International music, Video of the Day

Video of the Day #64: David Myhr

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Swedish David Myhr from The Merrymakers is going solo. That sounds pretty exciting to me, because both The Merrymakers albums are heralded as power pop classics in this household (and probably in almost every household where 90’s power/guitar pop is a big deal). I’m still a little ashamed that I failed to post David’s debut single Got You Where He Wanted that came out in march, but let’s make amends by posting this second single Looking For A Life that came out about a week ago. Such a marvelous pop song. The lyrics to this beauty were written by the Swedish pop guru Andreas Mattsson (ex-Popsicle who released a great solo album earlier in 2011). Check out the song below. You can download it for free, if you become his fan at Facebook. The solo album should be out sometime in the fall.

[youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ud9k1LPyz14]

David Myhr Website
David Myhr at Facebook

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Spotify playlist: Best of 2011 so far

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Well more or less. I didn’t think ages about these. Just 25 songs that I really like/love. A lot of great stuff is missing because it’s not on spotify or I just forgot to search it. I hope the link below works, if someone wants to listen to this. Oh and get the new Dawes album. It’s not on spotify, but it’s so wonderful.

Austin Lucas: Run Around
Sloan: Unkind
David Bazan: Wolves At The Door
The Wonderminers: Stars In The Window
Buffalo Tom: Guilty Girls
Jessica Lea Mayfield: Blue Skies Again
Jonny: Circling The Sun
Samae Koskinen: Hän, jolla on kaikki
Andreas Mattsson: AA
Shotgun Jimmie: Suzy
Patrick Sweany: Shoestring
Mirel Wagner: No Death
Daniel Romano: Hard On You
Bahamas: Hockey Teeth
Kasey Anderson & The Honkies: Exit Ghost
Iron & Wine: Tree By The River
Jason Isbell & The 400 Unit: Alabama Pines
NT’s White Trash: You & Me
22-Pistepirkko: Sweet Rodeo Heart
Chris Bathgate: Poor Eliza
Arthur Alligood: Show Some Heart
Brent Cash: It’s Easier Without Her
Hezekiah Jones: Lift The Shadow From This Heart
Dolorean: Country Clutter
Stranded Horse: And The Shoreline It Withdrew In Anger

The Spotify Link to the playlist

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News: Kim Curly Band

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One of the finest Finnish americana bands Kim Curly Band just released the first single New York from the upcoming second album (due to be released in september). Oh and Passerby from the excellent debut album recently featured in a Hollywood movie 5th Quarter. Which is pretty cool even if you concider the fact that the movie itself probably isn’t a brilliant work of art like Zerkalo or Fletch and Kim Curly Band’s wonderful song is pretty much the only reason you might want to watch that film.

This is New York:

[soundcloud url=”http://api.soundcloud.com/tracks/15969848″]

 
This is Passerby:

[soundcloud url=”http://api.soundcloud.com/tracks/11340940″]

 
Kim Curly Band Website

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Video of the Day #63: The Avett Brothers

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Crackerfarm posted this wonderful video a couple of days ago and I’ve watched it at least ten times. I’m a huge The Avett Brothers fan and I’m still a little upset that they cancelled their concert in Stockholm, Sweden a year ago, because we had tickets and we were raring to go. But it’s rather impossible to stay angry when they always deliver such great performances as this one below. The song is Prettiest Thing by David Childers. I need to check out this Mr David Childers, because this song is magnificent. One of his albums is on Spotify, so I’ll start from there tomorrow.

[youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_W4n9sCrerY]

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