JUKEBOX 2026 – WEEK 23 – Five New Rad Tracks Added Twice A Week
Hello, music junkies.
Another batch of 5 new, stellar tracks have
been added to Turn Up The Volume’s Jukebox.
Turn it up.
ALL TOGETHER
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TRACK BY TRACK
Band: VEDA RAYS
Who: Indie duo from Philly, making ethereal indie rock rooted in dream pop, post-punk, and traditional shoegaze, with lyrics that explore liminality and abstraction, channeling subconscious impulses into the present moment.
Track: TRUE AGENCY
It’s the first chapter in a song
cycle years in the making.
The songs are rooted in liminality and abstraction, the songs channel subconscious impulses into the present moment, where past and future blur and meaning remains
in flux.
TUTV: Guitar dream pop at its feverish and jangly finest. True Agency sticks after just one spin. It’s pick-me-up drive and infectious euphony causes elation, yet lyrically the tone is somewhat darker. A triumphant return to the scene for the Philly tandem.
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Linktree
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Artist: FIR CONE CHILDREN
Who: Musical moniker of Berlin-based
indie dream punk Alexander Donat.
Track: VAMPIRE QUEEN
My fav piece from his newest full-length, named Vs. The Real World.
You can stream/buy the album via Bandcamp.
TUTV: Vampire Queen is a double-edged crackerjack. Partly a glam-rock stomper,
partly a high-octane missile. The two parts assembled combine for a super-duper rollercoaster that goes back and forth. Striking stroke.
Bingo!
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Instagram – Linktree
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Artist: PETER GABRIEL
Track: A HARD LESSON
Newest piece from his 11th LP o\i.
Release date TBA.
Gabriel: “This is the oldest track of the project. It probably started in the late 80s
or early 90s when I was in Senegal. I was falling in love with the music I heard there.
I loved the tension created by the use of polyrhythms, particularly the threes and
fours, so that was the start of this song”.
TUTV: Gabriel sticks to trippy beats
and trancy vibrations. And it works
damn well.
Shake your booty, people.
Instagram – All Albums
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Credit Stevie George
Band: SOMETHING SNEAKY
Who: Seasoned rock indies
from Boston, MA.
Track: HOLE GOODS
Cut from their new, ardent 5-track EP Old Notes.
Stream/buy it via Bandcamp.
TUTV: Vicious blues-rock riffs and sinewy sneers open up the debates, followed by a
dreamy introspection flash, turning in a few seconds into a wall-of-agressive electricty. Swing moods mess with your head, but if you bang it against a wall, all demons will be crushed. Just do it.
Here. Now.
Instagram – All Socials
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Artist: KRISTIN HERSH
Who: Singer-songwriter luminary (now 59), best known for her band
Throwing Muses and, to a lesser extent 50 Foot Wave. And she has
11 solo albums on her résumé.
Track: DARK EYED JUNCO
Following last year’s Throwing Muses‘ 11th full-length
Moonlight Concessions and a long tour, Hersh does it
again on her own.
It’s the lead single of her new, upcoming LP,
titled Sugar On Blackstone. Out August 18th.
Tracklist here.
Hersh: “He was a ‘Dark Eyed Junco’ and I was a light-eyed weirdo. We’d play basketball until after dark then, when we couldn’t even see the hoop anymore, so that we didn’t have to go home. After our stepfather moved in, it wasn’t a home anymore.”
TUTV: A feverish torch song spiced with
Hersh‘s ever-transfixing vocality.
Instagram – Linktree – All Solo Albums
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