Radioprogrammet

Hvis du lytter til mit radioprogrammet, det er der ikke i ugen. Undskyld for det, men radiohuset er ikke åbner... Jeg vil har et radioprogram igen næste ugen -- den 5. april.

If you listen to my radio show, there will not be one this week. Sorry, but the radio station is closed (spring break)… I will have a show again next week as usual -- April 5.

I was going to just have the notice -- but I can’t leave you with just that. So, very quickly -- Bang Gang, Bardi Johannsson from Iceland, is finally getting US release for his album, Something Wrong (which came out in Iceland, and elsewhere overseas, in 2003). It will be in stores 3 April. You can already download two of the tracks, Find What You Get and Follow (Find What You Get is my favorite). You can also listen to four other tracks on the website, and a couple alternate versions on myspace. Oh, and one last thing -- don’t be put off by the stage name -- or the album cover. This music is gorgeous.

--DL--
Find What You Get (Bang Gang)
Follow (Bang Gang)

Radioprogrammet fra 22. marts

Jeg havde kun et band fra Danmark i ugen. Men der var også to musikere fra Island, og fem(!) banderne fra Sverige.

Her er min spilleliste:

1. Sparks Fly – Daníel Ágúst
2. Soft Rock Star – Metric
3. Thirteen – Big Star
4. Piazza, New York Catcher – Belle & Sebastian
5. Let Me Kiss You – Nancy Sinatra
6. On All American Winds – David & the Citizens
7. Shoreline – Broder Daniel
8. To Live and Die in the Airport Lounge – My Teenage Stride
9. Birds are Singing Deep Within the Greenery – The Bear Quartet
10. Something New – Oliver North Boy Choir
11. I Love You, You Imbecile – Pelle Carlberg
12. Like U Crazy – Mates of State
13. Find What You Get – Bang Gang
14. No One Told Me – Kristoffer Ragnstam

Hvis du kunne ikke lytte til programmet fra elleve til tolv i dags, du kan lytte ny til podcastet, her. Og du kan lytte hver uge på klcradio.net.

Listen at klcradio.net, or get the podcasted version of Ashtrays, from March 22nd, here.

--DL--
Ashtrays Podcast (3-22-2007)

Ulykkelig nyheder

Oliver North Boy Choirs sang Adreneline har faldt fra nummer 3 til nummer 7 på listen af Det Elektriske Barometer. Du kan gå der og stem -- for dem, og også for fire om dine andre favoritter -- så ONBC kan være på listen igen næste uge, og, jeg håber, det kan også går op. Du måtte er medlem af dr.dk -- skum, tror jeg -- at stemmer, men, hvis du forstå lidt dansk, eller du kan godt lide dansk musik -- nå, noget musik -- du må blive medlem.

Hvis du vil gerne at lytte til Adreneline, du kan gå her (på myspace). De har også et remix, med Brie, på myspace.

Yeah. Anyway, Oliver North Boy Choir's awesome song Adreneline has dropped to #7 on the Electric Barometer chart. You can go here to vote for it -- and for four other favorites -- so that they can stay on the list and hopefully move up, too. You have to be a member of dr.dk to vote, but if you understand even a little Danish, or if you like even a little Danish music -- well, any music -- you should become a member...

Listen to Adreneline here (on myspace). They also have a remix, by Brie, on their myspace.

Et mere band fra Sverige

So, yesterday I was talking about Säkert!, which is Annika Norlin in Swedish. All her Säkert! things are in Swedish. However -- update -- you can listen to an English version of 'Vi kommer att dö samtidigt,' performed by the Swedish band The Animal Five, here. I can’t recommend or not recommend it -- I will only say that it sounds very, very different from the Säkert! original -- different enough that I cannot even say which one I like better because there is so little to compare.

Although. If you like somewhat bizarre (for example, on their myspace, their only listed influences is ‘dogs’) Swedish power-pop-rock-ish-type stuff, you might like to check them out. They remind me a bit of all the ‘The…’ bands -- you know, the Killers, the Hives, etc. -- and, especially, I want to say, The Arctic Monkeys (even though at the moment, I can’t think of a single song by the Arctic Monkeys, so perhaps I’m wrong). Anyway. They are definite pop -- but alright.

Undskyld at jeg er ikke skrive i dansk -- det vil jeg gøre næste timer.

Säkert!

I’ve recently learned that Annika Norlin, the woman behind Hello Saferide, is also doing some Swedish-language stuff, under the name Säkert! She has released, just in February, an album called 'Vi kommer att dö samtidigt,' which means, I believe, ‘We will die at the same time.’ I say I believe because my Swedish is limited to words shared with Danish and stuff that seems logical when run through an online translator. (For those who have never used an online translator, the stuff they come up with is rarely logical.)

If you love Hello Saferide because of her lyrics, Säkert! (yes, the ! is part of the name) is a bit harder to get your head around, unless, of course, you are lucky enough to speak Swedish. However, the music is lovely, and regardless of the language in which she sings, there is still Annika’s gorgeous voice -- and if you can figure out what the titles mean, then imagining what the lyrics consist of (even if you are completely off) is quite enjoyable.

You can listen to (but not keep -- sorry, I haven’t found any downloads) three of her songs -- the album’s title track, as well as 'Det kommer bara leda till nåt ont' (I’m not sure what that one means -- something about only leading to trouble?) and 'Är du fortfarande arg?' (‘Are you still angry?’) on her myspace. You can also visit her blog/website -- which, unfortunately for all the English speakers of the world, is in Swedish.

Speaking of Swedish, if anyone knows what the word säkert actually means, I would really like to know. I think one of its possible translations is ‘safe,’ and if this is the intended meaning -- well, that would be interesting…

Also, while I was wandering around looking for Säkert! stuff, I ran across this other nice Swedish artist called Stars in Coma. It is the one-man band of André Brorsson. You can listen and download his stuff on last.fm.
He has worked, also, with Joueur Noir, another one-man band (of Håkan Carlsson) also from Sweden. You can listen and download his songs here.
Unlike Annika in Säkert!, they both sing in English. I prefer, slightly, Stars in Coma. I would talk about the both of them more, but I have a Danish test in the morning and must go to bed now.

Next time I post, I will try to have at least one Danish artist…

Jeg hader at være syg, men…

Today, I was rather sick. I stayed in my apartment all day, and read blogs, and played with last.fm. I didn’t really discover any artists that were new, but I did come across a couple exciting things:

1. Swedish shoegazers The Radio Dept. appear to have every single song from every single album available for full preview at last.fm. This is pretty awesome. Even though most of the songs, sadly, aren’t available for download, a few of them are, such as The Worst Taste in Music, one of my favorites.

If you can, listen to It’s Personal, from the album Pet Grief, and Your Father, from Lesser Matters -- those two are my very favorites.

2. Pelle Carlberg, also from Sweden, has a new album, “In a Nutshell,” out 28. March. The first single, I Love You, You Imbecile, is available for download. I think it’s probably my favorite Pelle song -- all cute and twee with male/female vocals (Ida Maria, from Norway, I believe, guests) -- just the sweetest thing ever. You know.

In other Pelle Carlberg news, someone has posted a YouTube video of him covering Elton John’s Rocketman on his recent Italian tour. It’s very, very acoustic, rather rough, and not exactly high quality, but at the same time, it’s an extremely endearing recording. This goes without saying -- everything about Pelle Carlberg is endearing -- however, this is the most endearing I’ve ever thought him. He reminds me a bit of a sort of Buddy Holly-Woody Allen hybrid here. I could watch this over and over.

--DL--
The Worst Taste in Music (The Radio Dept.)
I Love You, You Imbecile (Pelle Carlberg)

Ashtrays, radioprogrammet

Hej mine venner. Om dig ved eller ved ikke, jeg har et radioprogram med klc radio. Det hedder Ashtrays, ligesom blogget, og jeg spiller det hver torsdag fra elleve til tolv, Pacific timer. Du kan lytte i klcradio.net. Også, der er podcasterne, hvis du kan ikke lytte fra elleve til tolv. Du kan høre i dags Ashtrays (fra den femtende marts) her. Men -- computeret var ikke arbejdede meget godt, og programmerne er ikke alle rigtig. Den første timer er vores ven Chris's program om klassisk musik. Ashtrays begynder i anden timer (der er kun to timer). Men jeg håber det vil ikke være næste uge.

Også -- det var min første timer i radio i mere den seks måneder, og jeg var ikke meget godt. Men næste uge vil være bedre.

Spilleliste:
1. The Zookeeper's Boy - Mew
2. Af Somme Stof Som Stof - Under Byen
3. Samson - Regina Spektor
4. Wow - Cinerama
5. Common People - Pulp
6. Modern World - Wolf Parade
7. Anne Elephant - Someone Still Loves You Boris Yeltsin
8. In the Dark - Citizens Here & Abroad
9. Madeupmind - Slumber Party
10. Everything's Alright - Kimya Dawson
11. The Quiz - Hello Saferide
12. Cobra - Oliver North Boy Choir

Hi. Whether you know it or don’t, I have a radio show, with KLC Radio. It is called Ashtrays, just like the blog, and is played every Thursday from eleven a.m. to twelve, Pacific time. You can listen at klcradio.net. Also, there are podcasts, if you can’t listen then. You can hear today’s Ashtrays (from March 15^th) here. But -- the computer wasn’t working very well, and the programs are not quite right. The first hour is our friend Chris’s classical music show. Ashtrays starts in the second hour (there are only two hours). But hopefully, it won’t be that way next week.

Also -- this was my first time on the radio in more than six months, and I was not very good. But next week will be better.

--DL--
Ashtrays Podcast (3-15-2007)

Nedslået

Listening to Det Elektriske Barometer yesterday, I've just discovered what may, possibly, become my favorite band ever: Oliver North Boy Choir. Featuring two members of epo-555 (Mikkel Max Hansen and Camilla Florentz) and rounded out by Ivan Petersen, their sound is, to put it very simply, everything I love about music.

I've always been really horrible at describing music, unless I can say what it makes me feel (sometimes I can't even verbalize that). So. Oliver North Boy Choir makes me feel like I'm floating in a dark sea, surrounded by tiny pinpricks of candle -- or star -- light, and it makes me feel at once both dejected and glad; like curling up in a ball and crying and like sleeping with someone I love; like -- I don't know. Some things you can't describe.

Instead, I can direct you to one track, Cobra, which is available for download; yay!

You can also listen to some of their songs on last.fm or myspace. Or you can visit their website, too.

--DL--
Cobra (Oliver North Boy Choir)