Wake-Up Call

DVTR – Montreal’s Razzle-Dazzle Punk Duo Drive You Nuts With New Steamroller ‘COULEUR PEAU (YOUR NEXT TOKEN ASIAN FRIEND)’

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30 May 2025

Act: DVTR
Who: Volcanic punk duo from Montreal.

Track: COULEUR PEAU (YOUR NEXT TOKEN ASIAN FRIEND)
Their brand-new single. It follows the release of their live album
Live Aux Foufounes .

Demi Lune (singer): “As a South Asian kid in class in Canada, when our
teachers would tell us to take out our « skin colour » crayolas, I didn’t know
what to do (do you guys say that in English? Coz we sure do in French).

That pinky beige colour sure wasn’t anything like me. So, here’s to the Crayola corp peeps who took their damn time to figure out that skin has a lot of different shades, and to me being your next token Asian friend in this overly sensitive era. Is your festival or radio show too white, mister? Just call me and I’ll even things out xoxoxoxoxo.”

TUTV: DVTR drives you nuts with this nuclear punk missile. They rush and push without brakes, without breaks. This mental eruption hits your poor brain non-stop. Always full steam ahead while tumultuous vocalist Demi Lune causes flash burns in your ears with her striking salvo of primal screams. Crash, trash, smash. Razzle-dazzle madness in motion.

Wake up people, jump on your
pogo stick and go apeshit.

TOUR

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HANABIE. – Japanese Metalcore Bombshells Scream Their Lungs Out On Drill Hammer ‘SPICY QUEEN’

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29 May 2025

Band: HANABIE.
Who: Young, female metalcore sensation from Japan. They formed while in school
in 2015. The group’s name is a Japanese word for the spring day on which the coldness
of winter returns. So far they released 2 albums and scored millions and millions of
streams on Spotify.

Track: SPICY QUEEN

Yukina (vocalist) : “The song WE LOVE SWEETS, which we released in 2021, has become
a gateway track for listeners to discover our music. It’s a very meaningful track for us. As
time has passed and we have matured, we thought, ‘Let’s make a spicy version of the song!’ during our tour.”

“Inspired by the famous Nashville Hot Chicken, we decided to create this new rendition that features a spicy and stimulating musical progression. It also has an addictive quality that will make you want to ‘eat’ – listen to – the track on repeat!”

TUTV: Honestly, metalcore isn’t my favourite music genre, but this is visually and
sonically totally mental. I love Habanie‘s flippant barbie-punk-doll looks, their search
and destroy explosiveness, and their unambiguously ‘get lost, if you don’t like us, all
you sexist machos out there’ attitude.

Wake up, people, and make way
for these screamo bombshells.

ヒーローズスケルターズ

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CIVIC – Riff-Heavy Aussies Drop 3rd And Final Single From Their Upcoming LP

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28 May 2025

Riff-heavy Aussie rockers CIVIC, who got together in 2017, release
their 3rd album, baptized Chrome Dipped this Friday, May 30th.


Album artwork

To get you drooling for it they just dropped
THE FOOL, the third and final flamethrower

It’s about living in a world run by morons (Trump is a perfect
example) who think they’re much smarter than they are.

“The fool he wears a crown upon his head / you
know it’s made of sticks and Silly String instead.”

Wake up and watch the
fool on the (Capitol) hill.

All 3 singles


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Tour Dates

PENDULUM – Industrial EBM Shockers From Down Under ‘SAVE THE CAT’

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27 May 2025

Australian industrial shock rockers PENDULUM cause earthquakes since 2005.
Not that many, actually. (Only) their 4th LP, named Inertia is slated for release
on August 22.

Today they give us the 4th beefed-up screamo appetizer.
SAVE THE CAT is a vintage Pendulum headbutt, but one
that also brings Bring Me The Horizon to mind.

Wake up people, swing from left to right and back.


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Live Dates – Website

UNIVERSITY – British Punk Smart Arses Drop Another Splinter Bomb With ‘GTA ONLINE’

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26 May 2025


Photo Credit Steve Gullick

British post-hard-core-punk smart arses UNIVERSITY are
knocking hard and loud at the iron gates of indie madness.

Back in 2023 they presented themselves to the world with their 5-track debut
EP Title Track. A ferocious hellraiser of an extended play. Think Pigs x 7 x 2.

From there on, the Crewe, Cheshire- based turbine started to write/record their debut
full length, titled McCartney, It’ll Be OK . It’s now ready to be unleashed on June 10th.
More info here

But first taster #3, called GTA ONLINE. Nearly four minutes of gargantuan rock akin
to the cult early Biffy Clyro records. The band say: “I tire an old, sick man, tedious dreams
of Bosch, oh do not ask what is it. I do not want to know.” Come again!

Wake up people, time for school.


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All 3 tasters


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TOUR


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CHRISTINE AND THE QUEENS And Italo-Disco Pioneer CERRONE Team Up For Dancefloor Knockout ‘CATCHING FEELINGS’

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25 May 2025


Photo by Thomas Spault

French singer/songwriter Rahim Claude Redcar, born Héloïse Adélaïde Letissier, of CHRISTINE AND THE QUEENS has teamed up with 72-year-old Italo-disco pioneer
MARCO CERRONE for a 4-track EP.

Here’s the first taster, a dancefloor
knockout titled CATCHING FEELINGS.

Sunday or not, wake up people and feel the beat.

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RICHARD ASHCROFT Presents First New Music In 7 Years – Hear New Power Pop Pearl ‘LOVER’

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24 May 2025

RICHARD ASHCROFT and The Verve (1990–1995, 1997–1999, 2007–2009) scored
their biggest triumph, commercially and critically, in 1997 with their 3rd LP Urban Hymns that topped the UK Charts. So did its timeless single Bittersweet Symphony (more than 1,2 billion streams on Spotify).

The band split twice, came back and, finally, called it a day in 2009. In between and afterward Ashcroft recorded solo. So far he has released 5 albums, with Natural Rebel, which came out in 2018, as his most recent one (if you don’t count Acoustic Hymns Vol. 1 from 2021, featuring reworked versions of some of his best known songs).

The former madman, who kept on performing live now and then, is now
finally back with a new single LOVER is an instantly infectious piece. Sirenic
power pop, with Ashcroft repeating the track’s title non-stop.

The song samples English singer-songwriter Joan Armatrading’s
1976 hit Love And Affection. When RA let Armatrading hear ‘Lover‘
she gave her blessing to release it.

WATCH

STREAM


Lokerse Festival, Belgium – 5 August 2024 – photo by Turn Up The Volume

RA: Instagram – Live Dates

TURNSTILE On A Melo-Bombastic Roller Coaster With New Single ‘LOOK OUT FOR ME’

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21 May 2025

Band: TURNSTILE
Who: Rackety hardcore rockers
from Baltimore, Maryland.

Track: LOOK OUT FOR ME
The 4h single from the band’s forthcoming 4th LP,
called Never Enough, out on June 6th.


New album artwork

From bombastic emo hardcore to melodramatic synth/guitar
pop in one and the same, extensive roller coaster. Nice one.

Wake up people, look out for Turnstile.

All 4 singles


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Instagram – Website

YOUTH CODE – Industrial EVM Duo Pulverize Your Brain With Single From Their Brand New Earthquake EP

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20 May 2025

Los Angeles‘ hellish industrial EBM duo YOUTH CODE – partners Sara Taylor and Ryan George – started to torture stereos around the world in 2012. So far they fabricated 2 LPs and after a long break they’re back now with a 5-track EP, named Yours, With Malice.

Sara Taylor said to Kerrang: “It felt like coming back after a nine-year absence with a full record was way too much information in a day and age where people expect singles that carry them over until the next single.

“I wanted to test the waters to make sure that, you know, are there people still out there? Are there people who haven’t discovered us? Why launch back in with a full LP when you can do an EP to be like, ‘Hey, this is us. There’s more coming.’”

The EP’s single CONSEQUENCE is what YC is about. Their Doomsday approach to industrial-techno katzenjammer pulverizes brains. Sounds like big fun, right? Does it?

Wake up people, here’s
a merciless way to
crush your hangover.

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THE BLACK KEYS Didn’t Take Time Off For A Holiday – With ‘NO RAIN NO FLOWERS’ They’ll Release Their 2nd LP In Two Years

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19 May 2025

Although Ohio Players wasn’t a great selling LP, Ohio‘s robust blues tandem THE BLACK KEYS – singer/guitarist Dan Auerbach and drummer Patrick Carney – released one of their best albums ever to my ears with it. I guess its more melodic approach, less raw and rough than their traditional retro blues puissance, even poppy at times, wasn’t what diehard fans wanted to hear.


Photo by Larry Niehues

And the duo didn’t take time for a lazy holiday in the sun. They just announced the
upcoming issuance of another longplayer, their 13th. It’s called No Rain No Flowers
and will see the day of light on August 8th.

First single is the title track that leans more
to Ohio Players than to their early work.
And I like it again.

Wake up people,
black keys hit you
with a flower.

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