22 May 2025
We all came out to Montreux
On the Lake Geneva shoreline
To make records with a mobile, yeah
We didn’t have much time now
Frank Zappa and the Mothers
Were at the best place around
But some stupid with a flare gun
Burned the place to the ground
Smoke on the water, a fire in the sky
(Smoke) on the water, you guys are great
Daily electricity to load your batteries
19 April 2025
Photo by Turn Up The Volume
Band: SEXTILE
Who: House-punk trio from Los Angeles, led by key members Brady Keehn and
Melissa Scaduto. Since emerging in 2015, they have been a party-provoking force
on the LA underground, capable of kicking up a riot with the raw-edged squall
of a synth or the sharp-elbowed jerk of a guitar.
Track: KIDS
3rd single from their forthcoming 3rd album
Yes, Please. It’ll hit your stereos on May 2nd.
More info here.
Kids is an electronic thunderstorm.
Time to pirouette yourself dizzy.
All 3 singles
Daily electricity to load your batteries
20 February 2025
Band: SEXTILE
Who: House-punk trio from Los Angeles, led by key members Brady Keehn and
Melissa Scaduto. Since emerging in 2015, they have been a party-provoking force
on the LA underground, capable of kicking up a riot with the raw-edged squall
of a synth or the sharp-elbowed jerk of a guitar.
New single: FREAK EYES
First shared piece from their new, upcoming, 3rd album
yes, please. It’ll hit your stereos on May 2nd. More info here.
Press info: “The group’s new LP, fuses anarchic electro fire with raw personal
recollections —and enough beefed-up bass to bust a speaker or two. yes, please
is an album of contrasts: a vulnerable record that bares its soul as much as it revels
in excess, showing just how far you can push your sound when you shake off your inhibitions.”
Brady Keehn about the new single: ”Freak Eyes is about the pressures of making art, living, and aspiring. The sound was inspired by house parties we went to in NY where certain tracks
we felt had that conversation- stopping power.
If you were in the middle of a convo with a friend and heard certain songs, it didn’t matter
what you were talking about, you stopped and joined the party in the collective release of emotion, singing, dancing, and drinks flying everywhere. It was like in that moment, nothing
else mattered but that energy that we all collectively felt.
And I felt like I hadn’t seen that at a party, or anywhere in
a while, and wanted to try to bring that feeling back into
the world again.”
TUTV: Oh my, oh my. From their first whirlwind gig in Belgium on, back in 2018, I fell
in love with these bonkers punk-house iconoclasts. Their adrenalized vivacity goes
through the roof, on stage and on record.
Back to today with the first taster from forthcoming album #3. Freak Eyes is an instant classic nightclub smasher for 24-hour party people who want to go out off their messy
heads, far away from today’s fucked-up world. Want to escape from the daily rat race
for a while? Let Sextile kick your demons where it hurts. Pronto.
WATCH
STREAM
BUY
24-hour
party people
(Live photos by Turn Up The Volume – Nijmegen, The Netherlands, 2023)
30 March 2024
YES was/is a much lauded and renowned prog-rock group from London.
Their most remarkable and successful period was the one with their
original line-up (Jon Anderson, Chris Squire, Steve Howe, Tony Kaye and
Bill Bruford) between 1968 and 1981, with 10 LPs including their best
ever Relayer. Magical singer Jon Anderson left the band in 1980.
The band is still active with guitarist
Steve Howe as the only original member.
All artwork was designed by artist Roger Dean
except for Time And A Word which was developed
by Laurence Sackman and co-ordinated by Graphreaks.
TIME AND A WORD
1970
1970
FRAGILE
1971
TALES FROM TOPOGRAPHIC OCEANS
1973
RELAYER
1974
DRAMA
1980
RELAYER by British
prog-rock legends YES.
Their 7th LP (double one)
Released: 28 November 1974
No 4 in the UK / No 5 in the US
Artwork designed by the band’s all-time artist/collaborator Roger Dean (aged 78 now).
His idea was to depict “a giant gothic cave, a sort of fortified city for military monks”.
It was/is his fav YES album artwork.
Front
Back
ALBUM STREAM
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YES: All Albums – Facebook
Great concert posters from the past
Band: Prog-rock icons YES
Where/when: Ludwigshafen, Germany, 1974
YES: Bio – Discography
20 February 2023
Former legendary keyboardist Rick Wakeman
introduces Uncut latest Deluxe Ultimate Music Guide
made for all YES fans, then and now.
He also had a far-reaching conversation which covers his session musician work, praise
for the material which Yes made after he left, and how his solo successes once led to him being greeted by a brass band on an airport runway, to the dismay of the other members of Yes – though it ultimately led to them all being offered solo album contracts too.
As you’ll learn from the features and in-depth reviews in this deluxe Ultimate Music
Guide, the band’s journey – with Rick and without him – has been an incredible one. From orchestral psyche-pop to pastoral prog drama. Out the other side to encounter jazz fusion, and synth-pop. The band have evolved to meet the times, and are now retrenching in the ecological mode of their classic era albums to the delight of a new generation of listeners.
You can purchase a copy and let it be sent to your home. Info HERE.
A perfect occasion to play their 1974 classic opus RELAYER again.
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YES: Bio – Discography
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Daily electricity to load your batteries
21 February 2023
(Photo credit: Derek Bremner)
Band: SHELF LIVES
Who: Raw electro-punk duo from London. They pair hardcore punk’s brief blasts of energy with electroclash’s minimal and sleazy sonics. Their music feels chaotic, tense, and wired; raising themes of societal collapse and hyper-consumerism with a warped smile.
Track: BITE
It follows their smashing debut album
Yes, Offence released last year.
TUTV: This synth-punk salvo starts with some sharp-cutting sneering
and spiting and then, one minute in, when the siren-like chorus erupts
through your tormented speakers, this maddening missile sounds like
if The Prodigy fly a starfighter with Amyl Taylor from the heated Aussies
Amyl And The Sniffers in the front seat.
You’ll experience a supersonic rush
through your veins. Wow! Double wow!
Yessss, this is really heavy stuff, people. Karma or not, no rest for the wicked.
In a normal world, this crack hammer uppercut should top the UK’s Indie Charts.
Don’t miss them, they’re electro-tastic. Hells bells!
Ay ay ay ay ay ay
Well you said you like karma
You say you like freedom
You’re better than me
So you said you are calmness
Better off stealing, rather than cheap
I will never bite what you say
Didn’t want to find out anyway
I will never bite what you say
Didn’t want to find out anyway.
Alert your neighbours
before you release the bats.
Press play.
SHELF LIVES: Instagram
Back in time
13 September 2022
Band: YES
Who: British prog rock titans who scored their greatest
triumphs when sublime voice Jon Anderson fronted the band.
Active: 1968–1981, 1983–2004, 2008–present / 22 albums (so far)
with last year’s The Quest as the most recent one.
Anniversary LP: CLOSE TO THE EDGE – their 4th
Released: 13 September 1972 – 50 years ago today
AllMusic wrote: “With 1971’s Fragile having left Yes poised quivering on the brink
of what friend and foe acknowledged was the peak of the band’s achievement, Close
to the Edge comprised just three tracks, the epic “And You and I” and “Siberian Khatru,”
plus a side-long title track that represented the musical, lyrical, and sonic culmination
of all that Yes had worked toward over the past five years. Close to the Edge would make
the Top Five on both sides of the Atlantic. Close to the Edge was a flawless masterpiece.”
Score: 5/5.
TUTV: Big one, but Relayer (1974)
still is the ultimate YES LP to my ears.
Stream full album here.
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YES: Bio – Discography
Daily electricity to load your batteries
7 July 2022
Band: SUPER AMERICAN EAGLE
Who: Melbourne’s super group comprising The Dandy Warhols’ drummer Brent DeBoer, Courtney Barnett‘s long-time drummer Dave Mudie aka solo artist L.A. Mood (on bass), and singer/guitarist Bob Harrow, who has previously played with both Brent and Dave (and for
a while Courtney Barnett) in the wonderful psych-country folk-rockers Immigrant Union.
Debut single: YES
Bob Harrow (guitarist) : “From memory ‘YES’ was truly written by all 3 of us. You know
how like U2 and Coldplay credit the entire band as writing the songs together? I reckon
that’s bullshit sometimes… The guitar riff / bass line and the drums came together and simultaneously the vocal melody and lyrics… then a few weeks later we tracked it and
had Sean Latino mix and master it…It would be sick if everything in life was that simple.
It probably can be.”
Score: All burners on, all cylinders on, no brakes, no breaks. These super eagles go supersonic on their debut blast like a blustery bolide going everywhere fast. A jagged juggernaut speeding up your adrenalin stream. with its ruthless kamikaze guitars and
its merciless drum/bass frenzy going through the roof. At first, I thought Iron Maiden‘s loudmouth Bruce Dickinson had joined the party. Crazed screams, indeed. Red-smoking-hot stuff is what get.
If you’re down, just say YES to SAE.
Kick out the jams, motherfuckers!
Buy/stream here…