Unleashed's new album will be called "Sworn Allegiance". It comes out on July 26 via Century Media Records.
Katatonia will be doing a total of four Norwegian dates in August:
08/26 - Markens, Kristiansand
08/27 - Hole In The Sky, Bergen
08/28 - Folken, Stavanger
08/29 - Garage, Oslo
While in London working on the upcoming Lord of the Rings musical, the singers of Värttinä and Janne Lappalainen are taking some time out to speak with BBC Radio 3's Late Junction program with host Fiona Talkington on May 24. More info here: http://www.bbc.co.uk/radio3/world/
They will also record a short program for BBC Wales to be broadcasted in Britain on June 20 via BBC Radio 3.
Check out some pics and details from the video shoot for Powersolo's new single "Oak Tree Girl": http://www.crunchy.dk/asp/default.asp?News_Id=105
My worst nightmare: Norwegian beer brewers are on strike: http://pub.tv2.no/nettavisen/english/article227956.ece
Odd Nordstoga, Bo Kaspers Orkester and Hellbillies have been confirmed for the Norwegian Wood Festival.
Expressen reports that Roxette is planning a comeback. Again. Read more: http://expressen.se/index.jsp?a=136923 (in Swedish)
Melody Club checks in from Delta Lab Studios in Copenhagen, Denmark where they are currently working on their new album with producer Thomas Troelsen to report that their new single will hit radio on June 7. As for the official release in stores, that won't happen until June 30 which will be just in time for the Kalas tour. As for the album, that's scheduled for a late August release.
Aftonbladet has the new Sahara Hotnights video: http://wwwb.aftonbladet.se/vss/streaming/tv_fonster/0,5208,m0no040519nyhotnight,00.html
When Last Days of April arrive in Japan today they will be greeted by a team of documentary filmakers from NHK (the Japanese equivalent of BBC). Previous subjects of the documentary series have included musical celebs such as Elvis Costello, Gene Simmons and Jimmy Page. After that, it's five days of promotion and a sold out show at the Astro Hall in Tokyo on May 24. Not bad, eh? The track "It's On Everything" was also the first single in the history of College Radio Japan at North Wave to reach number one in the charts before the album was released. The video is also on rotation at Space Shower, Japan's MTV equivalent.
New-noise takes on The Rasmus: http://www.new-noise.net/home.html (look on the right)
One-off single? We can only hope. They also review Pan Sonic: http://www.new-noise.net/list_47.html