Skitkids final show (video)
RIP Skitkids.
Country: Sweden
Looptroop Rockers - This music sounds better at night (video)
A new clip from Looptroop Rockers shot using an iPhone.
Fox Machine - The one I used to know
Ex-Whyte Seeds act Fox Machine have a new track up at SoundCloud: http://soundcloud.com/foxmachine/the-one-i-used-to-know
Kristofer Åström on tour
Kristofer Åström will be hitting the road in March to play a bunch of dates in Germany and beyond:
03/08 - Debaser, Malmö (SWE)
03/09 - Debaser Medis, Stockholm (SWE)
03/10 - Stadsteaterns Foajébar, Göteborg (SWE)
03/11 - Knust, Hamburg (GER)
03/12 - Mephisto, Hannover (GER)
03/13 - Apex, Göttingen (GER)
03/14 - Falkendom, Bielefeld (GER)
03/15 - Tower, Bremen (GER)
03/16 - Alter Schlachthof, Lingen (GER)
03/17 - Gebäude 9, Köln (GER)
03/18 - FZW, Dortmund (GER)
03/19 - Garage, Saarbrücken (GER)
03/20 - Schlachthof, Wiesbaden (GER)
03/21 - Jubez, Karlsruhe (GER)
03/22 - Schuur, Luzern (CH)
03/23 - White Rabbit, Freiburg (GER)
03/24 - Kulturladen, Konstanz (GER)
03/25 - Ampere, München (GER)
03/26 - Hirsch, Nürnberg (GER)
03/27 - Objekt 5, Halle (GER)
03/28 - Beatpol, Dresden (GER)
03/29 - Comet, Berlin (GER)
03/30 - Cafe Koeppen, Greifswald (GER)
03/31 - Volksbad, Flensburg (GER)
Adrian Recordings Advent Sunday Mixtapes 2011: Hans Appelqvist
' 3rd Advent Sunday mixtape comes courtesy of Hans Appelqvist: http://soundcloud.com/adrianrec/hans-appelqvist
ÅBE - Gudas (video)
ÅBE will present their new album "King of Pellargonia" on New Year's Eve, but here for you now is the first video for the track "Gudas". Look for successive videos (one is being made for each track) to be unveiled soon.
Giant Boar - King Zulu King
At long last, new music from Swedish indierockers Giant Boar.
David Åhlén - New Jerusalem
David Åhlén's beautiful "New Jerusalem" EP is now streaming in full at SoundCloud and is very highly recommended. Also check out his earlier EP "All the way my Saviour leads me" which is streaming there as well.
I'm Kingfisher interview at The Jitty
UK music site The Jitty interviews Thomas Jonsson of I'm Kingfisher: http://www.thejitty.com/articles/kingfisherinterview
Kite - Step forward (video)
Gaffa has the premiere of Kite's brand new video for "Step forward": http://gaffa.se/tv/clip/1000
Robyn at SNL (video)
Robyn graced the stage of Saturday Night Live this past weekend and you can now watch on-demand clips of the performance over at Pitchfork: http://pitchfork.com/news/44863-watch-robyn-on-saturday-night-live/
Absolut Noise top 5 Swedish songs of 2011
Absolut Noise recounts his top 5 favorite songs of 2011 (and more in the archives): http://www.absolutnoise.com/2011/12/best-of-2011-%E2%80%93-my-top-20-favourite-songs-1-5.html
Look for a slightly different top 10 list of Swedish music from Absolut Noise to be published here sometime next week.
MP3: The Pain Machinery - Paranoise
Last year I was all about ugly, apocalyptic hardcore, this year I find that a large proportion of my listening is geared towards getting (back) into industrial/synth/EBM. One group that I've been listening to lots is The Pain Machinery and while I can't post a track from their latest album "Surveillance culture" because their label politely asked me not to, I will share a track off their 2010 release "Urban survival". "Paranoise" lacks the relentless, hard-driving beats that define much of the band's sound, but it's statement of extreme military/technology paranoia is a recurring motif, a concept well-served by the noisy clatter of machines. They can be used to work for you, but they can also work against you -- it's a variation of the same dystopic vision, an ever-present theme in this particular genre and one that comes closer to reality every day. As "Surveillance culture"'s opening track "Shine" states, "We are social media / television / you carry out what we command" -- there are dark forces at work against you, if you let them.
The Pain Machinery - Paranoise