Remember when Kermit The Frog sang the wonderful duet with Debbie Harry on The Muppet Show?
Now a duo called Two Of Us have made a gorgeous cover of the already wonderful song “Rainbow Connection”. The song has been used in a television advert for the Sainsbury bank, so you might have heard it there.
You can listen to “Rainbow Connection” below, or you can buy it on iTunes. It’s also available on Spotify.
Here’s the original:
The loveliest band in the world, The School, is back with a new video for “Where does your heart belong?” from the new album “Reading Too Much Into Things Like Everything” (Elefant Records). Sounds, and looks, great!
This time, I managed to get the list out on Friday, as it should be! The list this week is probably less uptempo than the other lists, so maybe I should call it “Slowed Songs” 
? My personal highlight of the week, – the Danish sister-duo Kirsten & Marie, have released an amazing album this week. I am also very happy to see Gravenhurst back with a new single this week, and an album coming very soon. This Many Boyfriends’ new single is also close to perfect. This week’s big disappointment was The Primitives comeback-album. Few really good songs, and as a total, it is a quite boring experience to listen to.
So, let’s get some music here!
As usual, you can always subscribe to all the lists at once, in the huge and evergrowing All Loved Songs-playlist, where all new Loved Songs-playlists are added when I make them available.
all loved songs 2012 (made to shuffle!)
The songs on “Loved Songs # 34″ are:
Kirsten & Marie – Na Na Nana Nana Nana Gravenhurst – The Prize Wave Machines – Counting Birds The Primitives – I’m Not Sayin’ This Many Boyfriends – (I Should Be A) Communist Ducktails – Hamilton Road Tu Fawning – Anchor (Hauschka Remix) Sigur Ros – Ekki múkk Norra Kust – Valley Summer Heart – I Wanted You To Stay On The Other Side Get Well Soon – You Cannot Cast Out The Demons (You Might As Well Dance) Kent – Beredd På Allt Gravenhurst – Song To The Siren Kirsten & Marie – Can No One Sbtrkt – Evening Glow Billy Bragg & Wilco Featuring Natalie Merchant – Birds And Ships - Featuring Natalie Merchant LP Version Beth Jeans Houghton – Atlas Carla Morrison – Hasta la Piel The Primitives – Single Girl
UPDATE: We just haven’t earned it yet, baby. Johnny Marr says the rumour is not true.
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So, my friends, tell me: Have we earned it yet, baby?
http://www.music-news.com/ShowNews.asp?nItemID=51298
Money Changes Everything??
This Joke isn’t Funny Anymore??
What difference does it make?
The lovely Spanish indiepop-band Sundae has made their first video, for a new recording of their song “Verano | Invierno”. The song will be the A side of Sundae’s first 7″ single, released this summer by Discos de Kirlian. The other side of the single will be another new recording of an old song, “Hacia Atrás”.
As usual, Sundae give us that spring-feeling with their airy indiepop-sound, sweet, dreamy vocals and gorgeous melodies. lovely video of a lovely song.
If you enjoyed this, you can taste more Sundae sounds at the band’s website www.sundae.es, their Facebook page www.facebook.com/thesundaes or at Soundcloud www.soundcloud.com/sundaeordie.
It’s very easy for me to admit that I am a huge fan of Gravenhurst, and I have been a fan ever since he released his first album many years ago. I usually get bored of artists after their first or second album, and I am definitely not a completist who MUST have everything an artist has released. I do have everything that Gravenhurst has released, – at least every official release -, and I am still not tired of this man’s music.
On April 30, Gravenhurst will release his new album “The Ghost In Daylight” on Warp, and I am really, really looking forward to it!
Here’s a track from the new album, “The Prize”:
When something is released on Sonic Cathedral, it is usually good. Fairewell is released on Sonic Cathedral. Ergo…
The band released their debut album “Poor, Poor Grendel” in December 2011, and now they have an interesting remix-EP ready for release on April 30. On the EP, you can find remixes from brilliant bands like Echo Lake, younghusband, Team Ghost and others. The remixes I have heard so far sound really good.
Here’s a remix made by The All Golden, aka Pete Gofto, and you can find more info and listen to a couple of other remixes on Sonic Cathedral‘s website.
Last week was a boring week for new releases, but this week has definitely been better. I was a little late with this list, because life took some of my time, but here it is. It’s a lot of indie and indiepop, some folky stuff, one or two electronic tracks and one song that is somewhere in the middle of soul, hiphop and everything else.
I hope you find some songs you like in here, and if you do, then please twitter about it, facebook about it, pinterest about it, and do whatever you can to spread this list. I want to see a huge number of subscribers this time!
Here is the list, and you will find a text-version of the list below.
As usual, I have added the list to the huge and evergrowing All Loved Songs-playlist. You can subscribe to that one here:
all loved songs 2012 (made to shuffle!)
Now, enjoy the pop!
Crybaby – I Cherish The Heartbreak More Than The Love That I Lost Best Coast – The Only Place The Primitives – Turn Off The Moon Evripidis and His Tragedies – I Always Cry At Weddings The Icicles – This Is It The Pastels – Nothing to Be Done Pushy Parents – Secret Secret Big Wave – Another Year or Two The Proper Ornaments – Who Thought Trophy Wife – Wolf Belaire – A Strange & Distant Land Town Hall – Fix This House She Makes War – In This Boat Lightships – Every Blossom - Sonic Boom Remix Hannah Cohen – California Sameblod – UR Road (single edit) Coasting – Delusions of Grandeur Psychologist – 1:1 Chains Of Love – I'd Rather Be Crying Horse Feathers – Nearly Old Friends Courtney Barnett – Lance Jr. The Primitives – Can't Stop The Want Damon Albarn – The Marvelous Dream Sennen – Wasted Heart A Taut Line – Blue Optics THEESatisfaction – naturalE Roommates – Back to the Sun/Girlfriend Swap Bob Hund – Det regnar och brinner Orcas – Until Then Cat Martino – I Promise Linnea Dale – Lost Highway Juni Järvi – Looking At You Is Like Looking At The Sun Seeker Lover Keeper – Light All My Lights Charlotte Gainsbourg – Anna Spiritualized – Little Girl Human Don't Be Angry – The Missing Plutonium Patrick Watson – Lighthouse
This song has definitely become today’s soundtrack. It’s probably the best song I have heard so far this year from an artist based in my home-country, Norway. Love the guitars and the lovely vocals on this track, – and it sure looks like they had much fun making the video! 
Grandma’s Tea Party is a 6-piece (!) orchestra from Bergen, Norway, and according to their biography, it all began with a cup of tea in 2011 in one of the members’ Grandmother’s house.
You can get a free download of this song from NRK Urørt, where there’s also two other songs by the band:
Grandma’s Tea – A Wiseman Told Me
