The winners of the 2004 Swedish Hip-Hop Awards:
Best song: Latin Kings - Cashen Dom Tas
Best producer: Embee
Best video: Loop Troop - Don´t Hate The Player
Best DJ: Confuze
Best dance: Beefnoodles
Best album: Timbuktu - The Botten Is Nådd
Best EP: MBMA - Nu Ännu Drygare
Lifetime Achivement: Timbuktu
Katatonia and Vader (POL) are the first two bands announced for 2004's Hole in the Sky Festival in Norway.
Some new downloads from Det Gamla Landet. First, a video from Le Le in Malmö in March 2003: http://www.a-double-a.com/dgl/video.html
Next, a live track from Copenhagen recorded earlier this year: http://www.a-double-a.com/dgl/mp3/det%20gamla%20landet%20-%20live.mp3
Dead Frog Records has signed Göteborg-based electronic pop-rock act Grey. They are currently working on new material for a fall album release. More info and samples: http://www.deadfrogrecords.com/artists/grey/
Speaking of DFR, big congrats to label web gurus Fredrik Muskos and Charly Robbins who just celebrated the birth of their daughter Pixie Amber Molly Meg Muskos. All the best!
Curling Legs has now pushed back the release of the new Chillinuts album "Reworks! What kind of machine is this?" to June 7.
Pictures and a short clip from the new Confusions video for the single "Window": http://cabal.port80.se/massproduktion/confusions/heavy_version/visanyhet_windowvideo.html
Combat Rock Industry reports that Wasted have booked studio time to record their third album. It should be out in late August.
MI reports on new Swedish label Rekord Musik, run by Peter Dahl, Tony Thorén and Pär Wedin: http://www.musikindustrin.nu/mi/smpage.fwx?page=198&NYHETER=4565
The label plans to focus on new Swedish acts and their upcoming releases include Tony Naima's album "Imprints" and the single "On the ground" due out later this month, Johnossi's new album in August and single "Man must dance" this month, a single from Quickstep later this month or in June and an album together with Pelle Grytt sometime in the fall.
People in SF who want to pre-purchase tickets for this weekend's upcoming Cardigans show can do so during happy hour at 330 Rich (the venue where the show is happening), during this Thursday's Popscene, or at Mod Lang Records in Berkeley. See you there!
And the Sound webzine interviews the excellent Swedish post-punk group Seven Feet Four: http://www.twee.nu/andthesound/intervjuer.php?id=66 (in Swedish)
Pitchfork delivers an accurate, well-written take on the new Division of Laura Lee: http://www.pitchforkmedia.com/record-reviews/d/division-of-laura-lee/das-not-compute.shtml
Pitchfork and well-written within the same sentence? It does happen sometimes.