“After years of touring, we chose to slow down and bring the music and songs back to the forefront, taking direct responsibility for the production as well, to build a soundscape all
our own. With Lovers, Drifters, Foreigners, we wanted to capture the tension between chaos
and stillness, a song that opens up, deforms, and recomposes itself, anticipating the ambiguous and situationist universe of ‘Ritmo Lento’.”
TUTV: This new, intriguing piece takes you on a sonic rollercoaster, speeding up, slowing down, and back. No way to get out. Hysterical guitars, sassy sax fragments and emotive vocals combine for a messy mindfucker. Dagnabbit!
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: LEATHERETTE Who: Buzzing indie
trio from Italy.
It’s a cathartic breakup song, blending the raw energy of post-punk with the angular charm of new wave. Written from the perspective of an inept and creepy protagonist, the track navigates the emotional chaos of a crumbling relationship, where frustration, anger, and reluctant self-realization collide.
Indie guitar pop/rock at its piercing best.
Both unbridled and melodic, soundtracking
barbed emotions. Bone-chilling whack.
Band: MOB WIFE Who: Irish noiseniks who entered the scene back in 2018 and who draw influences from the American underground by way of Metz, Fugazi, Protomartyr and of course, Kiss. They released their debut LP Eat With Your Ears in 2022.
Rollin’ bass, hyperkinetic guitar riffage,
agitated vocals, aggressive progression.
Grim post-punk turbulence that cuts right
through the flesh. Clobbering knockout.
Joe (singer): “When facing the massive and seemingly unchangeable task of trying to
change our failing political systems, people can understandably feel totally powerless in
their already struggling lives. An easier way is to shy away from it or, worse, resort to blaming migrants, trans people and climate policy for the issues that repeatedly arise in our society. This song is essentially about how people come to explain away the harm they see and do in their lives, be it economically, socially or both.”
Early The Fall turmoil echoes.
Razorblade tension in the air accentuated
by vitriolic guitars, flustered percussion and
upset vocals. To hell with hate preachers.
Cracking stuff.
Following their incendiary 2022 debut album Fiesta,
their sophomore longplayer, titled Small Talk is out now.
Press info: “Leatherette’s second album is clearly the work of a group ready to take flight in a new direction and it transcends all they have done before. It coins a voice uniquely their own, driven by the same furies that propelled debut album ‘Fiesta‘, but finding fresh new forms for expression. It boasts some of their most unabashed pop songs to date – albeit pop that’s deftly twisted, pointedly perverse and ready to explode when you least expect it. It also contains some of the group’s most challenging and uncompromising noise yet, the violent swinging back-and-forth between ugly din and nagging tunefulness a (molotov) cocktail that grows only more addictive with each listen. A smart, bold and focused thrill ride that sounds like nothing else out there.”
TUTV: If I didn’t know from which country Leatherette is, I would say, without hesitation, that they’re British. More specifically, part of the post-Brexshit-punk rebirth. Let’s have a look.
Echoes of the blazing bravado of Shame (Bureaucracy Apocalypse / Isolation / Ponytail / Spying On The Garden), the saxy cacophony of Black Road, New Country ( (Experimenting / Fade Away) and the impassioned ardency of The Murder Capital (they’re actually Irish) on Lips and Monday (Still Here). Pretty cool, right? You betcha. Wait, Leatherette are around as long as these bands are, maybe they influenced them.
Whatever, these Italian misfits delivered a gloriously chaotic full-length with a biting
and bone-chilling impact. Maddening music without frontiers. Molto impressionante
Band: LEATHERETTE Who: 5 noisy pop/rock indies
from Bologna, Italy.
Following their incendiary 2022 debut album Fiesta,
the band is ready for the follow-up, titled Small Talk.
It finds Leatherette breaking free of the post-punk straitjacket some
were keen to strap them in, indulging their love of wild noise and
twisted pop. The new album will be released on 3rd November via Bronson Recordings.
THE UGLIEST speeds up from the kick-off with swift jangly guitars, agitated drums and nervous vocals. A sneaky saxophone blows its way to the front now and then, such does a far-out synthesizer, the chorus is a yell along one, and near the end a burning guitar takes over for a charged climax. Hat-trick!
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.
Check the 10 new rad cuts just
added to this rad 2023 playlist.
The Russian rebellious riot Grrls really like joining forces with other acts. This time they get clamourus help from British female tornado Nova Twins. Expect vivid disco punk fireworks.
Glam and glitter veterans DURAN DURAN have no intention whatsoever to retire.
They canned album number 16, baptized DANCE MACABRE and they will share it
with the world on 27 October.
Ahead of it comes this second appetizer. Some funky shit. Yeah!
“Dungens Puls was born out of a collective experience in the woods, where we felt as
a part of this greater being: nature. Pulsating in harmony with our surroundings.”
This Swedish psychedelic team will take your mind to a Utopian place with this ongoing jam, spiced with repetitive Krautrock-like dynamics. A place far away from our rat race reality. Spellbinding, intense and far-out.
Inspired by a mutual passion for the sights, sounds and creative experimentation of the mid to late 1960s, The Crystal Teardrop, with its distinct blend of garage rock, psychedelia and acid folk, have (only) their 2nd single ‘By The River‘ out following superb debut single Nine Times Nine.
They take you in their time-machine back to the kaleidoscopic and psychedelic sixties with a sitar-driven, instantly sticking pop tune, that’ll float around in your dizzy head for a while.
The closest in their songbook to a ballad, ‘Fade Away’ is a sulphurous, windswept thing which the band describe as “a song about separation and virtuality. We hope we managed to paint the bittersweet feeling of love mixed with rage. Musically, the song oscillates between dreamy, surreal soundscapes and grungy rhythmic rides”.
This is a stunning composition that grows in emotional intensity
and sonic vehemence along its impassioned course.
True is a crystal power pop gem painted with shoegazy guitar layers and tranquil vocals that trigger your daydreaming modus. It features on their new album Lines, stream here.
Rovers is the opener of the band’s new 4-track EP Songs Of Saints & Reivers.
It’s a riff-crazy emo belter with sky-scraping vocals and a Herculean chorus.
These Texan Rockers have their 2022 album, named Harbor out on vinyl
today. For this occasion, they shared a brand-new video of the magnificent title track.
Band: LEATHERETTE Who: 5 noisy pop/rock indies
from Bologna, Italy.
Following their incendiary 2022 debut album Fiesta, the band just announced the
delivery of an even more provocative and sophisticated record with the follow-up,
titled SMALL TALK. The new one finds Leatherette breaking free of the post-punk straitjacket some were keen to strap them in, indulging their love of wild noise and
twisted pop. The new album will be released on 3rd November via Bronson
Recordings.
A song that explodes in jazz and shoegaze elements, a desperate scream that leads
to new romantic riffs, a tormented sax solo and melancholy vocals. A tune of inspired action and emotional turbulence, that talks of separation and of deep malaise.
Emotive, gloomy and estranged.
Impactful and fiery thrill.
“Oh had I written that book that I was talking about!
All I’ve done is looking for a title that I still haven’t found!
Oh messy life, messy life, I’m Cristiano Ronaldo
But I’ve never ever ever had a ball
Oh had I written that book that I was talking about!
All I’ve done is looking for a title that I still haven’t found!
Oh messy life, messy life, I’m Cristiano Ronaldo
But I’ve never ever ever had a ball
I remember the last time you saw my face
And it was looking kinda twisted
Jumping to conclusions never led you anywhеre else
I can nеver tell when to surrender so I never get involved
In anything, in anything at all
I didn’t write the book that i was talking about!
All i’ve done is looking for a title that i still haven’t found!
Oh I’m losing my temper and i’m not gonna miss it!
I ain’t gonna miss you neither if you don’t want me to!
But I’ve never ever ever had a ball!”
Artists: LONG TWINS Who: KV Hopper – a musician and product designer living in Portland, OR – and Elizabeth LoPiccolo is a musician, film photographer, and performer living in Brooklyn, New York.
TUTV: Trippy, dancey, vibey and dreamy. This contagious pop tune is
so refreshing and stimulating, brightened by LoPiccolo‘ uplifting vocality
that it puts a big smile on your face.
Tune in.
LONG TWINS: Instagram
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Single/video: THIN ICE
From their buzzing debut albumFiesta.
“Musically, it’s a nervous mid-tempo post-punk-ska orchestral tune, sort of Talking Heads-esque. Lyrically, it is quite representative of our approach, both as people and as a band. An approach that can be summed up by the famous Winston Churchill’s quote: “If you’re going through hell, keep going”. We learnt, as musicians and young adults, that things tend not to work properly way more often than they do. But it’s not a big deal, It’s actually what makes life, love and art so special”.
TUTV: Mid-tempo razzle-dazzle groove you can show your best ska moves to.
LEATHERETTE: Facebook – Tour Dates 2023
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Band: SWAN HILL Who: A fuzzy alt rock band from Wales. The Pixies, Weezer and Pavement think
they’ve died and gone to Jazzmaster heaven.
TUTV: Unlucky has a slow-mo Dinsosaur Jr slacker vibe fueled with glowing
guitars. It has a slowly but surely addictive impact after a couple of spins.
“Have you ever been so helplessly in love with something that you know is without a doubt, so bad for you? For me, that love isn’t for a person but a twisted state of mind. For ‘Nobody But You,’ I wanted to create a dark dreamy atmosphere with a lot of room for vocals. I wrote this song on piano, in a tiny closet on a cassette player, with the hope that it would sound a lot bigger than reality.’
TUTV:Nothing But You is an electrically-charged reverie, a guitar-and-vocal powered stroke with an insidiously hypnotic effect. Top stuff!
