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| Off to Italy… |
| 2008-05-07 02:29:00 |
For the third (and last) time this spring, I’m going abroad for a few days. Tomorrow me and a bunch of friends are heading for Siena in Italy, where we’ll be staying until Sunday morning. The weather forecast promises fairly decent weather and the city is very picturesque (at least so I’m told, and the picture certainly indicates that it could very well be the case), so the stage is hopefully set for a nice trip.Have spent even more hard earned cash on a few CD’s and among the recent purchases is the new album The Hungry Saw by Tindersticks. Despite the band’s popularity through the years and fairly extensive back catalogue, this is my first encounter with the band. And a pleasant one so far, I should add, as this is album is crammed with lovely m...
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| VETO power… |
| 2008-05-06 06:53:00 |
So far I've been listening to the new VETO album Crushing Digits 5 times today, and to be honest, I’m really surprised how much I’m enjoying it. Cannot say that I was all that impressed by the debut and on their sophomore effort the band remains devoted to the indie rock/electronica sound of There’s A Beat In All Machines. However I still thought it was worth the gamble spending some hard earned cash on their new baby, and I’m happy I did, as (I’ll keep this simple) the individual songs on Digits are so much better than those on Machines, where the only song making a lasting impact (on me), was You Are A Knife. No sample MP3’s or video are available, but it’s possible to stream the first single Built To Fail at Myspace.In a cyclone of stones has posted songs by Klaus & Ki...
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| Death Valley Sleepers – New Song… |
| 2008-05-01 15:21:00 |
Danish one man project Death Valley Sleepers has published a new track called Heartbreaking Sound of Joy and once again the music has been made free to download from Myspace. It has almost become a bit tedious constantly comparing the band to The Raveonettes, but listen to it and you'll understand that it’s quite difficult not to. And as long as the Tobias (the man behind) is capable of writing songs like this (Sune Wagner would or should at least be proud if he had written this tune), I see absolutely no point in him changing anything.+ Heartbreaking Sound of Joy...
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| Richard Hawley to Denmark – revisited… |
| 2008-04-30 03:36:00 |
The Hawley">Richard Hawley to Denmark Facebook group I set up three months got off to a rocket start and quickly reached 50 members. But the past two months absolutely nothing positive has happened and the support has slowly been declining, as the number of members is down to 46. So it’s time to once again promoting this noble cause and encouraging all of you (or at least you living in Denmark) to join the group, so we can convince this excellent crooner that Denmark must be included in his next tour! And if you need to be convinced - why not read this very fine post over at Chromewaves and at the same time listen to some of the songs you can find there.+ Coles Corner...
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| Ostrich - Sleepy Angels (new track)... |
| 2008-04-28 07:22:00 |
A couple of weeks back Swedish duo Ostrich uploaded a new track to Myspace called Happy Tuesday, just to quickly remove it again. I must have been (unusually) alert that day, because I managed to grab a copy, despite it being available for less than 15 minutes. I was told that the band wasn’t all too happy with the first version of the track, thus explaining it being removed, but at the same time they also promised to bring us a better version very soon. Sticking to their promise, the song was (re-) published with the title Sleepy Angels yesterday, which means that I’m finally able to introduce to the new catchy electro pop opus by Ostrich.+ Sleepy Angels...
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| How do you buy music? |
| 2008-04-28 03:55:00 |
Or do you buy music at all? Actually this is not meant to be a survey of any kind, but more like I need getting this off my chest. CD sales are dwindling and the music industry is having severe problems – or at least, so we are told. However I’m one of the loyal soldiers still fighting the war from trenches, so once or twice every week I visit my local CD store, to see if anything interesting has arrived. And I read newspapers, reviews etc. and somewhere in my brain I store all the important release dates.For years the pattern has been like this and the normal procedure was that on Mondays I read the reviews in the papers at work, and then hurried to the CD store after work, to pick up the weeks’ important releases. The system worked and if I was real...
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| Babysitting... |
| 2008-04-26 13:10:00 |
Tonight I’m babysitting three children. Two of them are my own (so that’s not really babysitting I guess) and the third is the son of some friends. So it’s been quite a busy evening so far (my wife is not home – wise move), but soon I expect it to be pretty quite around here.Then it will be time to check some music, maybe have a beer or two, while I’m following the live update of the match between The Red Wings and The Avalanche.The special designed webpage supporting the new Oliver North Boy Choir single Weekender has been launched. 3 remixes of older tracks and a new bonus track are free to download.+ New FolderI have 955 mails in my inbox, including 93 unread ones!Perhaps it's just me, but doesn't the lead singer of Passenger sound a lot like Angie Aparo?+ Do What You LikeSpea...
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| Friday Evening Mix Tape... |
| 2008-04-25 15:22:00 |
5 great ones recommended to all of us by the incomparable J.A.+ Play People - Oh What A Life+ Funny Little Dream - It Must Been You+ Sellafield Three - Lesson Never Learned+ The Strike Nineteens - Empty Faces (At Closing Time)+ Thirst For Treasures - Downsize My Path To EverythingClick on the band names and there'll be more songs waiting to be downloaded for free (except Play People)....
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| Fredags snolder... |
| 2008-04-25 06:06:00 |
Don't know if J.A. somehow felt that his position was threatened following yesterday's post. But last night he sent a lengthy mail with lots and lots of new recommendations. So far I've had no time checking any of them out, but I can see that one of them has already been posted over at Coast Is Clear.Been listening a few times today to the new album Endnu En by Danish electro pop duo Nordstrøm. It's nice, harmless and as expected it's packed with catchy pop tunes, but highly innovative it certainly isn't.+ Ro På (found via)The debut album Youth Novels by Lykke Li has been hyped a lot, but I have only this one word to say about it; Boring. A few bright moments aside, it's really, really boring (oh - that was more than just one word, but you probably get my point?)!+ Dance Dance DanceSwedi...
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| Staphan O’Bell – Swedish Indie… |
| 2008-04-24 07:25:00 |
The other day I received a mail with the contents “thought I'd recommend something, instead of J.A.”, so it certainly seems like out Spanish friend has build himself quite a reputation! Deservedly so, I should add.In the mail were links for a few songs by Swedish indie pop artist/singer-/songwriter Staphan O’Bell, which turned out to be really likeable ones, sounding pretty much like Bob Dylan on a musical exchange trip to Gothenburg. Does this description make any sense? If not – imagine a singer-/songwriter playing those catchy indie pop tunes that always seem to find their way out of the Swedish indie pop capital? Was that a better one? No! Then check them out and describe the songs yourself! They are lovely and definitely worth a listen!+ Just Like Me+ Fashion Street+ I'm OK...
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| The swan song of Anamia… |
| 2008-04-23 07:05:00 |
As it was announced in November last year, Danish quartet Anamia decided to split up, but at the same time they promised that the band’s final recordings would be published whenever they had been mixed and mastered. Now nearly five months later the songs have finally been finished, posted and are free for all of us to download. I only had time for a few listens last night, but they certainly sounded like they have been worth the wait, as the songs (once again somewhat Mew inspired) follow very nicely in the footsteps of the songs recorded in 2006. Sadly this will (probably - never say never) be the last we'll ever hear from Anamia and thus ends the story of a band...+ The Silence And The Thoughts+ I'm Your Matador+ So Close Now+ Hard To Realize...
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| Vesterbro Festival... |
| 2008-04-23 02:25:00 |
According to the festival's webpage the official program will be revealed May 1, but nonetheless several bands (listed below) have already published (at their Myspace pages) that they will be playing at the festival. Will post more news if/when I hear/find anything, though I do already know that unfortunately neither Northern Portrait nor Ruined by Martin are to be found in this year’s lineup.* Didium and the Black Bonnie Picture* JaConfetti* BREUMM* Little yeLLs AloT* No and the Maybes* Alex Canasta (thanks Chris!)Plus* The Alpine (source)and a few more....
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| The perfect waste of time… |
| 2008-04-22 07:26:00 |
The Eiffel Tower, Euro Disney, The Louvre Museum etc. etc. Back again after spending 4½ eventful days in Paris playing tourists with the girls.Today’s subject line doesn’t refer to the trip, but is the translated title of the new BREUMM album Det Perfekte Spild Af Tid. Been spending most of the day listening to it, and the fine lyrics combined with the catchy melodies simply make the album one of this year’s “must have’s”. Buy it via the band’s Myspace page.One Weekly Gun has been busy as two new tracks have been posted.+ Drive Your Wagon+ We Will Happily Sedate YouListen to two new tracks by Larsen & Furious Jane at Frekvens.dk....
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| Paris - here we come... |
| 2008-04-15 01:12:00 |
Spring is an excellent time for traveling, and tomorrow the girls and I will be heading to Paris, on what will be the second of three trips this spring (the previous one, being the trip to Warsaw last month). This is the first time the two rascals are on a "real" visit to a larger city (Warsaw is pretty big, but we stayed at some friends' house outside the city centre), but since my wife and I have been to Paris a few times before, we have no strict schedule and no "must" sees, though we do plan to make it to the top of that tower you see in the picture. Should the best way to spend the days turn out to be playing in the parks - so be it! No matter what, I'm certain we'll have a great time! Will be back posting next Tuesday.Danish one-man project Champagne ...
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| From the top of my head... |
| 2008-04-14 02:09:00 |
In an article in the recent edition of Soundvenue, Djuna Barnes states that MP3 blogs are dying (out of boredom). At least to her they are. Does this mean that my blog is so last year before it even became a wee bit hip? Blast!!I don’t own an iPod and I still by CD’s. Perhaps the right Latin term for prehistoric monsters like me, who failed to understand that we entered a new millennium years ago, is CDsaurus Rex?I’ve often wondered what my CD collection would look like, if I said yes to all the CD’s people offer to send me. The reasons why I refrain from accepting most of those generous offers are:1. I have no time to listen to them anyway.2. 90% of it will be a waste of time (a polite way of saying that the music will be pure garbage).3. Storage.4. The dying market for 2nd hand C...
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| BREUMM and more... |
| 2008-04-12 14:14:00 |
The BREUMM/Decorate.Decorate. concert last night was pretty OK, and it was especially interesting watching the new (?) "version" of BREUMM. Compared to the concert last year, this was a somewhat (and surprisingly) nosier edition with Jonas refusing to let his guitar rest during the set. Here's an older clip of Jonas doing an acoustic performance of Ingen Verdens Ting, which so far is my favorite track of 2008.Without Magnolia I would probably never have heard of Aimee Mann. First single Thirty One Today from her odd titled forthcoming album @#%&! SMILERS sounds quite lovely, but it also hints that she hasn't really moved an inch musically since that fabulous soundtrack.+ Thirty One TodayDanish trio Marybell Katastrophy seems to be on every one's lips these days. Now they have been ment...
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| The William Blakes - Wayne Coyne... |
| 2008-04-11 07:38:00 |
It’s been 386 eventful days for The William Blakes since I first featured the band in these columns. Lots of demos were recorded and published, the band was signed to Speed of Sound (turned out to be quite a cheater, as this happens to be the band’s own label), their identities were revealed and finally Monday this week, the debut album Wayne Coyne was released. The album has been very positively received by the critics and according to those cited at the band’s myspace profile (all of them in Danish), the verdict is an average of 4.6 stars out of 6.When you (as I have) have been following the band rather closely for more than a year, it's obviously difficult not being a bit impatient about hearing the debut. The demos were interesting and more than anything showed that the band poss...
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| New single by The Papertiger Sound... |
| 2008-04-10 15:41:00 |
As always it's free to download and as one could expect, it's absolutely fantastic (and no - it's not a cover of the Curve classic of the same name). And obviously the B side is equally brilliant!* Homepage+ Coast Is Clear (will this be the future anthem of this blog?)+ Jules Verne (B side)...
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| Quiet days... |
| 2008-04-09 15:30:00 |
Posting will/should resume on Friday. Expect a few words on the new album by The William Blakes and perhaps a bit about the BREUMM/Decorate.Decorate. concert Friday evening and....????...
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| Support the homeless... |
| 2008-04-07 05:27:00 |
Buy a t-shirt at doublebob.dk and support the homeless in Copenhagen. Some great designs there.According to the official webpage a total of 684 artists have applied to play at this year’s Vesterbro Festival. More than a 100 of those are expected to make it through the eye of the needle, and the complete list will be published May 1.Made myself a CD last night, so I could listen to the free to download The Wolves EP by New Zeeland’s Secret Knives, but my CD player at work refuses to cooperate. Bummer!+ The WolvesToday sees the official release of Wayne Coyne by The William Blakes.+ Violent GodCharlton Heston is the topic of this week’s song by One Weekly Gun.+ Charlton Heston...
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| I've made the front page... |
| 2008-04-06 13:16:00 |
Well almost! If you have a couple of seconds, I recommend that you check out the recent 3x5 article at Mymusic.dk. This week's contributor looks vastly familiar......
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| Friday stew... |
| 2008-04-04 05:29:00 |
A promo copy of the From St Saviour to Quickwell album by My Raining Stars is spinning merrily in the CD player today. Don’t know if the band members have been on a study trip to Sweden or simply have Swedish blood in their veins, but the album is packed with those appealing and guitar driven indie pop tunes that we’d normally expect to origin from our eastern neighbour country. I can only recommend that you get yourself a copy of the album, but I really can’t tell you how to do it, as no purchasing information is available (though sending them a message should probably do?).+ All This TimeThe new One Weekly Gun track is finally up for grabs.+ 12 MillionChris takes us on yet another trip down memory lane in this week's Flashback Friday edition. I was 18 when the cover of Always On My...
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| Biksemad... |
| 2008-04-03 01:52:00 |
On Tuesday (April 8) Foals will be playing at Train in Århus (that's the second largest city in Denmark in case you've never heard of it before). Enter a contest at Frekvens.dk if you're interested in winning a couple of tickets for the concert.+ Electric Bloom (Loud Pipes Remix)If you happen to enjoy the above remix, there's another 41 (!) versions of the same song to download at Last.fm.That Death Valley Sleepers track I mentioned yesterday is pretty good and it follows nicely in the footsteps of their previous recordings. No surprises in store, but who really cares (?) and you certainly shouldn't fix what's not broken! So prepare yourself for another track from the next Tarantino movie (not really, but it definitely would be a good fit).+ Hey Messy QueenI've just received two promo tra...
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| Blandede bolcher... |
| 2008-04-02 01:31:00 |
Next Friday (April 11) I plan to show up at Templet in Lyngby to see BREUMM and Decorate Decorate. Accordingly this will be the first official gig played by BREUMM, so it's definitely going to be a night for the history books! I was somewhat disappointed about the Decorate Decorate debut album Normandie, as the single Surname of Copenhagen promised so much more. However I'm giving it a few spins right now, and hopefully it will start growing. Anyway - watch the video for Surname... below and you'll probably understand why the expectations were so high!I still have no speakers for the computer, so I can only suggest that you stream the new demo Seven Years by Ruined by Martin and download the new song Hey Messy Queen by Death Valley Sleepers, as I really don't know if they are any good. Tho...
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| zzz... |
| 2008-03-31 07:43:00 |
Damn I’m tired today…zzz…Danish author Thomas Ladegaard writes a few nice words about this blog and re-posts the video by Imperiet. Yay!Found the album by now split-up quartet Coolsville (former band of Jonas Breum) at the local CD store the other day. Certainly different from the sound of BREUMM, and the melodies aren’t as strong. Nevertheless it’s quite enjoyable.Excellent Swedish synth pop duo Ostrich has been promising us new songs for some time, but seems to be experiencing a few computer problems. Be patient and the songs will be published in April (hopefully)!+ Icecold KissesApril Song by Biker Boy has been posted and is available for download (for one week only)....
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| Dies und Das... |
| 2008-03-29 16:20:00 |
Forgot yesterday to recommend the recent Flashback Friday post. I'm old enough to remember when those songs were released, so bear with me!It's Saturday, so there might be a good chance that some of you are going out dancing tonight? If so, I suggest that you listen to this one by Home Video. Should get your feet started.+ I Can Make You Feel ItIf that one doesn't work, maybe this one by Electric Valentine does?+ A Night With YouThanks to J.A. I've received a message from French indie pop band My Raining Stars, who asks me to listen to their songs. All This Time certainly leaves me starving for more!+ All This TimeAnd J.A. pulls another fine indie pop band from his sleeve. This time it's the Swedish (of course) six-piece Plain Good.+ Wasted ThingsI've been listening to a few more of those ...
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| Gangway - Mountain Song... |
| 2008-03-29 13:12:00 |
At the time of its release (1992) the video was considered "too violent for TV". Judge for yourself (remember to watch it to the very end), but the song remains an absolute classic! More info....
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| Imperiet - Märk Hur Vår Skugga... |
| 2008-03-28 16:33:00 |
I guess you have to be a hundred year old Scandinavian to remember this one? You probably think I'm insane, but this is one of the best songs ever...EVER!...
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| Listening... |
| 2008-03-27 02:42:00 |
It’s time to work my way through some of the many new CD’s recently found in the mailbox.This is the complete list of today’s “menu"…comments to be added during the day.Midnight Movies – Nights EP2 of the 6 tracks are the band's versions of Night in White Satin, which I would have no problems living without (especially the one sung in French). However the remaining 4 tracks (2 new ones + 2 remixes) are simply excellent alternative rock tunes (with some shoegazing influences) and easily makes the EP worth the investment.+ Should Have KnownSoundpool – dichotomies + dreamland+ Do What You LoveElika – trying got us nowhereThe debut album by Brooklyn duo Elika might only contain 7 tracks, but it pretty much has everything one should expect from a debuting shoegaze band. Musicall...
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| Back from the cold... |
| 2008-03-25 15:37:00 |
I'm back from 5 days in what turned out to be winter cold and not at all spring-like Warsaw and as always the world has been busy turning while I was away, so let's take a quick look at some of the stuff that has happened...Hits In The Car favorite Andrew Boland has a new song up called The City Lights.+ The City LightsLate Night Venture front man Søren Hartvig has written an excellent piece on shoegaze. It's pretty obvious where the inspiration came from if you listen to this track from the band's forthcoming album.+ SkylightsThe Zvook Mescalin remix of the BREUMM track Silhuetter is now available as a free download. 3 more weeks and the album will finally be released.+ Silhuetter (Remix)And while you're busy downloading. Why not grap the Truth Telling Peekholes EP by Majorian from the b...
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| More shorties (evening edition)... |
| 2008-03-18 16:29:00 |
Indie MP3 "discovers" Tellus about the Moon.+ WwwmFrom March 24 the new single Seventh Heaven by Scottsmen AirSpiel will be available as a free download from the band's webpage. And a mighty fine new one it is.One of the sad stories of last year was the split up of the talented trio Port Largo. Now Caspar of the band has created his own solo project called A Graceless Phrase and already has 3 fine tunes to offer as free downloads.+ Everything is All We NeedThe Sound of Arrows has just been signed by Labrador, and you really need to look no further than the new track Danger! to understand why!+ Danger!...
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| People Press Play and Blue Foundation... |
| 2008-03-17 02:27:00 |
After some domestic negotiations, I managed getting Saturday evening off, so I could join a couple of friends at our local venue to experience Blue Foundation live. As usual my hometown showed its appreciation when a lesser-known band drops by, as around 100 persons (we actually tried counting them) showed up. So the band certainly won't come around these parts again any time soon, as there cannot have been much money left for the pension fund. Overall the band delivered a fine concert and the songs work very well when performed live. Afterwards I spoke a few words with Bo of the band, but in my usual ill-mannered way I was more interested in talking to him about him being the 4th member of The William Blakes than the concert he had just been a part of...
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| Evening shorties... |
| 2008-03-14 16:10:00 |
The Google Page Rank of the blog has improved from 4 to 5. Very nice me thinks.Want to listen to some yummy indie pop? Then stream the new track dan semua kan berubah by Indonesians Sunny Summer Day. You probably won't understand a word, but the melody is absolutely gorgeous.For some reason I couldn't access blogger.com this afternoon. Still haven't figured out why, but everything seems to be working fine now.Just received a message from NY shoegazer's Elika that they'll be sending me a promo copy of their new album Trying Got Us Nowhere. Perhaps mentioning Soundpool earlier today helped?Listen to the first single from the forthcoming album by racingpaperplanes. The band is from Gothenburg and that's all you really need to know, to understand what we're dealing with!+ In and out of comaSee...
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| Finally it's Friday... |
| 2008-03-14 02:59:00 |
If you could see me now, you'd see a big smile on my face, because what a demanding week it's been. My youngest daughter has been hit by Chicken pox (not my fault), I've not been able getting any sleep (the young one's fault), I'm damn busy at work (partly my fault, as I'm one lazy bastard) and my body is still soar from go carting Monday evening (driving directly into that wall was entirely my fault). So a quiet weekend is certainly something I'm looking forward to!The above has in various ways influenced the number of posts this week, so consider this a somewhat weak attempt at doing a bit of catching up.What seems to be not so long ago, I always used to write about shoegaze bands. For whatever reason I don’t seem to do that anymore (at least not as often as I would like to), so the ot...
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| Album delay... |
| 2008-03-12 03:37:00 |
The Radio Dept. writes this in their Myspace blog:"I spoke too soon.Sorry, the album's been delayed until like August or something. Some sort of single will be released in May."Bad news really......
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| A step forward… |
| 2008-03-11 07:50:00 |
I’ve been whining about those missing speakers for too long now, so the other day I finally was a bit proactive and went out and bought myself a CD player. Not a big one, but nonetheless a CD player. So after 40 days of musical starvation I can finally listen to some music at work again. Still cannot stream and download stuff (oh well – I can, but I cannot hear a thing), but since I belong to the last 10% of the population, who insist on buying CD’s, I have no shortage of music to choose from.So far Night Falls Over Kortedala is my new office "darling" and I fully understand why that album by Jens Lekman was widely popular among a large number of bloggers last year. This lovely album contains 12 fine pop songs finding inspiration in various genres and from several other artists.+ The...
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| Blast... |
| 2008-03-11 03:00:00 |
Probably the worst thing that could happen...the new single Once You Used To by Swedish electro pop trio Gentle Touch in the mailbox and no speakers on the computer. So I'll have to wait at least another 10 hours before I can listen to it...is it any good? Taken from the album In memory of Savannah (out next week - March 19) that will be released on Songs I Wish I Had Written.+ Once You Used To...
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| Tonight I'm listening to... |
| 2008-03-07 14:53:00 |
...the incredibly infectious and super cool Scene I - Just Like You Don't by Danish electro pop duo Blue Swan. Found via this article and I fully agree with Jonas that this sound like something caught in-between Pet Shop Boys and Depeche Mode. Taken from the 2005 EP Intentionally Miserable and I will now spend the rest of the evening pouting and wondering why the world has been hiding this song from me for so long! A hoard of other tracks are available as free downloads from Mymusic.dk, where you unfortunately still have to be a registered user to be able to download anything (whatever happened to that English version?).+ Scene I - Just Like You Don't...
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| The Weekend is (almost) upon us... |
| 2008-03-07 05:18:00 |
No drinking this weekend I swear!UK singer-songwriter Newton Faulkner will release his debut album Hand Built By Robots on April 29 in the US, and as an appetizer a 3 song iTunes exclusive EP is now available including the gorgeous Dream Catch Me. When I mentioned the song for the first time earlier this year, I borrowed the quote “that was one sensitive guy with at guitar” and listening to that track again, I clearly recall why I thought the quote was spot on. More interestingly the album (which spent two weeks at no. 1 in the UK album chart back in August last year) will be out in Denmark on April 7 – the day after he plays a concert at Vega in Copenhagen.+ Dream Catch MeUS psychedelic pop band Midnight Movies will release a digital EP called Nights on Tuesday (March 11) on New Lin...
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