Sometimes, it is easy to select the leading track of my Songs of the Week: I had two hot candidates, but one of them is neither on YouTube nor on other social media than Facebook. No issues for Mike Shinoda, of…
Mael & Jonas – Rocket Science
On 10th February 2023, I ran into the single release All my Songs by the German duo Mael & Jonas (in fact, Mael comes with a diaeresis / trema) in my Songs of the Week. I loved the song and looked forward to…
H+ Hotel Köln Brühl
Even though Brühl right South of Cologne is just home of 45,000 inhabitant, there are mutiple major attractions in the city. Fans of history and architecture fancy the multiple castles within the city limits, action buffs go to one of…
Weird Al Yankovic tours Europe 2023 – My Reprise
Ten shows within three weeks – I was just so flattered to welcome Weird Al Yankovic and his lovely band mates in Europe. I originally had very different travel plans. Even though these weeks have been hard and exhausting, I…
Wolfgang Petry – Stark wie wir
Wolfgang Petry is back: just about one and a half years after Auf das Leben and half a year after Crosswalk to Nowhere with his alter ego Pete Wolf, the schlager artist is back in the record stores. On 3rd March 2023, he…
AnnenMayKantereit – Es ist Abend und wir sitzen bei mir
They started as a school band in my home town and gained global reputation: AnnenMayKantereit released their fourth album Es ist Abend und wir sitzen bei mir (“It is evening and we are sitting at my place”) on 3rd March 2023. Even…
Five Years of Flyctory.com – My 20 Most Popular Travel Posts (so far…)
Damn, it is already four years… And it is more than 2,750 postings since then. On 25th February 2018, I started regular posts on Flyctory.com. The first ones might be rather poor – and the initial generation of reviews does…
Flyctory.com Songs Of The Week (week of 17 February 2023)
Damn – just when I had a massive travel volume, the number of new releases of all genres went up significantly. I wonder if the record companies have some sort of marketing model, which determines the best point of sale…