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single track, wildcardWildcard (week 42):
pop | rock
Wildcard (week 42):
Childcare – Getting Over You (By Dressing Up Like You)
This British quartet wouldn’t have existed if it wouldn’t have been for six-year-old Katie. Ed Cares was babysitting her when she overheard him humming a song he had written. She persuaded him to form a band, which he did. True story…
In this light, Childcare is only a fitting name, isn’t it?
And there are more fun facts surrounding this band. How about this one? Guitarist Rich Legate is the son of the guy who designed the ‘Mentos’ font. The other band members are bassist Emma Topolski and drummer Glyn Daniels, by the way.
Childcare are inspired by I Should Coco era Supergrass and Phil Spector produced Motown shakes, which becomes instantly clear when you listen to their latest four to the floor banger Getting Over You (By Dressing Up Like You). Great title, I think, and a beautifully unorthodox approach to moving on from a relationship break-up. True story as well, evidently, but I’m sure you would’ve guessed…
But the best true story of ‘em all: Getting Over You (By Dressing Up Like You) by Childcare features prominently on Carte Blanche Music next week, for it’s the new Wildcard. The latest addition to an already great (play)list!
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.
single track, wildcardWildcard (week 41):
rock
Wildcard (week 41):
Les Gordons – Let The Music Speak
Upgrade alert: Let The Music Speak by Les Gordons featured here before, but next week I’ll give it the Executive Treatment. I chose the track as the new Carte Blanche Music Wildcard, all of which you can find in the Wildcards 2017 playlist. Being a Wildcard isn’t just a quality hallmark or a stamp of approval; it means the song features prominently on the blog for one whole week, only one mouse click away for your listening pleasure.
Just a reminder: Les Gordons are a Swedish ‘maximum-energy band’, and have been dubbed ‘The Hives with more pop’. But instead of describing it, I’d rather Let The Music Speak!
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.
single track, wildcardWildcard (week 40):
pop | rock
Wildcard (week 40):
Isaac Gracie – Silhouettes Of You
If you like Jeff Buckley and mid-’90s Radiohead, you don’t want to miss Isaac Gracie. A talented singer-songwriter who is handsome on the outside, but tormented on the inside, and who couples a rusty guitar sound with haunting vocals and an emotional vibrato.
Silhouettes Of You is the new single off his EP The Death Of You And I. Musically, it marks the official start of this year’s autumn.
We celebrate that a full seven days long, as Isaac Gracie’s Silhouettes Of You is this week’s Carte Blanche Music Wildcard.
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.
single track, wildcardWildcard (week 39):
rock
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.
single track, wildcardWildcard (week 38):
electronic | pop
Wildcard (week 38):
Rae Morris – Do It
Rachel Anne Morris is a British singer-songwriter who turned 25 early this month. She contributed vocals to albums by Bombay Bicycle Club and Clean Bandit, before launching her own debut album Unguarded. It went on to spawn no less than six singles. One of them, Cold, was a duet with Fryars.
On Morris’s new single, the two have been working together again. Do It was produced by Fryars. It’s the second single off her forthcoming album, which is rumoured to be called Someone Out There and will probably be out early next year.
But one thing is for sure: Do It by Rae Morris is this week’s Carte Blanche Music Wildcard!
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.
single track, wildcardWildcard (week 37):
folk | pop
Wildcard (week 37):
Sol Heilo – America
With her band Katzenjammer on hiatus, Norwegian artist Solveig Heilo embarks on a career of her own. Playing guitar, trumpet, banjo, harp, flute, accordion, mandolin, ukulele, drums, bass and many other instruments, she isn’t only a singer, but a multi-instrumentalist, as you will hear on her first solo album Skinhorse Playground, which she releases on 6 October.
America is Sol Heilo’s new solo single. It featured here before, but I like it so much, I made it this week’s Carte Blanche Music Wildcard, giving it the most prominent place on the blog for seven days in a row.
Make sure you watch the video, it took 744 hours to make! The raw material, all shot with her iPhone, is 27 hours long and she filmed 42 locations in addition to 24 close-ups in her living room and garden.
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.
album track, wildcardWildcard (week 36):
pop
Wildcard (week 36):
Calogero – 1987
With his single Je Joue De La Musique firmly in the French Top 5, Calogero just released his seventh album Liberté Chérie, which he recorded in the legendary Abbey Road Studios. “A childhood dream come true”, according to the 44-year-old singer.
Last week, Liberté Chérie went straight into the French album chart at #1, after 57.200 physical copies of the album were sold. That’s more than the sale of 51.000 pieces that caused its predecessor, Les Feux D’artifice, to come in at pole position in 2014 and the 45.000 CD’s that were shifted in the first week after the release of L’embellie, five years before that. An extra respectable feat when you take into account the streaming explosion that occurred in those 8 years.
My favourite track off the album Liberté Chérie is 1987. An extremely catchy song that will have you sing along, even if you don’t speak any French at all. It may not be a single (yet), but I already made it this week’s Carte Blanche Music Wildcard. So each time you visit this blog, 1987 is only one mouse click away.
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.
single track, wildcardWildcard (week 35):
pop | rock
Wildcard (week 35):
AKA George – Stone Cold Classic
George Barnett (a.k.a. AKA George) ranked up tens of millions of YouTube streams with a mix of his own material and superb covers. This got him the attention of every publisher and record label in the UK, but he decided that didn’t feel right. He subsequently tore down everything he had created on the internet, losing all of those tens of millions of views in the process. Then, he started again.
This spring, AKA George released his album First Friday on his own record label, but he is already writing his next album. Talking about that process, he says: “I’m not interested in writing small songs that live on the internet. When I write, I write big pop songs that will sound amazing at Glastonbury. That’s my measure: Does it sound huge?”
Listening to the first fruit of that upcoming album, the track Stone Cold Classic, one can only conclude: yes, it does!
Tom Robinson said about AKA George: “He is one song away from superstardom.” This could very well be that one song, and to help it just a tiny bit more, I made it this week’s Carte Blanche Music Wildcard…
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.
single track, wildcardWildcard (week 34):
jazz | pop
Wildcard (week 34):
Julian Velard – Don’t Ask Me About Hamilton (Anymore)
I’ll be the last to suggest that my man Julian Velard listened to my recommendation, but let me just say I’m very glad my favourite track off his latest album Fancy Words For Failure is now officially his new single. What more can I do than repeat the opening lyric of this great track: “My master piece got released today.”
Now, if you’ll excuse me, I’ll have to put this one on and on over and over again. Sheer happiness and an obvious choice for the new Carte Blanche Music Wildcard! This means the song is featured prominently at the top of this blog for a whole week, making it easily accessible so that you, too, can play it over and over again the coming days. It’ll cost you nothing but a mouse click. Enjoy!
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.
single track, wildcardWildcard (week 32):
hip hop | pop | r&b
Wildcard (week 32):
Ridsa – Avancer
The holidays are a great moment to pick up music that you don’t usually hear at home. Especially songs by local acts from the country that you’ve travelled to. Here in France, Avancer by Ridsa is on the radio a lot and to me it sounds like it could be a hit abroad as well…
Ridsa (born in 1990 as Maxence Boitez) is a French rapper/singer. He became an internet phenomenon after posting his songs on YouTube. His channel now counts 879.000 subscribers and his clips have been viewed around 300 million times altogether.
Avancer is a single that was released last April from his most recent album Libre. Since then 14 million (I suppose mostly French) viewers saw the clip. When released throughout Europe, I predict an even greater success…
Let me start by making the single this week’s Carte Blanche Music Wildcard. Hopefully this will help the song ‘avancer’…
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.
