JUKEBOX 2026 – WEEK 7 – Five New Rad Tracks Added Twice A Week

Hello, music junkies.

Another batch of 5 new, stellar tracks are
added to Turn Up The Volume’s Jukebox.

All for your aural pleasure.

ALL TOGETHER

TRACK BY TRACK

Artist: KIM GORDON

Track: DIRTY TECH
New piece from her 3rd full-length in 6 years,
titled Play Me. It’ll drop on March 13th. More
info here.

“I was kind of musing about, is my next boss going to be an AI chatbot? We’re the first ones whose lights are going to go out — not the tech billionaires. It’s so abstract that people can’t comprehend.”

TUTV: Former Sonic Youth icon has found her niche as a solo artist. She experiments with synths, loops, overdubs, and other studio tricks, as she does also here again with this 2nd taster from the upcoming 3rd album, appropriately and sarcastically titled Dirty Tech.

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Band: BLEACHERS
Who: The moniker of American multi-instrumentalist/singer-songwriter
Jack Antonoff, who worked under several other aliases and who composed
4 soundtracks, so far, too.

Track: YOU AND FOREVER
The first single from his forthcoming 5th longplayer, titled
Everyone For Ten Minutes, out 22nd May. More info here.

“An optimistic record that feels lovestruck and hopeful.”

TUTV: Bleachers always make me think a bit of Beirut and vice versa.
Both create relaxing atmospherics with multi-layered tunes, inventively
constructed, like Jack Antonoff shows here once more with this new
glorious pop symphony.

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Artists:
Damon Albarn
(Blur/Gorillaz),
Grian Chatten (Fontaines D.C.)
and Kae Tempest.

Track: FLAGS

One of the 23 tracks performed by big-name bands/artists on a new album,
named Help, with all benefits going to War Child. An organisation that shapes
systems that protect and support the well-being of children affected by conflict.

The record is out on March 6th. More info here.

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Band: THE ORIELLES
Who: 3 thrilling indies
from West Yorkshire, UK.

Track: TEARS ARE
Newest single from album #5, named Only You Left.
It’ll come our way on March 13th. Order info here.

Esmé Hand-Halford (bassist/vocalist) about the song: “You could think of
something deeply human. But you could also answer it in a completely linguistic
sense and think of a tear as a symbol or an image
.”

TUTV: Near-whispering vocals and musing thoughts about tears
surrounded by creaking guitars until the long acoustic outro.

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Band: GLADIE
Who: Galvanizing indies from
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.

Track: BRACE YOURSELF
From their third LP, titled No Need To Be Lonely.
Out March 20th. Tracklist and more info here.

TUTV: A hopped-up guitar jam going fast forward,
dumping you in a whirlpool of fuzzy electricity.

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A Compilation CD ‘HELP: A DAY IN THE LIFE’ Recorded For WAR CHILD Broke Records 20 Years Ago Today

9 September 2025

On 9 September 2005, 20 years ago today, a
compilation CD, titled HELP: A DAY IN THE LIFE
was released.

A benefit one with all proceeds going to WAR CHILD, an independent non-government organization based in the UK and rooted in the United Nations Convention on the Rights of the Child. The raised money funded charity efforts in war-torn countries such as Bosnia and Herzegovina in Europe.

The record featured some of the biggest bands of the moment in the UK such as Coldplay, Radiohead, Kaiser Chiefs, Antony and the Johnsons, The Magic Numbers, The Coral, Bloc Party, and Gorillaz.

The 22-track CD was made available for download just 30 hours after its marathon
recording session. It was not only thought to be the fastest-ever produced record,
but also became the fastest-selling download album of all-time.

 

Lots of fund projects are now active for a while for child victims of the horrible war in Gaza.

HELP!: A DAY IN THE LIFE


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War Child Website
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Oh No! THE CURE Release A Remixed Edition Of ‘SONGS FROM A LOST WORLD By Dance/Ambient Musicians In June

22 April 2025

Last year goth Gods THE CURE launched their 14th LP,
their first in 16 years, titled SONGS OF A LOST WORLD.

It was named Turn Up The Volume‘s best album of 2024.

TUTV: “In the past 16 years Robert Smith lost his mother, father, and brother.
All the painful experiences surrounding these impactful, indelible passings led
to this brilliant, gloomy record. One long emotionally layered lament, one that
seems to work liberating in the end.

Sonically, it resonates as if you’re part of a funeral march that progresses in slow motion,
just the way the music evolves. The most drastically soul-stirring record I heard all year, accentuating how sorrow can overwhelm and hurt one’s heart and mind. It’s a universal experience that millions, and millions of people who lost loved ones – past, present and
future – can relate to.”

SONGS OF A LOST WORLD

Yesterday the band’s orchestrator Robert Smith celebrated his 66th birthday and announced a remixed edition of that masterpiece, named Mixes Of A Lost World .

A massive collection of remixes — two discs for the standard edition, three discs
for the deluxe — by artists including Four Tet, Paul Oakenfold, Chino Moreno, Mura
Masa, Mogwai, the Twilight Sad, Orbital, Daniel Avery, 65daysofstatic
, and more. It
lands on June 13th.

The royalties from the album will benefit WAR CHILD UK, the charity organisation driven
by a single goal – ensuring a safe future for every child living through war. Lots of projects were/are now launched to collect funds for the young victims in the horrible Gaza war.

Robert Smith send this message to the world (yes in capitals): “JUST AFTER CHRISTMAS I WAS SENT A COUPLE OF UNSOLICITED REMIXES OF ‘SONGS OF A LOST WORLD’ TRACKS AND I REALLY LOVED THEM. THE CURE HAS A COLOURFUL HISTORY WITH ALL KINDS OF DANCE MUSIC, AND I WAS CURIOUS AS TO HOW THE WHOLE ALBUM WOULD SOUND ENTIRELY REINTERPRETED BY OTHERS.

THIS CURIOSITY RESULTED IN A FABULOUS TRIP THROUGH ALL 8 SONGS BY 24 WONDERFUL ARTISTS AND REMIXERS AND IS WAY BEYOND ANYTHING I COULD HAVE HOPED FOR. GIVING OUR RECORDING ROYALTIES FROM THE PROJECT TO WAR CHILD HELPS MAKE ‘MIXES OF A LOST WORLD’ AN EVEN MORE SPECIAL RELEASE.”

What the fuck. Why Smith wants to destroy a deeply personal and grieving record
with, mostly, ambient/dance/trip-hop remixes is beyond me. Why wreck heart-and-soul touching songs and turning them in a sort of sinister party soundtrack. The first taster by Four Tet (hear below) says it all.

I have no intention whatsoever to listen to the upcoming, insensible arty farty rubbish.
But that’s just me. It’s none of my business, of course, what Smith wants to do or not.
The one and only absolute great thing here is that all royalties will benefit War Child UK.

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