Band: VELOURIAS Who: Hefty Irish trio fusing alternative rock, post-punk, indie,
and hardcore, what results is a striking, robust sound and an
unforgettablenergy inside and out of the studio.
Track: TAXIDERMISTI
Cut from their upcoming debut
album that’ll land next year.
All cylinders and burns on,
amps and guitars up.
This is a towering slice
of roasting rock ‘n’ roll
fueled with fiery vocals.
Hooton (frontman): “I knew I had to match the infectious nature
of the music, so went for lyrics that aim straight between the eyes.
I went for the timeless theme of everlasting love. It’s about
love, obsession and infatuation.”
Artist: THE HARPOONIST Who: Known to family, friends and hardcore fans as Shawn Hall.
A harpoon/harmonica/harp virtuoso with a couple of decades in
the hardcore blues-based rock and roll trenches, from Canada.
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.
Track: LE RISQUE
The first taster of their 26th LP in 14 years (!!!)
baptized Flight b741. It will hit the streets on
August 8.
A pumped-up-bass & frenzied guitar-crazy stomper that rocks and rolls straight on with racy panache. Steamy stuff. It has drummer Michael Cavanagh on vocals for the first time.
“Paint It All in Blue” is the second taster from Norwegian band Mayflower Madame’s highly anticipated third album. Following the much acclaimed first single “A Foretold Ecstasy”, the new offering instantly puts a spell on you with its throbbing bass lines, motorik drums and hypnotic guitars, while midway it all opens up and leaves you drifting in a sea of dreamy melancholia. Combining the rhythmic grooves of kraut-rock and post-punk with the dazzling atmospherics of shoegaze and neo-psychedelia, the result is a profoundly dynamic song unfolding layer by layer.
Justin Case: “I want it to end upon a Driving Rock Anthem compilation.
You know,the kind of CD you’d initially pass over at a carboot sale, only to
return later,driven by a strange compulsion to buy it. We want to be that
guilty pleasure!”
I hope these weirdos give us a couple of more guilty pleasure
juggernauts we didn’t ask for, to go nuts to this summer.
Artist: SELMA HIGGINS Who: Described as “A meteor strike in Danish music” by leading culture newspaper, Politiken. She has proved herself as an artist who never limits her musical output to
a specific sound or style.
Higgins:“I wanted to make it a sensuous, sensual song, almost like Grease’s ‘Summer Nights’. The feeling of butterflies in your stomach and wanting to open yourself to someone. And the excitement, because it’s the summer, anything can happen. And that’s such a feeling.”
Don’t be fooled by her cute Pippi Longstocking freckles. Selma Higgins is
up to no good in the mad fun DIY-video for this funky and trippy summertime pop gem.
78-year-old American singer/songwriter and highly respected producer T Bone Burnett released his 15th LP, named The Other Side a couple of
weeks ago featuring this heavyhearted beauty, called Waiting For You.
Mellow and compassionate romanticism at its candlelight best.
Hohlbrugger: “It’s about that someone you’ll never be with and that you allow to remain
inside you as a perfect unspoiled thing, yet still you measure and hold your real relationship up against it. It’s a dream, an illusion, an unfair fantasy. Nothing and therefore able to be perfect.”
A yearning and gripping reverie for the midnight hours. Think murder ballad
duo Nick Cave/Kylie Minogue, but also legendary 60s duo’s Nancy Sinatra/Lee
Hazlewood and Jane Birkin/Serge Gainsbourg.
Time Alone is another glamourous musing by Berlin-based songstress Kat Koan
and her befriended collaborator Freddie Dickson on guitar. It’s a whispering, sexy,
and revealing story about a secret love.
So you’re dimming down the light I should be leaving now I guess
But then, when you touch me right It’s such a beautiful mess
Should be calling it a night It’s better if we don’t
but then you kiss me where my husband wont
Let go it’s alright let go it’s alright
Akron‘s blues brothers The Black Keys have their 12th LP, titled Ohio Players out.
It’s their best, without a shadow of a doubt, with this glowing gem on.
After being part for 17 years of the duo The Harpoonist & The Axe Murderer, Canadian songsmith Shawn Hall goes his own way as The Harpoonist.
His debut solo LP, baptized ‘Did We Come Here To Dance‘ comes out this
summer, featuring Canadian blues-rock legend, Big Sugar’s Gordie Johnson.
Taster Good People reveals, for all who haven’t heard (like me) of Hall, the unique voice he’s blessed with. The song is a pondering blues jam – did we come here to dance or to die? – spiced with some of The Harpoonist‘s retro harmonica play and a warm-hearted organ.
