PETER GABRIEL About How To Survive In The Music Industry
31 March 2024
On the other hand, people can forget about you when you’re absent for too long, Peter.
Peter Gabriel
Happy Birthday To PETER GABRIEL, PETER HOOK And HENRY ROLLINS
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Gabriel was born on 13 February 1950 in Surrey, England. Happy 74 to original
lead singer of the prog rock icons Genesis whose eccentric face/voice he was
from 1967-1975. In his still ongoing solo career he only released 10 albums. But
he composed several film soundtracks and he worked with multiple other artists.
His 10th LP named i/o came out last December.
But I’ll go for his huge 1986 hit Sledgehammer to celebrate his birthday.
(photo by Turn Up The Volume)
Hooky (his nickname) was born on 13 February 1956. Happy 68 to the legendary bassist
of iconic bands Joy Division and New Order, playing songs from both bands for years now with his own project Peter Hook & The Light. One of the greatest four-string musicians ever.
Live in Mexico City.
Henry Rollins was born named Henry Lawrence Garfield on 13 February 1961 in
Washington, D.C. Happy 63 to charismatic singer/musician who made his name
first with punk turbo Black Flag (1976–1986), and continued with his own Rollins Band. Over the years he became a spoken word artist, actor, comedian, writer and TV presenter.
With his Rollins Band.
Amazing Artwork – Cover Of The New Album And The Last Single From PETER GABRIEL
28 November 2023
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PETER GABRIEL‘s 10th solo LP (in 46 years),
named i/o is out this Friday, December 1st.
Press statement: “12 tracks of grace, gravity and great beauty that provide welcome confirmation of not only Peter’s ongoing ability to write stop-you-in-your-tracks songs but also of that thrilling voice, still perfectly, delightfully intact. Throughout the album the intelligent and thoughtful – often thought-provoking – songs tackle life and the universe.”
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Since the beginning of the year, Gabriel dropped one new
song a month. Here’s the last one LIVE AND LET LIVE.
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PETER GABRIEL About Being 73
28 August 2023
Damn right.
TURN UP THE VOLUME’s JUKEBOX 2023 – 10 New Tracks Added Every Week
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.
Check the 10 new rad tracks just
added to this rad 2023 playlist.
1. ‘Gorilla Guerilla’ by MANTRA OF THE COSMOS (UK)
The smoking punk-disco debut by new supergroup with Shaun Ryder
and Bez (Happy Mondays/Black Grape), Andy Bell (Ride/Oasis) and drummer
Zak Starkey, yes Ringo‘s son, who played with Oasis and The Who among others.
Party time!
2. ‘Road To Joy’ by PETER GABRIEL (UK)
Gabriel keeps on dropping singles from his upcoming i/o
(release date still unknown). This one is a funktatsic upper.
3. ‘Gilla Monster’ by KING GIZZARD & THE LIZARD WIZARD (Australia)
Dragonic slam dunk from the Aussies 24th LP in 13 years (!) out next Friday.
4. ‘Undergrowth’ by SQUID (Brighton, UK)
Top piece from the British post-punks’ second,
highly lauded, LP O Monolith.
5. ‘This Town’ by VALA (Manchester, UK)
British gunslingers who infuse pop melodies and lyrics with indie riffs
and a nu-wave feel. On This Town – a bang-on cut from their debut EP
I Love The Sound – the swagger of NYC’s darlings The Strokes‘ comes
to mind.
6. ‘They Live In My Head’ by BUSH TETRAS (NY)
Tense and feverish serpent of a track, going forth and back, from NYC’s
indie heroes BUSH TETRAS (1979–1983, 1995–1998, 2005–present). It’ll
feature on their new longplayer out, named Things I Put Together, landing on 23 July.
7. ‘The Chasm’ by JUSTINE AND THE UNCLEAN (Boston, MA)
Garage power-pop-punk juice from this Boston hit team’s
brand-new fireworks album The Signal Light
8. ‘Mine’ by CLAUDIA CAPPELLETTI
With this captivating vocal pearl, Italy-born songstress Cappelletti wants to inspire and unite all the people around the world to fight for the rights for women to live free from violence and discrimination, to enjoy the highest attainable standard of physical.
9. ‘I Inside The Old I Dying’ by PJ HARVEY (UK)
The title track – a mesmeric reverie – from PJ’s 10th LP,
coming up on 7 July.
10. ‘Otherworld’ by CELESTIAL NORTH (Scotland)
The life affirming and glorious dreamscape title track from this
compelling artist’s debut album Otherworld, out on the 7th of July.
Steam to Spotify to stream them all.
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PETER GABRIEL Shares Another Single – Hear The Funktastic ‘ROAD TO JOY’ Here
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5 June 2023
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PETER GABRIEL has his new 9th album, named i/o out soon, but even
after a series of singles, there’s no exact release date communicated yet.
And this single number 5. ROAD TO JOY made me
immediately think of his 1986 knockout Sledgehammer.
Gabriel: “The song is one of the last tracks to emerge for the i/o record, but it has some
DNA from an earlier project; it was actually very late in the record that we got to this. There
had been a song that musically I’d started, I think, around the OVO project called Pukka. It was very different to this, but it was actually the starting point for coming back to this song. I just felt there was a good groove there, and I wanted something else with rhythm and so we tried a few things when I was working with Brian Eno. The excitement and energy in the song was something that I was getting off on. I felt we didn’t have enough of that for this record.”
Tune in.
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Soulful Sunday With PETER GABRIEL And Another Affecting Track From His Upcoming Album
Reveries for the laziest day of the week
7 May 2023
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PETER GABRIEL has his new 9th album, named i/o out soon
(even after 5 singles, there’s no exact release date yet) following
Scratch My Back from 2013.
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New single: FOUR KINDS OF HORSES
Gabriel: “Four Kinds of Horses” actually began on Richard Russell’s project Everything Is Recorded. He’s a friend (and founder of XL Records), and he asked me to pop into his studio.
I came up with some chords, melodies, and words on top of a groove he was working on. We tried a few things that didn’t altogether work, and so it laid dormant for quite a while. Then I started playing around with it again and changed the mood and the groove, and something else began to emerge with a better chorus.”
This almost 7-minute composition about the intersection of religion and violence,
is a mid-tempo mood-swinging musing with soothing synths, firm bass play, and
an intense, vocal chorus.
Listen here.
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PETER GABRIEL Shares The Title Track Of Upcoming ‘i/o’ Album – It Features The SOWETO GOSPEL CHOIR
New striking strokes
6 April 2023
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PETER GABRIEL has his new 9th album, named i/o out soon
(even after 4 singles, there’s no exact release date yet) following
Scratch My Back from 2013.
Today Gabriel shared the album’s title track. It features the Soweto Gospel Choir
who were recorded at High Seas Studios in South Africa.
‘i/o’ stands for input/output. You see it on the back of a lot of electrical equipment.
Gabriel: “The older I get, I probably don’t get any smarter, but I have learned a few things
and it makes a lot of sense to me that we are not these independent islands that we like to think
we are, that we are part of a whole. If we can see ourselves as better connected, still messed up individuals, but as part of a whole, then maybe there’s something to learn?”
Listen.
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PETER GABRIEL Shares Piano Ballad ‘PLAYING FOR TIME’ From Upcoming Album
New striking strokes
8 March 2023
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PETER GABRIEL has his new 9th album, named i/o out soon
(no exact release date yet) following Scratch My Back from 2013.
So far he gave us lead single Panopticum
and follow-up The Court, two funky thrills.
And here’s #3. It’s called PLAYING FOR TIME.
An almost 6-and-a-half-minute piano ballad,
joined near the end by a strings orchestra.
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Gabriel: “It is more of a personal song about how you assemble memories and whether
we are prisoners of time or whether that is something that can actually free us. I do think it’s good to push yourself towards more bold or interesting experiences because then you will have richer memories to feed you when you get to my age. You also get taught by every meaningful experience that you go through.”
Listen here.
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TOUR 2023
All dates here.
North-American dates just announced.
Sept. 8: Quebec City, QC – Videotron Centre
Sept. 9: Ottawa, ON – Canadian Tire Centre
Sept. 11: Toronto, ON – Scotiabank Arena
Sept. 13: Montreal, QC – Bell Centre
Sept. 14: Boston, MA – TD Garden
Sept. 16: Philadelphia, PA – Wells Fargo Center
Sept. 18: New York, NY – Madison Square Garden
Sept. 30: Chicago, IL – United Center
Oct. 7: Vancouver, BC – Rogers Arena
Oct. 8: Seattle, WA – Climate Pledge Arena
Oct. 11: San Francisco, CA – Chase Center
Oct. 13: Los Angeles, CA – Kia Forum
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TURN UP THE VOLUME’s 20 Best Tracks – Februrary 2023
ALL TOGETHER on Spotify…
1. ‘Someone Up There’ by THE WAEVE (UK)
British duo THE WAEVE feat. Graham Coxon (Blur‘s guitarist) and songstress
Rose Elinor Dougall – launched their sterling self-titled album early February.
One of the highlights is this turbulent, riff-rotating and capricious groover
named Someone Up There that works as a mesmerizing magnet.
Touchdown!
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2. ‘Casting No Light’ by NOBLE ROT (Canada)
Clamorous frontman Alex Edkins of Canadian noise engine Metz and Graham Walsh, keyboardist of dance punks Holy Fuck, got together for a project of their own, named, Noble Rot. They have their debut ‘Heavenly Bodies, Repetition, Control.‘ out next month.
They just dropped first single Casting No Light. A motorik Krautrock-like mindfucker that circles around like forever, pushed by a pumping synth/drum/guitar riff-boom-beat that grows in hypnotic intensity along the way. Fucktastic!
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3. ‘Drum’ by YOUNG FATHERS (Scotland)
This Scottish dance-funk-punk trio is on an unstoppable roll. Their new, 3rd LP Heavy Heavy is a total triumph (Turn Up The Volume‘s Album of the Month) and their swirling concert in Antwerp (Belgium) blew the roof off the building.
One of the standout tracks on the album is Drum.
A flamboyant, head-over-heels stormer.
Vibe!
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4. ‘How To Replace It’ by dEUS (Belgium)
(Photo by Turn Up The Volume)
The Belgian Gods released their new longplayer How To Replace It?,
their first in 10 years, a couple of weeks ago.
The title song is a phenomenal piece. A mid-tempo stunner, driven by big
drums and frontman Tom Barman‘s bewitching vocality. It advances with
swelling orchestration toward the grand symphonic climax.
Top!
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5. ‘Islands In The Sky’ by DEATH VALLEY GIRLS (Los Angeles, CA)
(Photo by Turn Up The Volume)
The amazing Los Angeles Amazons delivered their
best album (so far) Islands In The Sky only last Friday.
The title track is a blissful guitar-pop earworm that sticks from the get-go
with Bonnie Bloomgarden‘s spell-binding vocals inviting you to her island of joy.
I’m on my way. Join me.
You’re in charge of your perception of your life
You can choose what you keep
And what you leave behind
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6. ‘Heart On’ by 2LIBRAS (Seattle)
This Seattle-based Cyberpunk duo – Wesley and Jewels Foster – nailed it with this arousing mid-tempo, electro-drum-beat-driven knockout from their upcoming full length World’s End. It’s sexy, catchy, trippy, and makes your blood pumping through your heart.
Je T’Aime Moi Non Plus for the dancefloor.
Sonic sex.
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7. ‘Samo’ by A CERTAIN RATIO (Manchester, UK)
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Manchester’s vibrant dance legends A Certain Ratio
canned their 11th LP, named 1982. It lands at the end
of March.
Single SAMO is as funky as hell. Consult your doctor
if your limbs refuse to move to this nightclub corker.
Tune in.
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8. ‘Sinatra Drive Breakdown’ by YO LA TENGO (New Jersey)
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The imperishable indie veterans keep on doing what they do best,
releasing notable LPs, this time with fresh one titled This Stupid World.
Riveting psych-riff jam Sinatra Drive Breakdown
is the track I always go back to.
Here’s why.
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9. ‘Scatterbrain’ by FILIBUSTER (Belgium)
This Belgian 4-piece outfit is gearing up for their 2nd longplayer, baptized
Quiet Part Out Loud, out next month, on 15 March, via Fons Records and
Gazer Tapes.
Newest single Scatterbrain is a riff-roaring rocker that grows on your ears
with every spin. It has a moody, shoegazy resonance annex reflective vocals.
Striking stroke. Bring on the album.
Press play here.
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10. ‘What If?’ by QUIZ SHOW (US)
(Photo by Phil Silverberg)
This fresh high-energetic trio features members from
Shudder To Think, Guided By Voices and The Dambuilders.
Their self-titled debut LP will see the day of light on 17 March.
What If? is a freaked-out, riff-drunk sucker punch that could
easily come from a Hüsker Dü LP. Herky-jerky electricity with
a steamrollin’ sticky chorus. Wowzers.
Lit up here.
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11. ‘I Expire‘ by MALE TEARS (L.A.)
This dark-Goth-wave duo from the City of Angels look like vampires,
they sound like vampires and they fabricate vampirish stuff.
The torrid tandem unleash their
new album KRYPT on 28 April.
Ahead of the release, to get us in the right make-up mood, they hit us
with first single I Expire. A punked-up electro uppercut to set batcaves
on fire with. One listen and the brisk beats will haunt you all day long.
In the accompanying video, Male Tears get straight in
your scared face and suck you into their wicked world.
Roll the tape.
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12. ‘The Court’ by PETER GABRIEL (UK)
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No retirement yet for the once-upon-a-time face/voice
of art-prog-rock titans Genesis. His 9th, solo album,
named i/o lands next month.
Newest single The Court is Gabriel trippin’ in synth-pop land.
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13. ‘Tiger Girl’ by TEROUZ (France)
Canadian pop noir artist Terouz, as I said before, has a midnight-hour voice, that resembles the tone and timbre of Tindersticks frontman Stuart Staples and The National‘s maestro Matt Berninger’s.
His new song is a groovy love-drunk gem featuring the sensuous voice
of his ex-partner. It gets under your skin from the kick-off. Two spins and
you’re hooked.
Beware, tiger girl is a femme fatale.
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14. ‘Death Beats’ by NECRØ (Lisboa, Portugal)
NECRØ is the latest project of Portuguese musician João Vairinhos
featuring idiosyncratic singer and keyboard player Sara Inglês,.
The title track of their 6-track EP Death Beats
is Turn Up The Volume‘s favorite.
A dark-techno-wave rumbling that stomps and whomps with intense
impetus doing your head in from the get-go. Doomed beats for twilight parties.
The tenebrous vibe at play here sends shivers down your spine, while Sara Inglês‘s
ghostly wailing is reminiscent of shadowy Siouxsie Sioux moments.
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15. ‘What A Day’ by THE MYSTERY PLAN (Charlotte, US)
(photo: Daniel Coston)
This Charlotte-based collective seduced my sensitive ears with the title track of
their 3-track EP What A Day. The harbinger for upcoming 7th LP ‘Haunted Organic Machines’.
Feel-good tunes like these are always welcome on my headphones. What A Day is
a breezy synth-scintillating vibration that triggers sensual body moves. Its featherlight tonality causes a dreamy state of mind with trancy tinglings. And when that sweet flute came on, I swear, I saw a Spring bird flutter in the blue sky.
Enjoy!
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16. ‘Lonely Town’ by GALEN & PAUL (UK)
Multi-instrumentalist and songstress GALEN AYERS and former The Clash
bassist PAUL SIMONON have a collaborative album, named Can We Do
Tomorrow Another Day? out on 19 May.
I’ll be a pretty special one as the pair wrote a collection of bilingual duets, with both of them singing in English and Spanish and explore a variety of European music cultures. First single Lonely Town is a sweet, little pop ditty. You can sing/hum/whistle along.
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17. ‘I Remember What You Said’ by Artist: DYAN VALDÉS (Cuban-American)
(Photo credit: Petra Valdimardottir)
This Cuban-American singer-songwriter, living in Berlin, played/plays
in several bands and works as a solo artist too and has now a new single
out, named I Remember What You Said.
It follows her last year’s excellent debut album Stand.
The pretty poppy song is about a nightmarish memory of a poisonous
relationship. With its agitated words-flowing drive it feels like Valdés
wants to wash away all the BS and move on. Mission accomplished.
Check it out.
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18. ‘Dust’ by SUMMIT OF THE BIG LOW (UK)
Summit Of The Big Low is the moniker of British musician Toby Uffindell-Phillips,
who was a member of the early 00s folktronica group Sound Sanctuary.
This new piece, from his self-titled album out on 19 May, is an affecting folk-pop reverie that streams as a brisk brook. Sparkling, crystal clear, and glimmering in the sun. Its wistful tone, smooth vocals, and frisky finger-picking guitar play combine for a sweet little pearl.
Stream/buy.
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19. ‘Prisoner’ by 7DESCENT (Nashville, TN)
This 4-piece from Nashville produces a mix of metal, opera & 80’s rock.
Their new single Prisoner is about being captured and trapped by someone’s love.
It’s a mid-tempo power ballad that slowly but surely infiltrates your ears with its
anthemic dynamics, impassioned vocals, and weeping guitars.
Play here.
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20. ‘Tongue Of Kalina’ EYEMOUTH (Sweden)
This musical project started in Gothenburg, Sweden in 2014 and presents a soundscape based on electronic backgrounds and a more classic rock instrumentation blended with mellotrons, vibraphone, santur, harmonium and other alluring sounding instruments. In short, atmospheric psychedelic darkness with occult undertones.
Eyemouth‘s new longplayer, titled A Headlong Fall Into The Vast Ocean Of Anxiety reverberates a cinematic synth soundtrack to an atmospheric, hallucinatory dream
movie yet to be made.
Closing track Tongue Of Kalina gives you a perfect idea of it.
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