Ane Brun at Blue Shell in Cologne.

This week I’m listening to female singers a lot, for whatever reason. I just noticed that Norwegian songstress Ane Brun’s 2005 album A Temporary Dive is fully streamable on Last.fm. I don’t know how long it will be available, so just click on the link and click play. The album certainly contains interesting songwriting by someone whose native tongue is not English, listen to Balloon Ranger for instance.

Last night I saw the Finnish band Hormonés. They played a really nice acoustic set featuring their own songs and covers ranging from Iron & Wine to Queens of the Stone Age, and I was also glad to see them play a Jason Mraz song.

And thanks to Christoph of the German language Konzerttagebuch blog (which looks like a great music blog at first sight) for the photo of Ane!