Browsing Tag industrial
Werner’s Weekly (week 29)
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:
- Grace Potter – Good Time
(Wildcard this week)
- Goodnight Sunrise – This Is Yours (To Make)
(Wildcard last week)
- Birdy – Paradise Calling
- Dead Anyway – Don’t Stop, Go!
- ellakate – Dry
- Renée Rapp – Talk Too Much
- Shed Seven – Kissing California
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.

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 28)
Not all, but only the *best* new music. Added to the playlist this week (alphabetically):
- Beach Riot – Tell Me I’m Wrong
indie | rock
- Birdy – Paradise Calling
pop
- Rye Catchers (feat. Nikki Simmons) – Creeping On Me
indie | pop | rock
- Cyn – Where Do All The Diamonds Go?
indie | pop
- Dead Anyway – Don’t Stop, Go!
indie | industrial | pop | spoken word
- Deadletter – Degenerate Inanimate
indie | rock
- ellakate – Dry
indie | pop | soul
- The Horn – Too Many Moments
indie | pop
- Katherine Nora – Church Lane
indie | pop
- Renée Rapp – Talk Too Much
pop | rock
- Shed Seven – Kissing California
indie | pop | rock
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 50)
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:
- The Lottery Winners – An Open Letter To Creatives (Wildcard this week)
- Monowhales – BL/FF (Fake Friends) (Wildcard last week)
- Bugs – Old Youth Feeling
- Indochine x Christine & The Queens – 3Sex
- King Princess – Pain
- Raave Tapes – Habitual
- Super-Hi x Neeka – Following The Sun
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: Blossoms, Deacon Blue, Yungblud (feat. Machine Gun Kelly), 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.
Raave Tapes – Habitual
On their new single, Australian duo Raave Tapes push their experimental pop sound one step further. Habitual contains both massive pop hooks and bursts of glitched-out noise and crushing, distorted bass. They blow the dust off industrial, so to speak.
While recording the song, Lindsey O’Connell and Joab Eastley used Lady Gaga, Nelly Furtado, Charli XCX and Nine Inch Nails as references. Eastley recalls: “Throughout the recording process, we found moments where we asked ourselves ‘Can we get away with this? Are we allowed to do it?’ Then we remembered that the points are made-up and nothing actually matters. We stood by our game-plan of unapologetically committing to guilty pleasures. Live it up baby.”
Lyrically, the track holds some pleasant surprises as well. How about the line ‘I put the ‘bitch’ in ‘habitual’, you put the ‘dick’ in ‘predictable’? Classic, I’d say.
With its beautiful verses and crunchy choruses, Habitual is instantly addictive.
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.
Grimes feat. Hana – We Appreciate Power
After months of teases, Canadian singer, songwriter and producer Claire Boucher (commonly known as Grimes) finally released new music. The dark, driving track We Appreciate Power features additional vocals from longtime collaborator Hana Gabrielle Pestle (or simply Hana). It’s Grimes’s most aggressive single to date; sonically, it sits somewhere between power pop and straightforward industrial.
We Appreciate Power comes after a year full of collaborations with other artists (Janelle Monae’s Pynk, for instance) and marks Grimes’s first new song since her 2015 album Art Angels. The track is slated to be the first single off her forthcoming, still-untitled (and unplanned) fifth album.
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.