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Werner’s Weekly (week 26)
Moby, Panic! At The Disco, Paul McCartney and Years & Years are only a few of the 20 acts whose new single I added to my 2018 container playlist Carte Blanche Music last week. A list that doesn’t pretend to contain all the new releases, but only the best (if you like songs with a head and a tail and a melody in between).
For Werner’s Weekly, your compass to the music that matters, I narrow that down even more, so that only the very best tracks remain. And that’s what you see below. Click the links to find out more about each song and while you’re at it, listen to them all via the Werner’s Weekly player in the sidebar!
- Shanguy – King Of The Jungle (Wildcard this week)
- Blackbook – Love Is A Crime (Wildcard last week)
- blackwave. – Whasgood?!
- Dawid Podsiadło – Małomiasteczkowy
- Picture This – When We Were Young
- Yorick van Norden – More Than Words
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 Chart, Music Moves Europe Talent Chart and ESNS Chart.
Wildcard (week 25):
Shanguy – King Of The Jungle
I wrote about Shanguy’s debut single La Louze when it came out in december 2017, and made it the Carte Blanche Music Wildcard at the start of this year. Since then, it grew out to become one of your favourite recommendations on this blog, based on the number of views.
Now, French singer-songwriter Eon Melka, Italian DJ NRD1, and indie singer-songwriter Frank-O are back with their second single and once again, it’s a cracker! Just like on their first effort, Stromae is a clear inspiration. I’m sure this song will appeal to a broad audience, and playlist curators could be helpful by giving it the prominent placing it deserves.
Allow me to set a good example: King Of The Jungle by Shanguy is this week’s Carte Blanche Music Wildcard (all of which you can find in the Wildcards 2018 playlist). This will provide the track with a prominent place on this blog for a full week. Enjoy!
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 Chart, Music Moves Europe Talent Chart and ESNS Chart.
blackwave. – Whasgood?!
Rapper Jay Atohoun and singer/producer Willem Ardui are blackwave., a Belgian hip hop duo that is gaining more and more ground in their homeland. They followed their 2017 debut EP Mic Check with singles Elusive (David Ngyah) and Swangin’, and are currently working on their first proper long player, also to be named Swangin’.
Whasgood?! is their new single. A lovely slice of West Coast hip hop, soul and funk, with a great feel good vibe.
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 Chart, Music Moves Europe Talent Chart and ESNS Chart.
Werner’s Weekly (week 7)
Although the year had a good start with a well-filled month of January, it looks like the music industry has now really awoken from its hibernation. Last week saw new musical releases from The Aces, Ash, Coasts, eels, MGMT, Morrissey, The Fratellis, Miike Snow and many others, all of which found their way onto my 2018 container playlist Carte Blanche Music. But the best of them all are reserved for Werner’s Weekly, your compass to the music that matters, containing the top of the pops:
- We Are Scientists – One In, One Out (Wildcard this week)
- Fall Out Boy – Church (Wildcard last week)
- Angèle – Je Veux Tes Yeux
- Millie Turner – The Shadow
- Paramore – Rose-Colored Boy
- Peggy Gou – It Makes You Forget (Itgehane)
- Rat Boy – Public Identity
Click the links to learn more about each song and listen to them all via the Werner’s Weekly player in the sidebar. 24 minutes well spent! ?
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 Chart, Music Moves Europe Talent Chart and ESNS Chart.
Rat Boy – Public Identity
“Sooner or later, Rat Boy will break through big time”, I wrote in April last year, four months before he released his debut album Scum. The album spawned six singles, and although Turn Around M8 would have made a great seventh, he already moved on.
Last week Rat Boy’s new EP Civil Disorder came out. A collection of seven new tracks, of which I like the hard-hitting Public Identity best. Sure to be a future fan favourite!
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 Chart, Music Moves Europe Talent Chart and ESNS Chart.
Werner’s Weekly (week 50)
The year may slowly come to an end, the stream of great new music certainly doesn’t!
Throughout the year I’ve gradually been filling my 2017 container playlist Carte Blanche Music with the best just-released tracks, and last week I had no problem adding another bunch of new songs worthy of your undivided attention. In the past seven days only, Belle & Sebastian, Haerts, Manic Street Preachers, Turin Brakes and The Wombats were among the ones who joined the ever growing club of top tunes this year produced so far. I’m already looking forward to the last two weeks, and beyond!
But first: the crème de la crème of new releases, combined in Werner’s Weekly. The tracks are below, the actual songs are in the Werner’s Weekly player in the sidebar and more info is behind each link. In less than 25 minutes you’ll be completely up to date!
- The Go! Team – Mayday (Wildcard this week)
- Noel Gallagher’s High Flying Birds – It’s A Beautiful World (Wildcard last week)
- Blue Rose Code – Bluebell
- Skygge feat. Kiesza – Hello Shadow
- Therapie Taxi (feat. Roméo Elvis) – Hit Sale
- Toploader – Together
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 Chart, Music Moves Europe Talent Chart and ESNS Chart.
Therapie Taxi (feat. Roméo Elvis) – Hit Sale
Therapie Taxi is a Parisian trio, consisting of Adé, Raph and Renaud. They only released their first EP earlier this year, but their new single comes just in time to make sure their definitive break-through will take place in the final month of 2017.
Hit Sale not only mixes electronic music with pop melodies, it also features a contribution of famous Belgian rapper Roméo Elvis. It’s a ‘dirty hit’, that’s for sure. Look out for Therapie Taxi’s first album, that will come out on 2 February 2018.
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 Chart, Music Moves Europe Talent Chart and ESNS Chart.
Werner’s Weekly (week 48)
While daily updating my Carte Blanche Music container playlist (with The Academic, Dua Lipa, Isaac Gracie, Saint Raymond, Shaka Ponk, Toto a.o., last week), and daily recommending you great new music via this blog, there’s only one moment in the week that I present you with the very best tracks of the past seven days…
Each Monday morning (European time) I give you Werner’s Weekly. A shortlist of highlights for your discovering and listening pleasure, brought together in the compact Werner’s Weekly playlist (see the player in the sidebar). It’s also listed alphabetically below and each link provides you with more information. If there’s anything more I can do to make your life easier, please tell me… 😉 . For now: enjoy!
- The Bamboos (feat. Montaigne) – I’ll Make You Happy (Wildcard this week)
- Kira Puru – Tension (Wildcard last week)
- Fabri Fibra – CVDM
- Gin Wigmore – Cabrona
- Noel Gallagher’s High Flying Birds – It’s A Beautiful World
- Paul Heaton & Jacqui Abbott – He Wants To
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 Chart, Music Moves Europe Talent Chart and ESNS Chart.
Fabri Fibra – CVDM
I’ve never been a huge rap fan, but Jovanotti’s flow has always appealed to me. Only this year, I discovered another Italian rapper that I like a lot: Fabri Fibra. I admit, I’m rather late at the table…
Last summer, I wrote about his track Pamplona, and here is his new single. It’s called CVDM. An abbreviation, so much is clear… CVDM is short for ‘Cazzo vuoi da me?’, meaning ‘What the f*ck do you want from me?’.
Musically, the track is less aggressive. The jazzy piano melody and easy-going beats make for a radio-friendly song. At least outside Italy ?
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 Chart, Music Moves Europe Talent Chart and ESNS Chart.
Tim Dup – Une Envie Méchante
Tim Dup is a 22-year-old French artist, who recently contributed two songs to the latest album of his hugely popular fellow Frenchie Louane.
Dup’s own music cultivates paradoxes : rapping and singing, softness and outrage, shadows and lights. This also explains the title of his album : Mélancholie Heureuse.
His new single is about today’s society forcing perfection upon everyone. This pressure makes people extremely unhappy, even those who appear to be perfect, according to Tim Dup. The theme has been worked out in the alarming video as well.
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 Chart, Music Moves Europe Talent Chart and ESNS Chart.
