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5 months of Roxetteblog – thanks!

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On April 29th we started with Roxetteblog, not really knowing where this would lead us to. Five months later, we get a big smile on our faces when we see:

  • We have written 209 posts, to which you wrote 389 comments
  • We have had about 4,000 unique visitors per month and 102,000 views in these 5 months

We now think it’s time for three things:

  • Thank you all for your support!!!
  • Thank you for your contribution to the site as well: keep the articles and news coming!
  • Ask you for your feedback:  we would like to know what you like and you dislike about this website. What you miss, what we could do to improve it.

You can leave your messages here, or use the contact form or our Twitter account @roxetteblog. Thanks!

And I personally want to thank the team behind Roxetteblog: Tomasz, Kirsten, Sascha and Jiri for their time investigating and writing great articles 🙂

“The Look” covered by rockabilly band “The Baseballs”

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Posted on June 28th: German rockabilly band The Baseballs included a cover of “The Look” in their first album “Strike”, which was released in May 2009.  The album also includes covers of Rihanna, Robbie Williams and Maroon 5 among others.

Digger, singer together with Sam and Basti, explains why they choose “The Look” in an interview published on Münstersche Zeitung yesterday, “we wanted to give the album a personal touch. I chose “The Look”, which I relate to my start with music. It was my sister’s first LP and the first song I could play on keyboards.”

I personally find the version of “The Look” one of the best on the album, but you can judge yourself on YouTube, where you can also listen to other songs included in the album.

If you want to learn more about the band, you can visit their homepage (in German) or page on Facebook. And if you’ve been convinced by their music, you can buy their CD on Amazon.de

Update 18th July: just found out that there is another German band who already covered “The Look” back in 1991. The band is called Boppin’B and they named the album containing the cover “The Look”.

Canadian artists Luke Jackson records at Aerosol with Christoffer and Magnus

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For those who like Christoffer and Magnus’ work: Canadian artist Luke Jackson informed us he recorded his most recent album “… And Then Some” at Aerosol Grey Machine with Christoffer and Magnus. The album was released last year. You can read about how they became friends and how they came up with idea of recording the album at AGM on Luke’s MySpace profile.

This week he is promoting his new animated video for the song Goodbye London which you can find on YouTube.

Luke also informs he was at “Per’s London show last month incidentally, and it was magic”.

He also tells us “My music might be too far removed from Roxette to warrant a posting on your page, since I’ve never actually played with Per, but I wanted to keep you in the loop!” Well, we know there are some Chris and Magnus fans out there, so this might indeed be of their interest. And who knows, you might discover a new favourite artist.