by Definitely my toughest edition of the Songs of the Week so far. It is very hard for me to concentrate knowing what is going in the Ukraine. Creating this selection of songs really means scanning some 200, 300 songs each weak. I am sure I skipped some which might have deserved it. And the song and genre selection might reflect my mood more than ever. Hope you still like these tracks.
Nathalie Weider – Westbahnhof
Nathalia Weider is a Swiss artist, who wrote this song describing a scenery at her favorite city, Vienna. I ran into this song quite early this week and felt it is a great choice to head this week’s selection – not knowing what would happen the days thereafter.
Barbara Zanetti – WIR
A very thoughtful song. Very impressive German pop song. Somehow in line with my mood currently.
Becky Hill feat. Galantis – Run
The British artist Becky Hill collaborates with the Swedish duo Galantis – the result is a straight pop song, Run. I feel it is a really nice, light vibe.
Fatherson – Better Friend
There are quite a bunch of British artists in my selection of tracks this time – Fatherson are one of them. I wish I was a better friend to you – nice indie-rock track with a catching chorus.
Hammerfall – Brotherhood
Brotherhood is one of the best tracks of the week to me. Nice work by the Swedish legends. There will be an extended tour with Helloween starting later 2022.
Old Mrs. Bates – Call Me Over
A nice indie-rock sound by Old Mrs. Bates. Call Me Over is teasing a new EP by the Vienna-based band. Austria indeed has some really nice rockers.
Stone Broken – Black Sunrise
This part seems to to be the rocking section of my song selection this week. Nice song by the metal heads from the West Midlands.
Chris Cronauer – Die Welt steht auf unserer Seite
Die Welt steht auf unserer Seite – “The World is on our Side”. Even the song is obviously not about the sad topic of the week, the title is a great fit, ain’t it? Nice German pop. Chris Cronauer’s debut album release is just about a month to go… Could turn out becoming a good one.
Voodoo Town – South Town
Voodoo Town consists of Australian Brent W. Larkham and his bandmates Uwe Lorenz and Fabian König from Germany. The track is a nice rock song with a nice Americana touch.
JXN – Nintendo (feat. Reyanna Maria)
JXN headlined my 14th January 2022 edition of the Songs of the Week. How he is back with Nintendo. I just love his style.
Gamper & Dadoni feat. Joe Jury – Satellites
The German duo Gamper & Dadoni do a nice electro-pop song with dance qualities here – their guest musician Joe Jury is from Gloucestershire. Nice track.
Francis on my Mind – Speed Of Light
Music from Romania: Francis on my Mind released this lovely, fragile pop track – really enjoy the listen.
CamelPhat – Silenced
One of these “Typically not my kind of music, but I like it” tracks. A song which maybe also reminds me of one of my friends in Kyiv, who used to be a DJ… Until last Wednesday.
DEKEN – Sarah
Sorry… Maybe I just like this die-hard schlager track, because Sarah is also the name of wife. DEKEN makes me smile.
Songs of The Week – The Playlist
You may also listen to my Songs Of The Week and songs selected in some of the previous weeks on this Spotify playlist:
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Visiting CMA Fest 2019
The beginning of June was a very flattering moment to me. After I got more and more into country music ...
My Favorite CMA Fest Songs 2019
CMA Fest 2019 was just massive to me. So many artists, so many new people - I was just overwhelmed! ...
Christina Taylor & Carolyn Miller – Two Upcoming Country Artists
Facebook, Instagram and all other kinds of internet sources nowadays allow you to (sometimes by chance) find, follow and support ...
CMA Fest 2019 – Fan Events with Cassadee Pope and Jana Kramer
The closer CMA Fest 2019 came, the more I became aware of all the side events, which are not happening ...
Country Music Concert Summer 2019 in Germany – a small Boom?
Country music in Germany has a hard standing. It is still not played in most radio stations - or declared ...
Shallow-ism – One Song in countless Versions
I have to admit that Germany is likely the largest music market, in which the amazing duet "Shallow" of Lady ...
My Favorite Country 2 Country Songs 2019
The beginning of March 2019 was a country music powerhouse to me. The Country 2 Country (C2C) debut in Berlin, ...
European World Floorball Championship Qualification – A Preview
The "Road to Neuchatel 2019" - as only the Swiss team is qualified for their home World Floorball Championships in ...
Entertaining or not? An Inflight Magazine Comparison
You have them on almost every flight. They are located in the seat in front you? The airlines try to ...
Floorball Champions Cup 2019 – A Preview to Gävle
No floorball competition is changing that frequently like the Champions Cup. While previous season, six men and women teams each ...
Very Important Postings – July to December 2018
Another six months have passed - the first full half year of Flyctory.com's existance. After I did the Very Important ...
My Favorite Songs 2018
As blogging on music became a quite frequent category at Flyctory.com, I felt to look back to 2018 and introduce ...
How to buy a Hotel Group Status
Similar to frequent flying, there is a straightforward option to become a status member in all major hotel chains: frequent ...
Davis Cup World Group Playoff 2018 – More complex than ever!
Though I am a huge opponent of the Davis Cup reformations becoming active in 2019, I have to give in ...
Very Important Postings – Flyctory.com’s 1st Half 2018
1st July 2018 - we start counting down the days to christmas already. In this posting I resume about what ...
Flyctory.com’s Introduction on Mileage Pooling
With Miles & More, Lufthansa Group's widely used loyality programme, introducing the concept of Mileage Pooling to their program just ...
Atlanta 1996 – 22 Years later
There have been so many discussions about Rio 2016. Not just about whether the country itself is able to stand ...
Ode to my Superhero – Leander Paes
Tianjin, China. Tennis Davis Cup, one of my most beloved sports competitions. He was intended to be the hero, the ...
My favourite Country 2 Country 2018 songs
As you might have seen in the other blog entries, I have been attending Europe's major country music festival, the ...
My Medal Count Winner 2018: Canada
Yeah, I have to give in: as a German, you just hated when there has been a race with our ...
Why WordPress?
Some of you may ask: Why did I choose Wordpress for this site? First of all, my wife Sarah had ...
Swiss Music
Here are all music postings related to Switzerland:
Flyctory.com Songs Of The Week (week of 11th April 2025)
I had a rather mixed week this week - and that's somehow my new Songs of the Week edition is like ...
Flyctory.com Songs Of The Week (week of 4th April 2025)
An intense week lays behind me. I started a new job on Tuesday and I am thus full of new ...
Spotlight – Flyctory.com meets Sid Bader (April 2025)
At the 2025 Country To Country in Berlin, Sid Bader has been one of the very few European acts, who ...
Jamila – Boyfriend Of The Year EP
While most of the major music releases take place on Fridays, this one is in fact a Wednesday one. Boyfriend ...
Gotthard – Stereo Crush
Will Gotthard top the Swiss charts again? Based on an impressing streak by the Swiss hard rockers, this just feels ...
Flyctory.com Songs Of The Week (week of 14th March 2025)
The 2025 Country To Country in Berlin took quite a lot of energy from me. On top of that, there ...
Drake Milligan (25th February 2025, Cologne)
Another Sound of Nashville country concert right before I headed to Pittsburgh: on 25th February 2025, Drake Milligan had a ...
My Country To Country Berlin 2025 Preview
In exactly two weeks, on 6th March 2025, Country To Country (C2C) Berlin is kicking off with the The Bluebird ...
Flyctory.com Songs Of The Week (week of 7th February 2025)
The floorball week in Italy exhausted me more than I expected that. While I hoped to built up a backlog ...
Flyctory.com Songs Of The Week (week of 31st January 2025)
The World Floorball Championship Qualifications are in focus of my coverage this weekend. Nonetheless, I try to provide you with ...
Flyctory.com Songs Of The Week (week of 24th January 2025)
I am on a trip through several European countries this weekend. Nonetheless, of course, it is time to have a ...
Flyctory.com Songs Of The Week (week of 17th January 2025)
I'm in Finland this week, featuring two floorball match. However, the Nordic country is not represented in my Songs of the ...
Flyctory.com Songs Of The Week (week of 3rd January 2025)
After I skipped last week's Songs of the Week (and merge the three songs I had for it into this post), ...
Paleface Swiss – Cursed
My Flyctory.com album review year 2025 starts with deathcore from Switzerland. The band Paleface Swiss releases their third studio album Cursed ...
Flyctory.com Songs Of The Week (week of 29th November 2024)
Happy Thanksgiving (especially to my North American followers)! While the North American music market is currently rather concentrating on Black ...
Flyctory.com Songs Of The Week (week of 22nd November 2024)
Ladies and gentlemen (and all the others of course as well), we got it: here is my first Songs of the ...
Flyctory.com Songs Of The Week (week of 8th November 2024)
The first full week of November definitely kicks off the album season of the year. I have been loaded with ...
Visions of Atlantis (28th September 2024, Essen)
Finally, I made it - after featuring so many concerts of different genres, I headed to Essen in the German ...
Flyctory.com Songs Of The Week (week of 27th September 2024)
I had a very tough business trip to Paris this week. Nonetheless, I somehow managed to compile this list of ...
Flyctory.com Songs Of The Week (week of 13th September 2024)
Damn, I miss the Faroe Islands. I had a lovely weekend there last week. In the meantime, the weather and ...
Flyctory.com Songs Of The Week (week of 30th August 2024)
I still don't really manage creating a proper backlog of already prepared posting. Thus, the last weeks have been very ...
Flyctory.com Songs Of The Week (week of 9th August 2024)
This edition of my Songs of the Week feels like a ballad edition. There are a lot of gentle and emotional song ...
Flyctory.com Songs Of The Week (week of 26th July 2024)
What a week - I returned from my tennis coverage in Newport, now I am at the Olympic Games in ...
Flyctory.com Songs Of The Week (week of 21st June 2024)
Somehow, I can never now if the upcoming week is a "good one" or "bad one" regarding new releases. While ...
Flyctory.com Songs Of The Week (week of 31st May 2024)
This week, I am in Munich, watching a couple of Rock of Ages shows. The week is more busy and demanding ...
Flyctory.com Songs Of The Week (week of 10th May 2024)
Despite the World Floorball Championships coverage, I of course want to keep my Songs of the Week updated. Due to the ...
Flyctory.com Songs Of The Week (week of 26th April 2024)
Snow in April! After I had some snowfall after the Swiss Floorball Superfinals (my coverage of the women's match / ...
Folterkammer – Weibermacht
If you read the band name Folterkammer, which is German and translates to "Torture Chamber", you rather think that this ...
Alex Wellkers – Fly Away
I love to browse music and run into releases by artists who I did not know before. In line with ...
Flyctory.com Songs Of The Week (week of 15th March 2024)
A lot of traveling is ahead of me. I just returned from a trip to Bochum, watching my first two ...
Flyctory.com Songs Of The Week (week of 1st March 2024)
I struggled a bit compiling the Songs of the Week this time. The partial flight miles for my current trip ...
Flyctory.com Songs Of The Week (week of 23rd February 2024)
February 2024 is quite an intense month for me. Even though the trips I have planned and done are comparably ...
Flyctory.com Songs Of The Week (week of 9th February 2024)
Carnvial in Cologne - and I am in he United Arab Emirates this weekend. It is rather party season, no ...
Flyctory.com Songs Of The Week (week of 5th January 2024)
While I still had a rather short list of album releases, there was already quite a lot of stuff for ...
Santa’s Soundtrack 2023? Some Christmas Releases This Season
Unfortunately, I could not complete the Country Christmas Playlist this year due to technical issues. However, since the days become ...
Flyctory.com Songs Of The Week (week of 8th December 2023)
I am a bit of angry as the tool I loved to use to scan for new country releases does ...
Flyctory.com Songs Of The Week (week of 3rd November 2023)
I had a quite intensive week, exploring several interesting rail trips as well as being back in Pittsburgh and in ...
Flyctory.com Songs Of The Week (week of 13th October 2023)
I spent almost the entire week at work in Dublin at one of our offices. Quite an intense time, which ...
Flyctory.com Songs Of The Week (week of 29 September 2023)
Unfortunately, I had to kick out quite a lot of songs from my list, which I really liked. They just ...
Flyctory.com Songs Of The Week (week of 22 September 2023)
There is somehow always some sort of "topic" behind each and every Songs of the Week episode. If I would pick one ...
Flyctory.com Songs Of The Week (week of 15 September 2023)
The Songs Of The Week is one of my favorite categories of posts on my blog. Even I don't know how the ...
Rock of Ages – 2024 International Dates of the Musical
It is just mid-year 2023 and I already start working on my 2024 Rock of Ages International Tour list. I am sure ...
Flyctory.com Songs Of The Week (week of 25 August 2023)
I have quite intense weeks at work, not too many thrills on the Flyctory.com side. The next weeks will have ...
Uncaved – Dogmatorraistes
I was a bit confused when I tried to prepare this posting about the Swiss death metal band Uncaved and ...
Flyctory.com Songs Of The Week (week of 04 August 2023)
After some rather intense week of traveling, I feel rather happy to spend the next two weekends in and around ...
Hanna Sikasa – Sequel
Why not doing some jazz-pop in summer? Quite early before the release, I had the opportunity to listen to Sequel by ...
Flyctory.com Songs Of The Week (week of 14 July 2023)
Newcomers and established artists, rock and schlager, party songs and deep messages - I feel that this edition of my ...
Annie Taylor – Inner Smile
The act name Annie Taylor sounds like a solo artist from an English speaking country. However, it is the name ...
Green Labyrinth – Sequences
The metal band Green Labyrinth debuted with their 2014 album Shadow of the Past. Since then, it took them almost nine ...
Flyctory.com Songs Of The Week (week of 16 June 2023)
I typically rather focus presenting new and emerging act in my Song of the Week, but this time, the list of ...
Flyctory.com Songs Of The Week (week of 26 May 2023)
I have struggled quite much with health issues this week - which also prevented me to travel to some British Rock ...
Flyctory.com Songs Of The Week (week of 12 May 2023)
After the volume of songs in the last two weeks has been rather thin, this week's Songs of the Week comes with ...
Beyond Frequencies – Me Megalomaniac
Preparing for the releases as of 31st March 2023, I ran into the album Me Megalomaniac by the band Beyond Frequencies. I ...
Pat Burgener – PAT The Album
Swiss Pat(rick) Burgener is typically rather known for winter sports, for high jumps and speedy rotations. However, since 2018, he ...
Flyctory.com Songs Of The Week (week of 03 March 2023)
After my most recent edition of my Songs of the Week majorly featured German artists and a lot of pop, my song ...
Flyctory.com Songs Of The Week (week of 24 February 2023)
I love gathering songs for Songs of the Week, as the result is so unpredictable, even for me, until short before ...
Flyctory.com Songs Of The Week (week of 03 February 2023)
I am kicking off the most stressful part of the year, quite likely. This week, I headed off to Peterborough ...
Flyctory.com Songs Of The Week (week of 20 January 2023)
Oh wow, I really have to limit myself this week. There is so much good music being released this week ...
Flyctory.com Songs Of The Week (week of 06 January 2023)
Welcome to the first Songs of the Week posting in 2023! Despite the music industry is slowly getting back to business, I ...
Flyctory.com Songs Of The Week (week of 30 December 2022)
I guess that the next weeks will be more intense. Depending if you look at the publishing or the cut-off ...
Flyctory.com – My Favorite Songs 2022
Since I started working with Flyctory.com, I present you a list of my favorite songs at the end of every ...
Flyctory.com Songs Of The Week (week of 25 November 2022)
"Little Christmas" - as there is Thanksgiving in the United States, the volume of new releases is significantly reduced, just ...
Jonathan E. Blake – Old Souls
I am always glad when I run into genres, which are not that frequently covered on Flyctory.com. Indeed, instrumental music ...
DJ BoBo – Evolut30n
Some thirty years ago, there was Somebody to Dance with Me. The song started in some clubs in Switzerland. In January, ...
Börni – Two Truths
It is twelve years ago since Börni released her last album. However, the Swiss artist gained some focus on my ...
Flyctory.com Songs Of The Week (week of 7 October 2022)
I had an amazing week in Cyprus and am just about to prepare for my second trip to the Weird ...
Flyctory.com Songs Of The Week (week of 23 September 2022)
Even though there are quite a bunch of German (language) songs and German artists in the set of new releases ...
Flyctory.com Songs Of The Week (week of 19 August 2022)
Honestly, I had a lot of 1970's and 1980's songs in mind the last days - so exclude me in ...
Flyctory.com Songs Of The Week (week of 29 July 2022)
Weird times: my list of candidates for my Songs of the Week this time was much longer, but a lot of ...
Flyctory.com Songs Of The Week (week of 01 July 2022)
This week, I had at least an easy time determining the leading track of my Songs of the Week. I listened ...
Flyctory.com Songs Of The Week (week of 24 June 2022)
Whenever I start working for my Songs of the Week, I typically scan the candidates I archived for that reason and ...
Flyctory.com Songs Of The Week (week of 17 June 2022)
I am looking back to a really interesting week of music. For me personally, I have been so happy to ...
Flyctory.com Songs Of The Week (week of 10 June 2022)
I had a long list of songs for my Songs of the Week... and after I composed a nice order of ...
Mary Keey – Digital Me
In preparation for the music reviews as of 10th June 2022, I ran into Digital Me by Mary Keey. Unfortunately, I ...
Flyctory.com Songs Of The Week (week of 3 June 2022)
I am still in the process of recovering from illness - not sure if that had any influence on my ...
Flyctory.com Songs Of The Week (week of 27 May 2022)
Due to illness, I unfortunately cannot provide you the full coverage on the music side of Flyctory.com - and it ...
Monotrone – 1 (One)
Monotrone is a rather new rock band from Switzerland. For their debut album, which will be published on 27th May ...
Flyctory.com Songs Of The Week (week of 20 May 2022)
I had a quite long list of songs for my Songs of the Week this time. The 20th May 2022 list is ...
Flyctory.com Songs Of The Week (week of 13 May 2022)
While I had to process quite a lot of country music new releases this week, the list of non-country songs ...
Silver Dust – Lullabies
I really enjoyed running into the music of the Swiss band Silver Dust again. I already seen the rockers on ...
Carson – The Wilful Pursuit of Ignorance
Stoner rock from Switzerland... or New Zealand... or both? The background of Carson is quite international. On 15th April 2022, ...
Askara – Lights Of Night
Askara is a melodic dark metal band from Switzerland. They grew steadily over the last years and are now ready ...
Spotlight – Flyctory.com meets CJ of Paleface (29th March 2022)
Just this weekend, I introduced you to Fear & Dagger, the second album by the Swiss beatdown band Paleface. Even though ...
Flyctory.com Songs Of The Week (week of 25 March 2022)
While the last week's edition solely covered a few songs, my 25th March 2022 version of the Songs Of The Week ...
Paleface – Fear & Dagger
Paleface is naming themselves to be the best beatdown band of their home country, Switzerland. With Fear & Dagger, the band is ...
Flyctory.com Songs Of The Week (week of 11 March 2022)
Not really sure whether it is my March 2022 trip with the Pittsburgh Penguins or other influences, but this time, ...
Flyctory.com Songs Of The Week (week of 04 Feb 2022)
The last two editions of the Songs Of The Week had a really nice load of positive feedback. Thus, I am really ...
Flyctory.com Songs Of The Week (week of 28 Jan 2022)
After I have already been struggling with the idea of the Songs of the Week, the feedback on my previous edition ...
Joe Sciacca – Kleine Wolke EP
After two albums in English, Joe Sciacca is releasing his EP Kleine Wolke on 21st January 2022. Obviously quite a move, ...
Flyctory.com – My Favorite Albums / EPs 2021
2021 definitely lifted Flyctory.com to another level. The community is steadily increasing - days with less than 2,000 page hits ...
Saint City Orchestra – Unified
Already the band description sounds interesting: the Saint City Orchestra is a Swiss folk-punk band. Active since 2013, they release ...
Beatrice Egli – Alles Was Du Brauchst
From a TV talent show to the top of the charts: Beatrice Egli definitely took profit of winning the tenth ...
Cristina Maria Sieber – Herzfrequenzen
Schlager music from Switzerland: Cristina Maria Sieber has been releasing her second album on 9th July 2021. The title is ...
Ellis Mano Band – Ambedo
The Ellis Mano Band is one of the key acts in the Swiss blues-rock scene. The two musicians behind the ...
Stefanie Heinzmann – Labyrinth
Since Stefanie Heinzmann won a TV talent show format in 2008, she is a well-known artist in the German speaking ...
Sing meinen Song – Das Tauschkonzert Vol. 8
Sing meinen Song ("Sing My Song") is definitely one of my favorite German TV music shows. A group of music artist ...
Dreamshade – A Pale Blue Dot
Metalcore made in Switzerland: Dreamshade are doing music since 2006. On 5th March 2021, they will release their fourth album ...
Yello – Point
Yello are legends of synth-pop and electronic music. The Swiss band was big in the 1980's, but are still producing ...
Spotlight – Flyctory.com meets Lerocque (15th April 2020)
While my Spotlight Interview so far have been concentrated in the country music scene, I was very happy to run ...
Gotthard – #13 (Album Review)
The Swiss band Gotthard is something like their nation's national monument in the Hard Rock genre. They publish music since the ...
James Barker Band (20th November 2019, Zurich)
After I visited a couple of Sound of Nashville shows in Cologne and surroundings, I felt lucky to do my ...
