BBC Radio 6 Music's Indie Forever podcast
16th January 2022 Armin Grewe	1 Comment
Just a quick recommendation for those of you who like Indie music: Subscribe and listen to the BBC 6 Music's Indie Forever podcast. Or if you're up at that time listen to it live at 00:00 – 01:00 hours every Saturday very early "morning" (well, it's the night from Friday to Saturday). I'm not, so I'm listening to the podcast.
That's pretty much it. It's a "BBC Sounds exclusive" from the looks of it, so I can't embed an RSS feed or share it here, all I can tell you is to follow the link to the BBC 6 Music's Indie Forever podcast and take it from there. I hope you'll like it as well.
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Three New Bands (New to me) in 2021: (3) Fontaines D.C.
12th December 2021 Armin Grewe	Leave a comment
For the third band in this series we move from Chicago with Beach Bunny to Dublin in Ireland with Fontaines D.C. Again a band that has been around for slightly longer but only really appeared on my radar this year, I think mainly through BBC Radio 6 Music playing them a lot. One of the songs that made me listen up was this one:
Fontaines D.C. – Liberty Belle (Official Music Video)
An earlier song I quite like is Winter in the Sun:
Fontaines D.C. – Winter In The Sun (Official Music Video)
A popular song is Boys In The Better Land:
Fontaines D.C. – Boys In The Better Land (Darklands Version)
To close one of their several KEXP appearances, this one having been filmed "at home" showcasing their latest album:
Fontaines D.C. – Full Performance (Live on KEXP at Home)
And that's it for this year's Three New Bands (New to me) series. I hope you enjoyed at least one the bands I discovered this year, maybe even two or three. And hopefully I'll discover three new bands (even if they're only new to me) in 2022, so that I can continue the series.
Three New Bands (New to me) in 2021: (2) Beach Bunny
10th December 2021 Armin Grewe	2 Comments
From the Isle of Wight with Wet Leg to Chicago with Beach Bunny for the second band in this year's series. Started by Lili Trifilio in 2015 with the debut album Honeymoon released in 2020 Beach Bunny isn't a new band as such, but I only really took notice this year after kind of vaguely having them on my radar for a while (not sure why it took me so long). Now let's go with a taster from the Blame Game EP:
Beach Bunny – Good Girls (Don't Get Used) [Official Music Video]
No real video for this song (Also from the Blame Game EP), but I quite like it:
Beach Bunny – Nice Guys (Official Audio)
Their biggest hit so far (here the remix version with Tegan and Sara as guest vocalists, here is the original):
Beach Bunny – Cloud 9 (feat. Tegan and Sara) [Official Lyric Video]
And to close some session sounds with some history and interview in chapters:
Beach Bunny | Fender Sessions | Fender
I hope you enjoyed Beach Bunny, for the third and last band in this series I'll take you to Ireland. Aiming to finish this series on Sunday.
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What I've been listening to recently
2nd January 2021 Armin Grewe	Leave a comment
Having been moved from Google Play Music (now shut down) to YouTube Music by Google a few months ago I've been playing around with playlists a bit. It seems I can share them, so here's one I'm using a lot at the moment:
My "Bad Mood Blaster" playlist, showing the first song on it. Not ideal but that's what it does. Open it in YouTube to shuffle, view the full list etc
I've called it "Bad Mood Blaster", partially because it came to my mind first and after that I couldn't think of anything better, partially because that's what it helps me with, picking me up and cheering me up both when I need it and just generally. I've described it as this:
Loud songs to blast any bad mood away. Guitar, bass and drum focused. Max 2 songs per artist. From the 1980s to the 2020s
That's about it. It will continue to grow and change as I add artists and in some cases possibly switch out songs (as I want to stick to the max 2 songs per artist "rule"). Some well known songs/hits you will probably know, some lesser known songs you might not know.
Obviously includes six songs from the three bands I discovered for me last year, The Mysterines, Dream Wife and The Big Moon. I wonder which bands new to me I will add this year, if any?