WE has enlisted Tariq as their fifth member. He contributed so many orchestral parts with various moogs, mellotrons and clavinets on the new album "Smugglers", they figured they might as well hire him on. Head on over to the band's website for the first batch of confirmed Norwegian tourdates: http://www.werock.org/live.php
Check out the press release for the brand new Soundtrack of Our Lives album "Origin (I)": http://tsool.net/origin_release.doc
Tracklist:
01. Believe I've found
02. Transcendental suicide
03. Bigtime
04. Heading for a breakdown
05. Mother one track mind
06. Midnight children (Enfants de la Nuit)
07. Lone summer dream
08. Royal explosion II
09. Wheels of boredom
10. Borderline
11. Song for the others
12. The age of no reply
Rallypack will release their debut full-length "Sod off, God! We believe in our rockband." on November 10.
Lasse Marhaug of Jazzkammer will be spending the second half of September in Chicago working with Ken Vandermark as part of his Territory Band who will be performing two shows and recording an album. More info: http://kenvandermark.com/ensembles/index.html
Lady Godiva Operations finally has their new website online: http://www.ladygodivaoperations.com/
Junior Senior is finally taking a break from touring and will be entering the studio to work on their next album. No word on when it'll be done, but they're hoping to have it recorded by the end of the year for a spring 2005 release.
Hanif has confirmed that their new album "Blame it on el niño" will be released on October 18. It was produced by Paul Bothén who also worked on Kristofer Åström's "Northern blues". There will be a record release show at Debaser in Stockholm on October 20.
Download the track "Children in lines" from Echo is Your Love: http://www.ifsociety.com/files/Echo%20Is%20Your%20Love-3.mp3
The band's new album "Paper cut eye" comes out in November via If Society.
Check out the video for "Zombies" from Finland's Disco Ensemble: http://www.fullsteamrecords.com/promo/video/DiscoEnsemble_Zombies.mpeg
Norwegian folk/goth-rockers Gåte will release their brand new album "Iselilja" on October 18. They say "the new album will still offer a great variation, but the sound will be more rocked than [the previous album] Jygri." A Norwegian tour will kick off on November 4.
"Seems fine" from The Concretes is MTVE's pick of the week: http://www.nordic.mtve.com/features/cms/index.asp?id=1006000000000308&type=1&page=1