Moonbabies have a new temporary website while they toil over their third album: http://www.moonbabiesmusic.com/
Victims will bring the Swedish d-beat to the UK in March:
03/24 - The Grosvenor, London/Brixton
03/25 - Common Place, Leeds
03/26 - The Junction, Bristol
The band will be entering Dustward Studios in Stockholm next week to record a new album.
Sondre Lerche has confirmed that his new album "Duper sessions" will be released on February 27 in most of Scandinavia, France, Belgium and Portual, March 15 in Japan and March 21 in the US and Canada.
Swedish powerpop act The Carnation will play a few shows in Germany later this month:
02/16 - Knabenschule, Darmstadt
02/17 - tba, Fulda
02/18 - K19, Kassel
The band is currently mixing their new album "Human universals", release date tba.
Finnish bit-pop commandos and long-time IAT favorites Desert Planet will have the song "Asteroid hopper" featured on the soundtrack of the upcoming video game documentary "High score" by director Jeremy Hack. The film premieres at SXSW and will also be shown at various festivals throughout the US in 2006. Peep the trailer here: http://www.highscoremovie.com/trailer.html
Swedish "twisted blip-blip-hardcore" act The Grizzly Twister has announced the addition of Klara Persson as their new "bass" player. It's in quotes because she won't actually play bass - she'll be handling the basslines on her keyboard and will be adding melodic synth-lines on the high end at the same time.
Combat Rock has posted another song from the upcoming Phoenix Foundation album "Falling": http://www.fireinsidemusic.com/mp3/PF_dontlooksosad.mp3
Look for the band to tour the UK in May and Germany/France in July.
Norwegian electronic label Beatservice is struggling with hard times (like many labels) and so will be cutting back a bit and taking a more low-profile approach to releasing music in the future. Read more: http://www.beatservice.no/blogg/2006/02/new-direction-for-beatservice.html
Strange Reaction posts tracks from 80s Swedish punks The Shitlickers: http://www.strangereaction.com/archives/2006/02/06/shitlickers/
PopMatters reviews The Chrysler: http://www.popmatters.com/pm/music/reviews/the_chrysler_failures_and_sparks/
Sandy Mouche has now made all of their videos available on their website: http://www.folbert.com/sandy/news/news.php?post=38
The video for the new Katatonia single "My twin" is now online: http://www.charliegranberg.com/movies/Katatonia%20My%20Twin.mov (via)
Burning Heart has finally confirmed the release dates for the long-awaited Refused DVD "Refused are fucking dead":
04/15 - AUS
04/19 - Scandinavia
04/21 - DE, AT, IT
04/24 - EUR
04/25 - US
DigitalMetal has reprinted the latest press release from Norwegian viking-metallers Enslaved: http://www.digitalmetal.com/news.asp?cid=7112