Mando Diao - Shake
The Swedish Pop/Rock/Folk band MANDO DIAO released thier 8th album "The Good Times" on May 12th, this is the band's first new full-length since 2014's experimental ”Aelita". The first single ”Snake”...
View ArticleLaibach - Vor Sonnen-Aufgang
On 8 June 2017 LAIBACH announced new album "Also Sprach Zarathustra" to be released 14 July 2017 along with the lead single "Das Nachtlied I" and an accompanying tour. The songs on the album were...
View ArticleBlack Country Communion - Collide
BLACK COUNTRY COMMUNION (BBC) is an earth-shattering combination of American and British rock influences—a bona fide super group that conveys to the world a simple but important message: These four...
View ArticleThe Dead Daisies - Long Way To Go
THE DEAD DAISIES latest studio album "Make Some Noise” was released on August 5, 2016.Today’s tune "Long Way To Go” was released as the first single from the album is a cool tune with nice hooks, great...
View ArticleDead Lord - Too Late
The Swedish rockers DEAD LORDs third studio album, "In Ignorance We Trust", is scheduled to be released on August 25th via Century Media Records. DEAD LORD say’s on their social media:"We're proud to...
View ArticleAffinity - I Am And So Are You
AFFINITY were an English jazz-rock fusion band, active from mid-1968 to January 1972. The origin of AFFINITY was, circa 1965 in the science department of the University of Sussex in Brighton, England....
View ArticleBand of Horses - The Funeral
Way out West is now in the building state, in a few days the festival will kick in and the music will fly free in Slottsskogen here in Gothenburg. So for the upcoming week we lay all the focus on this...
View ArticleFantastic Negrito - An Honest Man
Fantastic Negrito is the incarnation of a musician who is reborn after going through a lot of awful shit. In fact, the name Fantastic Negrito represents his third rebirth, literally coming back from...
View ArticleKikagaku Moyo - Kodama
Magic things can occur when bands pick their influences from different directions, and that´s what´s happened with KIKAGAKU MOYO and their fusion of western psych and folk rock. While they obviously...
View ArticleRyan Adams - Karma Police
It’s Thursday, It’s Way Out West, let’s pick an artist and play a tune and hey, let’s pick a cover. Ryan Adams has always walked his own path, regardless of what it’s meant for his career. With a...
View ArticleFeist - Pleasure
The last time we received a new album from the Canadian singer-songwriter Leslie Feist was six years ago. With her colourful voice that induces both hope and desperation, and arrangements that features...
View ArticleLana Del Rey - Love
Not with a bang, more like a hot breeze, Lana Del Rey walked sultrily into or lives back in 2011. In a world of insistent booty shaking, her aura of suave coolness was a welcome change of pace. And...
View ArticlePixies - Where Is My Mind
One PIXIES. There is and have existed and will always only be one PIXIES. When Black Francis caught up with snake with Joey Santiago, Kim Deal and David Lovering in Boston in the mid 80's, to slam art...
View ArticleThe xx - On Hold
Monday, new week and Im still in Gothenburg, No "Record Of THe Week" this week, Im still influenced by the festival Way Out West, a few days more and hopefully in the middle of week I will do a wrap up...
View ArticleSlowgold - Drömmar
SLOWGOLD is Amanda Werne's musical alias. She creates timeless, poetic stories carried out by dreamy prerrie-rock. A reviewer described the music as "falling handless with the knowledge of landing...
View ArticleHindi Zahra & Fatoumata Diawara - Dounia
Olympic Café Tour is the story of two great friends, women, artists, and Africans whose life rhymes with nomadism, openness, and freedom. Hindi Zhara has roots in Morocco and has released two acclaimed...
View ArticleRyan Adams - Blank Space
Time to wrap up Way Out West and post the last one from the festival. This time it was my 10th Way Out West of 11 :) The weather was pretty good, only two days with rain, site was in good condition and...
View ArticleThe Darkness - Solid Gold
British rockers THE DARKNESS have released their expletive-drenched new single, "Solid Gold", accompanied by a video of the self-proclaimed rock legends performing in a huge aircraft hanger amongst a...
View ArticleRival Sons - Soul
The Blues Rockers RIVAL SONS was formed in 2009 from the ashes of guitarist Scott Holiday’s previous band Black Summer Crush (which featured Michael Miley on drums and Robin Everhart on bass). The band...
View ArticlePeggy Lee - Fever
Sunday, time for a classic. Today's tune "Fever" was presented to Otis Blackwell by an old friend, Eddie Cooley, who in 1956 had a hit song called "Priscilla". Blackwell said: "Eddie Cooley was a...
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