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3 December 2020
Synth-pop driven single BE A REBEL was NEW ORDER‘s first
new music (sounding old) since 2016 album Music Complete.
A quite eye-catching video clip made by Spanish director NYSU
rotates now on YouTube.
The band about the director: “We’d previously worked with NYSU from
Madrid when they created a memorable video for us to go with ‘Restless’
and their imagination and creativity with film really struck a chord with
the band.”
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4 November 2020
Two years after their pitch-black, arresting 6-track Gloom EP, New York’s
anxious psych-goth mavericks GHXST are gearing up for a new EP called DARK DAYS, out 16th November.
The pair just launched a dramatic clip for one of the bloodcurdling tracks
called U R MY NIGHT. A sort of Kafkaesque nightdream making you feel both
tense and comfortable, thrilled and relaxed. A slow-moving sonic reflection
of an emotion-charged wandering during dusk hours in Los Angeles.
The multi-guitar-layered resonance and spine-chilling vocals create a
hallucinatory atmosphere fittingly visualized in their quarantine-made
clip looking like a psychedelic film-noir in colors.
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3 November 2020
Last April three Italian Riot grrls called SMALLTOWW TIGERS unleashed their mad for it debut album titled FIVE THINGS. A retro rock ‘n’ roll race combining the bravado of the Runaways, the Blitzkrieg riffs of the Ramones and the anarchistic approach of The Stooges
As live gigs around the globe were canceled due to that
vicious virus Smalltown Tigers also had to annul their tour.
“It has been a rough year for everybody. Here in the Tigers’ den we just think we owe all you dedicated followers and fans some update about the situation. Because of the pandemic, we postponed our UK gigs from May to November. Then because of ongoing restrictions, we had
to cancel them altogether. It is hard for us to stay away from the road. We all hope that the situation could be back to normal in 2021 so we could come back strong and play in any club that would be willing to have us. Other than that, we are already working on a new album for release next year.” says the disappointed trio in a statement.
With free time on their hands the band decided to shoot a clip for
one of the LP’s raw highlights, rollikcing ripsnorter DARLING PLEASE!.
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28 October 2020
(photo by Turn Up The Volume!)
Weird coincidence? In recent years, as part of the fairytale-like concerts of THE FLAMING LIPS their wizard-frontman WAYNE COYNE squeezed himself in a sort of plastic bubble and rolled over the crowd while performing a song. Spectacular indeed, as I witnessed myself a few times. Little did the band know they would perform this stunt in 2020, live
for the making of a video, with 100 spectators each in their own bubble.
The short show was filmed at The Criterion in their hometown of Oklahoma City. One of
the songs they played was ASSASSINS OF YOUTH, a magical ballad from their recent, excellent album American Head.
Watch the bubble pioneers and their bubble audience right here…
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25 October 2020
Last month Californian artist VIOLENT VICKIE released
her new, pitch-dark electro-wave album Division.
Turn Up The Volume wrote: “63 minutes of doom and gloom bliss to play
at illegal graveyard parties. Twilight is the color. Electro-swart is the sound.
Petrifying is the psyche.”
To keep the momentum going, Vickie just shared a clip for top track UNDER THE GUN. “A seductively cold reaction to the pressure to conform and produce in a capitalist society.”.
The flashy film-noir like video was directed and edited by Nick Pagonakis of Underboss Films and shot in a parking lot
in Long Beach, CA by Jennifer Miller.
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19 October 2020
A couple of weeks ago British rockers REGENT caused goosebumps
with their new single, the passionate power ballad TODAY.
Turn Up The Volume was pretty impressed and wrote: “‘Today’ is a solid gold staggering ballad made to be played in huge arenas with the crowd waving with candles all the way. The passionate blues at play here reminded me instantly of Led Zeppelin‘s timeless titanic score ‘Stairway To Heaven‘. Electrifying emotions going forth and back, going quiet and loud, going from intense to breathtaking and back.”
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15 October 2020
Earlier this month SINEAD O’CONNOR moved us with her goosebumps version of TROUBLE OF THE WORLD, a traditional song made famous by exalted gospel singer Mahalia Jackson.
And here’s the video clip to visualize the spirit, the heart, and the motivation behind O’Connor‘s choice to cover this pearl. The images speak for themselves…
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29 September 2020
A couple of weeks ago British thunder and lighting noise-rockers TOKYO TABOO dropped their anti-Trump rant AMERICAN DREAM.
“A steamy stunner with an explosive in-your-orange-face intro kick-starting this
clamorous haymaker instantly with a titanic wall-of-blazing-riff hurly-burly and
deafening percussion slams” wrote Turn Up The Volume after controlling if
his ears were still intact.
And here’s the video. A both gloriously hilarious and frighteningly reality check
clip. Hilarious because of the way that White House buffoon is portrayed. Frightening because – read the lyrics on screen – of the reminder of his devastating impact on the country he divided fiercely.
And let’s not forget how he encouraged (and still does) tons of far-right bullies and dangerous nationalistic politicians all over the world with his fascism inspired, daily propaganda Twitter show.
Help to share this #DumpTrump clip around the world…
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Last July the New York City tramps RICH GIRLS shared their shadowy
version of Bruce Springsteen‘s 24 karat masterstroke BORN TO RUN.
Turn Up The Volume wrote: “I’m pretty sure the band chose this classic cracker with
a specific purpose as the story of this 45-year-old standout – released in 1975 – is highly relevant again in today’s Divided States Of America. Rich Girls do not rock as much as the original, they give it a more haunting and yes, more gloomy timbre. Born in the USA
to run away in 2020.”
To visualize their cover sentiments the band made a film noir clip which reflects
the Signs O’ the Times perfectly with frontwoman Luisa Black eye-catchingly sensual
and sexy in the middle.
Last month all female ardent rockers trio ERIIS launched
their jaw-dropping debut single ‘TULSA RIOTS‘.
Turn Up The Volume wrote: “ERIIS is the new, collaborative musical project of three Belgium based passion-rock ladies, Laura Lee Schultz, Naomi Sijmons and Mirabelle Van
De Put. Their mantra is Chaos, Strife And Discord, their sound is as monumental as the cathedral of Notre-Dame de Paris (before the fire) and their debut single is nothing less than awesome.”
The tremendously affecting song is about the shocking Tulsa Race Riots that occurred
in 1921 in Oklahoma City where thousands of black people were molested by white trash racists.
A story told from the perspective of a resident who sheltered a black family during the massacre. “They were cold and desolate, I saw them bathe in blood, bathe in blood blisters. Nowhere to go I gave them bread and sheets to rest. Praying on their beds.”
The band just shared a breathtaking clip, terribly relevant again today. Contrary to
what that hate-preaching monkey in the White House says we all know that there’s
a deep-rooted racism in the Divided States of America from the very day that country
was founded.
“Black People in America are scared today” said basketball star Lebron James recently.
It’s fucking 2020 and coward killings of black people still happen. DISGUSTING!
Watch the clip right here. The visuals speak for themselves, loud and clear…
