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YO LA TENGO Still Sassy Stars In Indie Land With Their 17th Album ‘THIS STUPID WORLD’

Posted on February 10, 2023 by JL

Standout longplayers

10 February 2023

Band: YO LA TENGO
Who: Veteran indies from Hoboken, New Jersey
Active: 1984-present / 17 LPs (the new one included).

New album: THIS STUPID WORLD
Released: 10 February 2023
Order info: here.

(Press photo)

Info: “The most live-sounding Yo La Tengo album in years. Times have changed for
Yo La Tengo as much as they have for everyone else. In the past, the band has often worked with outside producers and mixers. In their latest effort, the first full-length in
five years, This Stupid World was created all by themselves. And their time-tested judgment is both sturdy enough to keep things to the band’s high standards, and nimble enough to make things new. At the base of nearly every track is the trio playing all at once, giving everything a right-now feel. There’s an immediacy to the music as if the distance between the first pass and the final product has become more direct.”

Pitchfork says: “On their liveliest album in at least a decade, indie rock’s most steadfast institution squares up against ubiquitous darkness. This Stupid World is just a particularly timely chapter in the modest saga of indie rock’s most unassuming institution.”
Full review here. Score:8.5.

TUTV: Yo la Tengo is all things indie. They follow their own capricious path, for almost
40 years now. They create uncomplicated melodies and then give them an edgy touch
that guides them in different directions. Musing (Aselestine / Tonight’s Episode / Apology Letter / Miles Away), wrought-up (Brain Capers / Fall Out) and pitch-psychedelic-black on
the distorted title track. From acoustic to electric and back. Different moods, different sonic tones. It’s old news that we live in a stupid world where political me, myself, and I leaders use the 2000-year-old trick of divide and conquer. YLT know too, of course, but reality as it is, obviously inspire them to make another remarkable record.

A spot-on indie opus.

Singles/clips: Fall Out / Aselestine / Sinatra Drive Breakdown

– FALL OUT –

– ASELESTINE –

– SINATRA DRIVE BREAKDOWN –

ALBUM

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YO LA TENGO: Bio – Discography – Instagram – Facebook

Back In Rave Land – ORBITAL

Posted on February 2, 2023 by JL

2 February 2023

The album’s artwork

Oxford‘s ravers ORBITAL entertained countless clubbers since 1989.
After a couple of hiatuses, they return with a new album – out on
17 February – titled Monsters Exist .

Here are two tasters.

– ARE YOU ALIVE? –
Featuring Penelope Isles

– DIRTY RAT –
With Sleaford Mods‘ Jason Williamson

ORBITAL: Website

Hardcore Maniacs FUCKED UP Already Back With New Slam Dunk Album ‘ONE DAY’

Posted on January 27, 2023 by JL

Standout longplayers

27 January 2023

(Press photo)

Band: FUCKED UP
Who: Ominous hard-core-noise warriors from Toronto making
electrical waves for 20 years now / 6 studio albums (new one incl.)

The Canadian noiseniks were very productive last year with no less than
4 LPs centered around the same theme Year Of The Horse and a couple
of EPs.

And only one month in the new year and the hardcore maniacs
already have a new longplayer to offer, baptized ONE DAY.

Press info: “With ‘One Day’, Fucked Up have delivered one of the most energizing and intricate albums of their career, a massive-sounding record that arrives in deceptively small confines. The Canadian hardcore legends have been known for their epic scale in the past, so it might be a surprise that Fucked Up’s sixth studio album is their shortest to date, written and recorded in the confines of one literal day (hence the title). Don’t mistake size for substance, though: The band’s sound has only gotten bigger, more hard-charging, with even denser thickets of melody.”

Mike Haliechuk (guitarist): “I wanted to see what I could record in literally one day.”

Damian Abraham (vocalist) It almost felt like it might be the last time I’d ever get
to record vocals for anything.”

TUTV: It’s back to their fuckin’ roots. Raw and rough, loud and Herculian, and
at times, yes, surprisingly catchy with strings! Final result: a power-core-house
juggernaut nailed in 24 studio hours.

What a day!

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FUCKED UP: Website – Instagram

RICKIE LEE JONES Annouced New Jazz Album And Shares Sultry Taster ‘JUST IN TIME’

Posted on January 22, 2023 by JL

Coming up

22 January 2023

68-year-old iconoclastic songstress RICKIE LEE JONES was once
labeled The Duchess Of Coolsville by Time Magazine (in the late 70s).
The musician who fused jazz with pop/R&B/folk/ and soul with style,
verve and bravoure.

And she will return to her love for jazz again with a new album,
named PIECES OF TREASURES. The record will feature 10 jazz
classics from the Great American Songbook.

01 “Just In Time” (Jule Styne, Betty Comden, Adolph Green)
02 “There Will Never Be Another You” (Harry Warren, Mack Gordon)
03 “Nature Boy” (Eden Ahbez)
04 “One for My Baby” (Harold Arlen, Johnny Mercer)
05 “They Can’t Take That Away from Me” (George Gershwin, Ira Gershwin)
06 “All the Way” (Jimmy Van Heusen, Sammy Cahn)
07 “Here’s That Rainy Day” (Jimmy Van Heusen, Johnny Burke)
08 “September Song” (Kurt Weill, Maxwell Anderson)
09 “On the Sunny Side Of The Street” (Jimmy McHugh, Dorothy Fields)
10 “It’s All In The Game” (Charles G. Dawes, Carl Sigman)

RLJ: “This album is as much about being human, the view of surviving,
which means aging, and loving relentlessly, as it is about anything. We
love ’til the day we die, love our lives, our families, and finally ourselves.”

The album arrives on 28 April. Pre-order info here.
The first taster is the opening track Just In Time.

Sensual and sultry.

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RLJ: Facebook – Instagram – Bio – Discography

THE BRIAN JONESTOWN MASSACRE – 20th Album Arrives Next Month

Posted on January 15, 2023 by JL

Coming up

15 January 2023

Band: THE BRIAN JONESTOWN MASSACRE (San Francisco)
Who: The gang of psychedelic music junkie Anton Newcombe
Active: Since 1990 / 20 studio LPs (incl. new one)

New album: THE FUTURE IS YOUR PAST
Out: 10 February 2023 – order info here

Anton Newcombe: “My son Wolfgang is very different to me, thank god, but we have so many things in common; dancing, making up songs, and vocalizing strange combinations of words and ideas that make us laugh, or make sense to us in some meaningful way,” frontman Anton Newcombe said in a press release. “At a certain point, I started writing down these words and random ideas to use as titles. I felt like everything was so sad and hopeless, but I am not helpless. I decided to sing anthems to empower me, to remember to remember, to fight the beast until it dies, to give it everything you got because that’s all there is to give… these were not songs for COVID times, for these times of war and crisis after crisis, these are songs for all time.”

(Photo by Turn Up The Volume)

Singles/clips (shared so far): Fudge / The Future Is Your Past

– THE FUTURE IS YOUR PAST –

– FUDGE –

TBJTM: Facebook – Instagram – Discography

BOB DYLAN – Hear Two Tracks From His Final Chapter Of Bootleg Series Titled ‘FRAGMENTS’

Posted on January 13, 2023 by JL

13 January 2023

The final chapter of the famous BOB DYLAN Bootleg Series is planned to be
released on 27 January 2023. The deluxe box edition titled “Fragments: Time Out
of Mind Sessions (1996-1997)” celebrates the 25th anniversary of his prizewinning
album Time Out Of Mind which was released on 30 September 1997.

Content: Fragments follows the evolution of songs written for the album, from
intimate early incarnations in the previously unreleased 1996 Teatro sessions through incandescent live renditions from 1998-2001. Also included is a brand-new mix of the original album.

Formats: 5CD or 10LP Deluxe Edition and a 2CD
or 4LP Highlights version.bootleg series.

All details right here.

Two tasters: Love Sick / Not Dark Yet

– LOVE SICK –

– NOT DARK YET –

Unboxing video

Original album

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BOB DYLAN: Website – Bio – Discography

New Albums In 2023 – DEATH VALLEY GIRLS With Their 5th ‘ISLANDS IN THE SKY’ In February

Posted on January 11, 2023 by JL

Coming Up

11 January 2023

DEATH VALLEY GIRLS, the garage rock fury from Los Angeles, led by vocalist/guitarist/organist and charismatic voodoo doll Bonnie Bloomgarden,
who love to doom boogie while glowing in the dark, have their new – 5th – album,
baptized ISLANDS IN THE SKY out on 24 February 2023. Pre-order info here.

The first single, titled WHAT ARE THE ODDS is a ridiculously sticky juiced-up power-pop chant triggering your limbs to get up and move. And when the under the spell of joy choir joins Bonnie Bloomgarden on the elated chorus you just know that the odds are huge for the Californian über alles girls having another top album are huge.

We are living in a simulated world
And we are simulated girls!

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Also st(r)eaming on Spotify

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UK/EURO Tour 2023

DVG: Facebook – Instagram

(Concert photos by Turn Up The Volume)

New Albums In 2023 – DEPECHE MODE Release ‘MEMENTO MORI’ In March

Posted on January 8, 2023 by JL

Darkwave pop Goths DEPECHE MODE will share their new album – their 15th – named MEMENTO MORI, out in March 2023. The first one without original member Andy Fletcher who passed away last May – only 60 – following an aortic dissection.

Dave Gahan: “We started work on this project early in the pandemic, and its themes were directly inspired by that time. After Fletch’s passing, we decided to continue as we’re sure this
is what he would have wanted, and that has really given the project an extra level of meaning. Fletch would have loved this album. We’re really looking forward to sharing it with you soon, and we can’t wait to present it to you live at the shows next year.”

So far DM didn’t share tracks from the forthcoming full-length yet.

To promote the LP a massive tour will start in March 2023.

All dates.

DEPECHE MODE: Facebook – Instagram – All Albums

STEREOGUM Reveal Their List Of The 101 Most Anticipated ALBUMS For 2023

Posted on January 2, 2023 by JL

2 January 2023

American reknowed music website STEREOGUM have
revealed their list of 101 Most Anticipated Albums Of 2023.

It includes new longplayers by Queens Of The Stone Age, The Cure, John Cale, The National, National League, Wet Leg, The Folk Implosion, Unknown Mortal Orchestra, A$AP Rocky, Porno For Pyros, Ride, Squid, M-83, Jay-z, Lana Del Rey, Everything But The Girl, Dua Lipa, Pj Harvey, Michael Stipe, My Bloody Valetine, Sky Ferreira, Peter Gabriel and 79 other ones, with these
5 picked by Turn Up The Volume also part of the pack.

‘FOOD FOR WORMS’ by SHAME
24 February 2023