Upcoming European tourdates for Danish hardcore band Lack:
12/02 - Alhambra, Oldenburg (GER)
12/03 - Oetinger Villa, Darmstadt (GER) w/Creutzfeldt
12/04 - Terminal Export, Nancy (FR) w/Engrave a.o.
12/05 - Le Cylindre, Larnod (FR) w/Engrave a.o.
12/06 - L'Empreinte, Paris (FR) (Oh Yeah festival)
12/07 - Blue Banana, Lyon (FR)
12/08 - L'athénée libertaire, Bordeaux (FR)
12/09 - Mondo Bizarro, Rennes (FR)
12/10 - Centre Henri Queffeléc, Brest (FR)
12/11 - Lille (FR)
12/12 - Leeds (UK)
12/13 - Matrix, Grimsby (UK) (festival)
12/14 - Concorde 2, Brighton (UK) (festival)
12/15 - CO9, Zwolle (NL)
All French dates will also be with France's Gameness.
If you sign up for the Blindside mailinglist on their newly redesigned website, you get the opportunity to download an exclusive mp3 from their upcoming album "About A Burning Fire".
Flora and Fauna, the label of Moder Jords Massiva, is celebrating their 20th release with a special party at Mondo in Stockholm on December 10. They'll be handing out a free 'greatest hits' label comp to the first 500 entrants and there will be live performances by Huoratron, Hundarna från Söder, MJM, Existensminimum and a "new experimental electronic act." Mark O' Sullivan, DJ Nuteq and Queen Ann will be DJing, too. Check out the flyer here: http://www.brilliant.nu/mailorder/arkflyer.html
Gåte has added video footage of their show from Rockefeller in Olso last February to their website. The four songs featured are "Kara tum omna", "Liti Kjersti", "Bendik og Årolilja" and "Snåle mi jente".
Imperial Recordings, the label of the much-hyped José González and Bobby, has singed Melpo Mene. Look for their debut EP in February.
Also coming soon from Imperial are the following José González releases:
IMP007LP: The album on vinyl
IMP008T: Jori Hulkkonen remix 12"
IMP009CDS: Remain EP (2 new tracks)
IMP010S: Remain 7"
IMP011S/SERV012: José González/Jens Lekman split 7"
Download an mp3 of Elin Sigvardsson covering Bob Dylan's "You're a Big Girl Now": http://www.elinsigvardsson.com/ljud/y_a_b_g_n.mp3
The new Cardigans single for "Live and Learn" will include the b-side "If There Is A Chance" as well as both "Changes" (Black Sabbath cover!) and "My Favourite Game" from the group's semi-recent BBC Radio 2 Session.
Pictures of Lullacry from Spinefarm Record's showcase event Spinefeast can be found here.
Don't forget that the big UK-Sweden music conference Access All Areas starts today. Look for reports in NME and on BBC6, as well as the usual Swedish press. Let the hype machines start rolling...
Updated European tourdates for Swedish hardcore band Misconduct:
03/05 - Leoncavallo, Milano (ITA)
03/06 - TNT, Perugia (ITA)
03/07 - Kulturfabrik, Kofmehl (CH)
03/09 - Hirscheneck, Basel (CH)
03/13 - Café Charbon, Nevers (FR)
03/14 - De Kelk, Bruges (BEL)
03/20 - European Hardcore Party 11 Edt, Maastricht (NL)
03/26 - JUZ, Leisnig (GER)
03/27 - Wild at Heart, Berlin (GER)
Outlandish talks to MTV Europe about their new single and video "Walou": click here. The video premieres on Up North tomorrow and a 'making-of' feature airs on the same program on December 4.
Speaking of Up North, the program is shifting focus a bit more towards Norway instead of Sweden according to this article from NRK. Should we also be doing the same as we search for the ever-elusive 'Next Big Thing'? Lord knows there's plenty of bands over there deserving international attention. Start placing your bets now. (in Norweigan)
Norweigan singer/songwriter Askil Holm just got a lucky break: the video for his single "Moonlanding" just got playlisted on MTV Japan. As mentioned before, he'll be heading over there around Christmas for a short tour. For an updated schedule, go here: http://www.apache.no/askil/
Guitarist Jasse Von Hast has left Finnish goth-metal act Charon in order to concentrate more on his day job.
Notorious black metal legends Mayhem have set March 29 as the release date for their forthcoming album "Chimera". As reported before, the record is currently being recorded at mobile studio in the mountains of Norway and is described as being "much more back to basics and much more brutal" than their more recent works.