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Additions to the Carte Blanche Music playlist (week 25)
Not all, but only the best new music. Quality over quantity. Added to the playlist this week (alphabetically):
- Dead Anyway – Dear Automation (EP track)
electronic | indie | spoken word - Rose Gray – Club To Your Arms dance | pop
- Alex Stanilla – Who Cares
indie | 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.
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Wildcard (week 22):
Wildcard (week 22):
Dogs Don’t Deal – Be Less Jeff
Dogs Don’t Deal are Sheffield based producer Cobbler and Leicester based singer songwriter Michael ‘Mikey V’ Vickers. In their own words: ‘two UK boys with no filter, telling the truth about life right now’. Their new single is a very clever parody of commerciality. Sometimes you can be more by being less. Be less Jeff.
Be Less Jeff by Dogs Don’t Deal is the new Carte Blanche Music Wildcard. It will be prominently displayed at the top of the blog for an entire week.
Follow the duo on Facebook | Instagram | Spotify
You’ll find all of this year’s Carte Blanche Music Wildcards so far in the Wildcards 2026 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.
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Additions to the Carte Blanche Music playlist (week 6)
Not all, but only the best new music. Added to the playlist this week (alphabetically):
- Dead Anyway – Beyond Repair (album track) indie | pop | spoken word
- Deadletter – Among Us indie | pop | rock
- Deep Thrills – She Did Alright! electronic | indie | pop | rock
- Mamas Gun feat. Brian Jackson – Dig! indie | pop
- Natalie Shay – I Choose U indie | 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.
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Additions to the Carte Blanche Music playlist (week 3)
Not all, but only the best new music. Added to the playlist this week (alphabetically):
- Dylan Cartlidge – Crazy World indie | pop
- Chvrches – Addicted To Love (Robert Palmer cover) electronic | pop
- Dead Anyway – A Shift Of Perspective indie | pop | spoken word
- Lauren Minear – Perfect Girl indie | pop
- They Might Be Giants – Eyeballs indie | 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.
werner's weekly
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 Davies – Hotel Delilah (Wildcard this week)
- Seafret & KT Tunstall – Five More Seconds (Wildcard last week)
- Autoheart – Indigo Chateau
- Ciska Ciska – Jump Right In
- Dead Anyway – Another Night Done (EP track)
- Lucia – Giving It Up
- Yellowcard – Take What You Want
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 28)
Not all, but only the best new music. Added to the playlist this week (alphabetically):
- Autoheart – Indigo Chateau indie | pop
- Ciska Ciska – Jump Right In indie | pop
- Grace Davies – Hotel Delilah disco | indie | pop
- Dead Anyway – Another Night Done (EP track) indie | pop | rock | spoken word
- Nieve Ella – Good Grace indie | pop | rock
- Duxie Franklin – Wasting Time
indie | pop - Lucia – Giving It Up indie | pop
- Oswald Slain – Firing Line indie | rock
- Yellowcard – Take What You Want 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 45)
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:
- Customs – Rise Again (Wildcard this week)
- Dead Anyway – Does Anybody Know Who I Can Hand These Things Into? (Wildcard last week)
- Alex The Astronaut – Road Rage
- Atomics – Leave Me Be
- Fickle Friends – Feral
- Emily Ricks – Dead To Me
- Rikki – You (Tangarine cover)
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.
werner's weekly
Werner’s Weekly (week 44)
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:
- Dead Anyway – Does Anybody Know Who I Can Hand These Things Into? (Wildcard this week)
- Sohni Singh – Jealous Of Canada (Wildcard last week)
- Goodnight Sunrise – Jealous (Of My Friends)
- Hoshi – Mauvais Rêve [28 Ans]
- Declan McKenna – Champagne
- They Might Be Giants – Doctor Worm [Live]
- Underworld – Techno Shinkansen
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 43):
Wildcard (week 43):
Dead Anyway – Does Anybody Know Who I Can Hand These Things Into?
How Can You Expect To Be Taken Seriously? (Pet Shop Boys). Everybody’s Got Something To Hide Except Me And My Monkey (The Beatles). Standing Outside A Broken Phone Booth With Money In My Hand (Primitive Radio Gods). Just a few unusually long song titles that at one point made me think: how on earth can one pack these into a catchy melody? It was exactly the thought that occurred to me when I saw the title of Dead Anyway’s new single: Does Anybody Know Who I Can Hand These Things Into?
The answer to this question often isn’t only in the vocal melody. The accompanying music can be just as important to create a memorable tune. Especially when the lyrics aren’t sung, but delivered in spoken word style. And in Dead Anyway’s universe, that intersection of vocals and music is exactly where the magic happens. The way Marc Symonds sets Kate Arnold’s poetry to beats and sounds brings the already expressive lyrics to life even more .
Does Anybody Know Who I Can Hand These Things Into? is a pop song with an edge. Or, well, multiple edges. In fact: many edges. Every time you put it on, new details reveal themselves. It’s a layered song with a walking bass line, playful drum patterns, a lovely piano, sweet strings, and.. wait… do I really hear seagulls? Extra vocal lines, singing Kate’s spoken lyrics, certainly help the audience to sing along with the track’s complicated title. A really great song!
Next Friday, 25 October, Dead Anyway’s new album Tough, Listen comes to all the streaming platforms. But it’s already on Bandcamp, if you can’t wait. You didn’t hear it from me…
PS: In Kate’s recent book Kicking At Tombstones you can discover that her poems are intriguing in their own right. It contains a selection of 25 poems she wrote for her band, and each physical copy of the book comes with a code to download all of the 25 full songs.
Does Anybody Know Who I Can Hand These Things Into? by Dead Anyway is the new Carte Blanche Music Wildcard. It will be prominently displayed at the top of the blog for an entire week.
More Dead Anyway @ Carte Blanche Music
Follow the duo on Facebook | Instagram | X | Spotify
In the Wildcards 2024 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 (week 42)
Not all, but only the *best* new music. Added to the playlist this week (alphabetically):
- Batts – Vessel Of Love indie | pop
- Blanko – Get Up indie | pop | rock
- Capital Cities – The Monster In My Closet indie | pop | rock
- Dead Anyway – Does Anybody Know Who I Can Hand These Things Into? indie | pop | rock | spoken word
- Dream Wife – Room 341 indie | rock
- The Early Swerve – I’m Not Walter Mitty indie | pop
- Eevah – One Of Those Days indie | pop
- Nieve Ella – Sweet Nothings indie | pop | rock
- High Vis – Guided Tour indie | rock
- Kakkmaddafakka – Head In My Hands
indie | pop - Lølø – Don’t! indie | pop | rock
- Luna Morgenstern – Miss U drum & bass | electronic | indie | pop
- Thelma Plum – Hurricane pop
- Rosé & Bruno Mars – Apt.
pop - Slow Pilot – Giants indie | melancholic | pop
- Theeth – Real 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.
