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Isaac Dunbar – ferrari
Isaac Dunbar is an only 16-year-old singer-songwriter and producer from Barnstable, Massachusetts. He debuted last year with the single freshman year, and put out five more singles since then. All of these now appear on his 8-track debut EP balloons don’t float here (apparently, he’s not a big fan of capital letters).
With ferrari, Dunbar releases a sixth single off his EP. A tune with distorted vocals, grungy guitars, hard-hitting beats, and quiet melodies that build into an anthemic chorus. “Ferrari is about friends in your life who spread your secrets around after your friendship ends,” Dunbar explains.
I know this is a dangerous thing to say, and I don’t want to raise too many expectations for this talented young man, but to me, he sounds like a male Billie Eilish. There, I said it!
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.
Casey Lowry – Boyfriend
Casey Lowry is the king of the killer chorus. The 21-year-old rising newcomer from London has some infectious singles to his name already, and here’s another one. It precedes his upcoming second EP, which is due for release in September 2019.
Boyfriend recounts a humorous yet unfortunate moment with a girl and her new boyfriend. It’s a fresh and dynamic song, that’s built around addictive guitar riffs and sing-a-long hooks, and has been produced by frequent Lana Del Rey collaborator Tim Lacombe.
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.
Nix Dadry (feat. Julie Claire) – Station Street East
Fans of Lenny Kravitz, The Heavy and Aerosmith: please let me introduce you to your new favourite artist, Nix Dadry. Originally from the West Midlands, UK, he now lives in London. Following his 2018 debut album Magic Water, he just released his new EP Screwface.
Station Street East is the EP’s first single. Moved by the black American roots of blues, soul and funk, Dadry describes its musical style as ‘multi-influenced rock’. Lyrically, it reflects on where he grew up, and comments on where we come from in life and where we end up.
Finally, I think a special mention of the uncredited featured singer is in place: Julie Claire isn’t just a background singer, she really adds to the song.|
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 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.
Olympia – Star City
Following an earlier release as a promotional single, Star City gets the full treatment now that Olympia’s second album Flamingo is out. This is the song that opens the long-player, and immediately sets it apart from her earlier work. The hip hop beats of her first album Self Talk are replaced with catchy rock songs.
Olympia is the musical project of Australian singer-songwriter Olivia Jayne Bartley.
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.
Pyro – F.O.M.O.
Pyro (which means ‘fire’ in Greek) are a Dutch band, consisting of two singer/guitarists and a tight rhythm section. This already sounds powerful and energetic on paper, not to mention live. Think Foo Fighters, The Offspring, Kings Of Leon, Audioslave and Linkin Park.
The band’s upcoming debut EP counts four solid rock songs, which were mixed by Ronald Prent (Rammstein and many others) en mastered by Ted Jensen (Green Day, Kings Of Leon and lots more). F.O.M.O. (Fear Of Missing Out) is Pyro’s new single. Its message is as strong as their sound: it’s better to do one thing to the fullest, than more things half-heartedly.
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.
Skunk Anansie – What You Do For Love
When Skunk Anansie announced their current huge European headline tour in support of the band’s recent 25live@25 album, I couldn’t help but hope for new material. Little did I know my silent wish would come true.
What You Do For Love is the Brit rockers’ first new music since 2016’s album Anarchytecture and it’s great as ever. Instantly recognizable as a Skunk Anansie song, it’s raw but melodic, emotional and political. The track explores the lengths one would go to for love and the questionable things people do for power.
Destined to become a fan favourite during their live shows!
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 28):
Frank Turner – Sister Rosetta
A stadium act in his home country Great Britain, Frank Turner has yet to reach the general public abroad. But his popularity is steadily growing through constant touring.
His new single Sister Rosetta is a very ‘90s-sounding guitar pop song (Fountains Of Wayne’s Stacy’s Mom springs to mind, but without the power chords) and an ode to Sister Rosetta Tharpe. A musical and spiritual example for artists like Elvis Presley and Johnny Cash, she was nicknamed the ‘Godmother of rock ‘n roll’.
The single precedes Turner’s new album No Man’s Land, which will count 13 songs: 12 about historically important women and one about his own mother. A release date has not yet been set, but what I can announce, is that Sister Rosetta by Frank Turner is this week’s Carte Blanche Music Wildcard!
In the Wildcards 2019 playlist you can find all of this year’s Carte Blanche Music Wildcards so far.
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.”
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 28)
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:
- Miki Núñez – Celébrate (Wildcard this week)
- Videoclub – En Nuit (Wildcard last week)
- Ali Barter – Backseat
- The Black Keys – Shine A Little Light
- Flay – Not In California
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: Belle & Sebastian, Ed Sheeran with Chris Stapleton & Bruno Mars, Ride, 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.
