Two of the songs I mentioned yesterday Appley by The Julius Airwave and Ten Thousand Lines by Electric President have been added to my Current Favorites list.

Another song that probably will end up on the list is Only Art (remix) by Bot. A MP3 file of this nice little electronic track can be found via thepirateship.org, which also is the home of the brilliant The Ballet and The Mean Corner.

Everything was supervised by my youngest daughter (not really, but I couldn't resist posting a picture of her :-))!

I’m really busy at work, so I don’t have time to write a longer post. But I have no problem finding enough time to strongly recommend that you check out the energetic (and very, very good) Appley by Florida based band The Julius Airwave.

The Julius Airwave (Webpage + Myspace)
Appley (MP3)

Another band that seems to be quite popular among bloggers these days is US band (project) Electric President. However I didn’t bother exploring them further until I saw the guys being mentioned in the recent edition of Soundvenue.
The band plays a real nice kind of electronic indie pop (maybe not all that different from the music of Memoplay) and two really great tracks from the forthcoming album can be downloaded from the webpage of band member Ben Cooper.
The self-titled debut album will be released in January next year and I’ve already added to my list of albums I’m looking forward to.

Electric President (Webpage)
Ten Thousand Lines (MP3)
Good Morning, Hypocrite (MP3)
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Memoplay - Words Are Small (MP3)

Danes Ruined By Martin have added a new (and excellent) song called Burn The Sun to the MP3-player in their media section.

Swedish singer Pelle Carlberg seems to be the current favorite of several music blog writers, so I thought the only right thing would be to check him out.
Luckily his debut solo album is released on the Labrador label, which always seems more than prepared to offer free downloads of a few songs by their artists.
In this case things are no different and two songs from the album Everything. Now! are available (+1 more at the artist's webpage).
I especially recommend that you listen to the very catchy and wonderful Riverbank!

Pelle Carlberg (Webpage) added to my Current Favorites list
Riverbank (MP3)
Oh, No! It's Happening Again (MP3)
Go to Hell, Miss Rydell (MP3)

It's Monday morning and time to take a look at Tjeklisten. It doesn't look too bad this week and I decided to vote for these songs:

1. Mads Langer – Breaking News (listen)
2. Alpine – Mondays Look The Same (video)
3. Kent – Dom Som Försvann
4. Kashmir – The Cynic
5. Green Day – Jesus Of Surburbia

The album Alligator by The National has been added to my CD-Collection. The album is absolutely brilliant, but I've already written more about that in a previous post.

Yesterday when checking out the recent posts in the amazing It’s A Trap blog, I found a link to Finnish band Ultrasport.
First single The Boy That Never Lied from the band's debut album Nothing Can Go Wrong can be downloaded for free from their webpage, so I thought I might as well waste a few seconds and give it a try.
But as it turned out it wasn't a waste of time at all, because the single is a really nice indie pop tune. Not at all the type of song I’d normally expect to be released by a Finnish band, but that's probably just my ignorance?

Ultrasport (Webpage)
The Boy That Never Lied (MP3)

The content of this post has more or less (probably more than less) been stolen from German Indie-Pop-Blog Coast Is Clear.
Tuesday Peter wrote about the American band The Ballet and because of his very positive description, I quickly decided to download the 6 songs by the band which can be found at thepirateship.org.
And there is every reason to be positive. The music is wonderful and catchy Twee-pop and if you enjoy the music of The Magnetic Fields, Belle & Sebastian and of course The Hidden Cameras there really shouldn't be any reasons why you won't like The Ballet as well.
I have added the fantastic In My Head to my Current Favorites list, but I won’t (or shouldn’t) recommend just one of the songs, because each one of them is a little gem!
Two of the members of The Ballet used to be in another band called The Mean Corner, which I also suggest you spend a few minutes listening to!

The Ballet (Webpage)
The Mean Corner (Webpage)

It is December and it is time for me to start creating my Christmas wishlist. No matter how difficult it might be, I will try NOT to be unreasonable (yeah right!) and I will try to keep it music related.
Here we go:
My hope is that the following items will be wrapped up in nice glittering gift paper and waiting for me underneath the Christmas tree!

1. The debut album by iLiKETRAiNS
2. The debut album by Fans Of Kate
3. The debut album by Ruined By Martin
4. The third album by JJ72 + concert tickets
5. Doves concert tickets
6. The 3 albums I ordered a long time ago from Twee Kitten (The Arrogants, The Consultants and My Favorite) - they have been shipped now!
7. Keira Knightley

I said I would try to be reasonable and to keep it music related. I did a good job - didn't I? ;-)

Hopefully there is an outside chance that 6 of my wishes will come true some day?!?!

The list will remain "dynamic", thus allowing me to continuously adding my wishes!