Check out an e-card for the new Construcdead album "The grand machinery": http://www.fanbay.se/buy/index.asp?movie_id=984&company_id=39
It comes out September 28 via Black Lodge Records.
Norway's ChewinPine Records will release NoPlaceToHide's long-awaited album "Zukunft" on September 26. Download the first single "Capice" right here: http://www.notam02.no/%7Eespenth/npth/mp3/noplacetohide-Capice.mp3
Highly recommended for fans of Meshuggah.
Delusions of Adequacy reviews the new Röyksopp: http://www.adequacy.net/review.php?reviewid=5810
Dusted doesn't really care for the Tokyo Eye 7": http://www.dustedmagazine.com/features/407 (scroll to the bottom)
While I agree with the basic premise of his argument, I don't think the result is even remotely as horrible as he suggests.
Aversionline gives some serious props to Plain Fade: http://www.aversionline.com/reviews/2673/
I agree 100%, this is definitely a record worth seeking out for people interested in epic music.
Swedish rockers Babylon Bombs on tour in Germany with Spacebrains:
09/09 - The Paunchy Cats, Lichtenfels (GER)
09/12 - Bettclub, Frankfurt (GER)
09/13 - Metro, Münster (GER)
09/14 - AK 47, Düsseldorf (GER)
09/15 - Fruchtbar, Siegen (GER)
09/16 - Unicum, Osnabrück (GER)
09/17 - Teestube, Lindern (GER)
Once again I'm going to turn things over to Simon Tagestam for today's new mp3:
Two weeks ago I was back at my parents' house and spent a lot of the time alone driving around in their green Nissan Micra. The car stereo doesn't work in the car so I usually brought my nice little portable cassette player along for the ride, and during the last days of my trip I got totally hooked on this song by Rough Bunnies called "Dance with your shadow". I got so obsessed by the song that I had to unwind the tape every time the song finished, just so I could hear it again, making me a danger to my fellow drivers out on the road, since the cassette player isn't the easiest thing to manoeuvre with one hand while trying to keep your eyes on the road. Do you understand now how beautiful this song is? It made me a dangerous driver! Seriously, I haven't cried a lot lately but "Dance with your shadow" made my eyes more than misty while driving to my girl's parents' house in the middle of the night, but then it made me super happy half of the time as well (what a song!). When I now hear the song on the stereo in my room it's almost like a different song (for example: the male backing vocals, for some reason, are non-existent on the taped version), but I'm getting slowly used to the more hi-fi version of the song. "Dance with your shadow" is without a doubt the best song I've heard this year and not many songs I've listened to lately have made me feel this confused and warm inside. If you develop a similar liking to this gorgeous song, I would recommend you to put the song on repeat while you record it onto a tape (that's if you haven't got a car with a flashy cd player). The song itself is a bitter lo-fi love song that reminds me a bit of Beat Happening.
While I personally don't have the same level of appreciation for this sort of naive indiepop, I do respect the fact that my exquisite musical taste is not shared by everyone.
Hybris Records has signed Montt Mardié and will release his debut single in September. A full-length album will follow in the fall. Download some demo tracks here: http://www.monttmardie.tk/
The next single off of The Hellacopters most recent album "Rock n' roll is dead" will be "I'm in the band". Universal will be putting out the CD version with the video and b-side "Positively so naive". A 12" vinyl edition will be released by Wild Kingdom. Upcoming live dates with fellow Swedes The Doits:
09/19 - Markthalle, Hamburg (GER)
09/20 - Longhorn, Stuttgart (GER)
09/21 - Flex, Vienna (AUS)
09/22 - Rote Fabrik, Zurich (CH)
09/23 - PTR Usine, Geneva (CH)
09/24 - Apolo, Barcelona (SPA)
09/25 - Santana 27, Bilbao (SPA)
09/26 - Aqualung, Madrid (SPA)
09/28 - L'Elysée Montmartre, Paris (FRA)
09/29 - Schlacthof, Wiesbaden (GER)
09/30 - Werk 2, Leipzig (GER)
10/01 - Live Music Hall , Köln (GER)
10/02 - Georg Elser Halle, Munchen (GER)
10/03 - Soundgarden, Dortmund (GER)
10/04 - Schlacthof, Bremen (GER)
10/05 - Postbahnhof, Berlin (GER)
10/06 - KB, Malmö (SWE)
10/07 - The Cod, Strömstad (SWE)
10/08 - Rockefeller, Oslo (N0R)
10/09 - Trädgårn, Göteborg (SWE)
10/10 - Cirkus, Stockholm (SWE)
10/13 - Viking Line Ferry between Stockholm and Helsinki
More Scandinavian dates tbc for October and November.
Check out Saint Thomas playing live on the Norwegian morning program "God morgen Norge": "Children of the new brigade" / "Of course your were there"
Randy's new album "Randy the band" has been confirmed for an October 12 release in Sweden, October 10 in Europe. Dates for North America, Australia and elsewhere should hopefully be coming soon.
Opeth has revamped their website so it's no longer all-Flash and pop-ups: http://www.opeth.com/
Frames are still obnoxious, but it's a step in the right direction.
You can now stream the new Laakso album "My gods" over at the V2 site: http://se.v2music.com/site/product.asp?ID=1200
The record comes out September 21.