is working on an 8CD Nationalteatern boxset to be released for the classic Swedish progg band's 40th anniversary this fall. Besides all of the band's studio recordings, the set will also include a new live disc and 30 never-released bonus tracks along with commentary text from 15 members of the group, both new and old, talking about the group's history and much, much more: http://www.mnwmusic.com/artists/nationalteatern/nationalteatern.html
Khoma's new video for "In it for fighting" is available for streaming via Gaffa: http://gaffa.se/tv/clip/299
Håkan Lidbo's new DVD album "grf_rmibht9" was created as a project with students from the Berghs School Of Communication in Stockholm in which each pupil was assigned to create a visual representation for a track created by Lidbo. The end result is a set of songs, all in the same tempo and key, all with individual videos and all easily layered on top of one another. Check it out and play around: http://hakanlidbo.com/archives/1418
Makes me wish I had a bigger monitor.
The Silent Ballet reviews the intriguing Swedish artist Chicagojazzen: http://thesilentballet.com/dnn/Home/tabid/36/ctl/Details/mid/384/ItemID/3425/Default.aspx
Here is the It's a Trap! listening group top 10 artists of the week, unique to our group:
01. Robyn
02. Familjen
03. Oskar Linnros
04. The Drums
05. Jens Lekman
06. Efterklang
07. The National
08. Shout Out Louds
09. Dungen
10. Bob Hund
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are giving away a new single from GBG-based powerpop act Chick-e-Chack: http://www.butisitart.org/
Fatboy's upcoming third album "Overdrive", their first under new label , will be released on October 6.
The Håkan Hellström book "Ps. Lycka till ikväll" will be released on September 23 and will include lots of never-before-seen pictures from his childhood to present along with reminiscences from both himself and fans, among other things.
Swedish troubadour Thomas Denver Jonsson has passed along word that after his show in Fensbol, Sweden on July 4 he will be changing his stage name to I'm Kingfisher. Same songs, same style, and so on, he says, just a new name and yes, I do believe his new album "Arctic" will be released with the new moniker.
Warmth and sunshine has finally arrived in the PacNW. That means it's time to put all my best feel-bad music (Okkultokrati, Haust) on the backburner and bust out some classic 70s-style heaviness. As always, delivers the goods, so here's a track from a recent release of theirs: the self-titled debut of Swedish/Norwegian bruisers Brutus. Don't expect any curveballs with this one, it's a straight-up blues jammer with big choruses, plenty of swing and a refreshing lack of pointless psychedelic interludes. When done right, as Brutus does, this sort of thing never gets old.
Brutus - Solution
are giving away the This Is Head track "0011" as a free download along with a remix by fellow Malmö artists VED: http://www.adrianrecordings.com/default.asp?newsid=275
20jazzfunkgreats gets hip to Agent Side Grinder: http://www.20jazzfunkgreats.co.uk/wordpress/2010/06/14/the-night-of-the-replicants/
Might as well keep on posting more videos, especially since I'm stumbling across a lot of good ones. This is Watain performing a tribute to Swedish metal legends Bathory from Sweden Rock Fest this past weekend. Quorthon's father Börje "Boss" Forsberg gives the intro speech. As the poster of the clip says, "the picture is a bit shitty in the beginning and starts working after the song starts for some unknown reason. Sound is ok." Wish I could've been there!
Direct link: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XdTHFe6-qg8
Swedish dark/alt-country act The Don Darlings have a new song up at myspace: http://www.myspace.com/thedondarlings
PopMatters review Robyn's new album "Body talk pt. 1": http://www.popmatters.com/pm/review/126549-robyn-body-talk-pt.-1