Yep - tonight I'm going to see
Shout Out Louds &
DAYS at
The Tivoli in Helsingborg. Despite being a hundred years old, it will be the first time ever that I attend a concert in Sweden. It could be/should be/will be freakin' awesome!
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Shout Out Louds - Tonight I Have To Leave It+
Days - DownhillYesterday I finally got my hands on the 4 year old demo CD/album
Forsidestof til Eftertanke by
ENTAKT. It took some begging, some waiting, some foul language and in the end some threats that I was going to send my domestic troops of young rascals into action, before something actually started to happen. But now I have my own copy and since every regular reader of this blog knows that I really love this band, I am obviously delighted to be able to add this small jewel to my music collection. And because I'm totally biased I won't even bother trying to explain how great the CD is!
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Livets sang går i stå mol (wonderful track)
NY singer/songwriter
Spencer Tricker is currently working on a small side project (seems like a lot of those projects are floating around these days) called
The Kid Syndicate. He has mailed me two tracks that he describes like this: "
One is sort of a cartoon noise-fest about nightclub people and the other one is more like ghosts in a haunted house singing about war." Think I prefer his more laid back solo tracks, though the new ones could be sleepers as they are not without a certain charm!
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The War+
Little Red Anorak+
Altar Blue Boy (solo track)
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Oblivion (solo track)
Danish weblog
Frekvens has picked up the pace and posts news several times a day. And it has been redesigned as well!
It's not secret that I'd like my blog to become widely popular and I've touched this subject a few times before (cannot recall when really). So today I visited a few of the
really, really popular music blogs to see what's happening there and maybe even find a few interesting topics I could "borrow" to post in this blog (and even more importantly try to understand WHY they are so popular). Now that I've finished my "tour" I've come to the conclusion that I have these two options:
1. I can change my strategy and start to post news, gossip and maybe even a few songs by useless artists like
Jennifer Lopez,
Britney Spears,
Posh (just gossip),
Paris Hilton (even more gossip),
RW and
JT,
as well as every single artist and celebrity showing up at the
MTV Video Music Awards.
2. Do absolutely nothing and continue blogging in obscurity!
Which option do you want me to pick?
NY singer-songwriter Spencer Tricker has granted me permission to post and share his brand new recording Phantomz. Described as “A little Belle and Sebastian, a little early Coldplay, a little homemade, heartbroke American effort…predominantly acoustic and very stripped down”. The track is taken from a forthcoming EP/mini album in the works that’s going to be called Anesthetics. Mr. Tricker continues to be working hard with his music in a “desperate bid to avoid getting a real job one day”. I can only respect that so much and I sincerely hope (and firmly believe) that ultimately his fine songwriting skills and lovely voice will make him reach that goal.
