Laakso's upcoming "High drama" EP has been confirmed for release on June 8 via V2.
If Society has announced that they'll be releasing the new album "Frivolous vol 2: The False Security Program" from "corkscrewcore weirdos extraordinaire" Frivolvol this coming August. Check out some samples:
01. Maybe This Is a Bit Rich, But
02. Repressed Memories of a Tragedy
It seems that Sahara Hotnights had a bunch of their guitars stolen: http://www.saharahotnights.com/dev/news/
New pics of Sibiria, Suburban Kids With Biblical Names, Springfactory, The Lost Patrol Band and Millencollin now up at Rockfoto.nu.
Emiliana Torrini is doing a few North American tourdates this summer along with the Monteux Jazz Fest in Switzerland:
06/08 - Troubadour, West Hollywood, CA
06/14 - Crocodile Café, Seattle, WA
06/15 - Schubas, Chicago, IL
07/07 - Montreux Jazz Festival, Montreux (SWI)
Dismember's back catalogue of Swedish death-metal classics will be reissued by Regain Records in June in special double-album editions. Here's the schedule:
06/13 - "Pieces" / "Indecent & Obscene"
06/20 - "Massive Killing Capacity" / "Death Metal"
06/27 - "Hate Campaign" / "Complete Demos"
The Kid will finally follow up the "Baton Rogue" single with a new EP called "Pas De Chance", due out May 4 via Luego Fuego. The disc will include five songs plus two remixes, one from Jimmy Monell (The April Tears) and one from Jens Hellqvist (Strip Music).
Here's this week's MTVe UpNorth video chart:
01. Millencolin - Ray
02. Carpark North - Human
03. Marie Miller - Playground
04. Kent - Max 500
05. Angu - Red Light
06. Saybia - Bend The Rules
07. Madrugada - The Kids Are On High Street
08. Radio LXMBRG - It's Cruel Up North
09. Chick Habit - Rule The World
10. Nick & Jay - Kan Du Hora Hende Synge
11. Kristin Frogner - Stars Above My Head
12. Clemens - Dans Me Döden
13. User - Miss Wanted
14. Kurt Nilsen - Never Easy
15. Smak - Nousen
16. Sugarplum Fairy - Far Away From Man
17. Eskobar - Even If You Know Me
18. Humane - Wish God Was A Woman
19. Prominent - Let's Talk It Over
20. Span - Cut Like Diamonds
Challengers:
01. Sara Nunes - Simon Can't Sing
02. Madcon - Infidelity
03. The Similou - Ladykillers
04. Schack - Don't Choose Today
05. Lambretta - Anything
Go here to vote for your favorite.
Mp3 blog Uncritical posts a track from Finland's Viola: http://uncritical.blogspot.com/2005/04/its-about-time-for-big-turnover.html
MTV interviews Caesars guitarist Joakim Ahlund: http://www.mtv.com/news/articles/1501019/20050429/caesars.jhtml
The New York Times profiles Annie: http://www.nytimes.com/2005/05/01/arts/music/01rose.html?
Largehearted Boy considers David Fridlund's "Amaterasu" to one of his favorite releases so far this year: http://www.largeheartedboy.com/blog/archive/2005/05/tomorrows_shopp_55.html
It comes out tomorrow in the US via Hidden Agenda/Parasol.
1978 won the Roland/SAMI Music Award 2005. Fellow demo acts Jennie Abrahamsson and Baba Guesthouse were the next runners-up.
PopMatters reviews the new Caesars album "Paper tigers": http://popmatters.com/music/reviews/c/caesars-papertigers.shtml
Aftonbladet checks in with Mando Diao as they kick off their first real US tour: http://www.aftonbladet.se/vss/noje/story/0,2789,638688,00.html (in Swedish)