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Video: Vanessa Carlton - House of Seven Swords

Vanessa Carlton invites us in the video “House of Seven Swords” into her beautiful new home in Nashville. Nothing suggests the existence of seven swords in there, but it is of course meant metaphorical. In any case the song is beautiful and so is her fifth album Liberman, out now

Song Pick of the Day: Bad Sounds - Avalanche

Song Pick of the Day: Bad Sounds - Avalanche

Despite the chaos a song titled Avalanche would imply, the track is decisively lo-fi, with a relaxed and 70s groovy vibe to it. Avalanche flows beautifully along and wiggles its way into your ears and stays right there, because it is that catchy yet in quite a subtle way! It’

Song Pick of the Day: Aloha - Welcome to Your New Life

Our Song Pick of the Day comes from L.A. duo Alohaha. With the steel guitar in Welcome to your New Life sounds Hawaiian, but doesn’t really evoke the pretty pictures of a tropical island. Actually, the record cover visualizes the song perfectly.

Song Pick of the Day: Hidden Charms - Love You Cause You're There

Unsure what to make with the song title Love You Cause You’re There, but then again, it probably fits right in with the band’s name Hidden Charms (nice ambiguity). The four young Londoners expand their usual rock tunes into the blues rock genre and successfully so. Our Song

Video: Empress Of - Icon

This video shows off three things we love in New York: the beautiful landscape upstate, New York City and the great music that is created there, in this case by Lorely Rodriguez, aka Empress Of, who recently released her excellent debut Me. Watch and enjoy:

PHOTOS: The Snaz give their NYC debut at Rockwood Music Hall

PHOTOS: The Snaz give their NYC debut at Rockwood Music Hall

We are big fans of the Vermont rock quartet The Snaz, since we saw them this spring at SXSW. They are all under 20 and not really touring yet, so we were delighted to see that they come down for their debut NYC show to Rockwood Music Hall. And they

NEW ALBUM: Painted Zeros - Floriography

Floriography, the full length debut album of Painted Zeros starts right of with lush, woozy guitars on (X) Flatline reminiscent of the best songs of the Silversun Pickups or Smashing Pumpkins, when Katie Lau asks: Which worries you more: that I’ll leave you, or that I won’t? I

Music Quotes: Breaking Through Fear

Song Pick of the Day: Ecca Vandal - End of Time

I think I write the word “Melbourne” quite often lately, but here we go again with another artist from that Australian city: Ecca Vandal with the track End of Time, which turns me into an instant fan of hers. Just listen to our Song Pick of the Day!

New Release: Sea Caves - Spanning the River

When the song starts with acoustic guitars and a flute, I was expecting a more mellow folk song, but Portland, Oregon quartet Sea Caves is up to something else here: their debut single Spanning the River soars into a quite big song, with a wonderfully melancholic edge. Their debut album

Song Pick of the Day: Hank Mittnacht - Loosing Sleep

Mondays break the waves of the weekend sings Brooklyn based Hank Mittnacht in Loosing Sleep, the perfect song for easing into this Monday with its overall softness and sweet, comforting melody. Hank Mittnacht’s mellow vocals and playful guitar picks help Loosing Sleep truly shine, hence our Song Pick of

Song Picks of the Day 15.46

1. Dahlia Sleeps 2. Rare Monk 3. Lauren Marsh 4. St. Tropez 5. Sabina Ddumba 6. TWINKIDS

PHOTOS: Methyl Ethel played the perfect low-key show at Pianos (CMJ)

PHOTOS: Methyl Ethel played the perfect low-key show at Pianos (CMJ)

With having played six or more shows during CMJ 2015, Methyl Ethel were hard to miss and yet I only made it to one of their shows, the one at Pianos. Before Jake Webb (vocals, guitar), Thom Stewart (bass) and Chris Wright (drums) took the stage, I ran into Thom

Video: Jaala - Salt Shaker

Not sure what exactly is going on in this video by the Melbourne four-piece Jaala – it’s more like a weird dream which you wake up from and don’t know what it meant. For sure I love the stuffed animal zombie-monster and the song is outstanding once you have

More CMJ photos: Syvia // Monogem // Religia // Georgia // Olya // Stealing Sheep

More CMJ photos: Syvia // Monogem // Religia // Georgia // Olya // Stealing Sheep

While the big summer festivals still book only few female artists the situation at showcase festivals like CMJ or SXSW fortunately looks much better. And rightfully so: much of the exicting music nowadays is made by women. Check out some more photos of CMJ shows, all happened to be done

Song Pick of the Day: Twinkids - ACBTY

The seductive ACTBTY by the L.A. duo TWINKIDS with its elegant minimalistic production is perfect for closing your eyes and dream along. An excellent Song Pick for Sunday.

Reflections

As Europeans, having grown up in the 70s in West-Germany with terrorism bringing the country almost to its knees, having moved to New York across the World Trade Center only several days before the terror events on September 11th 2001, and as avid music lovers and frequent concert goers, we

Video: Jessie Jones - Quicksilver Screen

Jessie Jones dances through the Southern Californian landscape in her video for Quicksilver Screen. The retro look fits well to the psychedelic pop song with a weird edge. I love it and will now listen to her selft titled debut album.

Song Pick of the Day: Sabina Ddumba - Not Too Young

It’s Friday, so let’s get the party started with this Song Pick of the Day Not Too Young by Swedish singer Sabina Ddumba. She’s obviously upset that some say she’s too young to understand love. She’s probably right, but I hope she made the right

Song Pick of the Day: St. Tropez - Son Of God

Before you even had a chance to further think about Son Of God and what’s really going on here, the track’s already over with only 2 minutes and 17 seconds yet this was plenty of time to make you crave more. Just hit the play-button again, and start

3 Is A Band: XY&O (xyando)

3 Is A Band: XY&O (xyando)

Always on the look-out for cool trios, I came across XY&O (also spelled xyando) last week, and was immediately hooked! Couldn’t believe my luck. It was one of these accidental stumbles -my favorite- me just browsing around SoundCloud and picking up on songs. Fahrenheit got released less

Song Pick of the Day: Lauren Marsh - Promise

Our Song Pick of the Day is the upbeat pop anthem Promise by New Jersey singer/songwriter Lauren Marsh. It’s is about shrugging off bad experiences and enjoying life to the fullest and that message cannot be reinforced too often.

VIDEO: Nicky Venus - Legacy

VIDEO: Nicky Venus - Legacy

How about a video for Wednesday and making this our very own #VideoWednesday?! We have something brand new and smokin’ hot for you with the beautifully haunting “Legacy” by San Diego resident Nicky Venus. “Legacy” is electro-pop at its best, think mid-80s Depeche Mode and then some. The video itself

PHOTOS: Lena Fayre plays her elegant pop at The Delancey (CMJ)

PHOTOS: Lena Fayre plays her elegant pop at The Delancey (CMJ)

L.A. artist Lena Fayre has been around a few years and it is entirely my fault that I haven’t heard about her until last CMJ, where she fortunately played a few showcases, among them the Atypical Sounds/Audiofemme takeover at The Delancey. See photos of her show below

PHOTOS: DF3 brought joyful synth pop to Leftfield (CMJ)

PHOTOS: DF3 brought joyful synth pop to Leftfield (CMJ)

DF3, a synth pop trio from California via Mexico and Brooklyn, were scheduled to play two shows for CMJ 2015, both at equally intimate dance clubs on the Lower East Side. First up was their show at Leftfield, which I decided to catch. Two days later, a show at Fat