Another great song by Lana del Rey – Blue Jeans. For the weekend :)

Regina Spektor will soon release a new album, called What We Saw from the Cheap Seats. I just managed to listen to the first single, called All the Rowboats and it sounds great, like many of her previous songs do. The piano again plays a central part in the song, both in giving the track’s rhythm and in accompanying Regina’s voice. If the entire album will be like this, it’s a must-have!

You can listen to it below:

A classic, from Black Sabath’s spin off, DIO.

Enjoy holy diver below

Not much to say about Moonlight Breakfast except that they are Romanian and I really like this song.

Enjoy!

Continuing the Romanian music series, today we introduce Butterflies In My Stomach. The band formed in 2005 and they participated in all the major music festivals in Romania, being quite popular for their live performances. So far, they only released one album – Magic Store. In 2011 Maca, the vocalist, left the band to form Yellow Project and Catrinel Bejenariu joined the band.

The first song to share, specially for its fresh sound, is one they sing in Romanian – Lucrurile bune vin daca le astepti.

The second one is in English and gives their album’s title – Magic Store.

Hope you enjoy at least one of them :)

Today’s song comes from St Vincent and is actually the kind of song I am not a big fan of. But this one has something different… the voice, the lyrics, all sound too well together.

St Vincent is the band of Annie Clark, a former band member of Surjan Stevens. She follows the indie genre path and has so far released 3 albums. The first one, Marry Me, features this song I really like, Paris is Burning. Enjoy it below!

Youtube sensations are usually very commercial songs (or purely stupid ones, like Rebecca Black’s Friday), but Video Games is quite different. It is a great balad song, quite sad and romantic and definetely a song to be remembered.

Lana Del Rey has already moved on, released a new album this year (Bord to Die) but Video Games remains on our list of favourites. Enjoy it below.

Well, it’s been a while since writing, mostly due to travel…

But here it is, with an all time favourite – The Cat Empire – The Lost Song (live):

We will start a new category on musicblog.ro about Romanian artists. Every now and then I will try to share with you some good music made by Romanian bands. Sometimes, the songs will be in Romanian but I hope the foreign audience of the blog will enjoy them anyhow :)

To start with, let’s listen to Antarctica and their recent single, called “Pase Magice“. The 2009 formed duo (Delia Opran and Ciprian Lemnaru) have already released an album, called Explorers and actually most of their songs are in English. Some of you might know them for playing as an opening band for Morcheeba.

Enjoy Antarctica – Pase Magice below!

Justice, a french band playing electronic music, recently released On’n'on. The song is quite good and it has a rock feeling. Actually, the sound reminds me of Led Zeppelin and I am pretty sure this was one of their inspirations.

Check it out below.