It's that time of year again...

So for the next two weeks I’ll be nowhere near a computer. This means no blog updates, no emails read or written, no concert tickets purchased and no new music discovered. So this will be the last batch of news, music etc. for a while.

Castello, better known as the frontman of The Holiday Show, is currently working on his solo project and demos of 4 tracks are currently streaming at Myspace. This is a little too close to “dansk pop” for my taste, but nonetheless I’ll pay close attention to how this develops.

Danish trio Spion impressed me quite a lot two years ago with their fine EP Tynd Is. Especially the title track was an amazing piece, and arguably featured some of the finest drumming this side of Mew. The band has recorded 4 new tracks, which are currently streaming at Myspace, but unfortunately they don’t quite reach the glorious heights of previous recordings.
+ Tynd Is

In a comment posted yesterday Danielle recommends Compute (a project masterminded by Ulrika Mild, but the live version features Liechtenstein lead singer Renée) and compares it to Kraftwerk and The Knife (but judge that yourself). But I do find the songs quite appealing despite being absolutely no fan of The Knife.
+ All Walk By

Italians My Awesome Mixtape are offering their new (and bloody fine) EP Other Houses as a free download to help promoting their album How Could a Village Turn Into a Town, which will be out on 42 Records in September.
+ Me & The Washing Machine

Shorties...

My head feels like a boiling kettle right now, so I’m not sure if I can post anything that will make sense to anyone (do I ever?). So I’ll just stick to one of these shorties posts today!

The music of one man band (that expression is plain stupid, but I cannot think of a better one) Kites With Lights, who’s responsible for the fine New Order cover I featured the other day, is rather uncomplicated indietronica/electro pop, but still worth checking out.
+ The Weight of your Heart

Occasional contributor Rodolfo has launched his own blog; Hidden Treasure.

The Matinée Recordings news page has been updated, but basically (and unfortunately) the news is that there isn't all that much to tell.

The Moto Boy website has a new look and to (perhaps) celebrate this, the Regina remix of Young Love is free to download.
+ Young Love (Regina remix)

Download two tracks by Danish "super"-group Ghost Society at RCRD LBL. Will be interesting to hear if this is any good?

The new album by The Raveonettes will be out 6 October and will be called In And Out Of Control.

Indonesians Sunny Summer Day has a lovely new track named In Summer Time streaming at Myspace. Beautiful indie pop and obviously recommended by J.A.

On the radio this morning...

This does sound a lot like Keane. Doesn't it?



Every morning when eating breakfast the radio is on, and from time to time it does happen that some really fine stuff is aired, thus helping to make the start of the day a good one. The “On the radio this morning” posts are my humble attempt to make your start a good one as well!

Yeah...

I’ve never been the sharpest tool in the shed or the fastest one out of the blocks. I’m certain that several older posts will reveal that I’ve “discovered” things long after it was discovered by just about everyone else. The most recent example is Yeah Yeah Yeahs, which I’ve passed over again and again, primarily because of the massive hype surrounding Karen O and her two compatriots. But the past weekend the band played at Roskilde Festival, and since numerous people (including various radio hosts) were literally going crazy while looking forward to the concert, I thought “what the heck”; let’s check it out. So I grabbed It’s Blitz from the pile of CD’s (you know; I did actually buy it a long time ago, but just never really listened to it) back home, and through the first 3 listens so far today it’s been a surprisingly positive and refreshing experience. Actually it’s been such an uplifting experience that I decided to order the band’s to other albums as well. And just to keep my credit card busy, I ordered the Florence And The Machine debut album too, in a weak attempt to (hopefully) keep myself somewhat up-to-date, by giving this over(?)-hyped name a listen, before it becomes old news.

Speaking of Roskilde. The reviews of The Pains of Being Pure At Heart concert at the Festival weren’t positive at all, giving the band 2 respectively 3 stars out 6. I hope they fix whatever was wrong, before the concert at Vega on 2 August.

It does seem like Jonas didn’t go see TPOBPAH after all, despite all my recommendations. Apparently the Elbow concert blew him away completely and drained him for whatever little energy he had left. But “luckily” it seems like he didn’t miss out on something fantastic anyway!

A New Order tribute album called Ceremony, where proceedings from the sales will benefit the Salford Foundation Trust’s Tony Wilson Award, will be out some time this fall on independent label 24 Hour Service Station. The album will include 2 discs with cover versions of several New Order classics plus a third disc dedicated to various cover versions of the band’s first single Ceremony. Two sample tracks are now free to download, and one can only dream that the rest will be equally great! And to keep the Roskilde string alive; I saw none other than New Order performing live at Roskilde in 1984(!).
+ POCKET feat. Shaun Robinson & Tracy Shedd - Sub-Culture
+ Kites With Lights - Dream Attack

Nothing but music - the endless post?

This is an ever changing and (hopefully) expanding list of some of the songs I have mentioned before in this blog or simply stuff I have found somewhere on the web that I find interesting, but have no time to write about. All files have been found somewhere in cyberspace (and NONE of them have uploaded by me, so I cannot help you with any requests you might have - just keep returning and something new might pop up), so they will be available until the artists, record labels, fans, whatever decide to remove them. Thanks to a few readers, I've just finished yet another round of cleaning up (actually I'm doing this more or less all the time). But please leave a comment if some of the links are no longer working, and I will do my best to remove them as quickly as possible....

If you are interested in finding even more songs than the ones I have listed below, these links will provide you with lots and lots of free AND legal mp3's - I very much hope you'll enjoy the list!

¤ Indicates new additions

* Badman Recording
* Bad Taste Records
* Barsuk Records
* Beggars Group USA
* Better Looking Records
* betterPropaganda
* Cityslang
* Cloudberry Records
* Darla
* Eenie Meenie Records
* electronically yours
* Friendly Fire Recordings
* Go, Jukebox!
* Hybris
* Indiecater
* Insound.com
* Jade Tree
* Jagjaguwar
* Joyful Noise Recordings
* killbeat music
* Killrockstars
* Labrador
* Last.fm
* Lujo Records
* Magic Marker
* Matinée Sounds
* Misra
* The Musebox
* Music From Denmark
* Music Is My Girlfriend
* Novoton
* Parasol
* Plastilina Records!
* Polyvinyl
*Pox World Empire
* Secretly Canadian
* Series Two Records
* Shelflife
* Sick Room Records
* Slumberland Records
* Songs I Wish I Had Written
* South By Southwest 2008 + 2009
* Subpop
* Supertroels
* Team Clearmont
* We Are Free
* What Are Records?
* White Whale Records
* Wonderland Records
* Yellow Mica Recordings
* To be continued......

+ Aberdeen - Sink or Float
+ Aberdeen City - God Is Going To Get Sick Of Me
+ Acid House Kings - Almost
+ Afraid of Stairs - When Nothing
+ Air - Cherry Blossom Girl + (Air shopping)
+ The Airfields - You're So Wonderful
+ Airiel - Cinnamon
+ Alaska in Winter - Berlin
+ Alcian Blue - See You Shine
+ Amber Smith - Hello Sun
+ Ampel - Simon Says + More songs by Ampel
+ Anamia - Butterfly In Paris
+ Angel Pier - Make
+ Annemarie - Bubblegum I See
+ The Antique Toys - Joey (Concrete Blonde Cover) + More songs by The Antique Toys
+ Antony and the Johnsons - Another World
+ Anything Box - Clean
+ Anything Box - Living In Oblivion
+ The April Skies - Rise & rise again
+ The Arcade Fire - Rebellion (Lies) + (Arcade Fire shopping)
+ Arctic - Launching Pad
+ The Argonauts - Swords & Words
¤+ The Argument- black eyed bunny
+ The Arrogants - The Distance Between Us + More Songs by The Arrogants
+ Asobi Seksu - Walk On The Moon + (Asobi Seksu shopping)
+ The Atomica Project - Larsen
+ Audrey - Big Ships
¤+ Audrye Sessions - Julianna
+ Avocadoclub - Too Much Space To Walk Away
+ The Ballet - In My Head
+ Baby Blonde and the Downs - Slowly
+ Bakers at Dawn - tesla
+ Band Of Horses - The Funeral + (Band of Horses shopping)
+ Bang Gang - Something Wrong
+ Devendra Banhart - The Charles C. Leary + More songs by Devendra Banhart
+ The Bastard Fairies - Ode To The Prostitute
+ Bear on Bear - Magpies
+ Beatnik Filmstars - Skill
+ Bedroom Eyes - Blueprint for Departure
+ Bellaparker - The Things We Say
+ Benko - '84 Gran Fury
+ Benzos - Hurt Everybody
+ Beirut - Postcards From Italy + (Beirut shopping)
+ Biker Boy - Heart
+ Billie the Vision & The Dancers – City
+ Black Belt - Road Crew
+ Black Kids - Hit the Heartbreaks + (Black Kids shopping)
+ Black Tie Dynasty - Tender
+ Blonde Redhead - 23 + (Blonde Redhead shopping)
+ Blood Ruby - Midsummer Fires + More tracks by Blood Ruby
+ Blue Foundation - Stuck In A Hard Place (2008 Rework)
¤+ The Blueflowers - I Wasn't Her
+ Andrew Boland - How The West Was Won
+ Bon Iver - Blood Bank
+ The Boxer Rebellion - Never Knowing How Or Why
+ Boygirlme - The Action's Falling
+ Boy Omega - Explode
+ The Bridal Shop - From Seas
+ Brideshead - Love Makes The Sun Shine Bright
+ Bright Channel - Airborne
+ The Brilliant Trees - Don't Believe The Right
+ British Sea Power - Waving Flags
+ Built To Spill - Alarmed
+ Bunnygrunt - We Belong
+ California Snow Story - Out of Time
+ Camera Obscura - Lloyd, I'm ready to be heartbroken
+ Canada - Beige Stationwagon
+ Pelle Carlberg - I love you you imbecile
+ Paddy Casey - Fear
+ Castanets - This Is The Early Game
+ Celestial - Crystal Heights
+ Champagne Riot - Scandinavian Warfare
+ Cheshire Cat - Souls
+ Choir of Young Believers - Apart
+ Ciao Transizta - A volume has a max
+ Cinnober - Re-Sound + More songs by Cinnober
+ Clap Your Hands Say Yeah - Love Song No. 7
¤+ A Classic Education - Toi (Gilbert Bécaud cover)
+ Cleo Malone - Diamond Cleo
+ ClickClickDecker – Wer hat mir auf die Schuhe gekotzt
+ Club 8 - Saturday Night Engine
+ Jarvis Cocker - Running the World
+ Cof Cof - Dirty Tricks
+ The Consultants - Snow Fell (It's Night)
+ Allison Crowe – Smells Like Teen Spirit + More songs by Allison Crowe
+ Cut Copy - Lights & Music
+ DALIEGTGOLD - Teil Von Dir
+ DAMPFBAHN! - All Is Swell (ONBC Lummertmix) + More tracks by DAMPFBAHN!
+ F.R. David - Words
+ Daydream Nation - Morning Light
+ DAYS - Never Came To Last
+ Oceano De Cruz - beehives mighty vicious
+ Dear Euphoria - Falling Behind
+ Death Cab For Cutie - A Movie Script Ending
+ Death Cab For Cutie - Soul Meets Body
+ Death Valley Sleepers - Sweet End
+ Delaware - Loss
+ Delicia Mini - 1,000,000,000 Beats
+ Delta Waves - Her Static Energy
+ Denali - Hold Your Breath
+ Depeche Mode - Peace (Leave Anger in the Past) - Indefinite Cure
+ Disco Ditto - Float
+ Dntel - Dumb Luck
+ Doí - Missing
+ Dora Flood - Everywhere We Go
+ Dorsia - She Went Off To Milan
+ Dorsia - Unprovoked
+ Drive-By Truckers - Feb 14
+ The Eames Era - Could be anything + More tracks by The Eames Era
+ EAR PWR - Future Eyes
+ Early Day Miners - All Harm
+ Dustin Edge - The Ideal Citizen
+ Editors - Bullets (NoBraiN reMIX)
+ Edson - Sunday, Lovely Sunday
+ Kathleen Edwards - In State
+ Eels - Jelly Dancers + (Eels shopping)
+ Efterklang - Mirador
+ Eiffel Tower - A Perfect Day
+ Einstürzende Neubauten – Weil Weil Weil
+ The Electric Mainline - We Are Now
+ The Electric Pop Group - Popgirly
+ The Electric Soft Parade - Cold World
+ Elefant - Lolita
+ Elenette - Jag hatar män
+ Anders Elowsson – Main Street
+ Emerald Park - For Tomorrow
+ The Enright House - Darkwave = MC Squared
+ The Essex Green - Our Lady In Havana
+ Evil Death Machine - Pieces
+ The Exploding Boy - Shot Down
+ Explosions In The Sky - Welcome, Ghosts
+ Exsonvaldes - Going Away
+ Factory45 - Supermarkets
+ The Fairways - Close To Me
+ Fanfarlo - I'm A Pilot
+ Fat Tulips - Reward
+ Jacob Faurholt - Golden Strings
+ Feather - My Apple Has Four Legs
+ Fever Hut - Kill Me Again
+ Field Music - Tell Me Keep Me
+ The Fields - Brittlesticks
+ Figurines - The Wonder
+ Fireflies - I Was A Brontosaurus
+ Firefox AK - Where are we going? (Minty Fresh version)
+ Firewater - This Is My Life
+ Flashing Knives - Pedro El Negro
+ Fleet Foxes - White Winter Hymnal + (Fleet Foxes shopping)
+ The Floor Is Made Of Lava - Do Your Sister
+ The Forced Oscillations – Diaries
+ David Ford - Trying To Find My Feet + More songs by David Ford
+ The Forms - Knowledge in Hand + (The Forms shopping)
+ J. Forte - Lines To Follow
+ Fosca - Confused and Proud
+ Foxes! - Albania + More songs by Foxes!
+ Foxglove - Something Wrong
+ Fredo Viola - Red States (Exsonvaldes Remix)
+ Free Loan Investments - If You Leave
+ Friday Bridge - Love and Nostalgia
+ Frightened Rabbit - Modern Leper
+ Fruit Bats - A Bit Of Wind
+ Fujasaki - Poets Dying
+ Garmisch Partenkirchen - Black Paint
+ Gentle Touch - Smedby
+ GimmiJapan - Confidential
+ Girl Alliance - Best of Seasons + More songs by Girl Alliance
+ Steve Goldberg and the Arch Enemies - The Road
+ José Gonzalez – Teardrop (live)
+ Goodbye The Band - The Lion
+ Grapes of Grain - Lemon Hill
+ Gravy - Meltdown
+ Great Lake Swimmers - Bodies and Minds
+ Green Concorde - This Time (tWAMi Remix)
+ Green Concorde - 2:26
+ The Greens - Bricks & Mortar
+ The Guggenheim Grotto - A Lifetime In Heat
+ The Guild League - Dead Hour
+ Halph - Calm
+ Hari and Aino - On My Usual Catch Up With Cecilia
+ Calvin Harris - Acceptable In The 80's
+ Head Like A Kite - Noisy In The Circus
+ The Helpmeplease - 1992
+ Heartbreak Disco - New Romantic Street
+ Johan Hedberg - Var Dig Själv
+ Hej - With or Without You
+ Helen Stellar - You Glow From Within
+ Hello Saferide - If I Don't Write This Song, Someone I Love Will Die
+ Hello Tokyo - Steady The Gun
+ Claus Hempler - Quiet Nights Of Quiet Stars
+ The Hermit Crabs - I Don't Know Her
+ The High Dials - Invisible Choirs
+ The High Violets - Invitation
+ The Higher - Insurance?
+ The Higher Elevations - Breaking the News
+ The Hillfields - Front Room
+ Micah P. Hinson - Jackeyed
+ Horowitz - Sister (4-Track Version)
+ Hot Hot Heat - Get In or Get Out
+ Hot Seconds - Excuse Me
+ Hot Springs - Headrush
+ Huckster - Drive Me Crazy
+ IAMX - Think of England
+ I Am Bones - The Ostrich Approach
+ I Am Jack - Stockholm
+ I Was a Teenage Satan Worshipper – TOP 20
+ Ides of Space - Moving
+ iLiKETRAiNS - Terra Nova
+ iLiKETRAiNS - Wendy House
+ I Love You But I've Chosen Darkness - When You Go Out
+ The Imaginary Orchestra of mr. Kite - Mind the Gap
+ Indurain - The Moment
+ [Ingenting] - Punkdrömmar
+ Irene - Baby I love your way
+ Iron & Wine - Boy With A Coin
+ Japan Air - Sept.
+ Javelins - Out On The Sand
+ Jets to Brazil – Resistance is Futile
+ John Wayne Shot Me - Let Sleeping Monsters Sleep
+ Jomi Massage - The Last & Saddest Way
+ The Joy Formidable - Austere
+ Joy Serene - Possible
+ Kaiser Chiefs - Oh My God
+ Kaka - The Hotspurs (the less we know the faster we go)
+ Kawaii - Rural Profond
+ Khonnor - Blindness Bats
+ Kicker - Blue
+ The Kid - Kit Club Hotel
+ A Kid Hereafter - Never Too Late
+ Klee - Gold
+ Björn Kleinhenz - China Blue
+ Kni9hts - El Diablo + More songs by The Kni9hts
+ Knoxville - Fireworks
+ Kontraband - Brist
+ Kuryakin - Take My Hand
+ Lampshade - New Legs (tWAMi remix)
+ Dawn Landes - Young Folks (Cover)
+ Language of Flowers - Where You Belong
+ Larsen & Furious Jane - Tourist With A Typewriter
+ Late Night Venture - Skylights
+ Late of the Pier - Space and the Woods
+ Layabout - Arms Around The City
+ Le Chevre - Everything Reminds Me
+ Le Firm - Bastille Day
+ Le Futur Pompiste - Walk on Water
+ Le Sport - Your Brother Is My Only Hope + More songs by Le Sport
¤+ The Legends - Seconds Away
+ Leisure Alaska - Transistors In My Mind
¤+ Jens Lekman - Black Cab
+ Cameron Lewis - Telephone Lines
+ Parker Lewis - Wasting Time
¤+ Light in Your Life - Smile that Smile
+ Lykke Li - Dance Dance Dance
+ Liars - Cycle Time
+ Lightspeed Champion - Stay The Fuck Away From Me
+ Like Honey - Airport
+ Limf - To The Stars (Back Again)
+ the lk - Stop Being Perfect
+ The Lodger - The Good Old Days
+ Loons - The Way The Rain Drives In
+ Loto - Cuckoo Plan
+ Lovejoy - In The Rain
+ The Lovekevins - Blame the English
+ Loveninjas - I wanna be like Johnny C
+ Lovespirals - Love Survives
+ Low - Monkey
+ The Lucksmiths - A Sobering Thought
+ The Lucksmiths - Up With The Sun
+ The Maccabees - the picnic song
+ made of buildings – As We Make a Break For Dawn
+ The Manhattan Love Suicides - Never Far From You
+ Manual - Moonlit Shores
+ Marching Band - Letters
+ Montt Mardie - New York
¤+ Marillion - This Train is My Life
+ Marqui Adora - Do Anything
+ The Martial Arts - Duality
+ Mary Goes Round - Mary Sleeps Alone + More songs by Mary Goes Round
+ The Mary Onettes - Lost
+ The Maybellins - Our Midnight
+ Mazarin - Another One Goes By
+ Meho Plaza - We'll Drink The Blood (Nopse Remix)
+ Memoplay - Words Are Small + More songs by Memoplay
+ The Mendoza Line - Catch a Collapsing Star
+ Midlake - Roscoe + (Midlake shopping)
+ Milke - Love Get Out Of My Way
+ The Mirror Lounge - Drifting into a Secret Area
+ Mixtapes & Cellmates - Quiet
+ Moby - Shot In The Back Of The Head
+ Modeselektor – ModeSelektor 3
+ Modest Mouse - Interstate 8 + (Modest Mouse shopping)
+ Monster Movie - Driving Through The Red Lights
+ Moonbabies - Take Me To The Ballroom
+ The Moonwalkers - Blank Soul
+ Moto Boy - Young Love
+ Museum - Flowers And Dust
¤+ Mushi - Dusk
+ My Brightest Diamond - Something of an End
+ My darling YOU! - Taxidriver
+ My Favorite - Burning Hearts
+ Mystery Jets - Diamonds In The Dark (Dusty Cabinets Mix)
+ Nada Surf - Do It Again
+ The Name - Elearnoy Rigby
+ The Name - On My Own
+ The National - Fake Empire + (The National shopping)
+ Neon Machine - Lost World
+ Neon Zoo - Alive
+ Neutral Milk Hotel - Holland 1945
+ The New Division - Nocturnal
+ Nine Inch Nails - Discipline + (Nine Inch Nails shopping)
+ The 1900s - When I Say Go
+ Ninotchka - Sunday Gangster
+ Noah and the Whale - 2 Bodies 1 Heart
+ theNoLifeKing - I Walked Through The Sky
+ Northern Fields - Never Take The Beauty
+ Northern Portrait - Crazy
+ Null Device - Footfalls
+ Null Device - Unknowingly (Iris mix)
+ The Octopus Project - Truck
+ of Montreal - Jaques Lamure + (Of Montreal shopping)
+ Oh! Custer - Post
+ Oh No! Oh My! - Be a Star
+ The Ondt and the Gracehoper - Savior
+ One Weekly Gun - Heath Ledger
+ 120 Days - Get Away + (120 Days shopping)
+ Otter Petter - Winter Days
+ The Pains of Being Pure at Heart – Come Saturday
+ Pallers - Humdrum
+ Paloalto - Still
+ Palomar - Our Haunt
+ Paper Sky - Perfect Day
+ Papercuts - Poor and Free
+ The Papertiger Sound - Pale Eyes + More songs by TPS
+ Parker Lewis - Wasting Time
+ Pascal - Längtar Efter Dig
+ Pay TV - Fashion Report
¤+ Peace in our time – You know nothing of use
+ People Press Play – These Days(Dntel Instrumental remix)
+ Pernice Brothers - Somerville
+ Pet Politics - Sunday Morning
+ Pet Shop Boys - Yes Megamix
+ The Pink Mountaintops - New Drug Queen
+ Pipas - Riff Raff
+ Pocketbooks - Fleeting Moments
+ The Poems - Ballad of a bitter end
+ The Positions - Back To Me
+ Postal Blue - You Should Keep It To Yourself
+ Robert Post - Got None (Acoustic demo)
+ The Postal Service - Such Great Heights
¤+ Precious Fathers - 100% Pure Rock Fibres
+ Printer - Minds Out
+ Professor Pez - Imperial Airways
+ Racingpaperplanes - City Lights
+ Radical Face - Ghostpodcast
+ The Radio Dept. - Freddie and the trojan horse
+ Radiohead - Nude (Sir Salvatore Remix)
+ Raining Pleasure - Rainsong 55
+ Ray – Mountain Song
+ Red Orkestra - Red Stars
+ Red Sleeping Beauty - Summer Tells Stories
+ Reverend Big O - Car Nights
+ Revolver - Since Yesterday (Strawberry Switchblade cover)
+ The River Detectives - Some Kind Of Love
+ Roadside Poppies - A Gentleman Alone
+ Ronderlin - Aside
+ The Rosebuds - Govenor's Daughter
+ Rubik - Photobiotic
+ The Ruling Class - Flowers
+ Ruined By Martin - Burn The Sun
+ Saint Etienne - Lose That Girl
+ Saint Thomas - My Morning
+ Salem - I Love The Avenue
¤+ Sambassadeur - Between The Lines
+ The San Marinos - Half A Million
+ Savoy - Star
+ Scarlet Soho - Isolation
+ Ulrich Schnauss - A Letter From Home
+ Second Language - In A Little While
+ The Search - The Heart Is A Lonely Hunter
+ Sennen - I Couldn't Tell You
+ Sensommersne - Lad Os Mødes I Drømme
+ Ron Sexsmith - Hands of time
+ Shermans - Falling Out Of Love
+ Kevin Shields - Muscle Hair
+ The Shins - Australia
+ Shortwave Dahlia – Manic, Impressive!
+ Shout Out Louds - Tonight I Have To Leave It
+ Sia - Electric Bird
+ Sibiria - Jag minns bara hur du plågade mig
+ Signed Papercuts - Nothingness
+ Sinai - The Brightest White
+ Sir Salvatore - Townies
+ The Sky Drops - Now Would Be
+ Sky Larkin - Fossil, I
+ Slaraffenland - Polaroids
+ Sleepwalk - Disco From Italy
+ The Slip - Children of December
+ Slowlands - Nigel
+ A Smile and a Ribbon - Book Cover
+ Elliott Smith - High Times
+ Snowden - Anti-Anti
+ The Soft City - Wallflower
+ Someone Still Loves You Boris Yeltsin - Oregon Girl
+ The Somnambulants - Evacuation
+ Song To The Siren - These Days
+ The Sound of Arrows - M.A.G.I.C.
+ The Sounds - Dorchester Hotel
+ Southside Stalkers - Not Able
+ Speaker Bite Me - Teach Me Tiger (Holtoug Remix) + More Speaker Bite Me Remixes
+ Split Seconds - A Sick Dream
+ Spoon - I Turn My Camera On
+ Star Club West - Comme I Want
+ Starflower - Dance Til Morning Light
+ Stars in Coma - Radio
+ Stars of Aviation - Love Is Only In Your Mind
+ The State of Samuel - The Residents of Gloom
+ The Steadies - Elegance in defeat + More songs by The Steadies
+ Stereo Inn - Out of my room, into my life
+ Sufjan Stevens - Henney Buggy Band
+ Strawberry Fair - Regression
+ Strawberry Story - Ashlands Road
+ Strawberry Whiplash - Who's In Your Dreams
+ Strip Squad - Hairless Youth of Bosnia
+ Karin Ström - Klaustrofobi
+ Karin Ström - Silent Night (Pacific Remake)
+ Suburban Kids With Biblical Names - Funeral Face
+ Summer Cats - Discotheque
+ A Sunny Day In Glasgow - Best Summer Ever
+ Surrounded - Safe Tomorrow Sun
+ The Svengalis - Love Letters for Delinquents + More Songs by The Svengalis
+ Swedish For Beginners - Magical Machines + More songs by SFB
+ Robert Svensson - 1991
+ Swimm TV is TV - Speed Test
+ Swimmer One - Cloudbusting/Lovesong
+ Tales Of Jenny - Tuesday Girl
¤+ Sofia Talvik - So Good to Me
+ Tears Run Rings - Beautiful Stranger
+ Teenage Fanclub - Fallen Leaves
+ The Teenagers - Starlett Johansson
+ The Telescopes - Another Sky
+ Televise - Smile
+ TempEau - Mädchen aus Greifswald
+ That's Him! That's The Guy! - Anne with an E
+ Then - Fool (Blur Cover)
¤+ The Thermals - Now We Can See
+ Thermostatic - The Box
+ This Year's Model - Ten O'Clock Murder
+ Tiesto feat. Christian Burns - In The Dark
+ Tiger Baby - Girlfriend
+ Tiger Tunes - (Angry Kids of the World) Unite
+ J. Tillman - Evans and Falls
+ Tompaulin - Heard You Whisper
+ Tower Of Foil - Comedy of Summer Rain + More songs by Tower Of Foil
+ The Traditionist - I Know My Ocean
+ trashcan sinatras - Leave Me Alone (Quickmix)
+ Travel By Sea - Complete Shakeup
+ Tribeca – Her Breasts Were Still Small
+ Tugboat - Reynard St. + More songs by Tugboat
+ The Turn-Ons - Crystalize
+ tWAMi - My Spanish Romance + More stuff by tWAMi
+ Twisted Wheel - SMASH IT UP
+ The Tyde - Pound For Pound
+ Ultrasport - The Boy That Never Lied
+ Unarmed Enemies - Missing Out
+ Unicova - Hush, Yeah Fly
+ Universal Poplab - Summer Struck
+ The Upsidedown - Wake Up Drive Thru
+ Valdez - Purple Rain
+ Van She - Kelly (Shinichi Osawa remix) +(Van She shopping)
+ John Vanderslice - Bill Gates Must Die + (John Vanderslice shopping)
+ Vapnet - Ge dom våld
+ VAST - Sunday I'll Be Gone
+ Velour - If You Really Want Me
+ Viola - Nobodylovers
+ The Violet Hour - Unreal City
+ Viva Voce - When Planets Collide
+ Volvoe - Remedy + More songs by Volvoe
+ The Von Bondies - This Is Our Perfect Crime
¤+ Voxtrot - Trepanation Party
+ Martha Wainwright - Bloody Mother Fuckin Asshole
+ Chris Walla - Sing Again
+ Dan Wallace - Fell
+ The Walls - Black and Blue
+ Warm Morning - Behind The Curtain
+ Laura Watling - Secret
+ Watoo Watoo - Un Mot de Trop
+ The Wave Pictures - We Never Motored West
+ We are soldiers we have guns - Jodi's Noise
+ The Weakerthans - Watermark
+ Wendy - First Against The Wall
+ Whiskey Go Gos - Whiskey Rain
+ White Denim - Mess Your Hair Up
+ Windermere - Trailer Park
¤+ Windsor For The Derby - Giving Up
+ Winter Took His Life - Oh
+ Winterpills - Handkerchiefs
+ Yeasayer - 2080
+ The Yellow Melodies - Let It Be Tonight
+ Yellow Powder - Mercury Chainsaw
+ Yellowish - This is my Direction
+ You Are My Everything - I Was A Punk
+ The Young Knives - Weekends And Bleak Days (Hot Summer)
+ Zemskov - Safety of the Town
+ The Zookeepers - Beautiful World

On the radio this morning...

It is indeed a beautiful morning!



Every morning when eating breakfast the radio is on, and from time to time it does happen that some really fine stuff is aired, thus helping to make the start of the day a good one. The “On the radio this morning” posts are my humble attempt to make your start a good one as well!

Water and more...

The heat has been almost unbearable in Denmark the past few days, and I cannot recall that I’ve been drinking this much water ever before. Hopefully the happy people attending this year’s Roskilde Festival are following my example and drink lots of water and not just beers. Beers are good and pretty fucking close to being the most essential fluid on the planet. Except on warm days like these where it’s dethroned by water on the top of that list of essentials. The last time I attended a festival (this one back in 1995) I had the greatest Thursday drinking (lots and lots of) beers in the sun, but paid the price and spent the entire Friday in the tent totally hung-over and dehydrated, which meant I was too exhausted to stay up to see Bon Jovi! Hang on! 14 years later I suddenly realize that this wasn’t the biggest sacrifice after all...

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Did you remember to download the Rikers EP I mentioned earlier today? It's awesome!

The William Blakes has announced that the band will be playing a couple of live dates at this year's Pop Montreal Festival. This has to be one of the most interesting new constellations (in this case prefer this term rather than "bands") coming out of Denmark the past few years and hopefully they'll be well received by the Canadians. I’m rather confident that the band's music, which I've previously described as something like "Arcade Fire meets Talking Heads", will appeal to the North Americans. Plans are that the trip should include one or more Toronto dates as well. So if I have any Canadian readers; go see them!
+ Violent God
+ Running Up That Hill (Kath Bush cover with Spleen United)

Paul Rijnders of Anything Box shares his remix of the track The Breakaway, which happens to be a song recorded by his own solo project Goodbye July.
+ The Breakaway (Kult Litre Remix)

I've just started to read a few promo mails and listen to some songs. There's plenty to choose from!

Here's something quite interesting. Liverpoolian trio Bagheera has sent out their promo mail to a large number of music blogs (remember to always use bcc), thus securing that it will be considered spam by most mail hosts. I always take a quick look at the spam mails before deleting, and somehow this caught my eyes. The band itself believes that their music will appeal to fans of Grizzly Bear and Yeasayer, but since (shame on me) I'm not all that familiar with either band, I cannot really say whether that's true or not. But the band's 4 track EP Hollow Home is really interesting and quite challenging, and definitely something I need to take further look at, sometime soon!
+ Old Machine

Have forgotten to mention that Boxstr.com seems to (finally) be working fine again! Getting a little value for my hard earned money!

The single Back Out On the Streets (Savages) by Americans The Armed Forces does sound somewhat like The Cars, so despite being infectiously catchy, it can hardly be labeled as highly original. But the band's album release strategy is definitely quite unlike something I've seen before!
+ Back Out On the Streets (Savages)

I've just downloaded the Liechtenstein debut album Survival Strategies In A Modern World and have found out that it's not even 23 minutes long? Blink and you'll miss it, but wouldn't be surprised if it's f*cking fabulous! Listening and yup! This is good stuff!
+ Roses in the Park