Press info: “‘All Inside Aquarium’ sees the band expanding far beyond their minimalist post-punk origins towards soaring anthemic rock, sans the ‘indie’. Sonically, the band aimed for “this late ’80’s/early 90’s Stone Roses-meets-Janes Addiction thing, with more riffing and guitar solos.”
Where the band’s earlier material took a more explicitly sociopolitical bent, Hozie and Belfilgio’s writing on All Inside Aquarium is deliberately more concerned with the personal, poetics, and play.
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TUTV: Bodega never made world-shattering records, and All Inside Aquarium isn’t world-shattering. Bodega always made uncomplicated and galvanizing records, and this one is their most uncomplicated and galvanizing one. A let’s have fun album. And fun we have, folks.
They jump from funky crackerjack rockers (the title track / Weather Me / Pick Up The Check / Slow Train) to easygoing, poppy guitar tunes (Literary World / Oxygen / Olivia) without trying to overdo it in any way whatsoever. Straightforward and simple. Paul Weller would say “that’s entertainment“.
“The song is about the chaotic, toxic, and explosive dynamic between
two people who constantly fight and treat every argument like the end
of the world.”
TUTV:Fat Dog sound like pitbulls going off their heads in a nightclub. When the chorus kicks in they start barking like mad. This spiked blast invites you to join the four-legged punks.
Inspired by the uncomfortable and often absurd world of the online Manosphere,
the song employs satire, defiance and a healthy dose of irreverence to call out the
culture of misogyny, insecurity and misinformation that exists within these online
spaces.
TUTV: Wowzers. Once under your skin, this non-stop roasting rocker drives you
out of your aroused mind. A blistering cadence, greedy guitars, whomping drumming
and a devilish chorus work tightly together for this crackerjack barnstormer.
Standout track from their brand new 4th full-length, named Hiareth.
TUTV: 8-and-a-half-minute bittersweet symphony Wich Way The Weather is the grand centrepiece of the LP where the band peaks with gripping intensity and orchestral
voltage, turning this staggering jam into a truly stupendous opus.
Band: NRVS Who: Mysterious post-punk outfit “with a nightmare-normal vision of the near future, that you can dance to”. Ideologically they are confrontational, unapologetic, existentially on the edge & uncompromising in their beliefs – all of which is reflected in their creative output, whether it’s music, visuals or their involvement in Extinction Rebellion & similar protests against the status quo.
While we’re all busy putting out fires in our everyday lives, governments
and leaders around the world are accumulating tanks, bombs & drones.
Photomontage by Peter Kennard
TUTV: Ominous. Dark. Feverish. So 2026. This goosebumps alarm has a striking impact, growing in chilling fervidness. Anxious vocals accentuate the tune’s foreboding theme. Monumental sonic warning for more evil to come. Fuck all political psychopath leaders.
Band: BODEGA Who: Zesty indie-dance
rock team from NYC.
Track: WEATHER ME
3rd taster from their upcoming 5th album
titled All Inside Aquarium. It’s out October 9th.
Tracklist and order detailshere.
Album artwork.
TUTV: These New Yorkers are at their best when they trigger all of your limbs
and make you get up, stand up, and thwirl you out of balance. C’mon, arise.
Awake your muscles, people.
TUTV: Amps up. Decibels up. Heat up. Both feet on the punk gas pedal.
This uproarious haymaker, spiced with punchy vocals, makes you wanna
know everything about these Berlin gunslingers.
Artist: BAD WITH PHONES Who: Artistic moniker for Manny T Deroy, a South London
musician/bassist/producer. A one-off, a future of weirdo
pop, R&B, rap and post-punk.
Manny stopped carrying a phone for six months, as a sort of social experiment to see if he could live in the 21st century without one. “I wanted to see why we all feel so obligated to own one, smirking as he recalls the annoyance of all the friends who struggled to reach him.
T Deroy: “I wrote Human for my son who passed away days after he was born. The whole thing felt like an out of body experience. ‘Human’ is about birth and death respecting the way life plays out. I could rationalize that maybe the kid got all they needed from the planet maybe they thought they didn’t need to experience any more.
We all go through things in life no one’s exempt from a heart break. I’m glad I was able to express my experience, and I genuinely hope it is a help to anyone who’s experienced something similar. I believe if you have life, you should celebrate it and ultimately the song is a celebration of life. It’s my anthem to liberation of all kinds.”
TUTV: Hello? Listen up, people. Human is a highly impassioned reflection about
the traumatic experience of losing your son shortly after birth. Its rappin’ flow, soul-stirring vocals, and overall sticky tempo have a long-lasting effect on your psyche. Gripping song.
TUTV: Leg Puppy 2.0 is back from never being away and still constructs techno EBM for night owls who are addicted to 24-hour parties. Don’t be sorry, man, you’ve made it for 10 years now. We’re thrilled that you still produce beeps, bleeps and banging beats to make our stereos go nuts. Leg forever Puppy.
Artist: DREW FIVE Who: A versatile musician from London who creates/records electronica,
ambient minimalism, neo-classical and post-rock. He’s also half of electro
pop duo Feral Five and Dice Machine.
TUTV: Back to the raving 90s with this mid-tempo chemical bros pelvis-shaker.
Its psychedelic-infused and ambient-juiced groove causes a hypnotic effect on
mind and body. Move your furniture and display your best moves.
TUTV: BC are around for 27 years (OMG, time flies), and they still come up with
swirling pieces of entertaining vibes. Okereke‘s energy is as awe-inspiring as on
Day one.
Artists: PRINCESS UGLY Who: Two misfits – J. Christopher-Rome and Christopher Moncrieffe – from Portland, OR
who are influenced by goth, post-punk, darkwave and adjacent genres. So far, the tandem has released two albums and 2 EPs.
“The new single presents lyrically as an existential, ontological horror supported by EBM-influenced instrumentation. We are compelled to always work, and we will be consumed by the work. We work to create, only for our creation and the work itself to gain autonomy, stalk us, prey on us. We are pursued and controlled by them, endlessly.”
TUTV: Welcome to Princess Ugly‘s underground batcave where darkwave-addicted clubgoers gather to move in mysterious ways to non-stop techno beats and creepy vocals. The Work is sonic nutrition for EBM night owls. Preferably consumed in the midnight hours.
Artist: SOUTHPAW GRAMMAR Who: Singer-songwriter and producer from Derby, UK. He delivers
high-energy live performances and a sound that feels both nostalgic
and urgently contemporary. His music speaks directly to the realities
of working-class life while delivering dancefloor-ready grooves.
“The song tackles political tribalism, online hostility and economic inequality without descending into slogans or partisan rhetoric. The song reflects on how quickly neighbours become opponents, friends become ideological rivals and public debate collapses into accusations and insults.”
TUTV: This UK garage grime piece brings The Streets‘vibrant vibes to mind. Trouble Coming bounces around in your head after a couple of spins. Its groovy flow and chantlike chorus generates swaying body motion.
Southpaw Grammar looks at our collapsing world and, as (almost) all of us, he sees messed-up societies all over the planet where intolerance, bigoted extremism, and narcissistic politics dictate our lives. Suffocating trouble is already here; the only way
to survive is in togetherness.
Band: INDIGO SYNDICATE Who: Nashville-based trio that blends alternative, pop, indie, and soul influences.
The group has carved out a lane that feels both genre-fluid and intentional. They
released their debut full-length Sasquatch this year, in January.
The song explores the small moments that make
absence of your lover feel impossible to ignore.
TUTV: My ears hear enticing Big Thief folk and harmonious I’m From Barcelona echoes. Howling At The Moon‘s growing catchiness turns this acoustic gem into a sticking ditty that puts a big smile on your face all day long. Romanticism in motion. Mood-stimulating beauty.
“I know you love me, but I’m overthinking / In my head / I miss you in our bed /
Ever since you left / The house is quiet so I keep on singing,”
It’s the first song the band wrote together and is the only track on the EP
not previously released. The song’s lyrics deal with the discovery of mortality
as a child and explore the void it leaves behind, before landing on something
that feels like acceptance.
TUTV: This burning torch jam smells like slow-mo Nirvana spirit. Rough vocal passion, grungy guitar rawness and overall sinewy emotionality. Ardent ardour is the key word leading to a highly appealing captivation.
Who: Alt-rock project from multi-instrumentalist Peter W. Bartash built on the idea that who we are on paper is not who we are in reality, exploring existence through a sonic lens of post-hardcore, shoegaze, and alternative metal.
TUTV: Zealous guitars are embedded in a delirious and expressive melodiousness. On the mighty chorus, the all-consuming vocals echo the immense vehemence of the late great voice Chris Cornell. Say no more.
Band: KIDS WITH BUNS Who: Belgian dream pop duo, featuring Marie Van Uytvanck and Amber Piddington.
Track: BEST FRIEND
Newest single from their forthcoming sophomore LP,
named Bell Jar. It’ll land on October 16th.
TUTV: These Belgian buns know exatcly how to entice with peppy pop melodies which
invoke a feel-good, sun-lit vibe with smooth guitar riffs and warm duet vocals.
Track: LA BLUES POOL
Preview from their upcoming EP.
Details TBA.
TUTV: The ghost of early Velvet Underground wanders all over this slo-mo jam. Gloomily orchestrated and ominously progressing, with Adamczewski‘s obscure vocals augmenting the sinister sonority of this truly notable piece of music.
Vitalizing tunes that work faster than a stream of caffeine
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Band: BODEGA Who: Zesty indie-dance
rock team from NYC.
Track: WEATHER ME
3rd taster from their upcoming 5th album
titled All Inside Aquarium. It’s out October 9th.
Tracklist and order detailshere.
Album artwork
TUTV: These New Yorkers are at their best when they trigger all of your limbs
and make you get up, stand up, and thwirl yourself dizzy. C’mon, arise. Awake
your muscles, people.
Band: YARD ACT Who: British post-punk outfit from Leeds, fronted by poetic wordsmith James Smith, who catapulted themselves to the top of indie world with
their first 2 longplayers.
TUTV: Their chilling post-punk debut LP The Dark Room, from 2005, is still the one for me. Afterward Editors went down risk-free pop lane. Mind you, they got my attention now and then again, like here with this new urgent tune.
TUTV: OMG! Bad Nerves have you in a headlock from the first crushing chord.
No way to escape. You’re in the middle of a punk tornado, and in the end, you’ll
be completely exhausted. OMG!
Ben Hozie (singer/guitarist), who says to be inspired by Jane’s Addiction and The Stone
Roses about the album: “Let’s go back to melodic tunes, let’s be more of a proper rock band. We were aiming at something larger, warmer, watery, and metaphysical, inspired by the optimistic alt rock of our half-remembered youth.”
TUTV: Bodega never reached the topmost level I expected them to reach after their thumping first LP. And as they are now moving towards the middle-of-the-indie-road
rock I wonder if it will ever happen. All Inside The Aquarium has a rumbustious na-na-na
buzz but isn’t the memorable cut I hoped for.
“I used a couple of the same synths that I’ve still got since the early 90’s.
The beat was made on the sampler I used on my album Truth Is Born of
Arguments from 1995. It was my first time working directly with a rapper,
I’m very happy it was Griff!”
TUTV: Yeah. What’s up, bro? Slow-mo pelvis-swaying time it is. Yeah.
Another batch of 5 new, stellar tracks have
been added to Turn Up The Volume’s Jukebox.
Turn it up.
ALL TOGETHER
. TRACK BY TRACK
Band: BODEGA Who: Zesty indie-dance
rock team from NYC.
Track: PICK UP THE CHECK
New single from their forthcoming,
5th album. Details TBA.
Ben Hozie (frontman): “I know too many friends who tolerate unfulfilling
relationships out of politeness or fear of letting others down. You don’t have
to. Strike the set, rewrite the draft, and pick up the (metaphorical) check.”
TUTV: Less groovy and dancey than their previous work,
as guitars dominate more and the song’s rockin’ pepper.
Band: CROSS WIRES Who: Vehement post-punk
4-piece from Romford, UK.
Track: ECHO FOREVER
New cut from their upcoming third album, called
‘Under The Watchful Eye of Another Man’s God’.
TUTV: Funky guitar lines, Numanesque synths, ceaseless drumming, Jah-wobbling bass brio, and high-strung vocals come organically together for a gloomy post-punk outpouring.
Artist: KAT FIVE Who: EBM songstress from London. She fuses together a raw
punk energy with a dark pop magic, she consistently creates
indefinable, politically-engaged glitched-up anthems.
Inspired by the Hard Art Collective (a cultural collective standing in solidarity
in the face of climate and democratic collapse) led by ambient master Brian Eno
the song offers a beat-fuelled call to action to a world that desperately needs
a shakeup.
FIVE: “Culture is a mighty way to inspire and unite people, and we need it more
than ever to help combat the horrors of the current world, and build new alternatives.
This is a call out to all kinds of creators, and also a shout out for some simple moves
you can make against techno-feudalism.”
TUTV: Kat Five offers a both luring and foreboding-sounding EBM tune for
shadow-dancing fans. Despite the hazardous times worldwide, she suggests,
rightly so, that togetherness is the only way to get out of the intolerant chaos
we have to go through right now.
Band: Nemøde Who: Hybrid – drummer Nina and guitarist Furyo – duo from BX, blending metal with
hyperpop & electro influences
Track: TRAGIC
Single from their brand new smoking-hot
6-track EP, named Tragic PINK.
TUTV: Nemøde operate in a space where London‘s cyber-punk duo Wargasm
and the combative British metalcore heroes Bring The Horizon have their niche.
Well, that’s what my bombarded ears tell me. The interwoven Nina and Furo
vocals inject Tragic with a transfixing urgence, culminating in an evaporative
chorus.
TUTV: Simple and sugary electro-pop joy with 80s vibrations and the bucked-up,
scream-along, go fuck urself chorus that will be heard all over the summer at festivals.
I bet that the title was consciously chosen for those moments.
New York post-punk-pop act BODEGA announced the birth of their 3rd longplayer.
It’s named OUR BRAND COULD BE YR LIFE and will see the day of light on April 15.
Ben Hozie (vocalist/guitarist): “‘Tarkovski’ is a pun on the famous Russian director and skiing;
I was enamored by his book ‘Sculpting in Time’ but found that many of his professed rules and guidelines for filmmaking were broken by his own filmmaking practices. Theory never really gets at what you want and applying theory to the chaotic practice of art making, is like skiing down a wild slope.”
Turn up the heat,
move your feet, and
feel your heart beat.
It’s PART 3 of Turn Up The Volume‘s yearly hot summer
playlists. A mix of adrenalin-infused dance/groove/rock
fireworks and some moony musings to end the party
when the sun comes up.
Disco-freak stomper of the month, hands down. This new punky-funky corker follows
the previous 2 shared crackers Wild Flowers and Fatso. They will all be on their upcoming album At the Hot Spot, out tomorrow, 1 April (no joke).
It’s a bangin’ beast with a screamin’ chorus. A perfect pick-me-up tune for all the weirdos
who are always in the kitchen at parties waiting for Warmduscher to kick their lazy asses.
Compared to this Japanese red-hot-bloody fury the Ramones sound like choirboys. Otobeke Beaver‘s race and rush in an overwhelming overdrive. No brakes, no breaks.
Their rabidity rolls like a tsunami through your ears. These perky punkettes produce
moshpit madness on the spot. The average song length is 2 minutes, 120 seconds
of clamorous pandemonium.
3. ‘Territorial Call Of The Female’ by BODEGA (Brooklyn, NY)
The New Yorkers still operate on Parquet Courts’ playground with their new,
2nd full-length Broken Equipment. But they supersized their jangly beats
and they turned up the temperature.
Territorial Call Of The Female is my favorite cut. It activates
every muscle and every nerve in my itching body.
Scott Kirkland (the remaining member of Las Vegas dance act The Crystal Method)
invited icon Iggy Pop (you can hear him almost any day on a new collaboration, the
past few years) and his British buddy, composer/DJ Hyper in his studio.
The raving result is a techno boom boost, bursting all the way, with Pop‘s voice
strangled by a blender. Sounds spooky, sounds wicked, sounds like lust for life.
Breaking news: Iggy says he’s not a punk anymore!
“I don’t want to be a punk
I don’t want to belong to any of it
I just want to be”
Busy blues-rock bee Jack White canned two new longplayers for this year, titled Fear Of The Dawn (out 8 April 2022) and Entering Heaven Alive (out 22 July 2022)
The hottest cut I heard so far is Hi-De-Ho (from ‘Fear Of The Dawn’ LP) featuring Q.Tip.
The by now legendary passion rockers from Cincinnati, Ohio with mastermind
Greg Dulli in control are back from being away for 5 years. Their last album In Spades came out in 2017.
I’ll Make You See God a striking steamroller, a red-hot-heated stunner, an unstoppable
cannonball going everywhere fast. It will feature in the upcoming PlayStation game Gran Turismo 7.
7. ‘Nothing Comes Good Easy’ by DEAD LEVEE (Canada)
Wowzer! This sickly uplifting belter (from upcoming EP Rise-Up) elevates your state of mind with fired-up dynamism from the get-go. Rapid-fire rawk and roll riffs switch on a fervent feel of euphoria. It did it in the past, it does it in the present and it will do it in
the future.
Despite all the BS we have to endure (pandemic, Ukraine, natural disasters,
and other threats) it’s never too late to get back on track and why not start
with 4 and a half minutes of heart-warming guitar-fueled boogie-woogie
that breathes hope and assurance.
Once I learned that this startling uppercut is about the horrible
exploitation of human beings by ferocious money sharks this
jagged jackhammer blew my mind even harder than I heard it
the first time before knowing about the band’s inspiration
for this standout.
Expect rabid guitars, doom and gloom vocals, and frantic twists and turns
until the chaotic finale. Post-punk at its razorblade best. Think fierce Canadian
turbine Metz and London‘s up-and-coming gunslingers Crows.
This fiery crackerjack goes forth and back with
turbulent velocity. Imagine the full of vim and vigor
intenseness and puissant vocality of The Afghan Whigs.
Anxious, unyielding, and ablaze.
Breaking Grounds races like a rush of blood to the head with
screaming guitars and propelling drum muscularity.
The first taster from the upcoming debut full-length Dancing On A Volcano.
Imagine the fervid fuzz of punchy guitar pop legends Buzzcocks, with The Stranglers’ Jean-Jacques Burnel on bass, combined with the cutting
verbality of today’s post-Brexit-punk rebirth and you know a frisky doozy
is coming your way.
Add some American-dream girls of the City of Angles on your imaginary
mind-screen and you’re about to start a champagne party in your head.
The combination of a nasty Gang Of Four bass riff,
frenzied Keith Levene guitars here and there and Skinner
hip-hop-rapping like Beck used to do, works like an ecstatic
upper.
This funk-punk stonker has an immediate intensifying impact on all of your
limbs and your bloodstream’s flow. Add some sexy sax thrills to the mix and
you’ll have all you need to jump out of your slump. Capice?
Cut from their sophomore album
‘Moon Reflections’, out on June 24
A rotating synth riff echoes British electro legends New Order and
is the beating heart of this new piece, yet the mood is meditative
and musing, strengthened by the near-whispering and eager vocals.
This darksome and soul-searching reverie gets under your skin after
a couple of spins.
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.
You’ll hear titillating electro-echoes of early Depeche Mode before
they became the darkwave Goth-esque rockers we all know. But
in an eye-blink White Skin becomes an infectious nightclub earworm
with an ecstatic chorus.
In a normal world (does that actually exists?) this adrenaline-infused
and hip-swinging spark should top the dance charts around the globe.
The musical project of singer/songwriter Jordan Speare
assisted by guitarist/bassist and friend Andrew Billone.
After a couple of EPs the pair’s canned their first longplayer
called Silhouettes. Release at the end of the year.
I don’t know if it’s the world-famous and historic museum in Paris
they want to burn, that wouldn’t be so nice. What I do know is that their
brisk and spirited sound is infectious and captivating with an immediate
impact on your body’s movements. Expect guitar pop electricity, extra
pushed by lively vocals.
16. ‘Life And Lies’ by LEE ROGERS (Northern Ireland)
The Americana voice of Northern Ireland releases
his new album Gamebloodon 13 May.
Ahead of it came this mixed emotions single with Rogers‘ sky-reaching voice as the star, once again.
It’s a bluesy goosebumps reflection. Wurlitzer jukeboxes should be reinvented
for these heartbreakers so moody minds can cry their eyes out (or cry in their beer)
at night in a downtown bar where lonely ones gather and chat about life and lies.
A poppy synth trip with a floating flow and near-whispering vocals. Both eerie and affecting, both dizzy and hypnotic with a frenetic guitar attack coming out of nowhere around the 3-minute mark.
It’s an epic ballad with a country feel. If this melancholic gem was written
in the 60s it would have been sung by Linda Rondstadt, Tammy Waynette
or Dolly Parton, anyway, by an angelic voice like Olsen‘s magnific one.
Album info: Inspired by a book club. In the early months of 2020, the Brooklyn
art-punk incendiaries gathered together with close friends to study the works of a
wide range of philosophers. Passionate debates lasting long into the night became
a regular occurrence, motivating the band to become as ideologically unified as the
weighty tomes they were reading. Broken Equipment is Bodega’s attempt to interrogate
the external factors that make them who they are, propelling existential quandaries
with tongue-in-cheek humour, highly personal lyrics, and irresistible grooves.
The female Bodega voice
NME says: “The New York band’s second album sees their wiry, sceptical post-punk slowly giving way to warmer, more romantic ideas… For a band with complex philosophies and
critical theories to burn, BODEGA’s most vital moments come when they lower their guard
down and just let it all out.” Full reviewhere. Score: 4/5.
Turn Up The Volume: The New Yorkers still operate on Parquet Courts’
playground (not a bad thing), but here on their second full length they funk-up
their post-punk disco beats, they turn up the temperature and they activate every
muscle and every nerve in your itching body even more than on their debut LP.
A fucktastic touchdown!
The male Bodega voice
Singles/clips: Statuette On the Console / Doers
– STATUETTE ON THE CONSOLE –
– DOERS –
Put on your blue suede post-punk shoes and
pirouette yourself dizzy without falling over
your own feet…
Band: KILLING JOKE Who: Post-industrial-punk veterans from London Active: 1979–1996, 2002–present / 15 LPs
with Pylon as their latest, released 7 years ago.
