Best Songs of the Year 2017: 100-76

Back to our beloved lists! After EPs and Records, now is time to start unveiling our Best Songs of the Year! If you are a regular follower of this blog you'll probably know the 'rules', if not or you just don't remember after twelve months, here they are: we always unveil our favourite 100 tunes divided in four different posts of 25 songs each (something important, as it has been a particularly ‘rich’ year, full of exciting tunes from many acts, we have limited the maximum number of songs a group/artist can have in the complete list from three to two) and, of course, we compile the songs on playlists so you can enjoy them as much as we have as many times as you like. So, without further delay, here are the tunes comprise between 100 and 76! Hope you enjoy our selection, next round coming very soon!

100. Free Time- All Four Seasons

99.  Cina Polada- Gloom

98. We.the Pigs- Go Away
97. Lunch Ladies- Love Is Overrated
96. Jay Som- 1 Billion Dogs
95. Line & Circle- Man Uncounth
94. Marika Hackman- My Lover Cindy
93. The Districts- If Before I Wake
92. Patsy’s Rats- Is it Alright?

91. The Stammer- Over & Over

90. The Stroppies- Go Ahead
89. Últim Cavall- Arquitectures
88. Seafang- Stardust
87. No Kill- Eddie Vedder
86. Calgrove- Hot
85. The Age of Coloured Lizards- See You

84. Zuzu- What You want
83. Terry Malts- It’s not me
82. Boutade- Why Don’t We Talk About It
81. Kate Tempest- Europe is Lost
80. Destroyer- Tinseltown swimming in blood
79. Widowspeak- When I Tried
78. The Weather Station- Thirty
77. Las Ruinas- Señoras que miran mal
76. Vagabon- The Embers

The Bloodbuzzed Jukebox Week 132

End of January arrives, and despite the year has begun in a pretty disappointing way (again, I'm not talking about politics, if so, the words used would be terrifying or utterly depressing) so this is one of the occasions our regular, working week Jukebox closer is more than needed to cheer up our mood. Even more so when it's so full of exciting new discoveries, like Imaginary People and No Thank You, plus the surprising return? (please!) of our beloved Let's Buy Happiness and another terrific tune from Nadia Reid. And remember, all songs are available at our Soundcloud page (Join Us!).

Direct links to 2017 Jukebox playlists

Week 126 Week 127 Week 128 Week 129 Week 130  Week 131

The Bloodbuzzed Jukebox Week 107

With #Brexit and our own election day coming tomorrow was unsure you people were going to be in the mood for a a new TOP TEN Jukebox and, therefore, had my doubts about whether or not to post it. But the amount of excellent tunes, including Blog favourites like Teenage Fanclub (finally back!!), Night Flowers or The Tallest Man on Earth plus our regular dose of exciting findings, makes this playlist a wonderful option to disconnect for a while enjoying a bunch of terrific songs. And remember, all songs are listed at our Soundcloud page (Join Us!).

Direct links to 2016 Jukebox playlists

Week 84  Week 85  Week 86   Week 87   Week 88  Week 89 Week 90   Week 91   
Week 92  Week 93  Week 94  Week 95   Week 96   Week 97  Week 98  Week 99   
Week 100   Week 101   Week 102   Week 103  Week 104  Week 105   Week 106

Discoverer 63: new indie findings

Back to our regular band proposals after the Primavera Sound 2013. New bands for your ears only!

Bleached. Let me introduce you to the Clavin sisters, Jennifer & Jessie. Hailing from L.A., the band came out from the ashes of the defunct punk combo Mika Miko. After a short break, where Jennifer moved to New York while Jessica played with the Cold Showers, sisters gathered again in L.A. in 2011, beginning to play shows and issuing their first singles, "Francis", and "Carter". "Searching Through the Past" followed that December, preceding their debut album, "Ride Your Heart", out since February on Dead Oceans Records. 77' punk meeting California sun, noisy melodic rock with some edge and rawness but without losing the "pop touch". Seriously addictive.

Free Time. Formed in summer of 2012, this quartet is the creation of Melbourne musician Dion Nania, former leader of Panel of Judges. After moving to N.Y. in 2011, he played on Scott and Charlene’s Wedding and the Twerps. But soon started to write his own songs, putting a new band together. Mixed-finished between Australia and the States during 2012, Free Time's eponymous debut is out now digitally, with its physical release coming this June on Underwater Peoples Records. Timeless indiepop tunes, sometimes upbeat & jangly, others slightly psychedelic, revealing a storyteller mind and a talent for finding an enduring melody.

Big Summer. Based in Barcelona but being a fully international group, I had doubts whether they fitted on the Spanish section or here. The project began in 2008 when singer-guitarist Vasco Batista got together with drummer Simon Mille, but it wasn't until late 2011, when bassist Shorn Keld joined them, that things got serious. The delicious "Morning Sun" came out in 2012, creating some "blogosphere" buzz. Wise wizards from El Genio Equivocado signed the group (now a quartet after recruiting Robert), publishing the tune as a single past February, followed by "Bone and Arrow" EP in April. Five brilliant pills devoted to the 90's, echoing Real Estate and Yuck, showing the great promise of the combo.