Stuff...

Thank you for asking! My back is feeling a whole lot better and the light at the end of the tunnel is now visible. Not bright and clear, but visible. Feels really good, though rather unfamiliar, trying to be positive and optimistic!

French Horn Rebellion remixes new OMD single If You Want It and the end result is worse than bad. It’s free to download “if you want it” to check out yourself. I’ve been a fan of OMD for more than 25 years, so it’s far more interesting to post that new album History of Modern will be out on September 20. That’s the first album to feature the “classic line-up” since The Pacific Age, which came out in 1986!

I’ve been listening a lot recently to this cool track by “space-motown / post-shoegaze group” Calm Palm Vapor “from the south-side of Chicago”.
+ Run The Tables

Here’s some good news straight from the inbox. Self-titled debut album by Danish indie pop quartet C’est tout Martine will be out on Divine Records on September 24. Lyrics are in Danish, but as always I hope you lot will give the music a chance nonetheless.
+ Faa et liv

IFPI revisited and more...

Is this nemesis? Just hours after writing that IFPI/Blogger hadn’t removed my re-post of the Doves remix, I received a notification that another post had been taken down. I assume you’re now awaiting a post of rage and anger, but apparently my previous post didn’t help, so why bother? And since the post in question is from February and not something removed from the “front page”, it is somehow easier to live with, though I still find it difficult to accept that they did it without contacting me first. However it does puzzle me somewhat that the post taken down is one of those “emptying the mailbox” ones, where I post various promo tracks found in the mailbox. But perhaps I should have read the mails more carefully, though I doubt very much that any of them said that I wasn’t allowed to post the track or only posting it for a limit period of time. I know I keep the songs up for quite a long time (maybe too long), but since I’m in the third or fourth wave of bloggers receiving the promo mails, the songs have most likely been posted by several other (and much bigger) blogs. So the songs are already out there, and the 5-10 extra downloads caused by me not removing the download links cannot really be what’s ruining the industry. Can it? But I’ll soldier on, though some guidelines would be much appreciated.

I’ll definitely be standing right in front of the stage when Danish quartet C’est tout Martine are playing at Start! Festival. Completely unknown to me a couple of days ago, but the band’s naive yet absolutely lovely indie pop tunes (sung in Danish) have charmed me away. This year’s line-up just keeps looking better and better and still plenty of new bands left to be checked out.
+ Faa Et Liv
+ Vender Tilbage

Superb Danish folk rocker Cody is now in New York and for the next week he and the band will be playing a number of gigs. Simply too great to miss!
+ There Is A Light (Live)

A new 7 track CD by Florida shoegazers Starring Me will (hopefully) be out in May.
+ Parallels are Endless