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TURN UP THE VOLUME – 20 BEST LULLABIES OF 2025

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ALL TOGETHER


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TRACK-BY-TRACK

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Band: MY MORNING JACKET
Who: The veteran Louisville‘s
rockers.

Track: WHERE TO BEGIN

A pearl of a ballad beauty, actually a previously unreleased
track from their 20th-anniversary edition of their 4th LP ‘Z’.

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Band: THE WATERBOYS
Who: The Scottish pop-rock-folk
band orchestrated by Mike Scott.

Track: RIDING DOWN TO MARDI GRAS

Mike Scott at its gripping best. A piece from the band’s
astonishing 16th LP titled Life, Death And Dennis Hopper.

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Band: Much lauded indie act JAPANESE BREAKFAST
Who: The much lauded indie act formed back in 2013
in Philadelphia.

Track: ORLANDO IN LOVE

Dreamy gem from their 4th full-length, named
For Melancholy Brunettes (& Sad Women).

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Artist: MAVIS STAPLES
Who: Legendary soul/blues/rock voice who, along with family, had a long and
greatly accomplished career under the name of The Staple Singers (1948-1994).
She’s 86 now, singing and swinging like a 36-year-old.

Track: SAD AND BEAUTIFUL WORLD
Title track from her new LP.

What a voice.


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Photo Credit: Meg Moon

Band: THE BEACHES
Who: All female Canadian
guitar pop quartet.

Track: LESBIAN OF THE YEAR

Glorious slow-mo anthem from their 3rd LP, titled No Hard Feelings.

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Press photo by Destiny Robb

Band: CHARM SCHOOL
Who: The latest project from singer-songwriter Andrew Sellers
who, originally from Louisville, has paid his dues in both the
NYC and LA DIY music scenes.

Track: WITHOUT A DOUBT 

Impassioned, amplified piece from their debut LP Debt Forever.


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Band: WOLF ALICE
Who: Lauded British guitar pop quartet, fronted
by the tremendous vocalist Ellie Rowsell.

Track: WOLF ALICE

Heart-rending humdinger from their 4th longplayer, baptized The Clearing.

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Press Photo by Genesis Báez

Band: BIG THIEF
Who: The folk-pop combo from Brooklyn,
led by touching voice Adrianne Lenker.

Track: ALL NIGHT ALL DAY

Mellow reverie from their 6th full-length Double Infinity.

Instagram
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Band: PORRIDGE RADIO
Who: Young Brighton indies by the wonderful
Dana Margolin, who have released 4 albums.

Track: DON’T WANNA DANCE

Tearjerker from their goodbye EP, called
The Machine Stars To Sing. I miss this band,
on record and on stage.

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Band: THE MOONLANDINGZ
Who: English electro-pop freaks fronted by chameleon
Lias Saoudi (Fat White Family, Decius, author, modern day
philosopher).

Track: ROUSTABOUT

Film noir theme from their 2nd LP, called No Rocket Required .

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Artist: EZRA FURMAN
Who: Flaring singer-songwriter
from Chicago.

Track: YOU HURT ME I HATE YOU

Mixed emotions nightmare. From her
7th longplayer, titled Goodbye Small Head.


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Band: NEWMOON
Who: Popular Belgian
melodic shoegazers.

Track: SAME DISTANCE

Cinematic splendour.


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Artists: BRIAN ENO and BEATIE WOLFE

Track: WHAT WE ARE

Ambient silence from the duo’s full-length, called Luminal.

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Band: NEIL YOUNG AND THE CHROME HEARTS

Track: THANKFUL

Vintage Young. From the album Talkin To The Trees.


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Band: PULP
Who: Sheffield’s beloved
common people.

Track: A SUNSET
From their comeback
longplayer More.

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Artist: MARK STEWART
Who: One of the most adventurous/inventive/original
post-punk & dub artists/performers ever, passed away
2 years, aged 62.

Track: A LONG ROAD

Soul-stirring song from his final, posthumously
released LP, titled The Fateful Symmetry.


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Artist: USI ES
Who: The musical moniker of affecting
Belgian singer-songwriter Ester Weemaes.
She released her debut EP Mutiny.

Track: SENDER UNKNOWN

Weemaes opens her heart for all refugees in the world who have no place to go.


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Band: MUMFORD & SONS

Track: MALIBU

Enthralling contemplation from their 5th album Rushmere.

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Photo by Tyler T. Williams.

Artist: YOUTH LAGOON
Who: The musical project of
Idaho musician Trevor Powers.

Track: FOOTBALL

Cut from their album Rarely Do I Dream.

Goal.

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Band: Múm
Who: Icelandic indietronica
team (1997-present).

Track: MILD AT HEART
From their 7th longplayer,
named History Of Silence.

Daydream reverie for reflective moments.

Instagram – Linktree

JUKEBOX 2025 – Week 8 – Five New Rad Tracks Added Twice A Week

Posted on by JL

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: VAZUM (Detroit, Michigan)
Who: Zach Pliska and Emily Sturm. Their musical project started in 2017.
They describe their sound as deathgaze, combining the raw energy of
deathrock with the depth of shoegaze. So far the duo released six
albums and a handful of singles and EPs.

Track: PRETTY BRUTAL

It’s the title song from the duo’s forthcoming album due later
this year. It follows last year’s acclaimed Western Violence LP.

Vazum rock out with urgent panache and puissance.
Fast-forward is the direction from the first chord on.
Emily Sturms‘ sensory vocals add a sense of seductive
mysteriousness. Striking stroke. Again.


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Band: MELVINS 83
Who: The side-project of Melvins hairy legend Buzz Osborne ,
drummer original Melvins drummer Mike Dillard, along with
Void Manes and Ni Maîtres.

Track: VICTORY OF THE PYRAMIDS

Single from album Thunderball. .
Out on 18 April. More info here.

Be ready for a 9+ minute metallic
trash and slash roller coaster.
A nasty brain-breaker. Prepare your
speakers for the upcoming havoc.

Instagram – Spotify
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Artists: PSYCLON NINE
Who: US cult act formed in 2000 and led by Nero Bellum
melding elements of Industrial Rock, Metal, Deathcore, Trap
and Ambient.

Track: DEVILS WORK

A new piece from the upcoming, new album
And Then Oblivion, which lands on 21st March.
More info here.

Imagine NIN and Linkin Park have a demonic
decibels fight with Nightwish as referees.

Menacing, nightmarish and dark, very dark.
I see Satan there in the corner, enjoying
this sick stunner.

Instagram – Bandcamp
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Photo credit: Paul Stevenson, Visual Hybrid

Artist: PHONSECA
Who: Synth-pop duo from Bristol, (UK) who released
their debut album Between A Dream back in 2019.

Track: When Night Equals Day

From the upcoming LP ‘Everything Lasts Forever’
out via Old Habits Label on 21st March.

An unflinching song about relationships, capturing a sense of disbelief, when
a spark you saw in someone has long faded. The song is full of heart on your sleeve emotions and a wistful melancholy. It’s ultimately though, a song of strength and independence.

Entrancing, mesmerizing, and luring tune.
Sparkling synth/piano play. Crystalline
vocals. One spin and you’re hooked.

Linktree – Spotify
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Artist: BEIRUT
Who: Moniker of seasoned American
singer-songwriter Zach Condon‘s musical
project.

Track: GUERICKE’S UNICORN

Preview from his upcoming album A Study Of Losses
A musical interpretation of German author Judith Schalansky’s
2018 novel Verzeichnis einiger Verluste (English: An Inventory Of
Losses).

Condon: “Guericke’s unicorn is a supposed reconstruction of a fossil unicorn which was actually created from the bones of a bunch of different animals like the wooly mammoth
and a narwhal. It’s worth looking up the image. I’ve always been fascinated by these kinds of bizarre chapters and odd side notes of history, and I wanted to reflect the unorthodox, eccentric madness of that ‘unicorn’ in a more playful song that is somewhat disjointed from the rest
of the album.”


New album artwork

Trippy and bouncy tune, accompanied
also melancholic and yearning vocals.
Undeniably Beirut.

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