Check out the brand new Unleashed track "Winterland": http://www.centurymedia.de/century/mainarea/audio.aspx?id=unleashed__winterland.rm
The track comes from the band's new album "Sworn Allegiance", due out July 26 on Century Media.
MIC Norway profiles contemporary composer/electronic musician Terje Winther: http://www.mic.no/mic.nsf/doc/art2004061415363125632410
Aftonbladet reports on rock n' roll couple Howlin' Pelle Almqvist (The Hives) and Maria Andersson (Sahara Hotnights): http://www.aftonbladet.se/vss/noje/story/0,2789,491763,00.html (in Swedish)
The latter will be opening for the former on their upcoming US tour.
Sounds Like Violence is Delusion of Adequacy's pick of the week: http://www.adequacy.net/review.php?reviewid=3988
In what's looking to be one of the best festival lineups in Sweden this summer (IMO, of course), the Blow Up a Panda Festival has now added [ingenting], The Baboon Show, Shout Out Louds, Unisex, Sons Of Cyrus and The Knife and Ape to the lineup. Other acts already confirmed include KVLR, Ellis the Vacuumchild, Tiger Lou, Last Days of April, Switchblade, Suburban Kids with Biblical Names, The End Will Be Kicks, C.Aarmé and more. So who wants to fly me out? Details: http://www.blowupapanda.se/
Check out the video for "The book of heavy metal" from Dream Evil: http://www.dopemusic.co.kr/mv/metal1.wmv
With a title like that, you know it's bad-ass. I'm pretty much convinced that anything Snowy Shaw is involved in will be greatness.
After five years together, bassist Joakim Harju has left Construcdead. He just got married and is expecting to become a father, so it's no surprise he wants to change his lifestyle. But what is surprising is that he's also going back to reform his old band Face Down. As mentioned before, ex-Haunted vocalist Marco Aro reported the news that he was calling off his musical retirement to restart the project and it looks like members Joakim Harju, Joacim Carlsson (General Surgery) and Erik Thyselius (also in Construcdead, but not quitting) will be joining him. Harju says "This project will give me more time with my family and hopefully more creative satisfaction for me. I like to thank the band for a wonderful time and for all the good memories I've got, and to our fans, I hope that you will enjoy Face Down almost as much."
Here's some more details about that upcoming 7" from power-pop act The Higher Elevations coming out on Little Teddy Records: http://www.indiepages.com/littleteddy/records/755.html
The single will be released in Canada on July 15 through Poppolar Records as well.
Adrian Recordings has announced the signing of eMiL Jensen. His debut EP "Jag har splittrats" comes out July 5 and you can read all about it right here: http://www.adrianrecordings.com/default.asp?page=new&messid=182 (in Swedish)
The video for "You can't hurry love" from The Concretes is now available online from their website in the downloads section: http://www.theconcretes.com/
Check out some live video clips of Sunride from the Deathroit Festival in Finland: http://www.riffrock.com/sunride/downloads.html