TURN UP THE VOLUME’s JUKEBOX 2024 – 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.

FULL JUKEBOX (so far)


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The 10 new ones added this week

TRACK-BY-TRACK

Artist: WHITEY
Who: British singer-songwriter whose music has made its mark, from rock’n’roll clubs
to electronic dance floors, fashion catwalks to movie soundtracks, television to computer games, from Breaking Bad and the Sopranos to Grand Theft Auto.

He has built a strange home in the shadows between mainstream entertainment and the vanishing underground, an outsider who celebrates his outsider ethos in his work- and yet whose music is embraced by both popular and alternative culture.

Track: LITTLE PIGGIES
Piece from his new album
Mental Radio released last
month.

A lo-fi swipe at politics and corruption.
Good old retro psych-pop at its entertaining
and catchy best.

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Band: ELBOW
Who: Manchester’s
veteran pop unit.

Track: ADRIANA AGAIN
Following this year’s new LP Audio Vertigo the band offers this new
piece, that’ll be part of an EP, slated for release sometime next year.

Oh yes, Elbow can rock out, with this
badass belter as convincing proof.

No idea who the band in the video is.
Only Guy Garvey & Co. know.

Instagram – Spotify
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Band: ROSE FATAL
Who: Fresh Irish rioters.

Track: SO MATURE

“Great art holds a mirror up to the world; exposing its many flaws,
highlighting its beauty and screams back the question we are all too
afraid to ask. It’s this dichotomy that Rose Fatale bring to this new
single.”

This barbed wire punk
juggernaut challenges
your speakers.
Red-hot stroke.
Helter skelter.

Instagram – Spotify
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(Photo by Turn Up The Volume)

Band: PRIMAL SCREAM
Who: Scottish post-punk old-timers,
led by charismatic singer-songwriter
Bobby Gillespie.

Track: LOVE AIN’T ENOUGH

Stupendous highlight of their brand-new album
Come Ahead, out today. An orchestral rock missile.


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Artists: STUKA
Who: Finnish electro punks
of the 41st Millenium.

Track: SUNSET OF THE CORRUPTED
First taster of their upcoming 3rd album,
named Electronic Body Metal, out early 2025.

In the song, a female voice chanting in Latin on top of
an EBM techno beat create a moody, haunting atmosphere.
Poetic lyrics tell how corruption of the soul destroys men.

Expect a head-twisting electro-manic
trip to a nightclub galaxy.


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Instagram – Spotify
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Band: DOVES
Who: English post-Britpop mavericks
who’ve been around for almost 25 years.

Track: RENEGADE
First preview of their forthcoming 6th LP, called
Constellations For The Lonely, out next year on Valentine’s Day.

“Looking at everyone’s lives over recent years, and considering the news at the moment, “Renegade” feels a lot more loaded in retrospect. We wanted to go for a dystopian feel,
thinking about Manchester itself over the next century or so. A totally imaginary thing…
Blade Runner set in our home city.”

Doves still know how to write compelling, lyrical
symphonies with a melodramatic appeal.

Instagram – Spotify
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📷 Jasmijn Slegh

Band: RATS OF RAFTS
Who: Dutch post-punk outfit who
entered the music scene in 2005.

Track: JAPANESE MEDICINE
Taster from their new, upcoming LP, titled
Deep Below that’ll land on 7 February 2025.


New album artwork

Darkwavish synths and lustrous guitar play
create a stirring Cure-esque atmosphere.

Instagram – Spotify
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Artist: CHRIS PELLNAT
Who: Musician from New York.

Track: WE ARE NOT ROBOTS


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It has a driving, energetic rock sensibility but with retro
sci-fi organ flourishes and big, fun singalong choruses.

60s psych-pop balancing somewhere
between early Pink Floyd and The Zombies.

“Sometimes I just want to be a child
Sometimes I like to get a little bit wild
Because we are not robots”

Instagram – Spotify
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Photo by Russell Whitehead

Artist: GARFIELD MAYOR
Who: Singer-songwriter crafting
heartfelt journeys to stir the soul.

Track: LIGHT THE DARK

“There’ve been times since Sony I’ve felt paralysed – like I’ve lost my voice, and can’t
honour my blessings… We’ve all got talents that define us – it’s vital we nurture them.
Light the Dark’s a call to exercise your talents no matter what… Or as Dr. King says:
‘we must keep moving’” muses Mayor”

Funky pop tune.
Steely Dan vibes.
Mixed emotions.
Emotive vocals.
Martin Luther King.

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Instagram – Spotify
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Band: LAIBACH
Who: Legendary Slovenian
avant-garde act.

Track: STRANGE FRUIT

“There’s something that’s still very radioactive about the song; it’s still relevant because race is still relevant. The impulses that Meeropol was talking about are very much still with us, on the front pages of our newspapers and across our social media every day. For us, ‘Strange Fruit’ evokes racial injustice, representing not just lynchings, but racism generally. Racism is a virus that mutates, taking on different forms as it adapts to a changing environment. Its mutation is made harder to observe by it being deeply embedded, not only in our traditions and institutions, but also in our unconscious lives.”

Minimalistic sonority.
Spooky spoken-word anger.
Fuck racism.

Spotify – Instagram

Bleak Stories For Bleak Times – Dutch Art-Rockers RATS ON RAFTS Twist Your Bleak Mind With Their New Album

30 January 2021

Band: RATS ON RAFTS
Who: Mind-boggling art-rockers from The Netherlands

Album: EXPERTS FROM CHAPTER 3: THE MIND RUNS A NET OF RABBIT PATHS – 3rd LP
Released: 29 January 2021

Info: “A psyche-fuelled journey into the id punctuated with rhythmic kabuki modal mood swings, thunderstorms, digital beeps, traffic noise, and just plain old beautiful cacophonous reverb-drenched sound when needed. Each song spins a yarn; there are plagues, dreams,
wind and fire, ‘mythical’ characters, and the search for the secret government warehouse. “

Louder Than War wrote: “One of the great contemporary European rock bands.”

Uncut says: “Recalling Brix-era Fall at their most-pop leaning.

Turn Up The Volume: Imagine Bauhaus‘ vox Peter Murphy backed by Siouxsie Sioux‘s
band The Banshees with the cutting edge of a young, confused Nick Cave when he was
in The Birthday Party. Bleak stories for bleak times. Like an unpublished dystopian novel
by George Orwell, titled ‘2021‘. Scary, ominous and pitch-black. Get out of your straitjacket, throw your meds in the dustbin, and fire your shrink. This record will take care of your science-fiction-like nightmares from now on. Rats On Rafts‘ apocalyptic writing is on the wall.

Singles/clips: A Trail Of Wind And Fire / Tokyo Music Experience

– A TRAIL OF WIND AND FIRE –

– TOKYO MUSIC EXPERIENCE –

Stream/buy full LP here…


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RATS ON RAFTS: Facebook

(Photo by Erik Christenhusz – received via Fire Records)

Turn Up The Volume’s 15 KNOCKOUT TRACKS For September 2020

This past month’s best…

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A swirling fusion of rhapsodic rippers and cool crackerjacks,
that activated my bloodstream and my limbs this past month!
Turn Up The Volume‘s 15 Knockout Tracks for September!

‘Under The Spell Of Joy’ by DEATH VALLEY GIRLS (Los Angeles, US)
L.A.’s garage devils surprise with this gospel stunner. Polyphonic choir, booming beats, crazed sax, towering tune, and a mental finale. The title track from their fourth album coming your way this Friday, October 2. Can’t wait!

‘So What’ by MEMES (Glasgow, Scotland)
Post-punk mavericks strike again. This new cut is more infectious than that horrible coronavirus, deeper carving than a Swiss knife, 103 seconds of high-energy swagger.
New EP in November via Fierce Panda.


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‘The Rise And Fall Of America’ by THE MOODS (England)
It’s this British collective’s towering take on the bombastic American National Anthem with razor-sharp lines and an addictive chant. They rock, roar and rage. Enough is enough! Play this on repeat until the elections in November. Make America, America again. It’s not too late! Vote that orange out!

‘American Dream’ by TOKYO TABOO (England)
‘Dumb Trump’ is the loud and clear message. These high-voltage noiseniks squeeze that orange idiot into pulp in 4 minutes and visualize their disgust with both a hilarious and frightening video clip. About time this buffoon gets kicked out of the White House!

‘Leon The Pig Farmer’ by CABBAGE (England)
These post-punk gunslingers describe their racket as Apocalyptic Sprautrock. Sounds
totally 2020 to my ears. This new amazeballs brain-breaker races like a hot rod on
the run without slowing down for a second. Bang-up stonker!

‘Psychopath’s Monologue’ by THE CHRONICLES OF MANIMAL AND SAMARA (It/Sing)
A soundtrack for an unmade David Lynch movie. Chemical bros beats, Leftfield bangs, industrial uppercuts and a nightmarish spoken-word sermon all over it. Sonic paranoia
for a baffled world in an ongoing virus crisis. Doomsday is just around the corner.

‘Tokyo Music Experience’ by RATS ON RAFTS (The Netherlands)
An electrical punch-sucker driven by hyperkinetic guitars, manic vocals, and a relentless beat sounding like legendary weirdos Devo are back with some fervent firepower. Expect to be totally puzzled after just one spin. You can get satisfaction here, folks!

‘Land Based Antics’ by STRUGGLES WITH SYNTAX (London)
A rage-against-the-machine motherrocker, a smash and clash crossover stormer, a
nasty rap brain-breaker, a brutal thwack challenging you to bang your head against
the wall while pulling your hair out. A volcanic spit and sneer eruption.

‘Moment In The Sun’ by SUNFLOWER BEAN (Brooklyn/NY)
Perfect pop play! Catchy as hell, totally uplifting and mood-boosting. Funky and groovy.
An earworm to listen to in your bath, in your car, at work, in the pub, and in your bed.

‘Truth II’ by BEND SINISTER (Vancouver, British Columbia)
A rambling, rumbling, rollicking and roaring ripsnorter with a scream along on the top of your lungs chorus demanding the truth. C’mon Bully Trump and Boris the Clown, stop
lying 24/7, you twin idiots.

‘7 Seconds’ by PORRIDGE RADIO (Brighton, England)
Earlier this year this amazing Dana Margolin fronted band released their contender-for-best-album-of-the-year tour de force Every Bad, they shine again on this brand new melodic humdinger.

‘Docker Martins’ by ARCO ARENA (Ireland)
A riff-loaded crackerjack that triggers your Saturday nightmare fever moves. Funky as
fuck and sickly sticky from start to finish. A kick-ass hammer sharp as a serrated knife challenging you to fight for your right to be the last man standing. Yeahhh!

‘Serotonin‘ by VIOLENT VICKIE (Long Beach, CA)
Put your Goth outfit, dim the lights, and trip on this pitch-black synthscape with
Vickie wildly yearning for lost love and lust. You’ll get goosebumps when listening
to this petrifying cry out on your headphones. Time to kick your evil demons out
of your bedroom!

‘We Are Chaos’ by MARILYN MANSON (Ohio, US)
Yes, the self-proclaimed ‘God of Fuck’ still walks the planet. No, he didn’t move yet
to his real home in hell. And the title track is a massive sing-along pop (yes, ‘pop’)
anthem celebrating what we became: CHAOS in these surreal virus times.

‘Cotton Fish (A Dream)’ by JAY CRAFTON (Toronto, Canada)
Don’t really know much about this Canadian musician and record producer just that his new (instrumental) single is a spellbinding guitar-driven jam with a relaxing effect on my mindset. Pretty special. Pretty dreamy.


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All together now on Spotify…

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See/hear you next month, music junkies…

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Lost In Translation – New Hyperkinetic Single ‘TOKYO MUSIC EXPERIENCE’ By RATS ON RAFTS

New sonic impulses

Dutch squad RATS ON RAFTS have a new, third, longplayer in the pipeline.

‘Excerpts From Chapter 3: The Mind Runs A Net Of Rabbit Paths’ will hit
the streets on 29th January 2021 via Fire Records.

Fire Records about the new LP: “A psyche-fuelled journey into the id punctuated
with rhythmic kabuki modal mood swings, thunderstorms, digital beeps, traffic noise,
and just plain old beautiful cacophonous reverb-drenched sound when needed. The third chapter refers to the last five years that Rats On Rafts have spent creating their “difficult”
third album. Each song spins a yarn; there are plagues, dreams, wind and fire, ‘mythical’ characters, and the search for the secret government warehouse. It’s a musical melodrama: created in isolation – something we all know so well – a worldview shut out from the world.”

And here comes the lead-single. TOKYO MUSIC EXPERIENCE is an electrical punch-sucker driven by hyperkinetic guitars, manic vocals, and a relentless beat sounding like legendary weirdos Devo are back with some crazed firepower. Expect to be totally puzzled after just one spin.

Maybe you’ll get lost in translation but never in Rats On Rafts‘ music…

RATS ON RAFTS: Facebook


EXPERTS FROM CHAPTER 3: THE MIND RUNS A NET OF RABBIT PATHS
29th January 2021 – on Fire Records