Formed by ex-Eluveitie Hurdy-gurdy player, Michalina Malisz, and her husband Piotr Martuś, “LYRRE” is a new four piece metal band from Poland. The band attempt to merge the organic sound of the hurdy-gurdy, dark guitar riffs and just the right amount of electronic inspirations.
Their single, Call in the Wind is new this week on RadiJohan and is a treat for fans of the Hurdy-gurdy and atmospheric metal.
The Hues Corporation were an American pop and soul trio formed in California in 1969. They are best known for their 1974 hit Rock the Boat. The song was first featured on their 1973 debut studio album Freedom For The Stallion. A later re-mix version of that recording became one of the first Disco hits in 1974 and reached number 1 on the Billboard Hot 100 in the United States. It also topped the chart in Canada and made the top ten in a number of other countries including The Netherlands, the United Kingdom and New Zealand. The hit version was included on The Hues Corporation’s second album, Rockin’ Soul.
“Bloodhype” is a Berlin-based quartet who have just released their very first album, Modern Eyes. Their single, On & On, is an energetic 80’s soaked new-wave tune full of nostalgic riffs, melancholy-drenched synths and even a sax-solo courtesy of Sofia Salvo, a saxophonist from Buenos Aires.
On & On by Bloodhype is new this week on RadiJohan
| TW | LW | Artist | Title |
| 10 | New | Cat Burns | People Pleaser |
| 9 | New | Belle and Sebastian | I Don’t Know What You See In Me |
| 8 | 9 | Those Damn Crows | This Time I’m Ready |
| 7 | 4 | Visions of Atlantis | Clocks |
| 6 | 10 | Noel Gallagher’s High Flying Birds | Easy Now |
| 5 | 8 | DMA’s | Fading Like a Picture |
| 4 | 5 | Krezip | In The Water |
| 3 | 3 | Roulette | Ready For Friday Night |
| 2 | 2 | Six60 | Never Been Tonight |
| 1 | 1 | Ten | The Tidal Wave |
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“Creye” are a rock band formed in 2015 by guitarist “Andreas Gullstrand.” They deliver a brand of melodic rock that takes you right back to the mid-eighties. After their self-titled debut album in 2018 a few line up changes followed and included new lead singer “August Rauer.” Their second album, Creye II, was released in 2021 and now the Swedish rockers have returned with Creye III (Weightless), an album with which their evolution as a premiere band in the Swedish melodic rock scene appears to continue unabated.
Creye’s single, Spreading Fire, is new this week on RadiJohan.
“Inhaler” are an Irish rock band formed in 2012. Their debut album, It Won’t Always Be Like This, released in 2021, topped the Album Chart in Ireland and the UK and made the Top 20 in the Netherlands and Germany. Their second album, Cuts and Bruises, has just been released.
According to the band, their new single is a tribute to great American songwriters Bob Dylan, “The Band” and Bruce Springsteen, stating that listening to these artists while travelling on big open highways resonated with them and helped shape the song into making them sound more like a live band than before.
If You’re Gonna Break My Heart by “Inhaler” is new this week on RadiJohan.
On the 1st of March 1969 Jim Morrison of “The Doors” allegedly dropped his trousers and exposed a bit too much of himself to the nearly 12,000 fans at a concert. Whether or not Morrison really exposed himself is unclear. His band-mate, Ray Manzarek, claimed that he just took his shirt off and waved it in front of his crotch to taunt the audience. A number of conflicting stories about the exact details of this incident exist. Morrison was eventually charged and convicted. He died while the case was under appeal.
In 2010 the governor of Florida granted Morrison a posthumous pardon.
ZZ Ward (Zsuzsanna Ward) is an American singer, musician and songwriter born in Pennsylvania and raised in Oregon, USA, in a small town called Roseburg. She grew up listening to her Dad sing the blues and started performing with him in his blues bands when she was 12 years old. She released her debut album, Til the Casket Drops, in 2012. A second album, The Storm, followed in 2017.
Her success so far has largely been confined to the USA with a number of singles featuring on the Billboard “Adult Alternative Airplay” chart. It’s about time that changed.
ZZ Ward’s self-penned Break Her Heart is new this week on RadiJohan.
English singer and songwriter Steve Harley turns 72 today. He is probably best known as the front-man of rock band “Cockney Rebel.” Over the years “Steve Harley & Cockney Rebel” have had four studio albums in the UK album chart and twelve singles in the UK singles chart. In 1975 one of the singles, Make Me Smile (Come Up and See Me), made the top 10 in the Netherlands and Belgium while going to number 1 in the UK and Ireland.
Synthpop band CHVRCHES probably need little introduction in 2023. The three band members settled on the name CHVRCHES, using the Roman letter “v” instead of a “u”. This spelling was chosen to differentiate themselves from actual churches in online search results.
The band have been around for more than a decade and have released four studio albums in that time. The latest, 2021’s Screen Violence topped the album chart in their native Scotland and featured the single How Not To Drown which spent three weeks at number one on RadiJohan’s Top 10.
This week CHVRCHES return with their first new single in over a year. In a press release the band shared:
“’Over’ is a song that we wrote with Oscar Holter, a producer we really respect and admire. Normally we collect songs over the course of months (or years!) until we have an album’s worth of material, but this time we just wanted to release something we were excited about and give the fans something new to mark the end of the ‘Screen Violence’ era, and the start of whatever the next CHVRCHES chapter might be.”
CHVRCHES’ new single, Over, is new this week on RadiJohan