Norway's Annie will have her acclaimed album "Anniemal" released in the US on May 24 via Big Beat/Atltanic.
Aftonbladet reviews the new Kent album and offers up quite a few streaming samples: http://www.aftonbladet.se/vss/noje/story/0,2789,617085,00.html
JR Ewing's upcoming major label debut album "Maelstrom" has been confirmed for a May 23 release. The first single "Fucking & Champagne" comes out on April 11.
Today's new mp3 is a bit of a treat. It's a cover of the Weezer classic "Across the sea" as done in Swedish by Björns Vänner. The song was originally recorded to be included on the band's upcoming album due out in April or thereabouts, but unfortunately the big label people who own the song rights have said no. Who wants those crazy Swedes singing in their native tongue, right? That so obviously cheapens the value of the original work. Anyhow, "Pinkerton" was totally my jam back in my freshman year of college, so listening to this cover brings back sweet memories of a time when I was free of responsibilites and my future was wide open. Good times, good tunes, what more do you need?
Some of the members of The Sounds will be taking a break from recording to come over to the US for some DJ gigs:
03/17 - Speakeasy @ SXSW, Austin
03/18 - Redbull house @ SXSW, Austin
03/24 - Fucking Awesome @ Beautybar, LA
03/25 - Swedepop @ Tribeca Grand, NYC
03/26 - Misshapes @ Luke and Leroy, NYC
The Dutch Scandinavian music site Ratatosk has posted a couple live video clips from Mando Diao and Enslaved: http://ratatoskonline.net/
Ex-Emperor drummer Bård Faust has officially joined Italian "cyber black-metal" act Aborym. He will be heading to Italy in late April to begin recording with them for their fourth album.
Dagensskiva has started podcasting: http://www.dagensskiva.com/red.asp?vem=4&text=457
I've been thinking about doing this as well instead of my usual streaming mixes, but haven't gotten around to it yet. Laziness, apathy, sloth, call it what you want. If you're wondering what exactly podcasting is, it's really just a cute buzzword for on-demand radio. There's really nothing to it, but I'm sure Google can help if you want to learn more.
Carpathian Forest on tour in South America:
07/14 - Circo Volador, México City (MEX)
07/15 - Café Iguana, Monterrey (MEX)
07/16 - La Huerta Del Stic, San Luis Postosi (MEX)
07/17 - tba, Bogota (COL)
07/18 - tba
07/19 - tba, Santiago (CHI)
07/20 - tba, Buenos Aires (ARG)
07/21 - Bar Opinião, Porto Alegre/RS (BRA)
07/22 - Armazém 841, Belo Horizonte/MG (BRA)
07/23 - Ledslay, São Paulo/SP (BRA)
07/24 - Pirâmide Shows, Brasília/DF (BRA)
Racing Ape has posted a short video clip of them recording some demos in their rehearsal space: http://www.racingape.com/video/racing-drums.wmv
The band plans to enter a real studio around mid-April to begin recording their next album.
ScandinavianMetal reposts the latest news from Dan Swanö with regards to his health, his band Nightingale and various other projects he's working on: http://www.scandinavianmetal.info/news/news_detail.php?id=214
Check out the video for "Vaudeville" from female-fronted indierock trio Ebon Tale: http://hem.bredband.net/albmat5/vaudevillevideo.mpeg
Monkeystrikes debut full-length album "You Hate My Beautiful Love" has been confirmed for release on April 27 via Dust Music. The recording was handled by Nathan Larson at Tambourine Studios and features guest appearances from Marit Bergman, Nina Persson and David Sandström.
Listen to the new Psycho Sonic Cindy track "Hey hey hey": http://www.deadfrogrecords.com/playlist/PSC-HeyHeyHey.mp3
The song comes from the band's latest album "Start it up", out now via Dead Frog Records.