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Dune Rats (feat. K.Flay) – Stupid Is As Stupid Does
Dune Rats are a Brisbane trio, consisting of Danny Beus, Brett Jansch and BC Michaels. The band adhere to the ‘no-nonsense, all fun’ principle. Their music, best described as ‘party punk’, connected with many Aussies over the past 9 years. And now, it’s the rest of the world’s turn!
Third album Hurry Up And Wait is once again full of the band’s trademark colourful and energetic rock. And wisely, they chose one of the stand-out tracks as their next single. Stupid Is As Stupid Does greets the ills of the world with a smile, rather than a middle finger. As a bonus, it features rising American alt-pop artist K.Flay.
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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 29)
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:
- Frank Turner – Sister Rosetta (Wildcard this week)
- Miki Núñez – Celébrate (Wildcard last week)
- Imani Coppola – Lying To My Therapist
- Lizzo (feat. Gucci Mane) – Exactly How I Feel
- Pyro – F.O.M.O.
- Skunk Anansie – What You Do For Love
- Wyke van Weelden – Make You Mine
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:, The Brand New Heavies feat. N’Dea Davenport, Emeli Sandé, K.Flay, New Order, The Rembrandts, and many more.
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.
Imani Coppola – Lying To My Therapist
Imani Coppola’s new single is another raucous affair. Just like her recent song Rattle, it only needs 2 minutes to make its point.
Lying To My Therapist is a punky tune, in which she confesses self-destruction habits like not taking her medication and isolating herself from the outside world, while fearing to tell her therapist about it. Coppola explains: “I began to withhold information to spare myself the scrutiny of analysis, and in some cases the shame of repeating the same mistakes over and over, and having to report to her about it every week.”
In the gripping climax she basically reads her own eulogy: “Here lies the body of a female in her 40’s / A New York City refugee deceased in North Woodholly / Survived by 5 cigarettes / In a pack of American spirits / Left her fortune to her cat and the duck.”
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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 25)
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:
- Jay Som – Superbike (Wildcard this week)
- Rammstein – Ausländer (Wildcard last week)
- Altered By Mom – Hear That Sound
- Jesse Merineau – She Knows
- Flay – Sister
- Sløtface – Telepathetic
- Sorcha Richardson – Don’t Talk About 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: Black Honey, Eckhardt & The House feat. Bella Hay, Kaiser Chiefs, Volbeat, and many more.
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.
Sløtface – Telepathetic
In 2017, Norway four-piece Sløtface released their debut album Try Not To Freak Out, which featured great singles like Magazine and Backyard. They just broke a two-year silence with a brand-new offering.
The band’s brilliantly titled new single Telepathetic sees the band sharing production duties for the first time with Odd Martin Skålnes, who worked with fellow-Norwegians like Sigrid and Aurora before. The collaboration results in one of Sløtface’s most infectious, energetic and exciting songs so far.
Speaking about the new track, bassist Lasse Lokøy says: “It was written in approximately 2 hours, at 11 in the evening, after a full day of recording. Most of us don’t remember any of it because we were so tired.” Singer Haley Shea adds: “It’s pretty much just about feeling you’re in the wrong place, like a small town or a job you don’t like, and thinking ‘there must be something else.”
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 22)
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:
- Countless Numbers – Twice As Hard (Wildcard this week)
- The Heavy – Fighting For The Same Thing (Wildcard last week)
- Beachheads – Death Of A Nation
- Eliza & The Delusionals – Just Exist
- Lauran Hibberd – Hoochie
- Olympia – Hounds
- Phil Collins – The Man With The Horn
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: Biffy Clyro, Emeli Sandé, Rammstein, Yungblud, and many more.
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.
Beachheads – Death Of A Nation
Norwegian pop-rock band Beachheads are a side project of Kvelertak members Vidar Landa and Marvin Nygaard. As you might have guessed from its title, their new single Death Of A Nation is pretty political, with lyrics taking on the rise of fascism worldwide. Musically, it reminds me of the Buzzcocks (which is never a bad thing).
The band explain: “Death Of A Nation pursues the more punk side of Beachheads and was originally hammered out on an acoustic guitar – all the parts coming together first go. Later it became the first song that producer Frode Strømstad picked out to record for the new album. We wanted to keep the rawness of our rehearsal room demo, so throughout the recording process we focused on enjoying ourselves, rather than overthinking it.”
Following their self-titled debut album (2017), Beachheads will release their second long-player later this year. Landa and Nygaard’s main band Kvelertak will do the same, introducing Ivar Nikolaisen (The Good The Bad & The Zugly) as their new singer.
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 3)
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:
- Lizzo – Juice (Wildcard this week)
- The Lottery Winners – That’s Not Entertainment (Wildcard last week)
- As December Falls – On The Edge
- Chateau Chateau – Evidence
- Evil Edna – Isle Of Dogs
- Mamas Gun – Golden Days
- Uncle Frank – Lay It All At His Feet
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: Blood Red Shoes, The Chemical Brothers, Janelle Monáe, Joe Jackson, Radiohead, White Lies and many more.
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.
Evil Edna – Isle Of Dogs
Evil Edna are Paul Cockerham (vocals, harmonica), Joe Thompson (drums), Sam Taylor (bass), and Simon Land (guitar), a rockabilly punk band from London. They have a unique, genre-crossing sound, which blends gypsy harmonica, psychobilly guitar, thumping bass and upbeat drums, as if Madness, The Pogues and the Bintangs were put in a blender. Gogol Bordello fans will be delighted!
If you’re ready to stomp your feet and shake your hips, please meet Evil Edna!
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)
In the past, when people were only exposed to music that was released in their own country, December was a month where nothing much happened, as far as new songs were concerned. Nowadays, with millions of artists all around the world putting their music on platforms like Spotify, available for everybody all over the planet, things are different. Of course, this month, you need to plow through all the well-intentioned Christmas mayhem (don’t look any further, these are the all-time highlights), but then you’ll find a wealth of great new tracks. By Charlotte Gainsbourg, Kakkmaddafakka, KT Tunstall, Smallpools or Underworld, for instance.
Below you’ll find the cream of the crop: Werner’s Weekly, your compass to the music that matters. Treat your ears via the Werner’s Weekly player in the sidebar and/or click the links for more info:
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.
