Every day of this summer we go back to the same summer day somewhere in history
17 July 2026
On 17 July 1959 jazz/soul legend BILLIE HOLIDAY died in a New York City hospital from cirrhosis of the liver after years of alcohol abuse, aged 43, while under arrest for heroin possession, with Police officers stationed at the door to her room.
In the final years of her life, she had been progressively swindled out of her earnings. The singer who had recorded classics such as God Bless The Child and the civil rights anthemStrange Fruit died with just $0.70 in the bank.
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: 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.
“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.
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.
“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.
“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.
“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.”
