Knife and Ape have a nice and simple new website with some details on their upcoming album "Hex!", due out soon via Deleted Art: http://www.knifeandape.se/
Swedish singer/songwriter Thomas Denver Jonsson will be collaborating with Bobby Baby aka Ella Glockenspiel on a new project called Liepãja and plan to record something this summer. Bobby Baby just released her debut EP "Loves to dance" on UK label Red Letter Day Records and will also be doing a two-song 7" with Thomas' own label Going Places in the future.
The Sounds will be playing this year's Warped Tour. Dates here: http://www.the-sounds.com/tour.html
Swedish ska/reggae act USCB Allstars just released their new single "Nobody knows" and have posted a 320kbps mp3 of the track as a free download: http://www.uscb.se/media.asp
This week's Nordic Rox playlist: http://www.sirius.com/servlet/ContentServer?pagename=Sirius/Page&c=FlexContent&cid=1146347242424
Not only are many of the tracks the same as last week, but I see only 1 non-Swedish artist. That's pathetic. Also, it's the band At the Gates with the song "Slaughter of the soul", not the other way around.
Satura Lanx on tour in Europe:
06/09 - Rockstar's, Tallinn (EST) w/Burn Still, These Broken Remains
06/10 - Fontaine Palace, Liepaja (LV)
06/11 - Depo, Riga (LV)
06/12 - Progresija, Warsaw (POL)
06/13 - TBA, Tarnobrzeg (POL)
06/14 - Pub Majka, Bilgoraj (POL)
06/16 - TBA, Datteln (GER) w/A New Hope
06/17 - JZ Südpol, Recklinghausen (GER) w/In Ordet To Complain
06/18 - Wildrover, Aachen (GER) w/Start A Revolution
06/19 - Subway to Peter, Chemnitz (GER)
06/20 - Magnet, Berlin (GER)
06/21 - Alhambra, Oldenburg (GER)
06/22 - Veb, Lübeck (GER)
06/23 - Nexus, Braunschweig (GER)
All dates though June 15 are with fellow Finns Scream For Change and Austria's Estate takes over the support slot the rest of the way.
Music blog Stage Hymns interviews Marybell Katastrophy, best known by some for her work with Tiger Tunes: http://stagehymns.blogspot.com/2006/05/marybell-katastrophy-interview.html
Jens Lekman ripped off in a shady advert deal? Perhaps: http://www.jenslekman.com/records/smalltalk.htm
Finland's Viola (as heard on "Reader's companion volume two") will be doing their annual special summer show on Saturday, June 6 and this year's festivities will include a set of classic power-ballads and a cover set by indiepop act Red Carpet. Read more: http://www.ifsociety.com/viola/news.php?newsid=39
Captain Murphy has announced that their new album "Human canonball" will be released on August 23 by Wild Kingdom. The video for the first single "I belong to the girls" is on the way and should be airing soon.
MTVe is streaming the new Peter, Bjorn and John album "Writer's block": http://www.mtve.com/article.php?ArticleId=6316
Don't forget that you can download the first sinlge "Young folks" over on the right as it was posted yesterday.
Burning Heart has announced that they have signed a license agreement with Deep Elm to release Sounds Like Violence's debut full-length in Europe. The band (fronted by Andreas Söderlund of Niccokick/Hello Saferide) garnered a lot of attention for their debut EP "The pistol" in 2004, so expectations are high for the follow-up. They will record at Mission Hall in Lund and it should be ready for a September release.
Music (for Robots) on Swedish electro producer Unai: http://music.for-robots.com/archives/001475.html