The Bloodbuzzed Jukebox Week 76

After Primavera Club Festival we return to our regular TOP TEN Jukebox series. This week we bring you a playlist full of new discoveries like Detective Agency released by our dear friends Discos de Kirlian, or Knife Pleats, the latest Rose Melberg's project, another gem coming out on  Jigsaw Records. Always, without forgetting old friends like The Innocence Mission or Martha Ffion. All these songs are also available at our Soundcloud, so please join us! 


Direct links to 2015 Jukebox playlists
Week 36  Week 37  Week 38   Week 39  Week 40 
Week 41  Week 42 Week 43  Week 44   Week 45
Week 46  Week 47   Week 48  Week 49   Week 50  
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The Bloodbuzzed Jukebox Week 75

Today we have a special Jukebox for you, a miscellaneous playlist devoted to the Primavera Club Festival that is taking place this weekend in Barcelona and we are enjoying while we discover new groups from here and there. Just a quick advice before ending! Don't miss the chance to see Novella and Fraser A. Gorman live if you can. So far the greatest shows of the Festival, terrific acts! We'll keep you posted and, as usual, all these songs are also available at our Soundcloud, so please join us! 

Direct links to 2015 Jukebox playlists
Week 36  Week 37  Week 38   Week 39  Week 40 
Week 41  Week 42 Week 43  Week 44   Week 45
Week 46  Week 47   Week 48  Week 49   Week 50  
Week 51   Week 52  Week 53  Week 54    Week 55  
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Discoverer 126: new indie findings

And here's the second chapter in anticipation of Primavera Club. Three more must-see at the Festival, enjoy!

Algiers. Hailing from Atlanta, Georgia, this trio formed in 2007 but it wasn't until January 2012 they released first single 'Blood' via Double Phantom, followed by digital single, 'Claudette' a year later. And now we can enjoy and get freaked out by their eponymous debut,out since this June on Matador. Conjuring the dead sounds to life, Algiers music is a tense, mind-blowing collision of post-punk, gospel, dub and soul. The Birthday Party meeting Suicide meeting The Temptations. Propelled to the stratosphere by Franklin James Fisher howling vocals and politically charged lyrics calling for rebellion and taking a stance against oppression, racism, and the dictatorship of capitalism. Bravest, boldest, most amazing record of the year? Band to follow, in every sense of the word...

Jessica Pratt.  From East to West Coast to meet this young singer-songwriter, based in L.A. and active since 2007 when she got linked to Tim Presley's solo project White Fence, who heard her demos and eventually released her self-titled debut album on his label Birth Records in 2012. The buzz was notorious, with first 500 pressings of the LP selling out in less than two weeks and main music websites and magazines praising it. Now she's back with LP 'On Your Own Love Again' out on January 2015 via Drag City, Vocally magnetic, making you recall folk myths like Joni Mitchell, Sibylle Baier or Karen Dalton, warm and intimate, she summons the spirits of 60's classic folk but still sounds fresh and surprising. Simply irresistible.

Fraser A. Gorman. And we end in Melbourne, Australia, to meet this extremely young (only 23!!) talent, active part of the DIY collective Milk! Records leaded by our beloved Courtney Barnett. Involved in local bands since an early teenager, first in Torquay, his birthplace, and later relocated in Melbourne, his solo project has offered us two releases to date, both this 2015: the single 'Book of Love' and debut album 'Slow Gum' both out in Milk! Records. Country-folk, Americana... and mostly, honest, joyous and heartfelt rock'n'roll with a ridiculous ability to tell stories while arresting you with another infectious hook or a stomping chorus. Fated for greatness!

Discoverer 125: new indie findings

In anticipation of Primavera Club, this weekend we are going to offer you a double dose of our discoveries series, with six bands & artists that are definitely our must-watchs of the Festival. Here are the first three, enjoy!

Chastity Belt. Formed in 2010 in Walla Walla but based in Seattle, WA, this all-female quartet met in college and kicked out the pop-post-punk engine following post-grad shows received with enthusiasm from the city’s DIY community and songs surfacing online around 2012. In summer 2013, after the digital single 'Seattle Party' they put out praised debut album 'No Regerts' that allowed them to tour around the country. No more a party-band, now they are back with 'Time to Go Home' sophomore release out on Hardly Art since March. Without losing their careless and funnily goofy attitude, there's much more here to be enjoyed: instrumental sections that create haze and gray-skies, vocals that infuses anxiety and a pensive, melancholic mood, Shapiro's lyrics dissecting the mundane while at the same time questions existence. I've been to a wonderful party... but then I woke up next morning. Strikingly powerful, powerfully beautiful.

Ultimate Painting. Hailing from Eastern London, the parallel project of James Hoare from Veronica Falls and Jack Cooper from Mazes blossomed fully in the summer of 2014 with their eponymous debut single. It was the crystallisation of a fast growing friendship and music connection that has its origin when Mazes were on tour supporting Veronica Falls and turned into exchanging demos and music sessions after the gigs together ended. Self-titled first LP arrived in October 2014 on Trouble In Mind Records to wide acclaim and tours around the world along Parquet Courts, Twerps and White Fence. But the two quickly got back into studio to record follow-up 'Green Lanes', out since this August. A truly guitar record with a foot on that 60's English melancholia and the other on sunny California, Ultimate Painting delivers sparse, gentle, dreamy, melodic and harmonic tunes that are almost a treaty of what's enduring, eternal pop.

Samantha Crain. Hailing from Shawnee, Oklahoma, Crain began her prolific music career in 2004, beginning touring when she was just 19, defending songs based on her short stories the summer before her senior year at Dale High School. That material became also her first recording, the self-released EP 'The Confiscation', later reissued by Ramseur Records in 2007. Their solo project expanded into a full band, the Midnight Shivers, with whom she recorded the album 'Songs in the Night' in April 2009 but, after the band disbanded, she came back to release under her own name with LP 'You (Understood)' a year later. Then arrived her work alongside John Vanderslice, who produced her 7" single 'A Simple Jungle' on 2012 as well as third album 'Kid Face' in 2013 on Full Time Hobby Records. Now the circle is completed with 'Under Branch & Thorn & Tree', out since July on Ramseur Records. A incredibly talented artist, with a gifted voice and an extraordinary ability for adding a striking, fierce and honest, narrative to an already attractive, melodic army of tunes. What a find!

The Bloodbuzzed Jukebox Week 74

A transition weekend ahead of us, from warm Autumn to the first days of cold (in Barcelona's definition of cold), from relative quietness to action on what regards to work and with a tone of music coming our way next weekend with Primavera Club 2015. It deserves a mostly (requesting permission to Ex Hex) gentle TOP TEN Jukebox, with the likes of Martin Courtney, Camera Shy, The Airplanes or newcomers Florist, Sunturns and Hearts & Tigers to ease taking a breath, gather strength and focus on what's about to come. All this songs are also available at our Soundcloud, so please join us! 

Direct links to 2015 Jukebox playlists
Week 36  Week 37  Week 38   Week 39  Week 40 
Week 41  Week 42 Week 43  Week 44   Week 45
Week 46  Week 47   Week 48  Week 49   Week 50  
Week 51   Week 52  Week 53  Week 54    Week 55  
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Discoverer 124: new indie findings

Dreampop dominates the sound of this week's trio of discoveries. Please dream out loud!

Kissing Party. Slop-pop is coming! Hailing from Denver, CO, this weirdly-sounding self-defined quintet began in 2005, first as a trio (although technically speaking band's founder Gregory Dolan released a self-titled LP featuring him and a drum machine), putting out first proper album 'Hold Your Hour and Have Another' in 2006. A year later came 'Rediscover Lovers' and between 2009's 'The Hate Album' and the follow-up 'Waster's Wall' the Kissing Party's line-up was completed. A very prolific combo, in 2013 arrived 'Winter in the Pub' and now (although it was originally released last year) we can enjoy their latest effort 'Looking Back It Was Romantic But At The Time I Was Suffocating' out since June via Fleeting Youth Records. Where power-pop meets twee, where jangle gets high on fuzz, where urgency and openess swallows C86. A real burst of great pop!

Day Wave. And now we move to Oakland, CA to meet Jackson Phillips and his solo project (which gets expanded live). Former jazz drummer and frontman of the electro-pop duo Carousel, since 2015 Philips has embarked in this delightful synth/dreampop incarnation, offering us self-released debut EP 'Headcase'  in July, which now is going to be followed ny new single 'You Are What You Are/Come Home Now' on House Arrest Records. Melodic and blisfful, like Wild Nothing staring at the sun, or New Order letting hooks guide a phenomenal short stride of contagious songs. Waves of regret, waves of joy... don't forget this name...
Talking Bush. And still into synths and dreampop sounds but now travelling to St.Petersburg, Russia, to meet the latest project of Nikita Bushmanov, with first irresistible tunes surfacing this year. Debut EP 'Ordinary Unusual' arrived in June thanks to our dear friends at Shelflife, and more recently (August and October) two more songs appeared on his social networks, serving as a four teaser track to a forthcoming album in 2016. Like Morrissey enveloped on synth textures, his ultra-melodic approach to gentle pop is hard to resist. Another newcomer to really follow closely!

The Bloodbuzzed Jukebox Week 73

What a great bunch of exciting releases, comebacks (check The Coathangers and Black Honey ace tunes!) new findings and concerts ahead! October never disappoints. So here's a new weekly TOP TEN Jukebox to start sharing with you all our music excitement. All this songs are also available at our Soundcloud, so please join us! 

Direct links to 2015 Jukebox playlists
Week 36  Week 37  Week 38   Week 39  Week 40 
Week 41  Week 42 Week 43  Week 44   Week 45
Week 46  Week 47   Week 48  Week 49   Week 50  
Week 51   Week 52  Week 53  Week 54    Week 55  
Week 56   Week 57   Week 58  Week 59   Week 60 
Week 61   Week 62   Week 63  Week 64  Week 65 
Week 66   Week 67   Week 68  Week 69   Week 70 
Week 71   Week 72