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