The Knife say they are working on a new album and hope to have it out around fall 2005.
It was mentioned a couple weeks ago, but there's now more details about Moneybrother's next album. He's working at Atlantis Studios in Stockholm with producer Jari Happalainen of The Bear Quartet and a February 2005 release date is the goal. Some of the song titles he's working on: "My li'girl's straight from heaven", "They're building walls around us" and "I'm not ready for it, Jo".
The long-awaited split 7" with Finland's Hero Dishonest and Brazil's Mukeka Di Rato is out now on If Society/625 Thrash. Check out one of the HD tracks right here: http://ifsociety.com/herodishonest/files/Hero_Dishonest-ImpossibleEverything.mp3
Gluecifer has updated the member profiles on their website: http://www.gluecifer.com/members.htm
Fibes, Oh Fibes! will release the video for their new single "One Hour Baby" on September 27. They say the clip's three main ingredients are "a pillow fight, twin girls and Christian Olsson."
Go here to preview a track from the brand new Johndoe album "Pyromantikk", due out September 27: http://www.platekompaniet.no/extraside.asp?id=10
Anna Ternheim will release her debut album "Somebody outside" on October 13. If you're in Sweden, you can preorder the CD for a special price and receive an addition bonus disc with an acoustic version of the album plus two bonus tracks. Go here: http://www.annaternheim.com/xhtml/preorder.html
Music for Robots has posted a mp3 from Dungen: http://music.for-robots.com/archives/000528.html
In collaboratin with mobile phone company 3, on-demand video service Musicbrigade is now presenting 'Musicbriagde on Air' for users in Sweden and Denmark. The service will stream a playlist of videos to your phone, kind of like a video music channel I'd imagine. There's also premium services available for downloading videos to your phone for on-demand use as well as ringtones and all that other stuff. Being that I'm just a dumb American who still doesn't even use SMS, this all seems kinda silly to me, but hey - what do I know?
New mp3 today from the Finnish noiserock band Fun. I totally flipped for these guys the very first time I heard a track I downloaded at their website. I knew immediately that I wanted to work with them which is why they are on the upcoming "Reader's companion" compilation, due out very soon. Their sound is very much rooted in the Chicago/Touch & Go/Steve Albini tradition, but they make it their own. You'd think there would be a lot more bands attempting to play this sort of stuff, but thankfully it is not the case. Anyhow, these guys rule so check them out and buy their new album "Szklarska poreba" out now on If Society.
Norway's The Spectacle is heading over to the US on tour with Requiem. Here's what they've got so far:
10/10 - Secret mission, location unannounced
10/11 - CT
10/12 - house show, Brookline, MA w/Backstabbers, Inc.
10/13 - AS220, Providence, RI w/Backstabbers, Inc., Breather Resist
10/14 - house show, Portland, Maine w/Dan Chard, The Company Anthem
10/15 - The Flywheel, East Hampton, MA
10/16 - Champion Ship, Lemoyne, PA
10/17 - Pittsburgh, PA
10/18 - Athens or Columbus, Ohio
10/19 - Cincinnati, OH
10/20 - Louisville, KY
10/21 - Indianapolis, IN
10/22 - The Bad Idea, Ann Arbor, MI
10/23 - Western MI
10/24 - Madison or Milwaukee, Wisconsin
10/25 - Des Moines, IA
10/26 - The Haunted Kitchen, Lawrence, KS
10/27 - Columbia, MO
10/28 - Old Hickory Collective, Jackson, TN
10/29 - Andrew’s house, Baton Rouge, LA
10/30 - Nowe Miasto, New Orleans, LA w/A Hunger Artist
10/31 - End of the Line Café, Pensacola, FL
11/01 - St. Augustine, FL
11/02 - Gainesville, FL
11/03 - 'The house on Oakcliff', Atlanta, GA w/Creation's End
11/04 - Green Eggs and Jam record store, Asheville, NC
11/05 - Carrboro or Raleigh, NC
11/06 - Washington, DC
11/07 - Richmond, VA
11/08 - Delaware
11/09 - Philly, PA
At long last, it's been finalised that the new Soundtrack of Our Lives album will be called "Origin Vol. 1", not 'phase 1', 'part 1' or anything else. The final masters and artwork are approved and sent off to be pressed and it will finally be released on October 13 in Sweden, October 18 in the UK. As reported here before, it probably won't get a proper US release until February next year.