Backyard Babies have added two headlining gigs on the side of their upcoming tour with Social Distortion:
02/06 - Key Club, Los Angeles
02/13 - Double Door, Chicago
More to come.
The duo of Wollbeck and Lindblom from Swedish electropop act Vacuum wrote the first single "Negotiate with love" from Rachel Stevens of S Club's forthcoming album. Read more here: http://www.popjustice.co.uk/2005/01/ten-things-you-need-to-know-about-new.htm
And here: http://www.popjustice.co.uk/2005/01/that-eighth-thing-you-needed-to-know.htm
I neglected to post it yesterday, but Dagensskiva posted their top picks of 2004 this past weekend: http://www.dagensskiva.com/index.asp?datum=2005-01-22
Looks like there's still a multitude of problems for Gorgoroth. While we haven't heard much about the blasphemy allegations recently, it seems that negotiations with Season of Mist have fallen apart with the label issuing the following statement:
Despite negotiating for several months and despite all the rumors, Season of Mist and Gorgoroth could not find a final agreement on their cooperation, both on a contractual and personal level. We nonetheless sincerely wish the band the best. Season of Mist is still handling the only official reissues remastered of [the band's early albums] "Pentagram" (1994), "Antichrist" (1996) and "Under the Sign of Hell" (1997), out now in limited digipack with guitar pick.
The band was last signed with Nuclear Blast and is currently at Lydriket Studios in Norway recording a new album entitled "Ad Majorem Sathanas Gloriam", tentatively due out late summer/early spring. Since we all know that controversy is an easy way to sell records, I'm sure somebody will be picking it up for release eventually.
Stockholm-based indie act Eject has posted mp3s from their latest 3-song demo for download: http://www.eject-eject.tk/
The tracks were recorded at Tomtebogatan 14 with Erik from Blanka.
Okay, I've been informed that the Buddyhead-perpetuated rumor about The (International) Noise Conspiracy being dropped by American Recordings is not true. My understanding is that the label is still in the process of separating from Def Jam and working on establishing new distribution and all that, so the release is taking much, much longer than planned. More info soon?
It took me a stupid amount of time to get it done, but you can now download that Björn Kleinhenz and Pete Thompson EP over at archive.org: http://www.archive.org/audio/audio-details-db.php?collection=itsatrap&collectionid=iatmp3001&from=collectionSpotlight
In fact, I strongly encourage it as it will help me save on bandwidth costs and is probably faster as well.
Another thing that took me a ridiculously long amount of time to get done was posting advertising rates and guidelines, but gosh darnit, I finally went and did it. Check it out right here. Help me pay my server bills! I've got a lot of dogs to feed too, y'know. Act now for February and get the rest of January thrown in for free.
Lots of new reviews posted, including a number of demo releases that might be worth checking out: click here
Don't forget to read Matt Smith's exclusive interview with Eirik from Norway's Kings of Convenience: click here
Germany's Sellfish webzine gives the "It's a trap reader's companion" a stellar review: http://sellfish.inserteffekt.com/_start.php?link=review/01-05.htm%23trap
Britta Persson will release her debut EP "Found at home" on March 16 via Startracks. Here's the tracklist:
01. A dad for you
02. Defrag my heart
03. When you leave
04. The past is not for real
05. Stockholm-Amsterdam
Tsool.net has the new animated video for "Heading for a breakdown" available for streaming under the media section.
Magnus Sveningsson has posted that today is the first day of The Cardigans being back in the studio recording.
Download a full version of the track "Declare despair" from Torpedo: http://www.torpedo.se/01_torpedo_declare_despair.mp3