December 1st. The kids have opened their advent calendars and for once they can eat a piece of chocolate every morning, the Christmas stars are twinkling in the darkness and the cat is cursing the Christmas candles as they have stolen his favorite place on the windowsill. Such a day must of course be crowned with the best of Christmas songs, namely “I Wish a Good Christmas to You” by Jon Rinneby & co.

As Jon told us in an interview here on Meadowmusic, he is releasing the song “I Wish a Good Christmas to You” today, which is all done for the benefit of Musikhjälpen 2014 (“The Music Help 2014”, Swedish charity project run by public radio). All revenue from the song is donated to Musikhjälpen either you click on “Buy” in the player below (which also gives you the song to download), or if you want to donate through SMS directly at the collection box.

Musikhjälpen 2014 is about stopping the spread of HIV in the world, helping those that are most in need and sharing knowledge about HIV and aids. You can read more here (in Swedish). The collection has already started here and there, but the radio show is going on between the 8th and the 11th of December, broadcasted from Uppsala this year.

Here you are, a new Christmas classic in the making:

The electronica duo Dagfest have released this funky track “Back to the Streets”, a successful date between modern electronica and 70’s funk. “Dagfest is what happens when a techno DJ and a vinyl addicted record shop worker get together and make music.” they write about themselves.

Dagfest on Facebook – on Soundcloud

Last week the band Billy Momo released their new single “I’ve Got You”, which is also an announcement of their upcoming album “Drunktalk”. It’s a laidback pop song with a great drive and a pleasant ambience with an air of longing and excitement, a song that sucks you in and seems to be made for running on repeat. Billy Momo was started in 2007 by the duo Tomas Juto and Oskar Hovell, two musicians who have worked before with bands like PH3, Eskobar, Neneh Cherrys Cirkus among others, but on stage the band grows to seven members. They have earlier released the album “Ordinary Men”.
On the 26th of November they are inviting us to the release gig at Debaser Strand/Bar Brooklyn in Stockholm.

Billy Momo on Facebook – on Spotify – on Wimp

Here are two more songs from Simple Broken Boy’s forthcoming album, which I wrote about last month. Acoustic pop with gracious string arrangements.

Simple Broken Boy on Facebook – on Spotify – on Wimp

The band Albert, hailing from Malmö, have released this somewhat surrealistic video to the song “Never Mind the Fine Print”. The song is taken from their splendid debut album, which I wrote about in Spring.

Albert on Facebook – on Spotify