Tweet I just wanted to make a short note about how I use Twitter as a part of the blog. Instead of making a full blog-post every time I find some interesting news about a band I like, or when someone makes a good song available, I usually post on twitter about it. It’s fast and doesn’t take too much energy to do it. It takes me 5 seconds to write that tweet, while a full blogpost may take a … →
Tweet It’s the 15th of the month, – Music Alliance Pact-day. For those of you who are new to the Music Alliance Pact (MAP): We are now 26 music-blogs from 26 different countries who every month on the 15th present a band and a song we like from our country. All the presentations are published on the same day in all the MAP-blogs, giving the bands we present some massive promotion, and you a whole lot of great music to … →
Tweet The few of you who follow my spotify-blog OnTheSpot, which now is twitter-based (http://www.twitter.com/onthespotify but also readable on onthespot) may have seen my 100 track best of 2009-playlist or this smaller Wimp-version. A lot of my favourites are not on Spotify or Wimp, so here is a plain good old written blog-version of my favourites… I usually buy things very soon after the release, so I guess the month in month cases will be the release month, but it’s … →
Tweet UK one man band Snippet (a.k.a. Johnno Casson) will release a new EP, “the Tshirt ep”, on 24th August. It has 5 tracks on it, including a new version of “lovely ugly people”, which he participated with on our own “Birdsongs, Beesongs” compilation earlier this year. The ep will be a limited edition handcrafted CD-only release with individually numbered packaging, and I’m told that there will be an extra surprise inside the cover. The opening track “I love your … →
Tweet Dylan Mondegreen is the alias of Norwegian singer/songwriter Børge Sildnes, and his debut from 2007 “While I walk you home” is still among my all time favourite albums from my own country (it’s on spotify and on wimp). His soft, melodic and breezy indiepop-songs easily found their way to my heart. Now his second album is finally finished. The album is called “The World Spins On”, and it will be released on August 31. A Japanese version of this … →
Tweet I’m quite in love with the debut-single “Cake” from the Welsh 4-piece Race Horses (- and look at that cover art! Amazing!). It’s released on Fantastic Plastic on the 27th of July (but at least here where I live, you can get it on iTunes already now). It’s a wonderful tune, and in the middle of all the obvious 60s influences from several bands beginning with B, I hear sounds that reminds me of Super Furry Animals and a … →
Tweet One of my absolute favourite albums of the year is “Sleeper” by The Leisure Society. This warm, melodic folky pop gem has received far too little attention. It’s a brilliant album from start to finish, and one of the few that I never seem to get tired of…. So, – my intention with this post was not to write a love letter to The Leisure Society, but to tell you that they have signed with one of my favourite … →
Tweet Hearts!Attack is Alexis, Darren and Sam, and if their myspace-bio is believable (which I for some reason doubt, wonder why?), we are dealing with some great personalities here… According to this bio, Alexis used to be the best rapper alive, Darren left his Norwegian death metal band after they won Eurovision and Sam has a past as a member of the highly underrated late 90s boy band “BoysRFun”… What I KNOW is true, is that they have made a … →
Tweet Today this message came on The Ruling Class’ myspace-blog, and I thought several of you might be interested: “SO IF YOU WONDER, THERE’S PLENTY OF FLOWERS… FOR FREE! As we are getting closer to the release date of our single “Sleeping Beauty / Marian Shrine” on 20th July and our gig at the 100 Club on 21st July, we have some pleasant news… Our highly successful single from last year “Flowers / If You Wonder” can now be downloaded … →
Tweet One of the albums I have really enjoyed lately is an upcoming release on the Morr-label from their new artist Telekinesis. The album is called “Telekinesis!”, his debut, and the official release date is in August on Morr Music (it’s released on Merge in USA), but you can already now get it on iTunes. On record, Michael Benjamin Lerner is the sole member of Telekinesis, more or less. He writes, sings and plays the songs. His music is not … →
