Browsing Tag folk
Additions to the Carte Blanche Music playlist (week 37)
Not all, but only the *best* new music. Added to the playlist this week (alphabetically):
- Caity Baser – Disco Shoes
pop
- The Beaches & Beach Weather – My Body Featuring Your Lips
indie | pop | rock
- Cat Valley – Mean Girls
indie | pop | rock
- Draumr – Slowly Burning Feelings
indie | pop
- Everyone You Know – Coming With You
indie | pop | rock
- Flo Gallop – D.O.N.E.
indie | pop
- Home Counties – Bethnal Green
electronic | indie | pop
- Jawny – Boy Scout
pop | rock
- Last Dinosaurs – Afterlife
indie | rock
- Loretta – All My Friends (Are Your Friends)
indie | pop | rock
- Miss Machine – Avec Les Loups
indie | pop
- Kathleen Regan – Big Funeral
folk | indie | pop
- Skylar – Why Men Love Bitches
pop
- Tally Spear – Constellations
indie | pop | rock
- Surfaces – Cloud
indie | pop
- A Treehouse Wait – The Edge
indie | pop
Check them all in the constantly updated Carte Blanche Music Spotify playlist.
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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.
Additions to the Carte Blanche Music playlist (week 27)
Not all, but only the *best* new music. Added to the playlist this week (alphabetically):
- Altered By Mom – Gwendolyn
indie | pop | rock
- Another Sky – A Feeling
rock
- Art Department – Mexico
indie | pop | rock
- Barry Can’t Swim – Dance Of The Crab
dance | indie | pop | tropical
- The Criticals – Belmont
indie | pop | rock
- Andrea Grau – Otro Verano Sin Verte
indie | pop
- Fletcher Gull – Light Up
folk | indie | pop
- Austyn Jane – Over Her
indie | pop | rock
- Luna Blue – Crash My Car
indie | pop | rock
- morgxn – Young And In Love
indie | pop
- Alice Pisano – Part-Time Girlfriend
indie | pop
- Ryal – Every Body Talks
indie | pop
- Yukon Blonde – Every Single Time You Fall In Love
indie | pop
Check them all in the constantly updated Carte Blanche Music Spotify playlist.
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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.
Additions to the Carte Blanche Music playlist (week 2)
Only the best new music from a truly massive release week (alphabetically):
- Archie X – Can’t Walk Away/If I Were You
pop
- Holly Arrowsmith – Desert Dove
folk | indie | melancholic | pop
- Belle & Sebastian – I Don’t Know What You See In Me
indie | pop
- Blanko – Stop The Clock
indie | pop | rock
- Circa Waves – Never Going Under
indie | pop | rock
- Nena Daconte con Celia Becks – Tu Canción
indie | pop
- Gaz Coombes – Turn The Car Around
indie | pop
- Kate Davis – Monster Mash
indie | pop | rock
- Dulcie – Test Drive
indie | pop
- Lizzie Esau – Jellyfish
indie | pop | rock
- Everything But The Girl – Nothing Left To Lose
trip hop
- The Go! Team – Gemini
hip hop | indie | pop
- Honeyboys – Mr. Daniels
indie | pop | rock
- Kingfisher – Until I Lose My Mind
indie | pop | rock
- The Lottery Winners – Worry
indie | pop | rock
- Luude & Issey Cross (feat. Moby) – Oh My
dance | drum & bass
- Måneskin (feat. Tom Morello) – Gossip
rock
- May-a – Sweat You Out My System
pop | rock
- Tom McGuire & The Brassholes – Unshakable
funk | indie | pop | soul
- Liela Moss – Come And Find Me
indie | pop
- Riku Rajamaa – Hold Me Close
indie | pop
- The Reytons – One More Reason
indie | rock
- Freya Ridings – Weekends
pop
- Rori – Ma Place
pop
- Rosemary’s Sons – The Ride
indie | pop | rock
- Stacey Ryan – Over Tonight
pop
- Spacey Jane (feat. Benee) – Lots Of Nothing
indie | pop | rock
- Stace Cadet – Light Me Up
dance
- Raine Stern – So Precarious
funk | indie | pop | soul
- Tensnake & Drama – Rooftops
indie | pop
- Young Gun Silver Fox – Still Got It Goin’ On
indie | pop | soul
Check them all in the constantly updated Carte Blanche Music Spotify playlist.
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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.
Werner’s Weekly (week 36)
This is Werner’s Weekly, your guide to the best new music, containing the two most recent Carte Blanche Music Wildcards, and the best of the other new releases in alphabetical order:
- Ashe – Emotional
(Wildcard this week)
- Blonde Diamond – We Just Wanna Dance
(Wildcard last week)
- AA Sessions (feat. Ciel & Paperflag) – Seeking
- Laura Jean – Too Much To Do
- Reverend & The Makers – Heatwave In The Cold North
- Tangarine – City To The Country
- The Hengles – To Be Someone (Else)
Click the links for more info and listen to each of the tracks via the Werner’s Weekly player below.
For more great new music, follow the constantly updated Carte Blanche Music playlist. Also added last week: Ava Max, The 1975, Weezer, Yungblud, and more.

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.
Werner’s Weekly (week 35)
This is Werner’s Weekly, your guide to the best new music, containing the two most recent Carte Blanche Music Wildcards, and the best of the other new releases in alphabetical order:
- Blonde Diamond – We Just Wanna Dance
(Wildcard this week)
- Georgia Lines – Faith
(Wildcard last week)
- Daya – Her
- Ederlezi – Drawn To The Ruin
- grandma – soft-glow
- Hoshi – Nouvelle Ère
- Self Esteem – Fucking Wizardry [Block Them Edit]
Click the links for more info and listen to each of the tracks via the Werner’s Weekly player below.
For more great new music, follow the constantly updated Carte Blanche Music playlist. Also added last week: Banners, Rina Sawayama, Walk Off The Earth, and more.

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.
Laura Jean – Too Much To Do
*SONG SNACK*
Breath-taking, string-laden song, released ahead of her new album Amateur (out on 4 November).
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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.
Ederlezi – Drawn To The Ruin
*SONG SNACK*
Boat-dwelling duo release dark country-like song ahead of their debut EP (out in the Autumn).
Recommended as well:
Run, Run, Run
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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.
Tippy Balady – Soul Eater
Hailing from Dallas, Tippy Balady is currently studying popular music at the University of South Carolina. She may be a solo artist, but her music is the result of a rather permanent collaboration with producer Jason Burt. He’s been helping her shape her musical vision since 2018. Together, they created the entirety of Tippy’s discography and plan on continuing to work together in the future.
Following the release of ten of Tippy’s tracks, she just put out her first EP The Dallas Sessions. It contains her two 2021 singles German Boy and Family Dinners, and two brand-new songs. Soul Eater is my favourite of that pair. It’s a friendly-sounding song in that ‘Tippycal’ style: neo-soul with a bedroom pop vibe. Her strumming on the ukulele adds a folky element though, while the instrument also adds a latin kind of flavour.
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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.
Werner’s Weekly (week 5)
This is Werner’s Weekly, your compass to new music that matters, containing the two most recent Carte Blanche Music Wildcards, and the best of the other new releases in alphabetical order:
- Leony – Remedy
(Wildcard this week)
- Nile Marr – Only Time Can Break Your Heart
(Wildcard last week)
- Caroline & Claude – It’s Not That Bad
- Ederlezi – Run, Run, Run
- Ellis Newman – Leaving The Party
- Mitski – Love Me More
- Sarpa Salpa – Somebody
Click the links for more info and listen to each of the tracks via the Werner’s Weekly player below.
For more great new music, follow the constantly updated Carte Blanche Music playlist. Also added last week: Bloc Party, Charli XCX feat. Rina Sawayama, Franz Ferdinand, George Ezra, Selah Sue, and more.

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.
Ederlezi – Run, Run, Run
Ederlezi consists of two artists who each have a busy career of their own as well. David Page a guitarist/bass player/singer and collaborator with people like Jonathan Jeremiah, Young Gun Silver Fox and Edwyn Collins. Hannah Nicholson worked with Ellie Goulding, Gary Barlow and Heather Small, and even performed as a backing singer and instrumentalist at Prince William’s wedding.
Together, they’re a London-based duo, who live aboard their beloved Dutch barge Ederlezi. Cruising the river Thames, the boat is not only their home, but also the place where they write, produce and record the music that’ll eventually end up on their debut album. The vessel became the duo’s muse, and also gave them their stage name.
The band take their inspiration from many places. Think of influences like Scott Walker, Jackson Browne and Joni Mitchell, or the guitar-based rock ‘n’ roll of the ‘50s and the psychedelic ‘60s. Personally, I also hear Johnny Cash, and when I close my eyes I see spaghetti westerns and Quentin Tarantino movies.
Run, Run, Run is Ederlezi’s debut single. Nicholson says about it: “This song was written right at the start of the pandemic. We found ourselves unexpectedly in a suspended time away from our usual busy touring lives. From this out came the song, speaking of addiction, desire, temptation and the human condition”
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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.