February 24, 2012

Sidney Poitier dancing at the Swimclub (sort of)...

New York duo Swimclub has borrowed a clip from To Sir, with Love and has created this fun and absolutely perfect video for their single What You Want. Can be found on the band's EP Funhouse For Friends and is a nice catchy 60's inspired pop tune!



Swimclub - What You Want by Swimclub

Richard Hawley...

Trying to get the Richard Hawley til Danmark ("to Denmark") Facebook group back up and running. Seems like every previous member have been kicked out, so I'm back starting from scratch...Mr. Hawley still tops my list of artists I hope to see live someday, and as naive as I may be, I still hope that this group in some way could convince Mr. Hawley to come to Denmark (otherwise I'll probably have to go to the UK instead?)...though we need a few more people to join the group, as I'm not quite sure if the three members we are right now will do the trick...do yourself the favor and check out the live recording below; that man's voice is truly spectacular!



Richard Hawley - Open Up Your Door by Mute UK

February 23, 2012

Unplugged Moss portrait...

Watch one of my favorite bands Northern Portrait perform an acoustic version of Stirling Moss somewhere "in the deep center of Rome"...great concept, though the sound suffered a bit from the guys standing with their backs to each other...



Stirling Moss by Northern Portrait

For the trees...

And watch the new video of Hannah Schneider performing a beautiful live version of For The Trees on national TV...the track can be found on her new album Me Vs. I, which I intend to check out sooner than later...



For the Trees by Hannah Schneider

Dancing in the snow...

Check out new video for this wonderful folk/pop track Dancing In The Snow by Danes Green Lives...

February 22, 2012

Holding onto hope...

Here's a quick one straight from the inbox. Holding Onto Hope (featuring vocals from Kimberly Anne), the new single by London trio Imaginaire, was made available yesterday via bandcamp as a free download. A highly enjoyable and quite catchy 80's inspired electro pop/synth dominated tune...note to self: need to check out the older tracks...
+ Holding Onto Hope

Various...

I’ve probably written this a billion times before (give and take a few), but nonetheless I still feel that it’s relevant to repeat it from time to time. To all you friendly people sending mails suggesting I should check out this, that or something else; I’m truly sorry if you never get any reply or even better see the stuff featured around here. But time is a limited resource and although I do my best actually giving what’s sent my way a listen, it’s still only a minor part of the whole thing. As it should be painfully obvious to anyone, who’s accidentally tried to read one of my posts, English is not my first language. Heck; I was pretty horrible at it in school and to me grammar was always a complete waste of time. So believe it or not; every fucking post I’ve ever written took pretty close to forever to write. It may not look as if they did, but trust me! They did! So every time I start feel like writing a post I immediately start thinking of the grammar and spell checks, googling for phrases, finding synonyms etc. Needless to say quite a few blog posts have ended up never seeing the light of day, because I really didn’t have energy for another English lesson. And though I often post songs or videos accompanied by only a few lines, there also happen to be days, where I think posts like that are too pathetic to post. I’m just rambling here and probably should get to the point...problem is: there is not point really. So I’ll just shut the fuck up for now and post some of the stuff that’s on my to-do-list to hopefully ease my conscience a little...

Extinctions, the new album by Burning Hearts, was released yesterday. It's an absolute beauty so please, please, please give it a listen!
+ Burn Burn Burn

What seems like ages ago, I labeled The Papertiger Sound as "one of the best unsigned bands in the world". As far as I can tell they remain unsigned, but luckily they are still around recording music and continue giving it away for free. New EP Call Home is free to download via bandcamp and older releases can be grabbed from the band's homepage.
+ Safe Inside

Embarassing has to be the word. Three weeks ago I mailed Datawaslost and requested a download copy of the North College Hill album by The Minor Leagues. They gladly (and quickly) mailed it and I showed my gratitude by...doing absolutely nothing! Stupid...for a number of resaons. If I want labels to mail me albums, it's probably a mighty fine idea writing a few words! But more importantly the album contains some pretty damn good pop songs and how will my two readers know that unless I tell them (they probably knew already)?
+ Please Don't Throw My Love Away

Danish band Forgotten Fields On Fire is now called Jetsi Kain. Not really sure why, but as long as they keep writing charming pop songs, I really couldn't care less. New track I'm In Control was produced by the same lads, who produced the track by The Electic Moniker I posted not so long ago and does have a little of the same Caribbean feel to it (more reggae than calypso though)...
+ I'm In Control

February 21, 2012

Steam railway...

Anyone remember DAMPFBAHN!? If you don’t I can hardly won’t blame you, as nearly 5 years have gone since they put out an EP containing 5 free to download tracks; which they later followed up by having the track All Is Swell remixed by 9 other artists. But despite all their efforts the splash they made was hardly noticeable and since those busy days in 2007 the duo has been completely quiet. Though lead singer Peter (at least I assume he’s the one singing) has been busy recording and releasing song under the alias One Weekly Gun, which you’ve probably heard of, if you happen to be a semi-regular visitor around here. Now the duo is finally back together writing and recording, and so far two new songs have been released. Same As Me sort of follows nicely in the footsteps of the older tracks and is a nice uptempo electro pop dance kind of thing. However their second output You’re The First (purchase) has completely knocked me off my feet. After a short electronic intro it evolves into a grand and catchy pop song, which perhaps makes them sound more mainstream than ever, but at the same time makes them sound perhaps better than ever! Hadn’t really missed them all – now I wonder why?

You're The First by DAMPFBAHN!

Same as Me by DAMPFBAHN!

And:
+ All Is Swell (EP version)
+ All Is Swell Lummertmix (remixed by Oliver North Boy Choir)

February 20, 2012

Blood brothers...

As a few of you may recall, I posted a snippet from the video a month ago. Now the video for the closing track Blood Brothers off Chorus Grant and the Villa Nova has finally been made available. As I suspected it's dark, sinister, emotional and with anything but a happy ending!

February 17, 2012

Misery...

VETO frontman Troels Abrahamsen shares this remix of the Spleen United track Misery. The original is included on the band's new album School of Euphoria and features Danish "heroin" Gitte Nielsen on guest vocals...still no fan of remixes (yeah, yeah - I know, I posted one yesterday as well), but actually found myself tapping my feet along to this one...

Misery (Troels Abrahamsen remix) by Spleen United