Big in 2009

Having covered the best of 2008 it's time to look forward to what will be big in 2009. Trying to guess what will be big in music is one of my favourite things to do, and when you get it right then it's even more fun. BBC does a brilliant list at the beginning of each year, where they manage to spot those who will make an impact each and every year (if you don't believe me then check out the one they did for 2008 here... impressive, eh?). What do I hope to get out of this? Well, nothing really. Just a bit of fun... however, I am of course hoping that I hit five or more from the coming BBC list (knew all but one, but only got three last year... hoping for more this time!) and vicariously then that the mentioned bands also actually make it.

Enough talking... Let's get to it!

The bands I think will be big in '09:

1. Empire of the sun
2. Little Boots
3. Florence and the Machine
4. White Lies
5. La Roux
6. Boy Crisis
7. We Have Band
8. Chairlift
9. Amazing Baby
10. Passion Pit

And in no particular order the "rest":

Fan Death
Asher Roth
Vivian Girls
Tame Impala
FM Belfast
Micachu
The Soft Pack (formerly The Muslims - why change such an awesome name in the first place?!)

Now all that's left to do is wait!

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UPDATE (20-12-08): Sooo... just saw that the Beeb's 2009 list is up. The good thing is that I got 6 out of 15! Whoop whoop and yay for me!... bad thing is that the list was up a whole five days before I posted (so yay for me and my brilliant research!)... Anywho, despite my inability to be up to date I still got 6 of 15, which is something. It is... Check out the BBC's list for 2009 here.

2008's Best Singles

International Singles:
1. Yeasayer - 2080
2. Seawolf - You're A Wolf
3. Portishead - The Rip
4. MGMT - Time to pretend
5. The Dodos - Fools
6. Beach House - Gila
7. Little Boots - Stuck on Repeat
8. Late of the Pier - The Bears are coming
9. Torche - Healer
10. Ponytail - Celebrate the Body Electric

Honourable Mentions: The Foals - Red Socks Pugie, Crystal Castles - Crimewave, Empire of the Sun - Walking on a Dream (2009 material), Amadou & Mariam - Sabali, These New Puritans - Elvis, Late of the Pier - Focker, Micachu - Golden Phone, No Age - Eraser, Hot Chip - Ready for the floor, Midnight Juggernaughts - Into the Galaxy, Vivian Girls - I Believe in Nothing, White Denim - Let's Talk About It, Vampire Weekend - A-Punk, Beyoncé - Single Ladies (Put a ring on it)

Danish Singles:
1. Beta Satan - 666
2. Spleen United - Suburbia
3. Veto - You Say Yes, I Say Yes
4. Choir of Young Believers - Riot
5. William Blakes - Secrets of state

Honourable mentions: Wong Boys - GIT UR FUK ON, The Raveonettes - Dead Sound, Lucy Love - No VIP, 18th Dye - Soft the Hard Way

2008's Best Albums

As always it's really hard to pick the best of a whole year, but after several changes and re-thinks I think this is about as close as I'll get to having a final list (it will always change according to time, place and mood). Here we go...

International Albums:
1. The Dodos - Visiter
2. Why? - Alopecia
3. Portishead - Third
4. Mystery Jets - 21
5. The Foals - Antidotes
6. Bon Iver - For Emma, Forever Ago
7. No Age - Nouns
8. MGMT - Oracular Spectacular
9. Fleet Foxes - Fleet Foxes
10. Fuck Buttons - Street Horrrsing
11. Cut Copy - In Ghost Colours
12. Yeasayer - Yeasayer
13. Late of the Pier - Fantasy Black Channel
14. Beach House - Devotion
15. Vampire Weekend - Vampire Weekend
16. Deerhunter - Microcastle
17. Vivian Girls - Vivian Girls
18. Shearwater - Rook
19. Jeffrey Lewis - 12 Crass Songs
20. Crystal Castles - Crystal Castles

Honourable mentions: Torche, TV on the Radio, Wild Beasts, Jay Reatard, Cadence Weapon, Midnight Juggernaughts, Blood Red Shoes, Ponytail

Danish Albums:
1. Beta Satan - Girls
2. Veto - Crushing Digits
3.Choir of Young Believers - Burn the flag EP
4. Spleen United - Neanderthal
5. 18th Dye - Amorine Queen

Honourable mentions: Messy Shelters (came out too late to add to top 5), Kim and the Cinders - S/T, Lily Electric - You're In the Painting You Saw

Rock my empiricism! Survey!

So I'm writing a really cool thesis on the music industry in the digital age with a friend and fellow IB student of mine...

We've made a survey for it, so go ahead do it! (just click on the word survey...)


Rock on for the sake of empiricism! (you don't get to hear that often)

Cheers

BV Lightspeed Champion Interview

Over on BrooklynVegan there's an interview with Devonte Hynes of Lightspeed Champion about his upcoming album and his previous band Test Icicles. I really liked Test Icicles and I really like Lightspeed Champion. I thought it was really sad when Test Icicles called it quits as they had made some really great tunes (eg. Circle Square Triangle), but I'm happy to see Dev moving on and doing good stuff on his own (and also hearing him talk about Rory).

Anywho, it's a really good interview and well worth a read. There's a lot about Test Icicles, but also a lot about how it was doing the album as well as how it was working with Mike Mogis of Saddle Creek;

"I had been speaking to Mike [Mogis, Saddle Creek producer] for months before we decided to work together. The idea was to get the guitar out of these songs, to see if they could stand on their own. It's kind of crazy. I'm glad I made this album."

So head over to BrooklynVegan and read the full interview... and whilst there you should definitely download the Lightspeed Champion song also posted there.

Current obsessions

Current obsessions aka. what's on the iPod...

- The Floor is Made of Lava (DK) http://www.myspace.com/thelava
- Turboweekend (DK) http://www.myspace.com/turboweekend
- The Foals http://www.myspace.com/foals
- Vampire Weekend (eagerly awaiting album) http://www.myspace.com/vampireweekend
- Bat For Lashes http://www.myspace.com/batforlashes
- Elle S'appelle http://www.myspace.com/ellesappelleband
- Bon Iver (beautiful beautiful voice) http://www.myspace.com/boniver
- The Gallows (a little punk for the road) http://www.myspace.com/gallows
- Lily Electric (DK... with bucket loads of potential) http://www.lilyelectric.com/

Perenial favorites aka. almost almost on the iPod...

- Veto (DK) http://www.myspace.com/vetosite
- Good Shoes http://www.myspace.com/goodshoes
- Death From Above 1979 (R.I.P.) http://www.myspace.com/deathfromabove1979
- Blood Red Shoes http://www.myspace.com/bloodredshoes

- We Are Scientists http://www.myspace.com/wearescientists

Welcome

Goodevening ladies and gent's,
this blog is the result of many years of passion for music. Keeping up to date on everything musical is an arduous task, but also great fun. The aim of this blog is simply to write about what excites me musically, up- and- coming band (danish and foreign) as well as keeping up to date with the latest gigs in Copenhagen.

I've long been an avid reader of the many blogs out there on music and I thought that I myself wanted to contribute with a blog featuring Danish bands and the Copenhagen music scene in english. I hope you like it.

Now, let's get to it...