOR’

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10 April 2024


Photo: Janier De Jesus, via Typhoid Rosie

Band: TYPHOID ROSIE
Who: Robust retro rockers out of Brooklyn, New York
fronted by Rosie Rebel, producing high-energy sing-along
alt/power punk with pop hooks and indie grit.

New track: SOMETHING TO FIGHT FOR

It’s the first single off their, forthcoming 5th album, named
Last Words. It lands on June 21. Pre-order info here.

It’s about their dog who suffered a spinal stroke while on tour which paralyzed
him so badly that he didn’t want to live anymore. He went into the bushes to die
and gave them a look like he was never coming out. This song is about the fight
for his life.

TUTV: As we experienced before Typhoid Rosie always storm full steam ahead from the kick-off until the very last rollicking riff. This punked-up, harmonious chant with its sickly sticky chorus triggers your best zigzagging moves. Expect 122 seconds of afire party fuel peppered with Rosie Rebel‘s combative rawk’ n roll vocality and vociferous pizzaz. Ace!

A striking tribute for their beloved dog of six years and tour
companion, Canaan, who now rocks his tail off, up there in
the sky.

“We’re not gonna leave you in this shithole town!
Get in the car, let’s go!”

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TR: Instagram – Bandcamp