In order to not miss a beat TURN UP THE VOLUME scans the musical horizon
daily, for 10 years now in 2025, to pick ace tracks and add 10 new rad ones, every
week, to the one and only JUKEBOX that matters.
Mould about the album: “On the surface, this is a group of straightforward guitar pop songs. I’m refining my primary sound and style through simplicity, brevity, and clarity. Under the hood, there’s a number of contrasting themes: Control and chaos, hypervigilance and helplessness, uncertainly and unconditional love.”
Band: BLEACH GARDEN Who: Indie 4-piece from Atlanta, GA influenced by robust bands such
as Nirvana, Soundgarden, Alice in Chains, Melvins, Flipper, Zeppelin,
lack Sabbath, and many more.
They have 3 albums out so far. You
can check them out on Spotify.
New track: BORN TO BE EMPTY
Piece from their new, forthcoming LP.
Details TBA.
Imagine Nirvana were stoner rockers.
Smells like exploding spirit. Score!
Band: ALUMINIUM BOYS Who: American indie rock project born in Silicon Valley,
centered around the songwriting of friends Jared Ottmann
and William “Bill” Pence.
Powers: “This song came from a thought I had of giving the angel of death a hug. We spend our whole lives running from this thing we can’t outrun. This body is temporary, but there is no death. Only transformation. A door opens when you learn to let go of the identity you’ve been building your whole life.”
A magnetic, rotating groove playing
quickly on your hard-drive in your
head.
Band: DARKSIDE Who: Alt electronic musician Nicolás Jaar, multi-instrumentalist Dave Harrington and drummer Tlacael Esparza from Providence,
Rhode Island.
Track: S.N.C.
Song from their 3rd longplayer, named Nothing. It’ll show up on 28 February.
Funky mid-tempo jam creeping
under your skin without asking
permission.
Artist: MOTE Who: Post-punk indie from Berlin who carves a unique path through
modern music influenced by David Bowie, Sharon Van Etten, and Juice WRLD.
The song delves into the turbulent aftermath of a sudden romantic departure. The track captures the visceral immediacy of heartbreak, unraveling emotions with a stark honesty that resonates very deep. Gritty yet vulnerable, the track is a sonic exploration of isolation and connection, wrapped in lush textures and an undercurrent of restless energy.
Mixed emotions in motion.
Hypnotic, fuzzy, captivating
Cathartic vocals.
Artist: BATTLEFLAG Who: The project of Philadelphia-based singer/songwriter Jeff Hartwig. A collective of like-minded musicians and visual artists with a sound that blends traditional rock instrumentation with ambient synths, drum loops and samples, Hartwig’s Battleflagg songs seek to straddle the Heartland/Americana/Indie rock divides, leaning into direct, heart-on-sleeve lyrics and arena-size, sing-along choruses.
Band: BUCK GOOTER Who: An electro-rock duo – Terry Turtle and Billy Brett – that started
in 2005 and has continued, at Terry‘s urging, since his passing in 2019.
Track: KING KONG LIVES
Cut from new, upcoming 3rd album King Kong Lives: Thereminsanity.
The record is created with Terry Turtle‘s chiming in from beyond on every
song via never before heard samples of his guitar and voice. Release: April 4.
Spooky synth-drum rant interrupted by ghostly garage blues fragments.
Weirdest track of the week. Listen up, all you freaks out there, that
colossal monkey comes after your stereo.
In order to not miss a beat Turn Up The Volume scans the musical
horizon daily (doing it for years now, actually) to stay in touch with
all new things sonically great and shares the results on a weekly
basis.
FULL JUKEBOX (so far)
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The 10 new ones added this week
TRACK-BY-TRACK
Artist: WHITEY Who: British singer-songwriter whose music has made its mark, from rock’n’roll clubs
to electronic dance floors, fashion catwalks to movie soundtracks, television to computer games, from Breaking Bad and the Sopranos to Grand Theft Auto.
He has built a strange home in the shadows between mainstream entertainment and the vanishing underground, an outsider who celebrates his outsider ethos in his work- and yet whose music is embraced by both popular and alternative culture.
Track: ADRIANA AGAIN
Following this year’s new LP Audio Vertigo the band offers this new
piece, that’ll be part of an EP, slated for release sometime next year.
Oh yes, Elbow can rock out, with this
badass belter as convincing proof.
No idea who the band in the video is.
Only Guy Garvey & Co. know.
“Great art holds a mirror up to the world; exposing its many flaws,
highlighting its beauty and screams back the question we are all too
afraid to ask. It’s this dichotomy that Rose Fatale bring to this new
single.”
This barbed wire punk
juggernaut challenges
your speakers.
Red-hot stroke.
Helter skelter.
Artists: STUKA Who: Finnish electro punks
of the 41st Millenium.
Track: SUNSET OF THE CORRUPTED
First taster of their upcoming 3rd album,
named Electronic Body Metal, out early 2025.
In the song, a female voice chanting in Latin on top of
an EBM techno beat create a moody, haunting atmosphere.
Poetic lyrics tell how corruption of the soul destroys men.
Expect a head-twisting electro-manic
trip to a nightclub galaxy.
“Looking at everyone’s lives over recent years, and considering the news at the moment, “Renegade” feels a lot more loaded in retrospect. We wanted to go for a dystopian feel,
thinking about Manchester itself over the next century or so. A totally imaginary thing…
Blade Runner set in our home city.”
Doves still know how to write compelling, lyrical
symphonies with a melodramatic appeal.
“There’ve been times since Sony I’ve felt paralysed – like I’ve lost my voice, and can’t
honour my blessings… We’ve all got talents that define us – it’s vital we nurture them.
Light the Dark’s a call to exercise your talents no matter what… Or as Dr. King says:
‘we must keep moving’” muses Mayor”
Funky pop tune. Steely Dan vibes.
Mixed emotions.
Emotive vocals.
Martin Luther King.
“There’s something that’s still very radioactive about the song; it’s still relevant because race is still relevant. The impulses that Meeropol was talking about are very much still with us, on the front pages of our newspapers and across our social media every day. For us, ‘Strange Fruit’ evokes racial injustice, representing not just lynchings, but racism generally. Racism is a virus that mutates, taking on different forms as it adapts to a changing environment. Its mutation is made harder to observe by it being deeply embedded, not only in our traditions and institutions, but also in our unconscious lives.”
