Jill Goldberg was born and raised in New Jersey, where she always participated in music. Whether she played clarinet and trumpet in a band or wrote instrumental piano songs. In college, she started singing as well, when she joined an a cappella group. Soon, she also started arranging the songs for the group.

After graduating with a Bachelors degree in music theory, she moved to New York to work in television. It was while living there that she started writing her own songs and performing her music live. She continued to do so after relocating to Chicago, where Jillie is now known as a badass piano bar entertainer.

In 2021, the singer-songwriter released 11 singles, gaining over 100.000 streams and over a thousand new followers. All of these songs were directly made available on streaming services as well, bar one… Time Of Our Lives, arguably the strongest song of the bunch, has been available on Bandcamp since 25 October. But only now, four months later, it is released on a larger scale. Jillie wrote, performed and produced the track herself at home, and features the talent of musicians she found online around the world.

Time Of Our Lives is a well-crafted pop song with beautiful vocal and piano melodies throughout.

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Werner Schlosser

I’m a music industry watcher and journalist. Worked at a CD club, a record store chain and was editor in chief of an entertainment trade magazine. Have been in the radio business since 1987, producing and presenting shows. Was music director of several stations. Also, I developed the European Border Breakers Chart, Music Moves Europe Talent Chart and ESNS Chart. CEO of Werner Bros. tekst | uitleg.

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The last time I wrote about Brisbane-based Hope Defteros was in the spring of 2020. Around that same time, she also posted a video with a live acoustic version of Hate Goodbyes. Two years later, a newly recorded studio version is her new single. The origins of the song go back even longer. Hope says she wrote the track in 2018 about a romance that was ‘constantly ending and starting again’.

Hope D explains: “It was difficult to come to the realisation that we shouldn’t be together and just call it off completely, but the thought of that final goodbye was so unbearable that we continuously kept the relationship going after it would end. I would come to terms with the reality that we were only together because it was painful not to be, which caused spirals, emotional shut offs, and yet again another breakup.”

Hate Goodbyes is an energetic, shiny pop-rock track that’ll do well during Hope’s upcoming Australian tour.

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Werner Schlosser

I’m a music industry watcher and journalist. Worked at a CD club, a record store chain and was editor in chief of an entertainment trade magazine. Have been in the radio business since 1987, producing and presenting shows. Was music director of several stations. Also, I developed the European Border Breakers Chart, Music Moves Europe Talent Chart and ESNS Chart. CEO of Werner Bros. tekst | uitleg.

www.carteblanchemusic.nl

Hollie Col is a Sydney-based singer-songwriter whose loveable charm translates into instantly likeable songs. Heavily inspired by artists such as Taylor Swift, Maggie Rogers and Haim, she makes guitar-infused pop. Her self-directed music videos, emphasis on storytelling and LGBTQIA+ representation already brought her an army of fans. That’s likely to grow further with the release of her latest track.

Following her previous single Reruns, her new song Seasick is co-written and produced by Dylan Nash (Dean Lewis and Angus & Julia Stone). It has a timeless quality to it and has an ultra memorable chorus.

Hollie says about it: “I wrote this song with Dylan Nash about a back and forth relationship, and how nauseating it can feel to be stuck on someone you just want to get over. I think it’s almost comical how often we lie to ourselves about our own feelings or get frustrated at ourselves for crushing over someone we do NOT want to be crushing over.”

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Werner Schlosser

I’m a music industry watcher and journalist. Worked at a CD club, a record store chain and was editor in chief of an entertainment trade magazine. Have been in the radio business since 1987, producing and presenting shows. Was music director of several stations. Also, I developed the European Border Breakers Chart, Music Moves Europe Talent Chart and ESNS Chart. CEO of Werner Bros. tekst | uitleg.

www.carteblanchemusic.nl

Nothing On is easily Slowly Slowly’s poppiest song yet. With this track, the Melbourne pop-rockers move in a tight, sing-along bubblegum pop direction. I like them all the better for it. Self-produced by front man Ben Stewart, the drums and guitars sound more polished than ever. Mixer Jonathan Gilmore (who worked with The 1975, Nothing But Thieves and beabadoobee before) deserves credits for that as well. Nothing On marks the first taste of new music from the band this year.

Stewart explains this song is about the world stopping and getting the chance to repair things that had gone unsaid or been swept up in the everyday, for some time. “I was locked up in a house and for the first time was forced to look at what I had become – how I’d lost the fun side of myself. It’s a nod to the bittersweet nature of the last 2 years. It’s been so difficult and yet such a period of growth. Most of the music I’ve written in this period has an upbeat feel to it in a desperate attempt to remember that feeling. I don’t think I could have handled writing a bleak sounding record and so this song, like many to come, detail very complicated, painful situations housed in fun exteriors. Even if you choose to just scratch the surface, Nothing On is highly addictive. We have been listening to it for months now and we’re still not sick of it.”

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Werner Schlosser

I’m a music industry watcher and journalist. Worked at a CD club, a record store chain and was editor in chief of an entertainment trade magazine. Have been in the radio business since 1987, producing and presenting shows. Was music director of several stations. Also, I developed the European Border Breakers Chart, Music Moves Europe Talent Chart and ESNS Chart. CEO of Werner Bros. tekst | uitleg.

www.carteblanchemusic.nl