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Werner’s Weekly (week 43)
This is Werner’s Weekly, your compass to the music that matters, containing the two most recent Carte Blanche Music Wildcards, and the best of the other new releases in alphabetical order:
- Wallows – I Don’t Want To Talk (Wildcard this week)
- Jaguar Jonze – Who Died And Made You King? (Wildcard last week)
- Coeur De Pirate – Tu Peux Crever Là-Bas
- Dancer – Fears
- elison – Meet Me Halfway
- Inge van Calkar – Rise
- Underline & Gissberg – Get Down With It
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: Alex Lahey, James Morrison, Train, 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.
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Underline & Gissberg – Get Down With It
The bass line of Chic’s Good Times once inspired Queen’s Another One Bites The Dust. Now, a slightly different version of it appears in Get Down With It by Underline & Gissberg. It makes the song instantly recognizable, even though it’s 100% a 2021 production.
The track came about after 28-year-old Swedish producer Behshad Ashnai, better known as Underline, was coincidentally introduced to Joakim Gissberg. Ashnai heard Gissberg sing as the opening act for a boxing match in Las Vegas. He immediately realized this was the voice he needed to finish a timeless instrumental track he had been struggling with for some years.
After about 15 minutes in the studio, they found the right hook to go with the instrumental. The resulting tune, Get Down With It, is a groovy, bass-driven, utterly infectious and radio-friendly song.
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For more great new music, follow the constantly updated Carte Blanche Music 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.
werner's weeklydance | electronic | funk | indie | pop | rock
Werner’s Weekly (week 39)
This is Werner’s Weekly, your compass to the music that matters, containing the two most recent Carte Blanche Music Wildcards, and the best of the other new releases in alphabetical order:
- Mazy – Flowers (Wildcard this week)
- Fickle Friends – Love You To Death (Wildcard last week)
- Andy Grammer – Damn It Feels Good To Be Me
- Bentle – Mondo
- Dubstar – Tectonic Plates
- Foxes – Sister Ray
- Placebo – Beautiful James
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: Louane, Oh Wonder, The Cool Quest, 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.
single trackfunk | indie | pop
The Criticals – Absinthe
Parker Forbes and Cole Shugart had been playing music together in a stream of bands in the Nashville DIY scene for nearly a decade. Then, they decided to form their own band The Criticals in 2018. Although inspired by The Stone Roses, Jane’s Addiction and The Doors, their new single Absinthe sounds a lot like The Strokes playing disco. Or even more accurately: I bet they like The Long Blondes’ Guilt (2008) just as much as I do.
The story behind this funky slice of indie-pop is rather straightforward, according to the band. It was ‘written and self produced (…) after a long night of drinking Absinthe on Lower Broadway in Nashville’. Addictive stuff!
Follow The Criticals on Facebook | Instagram | Spotify
For more great new music, follow the constantly updated Carte Blanche Music 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.
werner's weeklydisco | electronic | funk | indie | pop | rock
Werner’s Weekly (week 38)
This is Werner’s Weekly, your compass to the music that matters, containing the two most recent Carte Blanche Music Wildcards, and the best of the other new releases in alphabetical order:
- Fickle Friends – Love You To Death (Wildcard this week)
- Clara Luciani – Respire Encore (Wildcard last week)
- Alice Merton – Island
- Annie – April
- Liberty – Troye Sivan
- MeLLLo – Crown
- Thunder Fox – Not For Sale
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: Chvrches, Jonas Brothers, Manic Street Preachers, The War On Drugs (feat. Lucius), 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.
single track, wildcardWildcard (week 37):
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Wildcard (week 37):
Fickle Friends – Love You To Death
After first establishing their reputation entirely independently, Fickle Friends signed to a major label. In 2018, Polydor released their debut album You Are Someone Else, which hit the Top 10. Soon after however, the Brighton band decided to resume the indie route. Over the course of the last 18 months, they’ve released two seasons of the Weird Years EP series.
Fickle Friends are currently recording their sophomore album Are We Gonna Be Alright? It’s scheduled to come out on 14 January 2022. The first track to be released ahead of it is their exciting new single Love You To Death. A tight, funk-fuelled pop-rock song with a Prince/Nile Rodgers energy, filled with killer hooks.
Singer Natti Shiner says about it: “It’s a song about loving someone so much you might actually kill them. I’m pretty amazed by just how much I can feel sometimes, like it’s quite overwhelming a lot of the time. That’s where this song comes from.”
This week, Love You To Death by Fickle Friends is the new Carte Blanche Music Wildcard!
Recommended as well:
Fickle Friends – Pretty Great
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In the Wildcards 2021 playlist you’ll find all of this year’s Carte Blanche Music Wildcards so far.
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 trackfunk | indie | pop
Thunder Fox – Not For Sale
If you like your music smooth and funky – think Stevie Wonder, Prince or Justin Timberlake – please meet Thunder Fox. They’re a band from Sydney, consisting of Sam Dawes (vocals/guitar), Jesse Tachibana (trumpet/vocals/synth), Travers Keirle (saxophone/vocals) and Max Vallentine (drums). Also, new single Not For Sale marks the first contribution a bass player Casey Allan. His input is undeniable on this swinging cut.
Dawes acknowledges this in a comment about the song. He states: “Not For Sale is our introduction to Thunder Fox’s new sound. Casey, being a relatively new addition to the band at the time, brought with him a synth bass and a set of fingers carved by the Gods. Man, he had such a groove on that pile of plastic, the rest of us were floored. We wanted to write something dark, but funky (duh), and bad boy Casey had just the stuff.“
Their second single of 2021, Not For Sale is set to appear on the band’s next album Sanctuary. It’ll be out later this year.
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For more great new music, follow the constantly updated Carte Blanche Music 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.
werner's weeklyfunk | indie | orchestral | pop | rock
Werner’s Weekly (week 35)
This is Werner’s Weekly, your compass to the music that matters, containing the two most recent Carte Blanche Music Wildcards, and the best of the other new releases in alphabetical order:
- Caroline & Claude – Stir The Pot (Wildcard this week)
- Saint Djuni – All Of My Friends (Wildcard last week)
- Boo Seeka – Tripwire
- Kalie Shorr – Alibi
- Niko Rubio – Saving Me
- Teresa Wagner – Disco Flavored Baby
- Walk The Moon – Can You Handle My Love??
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: Halsey, Miles Kane, Novastar, Sigrid, 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 weeklyfunk | indie | pop | rock
Werner’s Weekly (week 34)
This is Werner’s Weekly, your compass to the music that matters, containing the two most recent Carte Blanche Music Wildcards, and the best of the other new releases in alphabetical order:
- Saint Djuni – All Of My Friends (Wildcard this week)
- May-a – Central Station (Wildcard last week)
- Cyn – Wonderful
- Edith – Who Cares
- Ladyhawke – Think About You
- Riley Rex – Demon
- World’s First Cinema – Perfect Hell
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: Lorde, Natalie Imbruglia, Santana feat. Rob Thomas & American Authors, The Wombats, 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.
single track, wildcardWildcard (week 33):
funk | indie | pop
Wildcard (week 33):
Saint Djuni – All Of My Friends
Saint Djuni are a Netherlands-based, genre-bending duo, consisting of Clifford Goilo (originally from Curaçao) and Sweden-born Rasmus Viberg. They started this project when the pandemic started and just couldn’t stop making music after.
In less than a years’ time they released seven singles. That includes new single All Of My Friends, a track that’ll go down well with fans of Dutch DJ/producer Bakermat’s dance-pop. That’s not odd, for Goilo co-wrote Teach Me and Living, two of Bakermat’s biggest hits. All Of My Friends is an over the top, happy-go-lucky tune. This funky dance track might be just the song to turn this year’s moderate summer into a hot one!
All Of My Friends by Saint Djuni is the new Carte Blanche Music Wildcard, so it’ll feature here prominently for a whole week.
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In the Wildcards 2021 playlist you’ll find all of this year’s Carte Blanche Music Wildcards so far.
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.
