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Wildcards (weeks 32, 33 and 34):
Wildcards (weeks 32, 33 and 34):
Vistas, Jacoténe and Wolf Alice
During my holidays I’ve chosen a weekly Wildcard, as always. Here they are, for the record…
Week 34
Wolf Alice – Just Two Girls
Last week, Wolf Alice released their fourth album The Clearing. They call it ‘a classic pop/rock album that nods to the ‘70s while remaining rooted firmly in the present. At its core, The Clearing is a record about arrival – not at a destination, but at a sense of peace with the journey’.
New single Just Two Girls is a great example of the songs’ timelessness. Lead by drums and piano, it’s a peppy and upbeat tune. It was inspired by singer Ellie Rowsell realising how validating the conversations with her girlfriends are to her.
Just Two Girls by Wolf Alice is the current Carte Blanche Music Wildcard. It will be prominently displayed at the top of the blog for an entire week.
More Wolf Alice @ Carte Blanche Music
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Week 33
Jacoténe – Why’d You Do That?
Ever since her first demos I’ve been a fan of Jacoténe. Her voice and appearance are and so are her songs and stage presence. That’s even more remarkable if you imagine she’s only 19 years old. I’ve been following and supporting her throughout her short career, but most other media still have to join me in doing so. But they will, eventually, and this Aussie talent will become a big star in the years to come.
Following her great debut EP Untitled (Read My Mind), Jacoténe is now back with her new single Why’d You Do That? With its subtle bass and addictive percussion, it’s a brooding, soul-trip hop blend. The song is the talented singer’s third Carte Blanche Music Wildcard. Hopefully she’s third time lucky!
More Jacoténe @ Carte Blanche Music
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Week 32
Vistas – Take It From The Skies
29 August, Edinburgh band Vistas will put out their fourth album Cut The Cord. Listening to the singles off it, one can’t but conclude that the band made a huge leap forward. And their previous albums were so good already!
Take It From The Skies is the fourth and latest track to be released ahead of the album. It’s arguably the Scottish band’s best single so far. The fierce guitar riff immediately grabs the listeners’ attention, while powerful drums provide a great backbone. The only downside to the song is that it’s only 2½ minutes long. We want more! Looks like Cut The Cord will be one of the albums of the year 2025.
More Vistas @ Carte Blanche Music
Follow the band on Facebook | Instagram | Spotify
In the Wildcards 2025 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.
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Additions to the Carte Blanche Music playlist (weeks 32, 33 and 34)
Not all, but only the best new music from the past weeks. Added to the playlist during my holidays (alphabetically and sorted by week):
Week 34
- Blackbird – Looking For You
indie | pop - Capital Cities – Late For School
indie | pop - Rye Catchers (feat. Nikki Simmons) – Out Of Time
indie | pop - Confidence Man & Jade – Gossip
electronic | pop - Dinosaur Pile-Up – I’ve Felt Better indie | rock
- Maggie Lindemann – Spine indie | pop | rock
- Mackenzie – 9-5 indie | pop | rock
- Molly Millington – Lovers Song indie | pop
- Rudimental with Rag ‘n’ Bone Man – Nights Like These drum & bass | indie | pop
- Oswald Slain – Have You Got What You Came Here For? indie | rock
- Izzy S.O – Are We Doing This Again? indie | pop | rock
- Telenova – Bitcrush pop | rock
- Wolf Alice – Just Two Girls indie | pop
Week 33
- Grace Angelique – The Girl Next Door indie | pop | rock
- Blanko – Forever Is Now indie | pop
- The Hives – The Hives Forever Forever The Hives
indie | rock - Jacoténe – Why’d You Do That? pop | soul
- Josh Long – 405 indie | pop
- The Wild Things – I Can’t Wait indie | pop | rock
Week 32
- Les Trois Accords & Coeur De Pirate – Toujours Les Vacances
indie | pop - The Trusted – Yellowhammer indie | rock
Check them all in the constantly updated Carte Blanche Music Spotify playlist.
Add it to your library (click ‘+’) to hear the best new music first.
Partly selected via input by Musosoup. Submit your music here. #sustainablecreators
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
Werner’s Weekly (week 30)
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:
- Ella Eyre – Space (Wildcard this week)
- Grace Davies – Hotel Delilah (Wildcard last week)
- The Charlatans – We Are Love
- J.Fla – Stellar Paradox
- Niko Rubio – No Lo Volveré Hacer (EP track)
- Soma – Raw
- Aleks Syntek x Los Caligaris – ¡Hey Tú!
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.
Partly selected via input by Musosoup. Submit your music here. #sustainablecreators
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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Wildcard (week 29): Ella Eyre – Space
Wildcard (week 29): Ella Eyre – Space
Nobody knows why Ella Eyre’s 14-year career hasn’t resulted in super stardom yet. She’s had hits, solo and alongside artists like Sigala, Ty Dolla Sign, Banx & Ranx and Bastille, but her worldwide breakthrough has yet to come. However, after years of struggling in creative straightjackets, the prospects now look promising.
After her 2015 debut album, her sophomore record was 10 years in the making. During this time, she parted ways with her label and her partner. In doing so, she took back control of her career and her life. That freedom is audible on her second album Everything, In Time, which is due to come out on 21 November. Ahead of the long-player, one of the UK’s best vocalists releases her fiery new single Space.
The London-born singer and songwriter says about the track: “Space is about reaching your limits and drawing a line with humorous, but deadly-serious intentions. I had so much fun when I wrote this song because I was so done with an unwanted situation that it had actually become amusing. I wanted to create as much distance as possible for myself to heal, and even outer space didn’t seem far away enough. Sometimes you can only laugh about something hard – or write a savage song about it.”
A fierce and frank anthem about setting boundaries, Space is a powerful track. It showcases a raw and unfiltered side of Eyre, laden with a bold soul-R&B groove.
After Comeback (2014), Together (2015) and Just Got Paid (2018), Ella Eyre holds the Carte Blanche Music Wildcard once again. She will occupy a prominent Space at the top of the blog for an entire week.
Follow Ella Eyre on Facebook | Instagram | Spotify
In the Wildcards 2025 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.
playlist
Additions to the Carte Blanche Music playlist (week 29)
electronic | funk | hip hop | indie | latin | melancholic | pop | r&b | rock | ska | soul | trip hop
Not all, but only the best new music from a fat and fabulous release week. Added to the playlist this week (alphabetically):
- Avalon – Dedication Hour indie | pop | rock
- Black Honey – Shallow indie | pop | rock
- Brooklyn Funk Essentials – Life During Wartime funk | indie | soul
- Kristen Castro – Summer Rain indie | pop
- The Charlatans – We Are Love indie | pop
- Julian Daniel – 7:11 electronic | indie | pop
- Ella Eyre – Space indie | pop | r&b | soul
- goodheart – Silverspoon Sunday indie | pop
- Grumpy – Crush indie | pop | rock
- J.Fla – Stellar Paradox indie | pop | rock
- King Princess – Cry Cry Cry indie | pop | rock
- Master Peace – Harley indie | pop | rock
- Orange Skyline – Burn Me Like A Cigarette pop | rock
- Projector – It Surely Has Been Hell indie | pop | rock
- Reverend & The Makers feat. Vicky McClure – Haircut indie | pop
- Niko Rubio – No Lo Volveré Hacer (EP track) pop
- Salvia – Adrenaline
indie | pop | rock - Soma – Raw hip hop | indie | trip hop
- Sublime – Ensenada indie | pop | ska
- Aleks Syntek x Los Caligaris – ¡Hey Tú! latin | pop | ska
- Tiny Enemy – Last Clown Of The Apocalypse
indie | melancholic | pop - Charlie Winston – Kick Out Of You indie | pop
Check them all in the constantly updated Carte Blanche Music Spotify playlist.
Add it to your library (click ‘+’) to hear the best new music first.
Partly selected via input by Musosoup. Submit your music here. #sustainablecreators
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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Additions to the Carte Blanche Music playlist (week 27)
Not all, but only the best new music. Added to the playlist this week (alphabetically):
- Altered By Mom – Knee High Sox indie | pop | rock
- Bettie Serveert – Ta! indie | pop | rock
- Bradley Denniston – Her indie | pop
- Wendy Moore – Tangled Wiring electronic | indie | pop
- The Moving Stills – Tsunami indie | pop | rock
- Baba Pen & The Bim Bam Band – Hare In The Haze indie | pop
- Roleplay – Got A Feeling indie | pop
- Salarymen – Let Me Go indie | pop
- Wilsn – Keep Walkin’ indie | pop | soul
Check them all in the constantly updated Carte Blanche Music Spotify playlist.
Add it to your library (click ‘+’) to hear the best new music first.
Partly selected via input by Musosoup. Submit your music here. #sustainablecreators
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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Additions to the Carte Blanche Music playlist (week 25)
Not all, but only the best new music. Added to the playlist this week (alphabetically):
- The Baxbys – Masses In Glasses indie | pop | rock
- Cold War Kids – Any Day Now indie | pop | rock
- Dylan – Bad pop | rock
- Eliza McLamb – Quitting indie | pop | rock
- Momma – Stay All Summer indie | pop | rock
- Moving Into Tucson – People Of The World indie | pop
- Josh Orange – Believers And Dreamers (What Have We Become) indie | pop | rock
- Playlunch – Keith funk | indie | pop | rock
- Leyla Sabo – Don’t Underestimate Me indie | pop | soul
- Vini – Messy Love
funk | indie | pop - We Are Scientists – What You Want Is Gone indie | pop | rock
- Yungblud – Ghosts pop | rock
- Zkin – Temptation indie | melancholic | pop
Check them all in the constantly updated Carte Blanche Music Spotify playlist.
Add it to your library (click ‘+’) to hear the best new music first.
Partly selected via input by Musosoup. Submit your music here. #sustainablecreators
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
Werner’s Weekly (week 25)
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:
- maniia – One Track Mind
(Wildcard this week) - Carla Wehbe – Fuck It I’ll Be My Own Best Friend (Wildcard last week)
- Felicia Lu – Hot Rain In The Summer
- Framing Watson – Sugar Sweet
- heddlu – Wish You Were Her
- Mark Ronson + Raye – Suzanne
- Twenty One Pilots – The Contract
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.
Partly selected via input by Musosoup. Submit your music here. #sustainablecreators
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.
playlist
Additions to the Carte Blanche Music playlist (week 24)
Not all, but only the best new music. Added to the playlist this week (alphabetically):
- Blonde Diamond – 2 Young 2 Die indie | pop | rock
- heddlu – Wish You Were Her indie | pop | rock
- Felicia Lu – Hot Rain In The Summer electronic | indie | pop
- Framing Watson – Sugar Sweet indie | pop | rock
- maniia – One Track Mind electronic | indie | pop
- Mark Ronson + Raye – Suzanne pop | soul
- Sue The Night – Evergreen (l-o-v-e-d) indie | pop
- Trip To Paris – Imposter Syndrome indie | rock
- Twenty One Pilots – The Contract pop | rock
Check them all in the constantly updated Carte Blanche Music Spotify playlist.
Add it to your library (click ‘+’) to hear the best new music first.
Partly selected via input by Musosoup. Submit your music here. #sustainablecreators
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.
playlist
Additions to the Carte Blanche Music playlist (week 18)
Not all, but only the best new music. Added to the playlist this week (alphabetically):
- Ama – Metro Girl
indie | pop - Amalia – Sugar Baby indie | pop
- Ana & The Changes – Sabiranje
indie | pop | rock - Beach Bunny – Just Around The Corner indie | pop | rock
- Damiano David – Voices
pop - Noga Erez – Not My Problem
pop | r&b - Lamomali (-M-, Toumani & Sidiki Diabaté) feat. Amadou & Mariam, Oxmo Puccino & Fatoumata Diawara – Je T’aime
indie | pop | world - Tom McGuire & The Brassholes – Fun funk | indie | pop | soul
- Pistol Daisys – Calling Your Name indie | pop | rock
- Sophisticated Dingo – Feels Like Woah indie | rock
Check them all in the constantly updated Carte Blanche Music Spotify playlist.
Add it to your library (click ‘+’) to hear the best new music first.
Partly selected via input by Musosoup. Submit your music here. #sustainablecreators
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.
