Last night, British rock band SUEDE played a blistering-hot set at Lokerse Feesten in Belgium. Frontman Brett Anderson‘s starred in the middle. He’s aging backwards.
After all these years, his vitality and vocal range are still adrenaline-fueled. Class!
The tunes that impressed Turn Up The Volume’s ears the most this past month
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TRACK BY TRACK
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Band: CHALK
Who: Electro junks
from Belfast, Ireland.
Last March they released their
earthshaking debut LP Crystalpunk.
Track: GET FUCKED
A song they finished just after
the album’s recording sessions.
TUTV: Get Fucked sounds like a crushing hammer drill.
A supersonic stroke. A banging bomb. A fucked-up
fireball. Eh… sorry I’m getting out of breath.
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Band: GARBAGEBARBIE
Who: 4-piece that has carved a space for themselves in Los Angeles’ DIY scene, gaining a reputation for hosting rowdy and oftentimes free, themed shows. Combining elements of Britpop, glam, punk, French disco, and garage rock, garbagebarbie’s confrontational racket refuses to be confined by genre.
Track: PUNK
Single from their
upcoming debut LP.
Dan Karasev (drummer): “The song holds up a mirror to ourselves. It pokes fun at the LA bar scene which even though we can make fun of, it doesn’t change the fact that we are still in that scene. “
Single artwork
TUTV: Prepare your eardrums for a punked-up motherrocker, a savage haymaker,
a sped-up barnstormer. The unyielding harshness increases with every second and
every time the clamorous chorus kicks in, it’s all hands on deck.
WTF! Zoinks! Mental!
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Band: TRÄŠHBAG
Who: Hefty Irish duo from Dublin (where everyone seems to in a band lately).
They spent time playing in numerous bands together or standing in for each
other in various bands. They produce a volatile blend of visceral punk rock
and post-punk.
Track: MY WHITE VAN
Debut single.
TUTV: OMG! These two nice-looking guys aren’t that nice on record.
They smash, clash and trash with their white van. All hell breaks loose from the outset.
This noxious sledgehammer does your poor head in with non-stop industrial-punk slams.
Wham bloody wham bam! Throw some agitated vocals in the mix and
the volcanic eruption is complete. By far, best debut single of June.
“The white van is all powered by diesel, baby!”
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Band: THE FLESHTONES
Who: Garage rock veterans from Queens, NY.
They released a huge number of LPs, studio
and live ones.
Track: FLOAT YOUR SHOWBOAT
Peter Zaremba (frontman): “It’s about ‘wet-blankets’ in situations
where people should be enjoying life. Basically a positive message
behind the snarky tone. Have some fun. And Goa was great.”
TUTV: Expect a sassy slice of heavy-duty knock-out rock ‘n’ garage roll.
These vivid vets still know all the revved-up tricks to set your speakers
on fire.
Absobloodylutely!
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Band: SUEDE
Who: London‘s glamorous pop/rock prodigies who
released their 10th LP, named Antidepressants,
last year, in September.
Track: SHARPENING KNIFES
One of the 5 bonus songs on
the LP’s deluxe edition.
TUTV: Best of the 5. Exhilarative Suede fuel.
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Band: TV PINS
Who: Indie five-piece based across London and the West Midlands.
They blend prog-pop, new wave, and Americana influences with a
distinctly British alt-rock songwriting sensibility – pairing 70s-inspired
vocal harmonies with a sharp, 90s-influenced energy.
They released their debut album Aircutter in 2024.
Track: VERSION OF LOVE
Cut from their forthcoming
self-released EP.
Grace Hinks (LGBTQ+ vocalist): “To me, it’s about accepting and standing up to
those who don’t embrace all forms of love – romantic, aromantic, and especially
queer joy. It’s about celebrating that openly.”
TUTV: Version Of Love is a perky pop pearl that promptly activates your dance-hungry
body. A sparkling guitar riff, summery vibes, warm-hearted melodiousness, bright-eyed and bushy-tailed vocals, and an infectious tunefulness come together to soundtrack an
all-inclusive love gathering.
John Lennon was right all along ‘All You Need Is Love’.
This way for cloud-nine, people, next to that vibrant
rainbow.
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Band: BRICKHOUSE
Who: Fresh hit team from Manchester that evokes the uncompromising static
of The Jesus and Mary Chain and the measured rebellion of The Velvet Underground.
Track: ANGEL EYES
Sharp (vocalist/guitarist/songwriter): “Angel Eyes is, at its core, about being haunted.
Not in the supernatural sense, but rather the persistent melancholy. The lingering of
memories after losing a lover and being unsure as to how to help yourself let go and
be released from the curse of seeing someone in everybody else you meet.”
TUTV: Welcome to Brickhouse‘s remarkable debut belter. Angel Eyes is a psych-infused steamroller, going back-and-forth, motorized by alarming guitars, a pounding beat, jittery vocals, and a trenchant chorus that keeps coming back to haunt you with force – think
The Velvet Underground ripper ‘Run Run Run‘, but slower.
Intoxicating.
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Band: PAPER TIGERS
Who: Noisy indie alt-rock trio
from Boston & Iceland.
Track: GO OUT
Their first music in 3 years.
“‘Go Out’ is essentially from the perspective of an anti-social individual in
a relationship with a social butterfly. Basically, the older we get the more we
enjoy staying home and we’re tired of apologizing for it.”
TUTV: Full of vim and vigour guitar pop at its riveting best. Big intro, big sound, big melody, very big chorus. Got up this morning with the wrong leg? Put this enlivening tune on your headphones (on repeat), go out and embrace the day.
Now. Here.
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Artists: ARAB STRAP
Who: Trippy Scottish electro-pop vets, Aidan Moffat and
Malcolm Middleton (1995–2006, 2011, 2016–present).
Track: GLAMOUR MAGICK
Newest single from their new full-length
Half-Told Tales, their 9th, out Sept 4th.
TUTV: Age doesn’t matter for these Scottish vets.
They still kick ass with uplifting flair and verve.
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Band: HAIR CONTROL
Who: Canadian art-pop duo.
Track: SEEING IN THE DARK
2nd single from their debut album, named
Electric Pleasure, out October 30.
“Originally inspired by a dream melody that arrived complete with the phrase “We The Ugly People,” recalling the classic Leonard Cohen line, “we are ugly but we have the music” as well as Pulp’s “Common People,” the chorus lyric drew from this sly sense of solidarity.
Drawing influence from the spiritual yearning and melodic immediacy of classic mid-’70s power pop, particularly Dwight Twilley Band’s “Looking for the Magic,” “Seeing In The Dark” emerged as a celebration of collective connection and shared resilience.”
TUTV: From the kick-off, with its thudding drum/bass beat intro, your eager ears know that Seeing In The Dark is a vivacious and vigorous guitar pop feat. Brisk duet vocals intensify the kicky vibe. A sonic trill for common people like you and me.
Let’s roll.
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Band: DOGHOUSE ROSE
Who: 5 hepped-up rockers
based in Toronto.
Track: IT GETS WORSE
New piece from their forthcoming 3rd album, called
Born To Break Even. Out July 31. Tracklist and order
info here.
TUTV: Full blast forward from square one. It Gets Worse fires on all riff-charging cylinders. Vivid vocals lead the compulsive troops who’re bucked up by about a hundred guitars and a choleric drummer.
Think Blink-182 fronted by supercool rock chick Avril Lavigne. And when the
terrifically catchy chorus comes on like a comet without brakes, it’s all getting
better.
Blimey!
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Photo credit: Arann McCormack
Band: GUSH
Who: Frantic Belfast 4-piece who released their cooking
5-track debut EP Exposure Therapy in 2024.
Track: CONSTANCE
New single.
TUTV: Courtney Love is back with her band Hole. Well, not really, but
there’s definitely a sonic and attitude connection with this roasting Irish
engine. Constance rocks you off your socks in just under 3 minutes.
They race with high-voltage speed from the blitz start on, gas-powered by furious
guitars, a raving mad drummer and Chelsea Andrews‘s spiteful vocals. WTF! Fasten
your seatbelts. Gush turns you upside down with this torrid turbocharger.
Spot-on.
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Band: THE GOODS
Who: Power pop outfit
from Oakland, California.
Track: SUMMER’S ALMOST GONE
Single from their forthcoming album, titled Goodbye Summertime.
Out September 16th. More info here.
“Now is all we have. The present is slipping away, the
future isn’t guaranteed, so what are we waiting for?”
TUTV: Expect a brisklt paced and jangly earworm electrified by a flood of jangly riffs, with melancholic vocals floating all over it. Think The Drums and Tame Impala teaming up in the studio together. No brakes, no breaks. We all know we live in chaotic, bodeful times, so
I propose we play this bracing gem on repeat and extend the careless, summer feel.
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Band: QUEENS OF THE STONE AGE
Who: Stoner rock bigshots fronted
by architect Josh Homme
Track: EASY STREET.
Homme: “It’s kind of a funny song. It’s like hitting your funny bone, where it’s funny because
it hurts and it hurts because it’s funny. You’re serious, but it’s funny. We made it the way you’d make a demo. No click track, mistakes left in. It speeds up, it slows down, the claps aren’t great, but they’re not bad, and a bad clap adds this human thing you can’t fake.”
TUTV: Certainly another kind of feel-good summer hit than the one from 2000. No bragging about taking a ton of drugs here. No macho riffs. No astronomic power speed. Easy Street is an acoustic pop nugget. Infectiously melodic, spiced with duet vocals here and there. Let the freaks and the birds sing.
Beautiful.
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Band: ELEPHANT STONE
Who: Acclaimed psych outfit fronted by Rishi Dhir, a songwriter and sitarist who
has spent twenty years blurring the lines between Western psych-pop and Indian
classical.
Track: I GOT A PILL
Single from the band’s new upcoming LP, baptized Asha.
It’ll come our way on August 26th.
Album cover
TUTV: Weird intro, weird end. But in between we get an organ-flavoured and lively guitar psych-pop gem. An energizing and hopped-up foot stomper. Elephant Stone know, for a long time, how to groove and move exhaustively, how to please your aural appetite for galvanizing gems. Take this pill three times per day and shake your booty.
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Artist: RELUCTANT BOB & THE LONELY LOVERS
Who: The musical moniker of singer-songwriter Robert Baker.
Track: CARRY ON WITHOUT ME
“The song introduces us to a possibly unreliable narrator who is nearing the end of the road and is saying goodbye. The song was recorded live at Black Mountain Studios in Co. Louth and captures the energy of the band’s live performances.”
TUTV: Eels have a new album out soon. This is one of the instantly recognisable tracks. Well, it easily could be. Carry On Without Me‘s funky flow, lazy vocals, relaxing ambiance, breezy sparkling guitar glow and perky duet vocals on the contagious chorus lift this song
to E’s magnetic level.
Press play.
Enjoy.
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Track: I’M YOURS
Single from his new 15th full-length
Different When It’s Silent.
TUTV: Chilling masterstroke. Spine-tingling, enigmatic,
and bursting on the prodigious chorus. Mind-blowing.
It’s all yours.
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Band: THE DURUTTI COLUMN
Who: Post-punk project of Manchester-born, experimental singer-songwriter-guitarist Vincent Gerard “Vini” Reilly (now 72). The band’s name refers to the Durruti Column,
an anarchist military unit in the Spanish Civil War, named after Buenaventura Durruti.
Track: SCAMMER
New piece from their upcoming 28th full-length,
called Renascent, out on July 31st. Order info here.
TUTV: Reilly‘s vulnerable voice carries this both melancholic and spellbinding musing designed with warm background synths and shiny guitar sparks. Just beautiful, really beautiful. Can’t wait to hear the comeback album.
Enticing.
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Credit: Eels
Band: EELS
Who: Singer-songwriter
Mark Oliver Everett‘s combo.
Track: I’M ON STANDBY
Newest single from new album, their 16th, named
Cookie Happened. It’ll land on October 16th.
“If you’re lucky you have a friend you’re always there
for and vice versa. Bitch, I’ve always got time for you.”
TUTV: Vintage Eels musing. Simple, but
efficacious straight away and sickly sticky.
Go E!
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New album artwork – photo by Travis Shinn
Artists: TWIN TEMPLE
Who: Los Angeles-based spouses who
describe their music as Satanic Doo Wop.
The pair will launch their new, 3rd album, named
Doomed Lovers on October 9th. More info here.
Track: DOOMED LOVERS.
The first single & title track of
the upcoming full-length.
60s teardrop love melancholia.
Think Nancy Sinatra and Brenda Lee.
Hello, music junkies.
Another batch of 5 new, stellar tracks has
been added to Turn Up The Volume’s Jukebox.
Turn it up.
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TRACK BY TRACK
Band: SLYRYDES
Who: Self-described Irish
chaos merchants.
Track: ONE IS TOO MANY
“The band have always spoken with conviction and passion about real issues, especially the mental health crisis that exists in Ireland. The new single addresses this explicitly and candidly; both in the self-awareness that being sober is simultaneously critical but can also feel like no craic, and in the haunting spoken word sections which close out the track.”
TUTV: Join the rackety, ear-piercing and rumbustious pandemonium of Slyrydes and get rid of your dire demons. Primal scream therapy to free messed-up mind. One is not enough. Kneecap goes punk, people. Say no more.
Sick shit.
Band: DOGHOUSE ROSE
Who: 5 hepped-up rockers
based in Toronto.
Track: IT GETS WORSE
New piece from their forthcoming 3rd album, called
Born To Break Even. Out July 31. Tracklist and order
info here.
Press info: “The song turns the spotlight toward one of Doghouse Rose‘s greatest strengths: songwriting. Packed with towering harmonies, razor-sharp hooks, and
enough power-pop charm to make Tsar, The Muffs, and No Doubt proud.”
TUTV: Full blast forward from square one. It Gets Worse fires on all riff-charging cylinders. Vivid vocals lead the compulsive troops who’re bucked up by about a hundred guitars and a choleric drummer.
Think Blink-182 fronted by supercool rock chick Avril Lavigne. And when the
terrifically catchy chorus comes on like a comet without brakes, it’s all getting
better.
Wowzah!
Band: SUEDE
Who: London’s glam rock/pop vets, conducted
by their never-aging frontman Brett Anderson.
out today.
Track: SHARPENING KNIVES
Best bonus piece out of the 5 on their new expanded
edition of last year’s high-octane LP Antidepressants.
Band: STARS & THE UNDERGROUND
Who: New Zealand-based post punk outfit with dark synthwave
and shoegaze sound that drifts like cathedral smoke and sways
like twilight on the tide.
Track: ECHOLOCATION
New single from their upcoming LP
titled ‘Guardians of the Night’.
TUTV: A barrage of psych-o-tic guitars spearhead this shoegazy fuze.
Dusky vocals at the front, hallucinatory vocals in the back. It all leads
towards a minacious experience. Spine-chilling and petrifying.
Unleash here.
Band: THE NUV
Who: Noisemakers from Italy who have
uninhibited thoughts at the third pint of beer.
Track: I AM ALL
Piece from their upcoming new album. Out later in the year.
“Let’s free ourselves from the burden of mistakes, let’s recover our memory and
our sense of friendship. No more civil wars. We desire simplicity and truth.”
TUTV: This unwavering bass/drum propelled head-spinner gets under your skin without asking. The hoarsely off-center vocals cause goosebumps. And the catchy and wacking great chorus bounces on repeat on your inner stereo for the rest of the day. This avid anthem will set your mind and your ears free.
Damn right.
13 July 2026
London‘s glamorous pop/rock prodigies SUEDE, supervised by their never-aging frontman Brett Anderson, released their 10th LP, named Antidepressants, last year, in September.
The LP’s deluxed edition is out now and have 5 bonus tracks.
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TUTV said: “Half the songs have an adrenalizing quality, but that’s not enough
to make the whole album a 5-star one. Yet, many other bands would sell their
soul to have the necessary craftsmanship to write tunes like Anderson & Co
still do today.”
And here comes the obligatory deluxe edition.
It features no less than 5 bonus tracks.
– EMOTIONALLY UNAVAILABLE –
High-voltage electricity
– SHARPENING KNIVES –
Best of the 5
– OVERLOAD –
Sky-scraping passion
– MEDICATION –
Curing tune
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– DIRTY LOOKS –
Suede by numbers
FULL DELUXE ALBUM
Hello, music junkies.
Another batch of 5 new, stellar tracks have
been added to Turn Up The Volume’s Jukebox.
Turn it up.
ALL TOGETHER
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TRACK BY TRACK
Band: SUEDE
Who: The glam rockers, led by
flamboyant frontman Brett Anderson
Track: EMOTIONALLY UNAVAILABLE
New song, part of the upcoming deluxe edition of last
year’s critically praised 10th LP Antidepressants.
TUTV: Tons of passion available.
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Band: HARD-FI
Who: English pop/rock veterans, who scored three successful albums
between 2003 and 2014. Then they called it a day but returned in 2022
for some live action and now new music.
Track: DIGO NADA
Spanish for ‘I Say Nothing’. Newest single from their upcoming first album
in 15 years. It’s named Sweating Someone’s Fever. It’s out June 19th.
New album artwork
Richard Archer: “My wife’s from Central America and I got into Cumbia music
because of Joe Strummer, then going out to El Salvador with her and hearing more
tunes and getting into stuff like Manu Chao – I liked it and it felt quite punk rock.”
TUTV: This smells like summer, like piña colada.
Latin vibes. Hard-Fi surprise. You’ll love it, like I do.
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Band: TAXI GIRLS
Who: Outspoken Canadian punk daredevils from Montreal formed in 2022.
They produce a sharp mix of blown-out guitars, dual-vocal tension, and hook-heavy urgency, for fans of The Distillers, Amyl and the Sniffers, The Donnas, Bikini Kill, and
Joan Jett & The Blackhearts.
Track: SECRET HANDSHAKE
Their 2nd single from upcoming debut full-length called
Static, out on June 26th. Tracklist and order info here
“The song is written from a place of love and longing, the song captures the feeling
of wanting a summer fling to last a bit longer than the fading season. Even when
summer is over, you’ll always have your secret handshake.”
TUTV: Full steam forward from the get-go with avid harmonies, and pepped up by greedy guitars, and rushing drum/bass buzz. These Amazons know how to get your head-spinning 360°. They don’t slow down one second on this racing riff-ripper.
Bang-on.
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Artist: AMY BELL
Who: English songstress who started writing at 14 and playing live at 17,
is inspired by big names such as Billy Bragg, John Cooper Clark, Badly Drawn
Boy, PJ Harvey and Nirvana.
Track: MILLHOUSE.
A song that touches on themes that a lot of people my age struggle with.
Highlight from her brand new, 2nd EP, called Want Me.
TUTV: With the first seconds kicking in, I thought a country song was about to evolve.
A solid cool one that is. From there on Millhouse progresses in a lazy Courtney Barnett groove modus, evoking swaying body moves while Amy Bell‘s laid-back slacker vocals
glide over it. It’s a funky tune that sticks promptly in your head.
Top-drawer tune!
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Band: THE GODS THEY MADE
Who: Swiss gee-whizz indies from Geneva who
released their debut album Breathe In in 2024.
Track: HYPNOTIC
New single.
The lyrics operate through images and statements rather than narrative,
“you know what I know”, “fight the real enemy”, “what goes around keeps turning”.
When the full chorus finally comes – “who wants it, who wants it” – it feels
both inevitable and earned.
The song earns every section. Nothing overstays, nothing is wasted. The middle eight
shifts the track’s center of gravity before the final chorus brings everything back, fuller.
TUTV: Hypnotic is gingered up by shiny synth-waves, some rollin’ bass force and its melodic verve. Gutsy vocals inject this strong steamroller with intense impetuosity. Indie punk rock ‘n’ roll for your itchy ears and hankering mind. Magnetic stuff.
Touchdown.
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TURN UP THE VOLUME
They did it together for the first time 32 years
ago, back in 1994 and here they come again,
joining arms.
29 December 2025
For your eyes only.
Band: MCLUSKY
Who: The renowned Welsh post-punk noiseniks
featuring Andrew Falkous, as known as hysterical
frontman of Future Of The Left.
Album: THE WORLD IS STILL HERE AND SO ARE WE
Their 4th.
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Band: LA DISPUTE
Who: Hardcore force from
Grand Rapids, Michigan.
Album: NO ONE WAS DRIVING THE CAR
Their 5th one.
Band: DIE SPITZ
Who: Texan punk
rock indies.
Album: SOMETHING TO CONSUME
Their 2nd one.
Artist: DAVID BYRNE
Who: The former talking heads‘ chief.
Album: WHO IS THE SKY?
His 9th solo LP.
Band: WHOLES
Who: A fresh, rowdy hit team led by Belgian
musical chameleon Wolf Vanwymeersch,
Album: A MASS IN THE WATER.
Their debut.
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Band: UPCHUCK
Who: High-voltage punks
from Atlanta, Georgia.
Album: I’M NICE NOW
Produced by TY Segall.
Artist: HEAD ON STONE
Who: The intimate solo debut of Nele Janssen,
the frongtwoman of Belgian post-grunge trio Peuk.
Album: STONY BEDS
Band: SUEDE
Who: London’s glam
rock luminaries.
Album: ANTIDEPRESSANTS
Their 10th.
Artist: ADRIAN SHERWOOD
Who: Renowned 67-year-old British
dub wizard/producer.
Album: THE COLLAPSE OF EVERYTHING
Band: STICK TO YOUR GUNS
Who: The infamous Californian
hardcore team.
Album: KEEP PLANTING FLOWERS
Their 8th LP.
Artist: HANNAH FRANCES
Who: Singer-songwriter, guiarist, composer,
dancer, and poet from Vermont, US.
Album: NESTED IN TANGLES
Her 3rd.
ALL TOGETHER
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TRACK-BY-TRACK
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Band: THE HIVES
Who: The Swedish punk kingpins
who run amok since 1993.
Track: THE HIVES FOREVER, FOREVER THE HIVES
The title track from their 7th full-length,
which hit the streets last August.
TUTV: And it goes like this.
The Hives Forever, Forever The Hives
The Hives Forever, Forever The Hives
The Hives Forever, Forever The Hives
Tune! Tune! Tune!
Catchy as fookin’ hell.
Oemotståndlig sång
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Band: OPUS KINK (Brighton, UK)
Who: Razor-edged, funked-up, sax-and-trumpet infused
noizzz collective fronted by their charismatic frontman
Angus Rodgers.
Track: I’M A PRETTY SHOWBOY
Angus Rogers (frontman): “Rock and roll music for the empty and stunning.
A song about contempt, appetite, impotence and self-preservation through
gyration. Enjoy superficially with your body and send the reeling mind on
to hell.”
TUTV: Wham Bam! Yeah Yeah! Go Go! Oh my Oh My! Razzle Dazzle!
This is the kind of adrenaline-pumping thrills I wait impatiently for
every single day.
Get up, stand up, and fight
for your right to show off.
Badass
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Band: THE SLOW READERS CLUB
Who: Alt-pop rockers
from Manchester, UK.
Track: BOY SO BLUE
Single from their notable 7th album,
Out Of A Dream, released last March.
“‘Although it’s a big, joyous dance track, it’s about hiding deep emotional pain and trauma and how hedonistic coping mechanisms, like drugs, alcohol, and womanizing, are just temporary distractions.”
TUTV: This is what amazing pop-ular music is all about. Big melody, big emotions, big orchestration. Euphorically sticky as first-class glue despite its dramatic ‘real life‘ story. Aftermath soul-searching can work cathartically.
24 Carat pop
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Band: KID KAPICHI
Who: Party punk rockers from Hastings, UK.
So far, they have canned 3 longplayers.
Track: STAINLESS STEEL
KK in infectious punk overdrive.
Shaky-tastic from the get-go.
Swirl like a whirligig, people.
Boogielicious
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Band: SPRINTS
Who: Irish post-punk whirlwind, led by charismatic
voice/songwriter/guitarist Karla Chubb.
Track: BETTER
Along with Something’s Gonna Happen, my top fav track
on their brand new, second LP, called All That Is Over.
TUTV: Every time I play this pure punk-rock gem, I feel way better.
It’s striking swagger, superb groove, passionate duet vocals, and
high-strung guitar play mesmerize.
Transfixing
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Band: PANIC SHACK
Who: 4 pop punkettes from Wales. In 2022 they
released their 6-track debut EP Baby Shack.
Track: GIRL BAND STARTER PACK
Single from stellar self-titled debut LP.
TUTV: These utterly cool Welsh Amazons
drive you bonkers with this insane punk ‘n’ roll
uppercut.
Kick-ass band, kick-ass attitude, kick-ass blast.
Party! Party! Party!
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Artist: PREWN
Who: The moniker of Massachusetts‘ chilling singer-songwriter
Izzy Hagerup. She released her debut album Through The Window
in 2023.
Track: SYSTEM
First new piece and title track from her
2nd LP, coming our way on October 3rd.
Hagerup: “When I wrote ‘System’ I was supposed to be present and alive
and gracious and happy. But somehow I couldn’t escape my own internal
fears and depression that can follow me wherever I go.”
TUTV: What a brilliant torch song. Weeping guitars come and go while
Hagerup‘s heart-stopping vocals cause goosebumps. And what a fuming
finale.
Spine-tingling
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Band: WHOLES
Who: A fresh, rowdy hit team led by Belgian
musical chameleon Wolf Vanwymeersch.
Track: MODERN DAY DRAMA
Single from their bone-chilling debut album
A Mass In The Water, dealing with the suicide
of Wolf‘s father.
TUTV: Its ominous mid-tempo dynamics, its distorted vocals, and its riff-psychotic razzmatazz resonate as if you are listening to the scary theme song of a horror movie.
At the 2.30 minute mark, all hell breaks loose.
From a whisper to a scream. From planet Earth
to Dante‘s Inferno.
Surreal
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Band: DITZ
Who: Post-punk turbo
from Brighton, UK
Track: FOUR
One of the highlights from their
brill 2nd LP Never Exhale
TUTV: Ditz operate in a very dark place. Sonically, as well as lyrically.
In the middle Cal Francis barks at the moon, while dense drones
infiltrate your shocked ears. Inhale, exhale.
Petrifying
.
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📷 Mats Verschueren
Band: WIJF. (WIFE. in English)
Who: Hungry hit team from Belgium
ready to take on the world.
Track: LIAR
From their debut EP Alter Ego.
Single artwork
TUTV: This 4-piece grab you by the throat from the kick-off and never lose their firm grip, while vociferous vocalist Marie De Graeve‘s has a crushing impact on your petrified stereo. Liar is a titanic motherrocker that pulverizes the Richter scale in just 250 seconds. Queens Of The Stone Age, Deftones and Black Sabbath come to mind.
Paranoic
.
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Band: CHALK
Who: Three earthshaking
misfits from Belfast, Ireland.
Track: AFRAID
Piece from 3rd EP,
titled Conditions III.
TUTV: OMG! What a riot-gun banger. These Irishmen create suffocating havoc with
a maddening mix of nasty racket that brings illegal-decibels-producing bands such as
NIN and Metz to my cooking mind.
Manicial
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Band: PUNCHBAG
Who: A new brother-sister party duo, from South London colliding the
raw unfiltered energy of punk, with the overflowing ecstasy of pop.
Track: I’M NOT YOUR PUNCHBAG
From their debut EP.
TUTV: Ecstasy. Elation. Euphoria. Exhilaration. This electro smack makes
you bounce and jump on your pogo-stick. They punch you in the teeth
without asking, while having fervent fun.
KO
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© Eva Vlonk
Band: HEISA
Who: Belgian noise rock trio whose sound draws influences from bands such
as Black Midi, Tool, Battles, and Swans, blending dissonance with a strong sense
of identity.
Track: NANDOR
Piece from their ace
3rd album Trois.
TUTV: What the fuck! From the very kick-off, chainsaw guitars do your
brain in. Electric chair electricity throughout. No way to escape. Neurotic
vocals complete this blitzkrieg assault.
Flabbergasting
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Press photo by Damien Sayell
Band: MCLUSKY
Who: The renowned Welsh post-punk noiseniks
featuring Andrew Falkous, as known as hysterical
frontman of Future Of The Left.
Track: CHEKHOV’S GUNS
One of the singles of their earth-shaking 4th LP
The World Is Still Here And So Are We.
TUTV: As usual, Andrew Falkous screams
his 4 lungs out while spitting absurd lyrics.
Chop. Chop. Chop.
.
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Photo by Ryan Wagner
Band: DOWN THE LEES
Who: The post-rock noise project of seasoned Canadian
singer/songwriter/guitarist Laura Lee Schultz. DTL released
3 notable albums, so far.
They have canned a live movie
now, titled This Is How It Feels.
Track: MIDI DORIC
First single. A song that deals with the
isolation and depression of the pandemic.
TUTV: A characteristic DTL thunderstorm, cranked up by blustery bass lines,
monstrous guitar riffs, Herculean drumming, Schultz‘s sky-scraping vocals and
a volcanic finale. One of the best noizz rock bands around.
Jawdropping
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Artist: PEACHES
Who: The fabulous/controversial/notorious performer/producer and
feminist/gay activist born Merrill Nisker 58 years ago in Toronto, Canada.
Track: FUCK YOUR FACE
Cut from her upcoming 7th album, her first in
10 years. It’s named No Lube So Rude and will
come out on 20 Feb 2026.
TUTV: Don’t expect Peaches to write and sing songs about
the birds and the bees, and even if she did, it would be horny
stuff too.
Mirror on the wall, who’s the hottest disco queen of them all?
Peaches
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Artist: BAXTER DURY
Who: The dandy songsmith,
still wearing a suit (no tie).
Track: ALLBARONE
The title track from his
8th titillating dance LP.
TUTV: This disco knockout can fill
a dancefloor in an eye/ear blink.
Sassy
Instagram – All Albums
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Press photo by Cole Yearwood
Artist: FANCLUBWALLET
Who: Canadian guitar pop outfit led
by songstress Hannah Judge from
Ottawa, Canada.
Track: COTTON MOUTH
From her 2nd full-length,
called Living While Dying.
TUTV: This sickly sticky riff earworm
drives you crazy. Head-twisting stonker.
Hyperkinetic
Instagram – Spotify
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Band: YOGI-G AND THE FAMILY TREE
Who: Happy Mondays co-founder/drummer
Gaz Whelan and friends.
Track: THE BLIND MAN AND THE MONKEY
A highlight from their terrific debut album,
titled Show Me The Truth.
TUTV: Madchester 2025? Absolutely. Never mind the Happy
Mondays, here come Yogi-G And The Family Tree (what a name).
E-cstatic
.
Instagram – Bandcamp
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Press photo by Danny Clinch
Band: ARCADE FIRE
Who: The famous pop-rock
collective from Canada.
Track: YEAR OF THE SNAKE
One of the singles from their
7th LP, titled Pink Elephant.
TUTV: It’s a sublime, crystalline pop nugget, with its hypnotizing guitar riff,
the non-stop drum beat and the intertwined, spellbinding vocals of Win Butler
and his spouse, Régine Chassagne.
Sterling
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Band: KASABIAN
Who: British star rockers from Leicester. One of the best bands
of the past 25 years on record and on stage, in my book.
Track: HIPPIE SUNSHINE.
Lead single from their forthcoming
9th LP. Details TBA.
TUTV: Expect a mega vitalizing, disco-charged haymaker.
Since co-founder/songwriter/frontman Serge Pizzorno pulls
all the band’s strings, he provides dynamite tunes you can
throw 24-hour parties with.
Hip-hip hurray
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Artist: MARK STEWART
Who: One of the most adventurous/inventive/original post-punk & dub artists/performers
ever. He was a founding member of genre-bending new wave group The Pop Group and released lots of solo and collaborative records. Unfortunately, he passed away 2 years ago,
only 62.
Track: MEMORY OF YOU
Single from Stewart‘s solo album The Fateful Symmetry,
which was completed early 2023, not long before his passing.
TUTV: Haunting, synth-symphonic and bang-tastic,
with Mark‘s characteristically energetic voice on top.
Soul-stirring
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New album artwork
Band: PULP
Track: SPIKE ISLAND
Piece from their first LP in
24 years, called More.
TUTV: A vintage, mid-tempo, pop stimulant with
a grandiose chorus. More pulp for common
people.
“I was born to perform.”
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Band: HOLY COVES
Who: Welsh mavericks, fronted by singer-songwriter
Scott Marsden, with 3 albums on their résumé and
#4 is waiting in the pipeline.
Track: FALLING DOWN
First single from their forthcoming 4th full-length, their
first in 4 years, slated for release in September 2026.
TUTV: Holy Coves are back, and they don’t waste time. It’s full steam ahead from
the get-go. Eager guitars and sinewy drumming inject this sweltering steamroller with
a flaming briskness that causes a kinetic reverberation, while Marsden emotive vocals accentuate the song’s sad sentiments.
Toptier
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Artists: GANS
Who: 2-piece from Birmingham (UK) – Euan Woodman (drums/vocals) and Tom Rhodes (bass/vocals) – born in late 2023 over a shared love of noise, literature and late night shebeens. They write music about love and hate. They’re good for your soul.
New Single: I THINK I LIKE YOU
TUTV: Warning. This insanely groovy punk blast will bulldoze all over your shocked speakers. Expect a superheated funky firestorm that attacks the Richter scale with a shattering impact. A manically jagged jackhammer it is. Trust me, you’ll think you like them, VERY MUCH, while you bang your head into your fridge’s door.
Go nuts
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Band: KLÄMP
Who: A collective with members scattered across the UK and the Netherlands.
This group, now comprising seven members, has its roots in a trio that expanded
over the past four years.
New track: WET LEATHER
Piece from their sophomore
LP Total Technik.
TUTV: Kraut-rock and roll with an intoxicating force. A wall-of-guitar-pyrotechnics rollercoaster. An overpowering tempest of rambunctious riffs. Voltaic psychedelia
at its spine-chilling best, bombarding your ears the way you like it.
Mind-bending
.
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Artist: LIFE COACH
Who: The musical project of singer-songwriter-poet Jamie Cameron. Hailing from
the Scottish Borders, the music blends lo-fi beats, synths and guitars with spoken word lyrics in which he discusses subjects ranging from politics and premonitions to self help culture, and a modern society obsessed with economic thinking.
Track: SQUADDIES IN HAIR NETS
Highlight from his 2nd full-length
A Love Letter To Your Yearning Heart.
TUTV: This rattling rap ‘n’ punk roll crackerjack swings forth and back, left
and right and Jamie Cameron’s full of vim and vigour word-flow activates all
of your insatiable limbs before he relaxes towards the synthy end. Kinetic throb.
Hands up for the coach.
Exhilarating
.
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Band: SUN MAHSENE
Who: Irish psych-rock team who released their lauded
debut album A Place We’ve Never Been last year.
Track: LIFE IS JOY
TUTV: A nasty bass riff motorizes this rollicking psych jam that seems to go on
like forever, and when the powerhouse chorus kicks in, your ears are instantly
overwhelmed. Life Is Joy is one of those riff-crazy haymakers that stick after just
Exuberant
.
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Photo: Emma Chitty | Graphics: Mike Raymond
Band: NRVS
Who: Mysterious trio with an inimitable take on
humanity’s downward spiral into a dysfunctional
entropic existence. They unleashed their punk-groovy
debut EP Like You last year.
Track: FREE
TUTV: This arresting, melancholic song is heart-rending. Its bluesy guitar
radiance, its bass-beat-heavy cadence, and despondent vocals get under
your skin. Its melodic catchiness has irresistible written all over it.
Gripping
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Photo by Graham Noble
Band: DECLAN WELSH AND THE DECADENT WEST
Who: Post-rock-punk combo from Scotland.
So far they have recorded/released two
albums.
Track: CAREFREE
TUTV: A razzle-dazzle steamroller that gets under your skin faster
than you can say “this is bloody superb”. Its insane, mind-bending
course doubles your serotonin production on the spot.
Blimey
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Artist: NEIL YOUNG And The CHROME HEARTS
Track: LET’S ROLL AGAIN
From their LP Talkin To The Trees.
“If you’re a fascist, then get a Tesla.”
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Artist: CMAT
Track: THE JAMIE OLIVER PETROL STATION
From her 3rd album, named Euro-Country.
TUTV: A vocal tour de force that
blows me away every time I play it.
Wowzers
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Artists: ANDY BELL and DEBBIE HARRY
Track: HEART’S A LIAR
From his new album,
named Ten Crows.
Disco delight
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Band: THE NEW EVES
Who: Must hear/see indies from Brighton (where everybody is in a band).
They cruise from folk to punk, using, besides traditional instruments (guitar,
bass and drums) also cello, flute, violin and other classical gear.
Track: COW SONG
From their rad debut full-length
called The New Eve Rising.
Moo-tastic
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Band: SLEAFORD MODS
Track: THE GOOD LIFE
From their upcoming LP,
called The Demise Of Planet X
Rap rush
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Photo by Isabella Martinez
Band: PSYCHEDELIC PORN CRUMPETS
Track: THE REAL CONTRA BAND
Piece from their new full-length
Carpe Diem, Moonman.
TUTV: This motherrocker of a song shows no mercy whatsoever.
From the get-go, PPC go full steam ahead and never look back
Hallelujah!
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Press photo
Band: SUEDE
Track: DISINTEGRATE
A single from their LP #10.
named Antidepressants.
TUTV: Suede age in glamorous style with frontman
Brett Anderson giving it all, just like in the early days.
Astounding
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Promo photo
Band: MY FIRST TIME
Who: Fast-rising indie
rebels from Bristol, UK.
Track: SIPPY CUP
TUTV: These young wolves bulldoze their way through the daily
bullshit we have to endure with a knife between their teeth. Sippy Cup
is a bruising, full of vim and vigor, uppercut hitting where it hurts.
Sucker-punch
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Band: THE BELAIR LIP BOMBS
Who: Buzzing indies
from Montreal, Canada.
Track: HEY YOU
Single from their tremendous
second album Again.
TUTV: Guitar pop at its most exultant, with the wonderful vocalist/guitarist
Maisie Everet fronting a fast-up-and-coming quartet from down under.
Delirious
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Band: WET LEG
Track: DAVINA McCALL
Highlight from their sophomore
full-length, named Moisturizer.
Groove/move.
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TURN UP THE VOLUME
30 September 2025
And 35 years later they’re still one of the best UK bands around.
New album ANTIDEPRESSANTS.
.
Full NME interview with Brett Anderson here.
30 September 2025
Band: MARUJA
Who: Post-punk bohos from Manchester, UK
who have been making noise together since
2014.
Album: PAIN TO POWER
Their debut.
.
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Band: SUEDE
Who: London‘s glam
pop/rock vets.
Album: ANTIDEPRESSANTS
Their 10th
Band: WEDNESDAY
Who: Power-emo-pop indies
from Asheville, North Carolina.
Album: BLEEDS
Their 6th.
.
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Band: LA DISPUTE
Who: Post-hardcore act from
Grand Rapids, Michigan, formed
in 2004.
Album: NO ONE WAS DRIVING THE CAR
5th one.
.
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Artist: DAVID BYRNE
Who: The former fab talking head.
Album: WHO IS THE SKY?
His 9th solo one.