In A Better Word (8)

This is the new regular blog feature. Once a week there'll be a little something about a song that really ought to have been a hit. Well, in a better World, that is. This week it's:

DUNGEN: "PANDA"

This is one of the few songs, where you feel like playing air bass, air guitar, air drums and even air tambourine at the same time. And sing a bit too. It's completely outta this world, so go take a listen!

Crimes of the mind...

Sometimes "dope" really is the word you're looking for. Check out Mattic, old school hip hop, hazy and slow, we're diggin':

Med Næb & Kløer

New (or almost new) video by the dude with one of the coolest band names in Danish rock, Telestjernen. Gaffa says something about Gasolin, and someone on Youtube says Abba, while I'm thinking C.V. Jørgensen. It's good, though:

Pop Revo...

Hell yeah, I'm going! Saturday, train from Copenhagen, find somewhere to sleep, Girlseeker and snaredrum, Pinden, Casino Bar, back to Voxhall and Moonface, Lower Dens and Austra. Oh, it's gonna be sweet. And a bit of music for you:

Oh and...

"Equal mind" / Beach House / "Lazuli"-B-side / And fuck yeah, the guitar and the evolving beat!:

In A Better World (7)

This is the new regular blog feature. Once a week there'll be a little something about a song that really ought to have been a hit. Well, in a better World, that is. This week it's:

GUEST WRITER EDITION: Straight outta Spain, bewitching member of The Voodoo Virgins and former intern at Crunchy Frog, say hello to: Marta Villarroya.

This song really ought to have been a hit, not only because it sounds great, but also for some kind of universal justice. Susan Christie had a massive hit in 1966 with a novelty song named "I Love Onions" (available on Youtube for the curious). Then she recorded a fantastic album in 1970 called "Paint a Lady" that remained unreleased until some years ago, when the folks from "Finders Keepers" brought it out to light to our delight. The album was not considered by her label to be commercially viable at her time... Bad luck. So Susan Christie was only known and remembered for a silly fun song like "I Love Onions", while her great "Paint a Lady" was simply shelved and forgotten... Just another story of market and nonsense. I really like the magic psychedelia of her folk songs on this album, I really like her voice and I really like the melancholic taste of solitude of this song. And of course, I really like to proclaim it a hit this week! So here goes: SUSAN CHRISTE: "RAINY DAY"

And I forgot...

Might as well write this little update, since I'm bored as hell. So what I forgot to say is this:

Last Sunday we went to the Selvhenter / Pinkunoizu release. Very nice, and I'm secretly in love with one of the drummers in Selvhenter, damn she's cool :-).

I very much like this song by Den Fjerde Væg:



And I've been listening to a lot of radio lately, so yesterday I heard Sneums Garage on P6. It was a Hvidovre special and it was absolutely smashing. So here are The Scarlets feat. Lecia and Lucienne and a Danish classic (this song wasn't in the program, but I couldn't find the right one):

In A Better World (6)

This is the new regular blog feature. Once a week there'll be a little something about a song that really ought to have been a hit. Well, in a better World, that is. This week it's:

MOJAVE 3: "STARLIGHT NO. 1"


Oh, man, I'm ill (well, it's just a cold, but still). But you gotta do what you gotta do, so here's a new song on the list. And seriously, it's a good one, quiet, country/indie-ish and kinda-it-makes-your-eyes-water-beautiful.

And now...

...with the official video. Razika "Aldri":

In A Better World (5)

This is the new regular blog feature. Once a week there'll be a little something about a song that really ought to have been a hit. Well, in a better World, that is. This week it's:

MOGWAI: "CODY"

I've seen them play some massively cool concerts! And they've made some of my favourite albums. So here's a slow one on the playlist. And the coolest band t-shirt ever made:

Du är på repeat

Thanks, It's a Trap! For writing about this little smashing gem of a song by Little Marbles. Instant catchiness. I mean, check the bass and the drums, they just make you wanna dance a bit, don't they?



And we recorded some vocals yesterday, I'm sorta thinking that a song called "100 (The Latest Flame)" could end up being a summer indie hit. So that's good :-).

Oh, you need a new gospel...

I love this! I mean, I REALLY love this, new song from Advance Base (Owen Ashworth from Casiotone for the Painfully Alone). Check it out via Paste!

100

100 songs from beko. I haven't had the time to listen to them all yet, but so far I can easily recommend Love Dance, Freelove Fenner, Invisible Mouth, Expect Delays, Romantic States and Galway. And naturally The Bilinda Butchers (ft. Tiny Microphone):



And this weird shit (I goddamn love the beat and the corny synth) cover of "Love Will Tear Us Apart" by Salut Brioche:

In A Better World (4)

This is the new regular blog feature. Once a week there'll be a little something about a song that really ought to have been a hit. Well, in a better World, that is. This week it's:

THE BOO RADLEYS: "LEAVES AND SAND" / "SPUN AROUND" / "LAZARUS"

This is the sound of me trying to convince the other students from the Institute of Classical Philology that it's possible to dance to indie: "Yeah, try Lazarus" (and failing miserably).

This is the sound of CJ and me trying to "become better acquainted" with two girls from Vejle, whom we'd met at Øst For Paradis (and failing miserably).

This is the sound of me telling anyone who'd listen: "that if I ever get a girlfriend, it's imperative that she loves "Spun Around" too" (and, naturally, failing miserably).

Basically this is the sound of summer 1994-spring 1995. The album's called "Giant Steps", it was released in 1993 and it's fucking amazing. Or as [sic] put it: "For 64 minutes they were the greatest band on the planet". Check'em out on the playlist. Please.