Tuesday Thrill

Love to be back in business again! I'm full of energy and lust for work.
This will hopefully be an exciting period work wise and I'm looking forward to the coming months.

Today I'm listening to this awesome track, that is released today.
Love Fame Tragedy is Matthew Murphy from The Wombats. This song received its' premiere airplay at Zane Lowey's Beats1 show on Apple Music earlier tonight. There's also a video for it, directed by Tyler Cunningham.

The track also features Pixies’ Joey Santiago, Alt J’s Gus Unger-Hamilton, Matt Chamberlain of Soundgarden & Lauren Aquilina. Really enjoyable!



Teenager's listening to The Young Veins "Cape Town". I'm a bit upset about the Beatles' ripoff, though. Could they even get away with that?

 

My Bowie, now Teenager's Bowie

I still find it hard to accept that my musical hero, David Bowie, is dead. I still get tears in my eyes when listening to some of his music. Music that brings so many memories from my teenage years with all things attached to that era.

I dearly love his older albums, still holding "Hunky Dory" as one of his best, besides the almighty classic Ziggy. It also really pleases me that The Teenager listens - and likes - Hunky Dory and also, just like me, seems to fancy the older material. It could maybe the result from me playing this track a lot, when I was pregnant with her. Or maybe she simply has an ear for what's good music!?

Workation

I don't have much time for vacation since I started my own business. The saying that being your own boss gives you all the possibilities in the world to plan your time and gives you loads of free time - it's all bulls*t. I've never worked as much and hard since I started on my own. I always work. But, it's by own choice so I can't really complain. When it comes to free time, of course I can take hours or even a day off, but I have customers to please, who counts on me doing what I'm paid to do. Taking time off during the day, means doing the work later that night.

Having said that, I've just landed back in the office after one week in the Tunisian sun. A week spent by the pool/beach side in sunny Sousse. Loads of sun, water, food and sleep. No computer, no thoughts of work. It was great!

Before taking off to Sousse I went to the more northern parts of Sweden to see Iggy Pop live [link to review in Swedish with some great pictures]. This 72 year old, still going strong dude is still really cool. I've never seen him live before, and I was positively surprised by his vitality and that fact that his powerful, deep voice is still there. I'm happy I went all those miles to see him!

My personal music memory from Sousse will definitely be this one. Artmasta featuring Mayssa & Dropholics. It was spinning every day by the pool people and it really got stuck in my brain.



The teenager was surprisingly social on this trip, but didn't share the same like in music. Her latest tracks for sharing are:

Wombats - Cheetah Tongue
Correspondents - Washington Square
Rat Boy - Oh No
I Prevail - DOA

Music I never thought I'd listen to...

As mentioned, I listen to music. A lot of music.  I also get to hear music I didn't even know I would like, all thanks to the teenie weenie in the family. For instance:

Panic! At The Disco - This has been playing in this house for I don't know how long. Truly exciting moment not only for her when we travelled to Düsseldorf to see them live (and buy shitloads of merchandise). Quite interesting to discover that I knew the lyrics to almost every song, alhough having not listened to a single track by own choice. This was also a great moment to share with her and her two travelling friends. I queued with them for so many hours. They rushed to the front and I stayed seated. Seeing their faces and hearing their soar voices after the show was great. It's amazing what music does to you! This is a video from that same concert.

And who knew I'd spend almost a full year listening to the soundtrack to the musical Hamilton, on heavy rotation? That led us to go to London, where she and a friend went to see the musical. I regret I didn't go.

Finally, hours and hours on Spotify with the soundtrack to The Book Of Mormon, after another little trip to London (I love London!). I didn't see that musical either, which I also regret big time!

Saturdays - day for rest

We'll, we'd better get going, right?

Weekends, especially at summer, I don't see much of my partner. He's addicted. His drug of choice - golf. I can hear you now. "He's into rock and metal. Golf is NOT rock'n'roll!" I can tell you've not read this piece...
I don't golf. I used to, but I had to visit a naprapath after every game, so I had to stop. My weekends are reserved for resting. The less I have to do on my weekends, the better. Working as your own in music business means working almost 24/7. Weekends are my free time. I rest. I lay on my sofa, totally shameless about not lifting a finger. The ultimate form of recreation.
16-year old daughter on summer leave from school, is barely leaving her room. Besides her love for music, she has a somewhat unhealthy fling with her computer. She's a screen girl, she has some social issues and doesn't fancy people much. But boy does she love music!

This is five recommended tracks by the teenager right now:

• Half*alive Runaway (with an awesome video)
• Yungblud "Parents" - also see the video, he's so visual!
• Palaye Royale "Fuckin' With My Head"
• Blame Candy "Power Player"
• Simple Creatures "Special"

The Male Dinousaur prefers to listen to the following right now:

• Heilung, that just released an album called Futha. 

Finally, me - The Female Dinousaur - don't live a day without these:

• Blanco Brown - The Git Up - much because of the video and the fly dancing! 
• Love Fame Tragedy - My Cheating Heart  and yes, the video is awesome, of course. 
• Awkwrd - Deja Vu - Swedish female producer/artist trio. Debut-single out yesterday, that I happened to stumble across. Love it!

Music - a big part of our family

Music is such a big part of our family. It's there, constantly.

We're a family of three, consisting of me, my husband and our teenage daughter (16). Both me and my partner work in the music industry. My husband runs a label/music distribution company/record store, mainly working with rock and metal.
I run my own PR agency, I have a little record label and I co-manage a young male Swedish artist on the rise, who is right now about to sign a major record deal. I'm also about to form a new company together with three awesome women in the same industry. You'll probably hear more about that in time.
And the teenager has - not surprisingly - developed a massive interest for music; she's curious and quite picky and I've more and more discovered that what she likes, I get to listen to a lot... Most of the time I really dig her taste in music, and she's also picked up some of my favorites, like Bowie and the soundtrack to the Hair movie.

And oh, yes. I almost forgot. There's also a cat. He's called Sauron. Not into music quite as much, though.