Last August former white stripe JACK WHITE (aged 49 now) released one of
the best LPs of the year with powerhouse record NO NAME, his 6th solo one.
A crazed punk blues album with a total of 13 thunder strokes.
Rolling Stone: “The album is some of the best, most lively garage-blues crunch
he’s given us in many moons, with just the right amount of eccentricity thrown in.”
And we get more new music with fresh single YOU GOT ME SEARCHING.
I’m quite sure that this song was recorded during the No Name sessions.
Anyway, it’s as if Jimi Hendrix woke up from the dead for a day to play
firework guitar on this blazing blast.
Check it out.
To promote the album White played a series of small club
gigs, but next year he’ll fill bigger venues in North America.
JACK WHITE is on the road promoting his newest LP
titled No Name. One of his back-to-punk-blues best.
Three days ago he played in Denver. For the occasion, a concert poster (above)
was designed by Rob Jones (@animalrummy) and printed by @dl_screenprinting.
Cave: “There’s no fucking around with this record. When it hits, it hits. It lifts you. It moves
you. I love that about it. I hope the album has the effect on listeners that it’s had on me. It bursts out of the speaker, and I get swept up with it. It’s a complicated record, but it’s also deeply and joyously infectious. There is never a master plan when we make a record. The records rather reflect back the emotional state of the writers and musicians who played
them. Listening to this, I don’t know, it seems we’re happy.”
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Rolling Stone says: “Here’s a sense of abandon and play to Wild God that’s infectious. Produced by Cave and long-time collaborator Warren Ellis, the record continues their
constant conversation, confidently proclaiming that better times are ahead.”
TUTV: Cave is the God of melodramatic balladry. Now here’s a God I can believe in. Again he shows why he’s one of the best ever crooners in the universe. And lyrically it feels as if, after so many devastating, painful years, with the surreal loss of two sons, he lets sparks of light back in his life. God bless Nick Cave.
Uncut Magazine said: “On No Name, he’s done something special on his own terms,
delighted and surprised his audience, and provided one of the great rock moments of
the year.”
TUTV: White returns to his punk blues roots of the early days. Swipe after swipe,
blue stripe after blue stripe, kick after kick, clap after clap. A total of 13 thunder
strokes. High-wired electricity. Dope record.
NME said: “Knockout, spiritual songs for the end of time The ever-evolving five-piece enter a new phase of transformation on their arresting fourth album – their most considered and intricately crafted work yet.”
TUTV: The Irishmen have become high-quality songwriters (which they already proved on previous LP Skinty Fia– – still my favourite one). Frontman Grian Chatten‘s lyrics show (again) his observative view on the modern, gloomy world and how it affects him emotionally.
This is not their masterpiece yet to my ears, but it’s only a matter of
time that they will come up with a longplayer that will blow us all away.
The Guardian (British newspaper): “A cheerfully rocking album about global collapse”.
TUTV: After 25 albums, it sounds as if the prolific Aussies decided to simply rock out
for a change, and they do it with striking 70s-inspired juggernauts with sultry harmonica-blues echoes here and there. Conventional guitar solos pop up in every track. Listen quickly to the record, if not they will have another one out before you press play.
AllMusic said: “Punk without guitars has been done before — everything has. Few have done it with the blend of skill, imagination, and flat-out commitment that Osees exhibit on SORCS 80.”
TUTV: For the first time Osees general John Dwyer has incorporated layers of synths in
the band’s sonic, head over heels turmoil. Don’t expect top-notch tunes. This LP is about bulldozing for 38 minutes with punk velocity and schizophrenic electronics and I like it.
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.
Band: ZEBEDEE
Who: International neo-psych and desert rock-inspired outfit
creating something of their own, with a plethora of ruckus Sabbath
riffs on the fingertips and psycho billy licks on the lips.
Single: FAST EDEE
It sees the band expand their sonic universe with booming
drums, smooth guitar riffs and honest, contemplative lyricism.
TUTV: Dazzling intensity and fiery vocals grab you by the throat from the get-go.
This astonishingly groovy ride gets under your skin without asking. Sassy swagger.
Striking stroke.
TUTV: This could easily be a piece from Canadian post-hardcore loudmouths Fucked Up‘s newest album. No rest for the wicked. According to my ears, The Battery Farm operate in
a 2024 wasteland where surreality becomes reality. OM-G, this is a formidable jam.
Mark Harris (frontman): “Written from the perspective of someone longing for another
and the cruelty of this person not letting go, ‘The TV’s Snowing’ emulates how this person lives helplessly in limbo, with nights stretched further and afar. Our love of Bon Iver really influenced the atmosphere of the production, and it’s one of our proudest creations.”
TUTV: A perturbed reflection with Harris‘ anxious vocals lifting this impassioned
tragedy to a bone-chilling level. It’s a feverish tour de force that keeps on reverberating after its volcanic finale. Splendid.
Artist: KAKTUS EINARSSON Who: Singer-songwriter from Reykjavík (Finland) who opened up
with his band Fufanu, opened hometown shows for Radiohead and Red Hot Chilli Peppers. Also supported Blur in Hyde Park, and playing
at big festivals.
His debut solo album ‘Kick The Ladder’ was released in 2021.
His second one ‘Lobster Coda’ will be launched on October 25th.
TUTV: White Burn starts as a mellow candlelight meditation, dreamy and starry-eyed,
and evolves around the 2-minute mark into a soulful and touchy-feely pop symphony. Beautifully orchestrated and arranged with crystalline vocals on top of it.
A new piece from their first album in 9 years. Born Horses comes out on September 6th.
A Bird Of No Address is a starry-eyed musing, a magnific symphony with classical piano play, sensitive orchestrations, and Donahue‘s romantic vocals. Bewitching, just bewitching.
TUTV: Expect a multi-layered soundscape with a bewitching resonance,
going on and on, creating a trance-like magnetism you can’t and don’t want
to escape from. Pretty special. Don’t miss Upupayāma‘s fantasy in motion.
Back in 2022 original guitarist Wayne Kramer (who passed away only last February) broke the news that he was working on a new MC5 LP, with co-songwriterBrad Brooks (they composed 12 of the 13 tracks together), featuring famous guests like Tom Morello, Slash, Vernon Reid, and several vocalists.
The record got finally produced by Bob Ezrin,
is calledHeavy Lifting and comes out in October.
Artist: JACK WHITE
(Born John Anthony Gillis) Who: Former white stripe, also
maestro of The Raconteurs and The Death Weather.
Track: WHAT’S THE RUMPUS
Highlight cut from his brand new 6th LP, titled No Name that dropped
last Friday without any promo singles ahead and no marketing tricks.
White return to his early blues-punk roots and it sounds DIRTY and ACE!
Former white stripe JACK WHITE (aged 49 now) let the world know, only a week or so
ago, out of the blue (artwork) that his 6th solo LP NO NAME was ready to be shared.
And here it is.
Rolling Stone: “The album is some of the best, most lively garage-blues crunch he’s
given us in many many moons, with just the right amount of eccentricity thrown in.”
TUTV: White returns to his punk blues roots of the early days. Swipe after swipe, kick after kick, clap after clap, a total of 13 thunderstrokes. Ravenous guitars rule all the way, and as we are used to, White‘s perfervid voice puts some more oil to the sonic wildfire. You’ll be out of breath after the full, exhilarative 43 minutes of seven nation Jack White army’s rollercoaster.
Lyrically he looks back and forth. Closer Terminal Archenemy Ending is dedicated to his
wife Olivia Jean, who he married onstage in 2022 at a concert in his native Detroit. It looks like Jean has a volcanic impact on her husband. Anyway, White is on a riff-ripping roll on No Name. Dope record!
BEYONCE sent flowers to JACK WHITE saying that she was so inspired
by the former White Stripe for her brand-new album Cowboy Carter
(you can stream it below).
“Jack, I hope you are well. I just wanted you to know how much
you inspired me on this record. Sending you my love, Beyoncé.”
White sent the mega superstar a glowing “Thank You” message on Instagram.
American actor, comedian, writer, producer, and children’s entertainer PAUL REUBENS (born Rubenfeld in Peekskil, New York) has passed away
yesterday at 70 due to cancer.
He was best known for his role as Pee-wee Herman and starred in films,
TV series and on stage. He played the character from 1977 to 2016, with a
long hiatus in the 90s.
One of his countless fans as a kid was/is former white stripe JACK WHITE.
White stripe JACK WHITE never was and never will be a Trump supporter, rightly so, and exposes all idiots who normalize the autocratic populist and anti-democracy fanatic that Trump is. White‘s shitlist of Trump fans gets longer all the time.
The musician posted a series of photos on Instagram that picture former president Donald Trump with different celebrities, including actors Mel Gibson (also a rabid anti-Semitic) and Mark Wahlberg. White called out all the photographed parties for normalizing Donald Duck in his caption.
“Anybody who ‘normalizes’ or treats this disgusting fascist, racist, con man, disgusting piece of shit Trump with any level of respect is ALSO disgusting in my book. That’s you Joe Rogan, you Mel Gibson, you Mark Wahlberg, you Guy Fieri. This is a statement from me, not a discussion/debate.”
