Renown Finnish folk act Värttinä will be releasing a DVD collection on May 31. Footage to be featured on the disc includes their 20th Anniversary Concert at Aleksanterin Teatteri in Helsinki in February 2003, 15 TV and video clips from throughout the group's career, two live bonus audio tracks from a show in 2005 featuring a guest appearance from Ho Orchestra, interviews and more. Complete details and ordering info: http://www.varttina.com/main.site?action=siteupdate/view&id=7
Check out the video for "Here for a laugh" from The Breakers: http://media.putfile.com/Here-For-A-Laugh
Drowned in Sound talks to Kristofer Steen about the legacy of Refused and the new DVD: http://drownedinsound.com/content/view/777156
This week's It's a trap! Last.fm/Audioscrobbler listening group most-played artist chart:
01. Radiohead
02. Sufjan Stevens
03. The Radio Dept.
04. Death Cab for Cutie
05. Belle and Sebastian
06. The Pipettes
07. The Knife
08. Hello Saferide
09. Franz Ferdinand
10. Hot Chip
Top 10 tracks for the week:
01. Gnarls Barkley - Crazy
02. Vapnet - Thoméegränd
03. Peter, Bjorn and John - Young Folks
04. The Pipettes - Pull Shapes
05. The Radio Dept. - A window
06. The Radio Dept. - Tell
07. Band of Horses - Wicked Gil
08. The Concretes - Chosen One
09. Band of Horses - The Funeral
10. Death Cab for Cutie - Soul Meets Body
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Danish epic rock act Mew will finally come to the US for a few dates supporting Bloc Party:
07/28 - Bank Pavilion, Boston, MA
07/29 - McCarran Pool, Brooklyn, NY
08/01 - The Grove, Anaheim, CA
08/03 - Greek Theatre, Los Angeles, CA
08/04 - Greek Theatre, Berkeley, CA
08/09 - Warehouse Live,Houston, TX
08/10 - Stubbs BBQ, Austin, TX
Download the single "Falling out of love" from Pinto, a new Swedish indiepop act fronted by Andreas Magnusson of Hanif: http://web.comhem.se/~u31128969/
The video for the new Deportees single "Damaged goods" is now online: http://www.emi.se/artists/deportees/dg/index.htm
The new Dead Letters Spell Out Dead Words album "Old ghosts, new ghosts, all ghosts" has been postponed to after summer in order to allow enough time to promote it. The scheduled record release show this coming Saturday (05/27) with FM3, Alvars Orkester and others at Gamlestaden in Göteborg will still happen as planned, but the album won't be available yet (obviously). The set will be recorded for a special 3" CD release to be included in a special "All ghosts" box set. In other Dead Letters news, the previously available "Teeth" release that was posted for free download will be entering the physical world as a hand-packaged, 40-minute CDR. Read all about it along with other upcoming Dead Letters-affiliated releases over at his website: http://www.deadwords.org/
Norway's Datarock has announced that they've secured UK distro via Discovery Records and will be releasing their "Computer camp love" EP over there on June 19, followed by the single "Fafafa" on August 14 and the self-titled-times-two album on July 3.
Some new dates for Swedish metalcore act Crowpath:
06/15 - Zone 51, Selestat, (FRA) w/Hatebreed
06/16 - Verdun, France
06/17 - Sedel, Lucerne (SWI) w/Cropment, Amok
06/19 - Magasin 4, Brussels (BEL)
06/20 - Molodoi, Strasbourg (FRA)
06/23 - Trash Fest, Hoogeveen (HOL)
06/24 - Reims (FRA) w/Submerge
06/26 - Montaigues (FRA)
Baby Woodrose has announced the winner of their coverart contest: http://www.babywoodrose.com/
Swedish singer/songwriter Tobias Fröberg will release his second album "Somewhere in the city" in August via his own newly established label Fire Egg and in the US via Cheap Lullaby Records. His first album "For Elisabeth wherever she is" came out on Silence in 2004.
Scroll down a bit for a post on the Norwegian pizza company Grandiosa and their chart-topping jingle over at Tofu Hut: http://tofuhut.blogspot.com/2006/05/glisten-lucky-13-pt.html
PopMatters reviews quirky Danish pop act Tiger Baby: http://www.popmatters.com/pm/music/reviews/tiger-baby-noise-around-me/
Global Domination interviews Daniel Dlimi from Swedish death-metal act Aeon: http://www.globaldomination.se/interviews/aeon-daniel-dlimi