TURN UP THE VOLUME – 40 BEST TRACKS OF 2025

ALL TOGETHER


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TRACK-BY-TRACK

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Band: THE HIVES

Who: The Swedish punk kingpins
who run amok since 1993.

Track: THE HIVES FOREVER, FOREVER THE HIVES

The title track from their 7th full-length,
which hit the streets last August.

TUTV: And it goes like this.

The Hives Forever, Forever The Hives
The Hives Forever, Forever The Hives
The Hives Forever, Forever The Hives

Tune! Tune! Tune!
Catchy as fookin’ hell.

Oemotståndlig sång

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Band: OPUS KINK (Brighton, UK)

Who: Razor-edged, funked-up, sax-and-trumpet infused
noizzz collective fronted by their charismatic frontman
Angus Rodgers.

Track: I’M A PRETTY SHOWBOY

Angus Rogers (frontman): “Rock and roll music for the empty and stunning.
A song about contempt, appetite, impotence and self-preservation through
gyration. Enjoy superficially with your body and send the reeling mind on
to hell.”

TUTV: Wham Bam! Yeah Yeah! Go Go! Oh my Oh My! Razzle Dazzle!
This is the kind of adrenaline-pumping thrills I wait impatiently for
every single day.

Get up, stand up, and fight
for your right to show off.

Badass

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Band: THE SLOW READERS CLUB

Who: Alt-pop rockers
from Manchester, UK.

Track: BOY SO BLUE
Single from their notable 7th album,
Out Of A Dream, released last March.

“‘Although it’s a big, joyous dance track, it’s about hiding deep emotional pain and trauma and how hedonistic coping mechanisms, like drugs, alcohol, and womanizing, are just temporary distractions.”

TUTV: This is what amazing pop-ular music is all about. Big melody, big emotions, big orchestration. Euphorically sticky as first-class glue despite its dramatic ‘real life‘ story. Aftermath soul-searching can work cathartically.

24 Carat pop

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Band: KID KAPICHI

Who: Party punk rockers from Hastings, UK.
So far, they have canned 3 longplayers.

Track: STAINLESS STEEL

KK in infectious punk overdrive.
Shaky-tastic from the get-go.
Swirl like a whirligig, people.

Boogielicious

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Band: SPRINTS

Who: Irish post-punk whirlwind, led by charismatic
voice/songwriter/guitarist Karla Chubb.

Track: BETTER
Along with Something’s Gonna Happen, my top fav track
on their brand new, second LP, called All That Is Over.

TUTV: Every time I play this pure punk-rock gem, I feel way better.
It’s striking swagger, superb groove, passionate duet vocals, and
high-strung guitar play mesmerize.

Transfixing

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Band: PANIC SHACK

Who: 4 pop punkettes from Wales. In 2022 they
released their 6-track debut EP Baby Shack.

Track: GIRL BAND STARTER PACK
Single from stellar self-titled debut LP.

TUTV: These utterly cool Welsh Amazons
drive you bonkers with this insane punk ‘n’ roll
uppercut.

Kick-ass band, kick-ass attitude, kick-ass blast.

Party! Party! Party!

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Artist: PREWN

Who: The moniker of Massachusetts‘ chilling singer-songwriter
Izzy Hagerup. She released her debut album Through The Window
in 2023.

Track: SYSTEM
First new piece and title track from her
2nd LP, coming our way on October 3rd.

Hagerup: “When I wrote ‘System’ I was supposed to be present and alive
and gracious and happy. But somehow I couldn’t escape my own internal
fears and depression that can follow me wherever I go.”

TUTV: What a brilliant torch song. Weeping guitars come and go while
Hagerup‘s heart-stopping vocals cause goosebumps. And what a fuming
finale.

Spine-tingling

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Band: WHOLES

Who: A fresh, rowdy hit team led by Belgian
musical chameleon Wolf Vanwymeersch.

Track: MODERN DAY DRAMA
Single from their bone-chilling debut album
A Mass In The Water, dealing with the suicide
of Wolf‘s father.

TUTV: Its ominous mid-tempo dynamics, its distorted vocals, and its riff-psychotic razzmatazz resonate as if you are listening to the scary theme song of a horror movie.

At the 2.30 minute mark, all hell breaks loose.
From a whisper to a scream. From planet Earth
to Dante‘s Inferno.

Surreal


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Band: DITZ

Who: Post-punk turbo
from Brighton, UK

Track: FOUR
One of the highlights from their
brill 2nd LP Never Exhale

TUTV: Ditz operate in a very dark place. Sonically, as well as lyrically.
In the middle Cal Francis barks at the moon, while dense drones
infiltrate your shocked ears. Inhale, exhale.

Petrifying


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📷 Mats Verschueren

Band: WIJF. (WIFE. in English)

Who: Hungry hit team from Belgium
ready to take on the world.

Track: LIAR
From their debut EP Alter Ego.


Single artwork

TUTV: This 4-piece grab you by the throat from the kick-off and never lose their firm grip, while vociferous vocalist Marie De Graeve‘s has a crushing impact on your petrified stereo. Liar is a titanic motherrocker that pulverizes the Richter scale in just 250 seconds. Queens Of The Stone Age, Deftones and Black Sabbath come to mind.

Paranoic


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Band: CHALK

Who: Three earthshaking
misfits from Belfast, Ireland.

Track: AFRAID
Piece from 3rd EP,
titled Conditions III.

TUTV: OMG! What a riot-gun banger. These Irishmen create suffocating havoc with
a maddening mix of nasty racket that brings illegal-decibels-producing bands such as
NIN and Metz to my cooking mind.

Manicial

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Band: PUNCHBAG

Who: A new brother-sister party duo, from South London colliding the
raw unfiltered energy of punk, with the overflowing ecstasy of pop.

Track: I’M NOT YOUR PUNCHBAG
From their debut EP.

TUTV: Ecstasy. Elation. Euphoria. Exhilaration. This electro smack makes
you bounce and jump on your pogo-stick. They punch you in the teeth
without asking, while having fervent fun.

KO

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Band: HEISA

Who: Belgian noise rock trio whose sound draws influences from bands such
as Black Midi, Tool, Battles, and Swans, blending dissonance with a strong sense
of identity.

Track: NANDOR
Piece from their ace
3rd album Trois.

TUTV: What the fuck! From the very kick-off, chainsaw guitars do your
brain in. Electric chair electricity throughout. No way to escape. Neurotic
vocals complete this blitzkrieg assault.

Flabbergasting

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Band: MCLUSKY

Who: The renowned Welsh post-punk noiseniks
featuring Andrew Falkous, as known as hysterical
frontman of Future Of The Left.

Track: CHEKHOV’S GUNS

One of the singles of their earth-shaking 4th LP
The World Is Still Here And So Are We.

TUTV: As usual, Andrew Falkous screams
his 4 lungs out while spitting absurd lyrics.

Chop. Chop. Chop.


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Photo by Ryan Wagner

Band: DOWN THE LEES
Who: The post-rock noise project of seasoned Canadian
singer/songwriter/guitarist Laura Lee Schultz. DTL released
3 notable albums, so far.

They have canned a live movie
now, titled This Is How It Feels.

Track: MIDI DORIC
First single. A song that deals with the
isolation and depression of the pandemic.

TUTV: A characteristic DTL thunderstorm, cranked up by blustery bass lines,
monstrous guitar riffs, Herculean drumming, Schultz‘s sky-scraping vocals and
a volcanic finale. One of the best noizz rock bands around.

Jawdropping

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Artist: PEACHES

Who: The fabulous/controversial/notorious performer/producer and
feminist/gay activist born Merrill Nisker 58 years ago in Toronto, Canada.

Track: FUCK YOUR FACE
Cut from her upcoming 7th album, her first in
10 years. It’s named No Lube So Rude and will
come out on 20 Feb 2026.

TUTV: Don’t expect Peaches to write and sing songs about
the birds and the bees, and even if she did, it would be horny
stuff too.

Mirror on the wall, who’s the hottest disco queen of them all?

Peaches

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Artist: BAXTER DURY

Who: The dandy songsmith,
still wearing a suit (no tie).

Track: ALLBARONE
The title track from his
8th titillating dance LP.

TUTV: This disco knockout can fill
a dancefloor in an eye/ear blink.

Sassy

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Press photo by Cole Yearwood

Artist: FANCLUBWALLET

Who: Canadian guitar pop outfit led
by songstress Hannah Judge from
Ottawa, Canada.

Track: COTTON MOUTH
From her 2nd full-length,
called Living While Dying.

TUTV: This sickly sticky riff earworm
drives you crazy. Head-twisting stonker.

Hyperkinetic

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Band: YOGI-G AND THE FAMILY TREE

Who: Happy Mondays co-founder/drummer
Gaz Whelan and friends.

Track: THE BLIND MAN AND THE MONKEY
A highlight from their terrific debut album,
titled Show Me The Truth.

TUTV: Madchester 2025? Absolutely. Never mind the Happy
Mondays
, here come Yogi-G And The Family Tree (what a name).

E-cstatic


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Press photo by Danny Clinch

Band: ARCADE FIRE
Who: The famous pop-rock
collective from Canada.

Track: YEAR OF THE SNAKE
One of the singles from their
7th LP, titled Pink Elephant.

TUTV: It’s a sublime, crystalline pop nugget, with its hypnotizing guitar riff,
the non-stop drum beat and the intertwined, spellbinding vocals of Win Butler
and his spouse, Régine Chassagne.

Sterling

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Band: KASABIAN
Who: British star rockers from Leicester. One of the best bands
of the past 25 years on record and on stage, in my book.

Track: HIPPIE SUNSHINE.
Lead single from their forthcoming
9th LP. Details TBA.

TUTV: Expect a mega vitalizing, disco-charged haymaker.
Since co-founder/songwriter/frontman Serge Pizzorno pulls
all the band’s strings, he provides dynamite tunes you can
throw 24-hour parties with.

Hip-hip hurray

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Artist: MARK STEWART

Who: One of the most adventurous/inventive/original post-punk & dub artists/performers
ever. He was a founding member of genre-bending new wave group The Pop Group and released lots of solo and collaborative records. Unfortunately, he passed away 2 years ago,
only 62.

Track: MEMORY OF YOU
Single from Stewart‘s solo album The Fateful Symmetry,
which was completed early 2023, not long before his passing.

TUTV: Haunting, synth-symphonic and bang-tastic,
with Mark‘s characteristically energetic voice on top.

Soul-stirring

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New album artwork

Band: PULP

Track: SPIKE ISLAND
Piece from their first LP in
24 years, called More.

TUTV: A vintage, mid-tempo, pop stimulant with
a grandiose chorus. More pulp for common
people.

“I was born to perform.”

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Band: HOLY COVES

Who: Welsh mavericks, fronted by singer-songwriter
Scott Marsden, with 3 albums on their résumé and
#4 is waiting in the pipeline.

Track: FALLING DOWN

First single from their forthcoming 4th full-length, their
first in 4 years, slated for release in September 2026.

TUTV: Holy Coves are back, and they don’t waste time. It’s full steam ahead from
the get-go. Eager guitars and sinewy drumming inject this sweltering steamroller with
a flaming briskness that causes a kinetic reverberation, while Marsden emotive vocals accentuate the song’s sad sentiments.

Toptier

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Artists: GANS

Who: 2-piece from Birmingham (UK) – Euan Woodman (drums/vocals) and Tom Rhodes (bass/vocals) – born in late 2023 over a shared love of noise, literature and late night shebeens. They write music about love and hate. They’re good for your soul.

New Single: I THINK I LIKE YOU

TUTV: Warning. This insanely groovy punk blast will bulldoze all over your shocked speakers. Expect a superheated funky firestorm that attacks the Richter scale with a shattering impact. A manically jagged jackhammer it is. Trust me, you’ll think you like them, VERY MUCH, while you bang your head into your fridge’s door.

Go nuts

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Band: KLÄMP

Who: A collective with members scattered across the UK and the Netherlands.
This group, now comprising seven members, has its roots in a trio that expanded
over the past four years.

New track: WET LEATHER
Piece from their sophomore
LP Total Technik.

TUTV: Kraut-rock and roll with an intoxicating force. A wall-of-guitar-pyrotechnics rollercoaster. An overpowering tempest of rambunctious riffs. Voltaic psychedelia
at its spine-chilling best, bombarding your ears the way you like it.

Mind-bending


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Artist: LIFE COACH

Who: The musical project of singer-songwriter-poet Jamie Cameron. Hailing from
the Scottish Borders, the music blends lo-fi beats, synths and guitars with spoken word lyrics in which he discusses subjects ranging from politics and premonitions to self help culture, and a modern society obsessed with economic thinking.

Track: SQUADDIES IN HAIR NETS
Highlight from his 2nd full-length
A Love Letter To Your Yearning Heart.

TUTV: This rattling rap ‘n’ punk roll crackerjack swings forth and back, left
and right and Jamie Cameron’s full of vim and vigour word-flow activates all
of your insatiable limbs before he relaxes towards the synthy end. Kinetic throb.
Hands up for the coach.

Exhilarating


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Band: SUN MAHSENE

Who: Irish psych-rock team who released their lauded
debut album A Place We’ve Never Been last year.

Track: LIFE IS JOY

TUTV: A nasty bass riff motorizes this rollicking psych jam that seems to go on
like forever, and when the powerhouse chorus kicks in, your ears are instantly
overwhelmed. Life Is Joy is one of those riff-crazy haymakers that stick after just

Exuberant


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Photo: Emma Chitty | Graphics: Mike Raymond

Band: NRVS

Who: Mysterious trio with an inimitable take on
humanity’s downward spiral into a dysfunctional
entropic existence. They unleashed their punk-groovy
debut EP Like You last year.

Track: FREE

TUTV: This arresting, melancholic song is heart-rending. Its bluesy guitar
radiance, its bass-beat-heavy cadence, and despondent vocals get under
your skin. Its melodic catchiness has irresistible written all over it.

Gripping

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Photo by Graham Noble

Band: DECLAN WELSH AND THE DECADENT WEST

Who: Post-rock-punk combo from Scotland.
So far they have recorded/released two
albums.

Track: CAREFREE

TUTV: A razzle-dazzle steamroller that gets under your skin faster
than you can say “this is bloody superb”. Its insane, mind-bending
course doubles your serotonin production on the spot.

Blimey

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Artist: NEIL YOUNG And The CHROME HEARTS

Track: LET’S ROLL AGAIN
From their LP Talkin To The Trees.

“If you’re a fascist, then get a Tesla.”

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Artist: CMAT

Track: THE JAMIE OLIVER PETROL STATION
From her 3rd album, named Euro-Country.

TUTV: A vocal tour de force that
blows me away every time I play it.

Wowzers

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Artists: ANDY BELL and DEBBIE HARRY

Track: HEART’S A LIAR
From his new album,
named Ten Crows.

Disco delight

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Band: THE NEW EVES

Who: Must hear/see indies from Brighton (where everybody is in a band).
They cruise from folk to punk, using, besides traditional instruments (guitar,
bass and drums) also cello, flute, violin and other classical gear.

Track: COW SONG
From their rad debut full-length
called The New Eve Rising.

Moo-tastic

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Band: SLEAFORD MODS

Track: THE GOOD LIFE
From their upcoming LP,
called The Demise Of Planet X

Rap rush

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Photo by Isabella Martinez

Band: PSYCHEDELIC PORN CRUMPETS

Track: THE REAL CONTRA BAND
Piece from their new full-length
Carpe Diem, Moonman.

TUTV: This motherrocker of a song shows no mercy whatsoever.
From the get-go, PPC go full steam ahead and never look back

Hallelujah!

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Press photo

Band: SUEDE

Track: DISINTEGRATE
A single from their LP #10.
named Antidepressants.

TUTV: Suede age in glamorous style with frontman
Brett Anderson giving it all, just like in the early days.

Astounding

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Promo photo

Band: MY FIRST TIME

Who: Fast-rising indie
rebels from Bristol, UK.

Track: SIPPY CUP

TUTV: These young wolves bulldoze their way through the daily
bullshit we have to endure with a knife between their teeth. Sippy Cup
is a bruising, full of vim and vigor, uppercut hitting where it hurts.

Sucker-punch

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Band: THE BELAIR LIP BOMBS

Who: Buzzing indies
from Montreal, Canada.

Track: HEY YOU
Single from their tremendous
second album Again.

TUTV: Guitar pop at its most exultant, with the wonderful vocalist/guitarist
Maisie Everet fronting a fast-up-and-coming quartet from down under.

Delirious

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Band: WET LEG

Track: DAVINA McCALL
Highlight from their sophomore
full-length, named Moisturizer.

Groove/move.

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20 BEST TRACKS OF THE MONTH – JUNE 2025

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Band: MANTRA OF THE COSMOS
Who: British supergroup featuring happy mondays
Shaun Ryder and Bez, Andy Bell (Ride/Oasis) and drummer
Zak Starkey, Ringo‘s on, who came up with the project’s
idea.

Track: DOMINO BONES (GETS DANGEROUS)
Their 3rd one.

TUTV: A blaring belter of a banger. Disco-punk pzazz. Noel Gallager
is somewhere in there too, they say. I have no clue what he’s doing.
Anyway, this a bonkers tune.

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Band: KNEECAP
Who: Belfast‘s sharp-mouthed, notorious rap team KNEECAPMo Chara,
Móglaí Bap
, and DJ Próvaí – hip & hop around with a knife between
their teeth since 2017.

They released their debut album 3cag in 2018
and went viral last year with follow-up Fine Art.

Track: THE RECAP

Lately, they make headlines with their loud and clear, ongoing support for Palestine.
They got heavily critiqued for it when they played Coachella Festival in Indo, California
last April.

To emphasize the whole political charade the band go after the Tory trade minister
Kemi Badenoch who started to hunt them back in 2023 when he withdrew an
arts grant awarded to the band.

The trio brought a discrimination case against the U.K. government
and won, donating the proceeds to Belfast community groups. Yes!

SHOUT! SHOUT! SHOUT!

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Artist: FANCLUBWALLET
Who: Canadian outfit led by
songstress Hannah Judge from
Ottawa.

Track: COTTON MOUTH

“I wrote this one when I was feeling stuck and stagnant, but when I finally
brought it to the band they really breathed new life into it and made it feel
magic again!!”

TUTV: This sickly sticky steam-riff-roller drives me crazy. Head-twisting stuff.

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Credit: The Irrational Library

Band: THE IRRATIONAL LIBRARY
Who: The Irrational Library is a Dutch-American rock band with its roots
firmly planted in both the regional and international counterculture. The
Dutch-American band produces a raw, dirty groove influenced by punk,
provo and punk icons. Their poetry is packed with social criticism.

Track: TRUTH SERUM
First single from the quartet’s new, upcoming
5th LP ‘The Saying Of It All’. More details TBA.


Artwork by political cartoonist TRIK

TUTV: TIL move and groove again with brio and gusto motorized by a striking
drum/bass tandem, while a 60s psychedelic flute flutters like a butterfly throughout
the song. Frontman Joshua Baumgarten draws your aural attention (as usual) with
his near-rapping phrasing of the clear-cut lyrics.


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Artist: GINA BURCH
Who: Co-founder/bassist of British punkettes The Raincoats (1977-1984, 1996)
were one of the top indie bands in the UK. They released 3 LPs, then called it a day.

In 2023 she released her critically acclaimed solo debut
LP I Play My Bass. It was released through Jack White’s
Third Man Records
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New album artwork

Track: DOOM MONGER
New single of her 2nd LP, named Trouble,
out on 11 July, again via Third Man Records.

TUTV: We’re in the middle of Armagideon Time as we know it.
Doomsday is just around the corner. The good news is that this
dub reggae earworm will activate your hips and uplift your worried
state of mind. If we have to go, why not with a slow-mo sway.

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Band: COLATURA
Who: Shoegazy pop duo from Brooklyn, NY.
Their debut album, Then I’ll Be Happy came
out in 2022.

Track: (EVERYTIME I THINK ABOUT YOU) IT’S ABOUT ME (great title)
From their upcoming EP, titled If I’m Being Honest, out on August 1.

TUTV: Burning torch that creeps under
your skin, slowly but surely. Stellar.

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Band: THE BEACHES
Who: All-female Canadian
revved-up power pop combo.

Track: DID I SAY TOO MUCH
Single from their 3rd LP, titled No Hard
Feelings
. It shows up on August 29th.

TUTV: Glorious guitar pop chant going fast forward.
The Beaches never say too much. They swirl and twirl.
Keep talking/singing, girls.

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New album artwork

Artist: DAVID BYRNE
Who: The former talking
head voice/face.

Track: EVERYBODY LAUGHS
First single from his upcoming 9th solo album (that’s already one more than
with Talking Heads). Who Is The Sly? will see the day of light on September 5th.

TUTV: Imagine a beach bathing in the sun and a cocktail bar serving piña colada
while enjoying this feel-good upper. A luminous light in a dark world. Laugh.

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Band: SUEDE
Who: London’s glam rock luminaries (1989–2003, 2010–present),
fronted by the never aging Brett Anderson.

Track: TRANCE STATE
Newest single from their 10th longplayer, baptized
Antidepressants . It comes out on September 5th.

TUTV: Suede deliver again with this sinewy
stomper that puts you in a mind-boggling
trance.

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Band: THE ULTRA VIOLETS
Who: 4 rowdy indie rockers
from Cornwall, UK.

Track: HONEY PIE

“The song is essentially about people only wanting the sweet stuff in life, and sugar coating anything and everything that may be a difficult subject. We live in a society where social media is treated like the Holy Bible, simultaneously releasing dopamine hits, a highly addictive drug, when posting pictures for ‘instant gratification.”

TUTV: This happens when The Ultra Violets eat too much sugar. They pick up their instruments and go mental, producing mental hullabaloo for mental people, like
you and me. Roaring ripper. Flaming score.

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Photo Credit: Joan Hathaway

Band: LOVINA FALLS
Who: The dark dream-pop project of Boston-based singer-songwriter,
multi-instrumentalist, and producer s Valerie Forgione. In 2023, they
released their debut album, Calculating The Angle Of Our Descent.

Track: LIGHT AND LOW

Forgione: “‘Light and Low’ is about recognizing that as time goes on, it’s ok to let go of old
and ‘historic thinking’ to create a new path through and out of the Thicket of Now. It’s about knowing that when things change, the path is not predestined. Change the change. Move with conviction but head gracefully into the unknown, light and low.”


Collage art by Lindsey Walker, design by Valerie Forgione

TUTV: Lovina Falls take you on a swift gothwavish ride from the get-go, propelled by a motorik bass riff, nervy drum hits, jittery tremelo riffs and poignant vocals. Fast-forward, without brakes nor breaks, speeding like a runaway train. Light And Low unfolds like a salvo of light flashes out of the dark, causing a rapid eye movement sensation. Intriguing, right? Absolutely. Don’t wait, get started.

WATCH

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New album artwork

Artist: JEHNNY BETH
Who: Former France-born frontwoman
of female post-punk band Savages.

Track: OBESSION
Single from her 2nd solo LP called You Heartbreaker You.
It’ll land on August 29th. She wrote the album with partner
and collaborator Johnny Hostile.

Beth: “We’re living in a dark time, full of drama and barbarous tragedy.
It became clear to me that, in these times, we either learn how to scream
really well, or we learn how to whisper.”

TUTV: Be prepared for a savage industrial shocker showing her
amadant intention to make an agressive sound on her new record.
Obsession is a splintering bombshell with a raging Beth finale.

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Band: LOBSTERBOMB
Who: Glamorous indie quartet from Berlin. They
released their pithy party debut album Look Out
in 2023. You can stream it here.

Track: NOT AGAIN

TUTV: Blimey. Lobsterbomb return with an adrenalized missile, going fast-forward,
full steam ahead from the kick-off. And they never slow down. No breaks, no brakes.
135 seconds of eruptive emotions and high-voltage dash. Imagine The Stooges fronted
by riot grrrl Kathleen Hanna. Boisterous punk turbulence. Bang-on.

Instagram – Linktree

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Artists: peach|melba
Who: Queer femme indie duo,
half Brighton and half Los Angeles.

Track: FELL IN LOVE WITH GODX (SHE WAS REALLY FIT)
Their 2nd one, following trashy debut Worst Trimester.
More to follow every six weeks to come.

p|m: “We wrote and recorded it ourselves, delivered in our trademark double-team
deadpan vocal style, rhyming “80’s car” with “Californiarr”. This one has Arctic Monkeys
swagger and Mannequin Pussy edge, featuring a one-shot video in an iconic venue’s
bathroom.”

TUTV: Punk-pop spunky, sassy spirit, sharp-mouthed flair, dry humor, word spielerei, and utterly cool. That’s what p|m is about. This new non-stop drum-thumping tune zigzags left and right, forth and back flavored with slap-happy vocals. I’m quite sure that peach|melba will become your new favourite bathroom band.

Don’t flush, enjoy.

Instagram – Contact
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Band: LADY JESUS
Who: Hard soul & psychedelic
rock ‘n’ rollers from Scotland.

Track: WORK SMOOTHLY
New single.

TUTV: This burning funky-punky soul-burst is revved-up with ardent passion, electrical energy, warm-blooded vocals and sultry sax. Shake your booty and scream your lungs out when the clamoring chorus pops up. Sly Stone would have said there’s a riot going on. And it is. Spread the gospel, people.

Instagram – Linktree
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Press Photo by Genesis Báez

Band: BIG THIEF
Who: Brooklyn’s much-lauded folk pop-rock group
fronted by the wonderful Adrianne Lenker.

Track: INCROMPEHENSIBLE
First single from upcoming new, 6th full-length
Double Infinity. Waiting to be shared with the
world on September 5.

TUTV: Soulful musing with Lenker‘s enchanting voice shining in the middle.

Instagram – Spotify
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Band: H IS FOR HAWK
Who: Primarily the work of London‘s
seasoned singer/songwriter Si Connelly.

Track: HELLO MORNING

TUTV: A catchy pop thrill that makes your day. Enrapturing harmonies,
blithesome melodiousness, sparky sonority. Stellar debut single.


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Instagram – Linktree
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Artist: NELSON SOBRAL
Who: Singer-songwriter-guitarist hailing from Toronto, Ontario, Canada. His music is as much Americana and blues as it is soul and rock’n’roll, perfectly balanced with the energy and sound of each of his respective influences.

TUTV: Sobral‘s cover of Cyndi Lauper‘s supreme 1984 classic Time After Time (more
than 1 billion streams on Spotify) is a soulful and enticing accomplishment. A gripping vocal performance, bringing the emotive timbre of the sublime voices of Springsteen and Seger to mind.

NS: Instagram – Facebook
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Band: Múm
Who: Icelandic indietronica
team (1997-present).

Track: MILD AT HEART
First single from their forthcoming 7th longplayer.
History Of Silence will arrive in September 2019.

TUTV: Daydream reverie for reflective moments.

Instagram – Linktree
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Press photo by Dean Chalkley

Artist: PAUL WELLER
Who: The 67-year-old former The Jam and Style Council
maestro, who started his solo career back in 1990.

Track: I STARTED A JOKE
A cover of the Bee Gees 1967 goosebumps ballad.
It’ll appear on his 18th solo LP, a covers one, named
El Dorado, out on July 25th.

TUTV: Weller‘s version is pretty poignant and appealing.

WELLER: Instagram – Linktree
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JUKEBOX 2025 – Week 26 Five New Rad Tracks Added Twice A Week

In order to not miss a beat TURN UP THE VOLUME scans the musical
horizon daily, for 10 years now, to pick ace tracks and add 5 new ones
twice per week, to the one and only JUKEBOX playlist that matters.

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The 5 fresh ones
TRACK BY TRACK

Artist: FANCLUBWALLET
Who: Canadian outfit led by
songstress Hannah Judge from
Ottawa.

Track: COTTON MOUTH

“I wrote this one when I was feeling stuck and stagnant, but when I finally
brought it to the band they really breathed new life into it and made it feel
magic again!!”

This sickly sticky steam-riff-roller drives me crazy.

Instagram – Spotify
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Band: THE BEACHES
Who: All female Canadian
revved-up power pop combo.

Track: TOUCH MYSELF
Newest single from their 3rd album,
called No Hard Feelings, that shows up
on August 29th.

Sounds like a sultry, busy finger summer’s coming.

Instagram – Facebook
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Band: COLATURA
Who: Shoegazy pop duo from Brooklyn, NY.
Their debut album Then I’ll Be Happy came
out in 2022.

Track: (EVERYTIME I THINK ABOUT YOU) IT’S ABOUT ME (great title)
From their upcoming EP, titled If I’m Being Honest, out on August 1.

Burning torch that creeps under your skin, slowly but surely. Stellar.

Instagram – Linktree
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Band: ROYEL OTIS
Who: Swirling guitar pop
duo from Sydney, AUS.

Track: CAR
New single from their upcoming 2nd full
length, called Hickey, out on August 22.

Blistering power pop earworm.

Instagram – Spotify

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Band: GOOD CHARLOTTE
Who: Titanic rock veterans from Maryland, US
who celebrate their 30th birthday this year.

Track: REJECTS
Piece from their upcoming 8th LP, their first in 7 years.
It’s baptized Model Du Cap and arrives on August 8th.

Quiet/melodic/bit louder/explosion/finale.

Good job.

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