Via Dagensskiva, here's this week's top 20 Swedish student radio chart:
01. (07) Beastie Boys "An Open Letter To NYC"
02. (01) Promoe "Long Distance Runner"
03. (03) The Ark "One Of Us Is Gonna Die Young"
04. (02) Ison & Fille "Vill va Highwon"
05. (03) Faithless "Miss U Less, See U More"
06. (04) Radio LXMBRG "L'Indiffirence EP"
07. (05) Bloc Party "Helicopter"
08. (06) Timo Räisänen "Lovers Are Lonely"
09. (08) The Chrysler "Blue Gold"
10. (09) The Go! Team "Ladyflash"
11. (11) The Tough Alliance "Holiday"
12. (12) CDOASS "Speak To Me"
13. (NY) Rantoboko Feat. Promoe "Ironical World... Mr President"
14. (NY) The Chemical Brothers "Galvanize"
15. (13) Mando Diao "God Knows"
16. (14) Keane "This Is The Last Time"
17. (17) Snow Patrol "How To Be Dead"
18. (NY) John Legend "Used To Love U"
19. (NY) The Soundtrack Of Our Lives "Believe I've Found"
20. (16) Björk "Who Is It?"
Hot tracks outside the top 20:
Stellan Wahlström Drift Band "Ocean Ave"
Bertine Zetlitz "Fake Your Beauty"
The Concretes "Lady December"
Leaving the chart:
(15) The Streets "Blinded By The Lights"
(18) Joanna Newsom "Sprout And The Bean"
(19) Embee "Not Tonite"
(20) David Fridlund "April & May"
The tracklist for the upcoming self-titled debut full-length from The End Will Be Kicks has been revealed:
01. You are all kinds of red lights
02. Don Johnson
03. If you see them tell them i love them
04. Drowning Margareta
05. Lights of planes
06. Exit ramps
07. Always looking out
08. In the headlights
09. Respitorial
10. Lucifer over Luleå
I've been lucky enough to hear some rough mixes of this stuff and can confirm that it sounds absolutely killer. One of my most anticipated releases of 2005. Look for it February 21 on Chalksounds.
"New weird Finland" label Outa has two new releases from Hirvileuka and Metsämorfeus online and available for free download: http://www.outa.tk/
Online on-demand video service Musicbrigade is opening an online audio retail store, in cooperation with the people at InProdicon. Prices will start at 9,90 SEK/€ 1,1 per track or 99 SEK/€ 11 for an album with a catalogue of 150,000+ tracks. The service will start out being available only to Norwegian and Swedish users and there will be no change to their existing video subscription service. InProdicon are the same people behind the download services at Aftonbladet/Poplife, Skivhugget, Bengans, GP and so on, so I'd assume to expect the same sort of service across the board. Why they decided to open yet another storefront seems silly to me, but whatever. I'm still not interested in buying 192k wma files from someone who's not supportive of independent artists and labels.
Today's top 10 comes to us from Simon Gooch of Swedish booking agency Luger. Thanks Simon!
Again, if anyone out there wants to contribute their own top 10 for posting, I'm all for it. I know there's quite a few of you out there from various bands and labels and so on that read this thing, so don't be shy. Contribute!
Swedish highlights from the NME top 50 of 2004 include Radio Dept. at #9 and The Concretes at #19.
Ideal Recordings will be releasing the debut album "Retrospektiv" from Stockholm-based 9-piece neo-Krautrock band Audionom in early March, 2005.
In celebration of getting airplay on P3 Demo, the pranksters from 50 Hertz have posted a new song online: http://www.50hertz.tk/
All-star Swedish indierockers Torpedo have finished mixing their new EP "Anticlockwise", tentatively due out in February via Germany's Strange Fruit.
Drummer Paul Alexander George has decided to leave Norwegian rock group The Ricochets. His last show with the band will be on December 18. In other news, their most recent album "The ghost of our love" will finally be available on vinyl and the band should have copies on December 11 at their John Dee gig in Oslo.
Quit Your Dayjob will release their self-titled EP in the UK on February 28. Look for tourdates and press over there soon.
Overcoat Recordings will be releasing a reissue of Nicolai Dunger's very excellent 1999 album "The cloud is learning" on February 22 next year. The album was produced with assistance from the guys in The Soundtrack of Our Lives and will include the two unreleased bonus tracks "This Cloud is Learning" and "First Born Track". And that's not the only Dunger reissue on the horizon either. SF-based label Runt LLC/Plain Recordings will be reissuing the 3xLP vinyl trilogy in a special boxset, each album pressed on 180-gram audiophile-quality vinyl. The set contains the albums "Sweat her kiss", "A dress book" and "Blind blemished blues" originally released by Hotstuff/Virgin Sweden back in 2001-2002. The music on each album is centered around a specific theme, such as all-instrumentals ("A dress book") or outdoor live recordings ("Sweat her kiss", my favorite of the lot). Ordering info here: http://www.buyrunt.com/contact.html
Boo! Logh won't be coming to the US next spring after all. Here's their updated tour plans:
December: Germany
February: the UK
March: Sweden
Late March - early May: Europe (Denmark, Germany, Benelux, France, Spain, Portugal, Italy, Greece, Bulgaria, Serbia, Croatia, Slovenia, Austria, Switzerland, Czech Republic)
May: Scandinavia
Summer: European festivals
They might come to the US later in the year, but I won't be holding my breath.