Today I have Stone Antica to present. Red Hot Chili Peppers-inspired rock I would say, with some Chris Cornell-vibes. The last impression comes a lot from Martin Sommansson’s vocals, which have a nice tone and expression. I don’t know much more about them than that they have released an EP before and are now working on a new album, to be released during 2010.

You can find Stone Antica on their site and on Myspace

Here are a couple of songs:

Can’t Get Out
The Grace of a Goddess Kiss

Jon Strider, whom I wrote about last year, is back now with a new album, “Fresh Tracks”, which was released in February. Except from two tracks, he has chosen this time to collaborate with various songwriters, like Jane Getz, David Garriock, Michael Boesen et al. And it shows; there are larger leaps this time between different styles and expressions. The soft country rock is there, but gets accompanied by country, blues and other influences. It’s pleasant, nice melodies and well produced.

Here are two songs to listen to:

Magnolia Tree
Workin’ Is For People That Don’t Know How to Fish

Jon Strider’s site

You can’t ignore The Rumble. When I first heard them a couple of years ago, it was like a jet of energy that shot through everything else. We have written about them before, and now they have released their first full length album.

And there’s nothing wrong with the energy on the new album, it’s full speed ahead from the start, maybe a little less dirty than before but with a heavier and better beat and drive. At the same time the album shows more of the band, as they explore rock music in different corners, where Hank’s rock-bluesy vocals glues it all together. An album that’s perfect both at the warm-up party as well as on the dancefloor.

You can meet The Rumble on Myspace and you can listen to the album on Spotify. Here are a couple of songs:

24 Hours
Madman

Today it’s all about “Heaven’s On Fire”. No, not Kiss, but The Radio Dept. It’s the name of their new singel that was released a little more than a week ago. The song is also included on their upcoming album “Clinging To a Scheme” scheduled to be released on the 21st of April.

You can find The Radio Dept. on their site.

Heaven’s On Fire

The music coordinator for the British drama series Sparks on Channel 4, Alex Hancock, has taken a different approach for the selection of music for the series. He has asked the songwriters among the viewers to send in their own contributions, well, anyone can participate. And from this material he then chooses songs for some special scenes.

When this started a little more than a year ago, before the third season, they received thousands of songs, and for the first occasion a song from the Swedish singer/songwriter Desireé Duvringe was chosen. The song’s name is “Automation” and you can listen to it here, and here you can see how the scene ended up.

The song became very popular among the viewers, a singel was released in the autumn and Desireé is now working on following up on all the interest around “Automation”. You can find her on her Myspace page.
Here are two new songs you can listen to:

It’s Not Easy
Behind Your Eyes