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Werner’s Weekly (week 35)
Besides many upcoming acts that are worth checking, I added new tracks by Beck, Feeder, Neil Finn, Lissie, Nicole Atkins, The War On Drugs and many others to my 2017 container playlist Carte Blanche Music last week. If you are a musical omnivore, like me, that’s a playlist worth following, if I may say so myself.
If the six best songs of the past week are enough for you, look no further. I selected them for you and present them here, in alphabetical order.
Click the links for a little bit of background and meanwhile, listen to all six of them through the Werner’s Weekly player in the sidebar…
- Julian Velard – Don’t Ask Me About Hamilton (Anymore) (Wildcard this week)
- Saint Etienne – Dive (Wildcard last week)
- Alice Merton – Hit The Ground Running
- Childhood – Nothing Ever Seems Right
- Fjokra – Bang On The Door
- Olsson – No Sugar
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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Babe Rainbow – Johny Says Stay Cool
‘Monkey disco’. Now that’s an interesting way for Babe Rainbow to describe their music. But what does it sound like? If the latest single Johny Says Stay Cool is anything to go by, there certainly are disco elements, alongside funk, psychedelic pop/rock and retro sixties grooves.
Babe Rainbow are an Australian trio, that already released over a handful of singles and an EP, but their self-titled debut album has yet to come out (in Europe, at least). Well, you can mark 1 September in your agenda! The LP (as you should call an album with this type of music on it) was produced by Eric Moore of King Gizzard & The Lizard Wizard. Johny Says Stay Cool is its new single. A lovely song that bears some resemblance to Heatwave’s Boogie Nights (their debut single from 1977).
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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Werner’s Weekly (week 34)
So, how were your holidays? Oh, you’re still away? Then I’m flattered you came along to take a look! In the meantime, I’ve continued to discover great new music for you. My container playlist Carte Blanche Music, featuring the best new tracks of the year so far, has been expanded with songs by Bad Sounds, Grouplove, Pale Waves, Nerina Pallot, The Sherlocks and many more, last week.
But with no further ado I present you with the highlights of the last seven days, listed below in alphabetical order. Clicking on any of the links gives you more information about that particular track and while reading, you can listen to all eight of the songs through the Werner’s Weekly player in the sidebar…
- Saint Etienne – Dive (Wildcard this week)
- Ridsa – Avancer (Wildcard last week)
- Have You Ever Seen The Jane Fonda Aerobic VHS? – Magic Swimming Pants
- Julian Taylor Band feat. Kinnie Starr – Feel Your Love
- Lights – Savage
- Louane – On Était Beau
- Wesley Fuller – #1 Song
- Wolf Alice – Beautifully Unconventional
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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Saint Etienne – Dive
Two months after the release of their album Home Countries and just weeks after the single Heather, Saint Etienne release the Dive EP. The title track is presented in the so called ‘3:35 Edit’, making it an easy guess what its running time is.
Dive is a fun combination of samba rhythms, horn arrangements, lush orchestrations and influences from disco and funk, which make it sound like one of those exotica (or ‘easy tune’) songs that came back into fashion halfway the nineties of the last century. At least, they did in the Netherlands… Brilliant track!
Singer Sarah Cracknell has this to say about it: “I started writing Dive with Carwyn Ellis in early 2016. We’d worked on my solo album together and were on a bit of a roll. I love the final result, it reminds me of care free summer days growing up in Home Counties Windsor fooling around on the Thames.”
Saint Etienne’s Dive features prominently on Carte Blanche Music this week, as it’s the new Wildcard! (you can find all of them in the Wildcards 2017 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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Werner’s Weekly (week 33)
Are you following my 2017 container playlist Carte Blanche Music already? It’s my most comprehensive collection of great new music, updated on a daily basis. Last week, I added Ella Eyre, Liam Gallagher, Ozark Henry, The Horrors, Kesha, Otherkin, Sparks, and many more. On the blog I can only recommend a few of them. And the very best of the songs I reviewed last week, are now listed alphabetically in Werner’s Weekly, below:
- Ridsa – Avancer (Wildcard this week)
- Skott – Mermaid (Wildcard last week)
- Broken Social Scene – Vanity Pail Kids
- Francesca Michielin – Vulcano
- Jimi Charles Moody – Shame
- My Baby – Make A Hundred
- Skinny Living – Why
Listen via the Werner’s Weekly player in the sidebar and click the links for more info.
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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My Baby – Make A Hundred
My Baby is a Dutch band, but they’re playing so many gigs outside their own country, that you probably know them already. If not: go and check them as soon as you can. Preferably live, because they’re ace! From the first note on, they put the pedal to the metal and only after the last note they hit the brakes. And in between? 100% pure groove!
My Baby mixes roots, funk, gospel and blues into what they call ‘voodoo trance’. That, combined with the hippie-like appearance of singer Cato van Dijck, especially, produces a Woodstock kind of feeling (as far as I know it by tradition, that is).
If you don’t know them yet, make sure you listen to the new single Make A Hundred, off their album Prehistoric Rhythm. I’m pretty sure that My Baby will soon be everybody’s favourite!
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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Werner’s Weekly (week 31)
The likes of Spotify, Deezer and Apple Music made it easier than ever to keep track with new music. Whether you’re at home, on the beach, in your car or on safari: a smartphone with your service of choice is all you need. Oh, and you need the time to browse through all of the available playlists to pick the tracks of your liking…
If that’s too much hustle for you, trust me to it. I listen to music in every spare minute and love to select the best new songs for you on a daily basis. Just check (and follow) my Carte Blanche Music playlist and hear for yourself! Last week I added Belle & Sebastian, The Killers, Pvris, Sløtface, Superfood and many more to that playlist. Each and every one of them great tracks. But the very best of them – in my opinion – are listed alphabetically below (listen through the Werner’s Weekly player):
- Wolf Parade – Valley Boy (Wildcard this week)
- Aloe Blacc – King Is Born (Wildcard last week)
- Drones Club – International
- Jade Bird – Cathedral
- Nicole Atkins – Sleepwalking
- Skott – Mermaid
- The Montreals – Deadheads
- Young Gun Silver Fox – Midnight In Richmond
(Click the links for backgrounds on each of the tracks and click below to listen to them)
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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Drones Club – International
Drones Club formed in London in the spring of 2015 out of ‘a desire to reconnect people in a low-attention economy’. Although they released over 10 singles and EP’s so far, these drones have so far managed to fly under my radar. But with their latest single, Drones Club indeed seems to be aiming for international success. I love this cosmic disco!
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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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! ?
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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Calogero – Je Joue De La Musique
I don’t know any other country where eighties music is still so much alive as in France. In each hypermarket (the main place to buy CD’s nowadays) there is a rack full of eighties compilations.
Of course, this also translates to contemporary music. Or in fact, the musical heritage of the eighties has been a part of French music throughout the decennia. Bands like Breakbot, Cassius, M83 and Phoenix are only a handful of acts that keep the spirit of 30 years ago alive.
And now, we can also add veteran Calogero to that list. His latest single Je Joue De La Musique (which means ‘I play music’) sounds like it has been beamed up from the past (which is partly correct; it was recorded in the legendary Abbey Road Studios). One can hear the aforementioned Phoenix in it and I can’t stop myself from throwing in the ‘lalala’ part of I Will Survive in the Hermes House Band version. Hopefully Je Joue De La Musique will be just as much a classic in its own right!
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.
