This week, I am in Munich, watching a couple of Rock of Ages shows. The week is more busy and demanding than I actually expected. My backlog of posts is rather short, but I just manage to create and maintain the content I actually need for keeping the website running. No need to complain, I am having a good time. I hope you are having a good time listening to these new releases. I feel it is a really great set of music.
LOI – The Way I Want It
German artist LOI is becoming more and more present on Flyctory.com. Her song Am I Enough already lead my Songs of the Week in the 17th November 2023 edition and I loved her Cologne concert a few weeks before that. This week, she released The Way I Want It, a beautiful song with some strong summer vibes. And she is on the top of my list again. A great artist!
Molly Sanden – Slutet av Sommarn
The second song in my release radar this week is from Sweden. Molly Sanden, the female voice behind the amazing song Husavik (which I featured in my Favorite Songs 2023 post), is releasing a new single. Great pop track – the song title translates to End of Summer. Molly is on tour this year – unfortunately in Sweden only.
KTSN 21 feat. Kira – Fight
KTSN 21 is a synth pop project from Hamburg. The key people behind the project are Sven Neben and Thomas Kleeblatt, who is also the singer. For this song, the added the female voice Kira. The song strongly reminds of Modern Talking and similar 1980’s acts. I love that style.
Rita Ora – Ask & You Shall Receive
Rita Ora is one of the big names in my this week’s post. The British artist with Kosovan-Albanian roots released Ask & You Shall Receive this Friday. A typical modern pop track with nice vibes.
Eminem – Houdini
Rap and hip hop are typically not that much represented in here. However, I just cannot deny that this Eminem song has a nice touch. The US-American rapper is sampling the 1982 song Abacadabra by Steve Miller Band in his new release, which is also the leading single for his new album The Death of Slim Shady (Coup de Grace).
Charly Bliss – Calling You Out
Another US-American act this week is Charly Bliss. The power-pop band from Brooklyn is active since 2011. Calling You Out is a single of the album Forever, which will be released on 16th August 2024.
NESS – Immer Da
NESS is opening the block of German language song. The young Austrian musician released the very nice modern pop track Immer Da this week. She will be touring towards the end of the year. Some of the shows are already sold out or have been upgraded to larger venues.
Oli.P – Alles wird leichter
Oliver Petszikat alias Oli.P became popular as an actor in a famous German daily soap, in which he also started performing songs. While this lead to a couple of very successful single and album releases in the very late 1990’s, the following two decades did not come with too many high chart placements for him. However, his last album, the 2023 Hey Freiheit – Das Album made it to the fourth spot in the German charts. Songs like his new one, Alles wird leichter, underline that this is absolutely deserved.
Alligatoah – Der Hugenottenfriedhof
After Eminem, German rapper and singer Alligatoah is another artist, which typically has a tougher time of getting into my release radar.However, his new single covering famous former GDR artist Wolf Biermann is an absolute blast and shows a very different side of the rapper. I love it.
Markus Wutte feat. Nadiia Suprun – Never Give up!
Never give up! is a collaboration of Austrian singer and guitarist Markus Wutte and Ukranian writer Nadiia Suprun. The result of this collaboration, which started at a songwriting bootcamp, is this energetic listen.
Paula Dalla Corte – Heavy Heart
Paula Dalla Corte is taking her next steps in the music business world. Heavy Heart is a single from her upcoming debut EP Fashion, which will be released in three weeks. The Swiss artist became famous when she won the 2020 edition of The Voice of Germany. Very intense song.
BENN – Square One
BENN is a Swedish-Finnish artist, who is just about to release his debut album How Loving Makes You Feel. A nice, catching uptempo song in the alt-pop/alt-rock sphere.
Smash Into Pieces feat. Liamoo – Flame
The Swedish rock band Smash Into Pieces is collaborating with their countryman Liamoo for this new single release. Flame is a truly energetic song.
A Day To Remember – Feedback
There are a couple of really cool rock songs this week. Feedback is the new release by the US-American post-hardcore band A Day To Remember. A song for the harder music listeners.
Lansdowne – Oxygen
The closing song is another metal track by a US-American band. Lansdowne from Boston are already active since 2006 and grew a large fan base since then. Their new song Oxygen illustrates the energy and power of the quintet.
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:
Media Reviews – German Artists 2024
Here are all my Media Reviews from German artists I published during 2024:
There are not too many bands who dare to release albums a few days before Christmas. The more I was ...
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 ...
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 ...
German artist Mense traveled through Spain for half a year. It was only himself, his wife and his dog Angus, ...
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 ...
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 ...
Sometimes, when I scan new music releases, I run into songs or albums, which simply make me smile. One of ...
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 loved Bell Book & Candle in the late 1990's. The German band from Berlin especially stroke with their debut ...
"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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
In 2010, Germany fell in love with a 19-year old lady. Lena managed to do what somehow felt impossible for ...
When scanning new releases as of 24th May 2024, I was running into a very interesting release by a German ...
I already featured the band Ochmoneks twice in my Songs of the Week, on 9th June and on 7th July 2023 ...
The German rock band is already active since more than two decades. Not too surprisingly, the band is having quite ...
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 ...
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 ...
I typically receive quite a lot of jazz promotion. However, I rarely find albums and EPs which I really enjoy ...
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 ...
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 ...
I always enjoy sharing some new German artists with you. This time, I listened to a debut album by the ...
I am always a bit of extra-flattered when my most frequently used promotion platform shows an album by a German ...
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 ...
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 ...
2024 Hotel Reviews
Here are all my hotel reviews published in 2024:
Covering the opening of the "Goldenes Oval" and the Dresden vs. Weißenfels Floorball Bundesliga match took me to Dresden in ...
The Royal Rose Hotel in Abu Dhabi is one of the classic and traditional stays in the U.A.E. capital. The ...
Even though I felt rather weak and we had to adopt my travel plans, my wife and I finally decided ...
For our stay in Bergen, Norway, my wife and I chose the Hotel No13 in the center of the town ...
Attending a conference in the city, I had one night at the IntercityHotel Mannheim. My typical choice, the Hilton Garden ...
Covering at least one day of the Czitrom Andras Hungaria Kupa in October 2024 and reporting from the Hungarian Floorball National ...
In September 2024, I had two Rock of Ages musical amateur shows in Newcastle in Northern England. Not having too many other ...
In early October 2024, I took a trip to Indonesia. The trip featured several staggered flights, optimized for cost and ...
While I had quite a bunch of hotel changes of my inbound and outbound trip to Indonesia in October 2024, ...
I had a quite weird situation staying at the Hilton Garden Inn Innsbruck Tivoli. I booked the hotel as Hotel ...
For a business trip to Paris in September 2024, I chose a hotel in La Defense. The Hilton options around ...
My July 2024 tennis trip to Newport, Rhode Island, featured quite a range of different hotels. I spent the first ...
As I didn't feel like taking the night ICE train after my August 2024 trip to Dresden from Berlin to ...
The December 2023-opened Sandoyartunnilin (Sandoy Tunnel) allowed me to visit the Southern island of Sandoy on the Faroe Islands. Apart ...
I haven't done a "Review Battle" for quite a while. Today, I am comparing two hotels of the same brand ...
The very last hotel night on my mileage run to Jakarta and the Emirates was a stay I was really ...
In October 2024, I spent my very first hotel night in Qatar. En route to Jakarta, I wanted to explore ...
Watching a musical show with a performer I know brought me to Bielefeld in September 2024. Due to my Accor ...
Wolfsburg might not be the first place which comes to your mind when you think about German touristic hotspots.. However, ...
One of the key challenges of visiting the last stage of the German Rock of Ages musical tour 2024 in ...
With five nights, my longest stay during the Tennis Hall of Fame Open 2024 in Newport, Rhode Island, was the ...
From time to time, I simply enjoy having a night in Cologne, between two office days close to the office ...
For my coverage of the Swedish Floorball Finals 2024 in the Friends Arena in Solna, I originally had a booking ...
Getting a reasonably priced hotel during Olympic Games is typically a very tricky task. Thus, I was quite happy when ...
Also due to the high hotel prices over New Year's Eve, my wife and I did some hotel-hopping in Las ...
O my recent trip to Malaysia in February 2024, I also had one night at the Southern mainland town Johor ...
After I covered the Muxx.tv show by Jessica Lynn in Erftstadt, I felt that I should also just visit one ...
While getting a reasonably priced hotel in Paris for Olympic Games 2024 was quite a hassle (at least if you ...
A key issue about organizing my trip to Newport for the Infosys Tennis Hall of Fame Open 2024 were hotels ...
Ibn Battuta Gate is not only right next to my favorite mall in Dubai, the Ibn Battuta Mall, but it ...
In order to cover the German Athletics Nationals 2024, I needed to have a three night stay in Braunschweig. I ...
After I just had one night in Vienna in April 2024, watching a show of the Rock of Ages musical ...
As flights were much cheaper from Brussels (BRU) than from Dusseldorf (DUS) or Frankfurt (FRA), I opted for the Belgian ...
The pictures already suggest it: this hotel review is in fact not based on a recent stay. My wife and ...
Getting a hotel in or around Mönchengladbach should typically be not too much of an issue. However, when I wanted ...
I have stayed at the Mercure Hotel Düsseldorf Ratingen a couple of times before my night in June 2024. However, ...
When my wife and I visited Las Vegas in December 2023, this was exactly ten years after our wedding there ...
For the final 2024 shows of the musical Rock of Ages, I had two different hotels in Zurich. I spent ...
I more and more tend to have hotels in the outer boroughs of Pittsburgh when I visit the city. The ...
After I had a stay at the Novotel in the area right before Covid-19 broke out, I haven't been staying ...
Hotel pricing in New York is weird. It is very hard to spot a reasonable place for 250 USD per ...
During World Floorball Championships, my demands on accommodation are rather basic: I need a bed, breakfast, a work desk, electrical ...
For Charles Esten's show in Hamburg in May 2024, I needed a hotel in the Northern German city. I chose ...
When I received my rental car from Avis at Myrtle Beach Airport (MYR), the representative there surprised me. Homewood Suites? ...
In order to cover the Carrie Welling and Kasey Williams show in Hengelo in the Netherlands in early May 2024 ...
My third stage of my Rock of Ages tour-chasing took me to the Austrian capital Vienna. With the show being ...
The Swiss Floorball Superfinals 2024 in Fribourg gave me a bit of a travel headache. I would have made it ...
Hotel prices in the USA are getting more and more ridiculous and this require to go for some strategy and ...
There are still some hotel reviews which came from my 2023 Weird Al Yankovic European Tour tour-chasing. One of them ...
Meeting with friends in Troisdorf between Bonn and Cologne in the evening and relaxing at the Wellnest private spa Bonn ...
Dubai is not only a place where you run into people from all over the world, but also in hotel ...
Is this already a hotel? Or is it something like an upgraded hostel? I was really curious when I had ...
Krakow is one of my favorite cities in Poland. After some active time, I thus decided to explore the city ...
12th March 2024 brought me to Bochum in the German Ruhrgebiet. The city hosted my very first Rock of Ages ...
Even though I really enjoyed my trip with Saudia Airlines from Tunis (TUN) to Kuala Lumpur (KUL), the transfer times ...
At the time when I started writing this posting in early March 2024, Flyctory.com already featured reviews of over 320 ...
Krakow is one of my favorite places in Poland. I love the city and the wide range of historic and ...
A strike in Germany caused me to re-book my February 2024 flight to Dubai. Instead of Thursday morning, I landed ...
Apart from staying in the lovely Hilton Kuala Lumpur, I checked out some more hotels during my February 2024 trip ...
In order to cover the Jenn Bostic show in London in February 2024, I was looking for a hotel in ...
Arriving on a Friday from Germany at Tunis Airport (TUN) and heading on the day thereafter, I was looking for ...
As I knew it would be rather late after I visited the TSV Erlensee Floorball Bundesliga home matches vs. Dümptener ...
On the first weekend of January 2024, I had the opportunity to feature two Swiss floorball matches on the same ...
After spending three days in San Diego, my wife and I headed on to Coachella Valley in late December 2023 ...
I was so happy to be back in Abu Dhabi in February 2024. Especially due to the stricter Covid-19 restrictions ...
Returning from a USA trip in early November 2023, I had a night in the city of Budapest. I was ...
A Hilton Hotel just an hour away from my home coming with a special kind of architecture and competitive prices? ...
Having dinner with some frequent traveler friends in Frankfurt lead to a one night stay in the German city, famous ...
Staying in Gothenburg for one night to handle the Pixbo IBK vs. Malmö FFC Floorball Women SSL match, I had ...
After my stay at the Adagio Hotel Bremen in 2023, I really had a certain traveller's crush on the aparthotel ...
On 6th January 2024, I have been in Switzerland to cover two floorball matches, Zulgtal Eagles vs. Visper Lions and ...
There were a couple of different options and changes in the itinerary of our recent Las Vegas trip in December ...
Reykjavik has been the last stop (before staying at the Aurora Star at Keflavik Airport KEF) of the Icelandic Ring ...
Reviving somewhat the same route we took ten years ago, when my wife and I married in Las Vegas - ...