Billie the Vision & the Dancers' latest album "From burning hell to smile and laughter" is being offered as a free/donation download, just like all of their previous work: http://www.billiethevision.com/music.php
Recommended for all fans of Swedish indiepop.
Absolut Noise interviews Swedish artist Jonas Jonsson aka Bedroom Eyes: http://absolutnoise.blogspot.com/2010/04/exclu-interview-new-single.html
His label has an interview up as well: http://www.westsidefabrication.se/news/about-bedroom-eyes/
The new single "Hand-in-hand grenade" was just released today.
Here is the It's a Trap! listening group top 10 artists of the week, unique to our group:
01. The Radio Dept.
02. The National
03. Håkan Hellström
04. Jonathan Johansson
05. jj
06. Hello Saferide
07. Shout Out Louds
08. Robyn
09. The Bear Quartet
10. The Mary Onettes
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The new Club 8 album "The people's record" will be released on May 12 and in addition to CD and digital, will also be available in a limited edition vinyl run of 500 copies. Order via : http://www.labrador.se/shop.php3
Swedish shoegazers Sad Day for Puppets will release their new album "Pale silver and shiny gold" this coming fall. In the meantime, they'll be playing a few dates around Scandinavia with A Place to Bury Stangers and Editors at the end of April/early May.
[ingenting] next single will be my favorite song from their excellent "Tomhet, idel tomhet" album, "Medan vi sov". It will be released on May 19 and will include a special b-side cover version by Anna von Hausswolff.
is giving away a track from The Deer Tracks' new EP "Eggegrund": http://www.despotz.se/email/isbjornskatten.mp3
Swedish indiepop act Television Keeps Us Apart are giving away their album "A slight change of light" as a free download: http://www.litdeparade.org/
Click "Television Keeps Us Apart" at the top.
Traktor's new single "Where water goes" is now up at myspace: http://www.myspace.com/traktorbiz
It seemed fairly obvious to me, but Pitchfork has confirmed that the new act CEO is in fact Eric Berglund from The Tough Alliance: http://pitchfork.com/news/38620-ceo-tough-alliances-eric-berglund/
CEO's debut album "White magic" will be released on June 28 across Europe, June 29 in the US and on July 2 in Australia/New Zealand and is co-released via
-affiliated rapper Alexis Weak has a video for his new single "Ser rött": http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cJWh19n710c
Check out a trailer video for Wildbird & Peacedrums' upcoming European tour and new choir-infused "Retina" EP: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aYurgDyKZSg
Pg.lostPg.lost have always impressed me -- their first effort, "Yes I am" is as solid and engaging a debut record as I know, followed quickly by the lengthier, though less intricate "It's not me, it's you!", which, despite my criticisms, remains a fantastic foray into the world of postrock. That said, this most recent effort is perhaps their crowning achievement. "Yes I am", while a stunning record, feels more like an EP than an album; "It's not me, it's you!" occasionally used sledgehammers of sound where previously they had weaved elaborate melodic threads; but on "In never out", Pg.lost get it just right -- the building, anthemic qualities of "Yes I am" are paired faultlessly with the heavy, driving relentlessness seen on "It's not me, it's you!". Whatever worries the opening track's minimalist darkness gave me at first were easily dispelled by the detailed and layered, but just as heavy, "Jura", one of the album's finest moments. Now, after almost a week with "In never out", it's hard to imagine the album starting any other way, even if the majority of the record has more in common with the haunting, stratified second track. Even though those initial thrills that course through my brain upon hearing damn fine postrock have subsided somewhat, I'd still recommend "In never out" to friends interested in heavier, more distortion laden postrock just as readily as I would Mono's "One step more and you die" or Explosions in the Sky's "All of a sudden I miss everyone". Pg.lost deserve to have their name and their achievements, especially "In never out", mentioned in the same discussion as artists and albums of the caliber cited above.
- Lars Garvey Laing-Peterson
Shout Out Louds have lined up a few new fall tourdates:
09/22 - Rentless Garage, London (UK)
09/23 - Ruby Lounge, Manchster (UK)
09/24 - King Tuts, Glasgow (UK)
09/25 - The Social Brudenell Club, Leeds (UK)
10/13 - La Maroquinerie, Paris (FRA)
10/14 - Ubu, Rennes (FRA)
10/16 - Marche Gare, Lyon (FRA)
11/02 - Melkweg, Amsterdam (NL)
