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Today Belgium, Tomorrow The World – Mean Rock Machine RHEA Are Ready To Rumble

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20 July 2022

If you don’t know the mean Belgian rock machine RHEA yet,
I’ll give you 5 reasons why they should be your next favorite gang.

1. Their sizzling powerhouse sound is bigger than the cathedral of Notre-Dame de Paris (before the fire). Think Australian bulldozers Wolfmother and badasses Queens Of The Stone Age. Pretty Herculean, right? You betcha.

2. Their 2020 debut LP LUST FOR BLOOD is a monster of a record. A tsunami of rollicking riff rippers, propelled by a merciless drums/bass turbine and a charismatic motormouth in the middle.

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3. On stage, they rage and rush without brakes or breaks with all cylinders on.
Here’s a very loud and very clear idea of their blitzkrieg bluster when rollin’ live.

4. Their fans wear cool t-shirts.

5. These muttafokkers are about to take the world by storm.
Don’t miss them and don’t forget where you read this news first!

RHEA: Facebook – Instagram

(All photos by Turn Up The Volume – Ghent, Belgium, 18 July 2022)

Baltimore’s Punk Tornado PINKSHIFT Are Not Crying On New Jagged Juggernaut

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New striking strokes

19 July 2022


(Photo courtesy: Leigh Ann Rodgers)

Band: PINKSHIFT
Who: Rowdy punk tornado trio from Baltimore

New single: I’M NOT CRYING YOU ARE CRYING
Second shared piece, following lead single nothing (in my head)
from their upcoming debut album Love Me Forever.

Ashrita Kumar (vocalist): ““crying” is the one song on the record that I didn’t start with a particular direction, just raw and unfiltered emotion. As the first song on Love Me Forever, it kicks the record off with a panicked denial, an immediately attacking response to the question of “are you okay?” untrusting and doubtful of the intent and sincerity of that question.”

Turn Up The Volume: Warn your neighbors before this jagged juggernaut starts blasting out of your speakers. Why? When you combine the larger-than-life wall-of-Aussie-sound of Wolfmother and the clear-cut razzmatazz spits and sneers of Amy Taylor, the punktastic motormouth of Amyl And The Sniffers, you’ll realize that the (il)legal amount of decibels will go through the roof. And that’s what exactly happens right here. Tons of vigorous vitality available here.

Stop crying and press play…

PINKSHIFT: Facebook – Instagram

All info and pre-order facilities HERE

PUNKS FOR AUTISM

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Steve Lombardo is the founder and driving force behind San Diego‘s charity operation PUNKS FOR AUTISM. A collaboration with super talented artists of all backgrounds to create underground apparel for this generation that helps drive Autism Awareness & Acceptance. Punks For Autism is an official 501(c)(3) nonprofit organization. Donations
are tax-deductible to the extent allowed by law.

Lombardo: “As the father of an autistic son, I’d often see various generic apparel supporting autism that either looked like something you’d get for free for participating in a race or something your grandma would rock…not that we all don’t love our grandmas, just not necessarily their attire.”

Funds for PFA come from the sales of t-shirts, mugs, hoodies, baseball caps
and other stuff, all designed by tattoo artists and illustrators from the U.S.
and beyond.

Visit the PFA WEBSITE and support their cause.

German Punk Turbo SUCK Have A Knife Fight With ‘LUCIFER’

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Rippers that make Turn Up The Volume screaming out loud

14 July 2022


(photo by Aylin Sengül)

Band: SUCK
Who: Hefty punk turbo
from Kassel, Germany

Jakob Fast – guitar
Isabell Rutz – vocals, synth
Patrick Pietsch – drums, vocals
Nils Köhnken – bass

Single: LUCIFER
Brand new piece from their
upcoming debut album Ribbit,
out 23 September.

Jakbo Fast (guitarist): “Metallica and Sabbath are the intersection that we all
agree on, while the latter have influenced my guitar style. Even though the songs
are more punk than metal, that’s where they come from.”

Turn Up the Volume: Expect a riotous sucker-punk-punch going everywhere
fast with dash and panache. Crazed vocals, Black Sabbath whangs, psychopathic
guitars, and a loud and clear turbo swagger. Watch your back Lucifer, they are
coming after you with a jagged knife. No wonder they already toured with the
awesome Amyl And The Sniffers.

These muttafokkers do not suck. Trust me, you will get thunderstruck.

Here’s why…

Also roaring on Spotify

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SUCK666: Instagram

GOSPEL Scores The Silliest Song Title Of The Year (So Far)

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13 July 2022

Band: GOSPEL
Who: Hardcore prog rock/punk team
from Brooklyn, formed in 2003

Song: MVDM: The Magical Volumes Vol​.​1: The Magick Volume of Dark Madder
or Magic Volume of Dark Matter or Just Magic Volume .

This song title is so silly that it’s cool and
fits its 21-minute mental prog-rock jam.

Hallelujah…


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Check also their new mad-as-fuck album The Loser

GOSPEL: Facebook

CYNDI LAUPER Shares Re-Recorded Version Of Her 1993 Abortion Rights Anthem ‘SALLY’S PIGEONS

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27 June 2022

In wake of the Roe v. Wade reversal, New York’s pop heroine CYNDI LAUPER
has re-recorded her 1993 abortion rights anthem SALLY’S PIGEONS.

Lauper: “In my childhood, women didn’t have reproductive freedom and 50 years later
we find ourselves in a time warp where one’s freedom to control their own body has been stripped away. When I wrote this song with Mary Chapin Carpenter in 1991, we wrote about
two little girls who dreamt of stretching their wings like the pigeons they watched that flew above them. They dreamt of being free. But freedom then for women and unfortunately now comes at a big price. If we don’t have control over our own bodies then we have no real freedom. We are second class citizens. We need to mobilize. We need to let our voices be heard.”

The song was inspired by the death of a childhood friend of Lauper‘s
who got pregnant in her teens following a back-alley abortion.

Lyrics

When I was eight I had a friend
With a pirate smile
Make believe and play pretend
We were innocent and wild
Hopped a fence and slammed the gate
Running down my alleyway
In time to watch Sally’s pigeons fly

We loved to watch them dive and soar
Circle in the sky
Free as a bird from three to four
And never knowing why
Neighbors pulled their wash back in
Put away my Barbie and Ken
Look out overhead
While Sally’s pigeons fly

I had a fool’s confidence
That the world had no boundaries
But instincts and common sense
Come in different quantities

My heart began to skip to the beat
Of the boy next door
She had her eye across the street
On someone shy and tall
We lived our dreams
And challenged fate
In tears she told me she was late
And Sally let his pigeons out to fly

On the dresser sits a frame
With a photograph
Two little girls in ponytails
Some twenty one years back
She left one night with just a nod
Was lost from some back alley job
I close my eyes and Sally’s pigeons fly
She never saw those birds again
And me, I can’t remember when
A pirate smile hasn’t made me cry
I close my eyes
And Sally’s pigeons fly

Music

CYNDI LAUIPER: Instagram

(Image on top: cover of Lauper‘s best of album)

5 Reasons Why You Should Get Into Garage Force DIRK.

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When Turn Up The Volume is excited…

All you hungry music junkies out there I recommend you to open your
ears for pumped-up Belgian misfits DIRK. I’ll give you 5 reasons why.

1. They’re garage rock fanatics with an unstoppable appetite for riff-schizophrenic rippers.

2. They fuck things up the way we like to fuck things up too.

3. Jimi Hendrix played guitar with his teeth. DIRK.’s frontman
can play guitar lying on his back with one leg in the air.

4. That same guy does the duck walk as well as Chuck Berry did it.

5.. DIRK. is a kids-friendly band.

Not convinced yet?
This will…

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DIRK: Facebook – Instagram


Today Belgium, tomorrow the world.

(Pics by Turn Up The Volume – Rock Affligem Fest, 21 May 2022)

Time For Action – NO MUSIC ON A DEAD PLANET

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MUSIC DECLARES EMERGENCY is a group of artists, music
industry professionals and organisations who believe that…

MUSIC, MUSICIANS AND MUSIC BUSINESSES, THROUGH THEIR UNIQUE CULTURAL AND ECONOMIC POWER, CAN LEAD THE WAY IN DEMANDING THE SYSTEMIC CHANGES REQUIRED TO SECURE ALL LIFE ON EARTH.

MDE has now launched its US initiative with support from artists who are passionate about the climate crisis, with artists including Billie Eilish, Bon Iver, Arcade Fire and Brian Eno supporting the cause and many more join on a daily basis.

Initially started in the UK in 2019, MDE is now also operational in France, Germany, Switzerland, Chile and Canada. It’s gathered over 6000 signatures from across the music industry supporting a declaration that calls for an immediate governmental response to do more to combat climate change.

In a new statement, MDE said: “Now, more than ever is the time for the United States to loudly and proactively join the rally to curb and reverse greenhouse gas emissions. The climate crisis is the greatest challenge of our time, and the power of music should take its place at the forefront of this important movement to create a safer, fairer, more sustainable world. The climate crisis is about science, not politics. There is #NOMUSICONADEADPLANET.

Chrissie Hynde: “This declaration needs to be the moment where music steps up and really pushes the truth to our audiences and confronts governments so that things happen much more quickly.”

MUSIC DECLARES EMERGENCY: Website

1,000,000,000 Views For Metallic Sheffield Rockers BRING ME THE HORIZON

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14 April 2022

Metallic Sheffield rockers BRING ME THE HORIZON
have reached 1 billion streams on Spotify for their
4th monstrous LP SEMPITERNAL released in 2013.

BMOTH said: “NiNE yEArS oF SeMPiterNaL. tHAnK U”

Key single…

Stream the full album…

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AllMusic about ‘Sempiternal’: “Bring Me the Horizon have been working slowly but
surely to refine their sound for years now, and with Sempiternal, it feels like their patience
and hard work are finally beginning to pay dividends.” Score: 4/5.