Unofficial Soundtrack of Our Lives site tsool.tk has moved to their new location at tsool.net and updated with a bit of a new design and some updated content. It's really the best TSOOL site going right now, so head over if you want the latest on what's happening with the band.
Here's this week's top 10 Nordic video chart from YLE/Morjen:
01. Nina Rochelle - Taxi 43 (SWE)
02. Technicolour - Fireflies (FIN)
03. Glitz - Away from you (FIN)
04. Zen Café - Piha ilman sadettajaa (FIN)
05. Fintelligens - Vaan sil on väliä (FIN)
06. Johnny Deluxe - Elskovspony (DK)
07. Xantom - Miss you (DK)
08. The Rasmus - The first day of my life (FIN)
09. User - To feel (SWE)
10. The Latin Kings - Cashen dom tas (SWE)
Challengers:
01. RobinCosmos - Having a good time, all the time (FIN)
02. Axis - Varför (FIN)
03. Money - Downlow (Cheaters' anthem) (FIN)
MIC Norway has published a report on the free Norweigan music downloads offered last week at musikkonline.no. A whopping 2.5 million files were downloaded by over 48,000 new users. I was disappointed that the format offered wasn't a more flexible format such as mp3, but free is free. Here's the top 10 downloads from the week:
01. Karin Park - Superworldunknown
02. Thomas Dybdahl - Stray dogs
03. Dumdumboy - 1001 watt (live)
04. Ole Paus & Jonas Fjeld - Tolv rustne strenger
05. Tramteateret - Pelle Parafins Bøljeband 40 beste (2 CDs)
06. Thomas Dybdahl - That great October sound
07. Bare Egil Band - Absolutt ikke Bare Egil Band
08. Ephemera - Air
09. Klovner i kamp - Kunsten å fortelle
10. Bjørn Eidsvåg - Hittil og littil
The Demoscenen bands have been confirmed for next year's Popstad festival on February 13-14 in Jönköping, Sweden. Here's the details:
02/13 - Loney Dear, Spunkmusic, Music will kill you, Allyawan och Emil, Brikha
02/14 - Denver Mod, Mustafa et Monique, Valley Days, grace.will.fall, Sordid
More info: www.popstad2004.com
Here's the top 20 Swedish albums of the week, as reported by Aftonbladet:
01. Ulf Lundell - En eld i kväll
02. The Refreshments - Rock 'n' Roll X-mas
03. Peter LeMarc - Det som håller oss vid liv
04. Markoolio - I skuggan av mig själv
05. Peter Jöback - Jag kommer hem igen till jul
06. Jill Johnson - Roots and wings
07. Barbados - Hela himlen
08. Carola - Guld platina & passion - det bästa
09. Per Gessle - Mazarin
10. Lisa Miskovsky - Fallingwater
11. Backyard Babies - Stockholm Syndrome
12. Bo Kaspers orkester - Vilka tror vi att vi är
13. José González - Veneer
14. Lasse Stefanz - Det här är bara början
15. Lars Roos - För de som älskar
16. Carola - Jul i Betlehem
17. Christer Sjögren - För kärlekens skull 14 visklassiker
18. Helen Sjöholm / Anders Widmark - Genom varje andetag
19. Mauro Scocco - La Dolce Vita
20. Bamse - Bamses dunder-hits
UK label XL Recordings will be putting out Radio Dept. within their territory early on next year. The much-hyped label is home to acts such as Mercury Prize winner Dizzee Rascal, as well as Badly Drawn Boy, White Stripes, and Basement Jaxx, so you can pretty much assume that the group is ready to blow up. The first single "Why Won't You Talk About It?" gets released on February 23, the album "Lesser Matters" on March 22, and the next single "Liebling" in May. After that, it's just a matter of time until the world catches up most likely. As you should probably already know, the band's most recnet EP "Pulling Our Weight" was released last month in Sweden on Labrador and you can download an mp3 of the title track right here.
Hypocrisy has confirmed that their new album "The Arrival" will be released on February 16 through Nuclear Blast Records. The full tracklist:
01. Born Dead Buried Alive
02. Eraser
03. Stillborn
04. Slave To The Parasites
05. New World
06. The Abyss
07. Dead Sky Dawning
08. The Departure
09. War Within
The Gathering are said to be planning a short North American tour in February. According to Blabbermouth, they plan to hit New York, Boston and Toronto along with a few other choice cities.
Dream Evil, the Swedish power-metal supergroup featuring acclaimed producer Fredrik Nordström (from Studio Fredman, too many credits to list) and Snowy Shaw (Notre Dame, King Diamond, Mercyful Fate, etc.), will be entering the studio on December 15 to begin work on their third album, tentatively due out in early 2004 on Century Media.
Check out this interview with Finland's Children of Bodom from writer Phil Freeman. I agree - it's definitely a good thing to see metal bands willing to smile nowadays and not worry so much about being as "brutal" and "underground" or "cult" as possible.
Check out samples from "Fjord Fusioneer", the debut album from young Norweigan electronic artist Dalminjo, out now on DeePlay Music: http://www.deeplaymusic.com/cgi-bin/layout.cgi?skiva+DPLAY-CD3
This week's MTV Up North Nordic video chart:
01. The Rasmus - First Day Of My Life
02. Redrama - Hang It Up
03. Lisa Miskovsky - Lady Stardust
04. Backyard Babies - Minus Celsius
05. Moneybrother - It's Been Hurting All The Way With You Joanna
06. Outlandish - Aicha
07. C21 - One Night In Bangkok
08. Paperboys - Hey Man
09. Erik Faber - Century
10. Negative - The Moment Of Our Love
11. The Knife - Pass This On
12. Fintelligens - Vaan Sil On Väliä
13. Christian Kjellvander - Portugal
14. Beats & Styles - Dynamite
15. The Latin Kings - Cashen Dom Tas
16. Lene Marlin - You Weren´t There
17. I'Dees - Brave And Optimistic Girl
18. The Fashion - Let´s Go Dancing
19. Blackstrap - In Colored Ways
20. Captain Murphy - I´m A What
Challengers:
01. Nina Rochelle - (Happy) Jag hatar att det e så
02. Hardcore Superstar - Still I´m Glad
03. Magnet ft. Gemma Hayes - Lay Lady Lay
04. Nicolai Dunger - Hunger
05. Tim Christensen - Whispering At The Top Of My Lungs
Go to the MTVE.com site to watch and vote for your favorite.
Sondre Lerche has posted a new webdiary entry detailing the finish of his recent US tour and talking a bit about plans for his new album "Two Way Monologue".
Trapdoor Fucking Exit has made a funny quiz that will tell you "Who are you in Trapdoor Fucking Exit?" Me, I'm Jens, guitarist and inventor of the big big riffs.
Raised Fist explains their cancellation of the 'Close-Up Made Us Do It' tour: http://www.burningheart.com/newspub/news_content.php?fileName=168 (in Swedish)
Here's an e-card for the new "Barn På Nytt" comp: http://www.virgin.se/artists/riedel/ecard/index-play.htm
The CD features 25 covers of songs from Georg Riedel and Astrid Lindgren as done by artists such as Lisa Nilsson, Bo Kaspers Orchestra, Eva Dahlgren, Stefan Sundström and more.
NRK has posted a pretty dece behind-the-scenes video account of that Black Diamond supergroup Kiss-tribute recording and video shoot: Check it. It's mostly in Norwegian, but where else will you get the chance to see Satyricon and Turbonegro members hanging out like regular dudes without makeup? Oh, and registration is required too, but it's free.