2011 Watchlist
I have started my 2011 Watchlist: http://www.itsatrap.com/filter/2011-watchlist
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Country: Sweden
Silje Nes, The Concretes to Noise Pop 2011
Silje Nes and The Concretes will be playing this year's Noise Pop festival in SF: http://2011.noisepop.com/
And the Novell prize goes to...
The winner of this year's Novell prize from the Swedish mag of the same name for excellent story-telling in music goes to Johan Duncanson of The Radio Dept. for the song "You stopped making sense". Read more: http://magasinetnovell.se/2010/12/15/och-vinnaren-ar-2/ (in Swedish)
Misantropic to get vinyl release via Southern Lord
Female-fronted Norrland crust act Misantropic will have their album "Insomnia" released on vinyl via US label : http://blog.southernlord.com/?p=312
Miasmal US tour
Preliminary dates are now confirmed for Miasmal's US tour:
05/17 - Austin, TX
05/18 - Dallas, TX
05/19 - St. Louis, MO
05/20 - Chicago, IL
05/21 - Cleveland, OH
05/22 - Providence, RI
05/23 - Boston, MA
05/24 - Brooklyn, NY
05/25 - Philadelphia, PA
05/26 - Maryland Death Fest
05/27 - Maryland Death Fest
05/28 - Maryland Death Fest
05/29 - Maryland Death Fest
05/30 - North Carolina
05/31 - Atlanta,GA
06/01 - New Orleans, LA
06/02 - Chaos in Tejas
06/03 - Chaos in Tejas
06/04 - Chaos in Tejas
06/05 - Chaos in Tejas
06/06 - El Paso, TX
06/07 - Phoenix, AZ
06/08 - Los Angeles, CA
06/09 - Los Angeles, CA
06/10 - San Jose, CA
06/11 - San Francisco, CA
06/12 - Oakland, CA
06/14 - Portland, OR
06/15 - Seattle, WA
06/16 - Olympia, WA
Hatred Surge and Mammoth Grinder will support the first run up until Chaos along with Innumerable Forms on some dates and then local (to me) death dealers Bone Sickness will bring them out west.
Doomsday best of
Doomsday Mag lists his top picks for 2010, albums and otherwise: http://doomsdaymag.blogspot.com/2010/12/bast-2010-listalistalista.html
New PB&J gets a name
The forthcoming Peter Bjorn and John album, confirmed for release on March 29, now has a name: "Gimme some".
Mean Streak - In for the kill (video)
The new video for "In for the kill", the latest single from Swedish rockers Mean Streak. Not bad, but it probably sounds a heckuva lot better when you don't have to look at them.
Neghantil collection preview
is streaming a preview of the new Neghantil 2xCS "1990-1996" at SoundCloud: http://soundcloud.com/fang-bomb/sets/neghantil-1990-1996
City - Du ser lycklig ut, tur för dig (video)
Finally, new music from City, the hyped duo of Björn Nilsson (Slagsmålsklubben) and Tommi Levin (The High Fives). Direct link: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TTZoAbTXqiY
Thomas Ekelund + Terence Hannum collaborate on Heresies
Thomas Ekelund (Dead Letters Spell Out Dead Words) and American artist Terence Hannum (Locrian) have collaborated on a new zine/CDr as the 12th penultimate edition in Hannum's year-long zine series "Heresies". The music is a massive 34-minute drone piece which can be sampled here, but it's also worth checking out the physical object because it comes in a very cool letterpressed package -- head to Thomas' site for a preview: http://www.whenskiesaregrey.se/
Nöjesguiden top 20 Swedish albums for 2010
Nöjesguiden's top 20 Swedish albums of 2010:
01. Robyn - Body talk, part 2
02. Håkan Hellström - 2 steg från paradise
03. The Radio Dept. - Clinging to a scheme
04. Oskar Linnros - Vilja bli
05. The Bear Quartet - Monty Python
06. This is Head - 0001
07. Robyn - Body talk, part 1
08. Säkert! - Facit
09. Ludwig Bell - Jag har försökt förklara
10. Daniel Adams-Ray - Svart, vitt och allt däremellan
11. Britta Persson - Current affair medium rare
12. Moto Boy - Lost in the call
13. The Concretes - WYWH
14. Joel Alme - Waiting For the Bells
15. Tove Styrke - Tove Styrke
16. Andreas Söderlund - Daustralien
17. Orup - Född i November
18. Embee - The mellow turning moment
19. Various Artists - Sonja Åkesson tolkad av
20. Bandjo - Bandjo
Link: http://nojesguiden.se/artiklar/arets-svenska-skivor-2010
The Tallest Man on Earth makes the Pfork top album list
The Tallest Man on Earth comes in at #33 on the first portion of Pitchfork's top 50 albums of 2010 list.