Melissa Horn's duet with Lars Winnerbäck "Som jag hade dig förut" is now streaming at myspace: http://www.myspace.com/melissahornmusik
Her debut album "Långa nätter" will be out on April 30.
Finnish avant label Fonal has new high-quality videos from Lau Nau and Risto posted for free download: http://www.fonal.com/news.php
This week's top 20 Norwegian album chart:
01. Motorpsycho - Little Lucid Moments
02. Ingrid Olava - Juliets Wishes
03. Diverse artister - Sorgen og gleden: Matte Marit
04. Ane Brun - Changing Of The Seasons
05. Madrugada - Madrugada
06. Kaizers Orchestra - Maskineri
07. Vassendgutane - Xo
08. Paal Flaata - Old Angel Midnight
09. Secret Garden - Inside I'm singing
10. Vidar Johnsen & Peter Nordberg - Ord & Øgonblick
11. The National Bank - Come On Over To The Other Side
12. Madcon - So Dark the Con of Man
13. Glenn Lyse - Come Closer
14. Farmers Market - Surfin' Ussr
15. Hellbillies - Spissrotgang
16. CC Cowboys - På Svalbard uten strøm
17. Gaute Ormåsen - Drømmesang
18. Valkyrien Allstars - Valkyrien Allstars
19. Susanne Sundfør - Take One
20. Beady Belle - Belvedere
Check out AK-momo's video for "Women to control": http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ccnO487xIAw
The clip was constucted using old Swedish home movie footage and is very much worth seeing.
Watch a multi-part video interview with singer/songwriter Ane Brun at FaceCulture: http://www.faceculture.nl/artist.php?id=298
This week's top 20 Swedish album chart:
01. In Flames - A sense of purpose
02. Christer Sjögren - Jubileum 40 år med Christer Sjögren
03. Håkan Hellström - För sent för Edelweiss
04. Streaplers - Rakt av
05. Nordman - Djävul eller gud
06. Linda Bengtzing - Vild & galen
07. Maia Hirasawa - Though, I'm just me (new edition)
08. Markus Krunegård - Markusevangeliet
09. Pugh Rogefeldt - vinn hjärta vinn
10. Monica Zetterlund - Sakta vi gå genom stan - Det bästa med Monica
11. Amy Diamond - Music in motion
12. Kungers - Galaxen
14. Oh Laura - A song inside my head, a demon in my bed
15. Sibel - The diving belle
16. Ane Brun - Changing of the seasons
17. Veronica Maggio - och vinnaren är...
18. Takida - Bury the lies
19. Mustasch - Lowlife highlights
20. Caracola - This is Caracola
Discobelle has the new Tough Alliance b-side "Lucky": http://www.discobelle.net/2008/04/10/tta-lucky/
Jeniferever's label has left them in a lurch with a finished EP and no way to put it out: http://blog.myspace.com/index.cfm?fuseaction=blog.view&friendID=15806648&blogID=376409220
MP3: Grande - We did it all
Grande won the 2007 Spellemannprisen in the blues category, but I ignored him completely. I figured it was some old-man dansband type bullshit, so why bother right? You know- the kind of stuff that makes old men with their greased-back hair and classic American cars feel young and tough. Luckily, that's not really the case as Grande does more than attempt to capture a long-gone era that no longer exists. It's especially apparent on tracks like album opener "We did it all", a revved-up, tweaked-out recounting of all the illicit substances he's ingested. It's a potent cocktail of Buddy Holly rhythms mixed with ELO helium vocals and the psycho/silliness of fellow modern Scandinavian rock'n'roll revivalists PowerSolo. Not quite as ragged as, say, Doo Rag/Bob Log III or Black Lips, but they certainly compete with The Black Keys in terms of the rawk. Okay, so a few (okay, many) tracks on the album stray a bit closer to AOR territory like I feared, but I dig this one a lot and that's what matters.
Grande - We did it all
Adrian Recordings has announced the signing of Cato, a mysterious artist they say "is the mastermind behind artists like Familjen, eMiL Jensen and David & the Citizens and one of the most talented persons we have ever met." But instead of any sort of regular physical release, much less a myspace page, Adrian will only be posting his music for streaming at their website, a new track every Wednesday for the next full year. Read more: http://www.adrianrecordings.com/default.asp?newsid=174
I don't get around to it nearly as often as I should, but there's yet another Myspace focus piece up for your perusal: [click here]
Britta Persson will do a few dates in May to support the German release of her latest album "Kill Hollywood me", due out on April 18. Here's what's booked so far:
05/15 - Cafe Central, Weinheim
05/16 - Objekt 5, Halle
05/17 - Falkendom, Bielefeld
05/18 - NBI, Berlin