Gorogoroth speaks out about the recent Polish blasphemy charges! http://www.unrestrainedmag.com/u23Gorgoroth.html
Entombed will tour Australia in April:
04/07 – Waterloo Hotel, Brisbane
04/09 – The Gaelic Club, Sydney
04/10 – The Corner Hotel, Melbourne
04/11 – Fowler Live, Adelaide
04/13 – The Lookout, Perth
Daysend will the openers for every show.
Last chance to enter to win a free KVLR today! Email me with "KVLR Contest" in the subject line and you're in. Winners will be announced tomorrow.
Tonight: Randy at The Fillmore in SF. Should be fun! I think it's been about eight years since I've seen headliners Bouncing Souls.
Dark Tranquility enters Studio Fredman next week to begin work on their seventh album. No title yet, but some of the songs are "One thought" (previewed on the recent Italian tour), "Lost to apathy" and "Mind matters".
Vacuum aka Mattias Lindblom and Anders Wollbeck, are currently in the studio working on a new album with the working title of "Your whole life is leading up to this". Look for the first single and video "Fools like me" either later this month or in early March. The album will follow later this spring.
St. Thomas' show at Rockefeller in Oslo on February 4 was both videotaped and recorded so it might get released on DVD sometime in the future. Nothing confirmed yet.
US dates for The Hives:
03/19 - Stubb's, Austin, TX (SXSW - Private party for SPIN)
03/20 - Emos, Austin, TX (SXSW)
And US dates for The (International) Noise Conspiracy:
03/17 - Stubb's, Austin, TX (SXSW) w/Joan Jett
03/20 - Emos, Austin, TX (SXSW)
05/01 - Coachella Fest, Indio, CA
Confirmed dates for The Sounds supporting The Strokes:
03/09 - Nation, Washington, DC
03/10 - The Norva, Norfolk, VA
03/12 - HOB, N.Myrtle Beach, SC
03/13 - Grady Cole Center, Charlotte, NC
03/15 - HOB, Lake Buena Vista, FOL
03/19 - Palacio Des Los Deportes, Mexico City, MEX
03/21 - Verizon Wireless Theatre, Houston, TX
03/23 - Austin Music Hall, Austin, TX
03/24 - Bricktown Event Center, Oklahoma City, OK
03/26 - Club Xcape, El Paso, TX
03/28 - Marquee Theatre, Tempe, AZ
03/30 - SOMA, San Diego, CA
04/01 - Universal Amphitheatre, Universal City, CA
04/02 - Universal Amphitheatre , Universal City, CA
Esteemed Swedish label Silence has signed Tobias Fröberg. His debut album "For Elisabeth Wherever She Is" will come out later this year and the first single "So I" is set for March 8. Look for him opening up for José González next month. Oh, and you might also know him as a member of EP's Trailer Park. Read more: http://www.silence.se/nyheter/tobias.htm (in Swedish)
The Weeping Willows are hitting the road in Scandinavia:
03/23 - Katalin, Uppsala
03/24 - S2, Borlänge
03/25 - Pipeline, Sundsvall
03/26 - Pinkerton, Skellefteå
03/27 - Umeå Open, Umeå
03/31 - Kino, Karlskrona
04/01 - Mejeriet, Lund
04/02 - O’Learys, Gävle
04/03 - John Dee, Oslo
04/05 - Cirkus, Stockholm
04/07 - Down Town, Örebro
04/08 - Nöjesfabriken, Karlstad
04/09 - Kaliber, Mariestad
04/10 - Medborgarhus, Säffle
04/11 - Lilla Vega, Köpenhamn
04/12 - Voxhall, Århus
04/14 - Diezel, Halmstad
04/15 - KB, Malmö
04/16 - The Tivoli, Helsingborg
04/17 - Trägår’n, Göteborg
04/21 - Tavastia, Helsingfors
04/22 - Säätärnö, Åbo
04/23 - Klubi, Tammerfors
The new album "Presence" comes out February 25.
Big news! Håkan Hellström has signed on as the new drummer for The Plan, featuring another ex-Broder Daniel member Theodor Jensen. As some of you may recall, Håkan played drums with indie rockers Honey is Cool way back when, the band of Karin Dreijer before she started The Knife.