International music, News

Lauderdale – Moving On

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Two of my favourite blogs, Norwegian No Deal Music and American Nine Bullets seem to be pretty damn excited about the new Lauderdale album Moving On. Because I know those guys have a great taste in music, I had to check out the album. Now after having a chance to listen to Moving On a couple of times, I want to join the party. It’s indeed a wonderful americana album. They come from Muscle Shoals, Alabama and are certainly leaving their own mark on the rich musical heritage of the place along with some other newer Shoals bands like the wonderful Doc Dailey & The Magnolia Devil. Stars Fell below might be my favourite song of the album. Maybe not the perfect example though, because there’s plenty of slower, but equally convincing material on the album as well.

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Lauderdale Website

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International music, Video of the Day

Video of the Day #71: Radio Days (Italian power pop)

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I can’t say I’m a big expert on Italian power pop. Pretty much only Cirrone comes to mind whose new album has gotten a great reception at various power pop blogs (and the sound samples do sound excellent). Anyway, last week I noticed that a band called Radio Days was following my twitter and after checking out their influence list that looked like the list of best bands in the world (Badfinger, Big Star, The Nerves, DM3, Teenage Fanclub, Cherry Twister..) I knew I have to listen to this band. I’m now streaming their latest album C’est La Vie at Rockit.it and even though I’m only halfway through I think it’s already fairly obvious that I need this album. The album came out in late 2010 if I’m not mistaken. This video outtake is called Sleep It Off.

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Radio Days Website

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The Weather Station – All Of It Was Mine

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Before getting completely lost in the world of power pop it’s good to remember that I do love other things almost as much. For example unique and magical folk music of The Weather Station sounds absolutely marvelous to me. Ok, I can’t say that I’m an expert on Toronto-based The Weather Station aka Tamara Lindeman, because I’m just listening to her new album All Of It Was Mine for the first time. However, I’m already completely captivated and ready to believe that this is a special record. The songs are intimate & amazing and and I love the bare & beautiful sound of the album. Somehow listening to this made me think of Sibylle Baier’s beautiful folk classic Colour Green and I suppose that can’t be a bad thing. The album just came out on You’ve Changed Records, label that only seems to release great records.

Listen to opener Everything I Saw:

The Weather Station Website
The Weather Station at Bandcamp

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International music, Power Pop

Power Pop #6: Sloan – The Rest of My Life

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There’s two reasons to pick the wonderful Canadian indie rock / power pop group Sloan tonight. 1) This blog is celebrating 10 year anniversary next saturday at Pikku-Torre and Sloan has been quite a big influence over the years. One Chord to Another is an album by Sloan and another Sloan album Pretty Together was the first album I ever reviewed. 2) Today Sloan informed that they are offering a new digital singles album for free. It’s entitled Sloan – Select Singles 1992-2011, it contains 14 great Sloan singles and you can download it for free from NoiseTrade. It’s extremely difficult to pick just one song from it, because I pretty much love all those 14 singles. But I’m an extremely logical person and therefore I think I don’t pick anything from One Chord to Another or Pretty Together this time around and instead go with this beauty from their seventh album Action Pact (released in 2003).

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Sloan Website

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