Today 23 September is the astronomical season end of summer. Sniff, sniff.
Let’s say goodbye with a cast-iron band and one of their many cast-iron juggernauts.
Ladies and gents, QUEENS OF THE STONE AGE with their 2002
jackhammer No One Knows at this year’s Glastonbury Festival.
12 September 2023
Riot grrrl queen KATHLEEN HANNA (aged 54 now) is quite busy playing reunion tours.
Three years ago she hit the road with her most famous and iconic punk act Bikini Kill. Unfortunately, the Covid-19 lockdown torpedoed lots of gigs.
This year, Hanna started a sold-out reunion tour with Le Tigre last May. Last week they played in Baltimore Last July. The roof went off when they played Deceptacon, the classic cracker (more than 156 million streams on Spotify) from their 1999 self-titled debut LP.
FANTASTIC!
LE TIGRE: Bio – Discography
Blistering moments from 2023 festivals
10 September 2023
Artwork Supernova album
Startling urban punk two-piece NOVA TWINS, Amy Love & Georgia South,
caused euphoric excitement among fans and critics with their second full
length SUPERNOVA, that landed a year ago. A bomb-tastic blast of a record.
From their on it was touring time.
The utterly cool duo also played this year’s Glastonbury.
Join them here and go gaga to Choose Your Fighter,
one of the boss tracks off the LP.
I already had my share of Nova Twins blitz last March in Brussels.
Photos by Turn Up The Volume
NOVA TWINS: Website – Instagram
Adam Granduciel and his band THE WAR ON DRUGS have become huge stars
over the years following 5 triumphant longplayers in 15 years with ‘I Don’t Live
Here Anymore’ as the most recent one (2021).
The Philly heroes were on this year’s Glastonbury bill and played a blistering set, including this spellbinding version of UNDER THE PRESSUREa> from their 2014 LP ‘Lost In The Dream’.
Superb.
TWOD: Instagram
27 August 2023
(Photo by Turn Up The Volume)
Swedish sweaty rockers VIAGRA BOYS scored 2nd best album of 2022
on TUTV’s list with their 3rd album Cave World. A bloody motherrocker
of a record.
They’re on tour for almost 2 years now, playing indoors and outdoors.
A week ago they turned up the heat in The Netherlands at Lowlands Fest.
Here’s the full steamy show.
If these dumbfound dropouts don’t make you jump in
all directions you really need to consult a shrink.
Setlist
Ain’t No Thief
Slow Learner
Punk Rock Loser
Baby Criminal
Troglodyte
Ain’t Nice
Worms
Down in the Basement
Cold Play
ADD
Sports
Research Chemicals
VIAGRA BOYS: Facebook – Instagram – Website
2 August 2023
The inseparable brothers Ron and Russell Mael, artistically known worldwide
for years now – since 1966 – as SPARKS are as productive, on and off stage,
as ever. Along the years they generated 3 generations of fans.
Last May they released their 25th LP, titled THE GIRL IS CRYING IN HER LATTE.
Another brisk pop triumph that got lots of accolades from the press. Not bad at
all for these imperishable musical siblings.
And live they’re also as fit as a fiddle. This and next year
it’s tour/album-promo time for the familial tandem.
Last June they played at the
Primavera Sound Festival
in Barcelona.
Here’s the full spark-ling set.
New Album
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SPARKS: Facebook – Instagram – All Albums
15 July 2023
AMYL AND THE SNIFFERS are a non-stop volcanic rawk & roll bolide from down under, led by the utterly cool and stormy frontwoman Amyl Taylor. An uproarious Melbourne-based
noise turbine generating a lethal cocktail of The Runaways (Joan Jett‘s teenage band)
and metallic fury Plasmatics (with the legendary Wendy O. Williams) fueled by an eruptive Motörhead drive. So far they released two LPs. The self-titled debut (2019) and the follow-up Comfort To Me (2021).
Last month they unleashed their demons at Primavera Sound Festival in Madrid, Spain.
Lots of clamor.
Lots of sweat.
Lots of fun.
AMYL & THE SNIFFERS: Instagram
Leicester champs KASABIAN are one of the best live bands I witnessed in
the past 15 years. Always a rapturous get-together party when they hit the
stage.
After launching their newest LP The Alchemist’s Euphoria last year, they
took the road and are still going hot on several summer festivals this year.
Last weekend they were in Scotland at the TRNSMT fest.
60.000 went bonkers and exploded when frontman Serge Pizzorno
whipped them up for an orgastic finale of their 2009 blast FIRE (more
than 153 million streams on Spotify).
This short snippet says it all.
JUMP JUMP JUMP
What just happened??? TRNSMT 23 🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥@TRNSMTfest pic.twitter.com/I9pkl1Wbck
— KasabianHQ (@KasabianHQ) July 9, 2023
Two weeks ago I got fired up too when the band incited
the crowd with a blistering set at Rock Werchter in Belgium.
Again… JUMP JUMP JUMP
30 June 2023
Rock Werchter
KASABIAN: Instagram – Facebook
Photos by Turn Up The Volume
9 July 2023
On 21 July, iocnic Brit-pop-rock frontrunners BLUR
launch their 9th LP baptized The Ballad Of Darren.
And yesterday they played their first of two gigantic
sell-out concerts at Wembley Stadium (80,000 cap.) in London.
Everybody seemed to be happy.
Woo-hoo
Woo-hoo
Woo-hoo
Woo-hoo
BLUR: Instagram
9 July 2023
QUEENS OF THE STONE AGE, orchestrated by mastermind JOSH HOMME
unleashed their 8th album, titled IN TIMES NEW ROMAN… 3 weeks ago.
TUTV said: “The new Queens album is a nightmarish journey into Homme‘s
beat-up mind. His thoughts reflect the hard times he went through in the past
years. The overall sonic tone is murky and tenebrous. From the mid-tempo stoner
blues grooves to rugged garage rockers. And Homme‘s vocality is browbeating.
He chases his demons.”
Last Sunday QOTSA closed the Rock Werchter Festival in Belgium.
Here’s the full HQ show as registered by the fest’s organization.
Stupendous performance.
SETLIST
No One Knows
The Lost Art of Keeping a Secret
Smooth Sailing
My God Is the Sun
Carnavoyeur
The Way You Used to Do
If I Had a Tail
I Sat by the Ocean
The Evil Has Landed
Paper Machete
Make It Wit Chu
Emotion Sickness
Little Sister
Straight Jacket Fitting
Go With the Flow
A Song for the Dead
IN TIMES NEW ROMAN…
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QOTSA: Website – Instagram – Facebook