Pirate Jenny (Threepenny Opera) - Sir Tralala (live, Alberner Hafen, Danube, September 7th 2009)

I love the Threepenny Opera. When I was a kid, The Threepenny Opera (we had the version with Milva, Ute Lemper and Mario Adorf) was my favourite record and Seeräuber Jenny was my favourite song on it. I really like Sir Tralalas rendition but he cannot compete with the years (I was an obsessive kid) I spent listening to this on the family stereo, drawing in the living room.

Ka Beziehung - Train D-Lay

I think it’s a bit strange that somebody with the word “train” in his name shoots a music video where he’s a cab driver but whatever. Transportation’s transportation, I guess. I imagine that a cabbie rapping about his relationship while driving can be kind of nice because that way you won’t have to talk about politics with him.

Dust Covered Carpet - Mouthflower, from the Dust Covered Carpet / Die Eternias Split 7”

This new Dust Covered Carpet song is as depressed as usual, lyrics-wise, but sounds quite different, less folky than previous tracks, maybe due to line-up changes. I think I like it!

Chakuza - Ich lauf

Chakuza spielt im Rahmen des Four Abends in Wien am 29. April ein Konzert, für das via Deezer 200 Karten verlost werden. Außerdem dabei: OK Kid, Grossstadtgeflüster und ein geheimer heimischer Special Guest (wir wissen schon wer, nänänä!).

Mauracher - Super Seven

Yo Mauracher, didn’t you get the memo? Forests are so 2012. Child actors and dog actors, however: timeless.

Hans im Glück - Extra

Grashalm für Großstadtcowboys, Zigarettenersatz für Süßigkeitenliebhaber: der Hans-im-Glück-Lolli.

Neodisco - Schall und Staub, aus Krawalle und Liebe, VÖ 26. April 2013 via Sony Music

OK, die Eisbären gehen unter, denn der Wasserspiegel steigt
Ist mir egal, in meinem Bacardi ist noch Eis

Existentielle Fragen (Wer erinnert sich in hundert Jahren an meinen Namen?), unterlegt mit einem hypnotischen Clubbeat: Wenn man weiß, dass der Produzent von Neodisco Paul Wallner heißt - die eine Hälfte von HVOB, die nicht die ehemalige Herbstrocksängerin mit den exzellenten Connections zu Pratersaunabetreibern ist - dann kann man berechtigterweise Parallelen zwischen den beiden Acts ziehen.

Soundmäßig würde das Debütalbum der Oberfeistritzer dementsprechend auf einen drogigen Pratersaunadancefloor zu später Stunde passen. Vielleicht aber auch genauso gut in den Praterdome (schätze ich jetzt mal, da hab ich mich noch nie hineingetraut). Dass sich Neodisco nicht auf eine einzige geschmackliche Ebene festlegen lassen, ist Programm. 

Auch textlich wird mühelos zwischen unterschiedlichen intellektuellen Niveaus gewechselt: auf ordinäre Statements folgen Reime, die keinen Zweifel daran lassen, dass hier gebildete Menschen am Werk sind. Dazwischen noch Namedropping galore. Alles, was das Referenzherz begehrt und großartige Unterhaltung für die Generation Partyeskapismus. 

The Boys You Know - Walk With Me, from Waste Your Time, out now on Wohnzimmer Records

Ist das jetzt zeitlos oder out of the zeitgeist? Ist wohl eine Sache des Standpunktes, aber es ist definitiv sehr klassischer Britpopindie.

Welcome to the first Sammelpost in the history of Walzerkönig! Here are three very similar approaches to music by female singer/songwriters with small labels backing them.

Agnès Milewski - Drive You Home
https://soundcloud.com/betweenmusic/agnesmilewski-driveyouhome

In its best moments, Agnès Milewski’s voice sounds like Tori Amos or Alanis Morissette, only with jazzier backing music.

Irmie Vesselsky - Far, Far Away
http://youtu.be/agP-XFZJJCo

Melancholic, piano driven music. Her new label Donauwalzer Records started out as a music blog on Tumblr and possibly found inspiration for its name from yours truly. Or stole it from the hotel across from B72.

Angel Of Sona - Inside These Walls
http://youtu.be/kyqw1sC8Yy4

Austrian, LA based (?) singer/songwriter accompanied on the guitar by one of the Petsch Moser guys. 

Sorry for the brevity, but there are only so many times we can listen to the same kind of music and be truly excited about it.

Dawa - Relief, out on 5 April on Las Vegas Records

To anyone who’s still in school: Don’t let your teachers tell you you’re going to wish you could go back to school once “serious life” has begun. I haven’t for a second missed my school days, ever, and I didn’t even have a particularly cruel time there. It’s just that things get so much better in your 20s. 

Except if you’re a bully of course, then empirically speaking your best days are practically over and your life will only go downhill from here.

Taubervergiften - Georg Kreisler

I know that we’ve already had this at the beginning of one of the last springs but the thing about classics is that you can go back to them whenever you want. If you’re bored by Kreisler, you can always go and listen to Tom Lehrer, who Kreisler may or may not have plagiarised the song from. Personally I don’t care if he did because I cannot be mad at people that rhyme things with Zyankali.

Happy spring!

Chakuza feat. Sebastian Madsen - Notlandung auf Berlin

Die etwas andere Liebeserklärung an Berlin.

Der Nino aus Wien - Ein Brief an die geheimnisvolle Madame Monique

Mit Livefootage aus dem Stadtsaal, wo wir auch - höchst professionell - ein Interview mit dem Nino aus Wien geführt haben.

LaBrassBanda - Brass Banda (Erwin & Edwin Remix)

Erwin & Edwin not only do brassy remixes, they will also have their debut EP out shortly via the hipstery-sounding label Dreieck ∆ Records. More trivia: Erwin & Edwin are not only not called Erwin & Edwin in real life, they are also more than two people. Free download on Soundcloud!

The Standards - Slow Down

Fuck you, holding hands is super awesome and it doesn’t have to mean anything and you can do it even if you don’t plan to ever become ~serious~ with one another.

Sometimes we get really nice e-mails, the kind where people actually look at our blog beforehand and think about in what ways the band they’re pitching could be relevant to our interests. The girl who wrote us about The Standards, for example, pointed out that there is a waltz on their album. The band are actually British, but they have an Austrian producer who, as the Discogs link reveals, also produced the great 90s hit Break My Stride.