Track Of The Day

MADONNATRON’s Voodoo Priestesses Return With Brand New Burning Groove… ‘MERMAIDS’

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13 March 2018

After releasing their remarkable self-titled debut LP last year, London’s MADONNATRON returns with brand new, steamy single MERMAIDS. A scalding, mid-tempo groove that grows nastier with every second and turning into a trance-like fervency in the end. This is
a bang-up knockout. A red-hot torch that burns slowly but surely. The voodoo priestesses
of 21st Century’s post-punk-rock are back! With a Big Bang! With a Searing Smack! With a cracker about The Good, The Bad and The Ugly! Feel the heat right here, right now…


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MADONNATRON: Debut LP here on Bandcamp – Facebook – Twitter


MERMAIDS along with B-side ‘Ich Liebe Dich’ out 11 May. Pre-order facilities right here

Seductive Blues Twosome MR. AIRPLANE With Irresistible Foreplay Track ‘I’M IN LOVE’…

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5 March 2018

MR. AIRPLANE MAN are Margaret Garrett (guitar & vocals) and Tara McManus (drums, organ and vocals) from Boston, Massachusetts. They started back in the 90s producing a sultry sound mix of hypnotic blues, haunting slide guitar, and idiosyncratic rock and roll with dreamy, yearning pop immortalized on three albums and an EP. After taking a break to have babies, live in the desert, and generally, shake up their lives, the exciting tandem returned with The Lost Tapes album in December 2014. And now they’re ready for much more. Brand new album JACARANDA BLUE will be released on 16th March…

But first the LP’s opening track to transfer us all in the right mood for the upcoming
full-length record. I’M IN LOVE is an hypnotizing groove from the very tempting start
to the puzzling voodoo finale. A hi-hat/drum beat and reverberating guitar riff control
the feverish pace of this extended sonic foreplay experience. Now and then Margaret Garrett‘s sensual and teasing vocals seem to be ready for the ecstatic moment, but
after a mini-explosion, it’s back to that irresistibly enticing rockabilly rhythm, back
to the seductive ritual until the mysterious tribal finish. WOW! Join the enthralling
ride and lose yourself in this dazzling vibe.

Here we go…

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MR. AIRPLANE MAN: Website – Facebook – Twitter


New LP JACARANDA BLUE – out 16 March – all info and order facilities right here.

Irish Garage Guerrillas ‘FONTAINES D.C.’ Strike With Sneering Steamroller Single ‘CHEQUELESS RECKLESS’…

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2 March 2018

Band: FONTAINES D.C.
Home: Dublin, Ireland
Who: “Post-punk band out of Dublin, Ireland combining sharp songwriting and catchy retro vibes. They were compared to The Fall and Idles, and shared bills with Girl Band and Yak.”
Pick: CHEQUELESS RECKLESS – Their record label Rough Trade says: “Chequeless Reckless
is one half of a double A-Side single and is a mesmerizing cut that’s built on a krautrock rock-esque groove but played by punks.”

Turn Up The Volume says: Wham Bloody Bam! Here’s something really special. ‘Chequeless Reckless‘ is a rattling whirlwind drone doing your head in from the very start to the sudden finish. Post krautpunk paranoia at its thundery best, activated by manic drums and resounding guitars while singer Grian Chatten spits and sneers all the way, word by word. This dazzling firecracker roars like a runaway train at a threatening speed. A red-hot bolide that crashes just after the two-minute mark. Intoxicating score! Can’t wait to see these guys next May in Brussels with noisemakers Idles and Canadian powerhouse Metz.
Check your speakers’ volume limit and get your ears and mind ready, ’cause here’s the vicious blare…

7″ Single ‘Chequeless Reckless / Boys In The Better Land‘ available via Rough Trade here.

ICEAGE Share Horns Filled Firework Stroke ‘PAINKILLER’ Feat. SKY FERREIRA From Upcoming LP…

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1 March 2018

Big wall-of-sound. Big turbulence. Big collaboration. That’s Danish rambunctious engine ICEAGE for you, ladies and gents, sharing another track from their first new longplayer in
four years titled Beyondless. New shambolic cut PAINKILLER features the wonderful SKY FERREIRA and is a robust and red-hot outburst with burning guitars, smacking drums and a massive horn section. Wow! On top of it frontman Rønnenfelt and Ferreira turn their own messy cool vocals into something weirdly attractive. Double wow! Here’s the audio clip for this soulful hunky-dory wallop. Capture the heat right here…

New album BEYONDLESS out 4th May via Matador Records. Here’s the artwork…


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YO LA TENGO Share New Moony And Romantic Track ‘FOR YOU TOO’ From Upcoming 15th Album…

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Longtime alternative rockers YO LA TENGO (they formed in 1984 in Hoboken, New Jersey) will release their 15th album ‘There’s A Riot Going On‘ on 16th March. A record dealing with the chaos and the confusion of our troubled era. I guess you could actually make double and triple albums about the turbulent times we live in these days. Today the band shared the fifth track from the upcoming longlayer. FOR YOU TOO is an ongoing trance like trip droning gently forward while singer Ira Kaplan‘s vox floats all over it. Self-reflective, moony and romantic. We know by now that, underneath, these experienced daydreamers always spread a wave of hope and never give up vibe, even in their darkest moments. Probably the reason why they keep surviving, in style and with significant high-quality-songwriting…

Here’s the audio clip…

YO LA TENGO: Website – Facebook – Twitter


New album THERE’S A RIOT GOING ON – out 16 March via Matatdor Records

CHRIS CORNELL Turned A Poem By JOHNNY CASH Into A Gripping Beauty…

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You Never Knew My Mind by JOHNNY CASH
Put to music by CHRIS CORNELL

In 1996 the late great JOHNNY CASH (happy birthday wherever you are, legend – Cash was born 26 Feb 1932, 86 years ago today) recorded a cover of Soundgarden’s track ‘Rusty Cage’ written by the late great CHRIS CORNELL. Almost 20 years later, Cornell put a discovered Cash poem to music, creating a spine-chilling new song ‘YOU NEVER KNEW MY MIND‘. Unfortunately, one of Cornell’s final recordings.

The song is featured on ‘JOHNNY CASH: FOREVER WORDS’ out April 6 on Legacy Recordings . The album contains Cash’s unknown poetry, lyrics, and letters, now set to music by impressive, contemporary artists. Along with Cornell, the record features new songs by Ruston Kelly & Kacey Musgraves, Rosanne Cash, Alison Krauss & Union Station, Kris Kristofferson & Willie Nelson, Brad Paisley, John Mellencamp, Carlene Carter, Elvis Costello,
The Jayhawks and more.

Here’s the gripping interpretation of captivating Johnny Cash poem
‘YOU NEVER KNEW MY MIND’ by Chris Cornell…


20 July 1964 – 18 May 2017

 

BELLY – Finally Back With New Groovy And Electrifying Stroke ‘SHINY ONE’…

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23 February 2018

Finally BELLY is back with new music. Led by the wonderful Tanya Donnelly this is
a long-awaited return of one of the most mesmeric popsmiths of the 90s. Brand new single SHINY ONE is a mid-tempo groove pearl that gets bigger and vivider along its electrifying way. Donelly‘s delightful vox is at the heart of this sparkling rainbow while glimmering guitars and an overall sticky swagger amplify the song tremendously.

An addictive grower you’ll have on repeat for a while to discover all layers of the splendiferous orchestrations, sunlit harmonies and rich arrangements. Welcome
back, Belly. Capture the beauty, here’s the audio clip…

BELLY: Website – Facebook – Twitter

New album DOVE out 4 May 2018 – all info right here

TOWANDA – This Fuzzy Metallic Artillery From Canada Will Pulverize Your Head With New Detonation ‘ANOTHER BRIDGE BURNED’…

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19 February 2018

“Eating people for breakfast, burning love to the ground since 2013…”

Metallic fuzz buzz trio TOWANDA (Montreal/Rhode Island) released their impressive
debut longplayer Plaything in 2016. A thunderous record filled with head-smacking
blows and lots of “avant-gruel-metallic-rock-noir” & “a steaming pile of raging estrogen.”

The rabid 3-piece return now with scorching lead-track ANOTHER BRIDGE BURNED
from upcoming 4-track EP titled ‘Freak Of Nurture‘. This new knockout slam is a slow-moving serpent getting nastier and rowdier with every wall-of-ominous-noise-second
until the apocalypse finally roars its ugly head. This bad-ass sockdolager will sneak into your unsuspected brain before you can say ‘Trump is a hopeless moron’ and mess up all dark corners of your poor head, and, trust me you’ll bloody love it. Here’s the glowing inferno, burn it now…

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The EP will be out on 6 April via GIRLSVILLE, a pretty cool independent
label from Chicago. All info/pre-order facilities here on Bandcamp

TOWANDA: Facebook


Artwork ‘Freak Of Nurture EP

TRACK OF THE DAY – Here’s COURTNEY BARNETT Going NAMELESS & FACELESS…

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Fab singer/songwriter/dreamer/feminist/rocker/wordsmith/storyteller/performer COURTNEY BARNETT returns, after her collaboration with kindred musical spirit
Kurt Vile, with the first single of her own fresh, forthcoming album, titled ‘Tell Me
How You Really Feel‘. New track ‘NAMELESS, FACELESS‘ has that vintage Barnett
swagger and slacker catchiness and a crystal clear feminist message. The cool, accompanying clip is made by Lucy Dyson. Listen/watch right here…

COURTNEY BARNETT: Website – Facebook – Twitter


New LP TELL ME HOW YOU REALLY FEEL Out 18 May – all info & pre-order facilities here.

Go Completely Gaga To QUEEN ZEE’s Blistering ‘VICTIM AGE’ Slam…

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14 February 2018

Turn Up The Volume already fell in love with this eccentric outlaw gang from Liverpool
when their scorching debut EP Sass Or Die hit our stereo. Led by the eccentric, the freakish and the utterly charismatic QUEEN ZEE this gang built itself a thunderous reputation on the busy live circuit in the UK. I think their latest grenade VICTIM AGE
is another, more mind-expanding way to celebrate Valentine’s Day this year.

Surprise your ignorant lover with a BIG BOOMING BANG! Why? Because this vicious sledgehammer is LOUD! SEXY! NASTY! DIRTY! HORNY! PUNKY! WILD! SHOCKING! TERRIFIC! RIOTOUS! SMASHING! RED-HOT! and also MASSIVE! AWESOME! BADASS! CUCKOO! MENTAL! & TOTALLY OUTRAGEOUS! See, exactly the insane mood you
always wanted for a day like this instead of another lousy present! GO FOR IT! 1-2-3-4…


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QUEEN ZEE: Website – Facebook – Twitter


Your new fav Queen…