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THE CHRONICLES OF MANIMAL AND SAMARA – Artists In Sound And Vision

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8 April 2022

Early this month sound-and-poetry exploring duo
THE CHRONICLES OF MANIMAL AND SAMARA
dropped another rad piece from their upcoming
sophomore LP Trust No Leaders.

Turn Up The Volume wrote about THE CHEFS SONG : “Another astounding
hellraiser swinging your mind from left to right and back, from Samara‘s sort
of vocal broadcasting performance to Manimal‘s death metal snarls and back.
130 seconds of intimidating thunder-and-lighting brouhaha. A merciless
brainbreaker.”

And here’s the razzle-dazzle video. Another visual
tour de force by two formidable sound and vision artists…

Let’s cook…

TCOMAS: Facebook – Instagram

Now Watching -The Early Years Of BOB DYLAN In A Series Of Dreams

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I was thinking of a series of dreams
Where nothing comes up to the top.
Everything stays down where it’s wounded
And comes to a permanent stop.

The song was planned to be on his 1989 praised album Oh Mercy, but the wayward
mister Zimmerman dropped it, before the release, for unknown reasons. Eventually,
this diamond ended up on The Bootleg Series Volumes 1–3.

BOB DYLAN: Facebook

Now Watching! AMYL TAYLOR Losing Control And (almost) Her Head

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Piping-hot Aussie punkette AMY TAYLOR and her SNIFFERS have two
blistering punk rock albums out, so far. Their self-titled cooking debut LP
 (2019) and the holy smoke follow-up Comfort To Me (2021).

Amyl loses control and almost her head on this fucktastic live
version of the headbanger called CONTROL (from that debut CD).

Do try this at home…

AMYL AND THE SNIFFERS: Facebook

Now Watching! Clip For New Single By This Year’s British Pop Sensation WET LEG

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Female pop-duo WET LEG is definitely the British pop hype/sensation of 2022.

Their much-anticipated self-titled debut longplayer comes out this Friday.
But first, they seduce us, once again, with another new piece (the 6th one)
off the album. Here comes the funny clip for UR MUM…

WET LEG: Facebook

All tour dates (UK/Canada/US/Europe) here

Now Watching! New FOALS Video For New Funky Cut ‘LOOKING HIGH’

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British funky rockers FOALS launch their
7th LP LIFE IS YOURS on 17th June.

And here’s a new taster off that album.

Yannis Philippakis (frontman/songwriter)about LOOKING HIGH: “This is looking back to a more hedonistic time in my life, and a more innocent time in society in general, pre-pandemic and before the existential threat of climate change,” Yannis Philippakis says. “It takes place in an alley in Oxford with two clubs – The Cellar and The Wheatsheaf – that all the city’s nightlife gravitated towards. It was before clubs started to close down and our cities started to change into more corporate, arid places. There’s an element of being haunted by nightlife that’s no longer there.”

Funk it up, folks…

FOALS: Facebook

Ukrainian Animator Visualises Notable Single ‘THE HURT WITHIN’ By Welsh Indie Trio HOLY COVES

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3 April 2022

Welsh indie trio HOLY COVES led by singer-songwriter Scott Marsden released their notable new single THE HURT WITHIN last month through Yr Wyddfa Records (one
of Turn Up the Volume‘s 20 best Knockouts of March 2022).

Turn Up The Volume wrote: “This impassioned hard-luck story grows slowly but surely
into a soul-stirring and mesmerising heartbreaker with an epic finale. Glowing guitars, a
steady drumbeat, and mixed emotions vocals all come together for a poignant performance. ‘Love Is Cruel / The Hurt Within’. You can feel it.”

To visualise the song Holy Coves engaged acclaimed Ukrainian animator and filmmaker Taras Merenkov. He really pulled off an animated tour de force. A visual masterstroke.

Eye-boggling…

HOLY COVES: Facebook

NOW WATCHING! U2 On A Roof This Day In 1987

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27 March 2022

Irish heroes U2 went on a roof in LA to perform WHERE THE STREETS HAVE NO NAME (from their blockbuster LP The Joshua Three) this day in 1987, probably inspired by the legendary roof showing of the Fab Fourin 1969.

Thousands of people danced in the nameless streets and traffic was blocked. The police got scared of this situation and stopped the spectacle a few minutes after Bono turned up the heat in the City of Angels.

C’mon, Bono…

U2: Facebook

FATHER JOHN MISTY Launches Video Clip For His Beatific Ballad ‘GOODBYE MR. BLUE’

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18 March 2022

Last week acclaimed American singer-songwriter FATHER JOHN MISTY
(real name: Joshua Michael Tillman) dropped a beautific ballad from his
new, fifth album, entitled Chloë And The Next 20th Century . The LP
lands on 8 April via Sub Pop

GOODBYE MR. BLUE sounds like
the ghosts of Harry Nilsson and
Bobby Goldsboro joined Misty in
the studio.

Now there’s a video for the song, shot in Bulgaria last September.
I still can’t figure out what the story is about. Can you?

FATHER JOHN MISTY: Facebook