shout out

We All Breathe The Same Air – AFTER THE SEASON With Major Electroscape ‘WHEN WE WERE FREE’

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25 January 2021

AFTER THE SEASON is a synth-wave project from Split, Croatia
that started in the middle of 2019. The debut EP is waiting in
the pipeline now.

One of the tracks is WHEN WE WERE FREE.

“A journey to the time when we were free and happy, and also
a warning that we are all responsible for ourselves and for the
times that are coming.”

It’s a cinematic synth symphony combining echoes of Europe’s
Final Countdown anthem and Vangelis‘ Chariots Of Fire atmospherics,
but also including two fragments of John F. Kennedy (1917 – 1963)
speeches. The peace-seeking, charismatic, best-ever USA president,
killed by his own country. We need the hope he spread, again

Breathe here…


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AFTER THE SEASON: Facebook

Start A Mosh Pith In Your Kitchen With TRAUMA LANES And Their New Beastly Single ‘KING OF THIEVES’

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Smashing tunes to shout out about…

22 January 2021

Band: TRAUMA LANES

Who: 24-hour party animals from Ontario, Canada

References: Alexisonfire, Cancer Bats, Every Time I Die,
The Holly Springs Disaster, Refused

Track: KING OF THIEVES – new single – from upcoming EP Nosferatu,
a collection of vicious tracks that feature prominent members of the
local hardcore scene.

“Ever moshed by yourself in your kitchen while cooking?
That’s what we want our fans to be doing” says the band.

Score: Trauma Lanes‘ earsplitting racket sounds as if punk, hardcore, and metal crash
into each other with the crushing force of two high-speed trains coming from opposite directions. I heard that this is the demoniac and deafening noise Satan himself plays
when he throws a flaming party in hell. Yes, mephistophelian helter-skelter is what’s coming at you here. This deranged bluster is what you need when you want to start
a mini mosh pit in your kitchen (before you start making spaghetti).

Time to move the table and the chairs and
trash your lockdown demons…


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TRAUMA LANES: Facebook

(photo via Presstown PR)

OVER And OUT For The AMERICAN IDIOT…

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20 January 2021

It’s OVER and OUT for the worst USA president ever. Why? Because he was
a 24/7 Twitter bully, a totally incompetent me myself and I narcist, a deadly
Covid-19 denier, a megalomaniac, a professional liar, an autocratic, and a
big fan of white supremacy. Hard job, if you ask me.

Fortunately, the majority of the people of the Divided States Of America
had enough of this maniacal and dangerous patriot. More than enough!

To celebrate this ecstatic day let’s ask Green Day to turn up the heat
once more with AMERICAN IDIOT.

Bye, bye…

Massive Melodic Rock – New Single ‘PARTY PEOPLE’ By BLACK STAR JACKALS

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Tunes that make you scream out loud…

20 January 2021

Band: BLACK STAR JACKALS

Who: Fresh, melodic rock quartet from
Glasgow, Scotland formed in 2019

Track: brand new single

About: “Sang from the point of view of one’s inner demons, the lyrics are
joined by a rhythm section hell bent on compelling you to join the party,
and dance away your dreams.”

Score: Titanic melody. Eddie Van Halen guitars. Grand orchestration.
King-sized chorus. High-powered vocals. Get my drift? Oh yes, this
massive emo tune makes your blood race through your veins, causes
fired-up emotions, and invites you to oil your vocal chords and push
your voice to the limit. Smashing score!

Press play…

BLACK STAR JACKALS: Facebook

(promo band photo via Reaction Managament)

Big BANG Synths And Rock-Rap-Pop-Rapture With New Single By Japanese Artist HARU NEMURI (春 ねむり),

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19 January 2021

The past 4 your years Japanese all-round artist HARU NEMURI (春 ねむり) caused acclaimed waves with 3 notable mini-albums (you can stream them on Spotify).

To start 2021 she has a new single out called BANG.

Nemuri explained what inspired the new song: “I cried a little in the bath when Donald
Trump won the US presidential election four years ago. The social persona of Donald Trump really understood the behavior to show his stuff completely in this society where the ideals of the capitalism and the individualism are unnerved and they has been bogged down, and he
has succeeded in letting a lot of people be under the impression that it’s the strength and the identity of a strong person to take both discriminatory and anti-foreign attitudes by repeating them. It was a great sadness for me that there’re many people who couldn’t help supporting such the sham strength.” Read her full statement on her website.

Bang is a witty and skyscraping electro stormer with Nemuri rapping and ranting, groovin’ and movin’, rockin’ and rollin’. Get ready for a huge wall of synths, a razor-sharp-tongued tsunami of words and a thunder and lighting chorus. Dance yourself dizzy!

Big bang indeed!

Get excited here…

HARU NEMURI (春 ねむり): Facebook

FALL OUT BOY Play At BIDEN/HARRIS Pre-Inauguration Concert

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18 January 2021

Chicago’s veteran rockers FALL OUT BOY played at the 2021 Biden/Harris
Pre-Inauguration Concert last night along with James Taylor, Carole King and
more at the We The People even. They performed 2014 song Centuries.

Shout Out for Joe & Kamala…

FALL OUT BOY: Facebook

The XX Factor – Belgian Trio PEENOISE Mystifies With New Single ‘AGAIN’

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11 January 2021

Band: PEENOISE
Who: A Belgian trio producing contrast between minimal synths
and experimental guitars that cuts through spatial arrangements
creating a vulnerable yet deep and captivating sound.

Track: AGAIN – new single

About: “‘Again’ is reminiscent of Nietzsche’s idea of the eternal return.
Lyrically this song is about the repetition of history where no one seems
to remember which path to take, so we have to do the same descent and
climb over and over again. reasonably negative image of humanity, but
the text ends positively.”

Score: Makes me think of the minimalist tone of 70s Welsh post-punk
band Young Marble Giants and the electronic shadows of London‘s the
XX. Enigmatic, mystifying, and other-worldly. But also bizarrely catchy and
instantly appealing with its growing, orchestral vibrancy. Trust me, you’ll
play this again and again.

Again they will climb
out of the depth again
Our brains will grow and cling
and we’ll do our thing again…


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While you’re here check also their
2020 full length debut Forevergem
Pretty special…

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PEENOISE: Facebook

THANK YOU ALL!!!!!!!! 100.071 Views For TURN UP THE VOLUME In 2020

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Wow!
Wow Wow!
Wow Wow Wow!

Turn Up The Volume‘s blog scored a total of 100.071 views,
in 2020, coming from 67 different countries around the globe!

Absolutely cool! Thank all of you who checked in, in the past
12 science-fiction-like months. And I hope you’ll be back in 2021!
I WILL! It’s only rock ‘n’ roll but…

Just for fun: the top 5 of the countries
where the views came from…

USA: 35.694
UK: 24.307
Belgium: 10.307
Canada: 3. 534
France: 2.549

Last: Iraq, Maldives, Cameroon, Fiji, Comoros
and many more other exotic places with
1 view (who are you? contact me!)

Bring on the champagne
and turn up the volume…