Watch Moto Boy perform a couple songs in a Helsinki parking garage: http://vimeo.com/10287852
I tend to prefer the live versions of his songs, so this is definitely worth checking out as far as I'm concerned.
Swedish doom act Pyramido are streaming a new track at myspace: http://www.myspace.com/pyramidodoom
Said track will appear on an upcoming split 12" with the band Suma to be released via .
The new Brothers of End single "Beats for you" is out now and the band has posted streaming previews for the two b-side remixes, by Rasmus Hägg (Studio) and Johan Sigerud: http://www.brothersofend.se/2010/03/new-singel-out-now/
says that they are working on a new boxset compilation (#2) to include No Balls, The Dements plust two other as-yet-unnamed acts: http://blogs.myspace.com/index.cfm?fuseaction=blog.view&friendId=412756052&blogId=531273896
The first box came out last year and included four 7"s from the likes of Brainbombs, Poppets, Black Bug and The Homostupids and sold out almost immediately.
Lasse Pyykkö has announced that he is laying his band Vacant Coffin to rest and will instead be concentrating on his new band Swarming with Rogga Johansson (Paganizer, Ribspreader) moving forward. Listen to some demo tunes of the new band here: http://www.myspace.com/swarming
Culkin played an extra special show at Club Probation/Snövit in Stockholm on Friday and you missed it. I would've been there for sure if I wasn't halfway around the world, but hey, that's life -- at least I had the honor of second-handedly providing guest vocalist Nandor Hegedüs a mp3 of his old band's song so he could refresh his memory before hitting the stage. That's the kind of odd international world we live in now.