all

A dark evening in 2012, two ambitious musicians meet, Achim and Tom, they talk, talk shop - then, a guitar, three chords and Johnny Cash's "I walk the line". Later the decision is made - we found a band. In addition to the already occupied vocals and the guitar, the vacant position of the drums is quickly filled. Andrea, pianist, is forcibly recruited, staged appropriately and placed behind the drums. What is still missing is the support for the woofers. We finally find what we are looking for at a neighborhood birthday party, the double bass is occupied. As a youngster, Julius complements the Coal Cats. In 2012 fate takes its course in the form of the first appearance. After more than 100 concerts, thousands of kilometers driven, hundreds of fresh strings, several studio stays and more than 50 songs including original compositions, Tubeless Tom and the Coal Cats are one of the most enthusiastic bands east of the Memphis River. Whether it's the smallest pub, the festival with established rock 'n rollers or on big stages, Tubeless Tom and his Coal Cats know how to impress.

01 intro
02 Addicted to Rock'n'Roll
03 Burgers, beer and rock 'n' roll
04 The Playhouse
05 A lovers grief
06 Blue suede John
07 I could fall
08 All alone
09 Get Lost

The motif of the record cover is, so to speak, the common thread of the fifth album by the song lyricist Michael Witte. An emotional curriculum vitae begins with the rocking title song and the following titles honestly describe the imponderability in which goals and hope are not lost. "If your summit has long been full of foreign flags - then show everyone what's still possible".
Supplemented by the saxophone of Osnabrück companion Tommy Schneller, Witte has recorded all the tracks himself for the first time and the spectrum of instruments used and cross-genre coloring ensures a successful arc of suspense After the powerful departure of the first half, the songs are increasingly devoted to the review, to the last Piece to accompany the listener "Home". Once there, many impressions remain. Above all, having a concept album in front of you that tells its universal and transferrable story. Michael Witte lives in Aachen and, in addition to his songs, also writes and produces music for dance theater and film projects. Live he presents his music with a lot of sympathy and authenticity in solo concerts and with the support of his experienced band.
The remixed title "I don't want to see you" was published as a video in 2016 as part of a charity campaign. There was a lot of praise and recognition for this, especially from fellow musicians. In addition, the lyrics appeared in the book publication "Between coming and staying" with an essay by Michael Witte.

SIDE A
01 The bunny life
02 Your own 10th
03 What else is possible
04 I don't want to see you

SIDE B
01 To the point of no longer
02 The salt in our eyes
03 long ago
04 Home

Over the past few years, we've seen Michael Lane express both positive upheaval and pain through his music. Personal stories that we can identify with. Now it's time for Michael Lane's new album, Traveling Son (Greywood/Timezone), out October 25th. "Traveling Son" portrays the story of a six-year-old boy who traveled 7,000 miles with his mother to a place that never became home. For the first time, the album includes, in addition to numerous original compositions, titles that were written together with other musicians, who let their own personality infuse. Thus “Traveling Son” becomes a common expression of fragility. In "Believe", the album's first single, Michael Lane is not afraid to step against modern social norms and invites the listener to rediscover their own perspective, even their stubbornness. "Believe" encourages the repressed version of yourself to break free from the shackles to follow your dreams.
The German-American got to know many facets of life. As a 20-year-old soldier in the US Army in Iraq, stationed a little later in Afghanistan and at the same time with a great penchant for music, Michael Lane was able to experience the extremes of life early on: Separation from war and unity in music. "As a soldier I witnessed the cruel absurdity of the war. It is inconceivable to me what must happen in other people to make such conditions possible. After that it was clear to me that I had to find a way in my own way to do Something against this madness. Music was my key. It connects people to each other and I want to contribute to that."

01 Traveling Sun
02 Enjoy the Show (feat. Nate Bernardini)
03 Believe
04 Worth It
05 Head for the Hills
06 Love Will Save the World
07 1982
08 Wish You Were Here
09 Just a Child
10 Stormy Weather
11 Stay
12 Shines

Gabriele and Martin Janneck's new album "Light & Shadow" keeps what its title promises: everything revolves around light and shadow.
Eight coherent titles with an incredible atmospheric density tell of light and darkness, of fire in the rain, of candlelight that seems to outlast everything...
With beautiful, colourful, mostly electric sounds, the two musicians make powerful images audible.

01 Prelude
02 Light
03 Shadow
04 nightlife
05 A Candle
06 Fire In The Rain
07 The Candle Is Still Burning
08 Flying Through The Night

Breathe in and out, take a deep breath, take a breath. Of second chances and rediscovered possibilities. From the first breaths of a young life to a world that is slowly but surely running out of breath. With her music, Michaela Kuti creates an atmosphere that bewitches and touches. Their songs are little odes in their own right, showing that there is someone who has something to say. The singer and songwriter's new album "Atmen" includes eight pop song pearls in German, arranged and produced by Conny Conrad with purely acoustic instruments. Catchy melodies, emotional themes and profound lyrics, paired with a modern and fresh pop sound are the recipe for the success of this album. Breathing is like music flowing through all veins. Far and deep, light and heavy, here and now at the same time.

01 Made of glass
02 dawn clouds
03 roots and wings
04 Breathe
05 let me go
06 Lifetime
07 From above
08 stop (stop the world)

Let's get ready for Copper Smoke - it's about time!
If Tom Petty had formed a band with Johnny Cash and invited Bruce Springsteen and Neil Young to it, it would probably have been the revolution in the history of rock music. Inconceivably? Not quite, because the Würzburg band Copper Smoke stands for exactly this sound. However, this is not another tribute cover band, but an independent band with compositions mostly written by Frank Halbig, which bring a raw, unpolished sound and the flair of the US American South with them.
Copper Smoke is a multiple winner of the German Rock and Pop Prize 2018 and, in addition to numerous festival and club gigs, has also worked as a support band for American scene bands such as "Micky and the Motorcars" or "The Captain Legendary Band". Together, the five francs have a good 100 years of stage experience and convince with their joy of playing and their trademark, polyphonic singing.

01 Long Way Home
02 What If
03 Adeline
04 Broken Dishes
05 The Devil Makes Me Think Of You
06 Bright Lights
07 Little More Tired
08 Bullets, Tanks And Guns

The current Bucket Boys CD, released in autumn 2019, is the ultimate construction kit for constructing all stories on the subject of love & hate - songs between yesterday and tomorrow, good & bad, sick & even sicker. Anyone looking for a depiction of "Love 'n' Hate" that is far removed from reality will surely find what they are looking for in the sounds between Rock'n'Roll, Country, Roots and Desert Rock.
On the road since 1995, the Bucket Boys have already released 14 CDs in addition to countless live and radio appearances. Their songs are characterized by backyard romance and longing, desert intoxication and tequila-fueled fantasies - and all imaginable varieties of love & hate.

01 Won't You Be
02 tonight
03 changes
04 Reach the Beach
05 Kill Yourself
06 Naked In The Street
07 Don't You Know What Love Is
08 Too Far Away
09 What I Do To You Tonight
10 Take Your Suitcase
11 True Love
12 Thoughts On An Electric Chair - reloaded
13 Last Christmas * With A Little Gift

News from the unstoppable Roots, Country & Garage locomotive from Augsburg: while "Wide Open Road" almost flatters itself as a modern alternative-country classic in demanding auditory canals, "Just For Tonight" tears the listener out of the armchair onto the dance floor, shakes him properly and finally lets him sink to the ground, sweaty and battered but happy - a top-class 60s garage piece that can hardly be compared. But don't forget: only those who really listen to the beautifully designed 7inch can get an idea of ​​Steve Train's latest stroke of genius, Bad Habits!

SIDE A
01 Wide Open Road

SIDE B
01 Just For Tonight

The fuzz guitar bangs out riffs, the organ delivers beat and bass, the two-part harmony tells melodic-melancholic stories about being dumped. The brothers from Augsburg have not only been stirring up the garage scene since yesterday, but since their debut in 2016. For the second single, the brothers, Roman and Matthias, teamed up again with off label records from Donauwörth. With "The Man" and "Goodbye Baby" the two with the sound of three now deliver the Faust 2 of their 60s rock interpretation: even groovier, even heavier, even more resonant.

SIDE A
01 The Man

SIDE B
02 Goodbye baby

In his new solo album, the pianist Alexander Hopff, who lives in Hamburg, combines pure jazz piano with strong influences from classical music/film music/world music and chanson: all musical areas in which Hopff has been working and creating for over 30 years.
The present 28 compositions were created between 1985 and 2010 and set encounters to music, so to speak: encounters with people, metropolises, landscapes - but also moods. These moods can be cheerful, exuberant, improvisational, but also elegiac, dark, melancholic. Sometimes fleetingly sketchy, then concretely defined again.
For Alexander Hopff, the piano, the "pianoforte" with its limitless nuances is the ideal medium for expressing all these moods and tones. In keeping with the motto of the composer and pianist Franz Liszt: "The piano has the ability to absorb everyone's life..."

01 Suddenly
02 African Fight Song
03 Little Fragment
04 Social workers
05 Major Hilli
06 Like Chinese
07 Blue And Beautiful
08 Love Boat
09 Sogetto Cavatto Di Britta
10 Moon Over Hagenbeck
11 Uli's Blues
12 After The Rain
13 Io's song (Yellow Bird)
14 Crazyvonne

It seems as if the time of the critical song was over with the death of Franz Josef Degenhardt in 2011. At least it has disappeared from public perception. Krysztof Daletski is one of those who continues this tradition. He says: "Unfortunately, the times are such that I can no longer say: 'Let someone else do it'". And so he writes songs that deal with current trends, e.g with the market-radical ideology, which calls itself "non-ideological". The booklets of the CDs contain background information and self-drawn caricatures. Accompanied only with the guitar, he sings in a duet with his daughter: sometimes direct, sometimes pathetic, sometimes satirical.

01 A happy song
02 Justifications
03 Fiŝoj en la dezerto
04 Possible to a limited extent
05 The value of learning
06 Gardi la revon
07 The neoliberal litany
08 Two percent
09 Michel's military reawakening
10 Of Snakes And Men
11 Different times, different words
12 The fruit of righteousness will be peace

It has now taken three years for the Berlin songwriter Marceese to release his second Baby Kreuzberg album. In addition to his over 100 solo concerts a year, his other musical projects are also to blame for the long waiting time. In the meantime he has released a double album and three more KISS cover CDs with his desert rock band Red Stoner Sun and promoted his children's song band Raketen Erna.
On “Speak of the Devil” you will find a sporty balancing act of the genres, as one is used to from Berliners. While the opener “You can't bring me down” is knee-deep in the blues, “The root of evil” is swingy and rock-a-billy-esk and from the driving QOTSA garage rock to “Blonde on Blonde” to the intimate farewell song "It's the end" on the piano, the field of rock'n'roll is plowed in all its facets. The first release "Down by the lake" is about a serial killer and the album also has a spooky mood.
You'd think Jim Jarmusch would have asked for a soundtrack and got “Speak of the Devil”. But the folky moments are also included with “What the fuzz?”, A swan song for the right-wing extremists, and with “Thank you” Baby Kreuzberg settles accounts with an organizer. With “Twilight” Marceese conjures up a flawless catchy tune that nobody wants to be.
“Speak of the Devil” will be released by Timezone Records as gatefold vinyl including a download card with 3 bonus tracks.
From November Baby Kreuzberg will be on a solo tour across the country again. The man comes around.

01 You can't bring me down
02 The root of evil
03 Down by the lake
04 Blonde on blonde
05 It's the end
06 Twilight
07 Thank you
08 What the fuzz?
09 Two kinds of people
10 Be nobody
11 Girl with spanish eyes
12 Looking for a change (live)

Werner Vogt is really no longer a young hop and has been hanging around in the clubs and on the stages of the republic with various bands in the most diverse styles of popular music for many years. INCI, his second CD under his real name after "Rock `n`Roll Monument", is always proof of this experience and calmness in dealing with rock and pop. Twelve from beginning to end composed and stylistically stringent songs with a total of more than 50 minutes of music are collected on the CD and want to be heard.
His German texts are of the finest quality and could easily be the subject of a poetry seminar. His songs, by guitarist Mickey Meinert and keyboardist Achim Meier dressed in a densely spun instrumental framework, are not actually commercial, but they get stuck in your ear canals the first time you hear them and with their rousing messages they not only touch your heart, but also your heart also get stuck in the so-called neural networks in the head. All in all an album for fans of the German language and of popular music in the upper segment in terms of quality.

01 Inc
02 Tell me why
03 Aquarius
04 Half the moon
05 This is me
06 Let me go
07 Laika
08 Hold my hand
09 Land in sight
10 Jimmy keep at it
11 Crazy About You
12 Waiting for the wind

My first encounter with Bob Dylan was definitely a cover version of The Byrds, the American band that owes the unusual spelling of their name to the fact that in the course of Beatlemania, which was rampant at the time, it became fashionable to give groups animal names and analogous to the To alienate Liverpoolers with a letter. That was the reason why there was something like The Monkees or The Byrds. The band's biggest hit was their rocking version of Dylan's "Mr. Tambourine Man”, which reached number one in both the US and UK, something His Bobness has personally never been able to do with his own versions. What made the adaptation of the song so extraordinary was on the one hand the combination of country and bluegrass influences with what was then known as beat music to the new genre of folk rock, but on the other hand above all the characteristic sound of Roger McGuinn's twelve-string electrically amplified Rickenbacker guitar. Of course, alongside this groundbreaking cover version, there were others that hit the charts and became better known than the originals. Julie Driscoll with "This Wheel's On Fire" and Manfred Mann with "Mighty Queen" covered songs from the "Basement Tapes", which were circulating underground as the first bootleg in rock history, long before they were officially released in 1975; Jimi Hendrix raised the bar on Dylan interpretation with "All Along The Watchtower" off 1967's John Wesley Harding; and English folk-rock pioneers Fairport Convention partially translated the largely unknown Dutch-only single "If You Got To Go, Go Now" into French as "Si Tu Dois Partir", creating one of my personal favorite recordings of all times. There is a wonderful term in rock literature called the “portal function”. Just as people of my generation came to the blues originals of Robert Johnson, Willie Dixon or Howlin' Wolf via the music of the early Rolling Stones or bands like Fleetwood Mac or Cream, it was certainly the many Dylan interpretations that ultimately drew one to the original, to the master himself.
The oeuvre of this man, who has been traveling the world on his never-ending tour for decades, has now become a true monolith of popular music, whose individual parts are not only constantly being reinterpreted by himself, but also countless cover versions of the light in the world, who always find new, surprising approaches and make Dylan's work a living classic. Most recently, Marianne Faithfull proved that with a great recording of It's All Over Now, Baby Blue. Oliver Mally follows in big footsteps with this record, which he does with verve and bravura, adding some new sparkling stars to the Dylan universe. By the way, the cover of this publication by pumpkinrecords refers to the album "Byrds Play Dylan". Such references to rock history will delight the connoisseur, but Mally's tribute to the 2016 Nobel Prize winner in literature can be enjoyed without such references.

A
01 One Too Many Mornings
02 Blind Willie McTell
03 Love Minus Zero/No Limit
04 I Want You

B
01 Girl From The North Country
02 All I Really Want To Do
03 Blood In My Eyes
04 Simple Twist Of Fate

"Have you already celebrated, folk, sung and danced today?"
With these verses, Saitentanz starts their album Tavernenspiel and tells stories from the taverns of the Middle Ages with humorous and soulful lyrics, without losing sight of the present. The medieval-inspired acoustic folk invites you to celebrate and laugh, but also to pause. Powerful songs with catchy, singable passages alternate with melodic ballads and sung stories.
Present violin playing, playful bass runs, bouzouki and guitar sounds to loose cajon rhythms underline the expressive singing, which is often polyphonic. Tavern game awakens a party mood and ensures a well-rounded tavern feeling true to the motto:
"Raise the jug, listen to the music, today is tavern play again."

01 meaning of life
02 Captain Klaus
03 magic bards
04 thanks to you
05 Heiopei
06 All Full (Fiery Feast)
07 bar fight
08 Large creatures
09 The Last Hero
10 To the Black Sheep
11 tavern game

With "Alchimiste" Mélinée realizes her third album, characterized by Afro-Pop-Rock sounds. You will find the balafon, which was already present in their second album “Héroïne”, and then there are the ngoni (small African kora), the djembé and various percussion instruments.
Jonathan Bratoëff, guitarist, composer, arranger, sound engineer and producer, gives the album the world music orientation. Accordion and keyboard mix with African rhythms, rock pieces meet, true to Mélinée's style, intimate chansons. The singer speaks less of love this time. The men present in her chansons are more portraits of recognition, sometimes tender, sometimes satirical, less declarations of love in the true sense. Mélinée lets us travel to different countries, addressing places that have shaped or fascinated her. She surrenders her inner self and becomes the "alchemist" of a certain uneasiness. She talks about the difficult situation of the loved ones, speaks with humor and lightness about the dependence on the cigarette or writes an ode to the sun, which is so missing in the Berlin winters. This third album, like the previous ones, gives us a glimpse into the heart of a young woman whose songs are of universal importance. The chansons in Afro-Pop-Rock style give the singer's musical range new impulses that let us travel - in the midst of words and rhythms.

01 Monâme
02 soleil
03 Passau
04 The hunter
05 Loup
06 Belfast
07 L'amante audacieuse
08 Kolya's eyes

The Dry Dudes know how to transform deep feelings into easy-going, smooth songs. On their third album "Grow", the duo from Emsland creates modern, independent pop with an R'n'B vibe: strong melodies on a stable groove foundation and not a single note too many.
Anyone who hasn't had the two dudes on their screens should do so now as a matter of urgency. Because these songwriters still have big plans, and they are definitely in a league in which few German artists play today. remaining doubts? Evidence abounds on Grow.
Singer Erwin Holm and guitarist Patrick Schütte reduce their sound to "Grow" and casually get to the point. With clear words, the songs tell stories in which we find ourselves, like in "Paradise" about the desire to leave everything behind and just get away.
And we all have those days when everything really goes wrong. But the Dry Dudes remind you that there is also an opportunity in failure: "Grow". You can feel what this is about without understanding the lyrics thanks to the strong atmosphere that remains consistent through all the tracks on the album.
Stylistically, "Grow" comes around the corner much more mature than the previous material. Holm and Schütte take a big leap forward in their development and land in the middle of the now. Subtle synthesizers give the sound depth, electronic beat elements provide the extra portion of groove. That's exactly what it sounds like today.

1. Grow
2. Loving For Two
3. (Your) River
4. As Good As New
5. Tonight
6. Undefined
7. Paradise
8. Fire In My Soul
9. Unknown Boy
10. Every Step
11. What Did I Do Wrong? (radio edit)

The three musicians Frank von Phorn, Fist Asmussen and Mats Malades have known each other since they were young together in Stockholm. There they played independently in different bands.
As part of their German studies in North Rhine-Westphalia, Frank and Mats decided in mid-2011 to make music with German lyrics together. Fist, who was actually only a substitute drummer, smelled so good that he quickly became a regular member. Since then, they have taken the style of "post-coital worker pop" to completely new dimensions and like to play live as "a good mood wagon".

01 No way too far
02 teenagers
03 Selfie
04 plastic bag
05 Nice
06 Love Me Tinder
07 train to you
08 Your League
09 Not my day
10 applause for my brain
11 beer song

The two guitarists and songwriters Bad Temper Joe and Fernant Zeste present their first album together "Haunt": twelve tracks that were created at the crossroads of songwriter ballads and rough blues. The songs are about conversations at the table and at night, about longing and alienation, are carried by melody and melancholy and are driven by Fernant Zeste's sometimes dry, sometimes snotty electric guitar and Bad Temper Joe's biting lap steel.
Bad Temper Joe from Bielefeld and Fernant Zeste, who comes from Welles in Belgium and lives in Gent, met in 2016 at a joint concert in Bielefeld. Since then, the two musicians have been on concert tours together in Belgium every year and occasionally in Germany and the Netherlands. "Haunt" is the first collaboration between the two on a full-length player. Each of the two musicians contributes six original compositions that merge the qualities of the two songwriters into a very unique sound in a fresh, determined, disarming, vulnerable and unmistakable way. From the dark and rumbling "Battle Cry Blues", the aching groove of "Been a While Since We've Talked", the seething beat of "Winterblues at #5 (Or Maybe Not)", to the lively narrative of "Fannie Mae" to the economical, acoustic "Lullaby". Bad Temper Joe delivers heart-rending and tearing, then brutally distorted slide guitar solos. Fernant Zeste shapes the stomping rhythm with his electric guitar, allowing relaxed fills and riffs to flow in at the same time.
Produced by Jonathan Scheerlinck, the album was mostly recorded and mixed in collaboration with David Goetheyn at Dead Cow Studio in Zevergem, Belgium. Additional recordings took place in apartments, living rooms and hotel rooms. Henning Strandt took care of the audio mastering at the Watt Matters Studio in Bielefeld. The two musicians are not supported by a band. "Haunt" is an expression of a German-Belgian friendship between two songwriters, their voices and guitars.

01 Don’t Talk About Break-Up (While I Eat)
02 Winterblues at #5 (Or Maybe Not)
03 Battle Cry Blues
04 Fannie Mae
05 Minstrel’s Lament
06 Little Rain
07 Black
08 Lullaby
09 Shut Your Mouth
10 Nova (Nothing To Say)
11 Been a While Since We’ve Talked
12 All Is Fine Now

True to the motto "Old acquaintances - new band", the Cologne trumpeter Matthias Bergmann and the Oldenburg saxophonist Raimund Moritz have decided after many years to realize a band project with their favorite musicians.
The Hamburg guitarist Sandra Hempel, recently a member of the NDR Big Band, came to mind just as quickly as the bass player Peter Schwebs, who recently returned to Hanover from New York, and the Oldenburg drummer Christian Schoenefeldt.
The CD "Moodswing" recorded in March 2019 will now be released in September on Fattoria Musica Records, the label of the studio in Osnabrück where the recording was made. It mainly contains original compositions by the two band leaders, such as the ballad "Stray", which Bergmann dedicated to the composer Billy Strayhorn, or "One for Bob", Moritz's homage to the saxophonist Bob Mintzer.
A composition each by trumpeter Bert Joris and saxophonist Jerry Bergonzi complete the album, whose music is modern and contemporary, but always melodic and swinging.

01 South Of The Border
02 Almost Never
03 What Would Ripky Do?
04 Stray
05 One For Bob
06 September Quiet
07 On The Brink
08 mood swing
09 For The Time Being

The German-speaking punk rock band Einstein has existed since 1997. Founded when they were at school, the five provincial punks have always remained true to themselves and their style.
Even after more than 20 years, the "punk pirates" from the drunken deepest part of the Oldenburger Münsterland are not a bit quiet, let alone tired. Einsturz is subtle German-language punk rock without stale slogans or platitudes. Musically there is medium-paced punk rock to be heard, which gets more and more catchy with every song.
Lyrically wide-ranging and very creatively written, the company gets a good beating. The five guys have high standards for their punk rock and have more than basement attitudes. Here are lively songs to sing along and celebrate with understandable singing and melodic accompaniment.

01 flies
02 war
03 cohesion
04 punk rock
05 Groomed and combed
06 Every hour, every day
07 heroes for one night
08 Uprising

"Dieunder" combine rock, blues, jazz and folk reduced to the essentials with mature lyrics - sometimes powerful, sometimes lyrically delicate, but always poetic and expressive. "Dieunder" are Jasmin and Klaus Zimmer from Bonn.
They have both been making music since they were children, have been married for a long time, and yet their musical activities together have so far only been reserved for friends and family. That had to change! That's why they founded "Dienunder" in 2018 in order to also appear in public as a musical couple. Because music is their life and they live music!
The 13 songs of their debut album "Krise und Muße" draw acoustic pictures of human life with all its crises and times of relaxed leisure in German, English, Bavarian and Italian.

01 Pythons
02 coffee shop
03 Grass Whisper
04 City by the sea
05 Dirndl
06 If so - then yes
07 Foreign
08 Good morning
09 Wicked
10 Swan Dawn
11 dopo
12 melted
13 Be time

Agentpunch is a heavy metal band from Osnabrück. It was founded in 2016 by Alexander Mohrlang (vocals), Roman Felde (guitar), Juri Felde (bass) and Tomasz Kosma (drums). The musicians are stylistically most rooted in classic metal. However, their music does not lend itself to being pigeonholed. Without losing their face, their character, they play their way through the history of rock and metal, always keeping in mind what makes them feel the most in the moment; whatever is relevant to them at the moment - it doesn't matter whether it's punk, hard or prog rock elements, speed or trash metal nuances. Agentpunch doesn't reinvent the wheel, but it doesn't just rebuild it either. So if you expect a special obsession with style from this band, you will surely be disappointed. On the other hand, if you like good, fresh Heavy Metal and don't shy away from one or the other surprise, you will learn to love this band.

"... classic metal, somewhere between Priest, Saxon and Motörhead." (Matthias Mader, Rock Hard)

"Heavy rock with lots of balls." (metal.de)

01 Rampage
02 Stalkers
03 Cleopatra
04 Grace For The Innocent
05 Soothsayer
06 Mountain High
07 Blood On The Wall
08 River Turns Black
09 Rhythm Of Abidance
10 Rocket To The Moon

Kaufhaus Dahl play German-language indie rock with reminiscences of the early NDW and a pinch of post-punk. You had to tell them that first, but now they like it. The debut "Für Alle" mainly contains up-tempo numbers with refrains that stick and some other (medically harmless) brain milling. There's guitars, bass, drums and vocals and little frills, but plenty of pop appeal. A cheap e-pad from Asia and a Dutch Philicorda organ from the 1960s have also crept in.
The texts are about, for example, the self-optimization madness or the reverberation of the social media echo chambers as well as the weather, small and large clubs, the botch of the past or simply the frustration about the relegation of the football club (which has meanwhile risen again is). So far, Kaufhaus Dahl has mainly played on the Rhine and Ruhr in North Rhine-Westphalia, but with "Für Alle" it will also be going to the neighboring federal states from late summer 2019. The small town department store is on its way. The album was created in the "Klangfabrique" Lohmar and is available through Timezone Records.

01 better
02 Of love and suffering
03 echo chamber
04 Nostalgia
05 CV program
06 Stereo
07 dog days
08 earlier
09 doors
10 dismounted

Guitar legend Ali Claudi has recorded a very special new album with an excellent cast: "Time for Clouds & Sweet Babies". He and his guitar colleague Martin Janneck take the listener on a wonderful musical dream journey full of surprises, great melodies and seductive sounds. Also present are Dias Karimov with piano, keyboard and bass keys and Gabriele Janneck with her baroque lute.
Ali Claudi is one of the pioneers of the electric guitar in Germany and has gone through all styles - from blues and jazz to funk and soul to psychedelic rock. He has always been interested in all kinds of music. The fact that he and Martin Janneck have a baroque lute on their blues and swing album has nothing to do with crossover. "We just like beautiful instruments," say the two.
Ali and Martin complement each other perfectly. Each of the two has their own language on the guitar - one virtuoso and beautifully sparkling, the other singing wonderfully. With Dias and Gabriele, the two have found ideal musical partners for their album. Keyboard magician Dias plays an incredible bass and always has the right keyboard instrument for the right timbre. With her 24-string baroque lute, Gabriele has a kind of miniature orchestra from which she can coax everything she needs – for a ballad as well as for a heavy, fast blues. Ali and Martin play in a trio with Gabriele, in a trio with Dias and in a quartet with both of them. Ali is also enthusiastic as a singer. Ali and Martin, together with their two partners, gain completely new sides from the pieces – mostly written by themselves.

01 Stack O'Lee
02 AC Ville
03 Gabrielle's tune
04 Absolutely amazing
05 Like A Dream
06 Round Noon
07 Like Moving Clouds
08 Sweet Baby James
09 Lullaby
10 I Don't Like You No More
11 My One And Only Love
12 Konrad's tune
13 times

Classic rock from the 80s! Nine-T-Nine - The six men from Hamburg, who only become complete with their female background voice, understand the music from the time of the great successes of Foreigner, Bon Jovi or Bryan Adams and carry every classic rock fan with them.
The glorious seven know how to turn guitar riffs and keyboard parts into hymns, paired with an unmistakable front voice. Since their founding year in 1999, the musicians have dedicated themselves entirely to the genre of melodic rock and have already achieved more than only a respectable success!
The band lays an impressive foundation of power and heart and sets standards that need not fear comparison with well-known international stars of the AOR scene. Now the second studio album "Time and Water" - long awaited by her fans - is released.
With 15 expressive tracks, this album shows the wide range of their musical skills. Be curious and look forward to a good portion of solid rock. Made in Hamburg. Made by Nine-T-Nine!

01 LongWay
02 Give It Up (Heart Over Mind)
03 Deep From The Heart
04 Prelude CPFL
05 Can't Pay For Love
06 Home Alone
07 My way
08 Take Me Away

The versatile singer/songwriter Andy Clark will release his debut album "I Love Joyce Morris" on August 30, 2019. There he - like Animal Collective's hit "My Girls" or Tom Rosenthal's "Just As" - processes his experiences beginning parenthood. On "I Love Joyce Morris," Andy Clark is not only open to reflecting on the ups and downs of life, but also highlights the humor with which the Brit weathers it all. In the album title "I Love Joyce Morris", Andy Clark takes the name of the local apple farmer "Joyce Morris" but means his children when he also refers to the English proverb "You're the apple of my eye". He invites the listener to solve the mystery of the unusual album title themselves. "I Love Joyce Morris" is a time capsule that encourages folk and singer/songwriter fans of all ages to look back on past accomplishments, goals and dreams.
The singles "Welcome to the Party" and "But For You" that have already been released have already given an impressive insight into this and convince in sound and text with timeless singer/songwriting. In "Welcome to the Party", the first single from the album, Andy Clark invites his little daughter with charming honesty to the party of life with all its facets, the ups and downs and is an existential, satirically commented flourish on modern society : “You can photograph your dinner and stick the pictures on your page; your success depends on how many friends you can engage. It's the modern age. Welcome to the party!”
The second single "But For You", on the other hand, shows Andy Clark being vulnerable, leading the listener through his life and how it got him to this point. His engaging songwriting underscores the equal importance of suffering and happiness in life. Andy Clark has already played tours in the USA, Germany and UK, where he opened for none other than Bob Geldof and stood on the stage of the famous Glastonbury Festival. Following the album release, Andy Clark will tour Europe.

"The bitter/sweet singer/songwriter of the season" — Rolling Stone "Achingly lovely voice" — Phil Jupitus, BBC

"A great songwriter and a great singer" - Aled Jones, BBC & ITV

01 Welcome To The Party
02 But For You
03 Hunker Down
04 Daddy Please
05 Socks And Shoes
06 sunny boy
07 Monsters
08 Alistair
09 All Aboard
10 apples

The lost work by Hans Werner Henze with the unusual title "This Chilean summer was sweet..." was recorded for the first time on the CD without any changes to the original text. Johannes Lang followed the premiere group, the poet Rudij Bergmann and the estate of HW Henze. After more than a year of research, the work was found and processed. Among others, Henze expert and Echo Klassik award winner Jürgen Ruck is also involved in this recording.
Violeta Parra and Victor Jara's songs are about oppression, love and the desire to make the world a better place. They were also the founders of the "Nueva Canción" movement in the 1950s and 60s, which drew attention to the grievances of the indigenous peoples and their descendants in South America. Victor Jara was arrested, tortured and finally murdered in Chile after the Pinochet coup. A year later there was a memorial concert in his honor for which HW Henze wrote the Chilean Summer. Johannes Lang gathers a whole series of young, top-class musicians such as Theresa Maria Romes and Adrian Lieb, and interprets this intense music in a stylish way. Particularly noteworthy are the finely set arrangements, which transport so much warmth and melancholy in their simplicity.
Memorias de "El Cimarrón" by Hans Werner Henze tells the story of the runaway slave Esteban Montejo Pate. He reports on the terrible conditions of that time in Cuba, how he escaped and witnessed the liberation of the slaves. Holger Klemt lends his charismatic, distinctive voice to the protagonists. In addition to Johannes Lang, the award-winning guitarist Josef Mükisch takes on a part. The guitar duo knows how to make music together at the highest level and captures Henze's tonal language in their very own way. They are expressive, expressive, flexible and sometimes even funny.

01 The world
02 The mansion
03 The escape
04 The forest
05 The ghosts
06 The false freedom
07 The women
08 The machines
09 the pastors
10 The Uprising

"Bonanza deluxe" is the title of the new album by Krueger's fringe group from Osnabrück. However, the band doesn't sound fully 70's (when the bonanza bikes came to Europe!), 80's, 90's or 00's. Krueger's fringe group play 2019 pop music at its freshest. "Dancen" and "Sharp Shoes" open the varied work groovy and earthy. You immediately feel encouraged to rock along while listening. After that, “idleness” is described in all its facets in a relaxed and lightly swinging manner. The following songs serve the pop segment skilfully and with a high recognition value: "Die Internationale" (rockt!), "Schwankungen", "Mit ohne Plan" and "Manche Menschen" vary the tempo and convince with their catchy character. Humming, singing and swinging along are highly recommended!
With borrowings from the modern mixture of reggae and ska, the "Fahrradsong" then builds a bridge to the album title, before the melancholic popular register is pulled out again with "Baby Dein Haus". The uptempo feel-good song "Ab da Lack" heralds the finale of "Bonanza deluxe" and leaves us with the feeling after 10 songs: "Too bad, it's over already". Lyrically, Krueger's fringe group takes on the worries and hardships of everyday life, sings about relationships and wanderlust, dreams - and cycling in the city (Osnabrück). One notices Krueger's fringe group that the 5 guys are old hands in the business, who routinely set their songs to music with a lot of enthusiasm, passion and a wink. The sound, for which Matthias Lohmöller's DocMastudio in Osnabrück is responsible, is powerful and leaves nothing to be desired (audiophile). As the opening song says: to "dance" you need ground under your feet. And music. “Bonanza deluxe” provides us with the perfect soundtrack

1. Dancing
2. Sharp shoes
3. idleness
4. The International
5. Fluctuations
6. With no plan
7. Some people
8. Bike Song
9. Baby your house
10. From there paint

One guitar, one voice, one guy. Ready to conquer the world. With German language songs from the dunes. Frontman Steffen-Ulrich Schöps has been on the road under the name Ulrich since 2017. “I have three brothers, all of whom have double names. My parents must have thought it would be unfair not to give me one. Even if, in my opinion, they could have chosen a more up-to-date one..." But before one hides the inner educated citizen, Ulrich puts it on a silver platter and without further ado gives the name to his musical project. His music sounds emotional, virtuoso and somehow hopeful. "Extremely emotional even," says the frontman with a wink. “I want to take people with me, tell them my stories. They should go home in a good mood and maybe a little thoughtful.” Ulrich's songs are created highly intuitively. Mostly in Denmark. "I go there twice a year and get inspired by the open fire and the dunes."
Inspired by John Mayer, Tommy Emmanuel and Gregor Meyle, the 27-year-old writes songs about what is important (to him): new and old love ("Where you want", "Pilot"), crumbling relationships ("Inseparable"), Friendship and Memories ("Someday"). "Long-distance goals, as always, to become extremely rich with the resulting world domination." That probably means that Ulrich is to be reckoned with. Good news.

01 99
02 Perfection
03 Alive
04 Wherever you want
05 I find you
06 Caroline from the sea
07 fantasy
08 Eventually
09 pilot
10 Behind Your Visor
11 Windward and leeward
12 Inseparable

The perfect soundtrack for driving through the desert over long and seemingly endless roads. If you also want to hit the dance floor on your road trip, you should definitely take Wooly Antshake with you on your trip.
The four band members from Münster, Hamburg and Dortmund have been roaming the stages since 2012 and have shared them with underground greats such as Rotor, 1000mods, Valient Thor, Valley of the Sun and Brant Bjork. In addition to classic stoner rock influences, the songs by Wooly Antshake mainly have influences from blues and garage rock, which are also reflected in the songs. So if you would like some variety, you should check out the quartet on their album or at one of their live shows.

01 Silent Echoes
02 She's A Witch
03 Whispering Tounge
04 Words Like Fire
05 Something Evil Is Going On
06 Super Burnout Vacation
07 3 Legged Dog
08 Vulcano Blues

love is a sea And we get thrown in there, learn to swim and do the seahorse. Or not. Sometimes we sink into it because we have an emotional backpack on our backs that pulls us down. But sometimes it is possible to slip off the rucksack and feel how another force gently lifts us up into the light.
Florian's Glässings songs are about how that works. His music is voluptuous and gets down to business. She relies on sincerity and intimacy, fragile harmonies and clear poetic texts. As in a good poem, you discover new facets in a Glässing song even after the tenth hearing - and before you know it, he's a loyal friend who you like to think of.
Florian was discovered by the song poet Tom Liwa in the late 90s when he organized a concert with Liwa. Under the pretext that the announced support (which was of course never requested) was prevented, he himself appeared in the opening act. As a result, the two play countless concerts together and record the album "Lopnor" (Normal Records, 2002), about which the intro wrote: "This is a sensational album. Point."
In 2011, Glässing met singer/songwriter Desiree Klaeukens and co-wrote and produced the songs for her critically acclaimed debut, Wenn die Nacht obscures den Tag (Wallpaper Records, 2014). At the same time, he is now working on his own music again and in 2016 he released the EP "Wo der Schatz lies".
During the last two years he finally produced the longplayer "Alte Liebe": ten wildly romantic songs in which he deals with futile love and injured masculinity, dressing indie folk in jazzy-pop robes - and in the end everything with a fine one Sprinkled with a pinch of Americana.

01 Show me who you are
02 The way I live
03 Our movie
04 On the run
05 In my heart
06 Every time
07 Carry on in my place
08 The sky
09 It's easy

In March 2019, the Regensburg songwriter TG Copperfield left for Nashville Tennessee with only one guitar and seven songs in his luggage to record his sixth studio album there together with producer Caleb Sherman at Cygnus Sound Studios. "Crank It Up in Nashville" captures this adventure and the atmosphere of the session at its rawest and most emotional. Copperfield managed to channel the power of tracks like Babylon Rising, I ain't in it or Taste into addictive Rock 'n Roll catchy tunes. Restless Man and Twosome Lonesome Blue are ballads that wouldn't sound so plaintive without the unique Nashville flair. When the ship goes down and By the Riverside are just plain fun and testify once again to Copperfield's great strength, the melodies. This time, Copperfield got support from handpicked guest musicians like Accept drummer Christopher Williams, session bassist Brandon Roberts from Nashville and Caleb Sherman on the Hammond B3. In addition to the seven tracks originally produced in Nashville, the disc also features four alternative mixes by voodoo blues master Dr. Want. The Senior Voice of Germany winner Dan Lucas, the Nashville-based artist Dan Harrison and the Canadian songwriter Dave McCann immortalized themselves on it. These remixes reveal even more facets of the Nashville sessions to the listener of the songs. A unique document of a unique journey. Drawers: None!

01 Babylon's Rising
02 By The Riverside
03 I Ain't In It
04 Restless Man
05 button
06 Twosome Lonesome Blue
07 When The Ship Goes Down
08 Babylon's Rising (Mix by Dr. Will)
09 By The Riverside (Feat. Dan Lucas)
10 Restless Man (feat. Dan Harrison)
11 When The Ship Goes Down (feat. Dave McCann)

I wanted to jump into a clear, deep mountain lake and dive for rocks, Zack said. That was the origin of the band. They met in Hamburg Altona to make music. They played a song and everything changed, magic land. I'm enchanted by the magic of her skill, says Zack.
John Carlson, musical director at several theaters is the creative genius, drummer Hannes Richter on drums influences your heartbeat and Hans on guitar is a virtuoso, is a rock idol... and on board is the wonderful singer Berit Möller.
It's funky, it's classic, it's real, says Zack. Volker Zack, actor, entertainer, singer had his first band at 13, worked with Werner Herzog, Wes Anderson and Quentin Taratino. Music and singing is happiness, says Zack. His lyrics, his songs and the music of the boys is a wonderful combination, groovy, weird, daring, called God Zack. "Happiness alone" an exhilarating sound carrier. The first single. Zack says you can't sit in a smoke sauna in Lapland and swim in the ice hole at the same time. You have to make a decision.
Fear god Zack is an experience. go home happy

1.LA
2. Bag and pack