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Additions to the Carte Blanche Music playlist (week 17)
Not all, but only the best new music. Added to the playlist this week (alphabetically):
- Beach Bunny feat. Aly & AJ – Clueless
indie | pop - Blossoms – Joke About Divorce
indie | pop - Graham Coxon – Billy Says indie | pop | rock
- Daphnie – 28
indie | rock - Duran Duran & Nile Rodgers – Free To Love indie | pop
- Egoism – Summer Again, Sung To The End indie | rock
- Icona Pop – Dance To This
dance | electronic | indie - Lights – Right Through You
electronic | indie | pop - Miki Núñez – Un Altre Cop
latin | pop | ska - The Waterboys – Too Close To Heaven [Soul Version] indie | rock | soul
- Suki Waterhouse – Tiny Raisin pop
Check them all in the constantly updated Carte Blanche Music Spotify playlist.
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Werner’s Weekly (week 17)
This is Werner’s Weekly, your compass to new music that matters, containing the two most recent Carte Blanche Music Wildcards, and the best of the other new releases in alphabetical order:
- Angèle – Libre
(Wildcard this week) - Lauran Hibberd feat. DJ Lethal – Still Running (5K) (Wildcard last week)
- Estella Dawn – Easy To Fall
- Friday – Feels So Good
- Losun – Crossroad
- The Indiana Drones – To Be Free
- Vaughn Ahrens – Small Talk
Click the links for more info and listen to each of the tracks via the Werner’s Weekly player below.
For more great new music, follow the constantly updated Carte Blanche Music playlist. Also added last week: Duran Duran, Editors, Florence & The Machine, The Fratellis, and more.
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Peter Stone – Cold
Peter Stone – Cold
Pietro Carallo is an Italian singer-songwriter, musician and music producer. He started playing the piano at the age of 8, while adding singing and song-writing to his palette at 15. In 2020, he released his first single under the Peter Stone moniker.
On Christmas Eve, his debut EP Unlabeled came out. It contains his recent single Lead Me, as well as four new songs. The track Cold is a highlight in my ears. Its opening notes bring the intro of Duran Duran’s Save A Prayer to mind. Elsewhere, the ‘80s are omni-present as well. Check the The Weeknd-like drum fills, the propulsive synths or the guitar solo, for instance. Despite those influences however (or perhaps because of them), the song fits the current musical climate like a glove.
All in all: a track that deserves to push Peter Stone’s career firmly in the right direction.
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For more great new music, follow the constantly updated Carte Blanche Music playlist.
werner's weekly
Werner’s Weekly (week 21)
This is Werner’s Weekly, your compass to the music that matters, containing the two most recent Carte Blanche Music Wildcards, and the best of the other new releases in alphabetical order:
- Haerts – Days Go By (Wildcard this week)
- Niko Rubio – You Could Be The One (Wildcard last week)
- Edouard Landry – Words
- Rebecca Lou – Lovesick
- Vincent – Down
Click the links for more info and listen to each of the tracks via the Werner’s Weekly player below.
For more great new music, follow the constantly updated Carte Blanche Music playlist. Also added last week: Counting Crows, Duran Duran, Eagle-Eye Cherry, Garbage, Twenty One Pilots, Weezer, and more.
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Wildcard (week 39):
Wildcard (week 39):
morgxn & Walk The Moon – home
16 December 2016, nearly 30 years after I started, I made my last regular Carte Blanche radio show. In that program, I played the track home by morgxn, a guy from Nashville who already sung in a gospel choir at the age of 6. As a 9-year-old, he took singing and piano lessons and started writing his own songs. Then he went to New York, where he ended up in the theatre world.
By 2016 however, morgxn refocussed on his music, which led to the release of his album vital, containing his singles love you with the lights on, Duran Duran cover notorious and the stomper home. The latter alone is so far good for 8 million Spotify streams.
Fast forward to 2018. A slight reworking of home has just been re-released, this time featuring Walk The Moon singer Nicholas Petricca. The two versions don’t differ dramatically, but this sure is a fine reminder of the great electronic soul track home already was!
This week, the Carte Blanche Music blog is the song’s temporary home, as it is the new Wildcard. This means it features here prominently, and it’s only one mouse click away from listening. Just like all of the tracks in the Wildcards 2018 playlist.
For more great new music, follow the constantly updated Carte Blanche Music playlist.
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Astral Drive – Summer Of ‘76
Until the summer of 2018, the summer of 1976 was the hottest summer in Europe in recent memory. Now, it’s also the topic of the first single by Astral Drive. A song that doesn’t only lyrically takes us 42(!) years back in time, but sonically as well. It’s a very well executed 70s pastiche, that recalls memories of Todd Rundgren. Not in the least because it features backing vocals from Kasim Sulton, who was once in the band Utopia with Rundgren.
Astral Drive’s eponymous album is the brain child of Phil Thornalley, and embodies his vision of a long lost album from the 1970s that only existed in his own mind. The songwriter, engineer and producer has a long history in the music business. He worked with artists as diverse as The Cure, Psychedelic Furs, The Jam, Duran Duran, Paul McCartney, and Natalie Imbruglia (he produced and co-wrote her worldwide smash hit Torn), played in Johnny Hates Jazz and just came back from nearly two years of touring the world as Bryan Adams’ bass player.
For more great new music, follow the constantly updated Carte Blanche Music playlist.
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Sleigh Bells – Rainmaker
Duran Duran – Come Undone, EMF – Unbelievable, Eric B. & Rakim – Paid in Full (and follow-up I Know You Got Soul), Milli Vanilli – Girl You Know It’s True, PM Dawn – Set Adrift On Memory Bliss, Snap! – Ooops Up, Soul II Soul – Keep On Movin’ (and follow-up Back To Life) and many, many more all have one thing in common, except for being worldwide hits: they all sample the legendary drum break (after [3’30]) from The Soul Searchers’ Ashley’s Roadclip (1974).
Now, we can add one more song to that impressive list, and honestly, I didn’t see it coming. New York duo Sleigh Bells, that used to do noise-pop, put it at the heart of their new single Rainmaker. It makes the song instantly recognizable and likeable. Rainmaker is taken from the band’s upcoming mini-album Kid Kruschev, which will be out 10 November.
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Aston Merrygold – One Night In Paris
After British boy band JLS (primarily successful in Great-Britain) disbanded, Aston Merrygold chose to start a solo career. His debut album Showstopper has yet to be released, but he already scored a big solo hit with the Bruno Mars-like Get Stupid.
His new single One Night In Paris is just as recognizable, cleverly combining sounds from the likes of Mika, Michael Jackson and even Duran Duran. I’d be surprised if this radio friendly track wouldn’t send Aston Merrygold up the charts once again. Une nuit à Paris baby!
