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Wildcard (week 39):
The Hunna – Summer
To me, The Hunna (who’s Piece By Piece and Never Enough already featured here), are one of the best emerging rock bands to come out of the UK lately. In the two years since they were founded, The Hunna delivered a great debut album, which spawned no less than six singles.
Summer is a brand new track already, providing further proof that The Hunna deserve to be the next big thing.
For starters, they score this week’s Carte Blanche Music Wildcard (all of which you can find in this neat little playlist).
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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Black Country Communion – Over My Head
Confession: I hadn’t heard of Black Country Communion before. My fault. For BCC is a real supergroup, combining the talents of Joe Bonamassa (vocals and guitar), Glenn Hughes (vocals and bass), Jason Bonham (drums and percussion) and Derek Sherinian (keyboards). And it was founded as early as 2009. My bad, totally.
No surprise, then, that their new album BCCIV is their fourth. It marks the band’s reunion, after they split up in 2013. Good to hear nothing changed, really. The band still excel in their mix of blues rock and hard rock. Enjoy new single Over My Head here in the format of your liking:
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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Tiggs Da Author – Work It Out
Before you read on, please listen to this track that I was completely mad about in 2003, Jerk It Out by Caesars (known as Caesars Palace in their home country Sweden and as Twelve Caesars elsewhere in Scandinavia, to keep things simple):
Fast forward to 2017: here is Tiggs Da Author’s version of this song. Thankfully he left the original pretty much intact, basically only changing one word in the title and adding a rap to the bridge. I hope this cover (with its Chris Martin featuring fun video) will introduce a truly great song to a whole new generation (leaving me feeling old…).
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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Hippo Campus – Baseball
Hippo Campus make smart music. That’s not strange for a band that named itself after a part of the brain. If you like Satellite Stories, then open your mind for Hippo Campus as well…
After releasing quite some singles and EP’s since 2015, their debut album Landmark came out only early this year. Now, seven months later, they quickly follow it up with the surprise EP Warm Glow, containing three brand new tracks. Long-term live favourite Baseball is the first single.
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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Audio Adam – Break Down
Since 2010, this Dutch pop rock band already treated us with their eponymous debut EP and full albums This Is Our Home and Moving Down The Grey Line. Since then, they appear to have left the album concept to others, only releasing separate tracks. Each of them songs with more pop than rock sensibilities, aiming for a larger audience than before. An audience they deserve, in my opinion.
If you haven’t heard any of their tracks before, their short and snappy new single Break Down is a fine introduction to Audio Adam!
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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Ours – Amour En Morse
French singer-songwriter Alain Souchon has passed on his musical genes to his sons Pierre and Charles. The latter, born in 1978, is better known as Ours.
He released his first album Mi in 2007 and his second album El in 2011. Together, the two mysterious titles form the word ‘miel’, French for ‘honey’. In between those albums, in 2009, Ours sang a duet with Lily Allen, generating the French version of her song 22, which was called 22 (Vingt Deux). This version was included on the single as it was distributed in France.
Now, Ours is back. With an upcoming album called Pops (‘miel pops’, anyone?) and a very catchy new single!
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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Hundred Waters – Wave To Anchor
From Florida, with love. Meet Hundred Waters, a trio that was formed in 2011. When you listen to their music, that lies somewhere between art rock and folk, you can hardly believe they are signed to OWSLA, a record label founded by Skrillex.
The last five years, Hundred Waters released a host of singles, EP’s and albums. Their latest long player Communicating, came out only last week. Several tracks off it had already been put online, but I expect their new single will be making, ehm, waves shortly.
The coming months, the band are on an extensive tour through the US and Europe. Worth a visit!
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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Calypso Valois – Apprivoisé
When French singer Elli Medeiros scored a pan European hit with her latin flavoured single A Bailar Calypso, in 1987, it wasn’t about the tropical dance, but about her new-born daughter. Now in her thirty’s herself, Calypso Valois has started her own musical career.
This autumn (13 October, to be precise), she releases her debut album Cannibale. It will feature her earlier tracks Le Jour and Vis à Vis, and her brand new single Apprivoisé. This track comes with an arty, explicit video, as we have come to know from this talented artist.
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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Kingsbury – Alone Again
At 13, Caroline Kingsbury began discovering indie bands on the internet and posting covers of her favourite songs on YouTube. To her own surprise, she gained attention from other local Florida musicians. This inspired her to start writing her own songs.
After moving to Nashville to attend university, she began recruiting other musicians to create full-band renditions of her high school bedroom songs. Inspired by rock and electronic-driven pop artists such as Bombay Bicycle Club, Feist and The 1975, she started her own band: Kingsbury.
Now based in Los Angeles, Kingsbury has released two singles, Easy and Emeralds, which landed her a spot at SXSW this year. Since three is the magic number, let’s prepare for her break-through. Kingsbury says about her third single: “Alone Again is about regaining control over a part of your life you didn’t realize was compromised. I found out that pleasing the people around me was an innate part of my character, and that I had to actively fight that to be able to pursue the life I wanted.”
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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Shaka Ponk – Faking Love
Shaka Ponk is a French funk rock band, not only famous for their great music, outrageous outfits and spectacular live shows, but also for their mascot, the computer animated monkey Goz.
After the release of their ApeTizer EP, earlier this year, Shaka Ponk will put out their 7th studio album The Evol on 17 November. Across 13 songs it will feature two of the EP tracks and the new single Faking Love, with its gorgeous 80’s synths…
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.
