First are Bombay Bicycle Club “Dust On The Ground” … I like the voice of their singer (can anyone tell me his name?)

Second one … Gaslight Anthem “Drive” … I like their older songs most:

Next one … commercial one by The Civil Wars “Poison & Wine” … wonderful love song … btw, I’ve never watched one single episode of “Grey’s Anatomy”

And … they are my absolute favourite Pop band at the moment … BOA “Push” (Live at MetroOnstage in Stockholm)

Last but not least Okkervil River “Wake And Be Fine” … not necessarily ground-breaking, but great song …

Artists:
Gruff Rhys … Drownedinsound.com did a fine interview with him.

BOA … were featured in several music magazines and blogs: French YIN Magazine, Dutch Hunting Ensemble, … hopefully more in the future.

Music Think Thank … gives some advice if you’re running an e-mail list.

Music Business:

The DIY Musician evaluates the launch of Youtube Live

Catherine Hol talks about the digital chances for musicians on Music Think Tank.

Founders Alexander Ljung and Eric Wahlforss talk about their motivation to start Soundcloud

This article by William Gruger was discussed very controversially on Hypebot.

Cooperation project of Berklee College of Music and MIDEM  … Rethink Music in Boston April 25th – 27th

Fun:

Check out the Yodel Rap

First: BOA have released their single “Push” and get D-rotation on Swedish radio station P3. They will be gigging tomorrow at Sticky Fingers in Gothenburg. I really like their refreshing Pop and hope they’ll get the attention they deserve.

Second: Amycanbe‘s new single “Everywhere” is also out now. And their new EP “The World Is Round” will be released within the next weeks.

Single Tracklist – 1 Everywhere (edit) 2 Everywhere (Dub Version) 3 Everywhere (Dub Instr Version) 4 Rose Is A Rose (PEACE Mix).

You can watch the recording sessions at Teatro Petrella di Longiano:

Third: Storyfold will release their single “Trick Of Light” on April 29th. Today they send it out to loads of radio statition as they stated on Facebook. On May 20th they will hit the stage at Whelan’s in Dublin.

50K MUSIC: You’ve just announced that you’re going to leave SellaBand. Could you please tell us your reasons?
Botond: We have been recording our songs for some time now and felt that we have the material for a good album. Unfortunately, we haven´t reached our goal at SAB and could not wait any longer.

50K MUSIC: You are working on your album at the moment. Could you please let us in on your plans?
Botond: Yes, we´re currently in the mastering stage. We´re also working on the artwork and other smaller, but none the less, important things.

50K MUSIC: When will the album be released?
Botond: The date is not set, but it will be released sometime in april. Right now it´s all a big mess.

50K MUSIC: What further plans do you have for the next few months?
Botond: We will work our asses off to get our album ready and get our music out there. We will be releasing new “sneak a peak” videos of us working on the album. There are already some videos up on BOA’s Youtube Channel.

We´re working on a homepage, a single, we also have signed to Jämmerdosa, who will be distributing us digitally. We´re looking at possibilities to get together a tour after the album. And we have a few more suprises up our sleeves. But more of that later.

“The GP Scen Final was a good experience, it was great being back on stage after a long summer holiday, although the performance took a few minutes really. Every band played the song they were in the contest with, so when I felt that the pre-nerves settled and we were up and in the music we had to stop, but I think all the other bands felt the same way.”

BOA on SellaBand

Thats how Göteborgs Posten (GP) titled about Swedish pop band BOA. BOA were one of the 16 finalists of GP scen who played on Gothenburg’s Järntorget  last Saturday.

A few days before they got great feature in GP’s entertainment section. Their music was described there as “lighthearted melodies accompanying with dark lyrics”.

GP announced the finalists in its print issue last week. All the songs will be played once at Radio Mix Megapol, which is a national commercial radio. Most important is that the winner gets three days in the fantastic Svenska Grammofon Studion. A lot of great bands like The Soundtrack Of Our Lives, The Hives, Silverbullit (just to name a few) have recorded music there. Even Depeche Mode made a video in the studio. The winner also gets promotion of the song worth 30,000 SEK (about 3,000 EUR) by Skiva Promotion. Which is great.

BOA on SellaBand

There are already the Dream Team and Wolfman’s Pack for supporting and promoting artists in- and outside of SAB. I’ve thought about starting another team of artists who get my special support and superior promotion on 50K MUSIC.

50K MUSIC Squad combines a wide range of music styles. It represents my favourite music and therefore it’s a very subjective choice I have to admit.

And this is what I have in mind supporting the Squad members:
- focussing on Squad members when investing on SAB, aka music, STP,…
- special promo activities on 50K MUSIC, Facebook, …
- own profile for Squad members on 50K MUSIC,
… more to come.

These are the members of 50K MUSIC Squad so far:

Al Highton

BOA

Civilized Tears

Fleur Jack

Stay tuned for more ….

BOA played a quite unusual session at tramline 11 going to Gothenburg’s district of Bergsjön. And here’s the video of the tram gig:

www.thetramsessions.se

BOA on SellaBand

They are one of my favourite newcomer bands at the moment. Listen to Swedish Pop coming from BOA. And maybe you find some bucks in your pockets to help them record their first album.

50K MM: Who are you, where do you come from, who are the band members? Please tell us something about BOA.
Botond: BOA started out with three members, me (Botond), my cousin Orsi and my brother Attila. Orsi is the singer in the constellation, I play the acoustic- and Attila plays electric guitar. First William joined on drums and after short period of trying out with bass player Gabriel, Olof joined and it seems like he will stick with us in the future.

50K MM: How did you discover SellaBand?
Botond: I first discovered TalenCast on a bands myspace page and it went on from there. At first, the idea of SellaBand seemed impossible for us being such a new band, but I asked the others and we decided to give it a go. For now it turned out better than anyone of us expected.

50K MM: How are you going to convince people to believe (and invest) in you? Please give us some more details about your plan and incentives believers can get.
Botond: Our goal is to record our first album. We have not yet worked out a plan or a strategy for how we can get more believers, but for now we are offering 50% of the revenue from the album we will make with the help of the fans. The SellaBand concept is pretty new for us and we have not yet seen all the possibilities within it. The plan can be modified as we go, so look out for anything new. We will come up with incentives in the future for those how believe and invest in our plan. We are also working on press material, photos of all five of us and some diary kind of videos will also be showing up on the site soon.

50K MM: You have raised 1% of the budget so far. Have you thought about the time after reaching the target of 10k $ yet? What are your plans then?
Botond: When we reach our target of 10k $, we will mainly work on our debut album. You meet a lot of people while you´re out playing gigs and there are some possibilities to work with people that can make our goal a reality. We want to build our reputation slowly by makeing the album and book bigger gigs in Sweden at first and then build it from there. I think people take you more seriously when you have an album on the market. That means that you´ve achieved something and music magazines write about you etc.

50K MM: You are a rather young band playing Swedish pop. Are there any role models in Sweden or elsewhere?
Botond: The world is full of good music and we all have different influences in the band. BOA is what comes out of us playing together. It would be hard to name a band or an artist in this sence, but I think what we all like in music is when it is down to earth and played with honesty. Music can be very simple, yet grandiose if you don´t try to “polish” it to much. That is what we try to achieve when we record our songs.

50K MM: And last question: How can we support you to speed up raising your budget?
Botond: I think you´ve already did help buy writing about us. But keeping an eye on BOA in the near future will be help a lot and of course telling all your friends that we exist.

sellaband.com/projects/boa

BOA’s SellaBand project.

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