2 March 2021
Imperishable icon IGGY POP has shared a new video with a stunning version
of the Dylan Thomas poem DO NOT GENTLE INTO THAT GOOD NIGHT. The
close-up clip is directed by Simon Taylor. The track was part of his superb 2019
album Free.
Close your eyes and listen. I’m sure God’s voice sounds like Iggy’s…
IGGY POP: Facebook
5 February 2021
(Still from the video)
Artist: STEVEN WILSON
Who: English musician, singer, songwriter and record producer (53)
Track: SELF – From brand new album The Future Bites.
The fresh video clip is just brilliant. Directed by his long-time collaborator Miles Skarin the video uses deep fake technology with Wilson’s warped into those of a series of iconic and – some infamous – celebrities including Donald Trump, Joe Biden, Tom Cruise, Robert Downey Jr, Chris Hemsworth, Scarlett Johansson, Mark Zuckerberg, Brad Pitt and David Bowie.
Steven Wilson: “Self’ is about our new age of narcissism and self-obsession, one in which a human race that used to look out with curiosity at the world and the stars now spends much of its time gazing at a little screen to see themselves reflected back in the mirror of social media.”
Here come the faces…
STEVEN WILSON: Facebook
Clips that impress your ears and eyes…
31 January 2021
Metal heroes SYSTEM OF A DOWN with Serj Tankian in the front
seat, released a double A-side single with the two tracks (first new
music since 2005) Protect The Land and Genocidal Humanoidz
last November.
Royalties from the two songs were donated to major non-profit,
Armenia Fund. They have raised over $600,000 so far.
Some hours ago the band premiered their utterly cool clip for
supersonic crash and trash missile Genocidal Humanoidz.
Can you see us?
Beating the devil
We never run from the devil
We never summon the devil
We never hide from the devil
Persecution ends now…
Watch now…
SYSTEM OF A DOWN: Facebook
Eye-and-ear catching…
16 January 2021
Last summer San Antonio‘s forceful crossover turbine SAVING JACKIE, with loud
and clear Amazon Jenny 4C Ramirez in the middle, released a new EP with three
bang-on-target grenades. Three heated rap-mother-rockers. Three explosive
firecrackers.
For opener, MY FAITH IS LARGER – imagine Body Count fronted by Ramirez – the
4-piece launched a video clip with the band in full action, hitting it big time. You
have no excuse whatsoever not to bang your head against your lockdown living
room wall. Beat your virus frustration now, worry about the headache later!
Let’s roll…
I know you want more.
Here’s the EP in full…
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SAVING JACKIE: Facebook
13 January 2021
Bristol’s loudmouthed and riff insane gang IDLES
is guilty of making one of the most inspired punk
longplayers of 2020 with their third full length
Ultra Mono .
To keep the momentum going the band just shared
a video clip for one of the LP’s highlights called REIGNS.
Have a seat and watch the animals…
IDLES: Facebook
(photos top & below by Turn Up The Volume!)
27 December 2020
Aussie rockers AMYL & THE SNIFFERS made a blitzkrieg impression last year with their
self-titled debut LP. A red-hot-blooded-deafening-retro-rock-powerhouse that leaves
your ears echoing long after it blasted through your trembling speakers.
And live??? OMG! Pure dynamite as Turn Up The Volume experienced in Antwerp last year. Manic hell cat AMYL looks like the twin sister of blonde punk Goddess Cherie Curry from 70s punk combo The Runaways and sets venues on fire with her bonkers stage presence. She’s pure dynamite and an overwhelming non-stop whirlwind!
This year the steamy band released a 3-track live EP Live At The Croxton (three bombs from the debut LP). The back to basiscs video for opener CONTROL makes you jump up and down like a kangaroo on illegal substances. No special effects, no arty farty visuals, only tons of adrenaline in motion. Oh my punkness!
Don’t lose your head, folks…
AMYL & THE SNIFFERS: Facebook
Amyl in Antwerp, Belgium, 2019 – pic by Turn Up The Volume!
18 December 2020
Italian synth-guitar popsters THE BANKROBBER, led by siblings
Oberti, released a new hazy single called BLOOD, a couple of
weeks ago.
Turn Up The Volume wrote: “Starting with a short repetitive intro of
ah ah ah’s bringing Laurie Anderson‘s 1981 hit O Superman to mind, you
instantly enter a twilight zone with dreamy atmospherics, weeping guitars
and poetical, alternating male/female vocals. A darksome, somber, and
pitchy meditation, a misty winter song, a double-edged candlelight beauty.”
Now they have a clip out for the track. Special visuals as usual…
THE BANKROBBER: Facebook
Italian beauty in synth-motion…
(photo by Turn Up The Volume!)
16 December 2020
To give this year’s TAME IMPALA album THE SLOW RUSH, released on Valentine’s Day, a Xmas-sales-push the record label drops an animated clip for BREATHE DEEPER, one of the LP’s many cheesy tracks (yes, I’m not a big Impala fan, sounds too much like the Bee Gees after they inhaled too much helium). But hey, it’s a cool video, so here we go…
Full album…
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TAME IMPALA: Facebook
Clips that catch your eyes…
15 December 2020
With this year’s What You Gonna Do When the Grid Goes Down? album, monumental rap rebels PUBLIC ENEMY realized one of their most poignant records in their extensive career.
One of the highlight tracks is GRID. A rant about the whole world being Internet-addicted, featuring their famous wordsmith pals Cypress Hill and funkadelic hero George Clinton . Last October they shared a cool, animated clip (see below) for the roaring ripper.
Communication breakdown it’s a take down
Are you awake now or consumed by a fake clown?
World Wide Web keep the spiders fed
Looking at my feed, trolls everywhere but knowledge supersedes
Yesterday PE dropped another clip for GRID, filmed
with their mates in the desert. Hot stuff, indeed!
Forget the web and shake your hips, folks!
What y’all gonna do?
Uncle Jam’s Army’s in, Public Enemy, Cypress Hill
Let’s do this
Yeah, Yeah, Yeah…
The animated video clip…
The album…
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PUBLIC ENEMY: Facebook
Clips that impress your ears and eyes…
10 December 2020
last Oxctober.
Brighton’s punk junks THE HELL BEINGS dropped
a spiky salvo, titled SKALLYWAG, last October.
Turn Up The Volume wrote: “A brutal beast, a clamorous in-your-face punch.
No meditations about the birds and the bees for this DIY trio. Only rage about this
day and age. And like all genuine punk bands do, they limit their loudmouthed
swipes to the length of an average Ramones blitzkrieg bop.”
The video clip they send to the world to visualize “Skallywag skallywag / Virulent
skallywag / This day and age / Youtube the rage” is a mix of a masked band going
bananas and some fun fitting footage of old, black and white skallywag movies.
Rage here…
THE HELL BEINGS: Twitter
