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 ØSTELLA - EASY TO KEEP ØStella, the tenacious Irish-Canadian alt-rock sensation from Edmonton, Alberta, is set to captivate global audiences. She merges Canadian rock tradition, Irish storytelling, and folk music for a mesmerizing sound. As I write this she is on her Who Needs This Tour-tour that already brought her from Canada to Europe. And she is doing this tour ... on her bicycle ! Driven by her passion for sustainability, ØStella's name reflects her commitment to responsible touring (hence the zero). She already covered an astonishing distance of more than 7.000 kilometers from gig to gig and we're still counting. It was hard to choose a song to put on my little blog, I like them all ! But Easy To Keep is the last song that she released. It's an earworm and I love the video that comes with it. Easy To Keep is a song that comes from ØStella's latest album Skyward. Skyward is the second of two mini albums (Freefall and Skyward) that comprise one larger record, Pe...

 STATIC - BROTHER It's a habit of mine to use Youtube-video's to go with the songs I write about. In this case I could not wait because this one is special to me.  Static are the artists in residence at The Black Flamingo (I wrote about them before in this article) and for Brother I had the privilege to see the song grow from scratch for they recorded it here on Flamingo soil. The song starts of in a tranquil way and builds up to be almost impending and there is a reason for this : Brother is a song about betrayal and backstabbing. Lander (the singer) sets of in a fragile, hurt voice but as the song evolves you can hear his anger. This, in combination with the secant guitar parts, tense bass and impressive pounding drums turns this into a song that gives me goosebumps when I hear it. No Youtube-video like I wrote before but you can listen to Brother on Spotify and Soundcloud . Stream their music, go see them live if you can (you won't be dissapointed), buy their merch an...

 ANDREW McGIBBON - FLAMINGOES OF LOVE Do you know The Bonnevilles ? The Northern Irish duo from Lurgan that don't so much play punk blues but rather used it as a spring board to create a completely new genre. They take Mississippi Hill Blues and Punk Rock and mix it into their own unique dark Northern Irish Punk Blues stew. If you don't know them it's your loss (seriously, just check them out) and you did not read this blog very well because I already mentioned them in this blogpost. Andrew McGibbon is one half of The Bonnevilles and in 2020 he already touched my music-loving hearth with his first solo album Northern Gothic and I was glad to hear that there is a new album coming up : Northern Gothic 2 - Letters To a Young Rebel. The album will not be ready for a while yet but Andrew already released a first single : Flamingoes of Love. It's a song in different layers. The first half of the song is very cinematic. When I close my eyes listening to it I see landscapes ...