Humfree Bug Art – “Hawaii”

One of my favourite bands from last year, Humfree Bug Art, are back with a new single. “Hawaii” is the main attraction,  a song the singer Arvid Jonsson describes as “a gay love song, sung by bearded straight men.”.

Sibirien – “Eld”

Sibirien is a project run by David Björk. In the Autumn he released the debut EP “Snart regnar stormen in” and a couple of weeks ago the new single “Eld”. Here he’s hooked up the large reverbs from the eighties in a fine, melancholic song, which give me a ceratain feeling of being a movie soundtrack.

Raindear – “Grown Ups”

Behind Raindear we find the singer Rebecca Bergcrantz. Earlier this year she released the debut EP “The Game” and now the video to one of the songs on the EP, “Grown Ups”, is also available.

The Jamhouse Riot – “City Lights Out”

The Jamhouse Riot, whom I wrote about in 2012, are announcing a series of three singles. First up is this track, “City Lights Out”, their own mix of hard rock and garage rock, bitwise with vibes of Guns’n’Roses.

The Jamhouse Riot has probably beaten some kind of record here on the blog, after they contacted me last month. I’ve started writing about them twice and twice I’ve been sitting here wondering where they have gone with their pages and music. They have changed the band name two times during this month and finally landed in The Jamhouse Riot. Third time lucky then.

I fully understand these name changes, as the variants before, “Made In China” and “Gravel Pit”, wasn’t unique enough as band names, and would have made it harder for new listeners to find them on the Internet. Today it’s just as important to establish some kind of relationship with the listeners as it is to get attention from the start on blogs, social media and other places, something many more bands should consider. Also, I think it’s fun and honorable to be let in so early in artists’ careers, that these things happen.

And what about the music? That I liked their music was indeed the reason I was going to present them here from the beginning. Well they play a blues rock inspired by the seventies with vibes from bands like Led Zeppelin, early Whitesnake and Black Crowes, and, like the final? band name implies, with a jam feeling and youthful joy of playing that is hard to miss. They’ve released two EP:s this far, “Simplify This (Pt. 1)” and “Simplify This (Pt. 2)” and you can listen to one of the songs here below.

The Jamhouse Riot on Facebook – on Soundcloud

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