Swedish indiepop act Irene will make their UK debut at How Does It Feel To Be Loved? at The Windmill in Brixton on May 11.
C.Aarmé's new album "Vita", one of my most anticipated releases for 2006, has been confirmed for an April 26 release on Burning Heart. Look for a video for the first single "Golden retriever" to be released soonish. I've been fortunate enough to hear the final studio version of the track and it's killer.
Fuzzorama Records has posted two more new soundclips from the upcoming Asteroid/Blowback split: http://www.fuzzoramarecords.com/
Ebon Tale is playing a trio of shows in Madrid at the end of April:
04/27 - Sala El Jugular, Madrid
04/28 - FNAC Forum Callao, Madrid
04/29 - Gruta 77, Madrid
Eskobar has confirmed that their upcoming self-titled album will be out May 3. Go here for the tracklist. The first single "Persona gone missing" will be out April 5 in Sweden, April 3 elsewhere in Scandinavia.
Upcoming releases in 2006 for Swedish noise/experimental artist Dead Letters Spell Out Dead Words:
Spring - "No Words" CDr (Zeromoon)
Spring - "Old Ghosts, New Ghosts, All Ghosts" (iDEAL)
Winter - "Fall, Fall, Falling..." (Kalligrammofon)
Winter - "Lost in Reflections" (iDEAL)
Related releases:
tba - Teeth - "Destroying" CDr (When Skies Are Grey)
tba - Dead Violets - "Saint Vitus Dance" (tba)
Finland's Black Audio has posted the extended version of the song "Crossing the plain" from the "Video store" EP for free download: http://www.blaudio.net/freeshit/BlackAudio_CrossingThePlain.mp3
Buy their album: [click here]
MTVe is streaming Kira and the Kindred Spirit's new self-titled album: http://www.mtve.com/article.php?ArticleId=6248
PopMatters hypes up The Ark: http://www.popmatters.com/music/interviews/ark-060327.shtml
Wouldn't you think they'd get Ola's last name right? (this has since been fixed, but was originally posted as "Sano" as opposed to "Salo")
An extended version of Norwegian singer/songwriter Ane Brun's album "A temporary dive" will be released in the UK on May 15.
Lupatarkastaja on the new Raised Fist, calling it one of the year's best records: http://lupatarkastaja.samizdat.info/2006/03/25/raised-fist-sound-of-the-republic-video/
Digfi interviews Zeigeist: http://www.digfi.com/default.aspx?id=8894
The article is in Swedish, but I figured I'd link it anyways since there seems to be a growing buzz about these guys stemming from their song "Tar heart" being seriptitiously distributed with some of the first leaked versions of The Knife's "Silent shout".
Swedish indiefolk act Second Language has changed their name to Marching Band and has posted a couple brand new tracks on myspace: http://www.myspace.com/secondlanguage