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Boston’s Outfit GIRL WITH A HAWK Share Video Clip For Their New Emotive Single ‘SAME STARS’

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24 February 2023


(Photo by Kelly Davidson).

Songstress Linda Viens and some of Boston‘s rock legends operating together under
the moniker GIRL WITH A HAWK released their new piece SAME STARS a couple of weeks ago. An emotive story about Viens brother’s incarceration and the toll the situation took
on the family.

Viens: “There are times, lucky times, when songs come through the ether to the writer fully formed. ‘Same Stars’ is one of those songs. In the middle of the night as I tossed and turned, feeling my brother’s body and mind and spirit simultaneously tossing and turning and trying to get comfortable in a jail cot, in a metal cell, where the lights never went dark, and the cries and complaints of men could be heard all night long, I got up and picked up the guitar and the song emerged. Songs that come like this are not difficult, they are a gift, a release, and a relief.”

Turn Up The Volume wrote: “‘Same Stars’ is a heart-and-soul touching story, a longing ballad, bittersweet siblings love-inspired reverie with Linda Viens‘s moving voice sending
shivers down your spine. Stirring.”

The band have a brand new video out now for the sensitive song with alternating shots
of the band performing the tune and Viens wandering around in slo-mo, like in a feverish dream, reflecting on her family, especially her troubled brother and his two children.

Watch/listen.

GIRL WITH A HAWK: Facebook – Instagram – Bandcamp

Hot Ticket PARAMORE Pay Tribute To Fashion Icon VIVIENNE WESTWOOD In New Startling Video

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21 February 2023

On 10th February revitalized American guitar pop trio PARAMORE
launched their wildly praised 6th LP This Is Why, their first in 6 years.

NME gave it 5 stars: “The triumphant sound of a band reborn.
The trio’s clear-eyed and powerful sixth album encapsulates their
journey to becoming a generation-defining band.”

For RUNNING OUT OF TIME, one of the album’s
top tracks the band have a video out now.

The song’s themes of anxiety and poor time management come alive
in eye-catching detail in a Ivanna Borin-directed video. The visual finds
frontwoman Hayley Williams in the studio, in vintage Vivienne Westwood
fashion style, confronted with a drum and guitar coming to life. Quiet
impressive.

This way the band wanted to pay tribute to the iconic fashion
designer who passed away last December, aged 81.

Watch.

THIS IS WAY

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PARAMORE: Website – Instagram

THE CHRONICLES OF SAMARA AND MANIMAL With Another Visual Tour De Force

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Artists: THE CHRONICLES OF MANIMAL AND SAMARA

Who: London-based duo – Daphne Ang (Singapore) and
Andrea Papi (Italy) – that fills a gap in music by bringing
literature, art, and history together into a space where
rock and metal meet electronica.

The metallic poetry duo released their sophomore LP
TRUST NO LEADERS last July. A significant follow-up to
their stunning debut Full Spectrum Buy here.


Image Credit: TCOMAS Studio

TCOMAS also released some spectacular video clips for several of both
albums’ tracks. And they have another one out. It’s a visual tour de force
for HYPERMETAMORPHOSIS, a song about ADHD (attention deficit
hyperactivity disorder). A neurodevelopmental disorder characterised
by excessive amounts of inattention, hyperactivity, and impulsivity that are
pervasive, impairing in multiple contexts, and otherwise age-inappropriate.

TCOMAS about Hypermetamorphosis (an old term from the 1800s, one of the many which were used to refer to ADHD): “It’s a journey through the ADHD mind. Both the song and video simulate what it is like to have ADHD, both visually and audibly. It shows the chaos, and the cacophony of the ADHD experience, but also its positive sides. The stream of consciousness lyrics, dissonant melodies, and erratic rhythm and structure, recreates a sensory and cognitive experience of how the ADHD brain processes, perceives and interprets the world. The music video was created by us — and also by someone who lives with ADHD. It is a simulation of the world, experienced through the ears and eyes of someone with ADHD.”

Watch/listen.

Trust No Leaders

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TCOMAS: Facebook – Instagram

HOLY COVES Share Another New Music Video – Watch ‘GREY’ In Motion

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15 February 2023

Welsh rock trio HOLY COVES fronted by passionate songsmith Scott Marsden
released one of the top albums of 2022 with third longplayer Druids And Bards.

A swirling work of top-notch tunes you go back to,
again and again, once you heard it for the first time.

To keep the momentum going they just released another video for one of
the album’s tracks. The 3rd in a series of 5, following clips for The Hurt Within
and Desert Storm. Check them via the band’s YouTube Channel.

Vid number 3 is for guitar-shiny diamond GREY, also created by award winning
Ukrainian Filmmaker Taras Merenkov. His hazy cinematic style of direction really emphasizes the music and makes a formidable visual.

Roll the tape.

DRUIDS AND BARDS

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HOLY COVES: Facebook – Instagram – Spotify

You can read last year’s Turn Up The Volume interview with Holy Coves right HERE.

Brussels’ Guitar Pop Act OK PANDA Share Trip-py Video For ‘GONE LOVE’ Track Off Their Debut EP

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27 January 2023

Band: OK PANDA
Who: Quartet founded in December 2020 in Brussels. Pop music with British influences, mixing alternative rock and 80’s electronic sounds with catchy vocal melodies that contrast with the melancholic themes addressed in the lyrics.

Debut EP: Perspectives.
A sprightly 6-track one. Stream below.

Debut video: The EP’s infectious mixed emotions pop tune
GONE LOVE is the band’s first song visualized in a video.

I guess it’s a good idea if you’re in a moody, post-love state of mind, that you
make a trip around the world and leave the sad memories behind you, while
you hum-whistle-sing along to this bittersweet guitar symphony. If you can’t
afford it, play this video, watch OK Panda do it, and pretend you’re on the road
with them. Just do it.

Roll the tape.

Perspectives EP


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OK PANDA: Facebook

New York Bedroom Artist WOLF MANHATTAN Shares Video For His Retro Pop Ditty ‘SOMETIMES’

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24 January 2023

Artist: WOLF MANHATTAN
Who: The alter-ego of musician, composer, producer and post-punk
electronic wizard João Vieira. A bedroom producer who, in a non-specific
time, lives alone above a local shop in New York City. Surrounded by his
uncle’s record collection, a 4-track and a guitar from the 50s that belonged
to a well-known artist, he finds that the only way to ease his loneliness is to
listen to The Velvet Underground, Daniel Johnston, Jonathan Richman, Adam
Green and The Shangri-Las.

Manhattan released his noteworthy, catchy tunes-filled
debut album (buy/stream below via Bandcamp) last year.


The album’s impressive artwork

One of the highlights, titled SOMETIMES is representative for the longplayer.
A feel-good retro pop ditty, a lazy hum/whistle/sing-along earworm to dream
away to.

The song is now visualized in this new video clip.

Stream/buy the debut album here.


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WOLF MANHATTAN: Instagram

ROBERT PALMER – 19 Jan 1949 / 26 Sept 2003

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Songsmith ROBERT PALMER had a cracking career until his sudden
death. He would have celebrated his 74th birthday today.

He died of a heart attack in a hotel room in Paris after a TV
appearance. He was buried in Lugano, Switserland. R.I.P.

One of his best-known hits is, undoubtedly,
ADDICTED TO LOVE from his 1985 LP Riptide

Here’s the iconic video clip.

ROBERT PALMER: Bio – Discography

LEG PUPPY’s Lowlife JOHNNY PIGMAN Gets Remixed Again

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16 January 2023

Last year London‘s one-man underground techno maniac LEG PUPPY introduced
phantom JOHNNY PIGMAN, a wasted lowlife with wasted dreams who got lost in a motorized electro-punk-house race and was feared as The Divine Johnny along his
non-stop hallucinatory crusade.

NO SLEEP for JOHNNY, he’s still rushing nowhere fast.

Nobody can save him, not even God.

1-2-3 Pigman

LEG PUPPY: Facebook

One-Man-Team THE PULL OF AUTUMN Invites You To His ‘FUNHOUSE’

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13 January 2023


(photo by Matthew Darrow)

Band: THE PULL OF AUTUMN
Who: The art-rock collective of Rhode Island musician Daniel Darrow,
from 80s post-punk group Johanna’s House Of Glamour. working
constantly with other notable artists.

FFO: Talking Heads, Roxy Music, Brian Eno, Popol Vuh,
The Velvet Underground, LCD Soundsystem

Last month the released his intriguing 4th album Beautiful Broken World
(stream/buy below). An odyssey to the dark side of the mind, featuring multiple
guests.


The impressive album artwork

Today sees the launch of a new video for FUNHOUSE, one of the highlights off the album. It features Luke ‘Skyscraper’ James. The song is about rural communities’ historic wait for the circus-carnival to come to town.

Funhouse sounds like a track from a secret solo Syd Barrett album. Yes, the mentally disturbed genius of the early Pink Floyd days. Folkish psychedelia for the midnight hours. Otherwordly and chilling.

Here comes the freak show.

BEAUTIFUL BROKEN WORLD


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THE PULL OF AUTUMN: Facebook

Noise-Exploring Duo NAQOY Challenges Your Ears An Eyes With Psychedelic Jam ‘THE BLUE RIDER’

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12 January 2023

Band: NAQOY
Who: Makers of industrial, noise, post-punk, ritual
and ambient music from Budapest, Hungary

Track/clip: THE BLUE RIDER

TUTV: Expect a nightmarish psych trip to David Lynch‘s dark side
of his moon. With Sonic Youth distortion and razzle-dazzle electricity.

This hallucinating jam is visualized with a mind-boggling video clip
and is also part of Forbidden Place Records‘s new compilation.

Listen/watch and get puzzled.

NAQOY: Facebook