The last three months of the year are about to start. Traditionally, the focus is rather on well-known artists, their Christmas albums and Best of compilations. However, my Songs of The Week have a really nice mixture of several genres –…
Jim Kroft – The Isolation Diaries Vol. 3 EP
“One man, one camera, one guitar” – that’s about the idea of the current mission of Jim Kroft. The Berlin resident is not just a singer-songwriter, but is also recording movies. While traveling through China, Russia and Africa, he launched…
Monster Truck – Warriors
Warriors is the fourth and latest studio album by the Canadian rock band Monster Truck. They had some rather successful songs in the last decade, even though the predecessor album was not that much of a commercial success. The more, I…
Melissa Naschenweng – Glück
Her song I steh auf Bergbauernbuam (“I love male mountain farmer boys”) has been streamed some 8.5 million times on Spotify and viewed 17 million times on YouTube. No doubt, Melissa Naschenweng is one of the most booming and successful Austrian artists…
Slipknot – The End, So Far
The metal guys with the mask… No, I am not talking about my beloved monsters Lordi, but about Slipknot. The US-Americans, who by the way come from the same town as Sarah Darling, released their seventh album on 30th September…
Ashley McBryde – Lindeville
You just cannot deny that Ashley McBryde is one of the most characterful storytellers of the country music business. Songs like Fat and Famous link deep message with a big sense of humor. The more I was looking forward to Ashley’s…
Arina – A+ (EP)
About a year ago, on 3rd September 2021, Katharina Weiß announced that she will leave the band Die Draufgänger. The brass-folk-pop combo, which has become popular far beyond their home country Austria, had to replace the very strong and popular…
Richard Marx – Songwriter
Richard Marx’s 2020 album Limitless definitely blew my mind. It did not only make it easily into the Top Pick! ratings, it also placed fourth in the non-country albums of my My Favorite Albums & EPs posting as of that year. On 30th…