JUKEBOX 2025 – Week 8 – 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 that matters.
For a couple of years now TUTV added 10 new tracks every 7 days.
This year we will put 5 new ones in the Jukebox twice a week.
ALL TOGETHER
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The 5 fresh ones.
TRACK BY TRACK
Band: FONTAINES D.C.
Who: The Irish indie rockers
who became genuine celebs
after 4 stellar LPs.
Track: IT’S AMAZING TO BE YOUNG
It’s their first new music of 2025, following
last year’s victorious album Romance.
Swift, feel-good pop tune.
Simple but striking. Bingo.
Instagram – Spotify
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Artist: EVAN WILLIAMS
Who: British singer-songwriter-guitarist who’s
quite close with Albion heroes The Libertines.
Track: KINDRED SIN
From his upcoming debut full length
The View From Halfway Down, out
on 11th April. Order info here.
Williams: “Finishing uni, I was very lost with what I was doing. I had no stability. I was dreaming I’d found love, but in reality I was stagnating. The line “Fuck You For Looking” speaks of flare-ups I had then, where I imagined people looking down on me. These illusions I’ve found are symptomatic of the social pressure to be someone – and be someone quickly. It’s been quite freeing to understand that the negativity that I was imagining from others is no more real than the girl in my dreams.”
High-quality songwriting. Zestful and vehement.
Fuck you outpouring. Pent-up emotions.
Glorious voice. Top-notch chorus.
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Instagram – Facebook
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Artist: PERFUME GENIUS
Who: The musical moniker of acclaimed Iowa
singer-songwriter and visual artist Michael Hadreas
Track: NO FRONT TOOTH
New piece from his upcoming, 7th LP, baptized
Glory, and out on March 28th. More info here.
It features co-vocals by New Zealand
songstress Aldous Harding.
PG has one of the most captivating voices around
and his arresting vocal interaction with Harding
elevates this song to a marvellous level.
Instagram – Linktree
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Band: KEYS
Who: Welsh indie
rock-pop team.
Track: WHAT FLAVOUR
The song takes inspiration from the raw, rhythmic urgency of ESG, Liquid Liquid,
and the early ’80s New York post-disco underground, channeling the energy of
99 Records into something distinctly their own.
Matthew Evans (frontman): “‘What Flavour?’ began with something my daughter said while staring at the endless choices at an ice cream stand on holiday in Tenby. We instinctively sang it back to her, and before long, it snowballed into a full-blown song. As it unfolds, the track grows more agitated, from playful indecision into the agony of craving what someone else has. We’d been deep into disco and 99 Records bands at the time, so everything came out upside down.
It doesn’t sound like anything we’ve done before, and that’s exactly why we love it.”
This electrical-charged corker captures your hungry ears faster than you can
say ‘this tastes excellent’. Dominant guitars, a pounding bass-drum collaboration, wondering vocals, 60s organ juice, and the pumping chorus combine for
a top-tier thrill.
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Facebook – Instagram
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Photo credit: Łukasz Gołąbek
Band: BAGDAD
Who: Polish indie trio.
Track: SOMEWHERE, NOWHERE
Pithy piece from their upcoming
debut EP
They Don’t Know. Out on 27th March.
Dinosaur Jr and Sebadoh echoes.
Slacker rock vibes fueled by guitar-layered
electricity. Passionate and compelling.
Solid stroke.
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