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.

The British trio from Band of Skulls recently will release in a few days their new album, called Sweet Sour. The leading song of the album sounds really good, with vocals making and interesting contrast with the sharp guitar sound. You can listen it below and you can preorder the album on itunes here.

P.S. The song also has an official video, but I really don’t like it – therefore, I preferred not to share it…

I was talking to a friend a while ago about what happened with Oasis following their huge success in the 90s. Well, basically, the two brothers – Noel and Liam Gallagher – had numerous fights and eventually Oasis broke up in 2009. Noel Gallagher went by himself and formed the High Flying Birds band. Liam and the other members of Oasis formed Beady Eye. Both bands released albums in 2011, with High Flying Birds having a significantly better reception with the public and the critics.

You can listen below to High Flying Birds – The Death of You and Me and Beady Eye – Four Letter Word.

Still very much winter time in Romania, so here is one to go along: Tori Amos – Winter, live at Montreaux. Watch it below.

Don’t have much to say about this, but I like it. Hope you enjoy it too!

Listen below to Tidus – Cruisin…