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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:
- Black Honey – Believer (Wildcard this week)
- Philippine – Bah Non. (Wildcard last week)
- Cold Years (feat. RR Gospel Choir) – Good As Hell
- Crooked Steps – Catherine
- Declan McKenna – Rapture
- Lucy Spraggan – Animal
- The Vices – Looking For Faces
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, The Veronicas, Foo Fighters, Tom Jones, Maxïmo Park, 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.
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Crooked Steps – Catherine
2020 was off to a good start for Belgian rock band Crooked Steps. They were one of three winners of radio station Studio Brussel’s talent competition De Nieuwe Lichting (‘the new class’). They didn’t fully benefit from it though, because… well, you know. But I’m convinced their music will take them where they’d like to be, eventually.
New single Catherine is further proof of Crooked Steps’ infectious song-writing. It’s a classic rock song in every sense. It starts with a nostalgic guitar melody, which is quickly accompanied by a driving drum beat. Thanks to the added surf guitar, it ends up being an energetic, summer-y tune.
Catherine is about keeping your distance from someone you like. A good advice, not only in times of corona, but also after a difficult relationship. More new music will follow this Spring.
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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.
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Werner’s Weekly (week 52)
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:
- beabadoobee – She Plays Bass (Wildcard this week)
- Kakkmaddafakka – Baby (Wildcard last week)
- Barry Moore – The Tide
- Don’t Bring Stacey – Changed My Hair
- Nancie Schipper – Take Out The Trash
- Spo Dee O Dee – Colours [2019 Version]
- ZZ Ward – Sex And Stardust
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: Elton John, Machine Gun Kelly, Ten Fé, and many 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.
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Don’t Bring Stacey – Changed My Hair
Australia isn’t just a country. It’s a whole continent, the size of Europe. However, it only counts 25 million inhabitants. That makes its enormous amount of musical talent even more impressive. And it makes the number of acts that break through abroad only more disappointing. Hopefully, their home country is big enough for these artists to make a decent living off their art.
Although Don’t Bring Stacey only released two singles so far, I dare giving them the ‘talent’ stamp. Angus Purvis, Jordy Schumacher and Nik Rallis share a mutual love for blues, skating and lemonade and formed surf-rock trio Don’t Bring Stacey in May 2019. They just followed-up their first ever track Everybody Knows with Changed My Hair. They call it ‘A tongue in cheek exploration of low self-esteem, a rather eventful mental breakdown and the following rise to self-empowerment. Basically a breakup song’.
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.
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Werner’s Weekly (week 32)
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:
- Tape Toy – Sad Girl (Wildcard this week)
- Baker Grace – Sad Summer (Wildcard last week)
- Kesha – Best Day [Angry Birds 2 Remix]
- Lola Marsh – Echoes
- Prince – Holly Rock
- Sheppard – Kiss My Fat Ass
- Wallis Bird – Salve!
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: Haim, Nouvelle Vague feat. Julie Delpy, MisterWives, and many 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.
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Lola Marsh – Echoes
Lola Marsh is formed by Tel Aviv, Israel-based lead vocalist Gil Landau and multi-instrumentalist Yael Shoshana Cohen. They came to prominence in 2014, when they played the Primavera Sound festival in Barcelona as a five-piece band.
Inspired by artists ranging from Edith Piaf to Sufjan Stevens, their catchy, cinematic indie-pop combines folk and surf music. Listening to their new single Echoes makes me think of a Quentin Tarantino directed Wild West movie. It sounds like an up-tempo Lana Del Rey track, if you will.
Lola Marsh say about the song: “Echoes is about that feeling you sometimes have when you want to disappear, but at the same time, want to be found. That scary beautiful moment just before falling asleep, when you are the most lonesome version of yourself.”
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.
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Hot Collars – Waitin’
After releasing four songs in the summer of 2017, UK outfit Hot Collars are back with the late summer soundtrack of 2018. Like their earlier songs, new single Waitin’ has a simple groove and some simple hooks too, but they’re undeniably effective.
After the first few notes bring back memories of Under Pressure by Queen & David Bowie, the sunshine-tinged, surf-like guitar riff subsequently makes this track sound like a Fatboy Slim tune without the dance beat. Instead, Waitin’ has some grooving drums throughout, making it a real feel-good song.
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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Werner’s Weekly (week 11)
Wow, an enormous amount of new music has been unleashed last week! For my Carte Blanche Music playlist, featuring only the best releases of 2018 so far, I hand-picked new songs by Cats On Trees, Gin Wigmore, Manic Street Preachers, and Sea Girls, among others.
But only the cream of the crop makes it onto Werner’s Weekly, your compass to the music that matters. You can listen to the tracks via the player in the sidebar, and learn more about them by following the links below:
- JZMN JYN – Going Under (Wildcard this week)
- Everything Everything – Breadwinner (Wildcard last week)
- Jimi Charles Moody – Happy Song
- Rae Morris – Dancing With Character
- Sennek – A Matter Of Time
- Theo Lawrence & The Hearts – Never Let It Go
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.
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Theo Lawrence & The Hearts – Never Let It Go
Theo Lawrence, still only in his early twenties, is a singer-songwriter from Paris, and a self-taught guitar and piano player. But when surrounded by his band The Hearts (Thibault Lecocq – drums, Nevil Bernard – keyboards, Louis Marin Renaud – guitar, and Olivier Viscat – bass), he is committed to the microphone.
They make soulful rock with touches of rhythm & blues and surf, positioning themselves between Charles Bradley, Tony Joe White and even Johnny Cash. Since 2016’s debut EP Sticky Icky, Never Let It Go is their third piece of new music. A pure, surprisingly adult song, that gets under your skin.
This week, Theo Lawrence & The Hearts release their first full album Homemade Lemonade in France. The rest of us will have to wait until 27 April…
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.
