The rescue for the music industry?

In the magazine Forbes, the Swede Damiel Ek is named as the rescue for the music industry? The music service is seen as a tool to stop illegal copying and file sharing.

/ The Drumming Cat

The great dj Kattis!

Recently I attended the best edition of the club Tropikerna so far and the icing on the cake was their best giest dj ever: Kattis Jansson played some great tunes and therefore I want to recommend her next own gigs this Summer. If you are passing by Stockholm at these dates, do not miss her!

July 2nd at Slakteriet/ The Black Banana Inn.

July 22nd at Trädgården.

She was also kind enough to send me this Spotify playlist.

The track list of one of the best Spotify playlists I have ever seen. The Drumming Cat is of course very pleased to see Orange Juice there:

Bobby Caldwell - Open you eyes
The Style Council - Long hot Summer
Orange Juice - Rip it up
Antena - Joppo + Eno (Pink Alert re-rub)
Lizzy Murder Descloux - Slipped disc
Sharon Jones and the Dap kings - How long do I have to wait for you
Asha Puthli - Right down here
Todd Terje, Prins Thomas - Reinbågan
Eero Johannes - We could be skweeeroes
Spliff - Tag für tag
Lienar Movement - Way out of living
Mikael Wiehe & Co - Hallon, blåbär, lingon
Tullio De Piscopo - Stop Bajon
Quando quango - Love tempo (Remix)
Sydney Youngblood - If only I could
Telex - Tour de France
Paul Davidson - Midnight rider

/ The Drumming Cat

John Lennon covers

A week ago John Lennon should have turned 70. In order to highlight this, Swedish music magazine Sonic created a Spotify playlist with a lot of great covers of John Lennon and Beatles songs. Enjoy!

A personal favourite is Al Green´s version of I want to hold your hand.

If you look to the left on Sonic´s website, they have a lot of good Spotify playlists on different themes.

/ The Drumming Cat

Marriage music

My brother got married this weekend so i attended a beatiful wedding in Stockholm with a great party afterwards. I thougt their choice of music was so brilliant it was well worth to share it on my blog with this spotify playlist.

in the church they had a duo who played two songs and then Beach boys "God only knows" as they walked out of the church.

For the party in the evening they had brought in a live band that made some really cool versions of different songs. A few are also listed in the track list. If youré getting married soon, hopefully this can inspire you.

Songs in the church
John Legend - Stay with you
The Ordinary boys - I Luv U
The Beach Boys - God only knows

Selected songs at the party
Al Green - Lets stay together (the song the wedding couple danced their first dance to, very suiting)
The Coral - Dreaming of you
MGMT - Kids
Bob Dylan - Like a rolling stone
Oskar Linnros - Från och med du


/ The Drumming Cat

Morrisseys all-time favourites

Found this website where Morrissey recently listed his top-13 all-time favourite albums.

And here are his favourites summed up in a Spotify playlist.

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The best of 2010 so far part 2

bJust thougt a couple of songs would also deserve a place on my best of 2010 so far. So here is part 2 with another Spotify playlist.

Track listing:
1. Tanlines - Real life
2. Beach fossils - Sometimes
3. Washed out - New theory
4. Javelin - Vibrationz
5. The Sound of Arrows - Into the clouds (Fear of tigers remix)
6. Ratatat - Grape juice city
7. CEO - Come with me
8. Gorillaz - On melancholy hill
9. The Golden filter - Solid gold
10. The Art museums - Sculpture gardens
11. Real estate - Younger than yesterday
12. Stornoway - Fuel up

Enjoy!

/The Drumming Cat

Work out to indie music in Stockholm!

Are you tired of that crappy music they play at the gym? Wouldn´t it be all better if you could work out to Blurs "Girls and Boys", Vampire Weekends "A-Punk" or The Drums "Lets go surfing"? This is a reality in Stockholm! For the third year in a row a couple of enthusiats are arranging indie work out outdoors for the low cost of 30 Swedish kr! Here are the dates if youre passing by Stockholm.

Here is also a Spotify-playlist created by those arranging the work out, which I take the liberty to pass through to you.

/The Athletic Cat

Warm heart of Africa

With the first World cup ever on African soil soon to its end with the final game tonight, I put together a Spotify playlist with only African artists.

Enjoy!

The Very Best featuring Ezra Koenig from Vampire weekend live in New York City.



/ The Drumming Cat

Best of 2010 so far...

Six months has passed, that is half the year of 2010 is completed. These are my favorites from this year (from those I know is available on Spotify).

Track list for you that dont have Spotify:
1. Suburban kids with biblical names - Funeral face
2. Ariel Pink´s haunted graffiti - Bright lit blue skies
3. This is head - 0003
4. School of seven bells - Windstorm
5. The Radio Dept - Heaven´s on fire
6. Caribou - Odessa
7. The Drums - Let´s go surfing
8. Yeasayer - O.N.E.
9. Peter Morén - Esther
10. Beach House - Zebra
11. Hot Chip - One life Stand
12. Matthew Herbert - Dublin
13. LCD Soundsystem - Drunk girls
14. Tracey Thorn - Why does the wind?
15. Vampire Weekend - Diplomat´s son
16. Field music - Lets write a book
17. Seabear - Ill build you a fire
18. Kendal Johansson - Blue moon
19. Anna Von Hausswolff - Track of time

Best covers:
20. Tracey Thorn - Taxi cab
21. Anna Von Hausswolff - Gloomy Sunday

A sad week for music

Oh god, this week has not been a good one for music. At least not in Sweden. Once again the qualification rounds for who will represent Sweden at the Eurovision song contest has begun and the media will be full of this all winter and spring... You can´t hide from it no matter how hard you try to avoid it. In Sweden Eurovision is hugh (unfortunately) and I envy you who live in a country where this is not such a big deal. And it is even worse than before. Previous years there was only one competition but recent years this has been extended to four or five televised qualification rounds.

The bad music week continued on Tuesday while studying at a café in Stockholm (studying music and media). I am not exaggerrating, I must have heard a Lady Gaga song sort of two times every hour. This resulted in that those irritating words got stuck in my mind for the rest of the day and the following day: "Ga-ga olala"... It is one of those artists where it seems like they have intentionally repeated the same words in a song for about 2000 times so that people will remember it and buy it. An almost amazing stereotype of a pure product.

As if this was not enough Warner music announced they will break their deal with Spotify with free streaming of their music catalogue. Fortunately this proved to be a misunderstanding as Warner meant that it wasn´t profitable doing this kind of buissness at the moment, but that Warner will continue to corporate with Spotify. According to Swedish paper Svenska Dagbladet there are also plans on launching Spotify in the Us.

/The Drumming Cat