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Werner’s Weekly (week 40)
Last week was a colourful one, musically speaking, with new releases by artists like Interpol, Janelle Monáe, Robyn, Roosevelt, and even Soft Cell. Also, Evil Mama by Joe Bonamassa was finally released on Spotify. All of those, and many more, can be found in the constantly updated Carte Blanche Music playlist, featuring the best new music.
I narrowed this selection down for my ‘best of the best’ list Werner’s Weekly, your compass to the music that matters. You can find it below as a flat enumeration (with more info behind the links), but also in the Werner’s Weekly player in the sidebar as a 23 minute short playlist. Enjoy!
- morgxn & Walk The Moon – home (Wildcard this week)
- Sofi Tukker & Pabllo Vittar – Energia (Parte 2) (Wildcard last week)
- Beaux – My Love
- Cookin’ On 3 Burners – The Jump Off
- Kid Rock – Snatching It Back
- Minyeshu – Aynocheh (Your Eyes)
- The Proclaimers – You Make Me Happy
For more great new music, follow the constantly updated Carte Blanche Music playlist.
Music industry watcher and journalist. Worked at a cd club, a record store chain and was editor in chief of an entertainment trade magazine. Has been in the radio business since 1987, producing and presenting shows. Was music director of several stations. Also, he developed the European Border Breakers Charts.
Werner’s Weekly (week 39)
Christine & The Queens, Edie Brickell & The New Bohemians, Imagine Dragons, India.Arie, Johnny Marr, Primal Scream, Public Service Broadcasting, Rita Ora and White Lies are all wonderful artists with great new singles. All of these, and many more, have been freshly added to my constantly updated Spotify-playlist Carte Blanche Music, which contains the best new music of this year, so far. The past week, this list grew with 40 titles and now holds almost 850 tracks, good for over 50 hours of excellent music.
If that’s too much for now (no offence), I can recommend Werner’s Weekly, your compass to the music that matters. This ‘best of the best’ playlist features only 6 songs that don’t take more than 23 minutes of your time. You can listen to them via the Werner’s Weekly player in the sidebar. While you’re at it, you can read my original recommendations by clicking the links below. Enjoy!
- Sofi Tukker & Pabllo Vittar – Energia (Parte 2) (Wildcard this week)
- Sigala feat. Ella Eyre, Meghan Trainor & French Montana – Just Got Paid (Wildcard last week)
- Dan Owen – Stay Awake With Me
- Gecko Turner – Cortando Bajito
- Pale Waves – Red
- Sun Gods – Subtle Science
For more great new music, follow the constantly updated Carte Blanche Music playlist.
Music industry watcher and journalist. Worked at a cd club, a record store chain and was editor in chief of an entertainment trade magazine. Has been in the radio business since 1987, producing and presenting shows. Was music director of several stations. Also, he developed the European Border Breakers Charts.
Wildcard (week 38):
Sofi Tukker & Pabllo Vittar – Energia (Parte 2)
Make sure to go and see Sofi Tukker live, if you can. Last August, I saw the American duo, consisting of Sophie Hawley-Weld and Tucker Halpern, at the Lowlands festival in the Netherlands. A great gig with inciting rhythms and good beats that got the whole crowd bouncing, while the often Portuguese lyrics gave an extra tropical flavour to the music. It’s true, Sofi Tukker have a well-documented affinity for Brazilian culture, welcoming soca and bossa nova grooves into their hooky electro-pop.
One of the stand-out tracks during the set was a spiced-up version of last year’s Energia, that has now been released as a single. This new mix includes an assist from the almighty Brazilian drag queen Pabllo Vitar and lives up to its title even more than the original. Imagine this tune being played out loud at a festival… If this doesn’t make you dance, nothing will!
This week, Energia (Parte 2) by Sofi Tukker & Pabllo Vittar is the Carte Blanche Music Wildcard. This means the track is only one mouse click away for a whole week. You can find all of this year’s powerplays in the Wildcards 2018 playlist.
For more great new music, follow the constantly updated Carte Blanche Music playlist.
Music industry watcher and journalist. Worked at a cd club, a record store chain and was editor in chief of an entertainment trade magazine. Has been in the radio business since 1987, producing and presenting shows. Was music director of several stations. Also, he developed the European Border Breakers Charts.
Werner’s Weekly (week 38)
Out of the many, many new songs that were released last week, I added only the 29 very best to my 2018 container playlist Carte Blanche Music. Among them well-known artists like Richard Ashcroft, Ben Folds, Hooverphonic, Lenny Kravitz, Amy Macdonald, Novastar and The Smashing Pumpkins, but also a lot of emerging acts and other artists that haven’t yet been embraced by the media and/or the public yet. It’s those acts that this blog focuses on, but I don’t shy away from recommending great new songs by established artists.
Today’s edition of Werner’s Weekly offers the latest two Carte Blanche Music Wildcards plus a fine collection out of all of the categories I mentioned, presented in alphabetical order. This makes it your compass to the music that matters, as always…
- Sigala feat. Ella Eyre, Meghan Trainor & French Montana – Just Got Paid (Wildcard this week)
- Bernhoft & The Fashion Bruises – Humanoid (Wildcard last week)
- Alice Merton – Why So Serious
- Confidence Man – Try Your Luck
- Corine – Maquillage
- Florence & The Machine – Patricia
- Hozier (feat. Mavis Staples) – Nina Cried Power
The links above point you to more information about the songs, all of which you can listen to via the Werner’s Weekly player in the sidebar.
For more great new music, follow the constantly updated Carte Blanche Music playlist.
Music industry watcher and journalist. Worked at a cd club, a record store chain and was editor in chief of an entertainment trade magazine. Has been in the radio business since 1987, producing and presenting shows. Was music director of several stations. Also, he developed the European Border Breakers Charts.
Wildcard (week 37):
Sigala feat. Ella Eyre, Meghan Trainor & French Montana – Just Got Paid
British DJ, record producer and remixer Bruce Fielder, known professionally as Sigala, has been scoring hits since he first entered the scene in 2015 with his Jackson 5-sampling debut single Easy Love. Since then, he scored 10 huge international hits, that often featured powerhouse vocals by artists like John Newman, Craig David, Hailee Steinfeld or Paloma Faith.
Ella Eyre, who sang on Sigala’s hit Came Here For Love, returns on his new staple. And she’s not alone, Meghan Trainor and French Montana accompany her. Just Got Paid is a funky slice of dance pop, with strings that remind me of Boney M’s 1976 hit Daddy Cool.
Sigala’s long overdue debut album Brighter Days will be out on 21 September, and if it features all of his 12 hits to date, it might as well have been called ‘Greatest Hits’.
His new single (not a cover of Johnny Kemp’s same-titled 1988 smash) is this week’s Carte Blanche Music Wildcard. Check them all in the Wildcards 2018 playlist.
For more great new music, follow the constantly updated Carte Blanche Music playlist.
Music industry watcher and journalist. Worked at a cd club, a record store chain and was editor in chief of an entertainment trade magazine. Has been in the radio business since 1987, producing and presenting shows. Was music director of several stations. Also, he developed the European Border Breakers Charts.
Confidence Man – Try Your Luck
Confidence Man had a jam-packed summer, appearing at European festivals like Pukkelpop (Belgium), Lowlands (the Netherlands), Rock En Seine (France), and Snowtunes and Listen Out (both Great Britain). I myself saw them at Lowlands, where they were one of the stand-out acts to me. The Australian foursome, featuring a male and female singer and a mysterious DJ and drummer, threw a groovy, funky and incredibly danceable party that blew all the attendants away.
Try Your Luck is their latest single. The band says about it: ”If Confidence Man was a country, Try Your Luck would be the national anthem. So hats off, hands on hearts and asses on the dancefloor.”
For more great new music, follow the constantly updated Carte Blanche Music playlist.
Music industry watcher and journalist. Worked at a cd club, a record store chain and was editor in chief of an entertainment trade magazine. Has been in the radio business since 1987, producing and presenting shows. Was music director of several stations. Also, he developed the European Border Breakers Charts.
One Bit & Louisa – Between You And Me
If you would have lined me up for a blind test, I’d have guessed Between You And Me was a Dua Lipa song, remixed by Shanguy. I would have failed the test gloriously.
In reality, this is the new single by One Bit, a UK duo consisting of Jonty Howard and Joe Murphy, who also delivered the wonderful My Way (feat. Noah Cyrus) late last year. On Between You And Me, Louisa is the featured vocalist. Louisa Johnson won ‘The X Factor UK’ in 2015.
For more great new music, follow the constantly updated Carte Blanche Music playlist.
Music industry watcher and journalist. Worked at a cd club, a record store chain and was editor in chief of an entertainment trade magazine. Has been in the radio business since 1987, producing and presenting shows. Was music director of several stations. Also, he developed the European Border Breakers Charts.
eMMa – Fått Deg På Hjernen
Most music on this blog is pretty much grown-up pop music, but exceptions prove the rule. And in general: the fact that a singer is only 10 years old can never be a reason in itself to disqualify a song, in my book. So here we go…
As you may have guessed, Emma Gunnarsen, from Norway, is 10 years old. She only turned 10 this week. In 2016, she released her first single Engler I Sne, which has over 13,5 million YouTube views by now. Fått Deg På Hjernen is only her second single and will surely follow suit. It’s catchy and shamelessly commercial. Not for everyone, but fun nevertheless.
For more great new music follow the constantly updated Carte Blanche Music playlist.
Music industry watcher and journalist. Worked at a cd club, a record store chain and was editor in chief of an entertainment trade magazine. Has been in the radio business since 1987, producing and presenting shows. Was music director of several stations. Also, he developed the European Border Breakers Charts.
Girli – Day Month Second
Is acid punk a genre? If not, North London’s Girli (born Milly Toomey) may just have invented it. Her new single Day Month Second comes 294 days, 9½ months, 423.360 seconds after the track Hot Mess, that I already liked so much.
“Day Month Second is my breakup anthem,” she says. “It’s about wanting to get over someone so bad but not being able to shake the memory of them and how they messed you around. It’s an angry, sad, but also liberating tune.”
For more great new music follow the constantly updated Carte Blanche Music playlist.
Music industry watcher and journalist. Worked at a cd club, a record store chain and was editor in chief of an entertainment trade magazine. Has been in the radio business since 1987, producing and presenting shows. Was music director of several stations. Also, he developed the European Border Breakers Charts.
Ofenbach vs. Lack Of Afro (feat. Wax & Herbal T) – PARTY
When multi-instrumentalist, composer and producer Adam Gibbons (a.k.a. Lack Of Afro) and twin brother rappers Wax & Herbal T released the original version of P.A.R.T.Y. in 2013, it already produced what the title promised. So how, do you think, would this track sound when remixed by French DJ duo Ofenbach, best-known for their pan-European hit Be Mine? Indeed, like a PARTY in overdrive!
For more great new music follow the constantly updated Carte Blanche Music playlist.
Music industry watcher and journalist. Worked at a cd club, a record store chain and was editor in chief of an entertainment trade magazine. Has been in the radio business since 1987, producing and presenting shows. Was music director of several stations. Also, he developed the European Border Breakers Charts.
