JUKEBOX 2025 – Week 17 – Five New Rad Tracks Added Twice A Week
In order to not miss a beat TURN UP THE VOLUME scans the musical
horizon daily, for 10 years now, to pick ace tracks and add 5 new ones
twice per week, to the one and only JUKEBOX playlist that matters.
ALL TOGETHER
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The 5 fresh ones
TRACK BY TRACK
Artist: A. SMYTH
Who: Singer/songwriter from Dublin, Ireland who
released his notable debut album Last Animals in
2021.
New Track: CAN’T STOP THE RAIN
“This is a song about the inevitability of pain. We all try to avoid the bad things in life, to hide from them, but as sure as the sun will set bad things are going to get you. Because life is made of the light and the dark, you can’t have one without the other. And in that way, sometimes, the dark can be kinda beautiful”.
TUTV: Sonically Can’t Stop The Rain combines both the melodic briskness
of Vampire Weekend and the mystic sensibility of Beirut. The result is a breezy
pop tune for the summer, even when it’s cloudy and you need to hide for
teardrops from above. Envigorating music always works, come rain or shine
Instagram – Linktree
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Photo Credit: Harrison Searle
Band: THE NORTHERN LINE
Who: Newcomers from Boston, Massachuttes raised on a steady diet of Britpop, baggy, Madchester, and modern alternative, who urge everyone to raise a fist, bang a drum, and get on the indie dance floor.
New Track: THROW A FIST
Bilvox (Vocals/guitar): “It’s a personal song, but it is also a song that connects with
anyone who has done the hard work to move on after a meaningful relationship falls
apart. The liberation, the freedom of the ‘fist’ that’s thrown, mostly metaphorically, is
throwing away the pain, the failed dream, and embracing the future.”
TUTV: Could easily be a hidden track on Blur‘s 1991 debut album Leisure. 90s psych pop with trippy 60s echoes and the characteristically British, confident swagger. Peppy party tune for girls & boys on a high on a holiday on an exotic island. Mass.chester indeed.
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Instagram – Linktree
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Band: HIGH HI
Who: Sprightly power pop trio from Belgium with
3 albums (so far) on their résumé. You can check
them out on Spotify.
New Track: RUNNING
First taster of album #4. Info TBA.
TUTV: Expect a passionate, orchestral pop gem with affectingly emotive
duet vocals. Infectious and heartfelt. Think Roxette at their romantic finest.
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Instagram – Facebook
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Promo photo by Yulissa Benitez
Band: MODEL/ACTRIZ
Who: Electro pop-punk act
from Brooklyn, NY.
Track: DIVA
Third piece from their upcoming sophomore LP,
named Pirouette. It’ll see the day of light May 2.
More info here.
Electro funk activating your body on the spot.
Instagram – Bandcamp
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Image via Isabel Levin
Artist: SLEEPY HABITS
Who: The moniker of seasoned New Orleans musician
Alan Howard who released his debut album Ouchie! in
2022.
Track: ANTIQUE MALL
“At the time I wrote this song, I was coming to terms with the fact that you can’t carry everything with you throughout your life. The physical space of the antique mall symbolizes that feeling. With that symbol as its base, the song explores allowing yourself to hold onto the reverence of memory and acknowledge how it has shaped you while letting go of the idealistic sense of the ‘good ol’ days’.”
TUTV: Lazy bedroom pop tune for lazy people on
a lazy day. Like you and me and Alan Howard.
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