Monty Python preorder
The Bear Quartet's new album "Monty Python" is now available for preorder: http://www.adrianrecordings.com/default.asp?newsid=279
No word yet on a vinyl release, but hopefully someone will step up.
Country: Sweden
Björn Kleinhenz in the NYT
Check out this article in the New York Times on the Leipzig, Germany music scene which features a quote from esteemed Swedish artist Björn Kleinhenz: http://www.nytimes.com/2010/07/04/travel/04Next.html?_r=1&emc=eta1
Pg.lost is going to China
Pg.lost will be heading to China in September. Exact details are not 100% confirmed yet, but preliminary dates are posted here: http://blogs.myspace.com/index.cfm?fuseaction=blog.view&friendId=5441486&blogId=536770862
Liechtenstein - Passion for water
will be releasing a new 7" single from Liechtenstein later this month and are offering the a-side cut "Passion for water" as a free download: http://www.fractiondiscs.se/
Sophie Rimheden, live in NYC
Sophie Rimheden is coming to NYC for a few live appearances later this month: http://blogs.myspace.com/index.cfm?fuseaction=blog.view&friendId=70440842&blogId=536769520
Andreas Söderlund - Daustralien (video)
Andreas Söderlund's debut solo single from the upcoming album of the same name. It won't sound unfamiliar to anyone who knows his work with Niccokick or Sounds Like Violence, but it's not like that's a bad thing. Direct link: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KZ7oPxid5OQ
Pitchfork goes to Roskilde
Pitchfork reports from the Roskilde fest, though they don't uncover any previously undiscussed Scandinavian gems: http://pitchfork.com/features/articles/7826-roskilde-2010/
MP3: Aerial - Vacant dreamers
Quite possibly my favorite track off of "Put it this way in headlines". An appropriately 90s-style video for a very 90s sounding track; exactly the sort of thing I'd used to stay up to watch for on "120 Minutes" way back when.
Aerial - Vacant dreamers
The Bristles album preview
Hardcore mag Define the Meaning is streaming the new album "Reflections of the bourgeois society" from Swedish act The Bristles: http://definethemeaning.com/2010/06/25/streaming-the-bristles-reflections-of-the-bourgeois-society/
Sounds like run-of-the-mill streetpunk to me, but hey, maybe that's your thing.
CEO - Everything is gonna be alright
is distributing a new track from CEO for free download and you can grab it from Pitchfork: http://pitchfork.com/news/39359-ceo-everything-is-gonna-be-alright/
Baron Bane - Sordid eyes
Preview the new single "Sordid eyes" from Swedish art-rock act Baron Bane: http://soundcloud.com/baronbane/baron-bane-sordid-eyes
CEO
White magic
Sincerely Yours/Modular
In the (what seems like a very long) wait for the new The Tough Alliance album, singer Erik Berglund has dropped this gem upon the collective lap of the music community which finds him honing his full-time band's dance-pop even further over the course of the eight tracks presented here. Varying in texture that transitions through various depths, "Illuminata" and "White magic" are dance floor-ready party jams, whilst the closing track "Den blomstertid nu kommer" is a slightly tepid, reflective number comprised of mostly live instrumentation. Although some may complain that eight tracks is a bit short, it is not reflected on its output -- in fact, what Berglund has done, is take the genre of dance-pop his compatriots have been producing over the past couple of years, and hone it into what is easily the best album of its kind in recent memory.
- Matt Giordano
Sirius playlist week #27
Here's the playlist for this week's radio show Sirius XMU:
01. TALK 1
02. Makthaverskan - Inside of me
03. Swedish House Mafia - One
04. Elias & the Wizzkids - Waste of time
05. TALK 2
06. The Animal Five - Dancing on my own
07. Miasmal - Creation of fire
08. The Aches - Count slowly to ten
09. Karin Ström - Reptilian brain
10. TALK 3
11. Dear Euphoria - No more time to weep
12. Delay Trees - Cassette 2012
13. Sort Sol - Marguerita
14. TALK 4
15. The Tallest Man on Earth - The wild hunt
16. Cut City - The sound and the sore
17. The Hives - Civilization's dying
18. The Nature - Din medicin
19. TALK 5
20. Kaka - Below this sun
21. The Scrags - Psycho cyclone
22. On Volcano - Ride the wolf
23. TALK 6
Reminder: my show airs every week on Sundays and Mondays at 11pm ET on Sirius XMU. That's channel 26 on Sirius, 43 on XM and 831 for DirecTV subscribers.
Gösta Berlings Saga confirmed for Nearfest 2011
Swedish prog act Gösta Berlings Saga will be making their overseas debut at the 2011 Nearfest in Bethlehem, PA: http://www.nearfest.com/
We Are the Storm in the studio
We Are the Storm will begin recording their debut album this weekend -- definitely one of the year's most anticipated releases.