DEBBIE HARRY About THE VELVET UNDERGROUND
Sunday 13 September 2026
“I love Lou Reed and I love The Velvet Underground. It was one of the first bands I saw in New York.I was completely flabbergasted and knocked by them.”
Source: Far Out Magazine.
Artists About Artists
JIMMY PAGE On The Late JEFF BUCKLEY
8 September 2026
“I was really affected by Jeff Buckley when I heard him peform. I was at one of his last concerts in Australia. It was just absolutely staggering. He just touched every emotion in you. He was really superb and in a total class of his own.”
MORISSEY About JOHNNY MARR
24 August 2026
Stop moaning all the time, Mozzer.
“How fantastic would life have been if Marr had chosen four more studio albums with The Smiths, instead of joining and
then been throwing out of The Pretenders.”
Go Johnny, go.
Photo by Turn Up The Volume – June 2026, Antwerp
Full Mozzer feature here.
The Late Iconic DOLLY PARTON About EMINEM
27 August 2026
The music world lost a truly genuine, awe-inspiring, all-around beloved and praised
artist with Dolly Parton. Her legacy is huge, artistically and as an open-minded, caring, humanitarian-inspiring person.
She also had an eclectic musical taste.
When hip-rap-hop giant Eminem was inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall Of Fame
in 2022, Parton wrote him a touching letter, which he made public now as an ode to
the brilliant artist.
Here it is.
Marshall (Eminem),
Congratulations on your induction into the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame. Your performance was amazing and everybody said so. Even though I don’t know a lot about rap music, I’ve come to know that you are the very best at it.
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Aside from that I hope what I have to say will not seem weird or strange to you but I have always felt some unexplained connection to you like I know you somehow. I had hoped to meet you at the show but you know how nuts those things are, personally I hate ’em and I missed my chance but maybe someday we’ll meet.
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In the meantime, keep doing what you’re doing because you do it so well and no matter how complex your world may be just know you are very special and touch people in ways you don’t even know. With love & respect, Dolly Parton.
Image on top: cover of Parton‘s ‘Best Of’ album.
THE CURE General ROBERT SMITH About MY BLOODY VALENTINE
25 August 2026
I wonder which are the two other favourite albums.
“My Bloody Valentine was the first band I heard who clearly pissed all over us. Their album ‘Loveless’ is certainly one of
my all-time three favourite records.”
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Full Robert Smith feature here.
This November it’ll be 35 years since MBV released their seminal LP Loveless.
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Photo on top, by Turn Up The Volume – Rock Werchter, Belgium, July 2026.
HENRY ROLLINGS About TED NUGENT
19 August 2026
Photo credit: Heidi May
Rollins about Trump/MAGA junk Ted Nugent.
“My Nugent records are kind of like my guilty pleasures. I can defend his guitar playing on any battlefield. Then you hear the stuff he says and then you’re like: Ahhh! I just ruins my day. I can’t do it.”
Just go away, macho.
Cover of his Sweden Rocks album/DVD.
RADIOHEAD Maestro THOM YORKE About DAVID BOWIE
17 August 2026
Sounds creepy, Thom.
“I remember sitting on a climbing frame in a local play park. And I had just
seen the video for ‘Ashes To Ashes’ by David Bowie. It was the craziest thing
I’ve ever seen, and all the other kids were sort of saying, how it was too weird,
and I thought, I wanna do this for a living.”
Genius.
1947-2016.
Full Yorke feature here.
LANA DEL REY About KURT COBAIN
15 August 2026
Smells like teen Lana spirit.
“When I was 11 I saw Kurt Cobain singing ‘Heartshaped Box’ on MTV and it really
stopped me dead in my tracks. I thought he was the most beautiful person I had
ever seen. Even at a young age I really related to his sadness.”
R.I.P.
TOM WAITS About The EAGLES
13 August 2026
Say it, Tom.
“I don’t like the Eagles. They’re as exciting as watching paint dry.
Their albums are good for keeping the dust off your turntable, and
that’s about all.”
I’m sure you’re not welcome anymore in Hotel California, Tommy.
Full Waits feature here.