Great moments from Great Britain!

Sonicflyer started out in the remote town of Barnaul in Southern Siberia, where brother / sister combo Yulia (vocals / lead guitar) and Dima (drums) spent the last few years writing, touring, and building up a strong local following. Frustrated by the absence of a music scene in Russia the pair moved to the UK and recruited Chris (rhythm guitar / keyboards) and Rye (bass / backing vocals) to complete a new London-based line up for the band. They released their first EP "Sun in my pocket" in 2008. The tones contains nice sunshiney, partial elegiac guitar dominated indierock together with magical warm voices. Their notes are pervaded with a moderate brise of melancholic elements. Fill your house with sand and wear some fitting beachwear while you listen. Please have a look at their MySpace page. You`ll find three other excellent tracks like "Novocaine", "tonight" or "overseas", which will never relinquish you anyway. Via last.fm you can download another song for free. Great!Britannia!

England! Newcastle! Kubichek!

Dieses Quartett (mittlerweile zum Trio reduziert) aus der englischen Fußballstadt Newcastle ist mir anno 2006 auf einer Popexkursion in München sozusagen in die Hände gefallen. Im ehemaligen Indieschuppen Prager Frühling (heute: Babalu) verriet mir ein wohlgesonnener Plattenaufleger den Indietempomaten "Night joy" eben jener sich im Jahre 2004 geformten Viererbande. Das lohenswerte Debütalbum "Not Enough Night" erschien Anfang 2007. Zu zackigem Indierock gesellen sich mit "Hope is possible" und "Start as we meant to" etwas sanftere, vor Melancholie nur so triefend zauberhafte Töne. Bravo!Kubichek!

Weezer is doing cool things...

Yes. Really. This idea is nice. Weezer invited fans to perform along with the band with whatever instrument they can play. They did amongst overs a cover of Radioheads "Creep". Here is the result. Amazing ;-)

Eardrums music...

...is presenting us a great gift. You can download two samplers with great Summer Pop music. My favourite songs are:
The Australian five piece band Summer Cats with their song "Bed Wetter" and Andre Brorsons swedish project Stars in Coma with the song titled "Amelie".

Try it for your own. Go to Eardrums music and download the two samplers.

SPIRALS

Another one for today.

This 4 piece band from Glasgow, Scotland is doing great Indie close to Shoegaze. On their MySpace Page the 4 boys are searching for a girl to add some "textural loveliness" to their songs. Well, I don't think that thats necessary. But you can convince yourself, here. All songs are for free download and are really good guitar music. My favourite ones are "A Chance For You And Me" and "Thoughts Of You". Great guitars and great music!

Fuck These Muslims...

No, not what you think. Fuck The Muslims from San Diego. Fuck their music. Wow.

If you like Garage Punk / Rock don't spend too much time in fucking around but listen to their music. For example here! And after that download everything on their MySpace Page and repeat it as often as you can, bang your head and throw your legs...
And if you want more garage atmosphere, go to The Monorals from Japan, turn up your speakers and jump around in front of your computer!
Have a great time!

New York...

There is amazing music in New York, can't believe it. Via freeIndie.com you can download some tracks of the New York based quintet Raven and Chimes. Don't ask me, why they call themselves Raven and Chimes, although their music is a little bit made up of chimes, ok, but why raven? So if anybody knows this, tell me. Interesting question, isn't it?

Ok, back to the important part of this post. They've released their debut "Reichenbach Falls" in 2007 and it sounds like -hm- a bit like Arcade Fire and Wolf Parade, but convince yourself with the great song "General Lafayette! You Are Not Alone" avalaible from freeIndie.com! There are more songs on freeIndie.com, so go there and download them... And as in every post, i propose you to check out the MySpace Page of the band.

Shoegaze, Dreampop at its best...

The Papertiger Sound does it.

If you like shoegaze, dreamy, catchy pop melodies at its best, follow this link and download the album "fujipop" plus some singles like the wonderful song "coast is clear" for free, but don't forget to make a donation to help The Papertiger Sound creating more great music.
The Papertiger Sound is Dan Gelder's music project which started in 2006. In between he did some songs with Kerstin Ker, a Canadian songwriter.
It seems that the Papertiger Sound is still unsigned? So where are all the good labels? Come on.

Go also to his MySpace Page and visit him, tell him that you like his music and support him.

Hej Sebastian!

Feiner folkig angehauchter frischer Gitarrensound, den Sebastion Fors und seine Kollegen (The Ones That Got Away) auf ihrer Debut EP "These Songs are about You" liefern. Diese ist am 20.Mai auf Nesna Records erschienen. Dazu gibts dann auch noch auf ihrer MySpace Seite alles zum kostenlosen Download. Ja ist das nicht fantastisch? Die Schweden halt. Absoluter Anspieltipp: "Where The Sky Is Blue". Echt feiner Song. Am Besten ist wohl, sich alles Songs in Ruhe selbst einzutrichtern und dann die EP zu ordern.

Como te llama?

Se llama Albert Hammond Jr.

Ja, so heisst er. Nach seinem durchaus starken Solo Debut "Yours To Keep" gibts nun ein neues Solo Album mit dem spanischen Titel "Como Te Llama?". Es soll am 8. Juli auf Black Seal bzw. Rough Trade erscheinen. Vorab gibts dazu den Song "GfC" auf seiner MySpace Seite zum Hören. Und ich muss sagen, klingt richtig fein, was er da hingezaubert hat. Hört selber mal rein. Ich denk mal da kann man sich aufs Album freuen...
Und für alle Spaßvögel. Auf seiner Homepage könnt ihr euer Foto hochladen und die ganze Welt kann eure Pappnasen im Internet bestauen... Na wenn das mal nichts ist.