Reveries for the laziest day of the week
9 November 2025
Irish rock heroes THE CRANBERRIES who were fronted by the wonderful,
unfortunate Dolores O’Riordan (1971-2018) released their prizewinning
debut album Everybody Else Is Doing It, So Why Can’t We, completely
written by O’Riordan in 1993.
It went #1 in the UK and #4 in the US.
It featured the mesmeric musing SUNDAY.
The song was released as a promo single in
the US.
In order to not miss a beat TURN UP THE VOLUME scans the musical horizon
daily, for 10 years now in 2025, to pick ace tracks and add 10 new rad ones, every
week, to the one and only JUKEBOX that matters.
This week’s 10 fresh ones.
Artist: BOB MOULD
Who: Former Hüsker Dü frontman.
Track: HERE WE GO CRAZY
Title song of his upcoming, 15th LP.
Mould about the album: “On the surface, this is a group of straightforward guitar pop songs. I’m refining my primary sound and style through simplicity, brevity, and clarity. Under the hood, there’s a number of contrasting themes: Control and chaos, hypervigilance and helplessness, uncertainly and unconditional love.”
Vintage Mould passion.
Instagram – Spotify
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Band: BLEACH GARDEN
Who: Indie 4-piece from Atlanta, GA influenced by robust bands such
as Nirvana, Soundgarden, Alice in Chains, Melvins, Flipper, Zeppelin,
lack Sabbath, and many more.
They have 3 albums out so far. You
can check them out on Spotify.
New track: BORN TO BE EMPTY
Piece from their new, forthcoming LP.
Details TBA.
Imagine Nirvana were stoner rockers.
Smells like exploding spirit. Score!
Band: ALUMINIUM BOYS
Who: American indie rock project born in Silicon Valley,
centered around the songwriting of friends Jared Ottmann
and William “Bill” Pence.
Track: COMMON PLIES
The opener of their upcoming debut
full-length, Collected Pieces out on
21st March.
Catchy guitar pop juice.
Melodic rapture. Peppy vocals.
Smooth Interpol echoes.
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Instagram – Spotify
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Photo by Tyler T. Williams.
Artist: YOUTH LAGOON
Who: The musical project of
Idaho musician Trevor Powers.
Track: SPEED FREAK
Cut from his upcoming 5th LP named
Rarely Do I Dream, out on February 21.
Powers: “This song came from a thought I had of giving the angel of death a hug. We spend our whole lives running from this thing we can’t outrun. This body is temporary, but there is no death. Only transformation. A door opens when you learn to let go of the identity you’ve been building your whole life.”
A magnetic, rotating groove playing
quickly on your hard-drive in your
head.
Instagram – Spotify
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Band: DARKSIDE
Who: Alt electronic musician Nicolás Jaar, multi-instrumentalist
Dave Harrington and drummer Tlacael Esparza from Providence,
Rhode Island.
Track: S.N.C.
Song from their 3rd longplayer, named
Nothing. It’ll show up on 28 February.
Funky mid-tempo jam creeping
under your skin without asking
permission.
Instagram – Spotify
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Photo by Brian Stevens
Band: DOVES
Who: Manchester’s electro-guitar-pop indie veterans who
released their uppermost debut album Lost Souls in 2000.
Track: COLD DREAMING
From their 6th CD Constellations For The Lonely.
It’ll land on Valentine’s Day.
The Mancunian old-timers still
know how a bittersweet symphony
should sound like.
Instagram Spotify
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Artist: MOTE
Who: Post-punk indie from Berlin who carves a unique path through
modern music influenced by David Bowie, Sharon Van Etten, and Juice WRLD.
Track: SUNDAY
The song delves into the turbulent aftermath of a sudden romantic departure. The track captures the visceral immediacy of heartbreak, unraveling emotions with a stark honesty that resonates very deep. Gritty yet vulnerable, the track is a sonic exploration of isolation and connection, wrapped in lush textures and an undercurrent of restless energy.
Mixed emotions in motion.
Hypnotic, fuzzy, captivating
Cathartic vocals.
Linktree – Spotify
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Artist: BATTLEFLAG
Who: The project of Philadelphia-based singer/songwriter Jeff Hartwig. A collective of like-minded musicians and visual artists with a sound that blends traditional rock instrumentation with ambient synths, drum loops and samples, Hartwig’s Battleflagg songs seek to straddle the Heartland/Americana/Indie rock divides, leaning into direct, heart-on-sleeve lyrics and arena-size, sing-along choruses.
Track: GHOSTS
Opener from brand-new
4-track Solastalgia.
Electrical electro-pop nirvana
causing a trance-like effect.
Instagram – Spotify
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Photo by Turn Up The Volume – Brugge, 2024
Band: THROWING MUSES
Who: Legendary American indie outfit formed back in 1981,
with singer-songwriter Kristin Hersch as the only original
member.
Track: SUMMER OF LOVE
2nd shared piece from the Muses’ upcoming 11th longplayer,
baptized Moonlight Concessions. Comes our way March 14.
The song was inspired by a bet Hersh had with a guy for
a dollar that revolved around the idea that the seasons
don’t change us.
Kristin Hersh strums her acoustic guitar
as she did for years on this hypnotic
humdinger.
Instagram – Spotify
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Band: BUCK GOOTER
Who: An electro-rock duo – Terry Turtle and Billy Brett – that started
in 2005 and has continued, at Terry‘s urging, since his passing in 2019.
Track: KING KONG LIVES
Cut from new, upcoming 3rd album King Kong Lives: Thereminsanity.
The record is created with Terry Turtle‘s chiming in from beyond on every
song via never before heard samples of his guitar and voice. Release: April 4.
Spooky synth-drum rant interrupted by ghostly garage blues fragments.
Weirdest track of the week. Listen up, all you freaks out there, that
colossal monkey comes after your stereo.
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ALL JUKEBOX TRACKS SO FAR on Spotify
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28 July 2024
DEATH VALLEY GIRLS – Botanique Club, Brussels – 20 February 2023
DEATH VALLEY GIRLS, the garage-punk rock fury from Los Angeles, led by vocalist/guitarist/organist and charismatic voodoo doll Bonnie Bloomgarden,
release their new – 5th – album, baptized ISLANDS IN THE SKY this Friday,
on 24 February. Order info here.
The three shared singles predict another triumph (and thanks to his secret sources
Turn Up The Volume‘s ears can confirm that for a fact) for the girls that glow in the dark.
Check them out and get hooked.
– WHAT ARE THE ODDS –
– MAGIC POWERS –
– SUNDAY –
And last night we heard these three stunners for the first time live as DVG landed
in Brussels for a 60-minute fuzz and buzz concert that started with the ominous psych snake Abre Camino (from 2018 album Darkness Rains), followed by rattling renditions of Street Justice and More Dead (from the same LP). By then everybody, young and old, was already under the spell of Bonnie Bloomgarden‘s genuine joy radiation, her big rock ‘n’ roll heart and the band’s dashing drive.
Their flaming gloom and doom gems Disco, DVG Boogie and Disaster turned up the heat of the sonic seance even more and increased the sweat factor in the packed club instantly. And these seasoned musicians know all the right tricks and push all the right buttons to keep the steamy sauna show going. Hail hail. Rawk and roll.
The three new singles were received as euphorically as the older firecrackers were. Yes, only devoted fans in the house, so Bonnie decided to meet them up close for a finale of selfies, smiles, and hugs while she kept on singing her lungs out to the Jimi Hendrix‘s infused jam Electric High (bonus track on the Deluxe Edition of 2014 debut album Street Venom). Magic powers in motion.
We all screamed for an encore and got one to close a gig where LOVE was in the air throughout. I only saw ecstatic faces and ecstatic fans thanks to an ecstatic band.
Everybody was under the spell of DVG joy and it felt really, really, really good.
The riff man in the shadow
Former dart Rikki Styxx hitting hard
DVG: Facebook – Instagram
(Concert photos by Turn Up The Volume)
14 February 2021
British indie-rock heroes FOALS enjoyed playing, safely live,
before with their CCTV Sessions, and continue to do so.
Here’s why… “It’s just about hearing the songs unadorned by production and
seeing the band in a weird, parallel universe. It’s cool how dusty and primitive-
sounding some of them are when we flip the aesthetic of the songs on their head.
There’s also something in the fact that they’re captured by CCTV cameras. We forget
that we’re being filmed which makes it all feel very rough, ready and unadorned.”
says maestro Yannis Philippakis.
Capture their vibes…
– SUNDAY – from Everything Not Saved Will Be Lost – Part 1
– DREAMING OF – from Everything Not Saved Will Be Lost – Part 2
FOALS: Facebook
British highly popular band FOALS at Radio 1’s Piano Sessions last weekend played a gripping, stripped-down piano version of two songs ‘Sunday’ and ‘Birch Tree’, one from each of their two ‘Everything Not Saved Will Be Lost’ part 1 & 2 albums from 2019.
Here’s the absorbing performance…
– SUNDAY –
– BIRCH TREE –
FOALS: Facebook
Going back in sonic history looking for memorable albums…
11 May 2018
Band: SONIC YOUTH
Album: A THOUSAND LEAVES
Released: 12 May 1998 – 20 years ago
ALL MUSIC wrote: ” ‘A Thousand Leaves’, the band’s most challenging and satisfying record
in years. The blasts of dissonance that characterized their SST masterworks have been replaced, by and large, by winding, intricate improvisations. There’s a surprising warmth to the subdued guitars of Thurston Moore, Lee Ranaldo, and Kim Gordon, which keeps the lengthy songs captivating.” Score: 8/10 – Full review here
TURN UP THE VOLUME‘s Top Track: Magnetic jam, hypnotic groove… here’s SUNDAY
Album in full…
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SONIC YOUTH: Facebook – Website – All Albums
