Black Hills Of Dakota...

Damn, I'm soooooo busy these days. But time for a quick post. Mainly because this song by Trailer Trash Tracys (found via Coast Is Clear) is very, very cool!:

  Trailer Trash Tracys - You Wish You Were Red by DominoRecordCo 

Secondly, because this song by The Sister Ruby Band is very, very cool too!:


The Sister Ruby Band - Black Hills Of Dakota from The Sister Ruby Band on Vimeo.

Cats are impatient...

I rather like this song by Snaredrum:
  Cats are impatient raw mix by snaredrum 

I also rather like the new song by Tempomatador (but then again, I would, wouldn't I?).

I goddamn love...

New songs from bakers at dawn:
And Reverend Shine Snake Oil Co. (the coolest drummer in town!):

The election...

How odd, two of the politicians that I've helped with campaigns in 2004 (European Parliament Election) and 2007 are now MPs. Camilla for the right party and Merete for the not-quite-right-party-to-say-the-least :-). And oh, how I love Saturdays. Relaxing, reading an Icelandic crime novel and watching videos over at Songs They Played (Halasan Bazar, The Great Dictators, Let Me Play Your Guitar and more). And this song is pretty, pretty cool:

Back to school...

Yes, I've started studying again. German. And part-time, but still. So right now I'm doing a short essay about "Kultur und Kommunikation". Or rather, I should be doing that, but instead I'm surfing Youtube looking for cool songs. This one is very catchy in a slackerpop-kinda-way (I'm thinking Stytzer would like it a lot, even though it's in German :-)):

Tiny Fireflies

I wrote about them before. And now, there's an EP up! The tags say: "indie pop shoegaze". I agree and I like it. A lot (especially "We Made a Pact")!

Carl Jørn and Oslo

Today it's Carl Jørn's birthday. That means that he's now (in his own words) also closer to 50 than 20 :-). And I thought that we'd celebrate that. I've known CJ since we were 16 and I've had the pleasure of playing with him in such marvellous bands as So What, So What Revival Band and Den Blå Agurk. And to be quite honest we don't always agree on what constitutes good music. But I always send him our demos, because I really value his opinion. So I sent him the song below. It was supposed to be included on the "Monte Carlo" EP, but we decided against it, because the sound was kinda wrong somehow. And CJ was like: "No, it's a really cool song, sounding a lot like Neil Young". And I was like: "Yeah, it's ok, but I don't like the sound of it". And he was like: "You kidding?". And I was like: "No". And etc. And etc. But since it is his birthday, here it is. It's called "Oslo" (rather appropriate, since CJ lives in Norway now) and it's a countrypop song about going to Kalvøya Festival in 1993, being teen, ever so slightly drunk, kissing a girl and listening to Neil Young for the first time. And it's a demo, so the sound IS kinda-not-that-good.


And if you feel like a download, it's right here too (I won't be putting it on Soundcloud with the more "official" songs).

City Slang...

Check this compilation, artists such as Wye Oak, Tu Fawning, Herman Dune and O'Death (found over at Mittsommernachtsspitzen):
  Do Robocats Dream Of Electric Mice? - A City Slang Compilation by cityslang 

And thanks very much to ptheia and dernachtwind.