Just a short note today: Indonesian band White Shoes and the Couples company has signed to Minty Fresh records. Their music “is influenced by everything from 30s jazz to 70s movie soundtracks and everything inbetween” (quote from the press release). This is their first Minty Fresh-single. Listen and love it! White shoes and the couples company – Tentang Cita
New Zealand’s The Ruby Suns is a band I have listened more and more to, and a band that gets better and better after each listen. I love their sunshine-sound and their ba-ba-bah’s, and that is also why I jumped a bit in my chair when I saw that The Takeaway show features The Ruby Suns in their 43rd recording.The band is playing live in the streets of Paris. Click the link to visit the whole takeaway show.Here’s a bit … →
When Knut offered us to start writing for Eardrums last November, there were two bands that really decided me to take it up and start blogging about music; two bands that I just had to give a bit more exposure. I introduced California Snow Story and Reverie Sound Revue in my first couple of posts, promising more news in 2007 for both bands… well, it’s time to see what’s up. First up, California Snow Story. Their new record, which I’d … →
Swedens brilliant melodymakers, The Lovekevins, release their debut album “vs the snow” today on the Songs I wish I had written-label. The new mp3-single is called “Tamagotchi freestyle”, and it’s available for free on the label’s website.…and here:The Lovekevins – Tamagotchi freestyle Another song from The Lovekevins:The Lovekevins- private life of a cat
Do you like tambourines, handclaps, glockenspiels, jangly guitars, organs and boy/girl harmonies as much as we do? Then this might be a band you should check out: Andy, Ben, Dan, Emma and Mark are POCKETBOOKS, an indiepop band from London that can be loved by fans of bands like Camera Obscura, Belle and Sebastian, the Lucksmiths, Tender Trap, 60s inspired melodic pop or the sweeter sounds of sarah or “twee” bands like Trembling Blue Stars/ Field Mice. The band were … →
So, YOU were Time Magazine’s Person Of The Year last year, you know? Well, it’s time to own up. Thanks to the internet, three artists are asking you to help them: Jarvis Cocker, the ex-Pulp, British (now Parisian) dandy, is planning on touring his debut solo record, Jarvis, in the US; via Pitchfork, we heard that American and Canadian bands are welcome to propose their services as opening acts. “I’ll keep this quite short: we are playing in North America … →
DAYS are four swedish boys making wonderful, sweet, melodic popsongs, – just the way we like it. To be honest, their single “Simple thing” is one of the finest tracks I’ve heard so far this year (well, I think I’ve said that about a few songs already, but at least it means that I adore these songs…).Fabian Sahlqvist, John Ludvigsson, Philip Gates & Andréas Uppman Nilsson are DAYS and they have just signed with one of our favorite labels, Shelflife … →
