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JUKEBOX 2025 – Week 22 Five New Rad Tracks Added Twice A Week

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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.

ALL TOGETHER

The 5 fresh ones
TRACK BY TRACK

Band: ROBOT HIVE
Who: 6-piece synthwave/electronic-rock team hailing from Regina, Canada. They draw inspiration from a diverse array of influences, including Depeche Mode, Nine Inch Nails, Devo, Tool, and many others

They released their debut album Prophylaxis in 2019.

Track: HEAVEN’S GATE
A provocative alt-pop anthem that skewers blind belief and modern
delusion, this song challenges listeners to follow evidence over fear.

TUTV: A booming bass beat that grooves and moves all the way through propels
this spicy stomper with brio and gusto. An irresistible feet-tapping buzzer that peaks
when the ablaze chorus comes on strong. Striking stroke.


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Press photo by Frances Carter

Artist: FAZERDAZE
Who: Power-pop singer-songwriter
Amelia Rahayu Murray from New Zealand.

Track: MOTORWAY

About: “A feeling of being trapped between a city and a relationship, searching for home in both, but finding it in neither. It explores an enmeshment with familiarity; and the motorway becoming a symbol of that for me; repetitive, a loop to break out of, a false sense of freedom.”

TUTV: Fazerdaze‘s unswerving drive on the motorway works like a mind-bending
magnet. Sultry synths, distorted guitars and sensuous vocals cause an overpowering
thrill. Intoxicating psych pop for the twilight hours.

Instagram – Linktree
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Artist: RIVAL QUEENS
Who: The solo project of British guitarist Sally-Anne Hickman
who has played as a session and live guitarist with many bands
over the years.

Track: RIGHT NOW

Press info: With shades of the sparkling indie-pop of bands such
as Best Coast as well a clear inspiration from the British DIY scene.

TUTV: Right Now is a riff-repetitive pop ripper. Energizing, stimulating and
rollin’ fast-forward. Hickman‘s vivid vocals add extra vibrancy to the racy vibe.

Instagram – Linktree
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Band: HOME IS WHERE
Who: Emo rock team
from Palm Coast, Florida.

Track: DRIVE-BY MOONING
Closer from their 2nd, brand-new album
Hunting Soon.

TUTV: Raw, rough, perfectly out of tune, juiced with bluesy harmonica
and drunk fire camp harmonies. DIY indie at its genuine best.


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Band: DRINK THE SEA
Who: New supergroup started by
R.E.M.’s guitarist Peter Buck.

Track: OUTSIDE AGAIN

TUTV: I played this sparkling ballad a few times on repeat. Every single
time, I thought it was a lost, bittersweet Mark Lanegan reverie.


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JUKEBOX 2025 – Week 18 – Five New Rad Tracks Added Twice A Week

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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.

ALL TOGETHER


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The 5 fresh ones
TRACK BY TRACK

Band: HOME IS WHERE
Who: Rock team from Palm Coast, Florida
who easily could be your neighbours.

Track: MILK & DIESEL
Piece from their upcoming, 3rd LP, named
Hunting Season . More info here.

Spellbinding psych jam that
goes on like forever. Top!

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Band: CAR SEAT HEADREST
Who: The Virginia indie act conducted
by singers-songwriter Will Toledo.

Track: THE CATASTROPHE (Good Luck With That, Man)
Single from their new album, titled The Scholars which is
out today.

No catastrophe whatsoever, only good luck.

Instagram – Tour Dates
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Band: TOPS
Who: Canadian indie pop-rockers with
4 albums (so far) on their résumé.

Track: ICU2

This kind of tune make my day on
the spot. Feel good pop thrills.

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Band: TURNSTILE
Who: Rackety hardcore rockers
from Baltimore, Maryland.

Track: SEEING STARS
Single from forthcoming 4th LP,
called Never Enough.

From emo hardcore to emo guitar
pop is clearly a little step for Turnstile.

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Band: SPARKS
Who: The brothers Ron (79) and Russell Mael (76)
who are around since 1966. Yes, that’s 59 years
and no sign of retirement.

Track: MY DEVOTION
4th shared piece from their upcoming
28th (!!) LP, named Mad!. Out May 23rd.

A slow moving spark.

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Album Of July 2023 – Florida Misfits HOME IS WHERE With Emo-Crusher ‘THE WHALER’

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2 Augustus 2023

Band: home is where
who: 4 unbridled indies
from Florida.

New album: THE WHALER
The follow-up to their sublime 2021
debut I became birds.

TUTV: These mavericks are special. This record is special. Sonically it’s a flabbergasting blend of all things clashing and trashing. You get pop and punk, country and hardcore, post-rock and barbed wire lullabies, loud and silent, left/right, and sometimes all of this
in just one song, well, sort of. I mean, there’s not one dull moment on the whaler.

It’s a non-stop restless outburst with exorcistic eruptions when vocalist Brandon MacDonald, like co-songwriter co-songwriter Tilley Komorny a trans woman, unleashes
her scary primal screams (I hope for her and her lungs that they needed only one vocal take of each song). What her pipes produce is almost unreal. I’m pretty sure you just pressed play to find out if I’m not about to overdose on caffeine. I’m not, they are.

The 10 tracks are a poetic tturmoil of mixed emo-tions. MacDonald and Komorny have
to deal with anti-transgender hate and living in Florida (or another Republican led state), run by anti-LGBTQ, anti-abortion, and lots of other anti-human rights, thug Ron DeSantis. And, by extension, life overall in the Divided States Of America must be a daily drag (well that’s how we, Europeans, experience America the past 6 years).

The land of the brave and the free? My ass. So it’s not surprising, there’s a lot of spitting and sneering triggered by anger, angst and severe doubts about the future. As I said a million times before, emotionally suffocating crises lead frequently to great music, great poems, great books, great paintings and any way of profound cathartic expression, countless troubled souls and confused hearts can relate with.

My advice to all alt-music-loving whalers among us, purchase
this amazing album. So much cheaper than a shrink or meds.

“i am the whaler,
i’ve outgrown these innards.
i am the whaler,
cleaning guts from gutters.
i am the whaler,
our vertebrae’s tethered.
i am the whaler,
look! here come the buzzards”

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Punch-Powered-Punk-Passion – Play ‘i became birds’ by ‘Home Is Where’ Very Loud

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9 March 2021

band: home is where
who: inspiring punks from florida, america producing a unique blend of whirlwind hardcore aggression and warm, open-hearted folksy melancholy. the bittersweet
folk melodies seep deeply into the band’s DNA, adding an element of accessibility
and immediate nostalgia to otherwise churning and angular song structures and
sonic assaults. vocals range from an intimate, gentle, and disarming croon to a full-
bodied expectoration of the soul. gothic post-punk and staccato-heeled screamo.

album: i became birds
released: 5 march 2021

score: i’m damn sure this incredible punch-powered-punk-passion turbo was here
before, about 40 years ago, inspiring bored kids like black flag , shellac, melvins, jello
biafra, and other anarchist snotnoses, to leave home, steal guitars and drums in order
to have some wild fun while scaring bad people with their deafening racket that’ll teach those old-fashioned adults watching fox.news all day long.

so here they are back again, inspiring young social media junkies to steal guitars and drums instead of watching their phones all day long. home is where it all starts when you have no money to rent a smelly rehearsal room to rock your heads off. so you move into your own smelly basement and scream your poor lungs to pieces. listen up all you lost teenagers out there, play i became birds over and over again ’cause these hungry florida misfits can and will save your lives…


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all music written by home is where / all lyrics written by brandon
produced, mixed, & mastered by matt goings at killian studios
released & distributed through knifepunch records

home is where: Twitter

josiah gardella – drums
trace george – guitar
brandon macdonald – tantrum, harmonica, singing saw
connor “fat slaps” o’brien – bass