This band is a salsa, timba sorta music, so its not my kind but it was kinda groovy tunes that they had.
Calle Real its prenouced Caje´Reall. Saturday night they visited Tyrol in Stockholm infront of a very much dancinfg crowd.
They are very famous in France, usually they play for a crowd of 30.000 peeps. Now thats something!
Calle Real is a Timba band from Sweden founded in 1999. Calle Real is now twelve guys who play modern timba with distinctive pop influences. Its well arranged and tightly played music for the club scene. Theres a definite heavy groove with a sound that differs from the masses.
Several of them have spent long periods in Cuba and have studied music, although no one in the band is actually Cuban except Rickard Valdés, who is the son of the legendary pianist Bebo Valdés and who is half Cuban. There are a variety of ethnic origins within the band, including Patricio Sobrado who has his origins in Chile and the trumpet player, Jacek Onuskiewicz and the trombone player, Cezary Tomaszewski originate in Poland, but all of them grew up in Sweden.
Florence Valentin is a Swedish pop rock punk band and include members as Love Antell; August Berg; Daniel Kurba; Sebastian Ross; Magnus Jonsson; Jonny Calzone and Mats-Peter Krantz. Both text and music is written by the bands singer Love Antell.
Florence Valentin grounded in 2002 and got their breakthrough the year after with the tune "Allt dom bygger upp ska vi meja ner". Debut album "Johnny Drama" released 2004. Follow-up album "Pokerkväll i Vårby Gård", released in June 2007 and the latest album "Spring Ricco" in 25 Mars 2009.
Yesterday did these guys a great show on the main stage at the festival Popaganda. Was never expecting that these guys should explode with such much energy on stage that they did, almost fall over my case and right through the monitor desk ;) These guys really can rock and I enjoyed it.
Got their record last night and i rellay looking forward to listen thru it. Todays tune is from that album and its one of my favourite so far, this tune really shaked the audience last night, was amazing to see it.
Tune of the day is "Såld Är Såld" and this video is taken form a gig at Storsjöyran in Östersund July 30, 2009, enjoy this Swedish piece.
Johnossi is a rock duo from Stockholm, Sweden, consisting of songwriter, singer, guitarist John Engelbert and drummer, percussionist, singer Oskar "Ossi" Bonde. Their music has been on Tune of the day a couple of times before. Yesterday did Johnossi enter the main stage at Popaganda festival. As im use to with these guys that they really rock your shirt of live and yes they did it again, the only bad thing was that was set to early, would rather see these guys rock later on but the show was amazing. The guys are great to work with and a huge thanks to Joel, the backline tech who is always great to work with.
In 2009, Johnossi made their first appearances in Japan, supporting The Hives. Soon Johnossi will enter the studio for a new album and it will be released during spring 2010. Todays tune "Bobby" is take from the latest album "All They Ever Wanted"
The band MGMT played at Popaganda festival, Stockholm today, to a screaming and singing crowd.
MGMT, is a quite young American musical duo based in Brooklyn, New York, consisting of Ben Goldwasser and Andrew VanWyngarden.
Formerly named "The Management" Because "The Management" was occupied by another artist so the band shortened "The Management" to "MGMT.
Their first album Oracular Spectacular debuted at number twelve on the UK album chart and number six on the Australian ARIA Charts, and hit number one on the Billboard Top Heatseekers chart. It was named the best album of 2008 by NME. MGMT also appeared prominently in Australia's Triple J Hottest 100 2008, coming in 2nd with "Electric Feel", 5th with "Kids" and 18th with "Time to Pretend."
MGMT has been working recently on their new album, "Congratulations", expected to be released in early 2010
Their spectra is kinda wide, a bit of dance, indie to rock. The kids seems to love ´em.
Blacklist Union is a gang of sleaze party rock hooligans from Hollywood, that have one misson and that is to kick your ass.
Blacklist Union are Tony West on vocals; Carmine D'Amico on lead guitar ; Nicky Shad on rhythm guitar; Jason X on bass; Sean Davidson on drums.
Blacklist Union last album "Breakin Bread With The Devil" is excellent straightforward rock n roll album with attitude and have tons of great hooks and vocals.
Todays tune is the title track from the album, enjoy!
A song I heard some years ago, that i really liked. So much heart, feeling and ROCK and the same time. It was released as the lead single from their fourth studio album The Distance to Here in 1999. This song was co-produced by Jerry Harrison of Talking Heads, who also assisted the band in producing their first two albums.
This special concert have so much LIVE in it!!
They come from York, Pennsylvania US and begun in 1988. Kowalczyk, Taylor, Dahlheimer, and Gracey first came together for a middle-school talent show in the town of York.
Live climbed from modest modern rock success to the mainstream spotlight worldwide on the strength of their 1994 breakthrough album, Throwing Copper, which has sold 8 million copies in the US
The members of Live have announced that the band will be taking a two-year hiatus as they work on other projects. Kowalczyk plans to release a solo album and the other band members are rumored to be recording an album with Kevin Martin of Candlebox.
Jet is a rock band from Melbourne, Australia composed of Cameron Muncey, Mark Wilson, and brothers Nic and Chris Cester. Todays tune "She's a Genius" was the first single released from the album "Shaka Rock" that will be released in the end of August 2009. It's an great rock smashing anthem that'll make most Kasabian to move around thier neck and shake some booty. It's electrifying in all aspects and a must have on your iPods.
Inspired of my daughter, she told me that there is a guy that have these lyrics that really are great. And yes..It kinda talking to me.
Read these lyrics:
"No more stress, now im straight, now I get it now I take Time to think, before I make mistakes just for my familys sake That part of me left yesterday the heart of me is strong today No regrets im blessed to say the old me dead and gone away."
TI=The Incredible.
TI´s real name is Clifford Joseph Harris, Jr. born September 25, 1980, better known by his stage name T.I. or T.I.P., is an American recording artist, producer, actor and co-CEO/founder of Grand Hustle Records.
He left a hard rough life behind him. He was raised by his grandparents and was a drug dealer as a teenager.
TI begun his career around 2001 and preformed with numerous of artists, such as Justin Timberlake,Destinys child, lil Wayne, Mary J Blige etc. Won several of awards for his music. I´ve heard that he sold most albums this year in HipHop RnB.
Coldplay are an English alternative rock band formed in 1998. The group comprises Chris Martin (lead vocals, keyboards, guitar), Jonny Buckland (lead guitar), Guy Berryman (bass guitar), and Will Champion (drums, backing vocals, other instruments).
Coldplay is a band that have been growing bigger and bigger for every year, last year Coldplay played at the Globe in Stockholm, yesterday they came back for a bigger show at the Stadion. The guys have now more material that suits arena shows, the stage is bigger, more lights and other effects, even if Chris had a little ongoing cold that could trouble up his voice. The gig was amazing, Chris runned around as a sugarrushed 5 year old kid, the lighting show was marvelous and the band delivered thier hits. The pompous atmosphere breaks down with a acoustic set on a little stage with harmonica and a Billie Jean tune from Michael Jackson. The show ends up with huge fireworks and Coldplay thanks for this time and tells that they will be giving away a live CD when the show is over, the CD entitled LeftRightLeftRightLeft. The album is also available as a free download from their website. The nine tracks were recorded at various shows during the tour.
Todays tune "Violet Hill" is the first anti-war protest song from the band, and it borrows its rhythm from British band The Beatles. "Violet Hill" derives its title from a street of the same name near Abbey Road.
White Lies are an English alternative rock band from Ealing in West London. Formerly known as Fear of Flying, the band consists primarily of Harry McVeigh (lead vocals, guitar) Charles Cave (bass guitar and backing vocals), and Jack Lawrence-Brown (drums).
White Lies formed in October 2007, upon writing songs they felt didn't suit their original band. After delaying their first performance for five months to build up media hype, they earned a recording contract with Fiction Records days after their debut. White Lies is out on tour atm and will open up for Coldplay tonight at Stadion/Stockholm.
Todays tune "To Lose My Life" is a single from the band's debut album.
Tracy Chapman (born March 30, 1964) is an American singer–songwriter, best known for her singles "Fast Car", "Talkin' 'bout a Revolution", "Baby Can I Hold You", "Give Me One Reason", "The Promise" and "Telling Stories".
Todays tune "Fast Car" is tells the story of her hard life, with family, boyfriend alcohol etc, The final refrain is sung in variation, changing from "We gotta make a decision, leave tonight or live and die this way" to "You gotta make a decision, leave tonight or live and die this way."
Her appearance on the Nelson Mandela 70th Birthday Tribute was the catalyst for the song becoming a huge hit all around the world.
The song has been covered many times by bands such as R.E.M., The Flying Pickets, Xiu Xiu, Vertical Horizon, Matchbox Twenty etc, etc.
State Radio is an alternative reggae-rock band from Boston, MA, consisting of former Dispatch member Chad Urmston (lead vocals, guitar), Chuck Fay (bass) and Mike Najarian (drums).
Todays tune "Keepsake" was featured in the season three finale of Showtime's dark comedy Weeds.
Juliette Lewis is more known to us all from her intense characters in films like "Cape Fear" and "Natural Born Killer"
We could hear her sing in PJ Harveys "Hardly Wait" in the film "Strange days" in 1995. One couldnt guess that 8 years later formed Juliette Lewis & The and became kind of dangerous rock´n´roll-version of her most popular characterpart Mallory Knox.
Ive picked a tune from "Four on the Floor" that is the second album by Juliette and the Licks. Before this album began production both Jason Morris, drummer, and Paul Ill, bassist, left the band for more 'studio-based' work. Both Walters and Morse recorded bass and Dave Grohl recorded the drums. The new live drummer is Ed Davis.
She is comming to Sweden, Berns on the 31th of October. Both me and Stones are going to be there!
Mustasch was formed on the island Orust in Sweden in 1998, and recorded a demo which was released on different record labels around the world in small numbers. In 2000 they released their first EP The True Sound of the New West.
What u might missed was that they choosed the name Mustasch because many of their musical heroes had mustaches for example Freddie Mercury from Queen and Tony Iommi from Black Sabbath. :)
2008 they released the album Lowlife Highlights its a bit darker than the other once but thats just my opinion, Im not really done listening to it yet :) On the 17 of October AEG Live arrange a concert with Mustasch at Annexet in Stockholm.
Do come and take a peak they are fantastic live!
I picked this tune from their second album Ratsafari.
They are singing one of Dr Albans most known song, No Coke. Dr. Alban (born Alban Nwapa, August 26, 1957 in Oguta, Imo State, Nigeria) is a Stockholm, Sweden-based musician and producer with his own record label dr-records.His music can best be described as a Eurodance/hip-hop reggae with a dancehall style. He is most famous for his worldwide 1992 hit "It's My Life" and is thought, to have sold over 11 million records.
Robyn is now a wide world known artist born in Stockholm 1979. She have a father that is a film producer and her mum is an actor.
In January, 2009 Robyn won a Swedish Grammis award for Best Live Act 2008. She is also very popular for electronica in Britain and the US.
Robyn was rediscovered by Swedish pop singer Meja in the early nineties. Meja and her band Legacy of Sound visited Robyn's school and were involved with a musical workshop. Robyn's performances impressed Meja so much so that she contacted her management and a meeting was arranged with Robyn and her parents.
She made 4 albums and 3 on a special US and UK versions.
Robyn completed a short U.S. tour to promote Robyn, and was the supporting act for Madonna's Sticky & Sweet Tour at select European dates in 2008.
Arctic Monkeys are an English alternative rock band from Sheffield. Formed in 2002, the band currently consists of Alex Turner (lead vocals, guitar), Jamie Cook (guitar), Nick O'Malley (bass guitar, backing vocals) and Matt Helders (drums, backing vocals).
Arctic Monkeys is the 7th and the last band out from Way Out West festival. Todays tune "Brianstorm" is the opening track on their second album, Favourite Worst Nightmare. The band explained in NME that Brian had been a guy that they had met backstage in the band's dressing room at a gig at Studio Coast "Ageha" in Tokyo Japan, and that "When he left the room, we were a bit in awe of his presence. So we did a brainstorm for what he was like, drew a little picture and wrote things about him," while guitarist Jamie Cook added "He was right smooth, very LA. He just appeared with like a business card and like a round neck T-shirt and a tie loosely around it, I'd never seen that before. It felt like he was trying to get inside your mind. We were checking out his attire; it inspired us."
Todays head liner is "Lily Allen" Lily Rose Beatrice Allen (born 2 May 1985) She is an English pop music singer and songwriter. Best known for her songs "Smile", "LDN", her cover of "Oh My God" by British act The Kaiser Chiefs, Allen is the daughter of actor and musician Keith Allen and film producer Alison Owen.
Todays tune is "LDN" (Internet slang and Mobile Phone text language for London"), tune which was released in the UK on 25 September 2006.
Wolfmother is an Australian hard rock band that formed in Erskineville, Sydney in 2000. Originally comprising vocalist and guitarist Andrew Stockdale, bassist and keyboardist Chris Ross and drummer Myles Heskett, the band has released one studio album, Wolfmother (2005).
In August 2008, members Ross and Heskett left the band due to "irreconcilable personal and musical differences," though Stockdale stated that he would continue using the Wolfmother moniker with new members in the future. After a brief hiatus, Stockdale returned with new musicians: bassist and keyboardist Ian Peres, guitarist Aidan Nemeth and drummer Dave Atkins. The new lineup's first album, Cosmic Egg is set to be released on 13 October 2009. That album is something i really looking forward to get. Got thier debut witch i like alot. Tomorrow will Wolfmother play on Linné stage and guess who is going to watch it:) A full review of the show and the festival will come later when im back home again.
Wolfmother is the 5th band form the Way Out West Festival.
Calexico is a Tucson, Arizona-based rock band. The band's two main members, Joey Burns and John Convertino, first played together in Los Angeles as part of the group Giant Sand. Their musical style is influenced by traditional sounds of latino, folk and the Southwestern United States country music together with spices of Morricone, Chris Isaac and Springsteen. The band is named for the border town of Calexico, California.
Calexico is the 4th band out from the Way Out West festival, Enjoy todays tune.
The Bronx is a hardcore punk band formed in 2002 in Los Angeles, California. They have released three eponymous albums, with a fourth scheduled to be released in august 17, 2009.
The Bronx is the 3:rd band out from the Way Out West festival!
Todays tune "Knifeman" is from thier 3:rd album and its a really good tune, more punk rock than hardcore, the video is cool aswell with the underwater pictures. Enjoy it!
The blind couple from Mali Amadou & Mariam is the 2:nd band from the music festival Way Out West on Tune Of The Day. This is also the 2:nd time the couple is on Tune Of The Day. This is World Music with a very high class, i really like the stuff from Mali. I hard to stand still when you hear this. Even if im more to the blues, soul part of this couple but this aint bad at all, modern beat with nice guitar playing and good vocal from them both.
Enjoy this tune and more Way Out West things tomorrow.
Vampire Weekend is an American indie rock band from New York, formed in 2006. The band gained attention via a variety of blogs, such as Stereogum. The band claims to be influenced by both African popular music and Western classical music, describing their genre of music as "Upper West Side Soweto", with such songs as "Cape Cod Kwassa Kwassa" and "Oxford Comma" referencing Congolese soukous music.
Members are: Ezra Koenig – lead vocals, guitar, piano, hand drum Rostam Batmanglij – organ, chamberlin, piano, harpsichord, guitar, vocal harmonies, drum and synth program, shaker Chris Tomson – drums, guitar Chris Baio – bass guitar
"Cape Cod Kwassa Kwassa" was the fourth single by indie rock band, Vampire Weekend, released 18 August 2008. And this tune swings alot, i really like it. Get a little of a Paul Simon feeling when i listen to this tune. What i also notice that Peter Gabriel wanted to do a cover of this tune, well that could be very intressting to hear.
Anyway, Vampire Weekend will play at Way Out West festival this upcoming weekend so this is the first tune out of a series of artists that will perform during this festival. More WOW tunes tomorrow, Enjoy!
Madonna is in Sweden today, in Gothenburg so Stones will be able to see her..sob..
This enormous strong woman who survived all the trash that have been trowed at her. I admire that a lot, all artists needs this in order to grow and continue to grow and grow even a bit more!!
Her birth name is Madonna Louise Ciccone and she was born in Bay City, Michigan 1958 and raised in Rochester Hills, Michigan, she moved to New York City in 1977, for a career in modern dance. This we can see on her marvelous dance parts.
In 1984 she got a hit with Like a virgin. Madonna joined the Jewish mystic religion Kabbalah in 1994 after the release of her album Bedtime Stories. She has spoken about the influence of the religion on her and donated millions of dollars for schools based on the religion, around New York and London. Madonna and her dancers weared a t-shirt with "Kabbalists Do It Better" on it :)
Ah well, enjoy this tune from a James Bond movie with the same name that was released in 2002, the song was later included on her 2003 album, "American Life"
Lena & Orup did a gig at Gröna Lund in Stockholm yesterday.
Lena & Orup is 2 Swedish singers that begun to work with each other in 2004 Orup wrote a song witch she performed in the "Melodifestivalen" that is the swedish pre festival to the Eurovision Song Contest.
Lena is a very good comedian she showed several of fun parts yesterday. And in Melodifestivalen that is a family show, her appearance as host was met with some controversy due to numerous jokes considered inappropriate to the audience, but I do loved her sence of humor!!!
This kinda music doesnt really communicate to me but its pretty fun anyways :p
Third World is a Jamaican reggae band formed in 1973. Their sound is influenced by soul, funk and disco. According to Billboard's Jim Bessman, Third World is considered by some reggae purists to be overly commercial. Third World's greatest success came in the late 1970s and early 1980s, peaking with their cover version of The O'Jays' Now that We Found Love, a hit single on both sides of the Atlantic in 1979. This song brought them to the attention of Stevie Wonder, who worked with them and wrote, along with Melody A McCully, their hit Try Jah Love. Third World is the 3:rd and last band from Uppsala Reggae Festival and they will get up on stage on today around 22:00 CET. Enjoy todays tune "Now that We Found Love"
Alpha Blondy is an African reggae singer (born on Jan 1, 1953 in West Africa). Alpha Blondy sings mainly in his native language of Dioula, in French and English, and also sometimes in Arabic or Hebrew. His lyrics convey strong political attitudes and a fine sense of humor.
Alpha Blondy is the 2:nd artist from Uppsala Reggae Festival and he will go up on stage on saturday around midnight. Enjoy this one!
The Heptones were a Jamaican rocksteady and reggae vocal trio most active in the 1960s and early 1970s. The Heptons is one of the band that will visit Uppsala Reggae Festival this weekend, a festival that i used to work at but not this year as i will got to Gothenburg. But as they provide the Uppsala and the rest of Sweden with some great vibes over a weekend, so will Tune Of The Day provide you with some great tunes from that festival.
Todays tune with The Heptones is "Born To Love You" from 1973 Original Press version. First of a few tunes from URF festival. Enjoy it!
A new day and a new tune, got kinda hocked with the U2 tune yesterday so i couln't resist to add one more. This is the tune is from thier latest album "No Line on the Horizon" and it's the twelfth studio album. This is also the tune that they open up the U2 360° Tour!
As i said yesterday they had a huge stage, the tour features a 360-degree staging configuration with fans surrounding the stage from all sides. The idea for a 360-degree staging with some initial design suggestions had been proposed to the band by the set designer, Willie Williams, at the end of the Vertigo Tour in 2006. At 50 meters (165 feet) tall, the stage is the largest ever constructed and twice the size of the previous largest set, which was used on The Rolling Stones' A Bigger Bang Tour.
Enjoy todays tune!
Here is the Setlists from the both nights!
07/31/2009 Ullevi Stadion - Gothenburg, Sweden Breathe, No Line On The Horizon, Get On Your Boots, Magnificent, Beautiful Day / Rain (snippet), Mysterious Ways / Norwegian Wood (snippet), One / She's A Mystery To Me (snippet), Until The End Of The World, Desire / Don't Stop 'Til You Get Enough (snippet), Stuck In A Moment You Can't Get Out Of, Unknown Caller, The Unforgettable Fire, City Of Blinding Lights, Vertigo, I'll Go Crazy If I Don't Go Crazy Tonight, Sunday Bloody Sunday / Rock The Casbah (snippet), Pride (In The Name Of Love), MLK, Walk On / You'll Never Walk Alone (snippet), Where The Streets Have No Name / All You Need Is Love (snippet) encores: Ultra Violet (Light My Way), With Or Without You, Moment of Surrender
08/01/2009 Ullevi Stadion - Gothenburg, Sweden Breathe, No Line On The Horizon, Get On Your Boots, Magnificent, Beautiful Day / Blackbird (snippet), New Year's Day, I Still Haven't Found What I'm Looking For / Movin' On Up (snippet), Stay (Faraway, So Close!), Unknown Caller, Electrical Storm, City Of Blinding Lights, Vertigo, I'll Go Crazy If I Don't Go Crazy Tonight / O Come All Ye Faithful (snippet), Sunday Bloody Sunday, Pride (In The Name Of Love), MLK, Walk On / You'll Never Walk Alone (snippet), Where The Streets Have No Name, One encores: Ultra Violet (Light My Way), With Or Without You, Moment of Surrender
comment: This second 360° Tour show in Gothenburg is the first time U2 have played twice in Gothenburg on the same tour, and the first time U2 have played two stadium shows in Sweden on the same tour.
This weekend U2 played in Gothenburg, Once again they visit Sweden and once again they bring a bigger stage than last time. And i must say, this spider stage that they use is HUGE, i belive it was made for HUGE arenas so it looks enormous in Ullevi Stadion. Didnt see this tour, would like to have been there as the reviews was superb in all newspapers, but you can't see everything :) Hopefully i will be able to see it next year. Anyway, i will get enough music next week!
Here is some picture of the stage in Gothenburg.
Foto's by "Daniel Williams"
So why not dedicade a tune for all the U2 lovers out there. Here is classic "One"
"One" was the third single from U2's 1991 album, Achtung Baby.
The song is widely considered to be one of the band's greatest songs and is consistently featured in lists of the greatest songs of all time.
Enjoy!
"At the instant we were recording it, I got a very strong sense of its power. We were all playing together in the big recording room, a huge, eerie ballroom full of ghosts of the war, and everything fell into place. It was a reassuring moment, when everyone finally went, 'oh great, this album has started.' It's the reason you're in a band - when the spirit descends upon you and you create something truly affecting. 'One' is an incredibly moving piece. It hits straight into the heart.
"Time After Time" was a single by singer Cyndi Lauper, the second from her album She's So Unusual. It reached number one on the U.S. charts on June 9, 1984, and remained there for two weeks. Worldwide, the song is her most commercially successful single after "Girls Just Want to Have Fun".
Lauper co-wrote "Time After Time" with Philadelphia rocker Rob Hyman of The Hooters, who also supplied backup vocals to the song. She indicated much of the lyrics were written about occurrences in the studio and her life at the time. The line "the second hand unwinds" referred to producer Rick Chertoff's watch which was winding backwards.
You're Under Arrest is a 1985 album recorded by Miles Davis that saw Miles mix pop tunes with political statements about racism, pollution and war. Among other tracks, the album featured Davis' interpretations of two contemporary pop songs: Cyndi Lauper's "Time After Time" and Michael Jackson's "Human Nature".
Todays tune is recorded at Molde, Norway, 1984. Some history about the night in Molde, on the concert day, Miles was sick from food poisoning, and stuck in Paris! A Falcon jet was hired, and flew him up. He started to get better, He visited a jazzclub at his hotel, with Elvin Jones playing, and he got into the right mood. The concert started at 01.00 AM, and is later known as "The Miracle Concert" or "The Midnite Sabbath". "Time after Time" was the highlight of this sabbath with Miles. With John Scofield, Bob Berg, Al Foster, Bobby Erwing and Darryl Jones. Enjoy!
This tune Im doing for a neighbor Johnny, that just got 40. I do like this as well ;)
This is California band formed in Angoura Hills. They begun 1994.
Hoobastank is a very weird name, Doug Robb said the name had no particular meaning: "You're going to ask me what it means. It doesn't mean anything. And it's really cool, it's one of those old high school inside-joke words that didn't really mean anything
2004 they got a real hit with this tune.
Ah well...I just left the neighbors party and im a bit drunk and ...yeah.. :) Here we are..
