Daniel Gilbert (ex-Broder Daniel) has a video for his debut solo single "Maelstrom": http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JC5lsVlxO1U
As mentioned before, his album "New African Sports, Soul Café Club No #1" comes out December 28 via Dolores/EMI.
There's a new Warvictims track streaming at myspace from their upcoming split 7" with Suburban Showdown: http://www.myspace.com/warvictims
Turboweekend, CALLmeKAT, Marie Fisker, Jonna Lee, Oh No Ono, Kaspar, Murmansk and Adam Tensta are among the latest confirmations for SXSW.
Swedish hardcore act Meleeh report that their new album "To live and die alone" is done and on track for a February release via and will be available on both CD and vinyl.
Galaxy Safari aren't a "cool" band, but that doesn't mean they aren't good. They play workingman hard rock, an area far removed from all hype, but fuck it, I like burly riffs paired with pop hooks so I like them just fine. So yeah, if you dig stonerrock, but can't hang with stoner clichés, you'll dig this. If you like it when Foo Fighters are at their heaviest, you'll like this too. The band they remind of most though, is Speedball, an obscure act from Detroit that I think I read about on Aversionline or some other zine way back when. Speedball's "Drive like hell" EP kicks ass in a very similar way and it's been a longtime standby for me in my collection and also, now that I've looked them up, I'm surprised to find out they're still together, so yeah- further investigation is most definitely needed! But anyway, getting back to Galaxy Safari: there's no clever press ploy here, no flash, no gimmicks. Just four dudes playing heavy rock'n'roll, though I suppose it doesn't hurt to mention that the band features members from Victims and Daybreak even if the connection barely impacts the music.
Galaxy Safari - Save me
Iron Lamb has scrapped their plans to do a split record with Deadmask, but they are still recording this weekend for their own 7" single as well as a split 7" with Motorbreath, both to be released via Austrian label . As for the band's upcoming full-length, the plan is now to record in May/June for an August/September release via .
Isobel & November have a new video for the song "Big black crow": http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q8at-Tbli3Q
Here's the video for the new Monty (nee Montt Mardié på Svenska) single "En till himmel": http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OQs6bWN0Pqo
Here is the It's a Trap! listening group top 10 artists of the week, unique to our group:
01. Local Natives
02. Kent
03. Jens Lekman
04. Hello Saferide
05. Håkan Hellström
06. Shout Out Louds
07. Sambassadeur
08. Bob Hund
09. El Perro del Mar
10. The Soundtrack of Our Lives
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The Göteborg Post follows up on The Bear Quartet's refusal of their Swedish Grammis nomination: http://www.gp.se/kulturnoje/1.266444-bear-quartet-vagrar-grammis (in Swedish)
Note that the band has indeed been removed from the voting roster: http://vote.grammis.se/kategorier/arets-rock.aspx
Eric Ramsey's final free download of 2009 is now available: http://www.ericramsey.se/sonicblastmachine.html
The nominees for the Swedish Grammis/MTV award in the category of best music video have been announced:
Adam Tensta, Eboi, Infinite Mass - Area turns red 09 (dir. Marcus Lundin)
Adiam Dymott - Miss you (dir. Senay & Kolacz)
Air France - No excuses (dir. Marcus Söderlund)
Amanda Jensen - Happyland (dir. Jerker Josefsson)
Bob Hund - Bli aldrig som oss bli värre! (dir. Johan Söderberg)
BWO - Right here right now (dir. Josef Andersson)
El Perro Del Mar - Change of heart (dir. Filip Nilsson)
Elin Lanto - Love made me stupid (dir. Robinovich)
Fever Ray - When I grow up (dir. Martin de Thurrah)
Jenny Wilson - Like a fading rainbow (dir. Marcus Söderlund)
Pato Pooh feat. Adam Tensta - Follow me (dir. Maceo Frost)
Peter Bjorn and John - It don't move me (dir. Filip Nilsson)
Promoe - Svennebanan (dir. Magnus Härdner)
Taken By Trees - My boys (dir. Marcus Söderlund)
The Sound Of Arrows - Into the clouds (dir. The Sound Of Arrows)
Timbuktu - Välj mej (dir. Daniel Wirtberg & Jonas Rudström)
Promoe - Mammas Gata (dir. Magnus Härdner)
Moneybrother - Born under a bad sign (dir. Kalle Haglund)
Mando Diao - Gloria (dir. Jörn Heitmann)
Melody Club - The only ones (dir. Peder Bergstrand)
View/vote here: http://grammis.mtv.se/
Per Egland is responsible for the soundtrack of the upcoming Josef Fares movie "Farsan", due out in February. See the trailer: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lxOm0PGczqA&NR=1
(I'm a big fan of his older films "Jalla! Jalla!" and "Kopps")