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New Audio: Smag På Dig Selv Teams Up with Viktoria Søndergaard on Thumping "Vik's Rawcore" @CannonballPR
New Audio: Smag På Dig Selv Teams Up with Viktoria Søndergaard on Thumping “Vik’s Rawcore”
With the release of last year’s full-length debut, SDPS, Copenhagen-based jazz punks Smag På Dig Selv (SPDS) — Oliver Lauridsen (tenor sax), Thorbjørn Øllgaard (baritone sax, bass sax, vocals) and Albert Holberg (drums) — firmly cemented their reputation as one of most boundary pushing groups out on the contemporary Danish scene. With a sound that’s an explosive, party starting mixture of acoustic techno, punk energy, jazz and 90s EDM, the Danish trio have begun to make the round of the international festival and touring circuit, playing sets at Roskilde Festival, SXSW, The Great Escape, Eurosonic, Winter Jazzfest NYC and Capital One City Parks Foundation SummerStage.  SPDS’s highly-anticipated sophomore album is slated for a March 2026 through Stunt Records. The album will feature the previously released, TMI Tammi-produced “Let’s Go!," a mix sneering, in-your-face punk attitude, ambient electronics, pulsing beats, thunderous Viking drumming and modal-influenced jazz that’s mind-bending, mischievously unhinged yet accessible and dance floor friendly.  The album's third and latest single, "Vik's Rawcore" sees the rising Danish trio collaborating with vibraphonist Viktoria Søndergaard on a track that's a mischievous blend of jazz lyricism and the relentless, industrial-inspired club rocking thump of drum 'n' bass while adding a gorgeous sense of counterpoint and texture. The composition was inspired by Oliver Lauridsen's time in Holland, where he became immersed in the local underground scene.
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November 29, 2025 at 6:00 AM
Kety Fusco's new single "BLOW" is damned good! Check out my review.
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“BLOW” – Kety Fusco
Kety Fusco is an unbridled and immensely talented musician. She has been dubbed the Queen of the Electric Harp. She was born in Pisa, Italy in 1995 and is Swiss by adoption. She has a Master of Art…
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February 21, 2025 at 4:04 PM
OK GO have just released a cracking new song, "A Stone Only Rolls Downhill". Check out my review.
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“A Stone Only Rolls Downhill” – OK GO
OK GO had their first chart success back in 2002. How the fuck was it that long ago? Back in those days they had a knack of mixing loads of genres. Everything from dance to slacker rock via punk an…
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January 30, 2025 at 10:04 PM
New Audio: SPDS Returns with Trance-inducing Banger "Like A Word I Never Knew" @CannonballPR
New Audio: SPDS Returns with Trance-inducing Banger “Like A Word I Never Knew”
With the release of 2024’s full-length debut, SDPS, Copenhagen-based acoustic techno/jazz punks Smag På Dig Selv (SPDS) — Oliver Lauridsen (tenor sax), Thorbjørn Øllgaard (baritone sax, bass sax, vocals) and Albert Holberg (drums) — firmly cemented their reputation as one of most boundary pushing groups in the contemporary Danish scene. With a sound that’s an explosive, party starting mixture of acoustic techno, punk energy, jazz and 90s EDM, the Danish trio have begun to make the round of the international festival and touring circuit, playing sets at Roskilde Festival, SXSW, The Great Escape, Eurosonic, Winter Jazzfest NYC and Capital One City Parks Foundation SummerStage.  SPDS’s highly-anticipated sophomore album This Is Why We Lost is slated for a March 2026 through Stunt Records. The album will feature the previously released, TMI Tammi-produced “Let’s Go!,” "Vik's Rawcore," which sees the trio collaborating with vibraphonist Viktoria Søndergaard, and the album's fourth and final, pre-release single "Like A Word I Never Knew." Arguably one of the darker songs on the album, "Like A Word I Never Knew," is a trance-inducing and forcefully propulsive club banger paired with a modal-era Miles Davis-like introspective lyricism. Recorded during the final phase of album sessions, "Like A Word I Never Knew," captures a moment of transition. As summer inevitably faded into yet another autumn and the band wrapped up their final shows of the season, they entered the studio with a noticeably calmer, more introspective energy. And the result is a track driven by focus, restraint and deep emotional weight. For the band, the song reflects the core ambition behind the forthcoming album: to create music that can exist within a trance or club-orientated setting while still carrying a strong melodic and narrative arc.
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January 22, 2026 at 4:00 AM
New Audio: Copenhagen's Smag På Dig Selv Shares Pulsing, Dance Floor Friendly "Let's Go!" @CannonballPR
New Audio: Copenhagen’s Smag På Dig Selv Shares Pulsing, Dance Floor Friendly “Let’s Go!”
With the release of last year's full-length debut, SDPS, Copenhagen-based jazz punks Smag På Dig Selv (SPDS) -- Oliver Lauridsen (tenor sax), Thorbjørn Øllgaard (baritone sax, bass sax, vocals) and Albert Holberg (drums) -- firmly cemented the trio's reputation as one of most boundary pushing groups out on the contemporary Danish scene. With a sound that's an explosive, party starting mixture of acoustic techno, punk energy, jazz and 90s EDM, the Danish trio have begun to make the round of the international festival and touring circuit, playing sets at Roskilde Festival, SXSW, The Great Escape, Eurosonic, Winter Jazzfest NYC and Capital One City Parks Foundation SummerStage. SPDS's highly-anticipated sophomore album is slated for a March 2026 through Stunt Records. The album's second and latest single, the TMI Tammi-produced "Let's Go!" The track is a mix of sneering, in-your-face punk attitude, ambient electronics, pulsing beats, thunderous Viking drumming and modal-influenced jazz that's mind-bending, mischievously unhinged yet accessible and dance floor friendly. "Let's Go!" was composed last October. The band retreated to Albert Holberg's 200 year-old summer cottage in the idyllic landscapes of North Zealand for a weeklong writing session. Originally, the plan was to create techno, but the autumnal, Bon Iver-like atmosphere shifted the overall mood. Instead, the trio leaned into simply being a band, playing together n silence and letting the music speak. And what would up emerging was a compromise between their initial intentions and a newfound urge to explore the idea of "ambient Viking band" -- brought to life with TMI Carmen's swaggering, maximalist production.
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October 17, 2025 at 6:00 PM
New Video: Blue Foundation Shares Yearning "Close to the Knife" @BFHome @CannonballPR
New Video: Blue Foundation Shares Yearning “Close to the Knife”
Founded back in 2000 by Danish singer/songwriter, multi-instrumentalist and producer Tobias Wilner, Blue Foundation was inspired by The Fall's Mark E. Smith's method of forming bands -- with Wilner recruiting a rotation lineup of musicians over the years to fuel creativity. But since 2010, the core lineup has been Wilner and Bon Rande, working between Crown Heights, Brooklyn and Copenhagen. Throughout the transatlantic project's two-plus decade history, they've been renowned for crafting immersive soundscapes with emotive vocals and intricate production that draws from dream pop and electronic music that evokes melancholy and reflection while touching upon introspective themes. The band has cemented their distinct sound through a series of critically applauded albums including 2007's Life of a Ghost, 2012's In My Mind I Am Free and 2016's Blood Moon, while collaborating with an eclectic range of artists and producers, including Mew's Jonas Bjerre, Au Revoir Simone's Erika Spring, Findlay Brown, DJ Krush, Sara Savery and Wang Wen among a growing list of others. Adding to a growing international profile, the band's work has been featured in Michael Mann's 2006 Miami Vice and The Vampire Diaries. The band's "Eyes on Fire," was included in the Twilight soundtrack. Additionally, their work has been sampled on Lil Durk's "Fly High," feat., French Montana and Young Thug's "She Notice." They also cowrote Machine Gun Kelly's "Taurus." "Close to the Knife" is the first single from the transatlantic outfit's forthcoming album. Written by Wilner and Rande and performed by Helena Gao and Wilner, "Close to the Knife" is one-part Scott Walker-era orchestral psych pop, one-part dream pop anchored around a lush yet atmospheric arrangement featuring mellotron flute, soaring strings, strummed guitar and gentle bursts of feedback pared with yearning and dueling girl-boy vocals, which gives the song a fittingly old-timey feel. The song tells a familiar and bittersweet tale of love and longing for a connection that for can never fully materialize and will always be a bit unrequited. For both narrators, their lover disappears as quickly as they appear, adding a subtle sense of frustration and heartache to the song. Directed by the band's Wilner with cinematougrahy by Hannah Bertram and Erma Feng, the video showcases parallel stories of yearning: We see Tobias Wilner wandering the quiet and desolate late night streets of New York City while Helena Gao explores the vibrant yet isolating alleys of Shanghai. The video emphasizes the ache and longing at the core of the song.
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December 16, 2024 at 9:00 PM