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Wildcard (week 18):
Wildcard (week 18):
Arkells – Imagine Barcelona
Carte Blanche Music regulars Arkells turn 20 this year. They named themselves after Arkell Street in Hamilton, Canada, where the band members lived and practiced their music. Their new single Imagine Barcelona is an easy-going, radio-ready song with bright summer vibes and a folky, Come On Eileen-like violin solo.
Imagine Barcelona by Arkells is the new Carte Blanche Music Wildcard. It will be prominently displayed at the top of the blog for an entire week.
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You’ll find all of this year’s Carte Blanche Music Wildcards so far in the Wildcards 2026 playlist.
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Arkells – People’s Champ
Arkells – People’s Champ
Almost exactly a year ago, Arkells’ single Knocking At The Door was the Carte Blanche Music Wildcard. A great (and in Europe greatly overlooked) track that was later added to the Deluxe Edition of the Canadian band’s fourth album Morning Report.
Not ready to succumb to the deafness of many radio stations, Arkells just put out another heart-pumping (and hard pumping) hi-energy pop/rock track that would do so well on the airwaves… People’s Champ is graced with a horn section and lovely call-and-response vocals that make you want to shout to your radio (or your streaming service of choice, for that matter).
Frontman Max Kerman says about the song’s lyrics: “We’re comforted every day by the people in our neighbourhood who go the extra mile for their community – especially when they don’t have to. We love that person. This song is about the opposite of that: it’s about the guy who acts like Robin Hood, but is the farthest thing from it. But that’s OK: look around and you’ll find people’s champs all around ya.”
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Wildcard (week 17):
Wildcard (week 17):
Arkells – Knocking At The Door
Arkell Street is a street in the Canadian port city Hamilton, where Max Kerman, Mike DeAngelis, Nick Dika, Tim Oxford and Anthony Carone lived and practiced their music. When they started a band, in 2006, they decided to name it after that street.
Arkells have won multiple Juno Awards for (New) Group Of The Year and Rock Album Of The Year. Their fourth album Morning Report was released only in August last year, but this new single is a totally new song already. It sits somewhere between Hozier and Imagine Dragons and I think it’s great. That’s why I chose it as next week’s Carte Blanche Music Wildcard!
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Additions to the Carte Blanche Music playlist (week 18)
Not all, but only the best new music. Added to the playlist this week (alphabetically):
- Arkells – Imagine Barcelona
indie | pop - David Byrne, Natalia Fourcade & Mexican Institute Of Sound – ¿Cuál Es La Razón?
indie | latin | pop | tropical - Editors – Call It In
indie | pop | rock - Das Pop – Different Class
indie | pop - Roe – Adrenaline
indie | pop - Suzi – Short Lived
indie | pop | rock - Young The Giant – Evergreen indie | pop | rock
Check them all in the constantly updated Carte Blanche Music Spotify playlist.
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Additions to the Carte Blanche Music playlist (week 26)
Not all, but only the *best* new music. Added to the playlist this week (alphabetically):
- Arkells – Skin indie | pop
- The Blues & Grays – Black Spring indie | pop | rock
- Issey Cross – Bittersweet Goodbye dance | drum & bass
- Dead Anyway – Crocodiles indie | jazz | pop | spoken word
- Georgia Gets By – Easier To Run
indie | pop | rock - Goodnight Sunrise – This Is Yours (To Make) indie | rock
- Grass Stains – Tone Of Voice indie | pop | rock
- Jesse Hite – One Day At A Time indie | rock
- The Hoosiers – Snowflake indie | pop
- In Waves – The Shadows indie | pop | rock
- The Last Dinner Party – Sinner pop | rock
- Moby feat. Gregory Porter – In My Heart [Moby Remix] dance | pop
- Päter – Four Walls indie | pop | rock
- Petrol – Pyle On indie | pop | rock
- Olivia Rodrigo – Vampire pop
- The Struts – Too Good At Raising Hell indie | rock
- Vistas – I Know I Know indie | pop | rock
Check them all in the constantly updated Carte Blanche Music Spotify playlist.
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5 more great new holiday tunes (part 2)
There’s so much more to Christmas than Mariah Carey, Wham! and Chris Rea… The tracks below are brand-new songs (in no particular order) that deserve to be future holiday classics. Crank up the volume, but make sure the tree stands firm. Happy X-Mess!
Dream Nails – Lonely Star (Christmas Song)
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Arkells – The Last Christmas (We Ever Spend Apart)
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Sigrid – Home To You (This Christmas)
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Rob Thomas – Small Town Christmas
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Immaculate Fools – Christmas
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All of these, and almost 200 other ‘different’ Christmas songs can be found in my playlist Werner’s X-Mess. Follow it for over 11 hours of festive fun (and counting)!
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Werner’s Weekly (week 17)
Well, this was a really fun week, musically! Acts like DMA’s, Hooverphonic, Dutch talent Naaz, The Pale White and We Are Scientists all put out great new tracks, all of which and more are compiled in the Carte Blanche Music playlist, featuring this year’s best new music so far. It’s a list worth subscribing to (but don’t take my word for it, just go and listen for yourself).
But if you’re fine with a ‘best of the best’ list, then let me present you with Werner’s Weekly, your compass to the music that matters:
- Cute Mess – Untied (Wildcard this week)
- Stars – Ship To Shore (Wildcard last week)
- Arkells – People’s Champ
- Belle & The Beats – Deeper
- James – Better Than That
- Priest – Lost Lions
- Young Gun Silver Fox – Take It Or Leave It
Check all tracks above via the Werner’s Weekly player in the sidebar. Triggered by one of the songs? More info behind each of the links!
For more great new music follow the constantly updated Carte Blanche Music playlist.
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Werner’s Weekly (week 19)
- GotSome feat. Lisa Kekaula – I Don’t Know (this week’s Wildcard)
- Arkells – Knocking At The Door (last week’s Wildcard)
- Anteros – Cherry Drop
- Calogero – Je Joue De La Musique
- Foster The People – SHC
- Kasabian – Ill Ray (The King)
- Satellite Stories – Waiting For
- Sløtface – Magazine
The above songs are simply the best new music of the past week (in my opinion and in alphabetical order). Click the links to read my recommendations and more importantly: listen to the songs via the Werner’s Weekly player in the sidebar.
If you like what you hear, you may very well like my container playlist Carte Blanche Music as well. There you’ll find more great new music, much more than I can write about.
Next step, of course, would be to subscribe to the playlists. Then you’ll get to know the music as soon as I add it. Waiting is soooo 2016! ?
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Werner’s Weekly (week 18)
So far, 2017 is a great year for music. Among the many additions I did to my container playlist Carte Blanche Music are brand new songs by artists as diverse as Estrons, Little Steven, Depeche Mode, Circa Waves and Blondie. But that’s not all…
Most of the music you hear on the radio is from American or British artists. But there is so much more to enjoy! Each week, I check new music from all over the world for this blog. The best tracks of the last week are in Werner’s Weekly, presented here in alphabetical order. You’ll find artists from the US and UK, but also Canada, Denmark, the Netherlands, Australia, Spain, Colombia and Ukraine. Check my recommendations via the links and listen to the music via the playlist in the sidebar. Enjoy!
- Arkells – Knocking At The Door (this week’s Wildcard)
- Saveus – Levitate Me (last week’s Wildcard)
- Christon – Younger Than Before
- Confidence Man – Bubblegum
- Dvicio – No Te Vas
- Pitbull feat. Robin Thicke, Joe Perry & Travis Barker – Bad Man
- Robbie Williams – Heavy Entertainment Show
- TANA – Why Can’t I Love You (Live)
