Kris Jenkins is a British rock/power pop solo recording artist/songwriter residing in France. He has over 30 years experience in writing, recording and playing live with different bands. He releases his new single ‘Stimulate’ on 26th of April. “I wrote ‘Stimulate’ in January which was a period in which I was bursting with ideas and this is one of six songs I wrote and recorded in the space of a few weeks between December and February.” “The lyrical subject is about people who drift apart from one another wherever it be friends or partners etc… and the moment they suddenly realize the ..read more

Top20 2024 wk17 – COOLTOP20 TOP20 2024 wk 17 # Prev Title Artist Weeks High 1 1 Stop Trying Subterranean Street Society 5 1 2 2 Meet Me at the End of the World Trapper Schoep 5 2 3 4 Tested Waters Loupe 5 3 4 6 My Aunt's Cursed Enigma Dizzy Panda & The Perics 4 4 5 8 Losing It Dorsten 5 5 6 9 Little Miss Sunshine Eleanor Rising 3 6 8 3 Bright Morning After Geography 5 1 9 14 Good Together Sparky Bosque 3 9 10 5 Children Ederlezi 5 1 11 7 Proof Denny Lloyd 5 7 12 15 She's Calling Me Taxi Rank 2 12 13 - Too Much or Not Enough? Candid 1 13 14 ..read more

Electric Pets (UK) guitarist/songwriter/vocalist Phil Wagg recently became an overnight internet sensation for a song he wrote and released a little over 30 years ago as a teenager, while in his first band ‘Iris’. What’s the story? In 2007 an ‘off air’ cassette recording of a song that was played on German radio station NDR between 1982 and 1984 went viral on Reddit as online music enthusiasts from all over the world joined forces to identify a song with no title by an unknown European synth rock band. To this day, this ‘Most Mysterious Song On The Internet‘ remains unidentified. The search fo ..read more

Top20 2024 wk16 – COOLTOP20 # Prev Title Artist Weeks High 1 2 Stop Trying Subterranean Street Society 4 1 2 4 Meet Me at the End of the World Trapper Schoep 4 2 3 1 Bright Morning After Geography 4 1 4 5 Tested Waters Loupe 4 4 5 3 Children Ederlezi 4 1 6 9 My Aunt's Cursed Enigma Dizzy Panda & The Perics 3 6 7 7 Proof Denny Lloyd 4 7 8 10 Losing It Dorsten 4 8 9 18 Little Miss Sunshine Eleanor Rising 2 9 10 8 Failure Jack Francis 4 8 11 14 Towns To Grow Up In Mile Marker Zero 2 11 12 13 Awoken The Future Us 4 12 13 6 The Kids Are Talkin ..read more

The Bristol (UK) music scene seems quite successful! We have put together a playlist “Bristol Based”. With both known and unknown artists. Indie and signed. Old and new tracks. Both rock and electronic. Discover the sound of Bristol!  Playlist – Brighton Based – The music scene of Bristol:   The post Playlist – Bristol Based – The music scene of Bristol appeared first on COOLTOP20 ..read more

Penelope’s Thrill is an indie rock band from Madison, Wisconsin (USA), founded by Timothy Walsh in 2015. Their debut album ‘Twilight on Tunnel Road’ won the Alternative Album of the Year Award from the Madison Area Music Association in 2022. Their sophomore release ‘Message on the Moon’ will be out on April 11th. Six singles from the album have been released over the past three months. “All the songs on ‘Message on the Moon’ feature intricately crafted guitar parts, richly layered, often contrasting fast arpeggios with lush, atmospheric washes of color. Songs range from the clas ..read more

Todd & Karen are an indie pop duo consisting of Norwegian musician Øyvind Berge and Irish-Swiss musician Ina Verdi-Ruckstuhl. Based in Kongsberg (Norway) they’ve created pop music together since 2020. In 2021 their debut single ‘Mr. Beardsley’ was released on their own label. Two more self-released singles followed before they were picked up by Danish indie label Sublime Exile Recordings/SXR Music Group. Together with them they’ve released one EP ‘Approximately Here For A Bit’ and four singles, the latest of which ‘Bougie Suzie’ was released on March 15th. On April 5th the duo&nb ..read more

Keith Burke grew up in Skerries, Co. Dublin (Ireland). The first two singles from his upcoming studio album, ‘I’ll begin this letter’ and ‘Before you go’ were well received and played on Irish National and Regional radio. He has proudly sung his songs at concerts in the USA, Germany, Lebanon, Italy, Spain and Egypt. He writes mainly about adult lives and unconventional love stories found in the ordinary. His upcoming single ‘That’s where the bees love to go’ is a song about his grandfather’s garden. “The theme of the lyrics is bees, birds and flowers, which is a move away from that of romance ..read more

Dean Dovey, an indie singer/songwriter from Birmingham (UK) now residing in Tamworth, is due to release his first single since the release of his debut album ‘Journey To The Sun’ back in December 2022. His upcoming single ‘Shoot For The Moon’ is a step away from the guitar based album, taking inspiration from 80s Bowie and The Pet Shop Boys resulting in a dance/funk beat with the dramatics of the finest of cinematic movie scores.  “This song was out of the same batch of songs I’d written for my debut album. It started as a guitar based indie track but it never felt right and I kinda knew ..read more

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