At first sight, this is rather a blog posting for people outside Germany. At the time of reading, German residents will anyway already know who won the German edition of American Idol – or Deutschland sucht den Superstar (short: DSDS), how it is called here. I am not a TV blogger at all – but I felt to share the winner and some thoughts from my side as well. And it is likely the biggest story in the German week of music. But first, time to celebrate the winner:
Jan-Marten Block – The German Idol 2021
Jan-Marten Block does not feel like a superstar at first sight. The singer, who was born in 1995 and from there on lived in the very North of Germany, close to the Danish border, however, convinced with a dark, raspy rock voice. In a final show with four candidates, just 33.38 per cent of the public / phone votes were sufficient to become the German Superstar in 2021. I feel that a huge factor for this was his final song, which was the single any of the four candidates released the Friday before the final show (2nd April 2021). To me, Never Not Try was by far the best song in the final – vice versa, I felt that two candidates had no chance to win the show. A bit of proud to say that this track has a touch of a country rock song, doesn’t it.
Jan-Marten also was part of the (in my point of view) best performance of the whole 18th season of Deutschland sucht den Superstar, when he performed the German rock ballad Halt Dich an mir fest by Revolverheld feat. Marta Jandova in the recall at Mykonos, Greece, together with Pia-Sophie Remmel, who did not make it through the semifinals:
Jan-Marten’s victory has been a surprise to me before the final, but he did the best performance in this second live broadcasted episode of the German talent show. His other songs in this show were Bruises (Lewis Capaldi) and Human (Ran’N’Bone Man). Fun fact is that this was not his first appearance in a music talent show. Even though Universal is selling his single as a debut, he in fact was part of the German X-Factor finals in 2018. Below is his performance of Santuary by Welshly Arms:
DSDS 2020/21 – The Finalists
To me, the definite favorite before the live show was Karl Jeroboan. The artist passed some stages of the song as the golden record holder by Dieter Bohlen. He became second with 28.21 per cent of the votes. During the complete season of the 18th season, he continuously did great performance – and his single Where We Were is not that bad as well. I still feel that Never Not Try has been significantly better as a song.
Kevin Jenewein won the semifinal, but not the final
I feel, the most fooled artist in the final show was Kevin Jenewein. He has in fact been at DSDS for the third time, but did not make it to the live shows twice. He felt to have quite some support from social media as well as from the candidates not making it through the semis. Jenewein even won the semifinal with 23.32%, but could just add a small share of votes in the final (25.81%). One key factor for this to me is the super-thin pop song Hurricane, which can neither keep up with Where we were nor the winner’s song.
Last, but not least, there was Starian McCoy, who just passed the semifinal as fourth-placed artist and got the significantly lowest share of votes in the final (12.60%). I feel that his ballad Hold Me in the final was not that bad, but the mixing did not really reflect that he has such a great vocal potential.
Some other candidates of “DSDS 2021”
One of my favorites was Pia-Sophie Remmel – unfortunately, the show’s YouTube just shows her casting performance (Marathon by Helene Fischer). As the fifth-placed in the final, she barely missed the final showdown by some 0.5 per cent of the votes (you should also state that she just got 0.02% more votes than sixth placed Michelle Patz). In general, the boys felt to make this season – there were just two female artists in the semfinal.
Apart from that, two candidates of this season will stay in mind in Germany. One of them is Shada Ali, who somehow really felt to have learned to sing during the recall shows in Greece. Is voice is one of the most characteristic ones I ever listened to – which does not necessarily mean that it is a good one. Still, it was amazing to see that he grew during the show. Similarly, Claudia Haas, who clearly stated she is aiming for fame, developed during the show significantly, but did not even make it to the shows recorded on the islans.
The Strange Stories of DSDS 2021
First of all, I felt it is interesting to introduce my international audience to the German show. Secondly, the show was simply remarkable due to all the things happening. Nothing is more characteristic to this season that the cup given to Jan-Marten Block as a winner immediately broke at the winner’s ceremony. Did really nobody check the cup beforehand? One of many strange stories of this season:
- In fact, the auditions have been recorded in summer 2020. At that time, the jury consisted of four members. One of them, a German Schlager singer, compared Germany’s Covid-19 measures with Nazi time concentration camps. He was eliminated from the show – they even pixelized him in all the audition shows. He did not go on to Mykonos
- Shada Ali was a big topic. I really loved this guy – but you have to say that Dieter Bohlen was quite a visionary to push for him being in the show. Right at the point in time when you felt he could become a singer (i.e. before the live shows), the jury eliminated him. Have they been afraid of the public vote?
- Jury member Maite Kelly, who recently released her Schlager album Hello!, went through quite a lot of changes in the way the public saw her. Especially towards the end of the Mykonos, when one of the candidates, Katharina Eisenblut, who fell in love with another candidate, Marvin Ventura, during the show, named Kelly’s opinion “Bullshit” (no translation), the public reception of the US-Irish turned significantly from a caring “German Idol Mother” to a very negative image.
- Eisenblut is worth an own bullet point as well. She was frequently shown in tears and asking to leave the show in the recall recordings. In Instagram live sessions, she might be a bit of naive, but not that mentally weak. If she was really the way RTL presented her, it would have been scandalous not to take her out of the show for medical reasons.
- I better don’t comment on the fashion of the candidates, especially in the final show. Matter of taste, maybe… There were many complaints about the sound quality as well.
And then there is… Dieter Bohlen
There were a lot of these stories (apart from the normal candidates’ villa trouble) in that season. But one was especially strange – and inglorious for the show. Before the live shows, the broadcasting channel RTL announced that Dieter Bohlen, who was the head of the show since its beginning, will no longer be part of the jury in the following seasons. So far so good. Bohlen officially called to be ill for the semifinal and final live shows and has been replaced by Thomas Gottschalk, one of the most well-known show hosts in Germany. Furthermore, RTL replaced the host of these two shows: Alexander Klaws, winner of the very first Deutschland Sucht den Superstar season, was not able to present these two shows, in which Dieter Bohlen did not play a role at all. He did not even produce any of the candidate’s singles, which is really remarkable.
Even more, when 2020 season winner Roman Roselly right before the winning ceremony stated that Dieter Bohlen is missing and deserved to be here after 18 years, he was turned down by substitute TV host Oliver Geissen and Maite Kelly. German Idol / Deutschland sucht den Superstar and Das Supertalent, equiv. to Germany’s Got Talent, are two shows which Dieter Bohlen made huge in Germany. I feel the way the heart of the show has been kicked out is just tasteless. This will stay in my mind when I think of DSDS 2021.
Title Picture: Jan-Marten Block – Never Not Try – Single Cover.
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I'm in Finland this week, featuring two floorball match. However, the Nordic country is not represented in my Songs of the ...
After my previous edition of the Songs of the Week more or less covering two weeks, this one is first full ...
It all started in August 2019 - and it has become a key delivery of Flyctory.com since then. The Country ...
I featured schlager artist Marie Reim twice in album reviews already. In 2020, I shared my view of her debut ...
After I skipped last week's Songs of the Week (and merge the three songs I had for it into this post), ...
Time to look back to the Flyctory.com year of music, part 2. In my 30th December 2024 posting, I am ...
The first one of my Best of postings at the end of the year is always reserved for looking back to my ...
There are not too many bands who dare to release albums a few days before Christmas. The more I was ...
These weeks at the end of December always tend to make me a bit of nervous. Will there be sufficient ...
There are just a few bands, which use Christmas time for album releases. The O'Reillys and the Paddyhats are a ...
The German artist Alless. (with a dot at the end) already had a major social media success this year. The ...
I am still struggling with the Christmas presents - I am really late with this thing this year. There are ...
The Christmas season also offers the opportunity to focus on some artists, who might not make it into Flyctory.com reviews ...
6th December is St. Nicholas' Day in Germany. Children are getting some sweets, if they put (well-cleaned) shoes in front ...
My list of new song releases is really short this week again. There were not that few new releases, but ...
German artist Mense traveled through Spain for half a year. It was only himself, his wife and his dog Angus, ...
I had a quite turbulent and emotional November 2024. The more, I appreciated good music. Here is my overview of ...
Happy Thanksgiving (especially to my North American followers)! While the North American music market is currently rather concentrating on Black ...
In July 2023, I reviewed a very unique album making it to a full 5.0/5.0 rating on Flyctory.com. Germany's pop ...
Ladies and gentlemen (and all the others of course as well), we got it: here is my first Songs of the ...
Und was, wenn nicht ("And what if not") is the second solo EP release by David Gramberg. However, the German ...
The holiday season is typically also prime time for Best of albums. Lauschangriff is a collection of the biggest hits of Heinz Rudolf ...
Are you already counting down the days to Christmas? You definitely feel an impact on the music industry of the ...
Sometimes, when I scan new music releases, I run into songs or albums, which simply make me smile. One of ...
The first full week of November definitely kicks off the album season of the year. I have been loaded with ...
Halloween in North America and a public holiday in the rather catholic parts of Europe - the music industry has ...
My new way of presenting my Country Music Picks, i.e. having a focus on new songs, which I just did not ...
Just two months until Christmas. Times are getting colder (at least on the Northern hemisphere), people spend more time inside ...
Hungary this weekend! After my trip to Indonesia, I am back in Hungary after such a long time of absence ...
It is already three and a half yeas ago since German schlager artist Vivien Gold released her most recent album ...
The German band Suzan Köcher's Suprafon was in the news recently for a very tragic reason. While the band was ...
Propaganda defined the German synth-pop scene in the 1980's. After three break-ups, they are back with a new album in ...
I am writing this post from Abu Dhabi Airport (AUH), I will likely publish it from Doha (DOH). A cool ...
I am currently on my first trip ever to the Southern Hemisphere. As expected, the German music market on 4th ...
The country music September 2024 is in the books. At least in regards of my Country Music Picks, which feature ...
I loved Bell Book & Candle in the late 1990's. The German band from Berlin especially stroke with their debut ...
I had a very tough business trip to Paris this week. Nonetheless, I somehow managed to compile this list of ...
My Songs of the Week fascinate me not too rarely by myself. I collect potential candidates for the playlist and release ...
"Stand Up! Keep going!" is the (translated) title of the new album by Sebastian Krumbiegel. The featured singles of the ...
Maybe it is because I had to do some long evenings to prepare my Media Review coverage for the weekend of ...
Damn, I miss the Faroe Islands. I had a lovely weekend there last week. In the meantime, the weather and ...
Medieval music, metal style - the German band In Extremo is really successful with this rather rare blending of genres ...
I does not happen too often that I set up a new edition for my Songs of the Week and decide ...
Quite a short list this time - as a couple of releases I got simply did not meet my criteria ...
I still don't really manage creating a proper backlog of already prepared posting. Thus, the last weeks have been very ...
Stanovsky is "greenish" - at least if you base that statement on the title his new album Grünlich. On 30th ...
After I had a country and country rock block the weekend before, it is time to add some harder tunes ...
In my Songs of my Life postings, I love to share songs with you, which you might not have in ...
With Dear Robin, I am having a look at a German rock band in this review. On 30th August 2024, ...
Country-rock made in Germany - there are not too many acts in my home country who are able to deliver ...
Time for another episode of my Songs of the Week. This time, there is a fine mix of different genres again, ...
Meg Pfeiffer popped up here and there in my Flyctory.com postings. On 23rd August 2024, the German singer-songwriter, who is ...
The final straight of the promotion campaign for Anna-Carina Woitschack's 2024 album kicked off with a very explicit event. You ...
This week is in focus of Jessica Lynn. I saw her show near Cologne on Monday and visited another concert ...
This edition of my Songs of the Week feels like a ballad edition. There are a lot of gentle and emotional song ...
After I had quite an intense series of concerts in May 2024, there has been quite a break in my ...
Summer vacation season in Germany, national holiday in Switzerland - the music industry obviously felt (or was right) that this ...
My Country Music Picks are back! I just felt that there is so much more music I want to cover ...
What a week - I returned from my tennis coverage in Newport, now I am at the Olympic Games in ...
Ben / Benjamin Moske is a quite well-known artist in the Northern German singer-songwriter scene. His songs are influenced by ...
I am loaded with tennis work this week. The time in Newport, Rhode Island, featuring Indian tennis and the induction ...
On 14th June 2024, I featured Marc Albrecht for the first time in the episode of my Songs of the Week ...
My bags and cameras are packed, I am ready to head to Newport for the Infosys Tennis Hall of Fame ...
This week, my Songs of the Week are full of pop tracks. There is a lot of sports coverage on Flyctory.com ...
Rather early before the release date of 5th July 2024, I ran into the EP Neue Wege by German artist Jonas Green ...
On the weekend of 5th July 2024, I feature some interesting releases by German artists. One of them is T.G ...
Bad Temper Joe is one of the finest German blues artists. I have covered his releases twice already, One Can Wreck ...
I feature athletics events three weeks in a row before I head to Newport in Rhode Island for tennis coverage ...
Somehow, I can never now if the upcoming week is a "good one" or "bad one" regarding new releases. While ...
The press kit to the debut album Integration describes the music of Command0 as an exploration of spacey synths, big beats and ...
Why is already the second EP release by the German artist and band Veigh Malow. The release of their debut EP ...
Quality over quantity: I indeed had quite a bunch of candidates for this week's Songs of the Week. However, there are ...
Doing hard rock with a saxophone? Human Zoo simply do it! On 14th June 2024, some eight years after their ...
Atlantis Drive is a brand new hard rock band. The roots are from Germany, but the band features international band ...
Publishing my Songs of the Week right between two Rock of Ages tour legs would suggest that the song is full of energetic ...
On a promotion platform, I ran into the album Exit To Insight by the German band Deafcon5. The album is already ...
Marianne Rosenberg is truly a legend in the German schlager and pop scene. Her career is impressing. However, I never ...
This week, I am in Munich, watching a couple of Rock of Ages shows. The week is more busy and demanding ...
In 2010, Germany fell in love with a 19-year old lady. Lena managed to do what somehow felt impossible for ...
I follow Andreas Dorau and his music since the mid-1990's. The more I was happy to be able to cover ...
I so far featured the German pop artist Sasha only once, with his children album Toto und der Mann im Mond ...
When scanning new releases as of 24th May 2024, I was running into a very interesting release by a German ...
This time, selecting the leading track of my Songs of the Week was really troublesome. Three candidates have already been released ...
I already featured the band Ochmoneks twice in my Songs of the Week, on 9th June and on 7th July 2023 ...
Returning from the World Floorball Championships in Finland, heading directly to a business trip to Paris - this week was ...
Despite the World Floorball Championships coverage, I of course want to keep my Songs of the Week updated. Due to the ...
There is a lot of traveling around during the next weeks. Unfortunately, I could not cover some concerts, which I ...
Snow in April! After I had some snowfall after the Swiss Floorball Superfinals (my coverage of the women's match / ...
Taylor Swift, Pearl Jam and many more - this weekend is packed with great new album releases. Nonetheless, the week ...
It's been quite tough for me this week to keep Flyctory.com up and running. I had a stronger cold this ...
This week, I am returning from a really cool Pittsburgh Penguins ice hockey trip along the East Coast. Maybe that's ...
The German rock band is already active since more than two decades. Not too surprisingly, the band is having quite ...
That's all? That's roughly I thought when I finally had a rather short long list of candidates for my Songs of ...
Lautstärke is a German band, which is doing German lyrics rock songs with a touch of punk. On 29th March ...
I am closing my reviews as of 22nd March 2024 with a German artist. Being Anne (typically written in small ...
After I shared my Bochum Rock of Ages thoughts with you already, I am just about to have eight show streak ...
Frank Renfordt is back - and this time he is wearing his cowboy hat again! The Cumberland River Project releases ...
The German band Brokof is active since 2007. They established in the German music scene and already released five studio ...
A lot of traveling is ahead of me. I just returned from a trip to Bochum, watching my first two ...
I typically receive quite a lot of jazz promotion. However, I rarely find albums and EPs which I really enjoy ...
The Cumberland River Project is on the final straight towards a new release. On 22nd March 2023, Frank Renfordt and ...
Germany is sunk in strikes of different kinds, mainly in transportation business. I have been impacted this week by that ...
The name is already suggesting: this one is the debut album of a band named Pawn Painters. The German act ...
Which genre are you thinking about when the arrangement solely consists of a piano, a cello and a vocalist? If ...
I struggled a bit compiling the Songs of the Week this time. The partial flight miles for my current trip ...
In June 2021, I shared the album Guns Against Liberty. The band behind that album is the Hamburg-based melodic hardcore act ...
With Be Okay To Not Be Okay, I present you another debut album from Germany. While you might not know the ...
February 2024 is quite an intense month for me. Even though the trips I have planned and done are comparably ...
Coming back from the United Arab Emirates and about to head to Malaysia soon - thus, some really interesting experiences ...
I always enjoy sharing some new German artists with you. This time, I listened to a debut album by the ...
Carnvial in Cologne - and I am in he United Arab Emirates this weekend. It is rather party season, no ...
I am always a bit of extra-flattered when my most frequently used promotion platform shows an album by a German ...
I am always flattered when there are new, interesting German acts who are releasing country music. This week on Flyctory.com ...
January 2024 has already passed and we are running into the first February 2024 edition of my weekly release radar ...
Especially after I reviewed the amazing album Das ist keine Übung in October 2023, I was really looking forward to see Alex ...
Slope are doing a quite rare mix of metal, hip hop and electronic sounds. The band developed their style during ...
Quite early before the release of Reliquien, I receved the first press information about the debut album by German artist ...
This review is about some singer-songwriter pop from Germany - more precisely: quite from the Rheinland area I grew up ...
In the relations of my home town Cologne, we are celebrating a big Songs of the Week anniversary with this edition. My ...
After a few mentions in my Songs of the Week, I was really looking forward to listen to the new album ...
This week, I am dealing with quite a lot of music postings during the week. There are two reasons for ...
There is hardly any more controversial topic between my wife and I than music by Andreas Dorau: while I feel ...
This time, my Songs Of The Week consist of 14 new releases as of this week. The Christmas break is definitely ...
Andreas Dorau is one of the artists I follow for the longest time in my life. In 1997, just when ...
While I still had a rather short list of album releases, there was already quite a lot of stuff for ...
Yeah, I am still more of an album person. I feel that a long-play is still able to tell stories ...
It's time to look back to . After I shared my new format My Year in Travel with you the first time, ...
Irish folk rock made in Franconia, Germany? Fiddler's Green proof that this can be quite a success. With The Green ...
It's Christmas Eve, the main day of the Christmas celebrations in Germany. However, all the holiday songs seem having been ...
I already featured the Nuremberg-based band Strife 85 twice in my Songs of the Week this year. Right before the holiday, ...
Typically, there are two sorts of album reviews at Flyctory.com: I received the vast majority of reviews as a promo ...
The Christmas countdown is steadily running to zero - which more and more means that new releases get sparse. I ...
A vacation album? The title Urlaub in der Bredouille sounds like a road trip album to some French region... But ...
A big name in the schlager business: 41 years after Andreas Martin releases his very first studio album, he is ...
Aufbruch is a very interesting EP release from Germany as of 15th December 2023. The band recording it, Ticket To Happiness ...
Not only during the carnival season, music is a core part of the identify of my home town Cologne. Thus, ...
John Garner - this musical act name sounds like a solo artist, but is in fact a quintet. The German ...
Unfortunately, I could not complete the Country Christmas Playlist this year due to technical issues. However, since the days become ...
I am a bit of angry as the tool I loved to use to scan for new country releases does ...
December, when the frequency of album releases significantly decreases, is also a time for me to have some more outside-of-the-box ...
Even though the soil in Monheim was quite muddy, the Ben Zucker concert I had there in July was definitely ...
Especially during the last months, I felt again how much interesting music is coming from Hamburg. The city in the ...
Willow Parlo's Facebook profile states With the window open, Willow Parlo turns the backdrop of the depressing and monotonous city ...
Afrer his very interesting album release Going Solo, I was really curious about how Gergor McEwan would be alike live on ...
After my previous Songs of the Week editions were rather pop-alike, I was rather surprised that my release radar this time is ...
The clumsy yet unswerving attempts of being an artist - that's how Jules Atlas describes himself on his Facebook profile ...
London, Faroe Islands, another trip tp England, Sweden, USA - the last weeks of 2023 involve quite a bit of ...
I am typically glad to run into new bands and interesting acts. A few weeks before the release, I received ...
For the music review weekend of 24th November 2023, I picked a bunch of rather new German acts in my ...
After their debut album Hollow Throne has already been successful, the German melodic post hardcore band Maelfoy is releasing their sophomore album ...
Oh, Christmas is approaching quickly now. A huge number of songs I scanned for my Songs of the Week this time ...
When I started listening to the album UWE of the German band Frollein Motte, I liked their cheeky and straight sound. You ...
How could I ignore am album starting with a (for me) very special song released on a (for me) very ...
I had a short trip to Hamburg this weekend, watching my last Nacht der Gitarren show (see my Reutlingen show report) ...
Sonia Liebing established in the wider range of well-known German schlager artists the last years. On her homepage, she is ...
Finn & Jonas are twins. They are doing German indie-pop songs. After they grew regionally and have a national fan ...
I had a quite intensive week, exploring several interesting rail trips as well as being back in Pittsburgh and in ...
Source is the fourth album by the German band Alphawezen. However, the most recent album release has happened fourteen years before ...
I always love being able to look into new names, new sounds, new bands. This one is about the rock ...
Roberta John Joni Mitchell is a Canadian-US-American singer-songwriter, who majorly did folk and pop music in her career. She has won ...
Luke is a German artist and band, who are doing blues rock and Americana rock music. After two EP releases, ...
Halloween is not that much of a big deal in Germany - but some parts of my home country have ...
40 years of Doro Pesch on stage - I really feel a bit of bad that I am not in ...
Myle is a rather new artist from Southern Germany. On 20th October 2023, the pop artist is releasing his debut ...
Just about a month after I saw Randall King at the Cologne Club Volta, I was back there again on ...
I spent almost the entire week at work in Dublin at one of our offices. Quite an intense time, which ...
Finally, he is in Germany! I was so excited to see Jim Kimo West at the Nacht der Gitarren ("Night of the ...
Despite the album Collections being his debut one, the Southwest German Sebastian Schaffer is not a "newbie" at all. He ...
Maybe, due to the national holiday in Germany, the list of new songs was rather short on the platform I ...
It's already five years ago since Antje Schomaker released her debut album Von Helden und Halunken. The feature singles to her ...
In 2021, I introduced you to Alex Diehl the first time. That year, he released the amazing EP Die Songs, die ...
Unfortunately, I had to kick out quite a lot of songs from my list, which I really liked. They just ...
Sacropolis is a German-French indie-pop project. However, the members are not coming from the Saarland or any similar close-to-the border ...
Big release day for Collapse Under The Empire: with Recurring, they don't just publish their tenth studio album overall, the German ...
I recently ran into the music of German artist They Called Me Phoebe for the first time. The more I ...
Schrobenhausen North of Munich is typically known for as one of the German centers of asparagus farming. The city is ...
There is somehow always some sort of "topic" behind each and every Songs of the Week episode. If I would pick one ...
The story of the hard rock project Rising Wings is indeed a rather unique one: the band was already active ...
The Songs Of The Week is one of my favorite categories of posts on my blog. Even I don't know how the ...
Wow - I had so many albums this week. Even if I skipped all travel posts and do the regular ...
The Blackwhitecolorful is a band from my home town Cologne. After a 2020 album release, Brace for Impact is their sophomore ...
If you regularly follow my Songs of the Week, you already know the upcoming German artist Bellucci Boi. I introduced you ...
September 2023 will be a quite busy monh. If I finally receive all press passes I envisage to get, there ...
In March 2020, just at the beginning of the Covid-19 pandemic, Melanie Wiegmann went to the Maltese island of Gozo ...
One evening with six different artists? The opening night of the Heart To Heart concert series definitely came with high ...
When I prepared for the review of this album, I read in one magazine article that Gregor McEwen is a ...
I have quite intense weeks at work, not too many thrills on the Flyctory.com side. The next weeks will have ...
The title of the album Guten Morgen, schönes Leben translates to "Good morning, beautiful life". The artist who wrote it is German ...
This weekend, I have been traveling through England, doing some musical-chasing. As mixed as the stuff I have been doing ...
Actually, we never stopped playing are the first words to the press notes to Back on Track, the comeback album of ...
Madsen is indeed a German family rock band. Three of the six band members are brothers, the band name is ...
Very often, a song I feature as a Song Of My Life is also a track which made me listen ...
I am still relaxing from all the trips I had during the last weeks. Nonetheless, things are just busy and ...
Rap and pop music - Mo-Torres is one of the more modern style musicians of the Cologne music scene. On ...
After some rather intense week of traveling, I feel rather happy to spend the next two weekends in and around ...
Turn of Tides or Where the Waves Come From - that's quite an album title, ain't it? The artist behind ...
It is some three years ago since I reviewed the album 555 by the German synth-pop project X-Perience. I was ...
Why not doing some jazz-pop in summer? Quite early before the release, I had the opportunity to listen to Sequel by ...
Sasha did so many genres already. He is majorly known as a pop artist, but also did rockabilly records with ...
The Monheimer Sommer is a small series of open air concerts, driven by the city in the Rheinland region. Apart from ...
Some interesting indie-pop from Germany: I already featured Santans in my Song of the Week postings. However, on 28th July 2028, ...
When I reviewed the album now by the German rock band Fury in the Slaughterhouse in April 2021, it has been their ...
While I had quite an intense week in regards of scanning country music new releases, the German and international music ...
Electronic music is typically neither the genre I listen to personally nor the type of music which frequently represented in ...
Some classic hard rock by a new German band project? I got curious when I ran into Rise Up, the debut ...
Newcomers and established artists, rock and schlager, party songs and deep messages - I feel that this edition of my ...
Tom Astor is likely the most important living artist of the German country music scene. In 2023, he did not ...
Some surprise in this week's posting: I selected a very special instrumental track to lead my Songs of the Week ...
Closing day in Pfulllendorf - after Saturday came with a long line-up and a lot of acts, the musical side ...
Motorbikes and good music - I am having a really good time in Pfullendorf at the Lake Constance region in ...
After the great musical warm-up on the first day of the Seepark Biker Days 2023 in Pfullendorf, Saturday was something ...
My first full festival coverage with Flyctory.com - I was really nervous while sitting on the train to Stuttgart and ...
The closer you get to summer and vacation time, the easier it is for comparably minor acts to have a ...
Traveling out of nowehere: I compiled this set of songs in Swansea in Whales, watching the very last Rock of ...
Time to add some more death metal to the Media Reviews of Flyctory.com: after the May 2021 release A Hill To Die Upon, ...
I always enjoy introducing you to emerging artists. One of the reviews I feature about a rather less known artist ...
I typically rather focus presenting new and emerging act in my Song of the Week, but this time, the list of ...
I received so many great albums this week - no chance to process a fair fraction of them. However, the ...
In November 2022, right after my birthday, a German world-class band was in focus of my Flyctory.com coverage. One day ...
Due to my recent illness, I have to reduce my travel activity in June significantly. Nonetheless, there will be ten Rock ...
It's already some four years ago since Silbermond released their last album Schritte. Even though the chart placements were fine, it ...
I have struggled quite much with health issues this week - which also prevented me to travel to some British Rock ...
Some harder rock from Southern Germany: Grenzenlos have been growing their fan base during the last years significantly. The have ...
I love to have a look to German artists, which might not be in key focus of the media. Sören ...
When I first googled of "Palila", I ran into a cute yellow-white bird. Palila from Hamburg, however, are less cute ...
I received the album Maniac by the Munich post-hardcore band Marathonmann way before its release on 19th May 2023. Short message: I ...
Catharsis by pain - that's a quote I read frequently about the Hamburg doom metal bnd Moor. For their debut ...
After the volume of songs in the last two weeks has been rather thin, this week's Songs of the Week comes with ...
At the German version of The Voice Kids, a ten year old girl quickly persuaded the coaches in the blind auditions ...
I did a bit of an ESC week this week, featuring Guildo Horn's Guildo hat Euch lieb! in my Songs of the Week and ...
The album Therapy In Melody was definitely one I was looking forward to. Two of the featured singles by the band Indecent ...
There are these days in life which you remember. The days you exactly remember what you did on that day ...
I am quite surprised about a rather short list of new songs today. Might be because of Labour Day on ...
There is quite some blues focus on the releases I opted to share with you released as of 5th May ...
The artist name Sebel is a short form for the civil name of the artist, Sebastian Niehoff. He is a ...
From the Highwayman to the Bluesman: about a year ago, I reviewed the album Highwayman by Tino Z.On 5th May 2023, the German is back ...
As I told you in previous postings, I initially gather candidates for my Songs of the Week, before I narrow the ...
I am always glad to present you German artists, who have a touch of international-style Americana and country music influences ...
Just at the end of the week in which I covered the concert of the Wellerman band The Longest Johns, I ran ...
This April 2023 episode of my Spotlight interviews is one I have been a bit of nervous about, indeed. After ...
As I am having some quite intense travels ahead of me, I currently try to prepare as much contents for ...
Reading sessions, artsexhibitions... and concerts - if you look at the tour dates of Kati von Schwerin, you already see ...
In 2018, four Bristol guys recorded an old New Zealand shanty, which was about 150 years old at that time ...
After some rather intense traveling, I am glad that there is just a short trip this week. I concentrated on ...
While I struggled with their self-titled debut album Musa Dagh, some other critics had a completely different view about the first ...
Despite the album name Hamburg, the German indie-pop band North West is in fact from the very North West of Germany, ...
Not too many releases due to the Easter week. The week was dominated by my Rock of Ages coverage. First of all, ...
I had quite a lot of rock music recently on Flyctory.com. Especially German artists made it quite frequently into my ...
I have to give in: the red carpet is not my favorite location. Nonetheless, I felt very thankful that after ...
Pop, rock, schlager and much more - I feel that this week's Songs of the Week is a really nice mix of ...
Vanessa Mai is back with a new album. However, the German artist with Croatian roots is going back to her ...
Das ist die Wahrheit - "That's the Truth" is the title of the 2023 album of the rock band VIVA ...
I have to give in: the song leading this week's Songs of the Week might also be a candidate for the ...
Four decades of guitar riffs - the hard rockers / metalheads Black Hawk already have quite a long history. The ...
After a lot of tour-chasing Weird Al Yankovic and watching the Pittsburgh Penguins, the first weekend home after quite a ...
Technically, I had already closed the list of potential reviews as of 24th March 2023. But then came Sophia and ...
Leony is one of the most interesting emerging artists in the German pop music market. She is currently part of ...
I am always impressed where the Songs of the Week each weekend finally end of. This time, for example, i have been ...
Sometimes, it is easy to select the leading track of my Songs of the Week: I had two hot candidates, but ...
On 10th February 2023, I ran into the single release All my Songs by the German duo Mael & Jonas (in fact, ...
After my most recent edition of my Songs of the Week majorly featured German artists and a lot of pop, my song ...
Wolfgang Petry is back: just about one and a half years after Auf das Leben and half a year after Crosswalk to ...
After I have been quite impressed by her recent development, I was quite curious about 24-1, the new album by German ...
They started as a school band in my home town and gained global reputation: AnnenMayKantereit released their fourth album Es ist ...
He is having the unofficial nickname The singing Gentleman's Cake and had a huge song about a cat's toilet - Helge Schneider ...
I love gathering songs for Songs of the Week, as the result is so unpredictable, even for me, until short before ...
Endlevel are a German band, who mix thrash and death metal elements. On 24th February 2023, they released a new ...
I was quite surprised when I received the press kit for Antonia Kubas' debut EP: Liebe und Musik ("Love and music") ...
The music of OH FYO! is described as a mixture of pop and hip hop elements. I received their album Level ...
Medieval hard rock, Gothic, dance music? Tanzwut is definitely one of these bands in the German music scene, which are ...
Today is a very special day to me: Weird Al Yankovic is playing is first-ever concert in Germany tonight, at ...
Damn - just when I had a massive travel volume, the number of new releases of all genres went up ...
I can't really you explain you my sympathy... But I ran into Kammer III, the latest album by Malte Vief ...
Ireland, the United Kingdom, Belgium, the Netherlands, USA, Canada - and of course Germany lay ahead of me for the ...
An album with a bunny - how could I not give a review of Warlord, the album by the stoner rock band ...
I am kicking off the most stressful part of the year, quite likely. This week, I headed off to Peterborough ...
The Donots have steadily grown and became an established part of the German rock music scene. They also had quite ...
Time to present you some music from Germany this weekend: The Rehats are doing folk-pop and already exist since over ...
This weekend was really difficult for me to plan ahead. With the ISTAF Indoor in Dusseldorf, I had a fixed ...
I felt that genug, the debut EP by German singer IUMA, is a nice addition to the release reviews as of ...
Despite the project name sounds rather Ruhrgebiet-alike, Umme Block are an electronic pop duo from Munich. The German artists release ...
Despite the band is "just" existing since 2000, Ravenblack is already the twelfth studio album by the German dark rock band Mono ...
Oh wow, I really have to limit myself this week. There is so much good music being released this week ...
Reviewing German artist Alexander Liebe and his album Spielautomat has been a typical Flyctory.com story. I received the album through a ...
The band name Keimzeit Akustik Quintett roughly translates to "Sprout Time Acoustic Quintet". The band, which is located Southwest of ...
The 19th August 2022 edition of my Songs of the Week was lead by a Norwegian-origin band: Hey Rosie by ...
Ski Holiday sounds like a perfect band name for a winter release, doesn't it? The band has British and German ...
The band name Groenalund feels quite Swedish. In fact, there are references to Sweden in the band history. First of ...
Welcome to the first Songs of the Week posting in 2023! Despite the music industry is slowly getting back to business, I ...
I guess that the next weeks will be more intense. Depending if you look at the publishing or the cut-off ...
While the music market is more and more focusing on singles and even writes weird stories like Taylor Swift's "Top ...
Since I started working with Flyctory.com, I present you a list of my favorite songs at the end of every ...
Christmas weekend - Marry Christmas to everybody who is celebrating. I guess that this week and the following one will ...
I was quite surprised that finally 15 songs made it into my Songs of the Week as of 16th November 2022 ...
Now that Christmas is getting closer, it is also a great opportunity for less known artists to receive some additional ...
Music from Hamburg: King LX is a rather new collaboration from the Northern German city. On 16th December 2022, they ...
Just some ten days left until Christmas. Instead of my typical album preview, I this time go for a preview ...
I was quite amazed that there were quite a lot of interesting single releases this week. At least artists from ...
Basta by the German band Sündflut is one of these records, which I just had a short listen to and just ...
Nina Hagen is one of the most iconic entertainers in the German cultural scene. The German "Godmother of Punk" wrote ...
A lot of Christmas songs, a lot of covers and best of albums are the new releases in the - ...
The Christmas business is more and more turning towards TVs, toys and other stuff, while the music industry is doing ...
Almost four decades of music, 13 albums, more than 6,000 shows - even though Boppin' B are no chart-busters, they ...
"Little Christmas" - as there is Thanksgiving in the United States, the volume of new releases is significantly reduced, just ...
After quite a while as a band member, German David Gramberg decided to turn solo. On 25th November 2022, you ...
A Line in My Skin is a new album by the German artist Karo Lynn. I guess it has been the ...
Samuel Rösch became famous by winning the TV show The Voice of Germany. I already had a look into his music ...
After I loved his 2021 album One Can Wreck It All, I was really excited to see that there will be ...
Very interesting weekend this time: with the shows of Milky Chance and Brett Young, both in Cologne, I had quite ...
I love country music - but I always feel very gifted when I am able to present you some other ...
They started in school years in Kassel, Germany and are now a global musical success. The song Stolen Dance catapulted the German ...
There are so many Christmas music albums each and every year - I typically try to filter out interesting ones ...
The musical even of the week to me was definitely the announcement of the 2023 European Weird Al Yankovic tour ...
Especially if you frequently watch concerts in Germany and neighboring countries, you simply know Tina Tandler. You might not know ...
This is already the second time I met Nik Wallner for a Spotlight interview on Flyctory.com. While the first time we chatted ...
After two intercontinental trips in October 2022, I am somehow glad that I am scheduled to stay in Europe until ...
Jazz meets funk - the concept of the self-titled album by the band Superläuche (which is hard to translate, roughly ...
Right after coming back from New York City, I headed to the Helios37 in Cologne the same evening. Sound of ...
Just two months until Christmas - but I still refused to have an according song in my Songs of the Week ...
On their website the German band Hostage states. "There is only one rule: Stylistic boundaries do not exist." I received ...
Artists like Wally from Germany are musical encounters which make me enjoy creating contents for Flyctory.com. I ran into his ...
October is quite a busy time for me. Private and business trips take most of my time. My Songs of the ...
Avantasia is back... again and again and again... What started as a one album... or two album metal opera turned ...
Freddie! Who would have thought that Mr Mercury is part of my Songs Of The Week one day. Not sure if Bryan ...
While doing tour-chasing in Florida, I am very glad when I am able to prepare postings for Flyctory.com beforehand, especially ...
I had an amazing week in Cyprus and am just about to prepare for my second trip to the Weird ...
Classic music performed (more or less) a capella - I have been really amazed by the German project SLIXS when ...
I typically rather sort out new albums by the sound than by the popularity of the artists. Thus, I am ...
Melodic rock from Munich: Magical Heart are delivering right what you really need after spending a few days at the ...
The last three months of the year are about to start. Traditionally, the focus is rather on well-known artists, their ...
Even though there are quite a bunch of German (language) songs and German artists in the set of new releases ...
The band Kill Strings is called "Hamburg's Foo Fighters" - quite a lot of pressure on the German rock band ...
While the last week brought me to Sunderland, Hamburg and Lillehammer in Norway, the song selection of the week comes ...
Especially in the early 1990's, the German project U96 was very present in the European electronic music scene. Some thirty ...
Intense weeks lay ahead of me. My very last shows of my favorite musical Rock of Ages this year are ...
Power metal from Germany: Blind Guardian are a German band from the Rheinland region. They are active since 1984 and ...
The studio album Perspektiven is actually my second album review of a Roland Kaiser release. After the Christmas album Weihnachtszeit, Kaiser is back ...
Hallo, ich bin Jolina Carl - "Hello, I am Jolina Carl" rather sounds like a debut album than the release of ...
I typically just select the song, which is leading my Songs of the Week. This week, my favorites of the week ...
If you translate the band name Drei Meter Feldweg literally, you end up by "Three Meters of Country Lane". Sound ...
Honestly, I had a lot of 1970's and 1980's songs in mind the last days - so exclude me in ...
A talent show changed the life of a teenage German artist - and the result is this album. Luna Klee ...
Rock and harder rock styles have been a bit of under-represented in here the last weeks. The more I am ...
The third Vanessa Mai album review: after I really liked her 2020 release Für immer and absolutely struggled with the ...
Rather dark rock tunes from Munich: the Band Versus Goliath is releasing their album Liebe & Chaos on 12th August 2022 ...
Legendary Gipsy Kings and one of Germany's biggest potential drivers of country music, More Than Words - I felt really ...
After featring the German pop duo Havet in my Songs of the Week edition of 29th July 2022, I now ...
After I featured Marie Reim's debut album 14 Phasen in June 2020, I was really curious how her music has evolved during ...
German schlager icon Wolfgang Petry is back with a new EP. After a "real" Wolfgang Petry album release, Auf das Leben, ...
Weird times: my list of candidates for my Songs of the Week this time was much longer, but a lot of ...
Interesting indie-folk from a German artist: Wild At Heart is in fact the third EP by Broken Forest, who lived in Germany ...
Even though there are also some examples in the rock industry as well, boy bands are typically a pop music ...
LustfingeR is named to be one of the oldest punk / punk rock bands in Germany. The Southern German band ...
Typically, I first collect tracks for my Songs Of The Week and, once the set is complete, pick my favorite and ...
She Bites is a German band doing classic rock. After they had a well-reviewed debut album two years ago, they ...
Powerful party tunes which are made to be great on stage: five years after their first release, the Bavarian band ...
The list of songs as of 15th July 2022 is rather compact. I open with a very interesting British pop ...
Interestingly, most of the press information I received about Das Jahr, das sich um eins verschiebt by Philipp Eisenblätter declares the ...
Survive is the debut EP by a Berlin-based project, Confirmation. I got in touch with their music and felt to share ...
Also due to their rather well-known band members, More Than Words is one of the most promising country music acts ...
Everybody in Germany knows the songs Ich will Spaß ("I want to have fun", a song about having fun cruising in ...
Okay, this week, my Songs Of The Week listeners need to stay strong: I started my list with schlager (with a touch ...
An artist I did not know about anything before: Just two days before her debut EP Brown Eyes was about to be ...
The German magazine Rock Hard wrote about Traitor, that the band "is playing the most persuading new-old-school-thrash, which I have ...
This week, I had at least an easy time determining the leading track of my Songs of the Week. I listened ...
The album preview of the week this time is a bit of darker than the beautiful melodies of A Smell of ...
Whenever I start working for my Songs of the Week, I typically scan the candidates I archived for that reason and ...
The press kit to Brain Freeze, the second EP by Leepa, states that the German is maybe the most promising talent ...
Even though Chris Colter seems to be quite active artist since decades, I could not find too many bio information ...
Even though Charly Klauser is active in the German music scene since almost two decades, her album Mehr ("More") released on 24th ...
So good to have a new one from The Cumberland River Project: one of Germany's finest manufacturers of country music ...
I am looking back to a really interesting week of music. For me personally, I have been so happy to ...
Rock from Germany: on 17th June, the German rock band April Art releases their second album, P.O.K.E.R.F.A.C.E.. I ran into the ...
Clara Louise is indeed a very multi-talented German artist. With Enough Is Enough, she is already releasing her sixth studio album ...
If you feel that Cologne Carnival songs or party music must be a rather regional and limited things, stats of ...
I had a long list of songs for my Songs of the Week... and after I composed a nice order of ...
I am still in the process of recovering from illness - not sure if that had any influence on my ...
Fräulein Frey names her music "Freien Hanseatischen Pop" - Free Hanseatic pop. On 3rd June 2022, she is releasing a ...
The German language has the nice opportunity to simply combine two noun to a new word. Seele means soul in German and ...
Due to illness, I unfortunately cannot provide you the full coverage on the music side of Flyctory.com - and it ...
Der W does an easy job in naming his albums. Since the third album, he is simply numbering his major ...
I had a quite long list of songs for my Songs of the Week this time. The 20th May 2022 list is ...
German pop-rock debut: the band Karaboom releases Follow Your Heart on 20th May 2022. I happened to run into the album and ...
"Magic Hard Rock from The Krauts" - that's the key slogan the German band Wucan puts on her Facebook profile ...
Even though Like Mint's first release has been some five years ago, her EP I Wish I Was Awake feels a bit ...
I typically love glam rock - and thus, the German band Shameless had a rather easy time to get into ...
A big name and music legend of German rock is back: Marius Müller-Westernhagen releases Das eine Leben, his first studio album ...
While I had to process quite a lot of country music new releases this week, the list of non-country songs ...
J.B.O. are one of the key players in the German fun metal scene. Over the last decades, they steadily grew ...
Acoustic bass, jazz guitar, ukulele and sax - the range of instruments used for Dr. Umwuchts Tanzpalast is already quite ...
Wow... This edition of my Songs of the Week was a huge bit of work. I simply had so many candidates for ...
Debut EP release: German-Iranian artist Mina Richman releases her first five song set on 6th May 2022. The EP is ...
The Reim family on Flyctory.com: after the big daddy Matthias Reim, one of the biggest German schlager-rock artists in Germany, ...
A week full of music: my Weird Al Yankovic Tour Trip was of course the key event of my last ...
Some country music made in Germany: After the intense week traveling with Weird Al Yankovic to the first three shows ...
The week after the 2022 Easter Bunny features some really interesting music. The heading song comes with a touch of ...
I was quite amazed that not only Christmas, but also Easter feels to have an impact on the volume of ...
Verrückt es nicht zu tun - "Crazy not to do it" is the new album by Geschwister David, a twin schlager ...
Axel Rudi Pell is definitely one of the most well-known hard rock and metal acts from Germany. On 15th April ...
The different genres of metal are becoming a significant part of my Flyctory.com music coverage. This posting is about the ...
Oh, I feel that the Songs Of The Week are really a tradition on Flyctory.com now. More than three months since I ...
New songs from Mrs. Greenbird: Cologne's finest Americana pop pair released a new set of tracks on 9th April 2022 ...
Hi Spencer are a punk rock band from Osnabrück, Germany. Especially with their 2019 album Nicht raus, aber weiter ("Not out, but ...
Not really sure why the release calendars are so seasonal (apart from major holidays like Christmas) - but I generally ...
House of Change by Ann Doka has indeed bin one of the German artist albums I have been looking forward to ...
While the last week's edition solely covered a few songs, my 25th March 2022 version of the Songs Of The Week ...
It is already some six years ago since the Berlin-based artist Max Paul Maria released his last album Figurines. On 25th ...
Nanee's song Frei Sein ("Be Free") impressed me that much that it made it's way into my Songs of the Week as ...
The Jeremy Days have been one of the most important pop-rock bands in Germany in the late 1980's and 1990's ...
My trip through the United States following the Pittsburgh Penguins in eleven days was definitely the highlight of my week ...
I just happened to run into the music of KIDSO (which is written as KIDSØ, but I try to avoid ...
The name of the German band Der Sonne zu Nah roughly translates to "Too close to the sun". In fact, ...
The website of Tame The Abyss introduces themselves as Your new favorite band. In order to gain this kind of global ...
Not really sure whether it is my March 2022 trip with the Pittsburgh Penguins or other influences, but this time, ...
Der To is a German rock artist, who is active since 2010. On 11th March 2022, he is releasing his ...
I feel that this week, there is really a nice range of songs in my Songs Of My Life. There is ...
Call it Irish Folk or Kilt-Rock - The Keltics already have quite a long band history. They are not from ...
Definitely my toughest edition of the Songs of the Week so far. It is very hard for me to concentrate knowing what ...
Some hard sounds from Germany: Gutrectomy are doing brutal deathcore. I was really curious if their music is as scary ...
Fairytale themselves call their music "Fantasy Folk". On 25th February 2022, they release a new album, Winter Tales. After a short ...
One thing I really love about this new category Songs Of The Week is that it surprises me again and again ...
When I listened to Michael Lane's album Traveling Son in October 2019, I absolutely enjoyed the sound of the US-German artist, who ...
TV appearances, support act of famous musicians like Heinz Rudolf Kunze or Rea Garvey: Jördis Tielsch has indeed grown quite ...
70 years of Klaus Lage - the rock singer-songwriter is one of the most iconic artists of the German music ...
A new week, a new edition of the Songs Of The Week. This time, I ran into a lot of rocking ...
Rickie Lee Kroell, the second time: I just introduced you to the pop artist and her new EP Hauptsache was mit ...
In later 2021, I ran into the music by German-American artist Rickie Lee Kroell by a contact to her promotion ...
The last two editions of the Songs Of The Week had a really nice load of positive feedback. Thus, I am really ...
After I have already been struggling with the idea of the Songs of the Week, the feedback on my previous edition ...
Metalcore from Germany: already before Christmas 2021, I received the album Radiant from The Sleeper. A good opportunity to rock with Santa ...
Britpop / Britrock made in Germany - that's a likely the best short description you can do about the Berlin ...
I am still evaluating whether the Songs Of The Week are an interesting format for you. While the first postings got ...
The Scorpions are definitely one of Germany's finest international rock music acts. Herman Rarebell has been part of the band ...
This week I again present you a nice range of songs again. From Australian pop / R&B artists, who do ...
I am always happy to introduce you to German country and Americana acts. On 13th January 2022, the Munich band ...
Matthias Reim is one of the big names in the German schlager-rock scene. After some rather difficult times, he came ...
Quite some artists used the Covid-19 limitation for some additional creativity. Tristan Harders, for example, invested the time during which ...
My Songs Of The Week slowly turn into a tradition. This week, I definitely saw that the number of releases massively ...
Especially in the world of social media, where it feels nearly impossible to spot the rising artist Peter Smith (just ...
The international music scene is slowly coming back from Christmas break. I listened to a couple of really remarkable releases ...
Towards the end of the year, I majorly ran into releases by German artists - either in the "normal" Media ...
2021 definitely lifted Flyctory.com to another level. The community is steadily increasing - days with less than 2,000 page hits ...
Year-end is the time to look back to all the stuff what happened to you. Ideally you rather remind the ...
G.G. Anderson is one of the most well-known German schlager artists since the early 1980's. 30th December 2021, he is ...
The week of Christmas is typically one of the weeks of the year with the lowest amount of new music ...
Synthi pop with an Eurodance / 1980's touch? If there is press kit information like this, there is always a ...
Lauryn Mark is about to release her second album in the middle of 2022. As an intermediate step, she is ...
Every week, I am scanning hundreds of new releases, albums and singles, to pick the right (and sometimes: the wrong) ...
The website of the German band No Snakes In Heaven names their style Alternative Singer-Songwriter Music. I felt that their style ...
The time right before Christmas is typically not featuring too many new releases. In my point of view, it is ...
Gregorian, who are interpreting pop, rock and also classic tracks in a Gregorian music style, is indeed a quite fascinating ...
Christmas is approaching really quick now. While I traditionally do a festive edition of my Country Music Picks, I also ...
I always enjoy to listen to bands I haven't heard of before. One of them is the German band Fuer ...
Short before the release date of 10th December 2021, I ran into the album Mehr Davon ("More of that") by the ...
It's been quite a while since I released my previous Spotlight interview. The more, I feel flattered to dip into ...
The title Quieter Pt. 2 already suggests that there has been a first part of Emma Longard's series of songs. Indeed, ...
"Blues rock with a Texan touch" - that's how the press kit to their second album Time For Decisions is describing ...
A Change in Yvonne Catterfeld's career: just three weeks before Christmas, the popular German artist releases her first album in English. The ...
Hämatom feels to be a truly active band: just some eight months after I reviewed - and enjoyed their album ...
Okay, I give in. In the world of country music, Christmas starts in early September. That's when the first song ...
When the press kit of a music release uses the wording superband, there are typically two options: either the combo ...
A German artist presenting modern country songs - even though A Life That's Good is a cover album, I felt ...
My hometown Cologne is full of music - not only carnival-related. Not only during these days, Cat Ballou has become ...
The press kit to this EP opens with "Another singer-songwriter who is writing about his personal lovesickness. Does the world ...
In early November 2021, I received a promo EP from a folk music duo from Berlin, Flora Falls. A bit ...
Max Giesinger has grown his fan base in Germany steadily over the last years. Three years after his most recent ...
A very interesting album "Made In Germany" somewhere between classic and indie rock: on 12th November 2021, Palila released their ...
Dieter Hallervorden is a very famous entertainer in Germany. However, his biggest times in the music business have been the ...
An album full of blues and funk which sounds so much like a US production, but is very German - ...
Honestly, when I ran into his debut album Achtung Leben, I did not know anything about Michael Heppes. However, the album ...
Seventeen studio albums so far - #17 on 29th October 2021 - the German band Running Wild has quite an ...
Who does not know Art Garfunkel, part of Simon & Garfunkel and their famous songs? Sometimes, you run into albums, ...
On the promotion platform I use most frequently, I rarely run into songs or albums which are labeled as "Country ...
This is the third time I am looking into the country music scene of Germany and neighboring German-speaking countries. So ...
Four Christmas song on a small EP: I just liked the sound of Tom Aquinas when his XMas Greetings became available ...
Rock from Germany: On 15th October 2021, the Western German band Bodyguerra will release their second album Fire & Soul ...
The German artist Det Haggard is a new name in the German lyrics country music scene. After he had some ...
Interesting pop sound from Hamburg in Northern Germany: Winter 2 are just active for some one year. Nonetheless, the are ...
From TV talent show to her debut album - some one and a half year she became well-known to the ...
Santiano became a huge player in the German music scene. They mix rock with shanty and sailor music style sounds ...
One of the German schlager artists I honor most is definitely Roland Kaiser. He is active since decades and is ...
Country from Germany with an important background. In his 2021 release, Jesse Cole deals with the impacts of being a ...
I had a quite long list - and range - of album to select from for my 1st October 2021 ...
Hail to promotion platforms - just after I was really angry that I had listed some interesting publication with an ...
In December 2019, I praised the album 2084 by the Pete Wolf Band. The artist behind that project is Wolfgang ...
The first set of the press kit I received about Power Plush are (translated to English) "Emancipatoric power meets empahtic ...
Without a doubt, Peter Maffay is nowadays one of the most well-known rock artists singing in German. As a result ...
He does it again: after he successful of three 1990's pop tracks, transformed into orchestral arrangements, Alex Christensen is back ...
A tribute band growing to an album with seven very own songs and two covers: Freakstorm from Gummersbach near Cologne ...
Some more music from Germany this weekend: with his solo project LUKE, Lukas Schüßler (which I spell Schüssler in the ...
Mentalist is definitely an interesting German metal band. Even though A Journey Into The Unknown is just their second album, ...
Another review in which I am getting in touch with a genre of music, which I am neither too familiar ...
From Kiddo Kat to Annie Chops: her album Piece of Cake was one of the first ones I reviewed on Flyctory.com ...
A new album by Mark Forster: the German artist took a three year break before he did it again: his ...
Friday, the 13th: I am sure that Perlregen, did not think that their new album Drei (meaning ("Three") could turn ...
It's just about a month ago since I reviewed the 2021 album of Die Liga der gewöhnlichen Gentlemen, GschichterIn aus ...
I have to be straight: I did not know Tom Niklas before. I ran into the schlager artist by a ...
A new punk rock project from the West parts of Germany: Plastic Mars are active since about four years. On ...
I have to admit: I loved Jasmin Wagner... or Blümchen... during my childhood years. As a young girl, the Hamburg ...
Some German rock to be released on 23rd July 2021: I ran into the music of the band Existent and ...
Some country from Germany: just in the week I did the second edition of my German Songs Country Music Picks, ...
Andreas Dorau everywhere: just two weeks after I reviewed GschichterIn aus dem Park Cafe, the new album by Die Liga der ...
Tacheles reden is a German saying which means that you have a very straight and honest discussion, expressing your clear ...
I just have to admit: I like to listen to very few kinds of jazz, but I am absolutely not ...
I started to enjoy the pop-Northern Soul style of the German band Die Liga der gewöhnlichen Gentlemen, when the recorded ...
A debut EP by a home town artist - of course I have been curious when I ran into Luna ...
You might not have heard from the German artist, but the man behind 7fields has been leading the legendary band ...
Over 560,000 follower on Facebook and some 90k subscribers of his YouTube channel - you just cannot say that Dominik ...
After quite a hiatus - the last regular Country Music Picks edition is as of November 2020, I felt it ...
The sound of Razz feels very international - but in fact they are from the Emsland, a Northwest region in ...
German rock made in Cologne: of course, I am always especially curious when I run into artists I don't know ...
Time to bang your head again: the German metal big guns Helloween are back in the record stores, six years ...
Modern country from Bavaria? No, this is not about Nik Wallner, but about pez, who is singing in English and ...
I ran into the music of the German singer-songwriter Karlie Apriori, when I checked for 11th June 2021 releases. The ...
Some cool music from Germany: the album New Songs And Untold Stories was soloely flagged as pop music in a promotion ...
Fancy has truly been a Eurodance legend in the 1980's. Even though his last Top 20 chart entry, a mix ...
New hardcore album from the North of Germany: Anchors & Hearts recorded their fourth album Guns Against Liberty and will ...
People thought that the five girls of No Angels could become the German Spice Girls. They became talent show stars ...
TriXstar is a very interesting artist. She is having Iranian background, but is nowadays a rising artist in the German ...
There are multiple ways to fame. Maybe countless ones. Tinka is driving trucks. Full stop. The 31-year old was part ...
Bernhard Brink is indeed one of the big names of German schlager. His songs attract a huge fan base. On ...
About the album A Hill To Die Upon, its composer and guitarist Marvin Kessler said, This is the album I ...
In my younger years, the German a capella band Die Prinzen have been one of my favorite music. Their direct, ...
Harmonie by Phil Solo is one of these reviews which just happened to Flyctory.com while scanning promotion platforms. I ran ...
A Viking doing modern country? Sounds like a weird Scandinavian story - but in fact the artist is a Canadian actor, ...
Music by a German artist with Armenian roots - I am always curious when it comes to have a listen ...
Indigo by Noah Levi is another publication with talent show background: in young teenage years, Noah Levi became famous by ...
From a school band to a flat share and finally their debut album - this is a very short wrap-up ...
Due to a promotion platform, I ran into the debut EP of a German pop artist, Nikola. There was just ...
Linda Mar (or Linda Marlen Runge, which is her civil name) is truly a multi-talent in performing: Likely, most people ...
The promotion kit of People Club calls the act an indie-lo-fi-slacker band. Ooops, I have to admit that I would ...
Twelve cover songs of German music legends - when I recently reviewed a similar concept, #Schlager by Stereoact, my rather was ...
He simply calls himself Der Mann mit der Mundharmonika - "The Man With The Harmonica": Michael Hirte fascinated Germany at ...
After having released her debut album in 2015 already. Emma Longard will release two EPs with new songs in 2021 ...
Sing meinen Song ("Sing My Song") is definitely one of my favorite German TV music shows. A group of music artist ...
It can't be too bad to have a smile in these times, can it? When I ran into the German ...
Since about half a decade, Wincent Weiss became a big name in the German-singing pop music scene. After two successful ...
It took me one week later than usual to give you a new edition of the Songs Of My Life. This ...
Seasons by the project VINTER is a typical Flyctory.com review. I scanned future new releases in a promotion database and got ...
Despite Mike Leon Grosch had a huge success in Germany in 2006, his career had quite a hit shortly thereafter ...
Some new music from my home town: Klee is a German pop act, who have been quite successful in the ...
It's been just too long since I did the last episode of my Country Music Picks. At the end of ...
Sarah Lombardi's career started with a bit ups and downs in the German version of American Idol. Three years after ...
Fury in the Slaughterhouse were indeed a very successful German rock act, especially in the 1990's. They have definitely been ...
From the big talent show stage to the (virtual) record stores: After Samuel Rösch won the German The Voice in ...
New stuff from JORIS: the German singer-songwriter with a touch of rock music is about to present his third album ...
More than thirty years ago, Diane Weigmann was part of the founding of a legendary German band, the Lemonbabies. She ...
Welcome back to Flyctory.com, Ben Zucker. After I have been gifted to report from his arena show in Cologne in ...
The Easter weeks have been quite thin regarding new releases. The more, they are a chance for me to listen ...
The band which is featured in this review is called Löwen am Nordpol - "Lions at the North Pole". Apart ...
The German rock band Antiheld grew quite a lot during the last years and established in the German music scene ...
From Franconia via Germany... to the world? At least in their home country, Hämatom (yes, this means hematoma) became a ...
Even though we are currently struggling in Germany to build a (modern) country music scene, there has always been some ...
New stuff from Vanessa Mai: just about a year after the German Schlager star released her album Für Immer ("Forever"), she ...
Thomas Anders is back to pop music. After his recent publications on the German Schlager genre, the Gentleman of Music is ...
Even though their press package praises them as the new German lead in the melodic death metal scene, I have ...
With Flyctory.com growing on the musical side, I have the opportunity to have access to more and more interesting releases ...
The promotion material to Timo Scharf's new EP Everything Ever Always Is All Forgotten contains a magical sentence. He is writing ...
Indeed, Hanna Batka is Mitten in Berlin - "In The Middle of Berlin". She is not only indeed living in the ...
Music was very important to me. I feel that the postings in the Songs Of My Life category so far really ...
I am not even sure if it was about the cheeky lyrics and the fresh sound or simply the album ...
Selig is one of the most famous German rock bands. They started publlishing music in 1993. On 12th March 2021, ...
Alphaville, Ultravox and Mike & The Mechanics on one album? Okay, I have to give in that neither of the ...
The ability to simply link two nouns to a new word is a lovely property of the German language - ...
German schlager is one of the most popular genres in my home country. On 12th March 2021, the classics of ...
Blues made in Germany? Even though this might sound like an almost average experience, Bad Temper Joe has gained quite ...
A typical life of a music blogger: the information about Definition of Insanity has been sparse when I ran into ...
There are several causes which make me feel I should go for an album review. When I decided to have ...
Quite some interesting rock music to be released on 26th February 2021. I originally wanted to start my reviews of ...
Nino de Angelo is one of my favorite German artists. I will definitely tell you about a very special concert ...
While so far the only German dialect I feature on Flyctory.com is Kölsch, the lovely way to speak in my ...
Jack McBannon does a quite interesting and versatile fusion of different Americana music styles. Being on stage for twenty years ...
With Flyctory.com growing and thus having access to major promotion networks, I get in touch into music I would likely ...
During a dinner concert in June 2020 of a Cologne local band, Cat Ballou (who will be part of my selection), I ...
Apart from global mainstream sounds, there are some genres, which have a quite local popularity. The German Schlager is one ...
I enjoy to present German acts as part of my media reviews - and even more if they are successful ...
Originall, the German Neue Deutsche Welle legends Paso Doble were scheduled to release her new album Urknall on 15th January 2021, ...
I am always happy to chat with German artists on my blog in the Spotlight interview category. Ann Doka is ...
It started on 27th July 2018 with Talk of This Town by Catherine McGrath. Last weekend, I reached another milestone: with Immortal ...
Covid-19 has some weird impacts: as a major German pressing plant had to reduce operation due to the pandemic, a ...
Happy Birthday, Michael Schenker - some three weeks after the German rock legend turned 65 years, he is back with ...
Gehst Du mit mir unter - "Are you drowning with me" is the album title of a new German music project ...
Even though Tragedian is a Hamburg-based project, their members come from quite some parts of Europe. I got to have ...
While I guess that you knew a lot of the songs I presented you so far as a Song of My ...
Lina Larissa Strahl, as a musical act simply called LINA, is having a bit of an age issue: the nowadays ...
After they got quite some good critics for their debut album, the German metal / hardcore band Bashdown starts 2021 ...
Peter Schilling is a legendary name of the German music business. Major Tom gave him international reputation. So far, Schilling ...
292 Media Review postings - looking into new music (and a few other) releases was definitely some sort of core ...
2020 is about to come to an end - and the last three posting of the years re about to ...
Sodom is one of the finest names for Thrash Metal made in Germany. The band is already having a 38 ...
Alternative rock made in Hamburg - the German band Tusq is already active for eleven years. Time to release some ...
Dirk Busch's 1980's song Du bist keine Mona List would be a perfect candidate for my new Songs of my Life category ...
The story of Ross Antony is quite amazing: having an English education as a musical artist, Antony is nowadays a ...
50 years of Bläck Fööss - the "naked feet", what is the literal translation of their band name are a ...
Latest when Michelle represented Germany in the Eurovision Song Contest 2001 in Copenhagen, she became an important part of the ...
Just ten days before she is releasing her debut album Desert Diamond, I introduced you to the promising German country music ...
When you look at European country music, you very often purely focus on British artists. However, the German country music ...
From street music to the tops of the German charts - Saltatio Mortis have taken the very tough route to ...
Since I have been registered at a promotion company, I receive quite frequent teasers and links to various types of ...
The Yonder Boys are definitely an interesting, but also kind of weird and funny combo, which is based in Germany, ...
Undoubtedly, Van de Forst is one of the most interesting German acts in the country music scene. Her country / ...
Scanning the new releases as of 28th August 2020, I ran into the Hamburg-based band miu. The gained quite some ...
Fourteen years after their latest album, the German project X-Perience is releasing a new album. The fifth long-play release of ...
I saw Sarah Zucker for the first time on stage, when she joined her brother Ben in Cologne's largest LANXESSarena ...
When I read about the collaboration, I knew I just had to do a review of this project: one of ...
Marquess is a very popular band in Germany and the neighboring countries. With Turbulento, they are back in the record stores, ...
Beyond The Black got some additional focus in Germany when their lead singer Jennifer Haben joined the popular TV format Sing ...
20 year old Marie Reim is an interesting upcoming artist in the German schlager scene. Both of her parents are ...
Thomas Anders and Florian Silbereisen are some sort of a new super-band in the German Schlager genre. Both are famous ...
During the Covid-19 crisis, I visited quite a couple of drive-in movies, which became a very popular kind of entertainment ...
Sometimes, life as a music blogger is strange. Scanning the new releases (as every Friday) on 22nd May 2020 made ...
Covid-19 has a huge impact on the music industry. My home town Cologne's local country music heroes, Mrs. Greenbird, were ...
Even though Covid-19 is taking quite much of our time, we should really enjoy the good things - and at ...
Nico Santos is a German artist, which made it quite big and gained international attention the last years. He is ...
60 years of Axel Rudi Pell - one of the big names in the German metal scene is celebrating this ...
Already the first single Back On The Road felt very promising - and at least when The Cumberland River Project released their ...
Typically, after I have completed my first wave of reviews (which was quite quick on that 17th April 2020 due ...
Many people in the German country music business see a lot of potential in Southern German artist Nik Wallner. At ...
My third and final issue of stories around the C2C in Berlin - time to finish the days of country ...
Sunday, 8th March 2020, the third day in Berlin. Already that typical mixture of feelings: looking forward to the last ...
After the the first side stage acts on Day 1 of the C2C Country To Country 2020 in Berlin, Day ...
Saturday in Berlin is over. A lot of good music has been played on several stages - but some stories ...
C2C Country To Country in Berlin 2020 - time to start the second edition of the festival on 6th March ...
Van De Forst is one of the most interesting German country music / country pop music act. Vanessa, the person ...
Country music made in Germany? There are more and more projects which feel to be very promising. In my point ...
Time for some discussions in the German music scene - the Böhse Onkelz released their 17th studio album on 28th ...
Heinz Rudolf Kunze is one of the biggest songwriters and rock musicians in Germany. Already in the 1980s, he had ...
A lot has happened since the Country 2 Country 2020 headliners for all five venues have been published in October 2019 ...
Country music made in Germany? Especially in the last few months, there have been a couple of acts, which feel ...
While there were not too many country music releases on my intiial review list, there were some quite interesting new ...
I decided to split the "Best music" postings of 2019 into two parts: while I already published my personal Best ...
2019 has come to an end - and music has been one of the key topics of Flyctory.com in 2019 ...
Right after I returned from Pittsburgh, Sound of Nashville and the German country music scene came back on my schedule ...
Though the Pete Wolf Band just released their second album on 6th December 2019, they are big names in the ...
I was quite stunned when I ran into an Instagram advertisement: Björn Heuser, a Cologne singer- songwriter just recently released ...
Max Raabe and his Palast Orchester is likely not the kind of music you would expect to be reviewed on ...
When I was on social media, the account of a friend reminded me that Alex Christensen. After two amazingly successful ...
One of the few German country/folk acts, which gained some international reputation in the past is Cologne-based Mrs. Greenbird. Before ...
I have to admit that I had been very nervous before that concert. The LANXESS arena, Germany's largest multiplex arena ...
There is an easy musical way to make myself happy while driving my wife nuts in parallel: Andreas Dorau. I ...
Mrs. Greenbird was the only Germany-based band who were playing at the C2C debut in Berlin 2019. This definitely illustrates ...
Avantasia, one of the most successful German music projects, released their seventh album (eighth, if you count in a live ...
As blogging on music became a quite frequent category at Flyctory.com, I felt to look back to 2018 and introduce ...
Kiddo Kat already a viral hit on Youtube in 2016. Now, Anna Guder produced her first album "Piece of Cake" ...
Doro Pesch is back - before she will tour in late 2018/early 2019, she just released a double album: while ...
The former German capital Bonn has a vast tradition of open air concerts. Their current premier open air location is ...