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MICK JAGGER And LADY GAGA With Sublime Vocal Performance In NYC At Small Album Launch Gig In NYC
26 October 2023
Two weeks ago, eternal rock icons THE ROLLING STONES released their
first proper album in 23 years (their 24th British and 26th American one)
with the critically lauded HACKNEY DIAMONDS.
Mick Jagger is 80, Keef Richards turns 80 in December and Ron Wood is 76
and they look in absolutely great shape as they showed once again on
their album launch club gig in NYC last weekend.
On one of the singles – a classic gospel ballad – named SWEET SOUNDS OF HEAVEN,
Lady Gaga joined Jagger for some sky-high scraping vocals. Fantastic on record, but equally sublime live.
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THE STONES: Instagram – Facebook
THE KILLERS Have Killer Numbers On Spotify And In The UK For 2003 Monster Hit ‘MR. BRIGHTSIDE’
15 October 2023
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To celebrate its 15th birthday, the Swedish mega audio streamer Spotify shared
a list of the biggest artists and tracks since its launch in October 2008.
The winners in the UK are THE KILLERS with their debut single MR. BRIGHTSIDE (released September 29, 2003). Globally the blockbuster hit has more than 1.8 billion streams, so far. Wowzers!
‘Mr Brightside’ previously broke UK chart records in 2021 by spending 260 non-consecutive weeks in the Top 100 of the UK’s singles chart. As of October 10, that figure has risen to a whopping 382 weeks – nearly seven years!!
537 million views on YouTube.
Everybody Knows The Words
THE KILLERS: Instagram
ALREADY DEAD – New Acoustic Single ‘LANDLORD’ Is A Bone-Chilling Cry Out
Loud and clear songs
6 October 2023
Photo Credit: Brian Ferrazzani
Band: ALREADY DEAD
Who: Hefty punk rock trio
from Boston, Massachusetts led
by singer-songwriter Dan Cummings
Cummings: “I guess you could say ‘Landlord’ is all about a feeling. The feeling of just getting
by in life, with the looming knowledge that you’re one bad month, or even week, from falling behind. I’ve certainly lived with this before. Bills are paid, life is stable, but you still know that if you take any type of hit – financial, personal, whatever – it could still fall like a deck of cards. But you keep pushing, and keep those lights on.”
TUTV: No wall-of-Already-Dead-dynamite electricity this time. Cummings picked up his acoustic guitar and wrote this bone-chilling cry out about living on the edge of drowning
or surviving.
Imagine British leftist/political activist and terrific veteran songsmith Billy Bragg
raising his voice or equally politically driven folk legend Woody Guthrie killing fascists
again with his wooden guitar. Landlord‘s profound emotions go from hope to despair
and back, and Cummings‘ anxious vocals send shivers down your spine.
All-out top performance.
WATCH/LISTEN
STREAM
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BUY
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ALREADY DEAD: Instagram – Facebook – Linktree
TUTV: Blog – Facebook – Instagram
SPEAKING OF WITCHES – British Noise Rockers Turn Up The Decibels On New Single ‘WAX’
18 September 2023
Band: SPEAKING OF WITCHES
Who: Formed in 2016 in Southampton as Hunters Gathering and later
reborn as a formidable power trio, Speaking of Witches has redefined
Alternative Rock by transforming blues-influenced rock into a relentless,
low-tuned stoner/alt-rock sound that can peel paint at ten paces.
New single: WAX
First piece of their upcoming debut album
Can You Stand On Your Head?’
TUTV: Wax is a merciless sledgehammer, a riff-maniacal hammer blow,
a clobbering brainbreaker. Think Queens Of The Stone Age turning up the
decibels even more than they already produce. These 3 male witches build
a titanic wall of blasting bombast you can headbang to until you’re unconscious
No rest for the wicked. Speaking of a deafening beast of a track.
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SOW: Instagram – Linktree
TUTV: Facebook – Instagram – Twitter
BEST BAND IN THE WORLD – British Riotous Punk Turbo LAMBRINI GIRLS
13 September 2023
Brighton’s astonishing LAMBRINI GIRLS are riotous punk’s new sensation to
Turn Up The Volume‘s ears and eyes and to lots of critics with great taste for great
new music. And if you are on the same bill with Blondie and Iggy Pop, as it happened
early this month at the Punkfather’s Dog Day Afternoon event in London, you definitely have the right lust for life.
They’re the BEST BAND IN THE WORLD right now.
On record and on stage.
ON RECORD
The cast iron battle-axes just released their 6-track EP, titled YOU’RE WELCOME.
Expect 6 Apocalpyse-punk-now cannonballs, 6 in-your-male-macho-face
firecrackers, 6 full-speed- garage rock Lamborghinis. Holy burning shit!
TRASHING
CRASHING
SLASHING
HELLISH
DEMONIC
MANIACAL
BITCHY
BOILING
BANGING
AWESOME
BONKERS
BERSERK
CHAOTIC
MENTAL
GAY
YOU’RE WELCOME.
HERE.
ON STAGE
Here’s an idea of their live buzz
Last July the Lambrinis played Dour Festival in Belgium.
Their trash-and-slash hullabaloo led to non-stop moshpitting.
Actually, I should say OFF instead of ON stage, because that’s where loudmouth/guitarist Phoebe Lunny operated most of the time, uniting the crowd for a flabbergasting party, while awesome bassist Lilly Macieira let her 4-string do the talking, VERY LOUD. These Amazons’ kick-ass bravado is off the charts.Their spunky swagger and their intrepid presence is totally impressive.
And these Brighton motherrockers have a license
to kill all LGBTQ haters. Capisce?
PICTURE THIS
Welcome Belgium
Girls in the band
Great view
Listen up, I’m gay
And on bass Lilly Hendrix
Smoking hot Phoebe
One Lambrini down
We’ll meet again
LG: Facebook – Instagram
Live photos by Turn Up The Volume
Yesterday Was THE FLAMING LIPS DAY In SAN FRANCISCO
21 August 2023
Oklahoma‘s eccentric psych pop-rock orchestra THE FLAMING LIPS, led by conductor-voice-face Wayne Coyne, are one of my all-time fav bands, on record (16 LPs so far) and on stage. Their live shows are a visual and aural spectacle. The symphonic magicians blew my mind several times (some pics below).
On stage spectacle
Yesterday was The Flaming Lips Day in San Francisco. The band was
honored with a ceremony on Sunday afternoon, prior to their headlining
performance at the city’s Stern Grove Festival. I wouldn’t mind organizing a
Flaming Lips Day in Belgium, but I guess the chances for this to happen is zero.
You know, just the thought is already satisfying.
Frontman Wayne Cony about TFL.
PICTURE THIS
(Melkweg Club – Amsterdam, 2018)
(Amsterdam, 2018)
(Antwerp, 2017)
(Antwerp, 2017)
All 4 live pictures by Turn Up The Volume.
THE FLAMING LIPS: Bio – Discography – Instagram
THE MIRACULOUS LOVE KIDS And BETH GIBBONS (Portishead) Cover DAVID BOWIE And JOY DIVISION
18 August 2023
THE MIRACULOUS LOVE KIDS are a musical group of Afghan
girls who along with their families, escaped Kabul, Afghanistan
and fled to Islamabad, Pakistan when the Taliban took over the
country again.
The group was founded by American
musician and activist Lanny Cordola.
To mark the second anniversary of the tragic turnaround, they recorded
covers of two songs with Beth Gibson, the arresting vocalist/lyricist of
British trip-hop act.
To gain much-needed attention they decided to cover two classics.
Atmosphere (1980) by Joy Division and Heroes (1977) by David Bowie.
The collaborative performances are heart-warming.
Listen/watch
THE MIRACULOUS LOVE KIDS: Website
Photos: stills from the video
5 Reasons Why You Should Discover Brighton’s Kick-Ass LAMBRINI GIRLS
24 April 2023
Turn Up The Volume will give you 5 reasons why it would be a fucking shame not to know/enjoy the a.w.e.s.o.m.e. LAMBRINI GIRLS. Three punk-crazy Amazons from Brighton, UK with vox/guitarist Phoebe Lunny and bassist Lilly Macieira upfront, recently named by imperishable legend Iggy Pop as his new favorite band. Actually, that alone should be enough to realise how fucking good they are.
Here we go.
1. Their trash-and-crash havoc makes you want to start a one-man/woman moshpit from the moment it erupts from your stereo. So far they released 3 stunning uppercuts that grab you by the throat without asking. Check them on Spotify.
2. They get in the ugly faces, with sharp-teethed panache, of male machos,
LGBT-phobics, and all other intolerant scumbags. Watch your back LADS.
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3. Sonically they combine the sassy spirit of riot grrls Bikini Kill, the biting bitchiness of Courtney Love, the primal screams of X-Ray Spex‘s late genial vox Poly Sterene , and the unbridled DIY mentality of The Slits.
4. Live, as I witnessed, last Saturday in my hometown of Ghent (Belgium) LG are explosive punkettes with loudmouthed Phoebe Lunny more off than on stage interacting with the audience. These girls’ kick-ass bravado went (almost) through the roof. Their spunky swagger and their intrepid presence was flabergasting the whole set through.
5. As I experienced before and after the gig Lambrini Girls are for real, they’re big fun, they are totally open-minded, they’re great human beings and they like Belgian beer. Hail Hail!
An idea of their live puissance.
Picture This
April 22, Kinky Star Club, Ghent
1-2-3
“Get ready, I’m coming”
“Listen up, lads”
Turning up the bass
Getting high
LG: Instagram – Facebook
(Live photos by Turn Up The Volume)
Too Good To Be Forgotten – DEAP VALLY And Their 2021 Album ‘MARRIAGE
Too good to be forgotten
19 January 2023
Utterly cool female rock duo DEAP VALLY out of Los Angeles
released their 3rd album, named MARRIAGE in November 2021.
It was a top-10 LP of that year on Turn Up The Volume‘s list.
Deap Vally said: “Being in a band is like being in a marriage: sometimes it’s magical,
sometimes it’s unbearably challenging. To reinvigorate that marriage we’ve made
album three a genre-bending experiment with new collaborators and instrumentation
that push the limits of what has previously defined us. Marriage’ is our musical Rumspringa,
if you will. We’re breaking free of the rigid creative constraints within which we previously existed (two members, two instruments, two voices). Writing with the calibre of musicians
that we did on this record was an unforgettable experience, and we’re so happy to have
the result of our creative rebirth eternalised in ‘Marriage’.”
The album featured a number of collaborations including
songs with Peaches, KT Tunstall, and Warpaint‘s Jenny Lee.
Paradiso Club, Amsterdam – photo by Turn Up The Volume
Turn Up The Volume wrote: The message of Marriage is loud and clear: Lindsey
Troy and Julie Edwards are here to stay. Their musical bond is tighter than ever. Looking
to the future they broadened their musical horizons impressively. Mind you, don’t expect
a free jazz record. Deap Vally are still about rocking and rolling while tackling their demons with an intimidating vocal bravado, but in a far more varied way than before.
I hear eruptive echoes of Death From Above (Perfuction / Billions / I’m The Master), The Black Keys (Where Do We Go / Better Run), and early Deap Vally with a full-sound injection (Tsunami / Magic Medicine). And with Give Me A Sign (bringing Sparklehorse to mind) and the soul-stirring beauty of Look Away the couple shows their softer sonic side.
After 10 years and 3 LPS (and one together
with The Flaming Lips) their matrimony is alive and kicking.
Singles/clips: Tsunami / Magic Medicine / Perfuction
– TSUNAMI –
– MAGIC MEDICINE –
– PERFUCTION –
Full album. on Spotify
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DEAP VALLY: Facebook – Instagram