David Sandström has a confounding new website: http://www.david-sandstrom.com/
Stylus reviews the Paal Nilssen-Love/Lasse Marhaug collaboration "Personal hygiene": http://www.stylusmagazine.com/review.php?ID=3138
Here's this week's MTVe UpNorth video chart:
01. DAD - Scare Yourself
02. Darin - Why Does It Rain
03. Hellacopters - Everything's On TV
04. Robyn - Be Mine
05. Midnight Monkeys - Monkeys On Attack
06. Looptroop - Fort Europa
07. Lene Marlin - How Will It Be
08. Ane Brun / Ron Sexsmith - Song No. 6
09. Jori Hulkkonen - Lo Fiction
10. Paris - 60 Minutes
11. Håkan Hellström - Dom Kommer Kliva På Dig Igen
12. The Maryonettes - Make My Last
13. Span - The Outside
14. London MC - What Is My Name
15. Jim Stärk - Going Down That Lonely Road
16. Soak The Sin - Hands Up
17. Beezewax - I'm Not Where I'm Supposed To Be
18. Cheek - Liiku
19. Amerika - Big City Boy
20. Maria Arredondo - Cross Every River
Go here to vote for your favorite.
Tenderversion recording artists Audrey enter the studio today with producer Paul Bothén to begin work on their debut full-length. Look for it this coming fall.
Tenderversion also reports that Once We Were just wrapped up a recording session with Mathias Oldén (Logh) at Mission Hall. Six songs were recorded and the band plans to lay down some more acoustic/electronic/beat-based stuff on their own to pad the material for use on their forthcoming album.
The video for the new Alice in Videoland single "BadBoy" has been posted online: http://www.aliceinvideoland.net/video/aliceinvideoland_-_badboy.wmv
Download a radio rip of the brand new Opeth track "The grand conjuration": http://www.firecoker.com/music/Opeth%20-%20The%20Grand%20Conjuration%20%28ripped%20from%20Sirius%29.mp3
Sellfish interviews Moneybrother: http://sellfish.de/_start.php?link=interviews/moneybrother.htm
Prolific Danish artist Hjörtur will release a new album of instrumental/new-age music entitled "Piano" on July 8. Get more info and listen to samples here: http://www.hjortur.dk/hjortur/index3-piano.html
Today's Friday classic comes from Norwegian black-metal masterminds Emperor. If you're in any way familiar with the BM genre, this band requires no introduction as they were undeniably one of the scene's most preeminent acts. Their full-length debut album "In the nightside eclipse" is one of my favorite metal records, but that's not where today's song comes from. Instead, I've chosen a b-side from the "Reverence" MCD, the disc that preceded the release of the much-anticipated follow-up record "Anthems to the welkin at dusk". This release marked a huge change in my opinion of Emperor, as it was the first time I considered them to be a real band and not some dark, unknowable force of nature. When I listened to "Nightside eclipse", I never could picture musicians in a room conjuring up such noise together, but the recording of the new material was much cleaner and emphasized the individual performances rather than washing them together in a huge whoosh of reverb. Then there was the video for "The loss and curse of reverence" included on the CD. That was definitely the final nail in the coffin. Once I saw Ihsahn in all his mustached, armored glory, there was no going back. The music was still amazing, but I could never regard them the same way again. But, like I said, the music remains - so here's "In longing spirit", a reworking of a much older song and probably one of the band's slowest and most doomy pieces. Hail the Emperor!
Check out the video for "Miss Huddinge" from Thåström: http://www.thastrom.se/ljudvideo/huddinge.wmv
Sondre Lerche has posted a new web diary entry: http://www.sondrelerche.com/diary.asp?id=69
Finland's Jolly Jumpers have posted a couple live videos on their website: http://www.jollyjumpers.fi/index2.htm#audio
Check out some pics from the videoshoot for Gluecifer's new single "Desolate city": http://www.gluecifer.com/Pics_Desolatecity.htm
Drummer Danny was in LA at the time for a drum clinic, so Børge from the band Brut Boogaloo was used as a stand-in. As mentioned before, the new song appears on the soundtrack for the Norwegian movie "Izzat", to be released soon.