The Göteborg Post follows up on The Bear Quartet's refusal of their Swedish Grammis nomination: http://www.gp.se/kulturnoje/1.266444-bear-quartet-vagrar-grammis (in Swedish)
Note that the band has indeed been removed from the voting roster: http://vote.grammis.se/kategorier/arets-rock.aspx
Eric Ramsey's final free download of 2009 is now available: http://www.ericramsey.se/sonicblastmachine.html
Lapko will do a few German dates in March:
03/16 - Magnet Club, Berlin
03/17 - Backstage Club, Munich
03/18 - Underground, Cologne
03/19 - Grüner Jäger, Hamburg
Pitchfork reviews the latest Supersilent album "9": http://pitchfork.com/reviews/albums/13756-9/
The nominees for the Swedish Grammis/MTV award in the category of best music video have been announced:
Adam Tensta, Eboi, Infinite Mass - Area turns red 09 (dir. Marcus Lundin)
Adiam Dymott - Miss you (dir. Senay & Kolacz)
Air France - No excuses (dir. Marcus Söderlund)
Amanda Jensen - Happyland (dir. Jerker Josefsson)
Bob Hund - Bli aldrig som oss bli värre! (dir. Johan Söderberg)
BWO - Right here right now (dir. Josef Andersson)
El Perro Del Mar - Change of heart (dir. Filip Nilsson)
Elin Lanto - Love made me stupid (dir. Robinovich)
Fever Ray - When I grow up (dir. Martin de Thurrah)
Jenny Wilson - Like a fading rainbow (dir. Marcus Söderlund)
Pato Pooh feat. Adam Tensta - Follow me (dir. Maceo Frost)
Peter Bjorn and John - It don't move me (dir. Filip Nilsson)
Promoe - Svennebanan (dir. Magnus Härdner)
Taken By Trees - My boys (dir. Marcus Söderlund)
The Sound Of Arrows - Into the clouds (dir. The Sound Of Arrows)
Timbuktu - Välj mej (dir. Daniel Wirtberg & Jonas Rudström)
Promoe - Mammas Gata (dir. Magnus Härdner)
Moneybrother - Born under a bad sign (dir. Kalle Haglund)
Mando Diao - Gloria (dir. Jörn Heitmann)
Melody Club - The only ones (dir. Peder Bergstrand)
View/vote here: http://grammis.mtv.se/
has started streaming tracks from the 2nd Adam McCormack EP they're putting out this month: http://www.myspace.com/playrec
Icelandic act Seabear will release their sophomore album "We built a fire" in March via and the band will also be making their US live debut around the same time with various appearances at SXSW. Also keep an eye out for the new 6-song EP "While the fire dies" as well as 7" single for "Lion face boy" (b/w "Cold summer"). Preview here: http://www.anost.net/en/Artists/Seabear-Shop/Seabear-Lion-Face-Boy-Cold-Summer.html
Per Egland is responsible for the soundtrack of the upcoming Josef Fares movie "Farsan", due out in February. See the trailer: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lxOm0PGczqA&NR=1
(I'm a big fan of his older films "Jalla! Jalla!" and "Kopps")
The Scandipop blog has a new interview with Elin Lanto: http://www.scandipop.co.uk/?p=1933
Taken By Trees are the latest live music guests at PSL: http://blogg.svt.se/psl/2009/12/7/musik-med-taken-by-trees/
Norwegian noise masters Jazkammer will be doing a 12 CD subscription series for 2010 featuring a new release every month of the year. Planned releases include a new record with the "Metal music machine" lineup as well as various collaborations with artists such as John Wiese and Putrefier, plus lots more. Read here: http://jazkamer.blogspot.com/2009/11/jazkamer-2010-monthly-cd-series.html
Danish label has prepared a microsite to give you a preview of their 2010 offerings: http://2010.morningsiderecords.dk
Featured artists include recent signees No Blood In Bones and Marie-Louise Munck along with stable acts Shout Wellington Air Force, Torsten Larsen and Ghost Voo.
Free Jazz reviews the new Fire! album on Rune Grammofon: http://freejazz-stef.blogspot.com/2009/12/fire-you-liked-me-five-minutes-ago-rune.html