auch aus dem abertausende kilometerweit entfernten Kontinent Australien weht äusserst gelungener Down-Underground über das Meer. Gemeint ist damit die Liederkomponistin Kate Bradley aus Brisbane. Ihre erst EP "Don't You Choose Me" aus dem Jahre 2005 erntete in der Heimat anerkennenden Beifall. Bisweilen hat sich Kate, deren Stimme man gewisse Ähnlichkeiten mit Patti Smith, PJ Harvey and Kate Bush nachsagt, musikalische Verstärkung ins Boot geholt: Ryan Booker,Terry Dixon und Dave Gilbert von the goodbye Horses unterstützen die smarte Songwriterin tatkräftig. Die Musik wirkt poetisch erfrischend und ist im sanfteren Indiepop-Quadranten anzusiedeln. Mal leise, mal etwas mehr Anlauf wie im Track "Gold Body". Diesen gibt`s netterweise gratis. Hier entlang... Zwei weitere können auf MySpace angetestet werden. Die Bandscheibe "The Deeper The Sand", die im Monat Mai "2008 das Licht der Musikwelt erblicken soll, verspricht bestimmt tolle Lieder. Gute Frau!
"i fell in love with the sweet sensation. i gave my heart to a simple chord. i gave my soul to a new religion. whatever happened to you? whatever happened to our rock'n'roll?"
5/30/2008
5/26/2008
Kurzer Tip aus Schweden...
Was? Sehr melodiöser Schwedischer Indie Pop / Rock
Fakten: Like Honey werden demnächst ihr Debut "Leaves" veröffentlichen, die Single "Five Minute Dream" gibts gratis hier.
Näheres: http://www.likehoney.se/, www.myspace.com/likehoney1
Oh Kanada
True patriot love in all thy sons command.
With glowing hearts we see thee rise, The True North strong and free!
From far and wide, OCanada , We stand on guard for thee.
God keep our land glorious and free!
O Canada, we stand on guard for thee.
With glowing hearts we see thee rise, The True North strong and free!
From far and wide, O
God keep our land glorious and free!
O Canada, we stand on guard for thee.
This post is for all this wonderful Canadian Bands out there and thats why its written in English! So, where to start? Tonight I listend to Tokyo Police Club and thought about writing a post of them, how wonderful they are, where they come from and so on. I realized, that I listen to so much bands, which are from Canada. So I decided to write this few sentences to dedicate this post all those great Canadian bands out there.
So, starting with Tokyo Police Club. Its been one and a half year since their debut EP "A Lesson in Crime" that they released their album "Elephant Shell". I like this off beats this roughness in all of their songs. I think they lost something of that on the debut album. Well, some might say, that they grew up, that they developed their sound but I think that this is a pitty. Nevertheless, their debut is great! Songs like "Your English Is Good", "Juno", "In A Cave" and so on are amazing! Listen to their MySpace Site, to convince yourself!
Tip: Nature Of The Experiment, Juno, Your English Is Good
The next band I want to mention is from Calgary, Alberta in Canada. Its Tegan and Sara. Wow. As I listend first to them I was mesmerized. I listend to "Back In Your Head". Their greatest song of their fifth album "The Con". Tegan and Sara are two twins and started making music in school. They do such an refreshing sound, but don't forget to be dumpish at the right moment. I think, that their fourth album "So Jealous" is their best one. But listen for yourself, for example here, or go to LastFM and search them.

Tip: Nature Of The Experiment, Juno, Your English Is Good
Tip: Walking With A Ghost, Back In Your Head, Nineteen, Downtown... there are many more!
Lets travel on and go to Montreal, Quebec. The Stars!, originally from Toronto, but decided to move to Montreal. This five piece band released their fourth album "In Our Bedroom After The War" in 2007. They play catchy indie pop with view electronic elements. The best songs on their new album are, for me, "The Night Starts Here", "Take Me To The Riot" and "Bitches In Tokyo". Take a breath of their sound on the bands MySpace Site and tell me if you like this kind of pop music.
Tip: Take Me To The Riot, The Night Starts Here, Bitches In Tokyo, Set Yourself On Fire
Move on to Toronto and Broken Social Scene. It is a music project and currently includes nineteen members. Wheras all of them excluding founders Kevin Drew, Brendan Canning and drummer Justin Peroff play in other bands. Their music can be described as experimental indie rock with few folk elements, i think. They released three full albums and a lot of EPs. In my opinion, the best song on the latest album "Broken Social Scene" is "Swimmers". You should listen to it, for example here. Brendan Canning will release his SoloAlbum in July. You can also listen to his song "Hit the Wall", which is a great ripply guitar song with a lot of power at the bands MySpace Site.
Tip: Hit the wall, Swimmers, Safety Bricks
My last post will be about Metric. The band was founded in New York but moved to Toronto later on. The bands sound can be described with only one word: Rock. Rock with a lot of speed, catchy refrains and a great vocalist. Emily Haines has the perfect voice to do some rock! They released three albums and three EPs so far. Their latest album is called "Grow Up and Blow Away" and it was released in 2007. You can listen to their 2003 released debut "Old World Underground, where are you now" at the bands homepage, here. You can also listen to a few songs on their MySpace Site and I recommend you to listen to "Monster Hospital", "Empty" and "Dead Disco".
Tip: Monster Hospital, Empty, Dead Disco, Live It Out
Thats it. There are a lot good canadian bands out there and I only mentioned five of them. So move out and discover the canadian music scene! And let me know if there is something really good out there which I haven't recognized so far!
Tip: Take Me To The Riot, The Night Starts Here, Bitches In Tokyo, Set Yourself On Fire
Tip: Hit the wall, Swimmers, Safety Bricks
Tip: Monster Hospital, Empty, Dead Disco, Live It Out
Thats it. There are a lot good canadian bands out there and I only mentioned five of them. So move out and discover the canadian music scene! And let me know if there is something really good out there which I haven't recognized so far!
Labels:
Broken Social Scene,
Kanada,
Metric,
Stars,
Tegan and Sara,
Tokyo Police Club
5/24/2008
Klingt wie...
"I soon realized that this is my bag. This is what I will do. The music I play is so easy and uncomplicated in so many ways. All I need is my guitar and my voice. That’s it",
sagt er selber auf seiner Homepage. Und das passt. Chris kommt aus Schweden und erinnert mich nicht nur deswegen an Nervous Nellie, die mich damals in München als Vorband der Shout Out Louds dermaßen beeindruckt hatten.
Um wieder auf Chris Wigren zurückzukommen. Die Wandlung vom Metal zu dieser Musik nun, ist schon erstaunlich. Auf seiner MySpace Seite präsentiert er frisch nen neuen Song, der sich nahtlos an das Konzept der Vorgänger EPs anreiht. Gitarre und Gesang. Musikerherz was willst du mehr!
Seinen, meiner Meinung nach, besten Song "Grow Up" gibts auf seiner Homepage gratis zum Download. Oder auf einen Klick, hier.
sagt er selber auf seiner Homepage. Und das passt. Chris kommt aus Schweden und erinnert mich nicht nur deswegen an Nervous Nellie, die mich damals in München als Vorband der Shout Out Louds dermaßen beeindruckt hatten.
Um wieder auf Chris Wigren zurückzukommen. Die Wandlung vom Metal zu dieser Musik nun, ist schon erstaunlich. Auf seiner MySpace Seite präsentiert er frisch nen neuen Song, der sich nahtlos an das Konzept der Vorgänger EPs anreiht. Gitarre und Gesang. Musikerherz was willst du mehr!
Seinen, meiner Meinung nach, besten Song "Grow Up" gibts auf seiner Homepage gratis zum Download. Oder auf einen Klick, hier.
Labels:
Chris Wigren,
Nervous Nellie,
Shout Out Louds
5/23/2008
if you please listen to...

Eine Sache liegt mir noch am Herzen. Genauer gesagt ein Musikprojekt namens Cassettes won`t listen aus Brooklyn. Dahinter verbirgt sich der in New York weilende Multi-Instrumentalist und Produzent Jason Drake. Die durchaus lohnenswerte anno 2008 erschienene ep "Small Time Machine" ist via amazon.de orderbar. Maßvoll geschneiderte minimalistische Beats treffen auf einen angenehmen Indie-Background. Anspieltip: Paper Float. Darüberhinaus gibt`s auf ihrer MySpace Seite den Titel "Cut Your Hair" zu hören. Ein gelungenes Coverstück der 90-er Indie-Rocker Pavement. Smart!
Sag` brav hallo zu Seattle!

Ich gelange mittlerweise beinahe zu der Einsicht, dass die Musikschaffenden in den Staaten die besserere Independent-Ader haben. Zumindest für Seattle dürfte dieses Argument gelten. Das Epizentrum für "qualifizierte popmusikalische Schwingungen" sendet fast ununterbrochen seismische Klangwellen weit hinaus in globale O(hr)zeane. Eric Ellbogen, Gallionsfigur des amerikanischen Trios Say Hi, scheint dies möglicherweise geahnt zu haben. Jedenfalls hat er seine Zelte von Brooklyn nach eben jenem Ort an der Westküste verlegt. In ihren fünf großartigen Studioalben servieren Say Hi wohlwollenden, elektroinfizierten und von Off-Beats vorangetriebenen Indiepop. Taktil, temperiert, melodiös. A blandly Quake from Seattle!
5/22/2008
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