Check out Celestial’s new EP on the "Music is my girlfriend"-label. It includes four remixes, and the tracklisting is: 01. lake como (remix) 02. brighton girls (remix) 03. fragile heart (remix) 04. bluebell meadow (remix) You can download a zip-file including cover on the Music is my girlfriend-site.
Sarandon has a brand new single out on Slumberland Records. The single is called "Joe’s Record" and here’s one of the B-sides, "The Linguist", for you: Sarandon – The Linguist (from the label) Crayola, the frontman in Sarandon, has an interesting blog where he tells about indie-life in the UK in the eighties. Highly recommended for fans of twee/c86/80s UK indie. The Slumberland label is also the home of The Lodger, a band that recently released a wonderful album filled … →
Listening to Magnus Sinnes´ "My Scarlet, my Violet" you can sense his talent for making beautiful pop songs with dramatic arrangements. This young artist is based in Trondheim, Norway, and he is inspired by artists like George Harrison and King Crimson. He hopes to be able to record a debut album soon. Listening to "My Scarlet, my Violet" I would say that he is more than ready to enter the recording studio. It is truley a beautiful song. Play it … →
The first time I listened to Lukestar‘s fantastic new single "White Shade" it got instantly inside my head, and stayed there! This is so fresh and so catchy and I am extremely optimistic on behalf of this alternative/powerpop band from Oslo, Norway. I wonder if I can detect a slight change in the bands style of music? This is more alternative/indie than the bands powerpop sound on the 2004 album "Alpine Unit". "White Shade", the first single from the bands … →
When favourites Prefab Sprout are mentioned in a songtitle I simply cannot resist listening. Blind Terry, a quintet based in Stockholm, performs piano based popsongs with interesting and funny lyrics. Blind Terry released three songs on a 3″ CD single (100 copies) on Miami based indie label Cloudberry Records in August this year. Blind Terry – When Prefab Sprout Wrecked My Mind Blind Terry – The Subtle Art Of How To Break A Heart (from FRWRD)
First, let me just say that this post was made possible because the brilliant music blog The Finest Kiss wrote a short piece about this band last week. Before that, I had never heard of these guys. Another brilliant thing about The Finest Kiss is their name, which comes from a song-title by one of my all time favourite bands, The Boo Radleys. So, if you are not a regular reader of The Finest Kiss, you should be, and if … →
One of Sweden’s finest pop-orchestras, Days, did a beautiful acoustic performance in the Swedsh woods for PSL last sunday. PSL is a music blog kind of thing from SVT (swedish television), and from time to time they do interesting video-performances like this. Earlier this year, Days released a perfect pop single on Shelflife Records, and the song they performed on PSL was one of the songs on the single, "Downhill". You can watch the video on PSL’s site, here. We … →
