Bombshell Rocks will be entering Studio Underground in Västerås with producer/enginner Pelle Saether in September to record their next album.
The latest Music Export Finland newsletter is now online: http://www.musexfinland.fi/index.php?page=news&id=68
Le Manchester gives the rundown on the latest twee crap they're spinning at the office: http://www.lemanchester.com/artikel.asp?id=755&kat=artikel
(I kid! Honest!)
Action Biker's new album will be released via UK-based label W.I.A.I.W.Y.A. instead of the previously announced (and now defunct?) Planekonomi. Look for it sometime this coming fall. In other news, AB will have an exclusive track on an upcoming Swedish music 12" to be released on Japan's Rallye Records and will also be lending the old song "The perfect job" to an upcoming 4-way-split 12" on the US label Kittridge.
The latest 22-Pistepirkko album "Drops and kicks" will be released in Germany, Austria, Switzerland, Holland and Belgium on May 30 via Bone Voyage Recording Company. It will also come out in France at the end of August via Vicious Circle/Discograph distribution.
Here's this week's MTVe UpNorth video chart:
01. Millencolin - Ray
02. Marie Miller - Playground
03. Carpark North - Human
04. Angu - Red Light
05. Kent - Max 500
06. Sara Nunes - Simon Can't Sing
07. Smak - Nousen
08. Madrugada - The Kids Are On High Street
09. Kristin Frogner - Stars Above My Head
10. The Similou - Ladykillers
11. Radio LXMBRG - It's Cruel Up North
12. Saybia - Bend The Rules
13. Chick Habit - Rule The World
14. Nick & Jay - Kan Du Hora Hende Synge
15. Clemens - Dans Me Döden
16. User - Miss Wanted
17. Kurt Nilsen - Never Easy
18. Eskobar - Even If You Know Me
19. Humane - Wish God Was A Woman
20. Prominent - Let's Talk It Over
Challengers:
01. Looptroop - Fort Europa
02. Raymond & Maria - Redan Idag
03. DAD - Scare Yourself
04. Swan Lee - Love Will Keep You Warm
05. Jaqee - Karma
Go here to vote for your favorite.
MIC Norway previews Madrugada's upcoming European tour: http://www.mic.no/mic.nsf/doc/art2005050913361382333714
Fabchannel.com has a pretty decent on-demand video stream of a live Ane Brun concert from the Paradiso in Amsterdam.
Arcturus has a new website online: http://www.arcturus.no/
The band is currently recording a new album for release in August.
Download the track "Hibernation" from Angora Static: http://www.lilacsky.com/mp3/Angora%20Static%20-%20hibernation.mp3
The band may be broken up, but this will still appear as the lead song on their upcoming full-length record "Catch the girl's pulse beneath angora static", due out later this year.
Firefox in Dagens Nyheter: http://www.dn.se/DNet/jsp/polopoly.jsp?d=1058&a=412739&previousRenderType=6 (in Swedish)
Musique Machine interviews Meshuggah: http://www.musiquemachine.com/articles/articles_template.php?id=63
GMR Music Group, in collaboration with the label Vinyl Maniacs, will be reissuing Nasum's three albums "Helvete", "Human 2.01" and "Inhale/Exhale" on limited edition picture-disc vinyl in the near future. GMR's statement: "it was the wish of the band to have these done since the remaining bandmembers thought they were something singer Mieszko (Talarczyk), who was tragically killed in the tsunami disaster, would have wanted to see."