"Sell Your Body (to the Night)", the latest single from Turbonegro, is being heavily promoted in the UK with club nights, tour dates and more. Check out this e-card with the full details.
Nordic roots music label NorthSide has added a ton of video to their website. Go here for the full list of links, including stuff from groups such as Garmarna, Hedningarna, Väsen, Värttinä and more.
JR Ewing has been forced to cancel their UK dates with Dillinger Escape Plan and Cult Of Luna, as well as the shows they were supposed to headline due to being totally broke and tired following their recently completed US tour. They promise they'll be back at some point, hopefully in late February.
Up-and-coming hyped punkrockers C.Aarmé will release their debut self-titled album on February 25 on Carcrash/Burning Heart Records. These guys seem to be pushing pretty hard recently, so I'd definitely keep an eye on 'em.
Madrugada, one of Norway's biggest bands, plays a one-off gig in London tonight at The Metro to try and raise some awareness about the UK-release of their latest album "Grit" on Music for Nations. Check out the flyer here. The UK version of the album also has a different tracklist than the original, featuring just seven songs from the Norweigan version. Members Frode, Sivert and Robert with the thought that they'd rather provide a much broader overview of the band's sound as opposed to just the new tracks. Here's what they came up with:
01. Blood Shot Adult Commitment
02. Ready
03. I Don't Fit
04. Madrugada
05. Majesty
06. 7 seconds
07. Lucy One
08. Hands Up - I Love You
09. Got you
10. Belladonna
11. Ready To Carry You
It's also got a new cover that you can view here. The band hopes to come back for a full UK tour in January, but I don't have anything confirmed yet.
In other news, the band reports that they are hard at work on new material and practicing 6-7 hours a day. They should hopefully have something out by next autumn, but nothing's been set yet. Ah, but they do have a confirmed new release coming up! They'll be doing a split EP tribute to revered psychedelic rocker Roky Erickson together with We, another Norweigan band I really like. Madrugada does the 13th Floor Elevator song "Slip Inside This House" and it should be out soon on Black Balloon Records. And in related news, Sivert's sideproject The Opposition have their debut album coming out in February and they will tour Norway in support soon after in March. While not turning out as singer/songwriter-esque as he originally imagined, he says it's "pop, the way I perceive that pop should be like" and is incredibly proud of the way it sounds. And last but not least, on December 9, Sivert will take part in a Johnny Cash tribute album recording at, where else but Kretsfengsel avd. A prison in Oslo with the inmates as the audience. Very cool. Other artists set to take part include Thomas Dybdahl, Magnet, Steinar Albrigtsen, Paal Flaata from Midnight Choir and Øystein Greni from Big Bang and it should be out in either late January or early February.
Due to some computer troubles on the road, Entombed was unable to update their tour diary until just the other day. Head over to their website for the latest.
Dead Frog Records has updated their site with 24 new demo reviews, including giving out coveted 5-star, er frog reviews to Audiosleeper, Gravity Life and Daniel Saturn.
BBC Radio 3 will broadcast some live material from Nordic jazz improvising innovators Supersilent on New Year's Day, January 1 at 10pm GMT. It will include material from this past year's Molde Jazzfestival and will be available online after the fact.
Ariel Kill Him will release a new CDEP/12" of all-new material in February/early March called "Labyrinths". Here's the tracklist:
01. Popka
02. Leland
03. It Was You
04. Up and Down
05. Yellow, Brown and Green
06. Hold On/Labyrinths
As mentioned before, Norweigan singer/songwriter Askil Holm1 has a bunch of dates coming up in both Norway and Japan. He's also got a couple more confirmed gigs with Martin Hagfors and Cream of the Crop, who he plays guitar for. Here's the latest confirmed details (all dates in Norway unless otherwise noted):
12/03 - Cafe Kaos, Oslo (Thorvald meyers gate 58)
12/04 - Namsos - Event: Release of new book
12/09 - Ikenoue Bobtail, Tokyo (JAP) (acoustic)
12/11 - Dig me out cafe, Minami-Horie, Osaka (JAP)
12/12 - Club Acid, Shinjuku, Tokyo (JAP) (acoustic)
12/13 - HMV Shinjuku, Tokyo (JAP) (acoustic)
12/13 - Club Dawn, Osaka (JAP) (acoustic)
12/14 - Virgin Megastore, Shin-Saibashi, Osaka (JAP)
12/17 - Trondheim w/Martin Hagfors and Cream of the Crop
12/18 - Concert for Frelsesarmeen at Egertorget, Oslo w/Martin Hagfors and Cream of the Crop
12/18 - Blå, Oslo w/Martin Hagfors and Cream of the Crop
12/19 - tba w/Martin Hagfors and Cream of the Crop
12/20 - tba w/Martin Hagfors and Cream of the Crop
12/22 - Kaffebaren, Namsos
12/25 - Pub 1030, Verdal
12/26 - Sjøåsen Hotell
12/30 - Vik, Flatanger
There's already 84 artists confirmed for next year's by:Larm festival. The event, Scandinavia's largest music convention, will take place February 12-14 in Bergen, Norway. Find out more here.
Download an exclusive mp3 of Swedish hip-hop artists Sabo, Ju-Mazz and Hoosam performing together on the track "Ny Dag Samma Skit" right here.
Mayhem and Decapitated are the first two bands confirmed for next year's Inferno metal festival in Norway.
There's nothing Nordic in the highlights of Aquarius Records new release list, but they do have reviews and samples for Burst, the Rune Grammofon "Money Will Ruin Everything" comp, the 267 Lattajjaa "Tididii Tididii Tididiididii" comp and a bunch of new CDr releases from Super Metsa, the new label of Jussi from Finland's Circle.
Norweigan singer/songwriter Uncle's Institution aka Egil Olsen will be counting down the days until Christmas with special exclusive content on his website including "brand new Christmas tunes, other tunes, cover tunes, videos, art, bravo and a whole load of Christmas fun." He'll be posting something new each day and today's treat is an mp3 for "Birds On My Oatsheef", a track written with lyrics by E of the Eels. Go check it out.
Egil's not the only Norde with a Christmas calendar either - Sondre Lerche's got one too, 'cept his has pictures from tour for each day until the 25th with the promise of a big payoff at the end. Go to his website to check it out. In other news, Sondre has confirmed "Two Way Monologue" as the title of his forthcoming record, due out late Feb/early March next year. They say that the title track will be the first single, too.
Abba just won't go away - "ABBA the movie", a new bio on the Swedish supergroup, gets its premiere in Stockholm this month with showings in Göteborg and Malmö in January.
Aftonbladet has posted streaming audio of the new Bergman Rock single "Help the Band": click here.