Legendary Finnish rock n' roll band Hanoi Rocks will be coming over to the US for a few dates supporting Ian Hunter (Mott the Hoople) in March next year. Here's what's confirmed so far:
03/10 - Galaxy Theatre, Santa Ana, CA
03/11 - Key Club, Los Angeles, CA
03/12 - Tropicana Hotel, Las Vegas, NV
Swedish power-metal act Hammerfall has selected "Chapter V: Unbent, Unbowed, Unbroken" as the title of their new album, due on March 7 via Nuclear Blast Records. Tracklist:
01. Secrets
02. Blood Bound
03. Fury of the Wild
04. Hammer of Justice
05. Never, Ever
06. Born to Rule
07. The Templar Flame
08. Imperial
09. Take the Black
10. Knights of the 21st Century
The first single and video will be for the track "Blood bound".
Hardcore Superstar has cancelled all of their upcoming gigs in Italy in Sweden so that they can finish up recording their new album. At least, that's what they say. If you remember, they decided to "take a break" at the beginning of the summer before regrouping this fall and rumors were flying about a potential break-up. We'll see what happens.
Via Forced Exposure comes word that the rumored Supersilent live DVD "7" has been confirmed for a May release via Rune Grammofon. I saw these guys play a couple weeks ago and can most definitely confirm that it's not something to be missed. The footage was shot on 16mm b&w film and directed by the label's resident designer and renown artist Kim Hiorthoy.
Also from FE comes word that Finnish noise artists Mika Vainio and Ipso Vaisanen aka Pan Sonic will be collaborating once again with Alan Vega of Suicide for a release on the Mego label. Look for it sometime around March.
The Knife will be releasing a new 10" EP called "Gender bender" in the UK on December 13. Most of the tracks come from the UK edition of "Deep cuts", but there is one exclusive cut. Full tracklist:
A1. Handy-Man
A2. Manhood (exclusive)
B1. You Make Me Like Charity
B2. Hangin' Out
500 copies only.
Swedish Americana act Hanif are #1 at online indie streaming radio station Mansion on the Hill: http://mansiononthehill.biz/2004/12/halfway-to-hell-all-way-to-1.html
"To mark the release of Mental Overdrive's new album "083" (out in January on Smalltown Supersound/Love OD), the single track "Diskodans" will be released as a musical "open source" project. This means that different parts of the song have been exported as short audio clips in the shape of .wav samples that can be downloaded."
Check it out right here: http://www.loveod.com/windex.shtml
Bad Taste Records is offering a bunch of special Christmas deals over at their webstore: http://www.badtasterecords.se/shop.asp
Gullbuy reviews the "La la love you" Swedish indierock Pixies tribute: http://gullbuy.com/buy/2004/11_30/lalaloveyoupixies.cfm
Secretly Canadian is posting a ton of unreleased Jens Lekman material as a special promotion leading up to his debut US tour in February: http://secretlycanadian.com/secretlycanadian/jenslekman/dept.htm
Listen to streams from the new Ane Brun EP "My lover will go" right here: http://se.v2music.com/site/product.asp?ID=922