The Fine Arts Showcase are touring Germany later this month:
01/28 - Fzw, Dortmund
01/29 - Pretty Vacant, Düsseldorf
01/30 - Gleiss 22, Münster
02/04 - Molotov, Hamburg
02/05 - Beatpol, Dresden
02/06 - Bang Bang Club, Berlin
Upcoming tourdates for Immanu El:
02/02 - Gleis 22, Münster (GER)
02/03 - Paris Syndrome, Leipzig (GER)
02/04 - tba
02/05 - Druckluftshaus, Oberhausen (GER)
02/06 - Elfer Club, Frankfurt (GER)
02/07 - Nbi Club, Berlin (GER)
02/08 - Mappa Club, Budapest (HUN)
02/09 - Societätstheater, Dresden (GER)
02/10 - Bezsennosc, Wroclaw (POL)
02/11 - Hydrozagadka, Warsaw (POL)
02/12 - Zaczek, Cracow (POL)
02/13 - Mdk Batory (If Summer Ends Festival), Chorzow (POL)
02/14 - Valentines Day - Pod Minoga, Poznan (POL)
02/16 - Depo, Riga (LAT)
02/17 - Klubi, Turku (FIN)
02/18 - Telakka, Tampere (FIN)
02/19 - Kojaamo, Helsinki (FIN)
02/20 - tbc, St Petersburg (RUS)
02/21 - tbc, Moscow (RUS)
Lo-Fi-Fnk will be giving away a new song on February 1 via Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/event.php?eid=253521906589&ref=mf
AC4's new split 7" with Perth, Australia-based act Surprise Sex Attack is out now via and features the previously unreleased cut "Ten to one". 300 copies with hand-cut/hand-sewn/hand-printed/hand-stamped/hand-numbered, probably won't last long.
Here's the playlist for this week's radio show Sirius XMU:
01. Komeda - Elvira Madigan
02. TALK 1
03. Joensuu 1685 - I'm on fire
04. Haust - Skate rock
05. Sambassadeur - Sandy dunes
06. Erik de Vahl - Got it all
07. TALK 2
08. The Confusions - Boys will be boys
09. The Knife - Heartbeats
10. Francis - I was never bored at all
11. Monzano - Cold waters
12. TALK 3
13. Ave - The load of human kind
14. Trapdoor Fucking Exit - Cardiac arrest
15. Håkan Hellström - Tro och tvivel
16. Karin Ström - Hackney Downs
17. TALK 4
18. Mr. Death - Misery's womb
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.
Here's the video for the new Petter video "Fast för evigt": http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N5bJxUjdmDc
Here's the video for the new Timo Räisänen single "Numbers": http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AUsWI8L36rE
is putting together a limited C20 comp to be given away at their upcoming label night on February 27 at Gifgrond in Tilborg, Holland. Said comp will feature two tracks from each of the featured Swedish acts performing that night: Adolf Filter, Kord and Monster Apparat, a collaboration of the first two bands playing together. Read more/hear samples: http://www.enfant-terrible.nl/ET003.html
The next single from C.Aarmé's excellent "World music" album will be "Angola". Said single will also feature two additional versions of the track, a John Ola remix and a karaoke version as sung by Princess (Zeigeist). Hear the OG: http://www.skiva.se/nyheter/caarme-angola-ep
This week's live music video at PSL features STOR and Mando Diao: http://blogg.svt.se/psl/2010/01/21/musik-med-stor-mando-diao/
#1 Hits from an Another Planet on Casablanca, the new Swedish pop supergroup featuring members from Melody Club and Sahara Hotnights: http://alienhits.blogspot.com/2010/01/casablanca-downtown.html
The long-awaited new album from The Radio Dept. "Clinging to a scheme" now has a release date of April 21, or so says label . The band seems to think otherwise. Anyhow, in other Labrador-related news, the new Club 8 record "The people's record" also has a release date: May 12.
The new David Fridlund album "Some day, eventually, in the future..." now has a release date: March 31 via . The first single is called "Diamonds & photographs".
Nice to hear someone emulating Samuraj Cities' haphazard bedroom-indie sound. The tools are rudimentary, but the ambitions are not -- Niels Nielsen makes lo-fi anthems, not 4-track scuzz. The lyrical sentiment of "We are youth" makes me feel old, but whatever, I guess I gotta get used to uppity kids who think they know it all. I was one of them once, too. Keep fighting the good fight and download the whole album this track comes from right here: http://nielsnielsen.bandcamp.com/
Niels Nielsen - We are youth
The new Timo Räisänen album "The anatomy of Timo Räisänen" will be out in March via . The first single "Numbers" comes out January 26. In other Razzia news, the upcoming Dundertåget record they will be putting out later this year now has a name and it is "Dom feta åren är förbi".