Here's an article on that Norweigan Johnny Cash tribute at Kretsfengsel avd. A prison in Oslo that I talked about back on 12/01: http://www.nrk.no/musikk/3323980.html (in Norweigan)
The backing band will be made up of Amund Maarud (guitar), Carsten Boe (guitar), Ole Petter Hansen (drums), Bill Trojani (bass) and Christer Knutsen (keys) and these people will sing: Sivert Høyem (Madrugada), Paal Flaata (Midnight Choir), Thomas Dybdahl, Even Johansen (Magnet), Øystein Greni (Big Bang), Vidar Busk, Steinar Albrigtsen, Trond Asker, Sondre Bratland, Karen Jo Fields, Sergeant Petter, Hilde Heltberg and Rita Eriksen
Swedish hardcore act Misconduct has signed a deal with UK-based label Golf Records, home to acts such as Poison Idea, Norma Jean, Ann Berretta, Stretch Armstrong, Consumed and more. They will licensing the band's newest album "United As One" from Side-by-Side Records for a full European release on March 8 next year. As mentioned before, Misconduct will be touring Europe around the time of release and you can get an up-to-date schedule from the band's website.
Nominees for Norway's Alarm awards:
Rock:
Turbonegro - Scandinavian Leather
King Midas - Romeo Turn
Ricochets - The Ghost Of Our Love
Amulet - Danger! Danger!
Sgt. Petter - It's A Record
Pop:
Julian Berntzen - Waffy Town
Magnet - On Your Side
Ephemera - Air
Thomas Dybdahl - Stray Dogs
Karen Jo Fields - Chase The Blue
Metal:
Dimmu Borgir - Death Cult Armageddon
El Caco - Solid Rest
The Cumshots - Norwegian Jesus
Enslaved - Below the Lights
Thulsa Doom - ...And Then Take You To A Place Where Jars Are Kept
Hip-hop/Rap:
Paperboys - The Great Escape
Equicez - State of Emergency - Generation Equiz
Jaa9 & OnklP - Bondegrammatikk - The Mixtape
Spetakkel - Spetakkel
Diaz - Velkommen hjem, Andres
Electronica:
Ralph Myerz & The Jack Herren Band - A Special Album
Pleasure - Pleasure
Xploding Plastix - The Donca Matic Singalongs
Tøyen - Did You Bring
Erlend Øye - Unrest
Jazz:
Atomic - Boom Boom
Supersilent - Supersilent 6
Come Shine - With The Norwegian Radio Orchestra In Concert
Håvard Wiik Trio - Postures
Paal Nilsen-Love / Ken Wandermark - Dual
Song:
Ephemera - Girls Keep Secrets In The Strangest Ways
Equicez - Barnslig
Ricochets - The Ghost Of Our Love
King Midas - Romeo Turn
Turbonegro - Fuck The World
Live:
Turbonegro
Ralph Myerz & The Jack Herren Band
King Midas
Equicez
The International Tussler Society
The Alarm awards aren't quite as respected as the Spellemannprisen, Norway's version of the Grammy, but are considered more of a stepping stone for young artists. Go to the Alarm site to vote for your favorites: http://www.alarmweb.org/2003/
By way of Dagensskiva, here is thist week's Swedish student radio top 20:
01. (01) The Coral "Bill Mc Cai"
02. (02) The White Stripes "The Hardest Button To Button"
03. (04) The Radio Dept. "Pulling Our Weight EP"
04. (09) Monastir "The Shape Up EP"
05. (08) Black Rebel Motorcycle Club "We're All In Love"
06. (06) The Chemical Brothers "Get Yourself High"
07. (NY) Essex Green "By The Sea"
08. (06) Niccokick "Turn 27 EP"
09. (NY) Mew "She Came Home For Christmas"
10. (11) Yo La Tengo "Today Is The Day EP"
11. (12) Chicks On Speed "Wordy Rappinghood"
12. (20) The Knife "Handy-Man"
13. (NY) Holly Golightly "Walk A Mile"
14. (NY) Bubba Sparxxx "Deliverence"
15. (13) Laakso "Demon"
16. (07) The Cardigans "Live And Learn"
17. (NY) Bergman Rock "Help The Band"
18. (NY) The Raveonettes "Heartbreak Stroll"
19. (NY) Fattaru Ft. (Masayah) "Ton för ton"
20. (10) Timbuktu Med Peps "Dynamit"
Leaving the chart:
03. Moneybrother "It's Been Hurting All The Way With You, Joanna"
14. Daft Punk "Something About Us"
15. Rocky Dennis "Maple Leaves EP"
16. M.A.S.S. "Live A Little"
17. De Stijl "My Own Way"
18. Radiohead "2+2=5"
19. Travis "The Beautiful Occupation"
Finnish electronic artist Lackluster is doing two dates in the UK next week. Details, including all upcoming dates:
12/10 - Default, Birmingham (UK)
12/11 - Deluxe Gallery, Blase Records Releaseparty, Hoxton Square, London (UK)
01/29 - Psychonavigation Releaseparty, Dublin, (IRL)
02/21 - Kulttuuritalo Wiljami, Kaiku02, Rovaniemi (FIN)
Turbonegro ran amuck with a fire extinguisher at their recent show in Trondheim, Norway causing over 100,000kr/$15k in damage. Read more: http://www.vg.no/pub/vgart.hbs?artid=204121 (in Norweigan)
New at free mp3 label Monotonik: "Emotions in a Box", the debut release of S.T. aka Swedish IDM artist Stefan Ternemar. Check it out.
Lasse Marhaug of Jazzkammer has a new album of "hard electronics, brutal black-metal, free-jazz and white noise" coming out called ""The Shape of Rock To Come" on March 1 from Smalltown Supersound. And that's named after the famous Ornette Coleman album "The Shape Of Jazz To Come", not Refused you dunny.
Post-rockers The Low Frequency in Stereo have confirmed "Travelling Ants Who Got Eaten by Moskus" as the title of their new album. It's being mastered by Deathprod (Supersilent, ex-Motorpsycho) and will be out January 25 on Rec90.
The Shout Out Louds are heading across the Atlantic next week to play a couple shows in New York City, no doubt entertaining A&R folk and the like. Is an international release in the works? Rumors are indeed floating around and they're starting to get airplay in the UK, so I wouldn't be surprised. The dates:
12/08 - Sin-é
12/10 - CBGBs
Randy says they will play two shows in Sweden sometime in January and will still hopefully make it over to the US soon after. The band also plans to record a new song for an upcoming Burning Heart Records comp due out in January. It's supposedly a collaboration someone special, but they aren't saying who yet.
The Flaming Sideburns are releasing yet another EP called "Save Rock'n'Roll", this time in Europe on Ranch/Universal as opposed to the US-only one on Jetset. Songs will include unreleased material from the "Sky Pilots" sessions plus a live video of "Off Direction". Full tracklist:
01. Save Rock’n’Roll
02. Swimming In Bombay (prev. unreleased)
03. Zombie Shitheel (prev. unreleased)
04. Heavy Tiger (edit)
05. Invisible Hands (demo version)
The band also added another show in France on their upcoming tour schedule. Full dates for the rest of the year:
12/03 - Happytime, Savonlinna (FIN)
12/04 - Torvi, Lahti (FIN)
12/06 - B2, Moscow (RUS) w/Don Johnson Big Band, more
12/13 - Yano, Järvenpää (FIN)
12/16 - La Laiterie, Strasbourg (FR) w/Le Nombre
12/17 - Le Gibus, Paris (FR) w/Thee Ultra Bimboos
12/18 - La Lune des Pirates, Amiens (FR) w/Thee Ultra Bimboos
12/19 - La Nef, Angouleme (FR) w/Thee Ultra Bimboos
12/20 - Theatre Barbey, Bordeaux (FR) w/Thee Ultra Bimboos
12/21 - Mondo Bizarro, Rennes (FR)
Good ol' Swedish black metal band Dark Funeral has signed a new record deal with Regain Records. The first release for the new partnership will be the band's as-yet-untitle first live album, due out March 29.
Kristofer Åström says that he has plans to release a bare-bones acoustic EP sometime before Christmas called "There for". Five songs, just him and his voice and maybe some cello or other minimal accompanyment. He also has plans to do another album with backing band Hidden Truck in either February or March. He says he doesn't "know how it'll turn out musically yet," but that "it'll be different from the other albums."
My good friends KVLR got their new website up and running. Head on over to check out streaming versions of a few tracks from their upcoming self-titled album. "Traitors and Thieves" is my current fave, I'd have to say. As mentioned before, the record comes out at the end of January on Stickman in Europe and on my own damn label in March over here in the States.
Iceland's Stafrænn Hakon is today's installment of Dusted Magazine's 'Destined' list of 10 artists to watch in 2004: http://www.dustedmagazine.com/features/194