Kaiser Chiefs - Little Shocks

A: Kaiser Chiefs
S: Little Shocks
C: The Future Is Medieval

The Future Is Medieval! And because it is, you can create your new Kaiser Chiefs album yourself. Visit the chiefs website and you get a choice of 20 songs. Chose the 10 songs you like most, create a cover and check-out for £7.50 - which is fair pay. You then get the option to sell your album and make £1 for every copy you sell. Loving it already!

This is how it works:

Arctic Monkeys - Brick By Brick

A: Arctic Monkeys
S: Brick By Brick
C: Suck It And See (out now)

Having waited so long for this to be posted, I almost missed the perfect day to do so (which would have been last Friday when the album was released but then there was Oz Week so today is the day). The first two Monkey albums are in my Top 10 of best albums of all times. I don't dig their new stuff as much, but am fine with a band having to progress and process and evolve and all that.

Kylie Minogue - 2 Hearts - OZ WEEK 7

A: Kylie Minogue
S: 2 Hearts
C: X

With Oz Week on it's final day, it shouldn't come as a surprise I opt for the biggest pop export Australia ever had to sing today's song. And with me being only a couple of hours away from today's Take That concert at Manchester City Stadium, reuniting and all that - you've read the story, I thought I go with Mr. Williams and La Minogue duetting on 'Kids'. But that wasn't up for embedding so I figure this will do just nicely.

Kid Sam - We're Mostly Made of Water - OZ WEEK 6

A: Kid Sam
S: We're Mostly Made of Water
C: Kid Sam

Oz Week is almost coming to an end and I've been running around the Greater city of Manchester today, learning one very important thing for every foreigner blogger to be: There is no, as in none, free Wifi to be found anywhere. There might have been in Starsucks, but they run out of access cards. So I'll leave you with this short post and a gorgeous song by Kid Sam. I like.

Tim & Jean - I Can Show You - OZ WEEK 5

A: Tim & Jean
S: I Can Show You
C: Like What

I've got the feeling that Oz Week is already coming to an end before it really started. Quite shocking. Anyway, Tim & Jean are the two guys who have been friends forever and released their debut about a month ago or so, signed to Mercury Records and situated in Perth according to their Myspace and Melbourne according to Wiki. Juicy detail really, although it proves that you shouldn't believe everything you read online. Or offline.

Cut Copy - Need You Now - OZ WEEK 4

A: Cut Copy
S: Need You Now
C: Zonoscope

Next chapter in Oz Week is called Cut Copy and they are from Melbourne. Funny that most Australian music acts these days are duos. Anyway, the video looks like something like hipsters olympics. If hipsters did anything like sports. But they don't, so it's not. I read a comment on Facebook a while ago, saying: You look like a muscles hipster boy. And I thought: there is no such thing as a muscled hipster. Just saying.

Cloud Control - There Is Nothing In The Water We Can't Fight - OZ WEEK 3

A: Cloud Control
S: There Is Nothing In The Water We Can't Fight
C: Bliss Release

Moving on with Oz Week, it's Cloud Control. And look, the song title is super duper extra bigxtra long, which I love, which is the thing I love most about music. Cloud Control originate from the Blue Mountains near Sydney, Australia - just to put some geographical info in. Bliss Release is their debut, being signed to l Ivy League Records, I hope there are many more to come.