Out of the blue riff freak John Dwyer and his high-decibels
accomplices OSEES have dropped an EP, named Cara Maluco.
It features 4 hyperkentic psych projectiles
and as usual the accompaging artwork of
Osees material is wacko.
7 October 2024
Be careful, John.
Yesterday OSEES released their brand-new album ‘Abonimation Revealed At Last‘.
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Daily noise that works faster than a stream of caffeine
1 August 2025
Band: OSEES
Who: Riff junks led by manic
barnstormer in shorts, John Dwyer.
Track: ABOMINATION
2nd single, following Fight Simulator, from their umpteenth album,
baptized Abomination Revealed At Last. It will crush your stereo
from August 8th on. Tracklist and more details here.
New album artwork
Put a hyperkinetic drummer next to riot-riff-gun machine John Dwyer
while he screams his 4 lungs out and the result is a hardcore torpedo.
Sick shit!
Daily noise that works faster than a stream of caffeine
27 May 2025
Band: OSEES
Who: Riff-machine crew
fronted by manic mastermind
in shorts, John Dwyer.
Track: FIGHT SIMULATOR
Lead-single from their umpteenth album, baptized
Abomination Revealed At Last, showing up on
August 8th. Tracklist and more details here.
New album artwork
John Dwyer: “Well this album just channelled out of the mist of atrocities swirling
around the planet right now. AI empathy, genocides, social media data collection and
addiction, the alignment of tech billionaires with the fascist overlords and their armada
of dogs, civilians being kidnapped by bootlicking thugs, the death of due process…the list
goes on and on. It’s been a long year already.”
Wake-up people, Osees will riff your sleepy head off
faster than you can say holy molly, this reckless speedball
drives me meshuga.
Live photos: Botanique Fest, Brussels, 16 May 2025 – photos by Turn Up The Volume
2 September 2024
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Band: NICK CAVE AND THE BAD SEEDS
Album: WILD GOD
The 13th one.
Cave: “There’s no fucking around with this record. When it hits, it hits. It lifts you. It moves
you. I love that about it. I hope the album has the effect on listeners that it’s had on me. It bursts out of the speaker, and I get swept up with it. It’s a complicated record, but it’s also deeply and joyously infectious. There is never a master plan when we make a record. The records rather reflect back the emotional state of the writers and musicians who played
them. Listening to this, I don’t know, it seems we’re happy.”
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Rolling Stone says: “Here’s a sense of abandon and play to Wild God that’s infectious. Produced by Cave and long-time collaborator Warren Ellis, the record continues their
constant conversation, confidently proclaiming that better times are ahead.”
TUTV: Cave is the God of melodramatic balladry. Now here’s a God I can believe in. Again he shows why he’s one of the best ever crooners in the universe. And lyrically it feels as if, after so many devastating, painful years, with the surreal loss of two sons, he lets sparks of light back in his life. God bless Nick Cave.
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Artist: JACK WHITE
Album: NO NAME
His 6th solo one.
Uncut Magazine said: “On No Name, he’s done something special on his own terms,
delighted and surprised his audience, and provided one of the great rock moments of
the year.”
TUTV: White returns to his punk blues roots of the early days. Swipe after swipe,
blue stripe after blue stripe, kick after kick, clap after clap. A total of 13 thunder
strokes. High-wired electricity. Dope record.
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Band: FONTAINES D.C.
Album: ROMANCE
4th LP
NME said: “Knockout, spiritual songs for the end of time The ever-evolving five-piece enter a new phase of transformation on their arresting fourth album – their most considered and intricately crafted work yet.”
TUTV: The Irishmen have become high-quality songwriters (which they already proved on previous LP Skinty Fia– – still my favourite one). Frontman Grian Chatten‘s lyrics show (again) his observative view on the modern, gloomy world and how it affects him emotionally.
This is not their masterpiece yet to my ears, but it’s only a matter of
time that they will come up with a longplayer that will blow us all away.
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Band: KING GIZZARD & THE LIZARD WIZARD
Album: FLIGHT b741
Their 26th album in 14 years!!!
Photo by Maclay Heriot
The Guardian (British newspaper): “A cheerfully rocking album about global collapse”.
TUTV: After 25 albums, it sounds as if the prolific Aussies decided to simply rock out
for a change, and they do it with striking 70s-inspired juggernauts with sultry harmonica-blues echoes here and there. Conventional guitar solos pop up in every track. Listen quickly to the record, if not they will have another one out before you press play.
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Band: OSEES
Album: SORCS80
Their umpteenth one.
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AllMusic said: “Punk without guitars has been done before — everything has. Few have done it with the blend of skill, imagination, and flat-out commitment that Osees exhibit on SORCS 80.”
TUTV: For the first time Osees general John Dwyer has incorporated layers of synths in
the band’s sonic, head over heels turmoil. Don’t expect top-notch tunes. This LP is about bulldozing for 38 minutes with punk velocity and schizophrenic electronics and I like it.
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21 Augustus 2024
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Californian riff maniac JOHN DWYER and his squad OSEES unleashed their
umpteenth album, called SORCS 80 and its cover is both eye-catching and
scary (as we are used to from Osees previous LP’s artwork).
And the music is astounding.
Sledgehammer after sledgehammer.
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Every week 10 new rad tracks added
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.
FULL JUKEBOX (so far)
260 songs
The 10 new ones added this week
TRACK-BY-TRACK
Band: KING GIZZARD & THE LIZARD WIZARD (AUS)
Who: Psych-prog-rock squad from down under.
Track: LE RISQUE
The first taster of their 26th LP in 14 years (!!!)
baptized Flight b741. It will hit the streets on
August 8.
A pumped-up-bass & frenzied guitar-crazy stomper that rocks and rolls straight on with racy panache. Steamy stuff. It has drummer Michael Cavanagh on vocals for the first time.
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Band: MAYFLOWER MADAME
Who: Norwegian outfit that specializes in a dark
and distinctive blend of post-punk, shoegaze and
psych-noir.
Track: PAINT IT ALL IN BLUE
“Paint It All in Blue” is the second taster from Norwegian band Mayflower Madame’s highly anticipated third album. Following the much acclaimed first single “A Foretold Ecstasy”, the new offering instantly puts a spell on you with its throbbing bass lines, motorik drums and hypnotic guitars, while midway it all opens up and leaves you drifting in a sea of dreamy melancholia. Combining the rhythmic grooves of kraut-rock and post-punk with the dazzling atmospherics of shoegaze and neo-psychedelia, the result is a profoundly dynamic song unfolding layer by layer.
Riveting and rotating blue-wave groover.
Stellar!
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Band: BLACK DOG MOON
Who: Sultry rock 4-piece from
Ireland.
Track: THE FREE WIND
From their self-titled debut LP.
Expect a badass-riff headbanger.
Let the good times roll, motherrockers.
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Band: GAS KÜNST
Who: Garage punk misfits from Cheshire, UK.
So far they have 2 EPs on their résumé.
Track: I’VE GOT A BIG CUP (IF YOU’VE GOT THE POTION)
Described by the band as “the Summer anthem no one asked, for”.
Justin Case: “I want it to end upon a Driving Rock Anthem compilation.
You know,the kind of CD you’d initially pass over at a carboot sale, only to
return later,driven by a strange compulsion to buy it. We want to be that
guilty pleasure!”
I hope these weirdos give us a couple of more guilty pleasure
juggernauts we didn’t ask for, to go nuts to this summer.
Hallelujah!
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Band: KEYS
Who: Welsh psych-boppers who already have 6LPs on
their résumé and number 7 will show up early next year.
Track: THERE’S NO I IN TEARS
Sounds like early B’52-s. Brisk vibes, 6-string electricity, harmonious
vocals, a 60s organ in the back and a fist-pumping chorus. Welcome back.
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Band: DEEP PURPLE
Who: British hard rock giants
(1967–1976, 1984–present)
They just dropped taster #3 from their 23rd LP,
weirdly named =1 will land on July 19.
Lazy Sod could have been a lost track
from the 60s/70s. Pure fireball Purple.
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Promo pic
Band: OSEES
Who: Californian riff maniac
John Dwyer and his hefty gang.
Track: EARTHLING
From their umpteenth album, baptized
SORCS 80. It’ll land on August 9.
Emo-bulldozer.
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Artist: THE HARPOONIST (Canada)
Who: The moniker of scuzzy
blues musician Shawn Hall.
Track: SHOW ME THE GREEN
From his upcoming solo debut,
showing up next October.
This sizzling, harmonica-fueled barnstormer will
make your body move in mysterious ways.
Hell yeah!
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Band: SLEAFORD MODS (UK)
Who: Sharp-teethed rap-punk duo
with 12 albums on their shelves.
Track: GIT SOME BALLS
One of two previously unreleased
cuts shared today.
The mods with balls again.
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Artist: SELMA HIGGINS
Who: Described as “A meteor strike in Danish music” by leading culture newspaper, Politiken. She has proved herself as an artist who never limits her musical output to
a specific sound or style.
Track: SUMMERTIME
Higgins: “I wanted to make it a sensuous, sensual song, almost like Grease’s ‘Summer Nights’. The feeling of butterflies in your stomach and wanting to open yourself to someone. And the excitement, because it’s the summer, anything can happen. And that’s such a feeling.”
Don’t be fooled by her cute Pippi Longstocking freckles. Selma Higgins is
up to no good in the mad fun DIY-video for this funky and trippy summertime pop gem.
Jump left, jump right.
Fun, fun, sun, sun.
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Daily electricity to load your batteries
9 June 2024
Promo pic
Californian riff maniac JOHN DWYER and his gang OSEES canned their
umpteenth album, and baptized it SORCS 80. It’ll land on August 9.
More info here.
Dwyer “This album was a self imposed ambitious project for us. Something
to kick in the creative flow. The last few years, having been a challenging time
in general, felt like a good time for a pivot. The last two albums were so guitar
and keyboard centric, I wanted a weird and fun set of parameters for us to
work with.”
First single, called CASSIUS, BRUTUS & JUDAS, is a rapid garage-punk
projectile with guitars, drums and a saxophone going after each other.
Tempestuous battle.
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OSEES: Instagram
17 August 2023
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JOHN DWYER is probably the hardest-working man in showbizz, next
to King Gizzard & The Lizard Wizard as the hardest-working band in
showbizz.
Tomorrow the riff-manic and OSEES, one of his outfits,
unleash their umpteenth LP, titled Intercepted Message.
But, promo-wise, he decided – clever move- to play the 37-minute record live
in full at The Best Show With Tom Scharpling yesterday. The performance was
recorded at the Forever Dog studio in North Hollywood, California and it’s now
shared to see and hear.
The high-powered rock energy is off the charts.
And, importantly, the sound/footage is HQ.
OSEES: Instagram
Daily noise that works faster than any stimulant
16 June 2023
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24/7 riff maniac JOHN DWYER and OSEES, one of his many musical
outfits, unleash a new LP, titled Intercepted Message in August.
Artwork new album
Following the as mad as a hatter title track comes a new piece.
GOON is a riff-riot-gun assault GOON, showing once again that
Dwyer can destroy your ears in just 132 seconds.
Roll the tape.
Enter the gym.
OSEES: Bandcamp – Tour Dates