20 BEST TRACKS OF THE MONTH – NOVEMBER 2024

ALL TOGETHER


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TRACK BY TRACK

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Band: DITZ
Who: Unbridled post-punks from
Brighton, UK (where everybody is
in a band).

Track: TAXIMAN
Piece from their forthcoming second longplayer, baptized
Never Exhale. It’ll hit the streets on 25 January 2025. Pre-order
info here.

TUTV: Taximan does your head in the way we, brainbangers, like it. Bam Bang Boom.
No mercy for the wicked. Maddening mayhem as usual. You better check out if Robert ‘Travis’ De Niro is behind the wheel before taking a cab.

Helter skelter.


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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 LP with a total of 13 thunderous
outbursts.

Track: YOU GOT ME SEARCHING

TUTV: 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 blistering blow.

Instagram – Spotify
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Band: GETDOWN SERVICES
Who: Two flamboyant
weirdos from Bristol, UK.

Track: DOG DRIBBLE
From the duo’s brand new 6-track EP
Your Medal’s In The Post.


New EP artwork

TUTV: Dog Dribble operates somewhere between Yard Act and Sleaford Mods.
Its limbs-activating groove is simply irresistible. Get up, stand up, and fight
for your right to move in mysterious ways.

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Band: LAMBRINI GIRLS
Who: A two-motor punk bulldozer from Brighton, UK who have built
a notorious reputation over the past 2 years, on record and on stage.

Track: LOVE
Piece from the duo’s upcoming debut LP
Who Let The Dogs Out. Out next year, on
January 10.

TUTV: Don’t be mistaken, it’s not because the new single is titled ‘Love’
that LB wrote their first-ever song about the birds and the bees. According
to the lambrinis tandem, ‘true love is nothing more than the wrong hill to die on”.

It’s one of their best knockouts so far.
An amazeballs wall-of-flaming-guitar racket
and a manic drummer with 4 arms. Hell yeah.

Instagram – Spotify
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Band: BILLY ZACH
Who: German act described by singer/guitarist
Max Zacherl as “the sandpaper of pop music”. So
far, they canned/released two albums.

Track: PAINTED NAILS
Single from their notable brand new 5-track EP, called
Interferer (you can stream/buy it below via Bandcamp).

TUTV: Painted Nails is a flabbergasting post-punk tour de force, a jawdropping
psychedelic trip burning its way through a turbulent trip, fired-up by schizophrenic
guitars and bone-chilling vocals. Petrifying thrill.


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Linktree – Spotify
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Artists: SLEAFORD MODS and HOT CHIP.

Track: CAT BURGLAR

The rap-punk poets teamed up with the famous synth-pop band to collect money for help organization WARCHILD. An organization that works with parents, caregivers, community members, NGOs, governments, corporations, and other partners worldwide to ensure that children have access to protection, education, and psychosocial support.

It’s an unlikely collaboration, but it’s pretty cool that they do it together
for charity. They recorded 2 tracks in London’s famed Abbey Road studios.
You can buy both here, via Bandcamp.

One of them is a frisky punk-disco stomper; called CAT BURGLAR


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Website Warchild
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Band: CAMLANN
Who: Intruiging Indonesian
dark disco duo.

Track: RONNY (BURN IN HELL)
The song is deeply rooted in the personal experiences of lead singer Ony Godfrey,
who candidly addresses the sexual harassment she faced as a teenager at the hands
of a middle-aged man named Ronny. Through this powerful narrative, Camlann channels
a raw and unfiltered expression of female rage that resonates with many women who
have endured similar traumas.

TUTV: Expect a knockout headbutt, an in-your-face sucker disco-punk punch.
Hells bells. A blazing blast that goes after all sexual abusers out there. Bullseye.
The message is loud and clear. To hell with all harassing predators. NOW!

“You have played with fire
And the fire’s now burning you alive
So have fun suffering
‘Cause God knows that you will be
Burn in hell forever”


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Instagram – Spotify
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Artist: KELE
Who: Bloc Party‘s maestro.

Track: KINTSUGI
From his 7th solo LP. The Singing Winds Pt. 3
and lands next year, on January 17th.

TUTV: Kintsugi is a funky and zippy riff-infused
tune that bounces on the dancefloor in your head
for a wild while.


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Instagram – Spotify
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Photo credit: Frank Fieber

Band: FAT DOG
Who: London disco-punk cowboys, guilty of
releasing one of the best debut LPs of the
year with Woof.


(Brussels, 10 October 2024 – Photo by Turn Up The Volume)

Track: PEACE SONG

TUTV: The band say they have written this energizer, they want to compete
with at the Eurovision Song Contest of 2035. Say what?. The big question, of
course, is ‘will the world still turn in 2035?‘ as devastating wars destroy lives
every single day on half of our planet and the future doesn’t look bright
whatsoever. We can only hope for peace.

Instagram – Spotify
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Photo by Jim Fuller

Artist: SOMEBODY’S CHILD
Who: Musical project led
by Irish songsmith Cian Godfrey.

Track: TIME OF MY LIFE
First taster from his upcoming 2nd album
When Youth Fades Away
, out 28 March 2025.


New album artwork

TUTV: If you can resist this epic guitar/drums/piano-driven earworm
you need to change your meds and/or consult your shrink and you’ll
have the time of your life.

Stupendous tune!

Instagram – Spotify
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Band: CANYONS AND LOCUSTS
Who: Two-piece garage rock act, Justin Keane (vocals, guitar) and Amy Young (drums, backing vocals), from Boston, MA. Fueled by the current chaos of the world and an urgent need to be part of the conversation, the two took the indie rock foundation they built in previous bands and upped the ante by adding new levels of noise via pervasive, edgy guitar sounds, low and thundery drumbeats, and emotional vocals.

Track: ANNA SAVE A LIFE

Rowdy piece the tandem’s forthcoming
2025 concept album, The Goal Gigolo.

TUTV: Another manic motherrocker from this duo who sound as a 4-motor hit-and-run band. As usual, amps way up, and the volume to the max. Riff-o-rama all the way while bashing drums do your head in. Garage punk ‘n’ roll at its turbulent best. Call your own Anna and challenge the anti-decibels police. Sounds like far-out fun, right? You betcha.


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(photo by Turn Up The Volume)

Band: PRIMAL SCREAM
Who: Veteran stars with Scottish
roots, fronted by Bobby Gillespie.

Track: THE CENTRE CANNOT HOLD
Highlight from their new,
so-so LP Come Ahead.

The Scream on a roll.


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Band: FORGOTTEN DREAM
Who: Italian alt-rock group.

Track: RABBIT HOLE
Highlight from their brand
new album Distorted Karma.

Rabbit Hole is an invitation to explore life’s hidden corners, where desire and despair
often collide. The accompanying video clip immerses fans in distorted shadows and dramatic visuals, that perfectly mirrors the raw and introspective.

TUTV: Expect a motorized riff-ripper
with a titanic fists in the air chorus.
Steaming stuff. Punktastic!

Instagram – Spotify
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Band: NOVANOISE
Who: Italy’s rising alternative
punk rock outfit.

Track: LEVELS
It’s a fresh blend of punchy punk rock riffs, bold synth lines, and the undeniable
energy of frontwoman Luna Esmeralda Rizzi. Known for their high-voltage performances and cyberpunk flair, Novanoise delivers a track that’s both defiant and uplifting.
A shout-out to staying connected in a chaotic world.

TUTV: Levels is a high-voltage blowout,
with biting vocals, Herculean powerhouse
intensity and full-on electricity.

Bingo!


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Artist: PETER PERRETT
Who: Former frontman of legendary British new wavers
The Only Ones (1976–1982, 2007–2017)

Track: FOUNTAIN OF YOU
Single from his new, 3rd solo
album, named The Cleansing.

TUTV: It’s a heartfelt, sepia-colored musing where sparkling guitar lines
and Perrett‘s unique voice come together to shine. Moony melancholia in
motion.

Top!

Instagram – Spotify
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Band: CMON CMON
Who: Brussels/London based indie rock trio from Belgium,
who started to realize their childhood dream 5 years ago,
in their 40s.
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New track: ALL THE OTHER KIDS
It’s the first taster from their upcoming, new EP, titled Headwind that’ll land
next year and recorded in renowked producer’s James Brown‘s studio in the
world-famous Portobello Road in London. It’ll follow CC’s 2023 debut album
The Crack And The Light.


Single artwork by Belgian designer Lisa Van de Vyver
with cover images by Swedish photographer Moarlberg.

TUTV: All The Other Kids is a breezy, zippy and riff-juiced
tune that brings notorious songsmith Evan Dando and his
Lemonheads to mind.

Its easy-going melody and feel-good vibe make you want to whistle,
hum, or sing na-na-na along. That’s what pop-ular music is about.

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Photo Credit: Asher Thomas

Band: NEVERLESS.AM
Who: Prolific Boston trio who pulls threads from their hard
rock, psych, and funk influences to create a distinctive sound
that blurs a line between shoegaze and dream-punk.

Track: WILL I EVER?
Preview from their forthcoming
debut album, out in February.

It details a horrific personal experience vocalist and guitarist CA Newcomb endured
two years ago, as she relays the story and emotion of being hit as a pedestrian by a
drunk driver, sending her to the hospital and placing her on a long path to recovery.

TUTV: Woozy layers of fuzzy guitars and Alice-in-Wonderland vocals take you on a shoegazing trip to a place where reality and surreality meet. Btw, don’t get petrified
when you hear some freaky growling for a moment.

Press play.


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Artist: BLAIR GILMOUR
Who: An 18-year-old multi-instrumentalist and singer/songwriter from Irvine, Scotland. Immersing himself in music at a young age, he quickly realised that performing helped suppress his Tourette’s tics. Diving into music on a sensory level, the young artist explores the secrets of songwriting, producing and performing, inviting listeners along for the journey.

Track: BURNING UP

The tune was written at a songwriting camp in Spain. Initially inspired by the heat of their environment, the song eventually transformed into a love song, with Blair exploring the question: “How can you love something or someone so much that you know it is bad for you and your mental health, but you’re still in it for the chase?” 

TUTV: Swirling pop bliss is what you get, adrenalized amorousness is
what you feel, euphoric elation is what you hear. Touch play and enjoy.


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Band: WYLDERNESS
Who: Welsh shoegazers from Cardiff
with 2 full-lengths under their belt.

Track: BIG IDEA
First taster from their forthcoming new EP
entitled ‘Safe Mode‘ which will be released
in 2025.

TUTV: Glistening guitar sparks set the glistening tone
for this sonically colored rainbow, all the way through.
Woolgathering vocals and arresting melodiousness.


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Peter Murphy – photo by Jolene Siana / Boy George – photo by Dean Stockings

Former Bauhaus voice/face PETER MURPHY (67) and Culture Club‘s voice/face
BOY GEORGE (63) team up for a beauty of an epic reflection. A romantic ballad
titled LET THE FLOWERS GROW with another legend, Killing Joke’s Youth taking
care of the track’s production.

The song was originally written by the Boy George with its initial message being
“one of personal acceptance about being gay. As the song developed, it took on a more expansive and universal scope with its lyrics extending beyond sexuality and embracing
race, gender, creed and religion.”

TUTV: It’s a surprising, but terrificallyt gripping heart-and-soul
collaboration. Starry-eyed magic spreading gold dust.

“I’ve been changing / and mama don’t know /
let her tears fall / and make the flowers grow,”

LAMBRINI GIRLS – True ‘LOVE’ According To Brighton’s Garage Punk Bulldozer

Daily electricity to load your batteries

19 November 2024


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Brighton two-motor punk bulldozer LAMBRINI GIRLS have built a
notorious reputation over the past 2 years, on record and on stage.

Loudmouth/guitarist Phoebe Lunny and bassist Lilly Macieira released their incendiary
6-track debut EP You’re Welcome last year and toured non-stop. In Europe aswell as the first time in Trump‘s future fascist country where women are treated like inferior human beings, where the LGBTQ community is in real trouble when that megalomaniac felon gets back in the White House and where immigrants will be treated like the Nazi‘s treated the Jews at first, when they were deported en masse.

Early next year the razorblade gurlz will go nuclear when their debut LP,
baptized Who Let The Dogs Out will attack our ears and stereos, the way
we like it. More info here.


Single artwork

Ahead of it, we get preview track #3.
You can stream all three below.

TUTV: Don’t be mistaken, it’s not because the new single is titled LOVE
that LB wrote their first ever song about the birds and the bees. According
to the lambrinis tandem ‘true love is nothing more than the wrong hill to die on”.

I guess every individual has their own experience/perception of what true love
means or doesn’t mean to them. But describing it the way LG do sounds not like
a romantic story whatsoever. Anyway LOVE is another slam dunk for all headbangers among us who want to get up in the morning and smack their head to the wall to
check if they’re still alive and ready to kick some far-right-wing butts.


Hi, what does true love mean to you?

True love is nothing more
Than the wrong hill to die on
Trauma bonding over exes,
µwith the best of intentions
Put me on a pedestal
So you can rip me off

All 3 singles


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Tour 2025

(Live photo by Turn Up The Volume – Sonic City, Belgium – 10 November 2024)

And Action…. RADIO FREE UNIVERSE Move With Soul-Stirring Single ‘CIRCLE’

Daily electricity to load your batteries…

24 June 2021


[Danielle Donville, Ballad Creative]

Band: RADIO FREE UNVERSE
Who: A Canadian rock squad embodying a
genre-inclusive approach. and emitting an
inimitable and irresistible frequency tuned in
to rock, alternative, funk, and pop all at once.

Single: CIRCLE – fourth single from the group’s
excellent and critically acclaimed 2020 album LOVE.

George Panagopoulos (vocalist/guitarist) about the song: “For me this song
was written about my life with my family. Something I’ve been incredibly grateful
to have through this long and seemingly endless place this pandemic has left many
of us in. We are closer now than ever before… In particular ‘Circle’ pays homage to my
wedding which took place in a circle of flowers on a beach in Cuba, and represents a strengthened commitment to my marriage and family.”

Circle is an amplified and vigorous, love-injected ballad. You can feel the singer’s
exultation of reinforcing the bonds with his partner and his family again, during this
once-in-a-lifetime global health crisis which locked us all down for about 15 months
now. His energetic and impassioned voice makes me think of the heartfelt vox of the
late great Chris Cornell and the arresting vocal sonority of Kelly Jones of Welsh (UK)
rockers Stereophonics. The overall effect on my ears, heart and soul causes
sentiments of a retrieved joie de vivre. Touchdown!

And the video clip is pretty wonderful too, as it features the children of
the band and visual director Max McNeil Smith. The cute and cool kids
will move your heart, and stir your soul, no doubt about that.

And action

Now you’re here, stream/buy
the stellar LOVE album…

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RADIO FREE UNIVERSE: Facebook

(press photo via website RFU)

PINK ROOM Hits You In The Teeth Twice With Two Brand New Knockouts – ‘LOVE’ And ‘FITNESS’…

Daily fuel to load your sonic batteries…

15 May 2018

Legendary Seattle label Sub Pop, the home of many badass noisemakers should give
this tumultuous Belgian trio PINK ROOM a record deal. This ear-piercing three-piece
has enough noisy ingredients to match the label’s high volume demands. First of all
there’s frontman, bassist and diabolic loudmouth Bart Coquyt‘s voice producing the deafening sound of a supersonic starfighter on its way to crash. BLOODY HELL YEAH!

This frenzied guy’s vox freaks me out. Devilish, destructive and merciless. Compared to
this madman’s decibels level Kurt Cobain sounded like a smooth folk singer. I really can’t understand how Coquyt is able to hit the right chords on his thunderous bass as I assume his own hearing must be in critical condition after screaming himself into a coma. Anyhow to raise the racket to an even nastier degree he’s assisted by a blustering guitarist and a fresh new battering drummer. Check your speakers, folks! Here comes the mean mayhem machine with two new, hot-blooded headbutts. The nice words LOVE and FITNESS will never have the same meaning again after experiencing these earth-shaking eruptions…

LOVE

FITNESS

PINK ROOM: Facebook

(concert pics by JL/Turn Up the Volume!)

PICK OF THE DAY – Power Pop Force ANTEROS With Dazzling ‘LOVE’ Single…

Daily fuel for your sonic engine…

Band: ANTEROS

Base: London, UK

Track: LOVE

Score: smashing stormer pushed by robust guitars and electrified with a dynamite chorus while singer Laura Hayden‘s utterly cool voice rolls all over it. Striking score! Hello 2018…

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ANTEROS: Website – Facebook – Twitter

Love
Available on iTunes

10 Classic Albums Turning 50 in… 2017

Looking back in time… memorable moments in sonic history!

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Here are ten blockbusters from one of the most important years in popular music, 1967, as some groundbreaking, legendary artists released their astonishing debut albums (The Doors, Pink Floyd, The Velvet Underground,  Jimi Hendrix, and Leonard Cohen) & other giants continued to produce flabbergasted LPs. It sounds incredible, but yes, these masterpieces turn 50 in 2017

1/ ‘The Doors’ by THE DOORS
Listen
doors
Released: 4 January 1967 – debut LP

2/’The Velvet Underground & Nico’ by THE VELVET UNDERGROUND
Listen
vu
Released: 12 March 1967 – debut album

3/’Are You Experienced’ by THE JIMI HENDRIX EXPERIENCE
Listen
jimiexp
Released: 12 May 1967 – debut LP

4/’Absolutely Free’ by MOTHERS OF INVENTION
Listen
mothers
Released: 26 May 1967 – second LP

5/ ‘Sgt. Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band’ by THE BEATLES
Listen
beatlespepper
Released: 1 June 1967 – 8th album

6/’The Piper At the Gates Of Dawn’ by PINK FLOYD
Listen
pinkfloyd
Released: 5 August 1967 – debut LP

7/’Forever Changes’ by LOVE
Listen
loveforever
Released: November 1967 – 3rd album

8/’Their Satanic Majesties Request’ by THE ROLLING STONES 
Listen
stones
Released: 8 December 1967 – sixth (British) album

9/ ‘The Who Sell Out’ by THE WHO
Listen
whosell
Released: 15 December 1967 – 3rd LP

10/ ‘Songs Of Leonard Cohen‘ by LEONARD COHEN
Listen
leonardcohen
Released: 27 December 1967 – debut album

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