Day 46: Baz Luhrman - Everybody's Free (to wear sunscreen)

Just listen to the tekst of this song and enjoy.. Be inspired.. Enjoy your life even more.. Because it's your life, and you're the only one responsible for it.. Feel free and live.. ;-)

Day 45: Ed Sheeran - The A-team

Joshua Radin and Jon Allen are on my favorite singer songwriters list but from today Ed Sheeran (UK) has joined them. He will be releasing his debut album on September 12 and this is one of the first singles. It's just great. (apart from the title, which is amazing anyway)

When I heard this song on the radio (3fm, Giel Beelen, Ochtendshow) this morning I started to smile immediately and I got a warm feeling, it made me melt, wow. I kept on listening to it today and think it gets better every time I hear it. Even more because this song makes me think about a very special girl I met 1,5 week ago. She is going through some rough times these days and I definitely think she needs some support. This one is for her..

Day 44: Givers - Up Up Up

When you need some energy and you wanna listen to a happy song this is your song. It's by the Givers, an Indie Pop band from Lafayette, Louisiana. For a band that hasn't been around for a long time, they are doing really wel. They have been chosen as of the "Ten Acts That Rocked South by Southwest" by Time magazine in March and this song has also been announced as the first offical song launched for the new FIFA 12 playlist on XBOX 360 and PS3. This song "Up Up Up" is from their first album In Light, which was relaesed on June 14th. I will let you know when they will perform in the Netherlands, because it will definitely be a great party... rapapapapapapa.

Day 43: The Sparkles - I want to be free

From the new Vodafone commercial I introduce you a great oldies song. I think Vodafone has some brilliant people hanging around looking for old songs that they can use for their commercials and somehow they are doing an excellent job. Just listen and enjoy.. (I will post more brilliant commerical related songs in the commercial-song week which will be soon (12-18 September), and if you have any suggestions, please let me know)

Day 42: Smoove & Turrel - Slow Down

A song that has been introduced to me by 3fm dj Gerard Ekdom and I just like it. From a duo existing of producer Smoove and singer John Turrel from UK. This winter they released their second album Eccentric Audio. I just listened to parts of the album and I definitely think it is gonna be one of my favorites to listen to while driving.

And this song from that album. It is funky, it has a nice beat, and it makes me smile. Do I need to say more..

Day 41: Strange Talk - Climbing Walls

And it's time for some new fresh music. Today from a electropop band from Melbourne Australia: Strange Talk. In april 2011 they released their first album, also with the name Strange Talk. Their first single has just been released in Europe and it's promising. If you like the Two Door Cinema Club and MGMT but especially Yeasayer then you will definitely like this.

It's funky, it's electronic, it's danceable, it's good. Enjoy !!

Day 40: Tommy Lee - Home Sweet Home

And then on Monday afternoon, you come back from 4 days of brilliant partying at LL Festival. You realize that you're back in reality, back in the real life, that life goes on. But on the other hand you're mind is still in the bubble, in paradise. Your thoughts are with all the amazing people you have met and the fun you had with them, the wonderfull performances you have seen, the energy that you had, the jokes you made, the extraordinary dancing, etc.. And now you've got a feeling like you're in love. In LLLove with the LL festival.

So, today, a song to give us a warm feeling, and to remind us that we're back home again, from of one of the greatest parties of the year.. LL 2011.. Thnx, I love you..

Day 39: Fake Blood - I like it

After three days of Lowlands you feel physically tired, but in your mind the energy just keeps on flowing. You feel just great and want to stay longer. All the people around you feel like a great big family to you and you wished that this feeling could last forever. And then, suddenly in the Bravo tent you find yourself dancing amongst your friends and new aquired family members on this powerfull track of British DJ Fakeblood... Lowlands 2011... Just a couple of hours left but don't think about that.. Just go, just dance, just energy !!!

Day 38: Foster the People - Houdini

Today one of my favorites for LL this year that I definitely wanna go to and experience: Foster the people (Indie rock band from Los Angele). I already posted a song of them a couple of weeks ago, pumped up kicks, but this new single is amazing as well.

If you like MGMT, you definitely like this.. Poppy, feel good, dancious, happy, smiley, energizing.. WOW. And before I spoil the song with more text I stop.. Just listen, over and over again..

Day 37: Chef' Special - Birds

When writing singles, it is worth to post a single from a dutch band now and then. Today a song from Chef' Special, a dutch band who managed to get their breakthrough this year and hit the charts with their single Scribblin. They are from Haarlem, the city where I used to grow up and go to school, another reason why I like them ;-). Their music I would describe as a mixture of pop, rock, reggae, hip/hop with a nice funky/ happy feeling.

I hope they will manage to play on Lowlands, as they already cancelled all performances in the last month due an injury of their lead-singer.

Today's song, birds, reminds a little bit of Pete Philly and Perquisite (when they were still together). Just a simple, really nice song to listen too, over and over again. Music from the heart. Perfect to start a nice relaxing weekend. Enjoy.

Day 34: Crystal Castles - Untrust Us

Last weekend my friend Jeroen told me that I really should see this band on Lowlands.He thought that this was amazing. And so the good stuff comes from Canada, as I present you a Canadian band again. Crystal Castles (formed in 2003), a duo formed by producer Ethan Kath and singer Alice Glass, makes electronic music by using samples from videogames from the eigthies.

And that's what I like; these funky/ happy samples, combined with his ongoing walking electronic beat and some vague singing. It keeps me moving and makes me smile. Perfect to survive an average Tuesday.

Day 33: Destroyer - Kaputt

Today a song I heard for the first time yesterday while recovering from an amazing WTTF festival and today I thought that I really needed to share this one with you.

Destroyer is a Canadian indie rock band led by singer-songwriter Dan Bejar. Kaputt is their newest single, released in january, from the album Kaput. I compare it to David Bowie, Pet Shop Boys, Simply Red, Sade..

It has an eigthies pop feeling makes me feel totally relaxt. A perfect song for chilling on the couch with a nice drink, or while driving home from a sunny day at the beach.. And the good things is that it even lasts for 6:19 minutes. (On Lowlands in the Lima tent on friday @ 15:00, so a relaxt start of your LL weekend)

Day 32: Fink - This is the thing

I've got this song in my sunday-morning-raining-outside-I-prefer-to-stay-in-bed playlist for a while now and it still a song I really enjoy listening to. "Things that keep us apart, keep me alive.. Things that keep me alive, keep me alone " I has a dark sound (as it is written in minor key) and makes you think. Just with a guitar this singer perfectly knows how the translate the message... It gives me goosebumps...(on Lowlands on sunday, India, 11:30, so perfectly to wake up with).

Day 31: Paul Kalkbrenner - Platscher

I keep it short today..

I come from nowhere
And lead to nowhere
I am a wave
in the ocean of time

I do exist
I breathe
and yet I don't

I search nothing
and I find
nothing more or less
than thoughts, dreams and fantasies..

Day 30: Fleet Foxes - Mykonos

One of the best songs of Fleet Foxes (US 2008) from one of the greates Indie bands in the world. Often compared to bands like Croshby Stills & Nash, Beach Boys or Animal Collective, which they absolutely deserve..

It's a song from their second album Sun Giant and it perfectly fits todays crappy weather as it says to me something like: it is good to dream away and think about the things that matter in life, about where I come from, where I am right now and where the bus, I'm driving, is going...

Brilliant songwriting as well as there's just so much in it: a friendship gone wrong, drug addiction, accepting of what happens to you, greek mythodology and more..

Day 29: Noah and the Whale - Give a little love

The English indie folk band Noah and the Whale, formed in 2006, will be performing on the Grolsch stage on friday evenening. They make songs about life, stories about the things that matter in life, about the good and bad things that happen to all of us.

In their most recent songs, lead-singer Charlie Fink, sings about his break-up with former band member Laura Marling, who left the band in 2008. This brought them finally their long desired breakthrough with songs like "5 years time" and "L.I.F.E.G.O.E.S.O.N", which is played on the dutch radio quite often.

I just wanted to present you a song from one their first album Peaceful, the World Lays Me Down. It's a song called "Give a little love" and it think it's just great. Both the feeling that it gives me and the lyrics, especially the last part of the song:

Well if you are (what you love)
And you do (what you love)
I will always be the sun and moon to you
And if you share (with your heart)
Yeah, you give (with your heart)
What you share with the world is what it keeps of you

Day 28: Happy Camper - Born with a bothered mind (feat. Bouke Zoete)

Ok people, I cheated. I didn't posted a song for two days. I was away for the weekend and didn't have internet acces so I wasn't really able to post a song. I'll make it up to you this week by posting two additional tracks somewhere during this week.

Lowlands festival announced its so called "Blokkenschema" last week. And because of that, the coming weeks, I'll be posting songs related to Lowlands artist of this years festival

Today a song that just makes me happy, nothing more, nothing less. It'is from a dutch collective called Happy Camper, founded by Job Roggeveen and his friends, who are making poppy songs with film, chanson and balkan influences (and supported by dutch artist like Janna Schra, Tim Knol, Ricky Koole and others). Just fun to listen to and I am expecting a wonderfull afternoon on Sunday in the Lima tent.

Enjoy their song called "Born with a bothered mind". (and watch the amazing videoclip as well)