Two years ago Tender Objects (or The Candy Twins as they were called back then...or was that a completely different band...I'm not sure) recorded a brilliant tribute song to Northern Portrait called The Next Big Thing . Now the band has been inspired once again and in a Facebook message yesterday, David of the band wrote that he has written this new track after listening to the Sambassadeur track Kate . If that is what it takes to inspire people to write fine new pop songs, people should certainly listen more the Sambassadeur ! Will be streaming for a short ...

Watch one of my favorite bands  Northern Portrait perform an acoustic version of Stirling Moss somewhere " in the deep center of Rome "...great concept, though the sound suffered a bit from the guys standing with their backs to each other... Stirling Moss by Northern Portrait

Continua il nostro girovagare per le strade del Rione più antico di Roma. Dopo… Unplugged In Monti outside sessions: NORTHERN PORTRAIT pubblicato su Indie For BUNNIES

Think I’ve been quite disciplined recently and done my best deleting mails from the inbox. Still the number has now reached and rapidly surpassed 10,000! Ten-thousand (or 10,103 to be exact)! Suck on that for a moment. If I spent one minute on each, it would take me a little more than 168 hours or exactly a week checking them all. So if you’re still awaiting a reply; forget about it and move on… As always one of the big challenges, when your mailbox is cluttered like this, is to spot the important ones from the ...

Stream this rough mix of new track Different City  by Architecture . Cannot wait to hear the final mix. different city (rough mix ) by architecture! Stream/download new track Modern Mess by Digits . Modern Mess by digits Watch a few videos of  Northern Portrait performing a couple of songs unplugged on their recent excursion to Italy . Order the perfect new Whiplash">Strawberry Whiplash 7" single Stop, Look and Listen . + Stop, Look and Listen Stream the Ever The Optimist  EP by The Kick Inside if you (like me) cannot get enough of jangling guitar pop. A Matter of Convenience by The Kick ...

Kind of depressing. Deleted numerous (which I believe is a nicer term than "shitload of") mails yesterday only to find 52 new ones when logging in this morning...a vicious circle if there ever was one...but here we go again... + Sea Weeds - Fall Boi + Dempsey - Late Night not quite from the mailbox, but Matinée Recordings shares the title track from the forthcoming Whiplash">Strawberry Whiplash 7" Stop, Look and Listen . + Stop, Look and Listen The label also shares the thrilling news that a new Northern Portrait release seems to be in the works as well as they are going ...

Every once in a while I spend a little time roaming around SoundCloud with the naïve hope that I will have the great fortune to stumble upon something even remotely interesting. After a slow start I’ve begun to like SoundCloud more and more, as it’s probably the closest we’ll ever (?) come to anything resembling what Myspace used to be; offering some of the same services (especially deep linking and songs tagged by genre), as well as giving you a small chance to unearth something no other blog has discovered. Unfortunately, as often was the case with Myspace ...

Tomorrow it’s hello Italy! And just like that… boxstr is suddenly working again. Obviously no explanation has been given for why the site was down for so long. Not that I really expected it. Back when David of UK/Swedish trio Tender Objects was in a band called  Candy Twins , he (or they - not quite sure what is the most correct) recorded the tribute The Next Big Thing  to Northern Portrait . Up to recently it hasn't been possible to download the track, but it has finally been made available. And thank you, as I'd be hard pressed ...

Tender Objects are an Anglo-Swedish indiepop band, with jangling 12-string electric guitars and male-female vocals, who completed their first recordings in 2011 →

Hach, das war eine schöne Abschiedsfeier am 2. April – unser letztes Listening In im Luna Club im Kiel, und verpasst haben alle, die nicht da waren, diese feine Musikauswahl: DJs LaCordeNoire & Secret Shine 01. 808 State - Made of stone 02. Adorable - I'll be your saint 03. An April March - My reverie 04. Holiday - Prostitutes in town 05. Allo Darlin - Silver Dollars 06. Flatmates - Shimmer 07. The Raveonettes - Ignite 08. Blanche Hudson Weekend - Crying shame 09. Bubblegum Lemonade - Caroline’s radio 10. The Chills - Heavenly pop hit 11. The National - Fake empire 12. Monster Movie - 4th & pine 13. Hari & Aino - All that remains 14. Panter - Tulips & six flags 15. EZ Basic - Friends 16. Young Michelin - Je suis faitgué 17. Sulk - Wishes 18. The Rosebuds - When the lights go dim 19. Hundred in the hands - Sleepwalking 20. Fire">Arcade Fire - Wie used to wait 21. I'm from Barcelona - Lower my head 22. Hidden Cameras - Ban marriage 23. Danish Daycare - A purpose to my sins 24. The Lucy Show - Melody 25. They Go Boom! – Someday soon 26. Mega Mystery Band – On a train 27. Ian Brown - Stellify 28. Strandhotel Markus – Disco! Disco! (Remix) 29. Punk TV – A dream within a dream 30. Ladytron – I'm not scared 31. Dum Dum Girls – Some girls are bigger than others 32. The Tamborines – Falling slowly 33. The Fresh + Onlys – Plague of frogs 34. Deerhunter – Desire lines 35. The Beatles – The night before 36. Echo & the Bunnymen – Villiers Terrace 37. The Heart Throbs – I wonder why 38. Insect Guide – Dark days and nights 39. Charlatans – Then 40. Blind Mr. Jones – Regular disease 41. The Pains of Being Pure at Heart – Come saturday 42. Tocotronic – Die Welt kann mich nicht mehr verstehen 43. The Postmarks – For better or worse? 44. The Radio Dept. – I don't need love I've got my band 45. DulceSky – Unfamiliar 46. Cocoanut Groove – End of the summer on bookbinder road 47. Mirrors – Look at me 48. Tomte – Ich sang die ganze Zeit von dir 49. The Kills – Rodeo town 50. The Smiths – A rush & a push & the land is ours 51. Indochine – L'aventurier 52. The Organ – Brother 53. Field Mice – Emma's house 54. The Stone Roses – She bangs the drums 55. Wedding Present – I'm not always so stupid 56. Bats – For the ride 57. Fehlfarben – Gottseidank nicht in England 58. Northern Portrait – What happens next 59. House of Love – Shine on 60. Joy Division – Shadowplay 61. Hüsker Dü – Pink turns to blue 62. Blue Foundation – Stuck in a hard place 63. Fire">Cats on Fire – The smell of an artist 64. Elenette – Kärlekskomplexet 65. Pulp - Razzmatazz 66. Belle & Sebastian – Get me away from here I'm dying 67. Ride – Twisterella 68. Stereolab – French disco 69. The Cure – Jumping on someone else's train 70. Kent – Revolt III 71. Lush & Jarvis Cocker – Ciao 72. Carter USM - And God created Brixton 73. Even As We Speak – 100 74. Ramones – 7.11 75. The Wake – Crush the flowers 76. Field Mice – Sensitive 77. Language of Flowers – Tara Mascara 78. Of Montreal – So begins our alabee 79. For Against – Amen Yves 80. Trembling Blue Stars – Cold colours 81. Rialto – Monday morning 5.19 82. Suede – We are the pigs 83. The Sundays – Here's where the story ends (Übrigens habe ich bei der Gelegenheit auch einige ältere Playlists auf unserer Website eingepflegt; die noch fehlenden ca. 5 folgen dann in den nächsten Tagen, damit unser musikalisches Treiben auch ausreichend dokumentiert ist :-)

Matinée Recordings From: Santa Barbara, California Matinée Recordings, from the very seasonally named Santa Barbara, have got an early Christmas present for all you indie kids out their counting down the days until the big man comes down your chimney. It's a very special Christmas EP featuring exclusive new seasonal songs from five of their most beloved current artists. Seattle's Math and Physics Club arrive with sleighbells on, as 'It Must Be Christmas' successfully manages to knit candy canes, carolers, mistletoe, reindeer, Santa's sleigh, snowflakes, stockings, and winter into an indie Christmas carol of their very own ...

A second go at whipping through the latest Christmas songs like a ten year old girl's hair: No excuse not to have this as it's on A Very Sweeping Christmas , but as Audio Antihero are giving it away for a short period there's no harm in highlighting Nosferatu D2's It's Christmas Time (For God's Sake) seperately. Ben revealed the other day that it's loosely based on Joni Mitchell's River, which is an intriguing leap. Also being given away by their label, on this occasion Thee SPC, Standard Fare's Tinsel Politics . That ...

Tra le tante uscite natalizie di questi giorni non poteva mancare la cara Matinée Recordings, ed ecco qui The Matinee Holiday Soirée , ep tutto campanelli, jangling guitars, Phil Spector e slitte sulla neve, che vede la partecipazione di Physics Club">Math And Physics Club, Northern Portrait, Whiplash">Strawberry Whiplash, Champagne Riot e gli immancabili Bubblegum Lemonade. (mp3): Whiplash">Strawberry Whiplash - Santa Needs A Holiday

Tellus About The Moon stammen aus Schweden, spielen knackigen Indiepop, und verschenken derzeit den Track «Golden rule » vom aktuellen Album auf Dalahäst Forever . MP3-Download Tellus About The Moon «Golden rule» Die freundlich-sympathischen Dänen von Northern Portrait können sich dem allgegenwärtigen Weihnachtssog nicht entziehen und haben als Beitrag zur neuen «The Matinée Holiday Soirée-EP» des Matinée-Labels das sehr fluffige «Leave the trees alone» beigesteuert. So ist selbst Weihnachtsmusik zu ertragen! Leave the Trees Alone by Northern Portrait Und wo wir schon mal in Dänemark sind – das Duo Champagne Riot , von Morten in der letzten Zeit ordentlich gehypt , bereitet sich auf die ...

The glorious new Christmas track by Northern Portrait . Taken from the equally brilliant The Matinée Holiday Soirée EP . Leave the Trees Alone