Black Guillemot - Knut Hamsun EP
Check out a new 3-song EP from Swedish indierock act Black Guillemot, a band featuring members from like-minded acts Jet Link and Since Our First Guitar
Daniel Ögren - Vandringssång
Preview a track from Daniel Ögren's upcoming solo debut "Laponia", due out November 30 via .
Listed: Årabrot, more
Årabrot is one of the guests for this week's "Listed" feature at Dusted: http://dustedmagazine.com/features/1003
Also posted over there today, a review of Finnish electronic artist Keränen's new album "Moon over Torrelorca": http://dustedmagazine.com/reviews/6757
Raveonettes rarities preview
Soundvenue is streaming a selection of tracks from the new Raveonettes "Rarities and b-sides" collection: http://www.soundvenue.com/nyheder/2011/11/18/hoer-dagens-rockballade-fra-the-raveonettes
MP3: EL-SD - A will
Falling way behind on all the music I want to post, but a promise is a promise and I'd be seriously remiss if I didn't talk up the new EL-SD because they are absolutely one of my favorite bands right now. I kid you not, I've been jamming their demo tracks on the regular for over a year now and it's well past due I had something to share so, at long last, here is the lead track from the band's new 7" EP "Repeating patterns", due out November 30 via /. So if you're like me and you dig so-called "angular" guitar rock with discordant leads and a sharp-edged rhythm section, you'll definitely dig this. And if you're in Stockholm, you should check out the record release show at Walla Scen in Årsta on December 3 with Estroboscorpio. I know I'd be there if I could.
EL-SD - A will
Kronofogden split LP preview
Two new tracks from Swedish hardcore act Kronofogden off their upcoming split LP with Inkvisitionen.
Atlas Losing Grip - November tourshow (video)
Atlas Losing Grip, having fun on tour. Really well done actually -- great footage and even better editing.
Jens Lekman - I don't know what to do with this information
Hear a brand new Jens Lekman song as performed live in London at Maida Vale: http://onethirtybpm.com/media/listen-jens-lekman-i-dont-know-what-to-do-with-this-information-live-at-maida-vale/
Chillihounds
Shake your skull
Transubstans Records
One huge pet peeve I've had for years is bad band fonts. You'd think we've passed the era when people realised that distorted grunge fonts, or using the airbrush on photoshop to fuck up your logo looks god-fucking-awful. To top it off, bands pair it with a pixelated rock icon, skulls or flames or whatnot. Done in the right way, it's not bad, but more often then not, it reveals a band's minimal sense of creativity -- like they're just as maladjusted as the next office cretin when it comes to determining a "rock-look". Now that I've got that outta my system, onto the next order of business: what the fuck is wrong with this band's name? If they're attempting to use the word, "chilli" to suggest "hot, fiery, red" or whatever stereotypical rock-associated adjectives that went through their beer-fizzled brains, coupled with "hounds" it makes absolutely no sense. They might as well be thinking "Chillidogs".
I envision only two scenarios in which I'd affirm this band; a) if I were sitting in some backyard blues bar in the middle of Memphis -- wait-a-minnit, I forget that'd be demographically impossible seeing as these guys sing as white as turkeys -- ok, ok so in the middle of bumfuck Texas, and I was really, REALLY drunk on Bourbon and on a date with a super hot cowboy. If Chillihounds were the house band, I probably wouldn't mind. The second would be if Kenny Powers were their frontman, and they dressed like Hedwig and the Angry Inch.
Unfortunately there's zero irony and zero invention. It's winter up in those northern parts, and picturing a surplus of dudes jamming and "kicking ass" kinda makes me wanna cry. It's as if they've lifted as many AC/DC, Kiss or Thin Lizzy riffs as possible and plastered it with your typical slick-back testosterone-fueled Swedishness. Even their song titles bleed of unoriginality. As much as I hate standing in the way of good ol' fashioned fun and laudable classic rock-throwbacks (AC/DC cover band Big Balls for example, rules) -- their sound emanates of beer bongs, ordering cowboy hats on eBay and fucking young girls that've stepped outta Paradise Hotel. Just as I think I might tip over in the way of nodding to a song, tracks like, "Back in the game" make me wallow in misery. I read somewhere that they're attempting to be "classic rock for a new generation." Please. It's harry as hell.
- Ann Sung-an Lee
PUNK ON OKEI - Minimaalinen vilkaisu Tampereen punk-maailmaan
Punk On Okei: a 12-minute doc on the Tampere, Finland punk scene, complete with English subtitles now streaming at Vimeo.
RIP Mother of the Forest
Mother of the Forest is dead, long live Ankarkronan: http://motheroftheforest.blogspot.com/2011/11/mother-of-forest-are-fucking-dead.html
Aversionline on Execration
Aversionline covers Execration's "Odes of the occult" which is my pick for the best metal album of the year: http://www.aversionline.com/blahg/2011/11/17/execration-odes-of-the-occult-2xlp/
Sulli - All time is light
A new song from Sulli, the singer/songwriter duo of vocalist Shpresa Lleshaj and Daniel Westerlund (The Goner).
Okkultokrati go south
Okkultokrati are heading south for a series of Spanish/Iberian dates this coming weekend:
11/20 - ¡Concierto Secreto!, Benicarló (Castellón)
11/21 - AVV Arrebato, Zaragoza (ESP)
11/23 - Sentinel, Erandio (Bilbao)
11/24 - Ibu Hots, Gasteiz (ESP)
11/25 - CSA Antiguos Almacenes de La Mina, La Gandara/Udias (ESP)
11/26 - Monkey Club, Gijon (ESP)
11/27 - Palavea Squat, A Coruña (ESP)
11/28 - La Faena II, Madrid (ESP)