Scandinavian Gold
Amazon has a Scandinavian music sampler for free download: http://www.amazon.com/Scandinavian-Gold/dp/B002MBTTTI
This week's top 20 Norwegian album chart
This week's top 20 Norwegian album chart:
01. Mari Boine - Sterna Paradisea
02. Alexander Rybak - Fairytales
03. Thomas Dybdahl - En Samling
04. A-ha - Foot Of The Mountain
05. Petter Carlsen - You Go Bird
06. Contrazt - Uten Kart og Kompass
07. Espen Lind, Kurt Nilsen, Alejandro Fuentes og Askil Holm - Halleluja Live Vol. 2
08. Sibbe - Best Of
09. Röyksopp - Junior
10. Susanna & The Magial Orchestra - 3
11. Lollipop - Lollipop - 50 beste
12. Narum - Samma Hen Du Fær
13. Finn Wang - Boots, Balls & Velvet
14. Henning Kvitnes - Tid for latskap
15. Motorpsycho - Child Of The Future
16. Trøste & Bære - Drita full før Drøbaksundet
17. Reidar Larsen - Kom in te oss
18. Stavangerensemblet - Samlekasse
19. BigBang - Edendale
20. Jens Carelius - The Beat Of The Travel
MP3: Psychic Stunts - Wind up the sound
I didn't realize how good of a song "Wind up the sound is" until I saw the video. I guess I wasn't paying attention. Psychic Stunts bill themselves as something like a synthpop sideproject to The Bombhappies, but it's not so much swapping out jangly guitars for electronics than changing the tone. This one song does manage to halve the difference though; definitely more grit in the cracks, but still not totally devoid of REM allusions. Perfect for the weekend too- full of "fuck all" attitude, ripe and ready for getting pissed. I honestly love my job (really!), but I'm feeling it. Get out, get lost.
Psychic Stunts - Wind up the sound
Brighter Death Now live dates
Swedish power electronics master Brighter Death Now will be doing a number of rare live dates coming up:
09/24 - "Dom" Cultural Centre, Moscow (RUS)
09/28 - "Revolution" Club, Saint Petersburg (RUS)
10/09 - Maschinenfest, Essen (GER)
11/04 - Wroclaw Festival, Wroclaw (POL)
02/20 - VII Congresso Post Industriale, Prato (ITA)
Pitchfork reviews Taken By Trees, Mew, Little Dragon
Pitchfork reviews the new Taken By Trees album "East of Eden": http://pitchfork.com/reviews/albums/13386-east-of-eden/
Also covered: the new Mew album and Little Dragon in the Forkcast.
New album from The Graviators coming on Transubstans
Transubstans Records has confirmed that they will be releasing a new self-titled album from Swedish occult hårdrock/doom act The Graviators this coming November. Renown sludgerock producer Billy Anderson is mixing and mastering the release and Thomas Tjäder (At the Gates, In Flames, The Haunted) will be handling the group's first video.
Bad Hands guest vocalists revealed
Via Rogerts Blogg, here's the tracklist and guest vocalists that will be appearing on the upcoming Bad Hands (aka Per Nordmark) album:
Black and white - Linnea Jönsson (Those Dancing Days)
Bad hands - Nina Kinert
Northern lights - Britta Persson & Karl Larsson (Last Days of April)
Kick you out - Nicke Andersson (The Hellacopters) & Howlin' Pelle (The Hives)
Andra relationen - Subbah
Close enough - Choir of Kiemi
We love blood - Henric de la Cour (Strip Music)
Cartoon wolf - David Sandström
I can do it - Therese Johansson (Lowood)
Sillodill - Britta Persson
Makthaverskan gets release date
Luxury has confirmed the new Makthaverskan album for release on October 21. More details tba.
Dimmu Borgir in black metal drama
I wasn't going to mention it at all, but Dimmu Borgir's recent firing of two members seems to have stirred up quite a shitstorm: http://www.dimmu-borgir.com/index.php?action=fullnews&showcomments=1&id=26
Dusted reviews Mika Vainio
Dusted reviews the new Mika Vainio (Pan Sonic) solo release "Aineen musta puhelin (Black telephone of matter)": http://dustedmagazine.com/reviews/5218
New Susanna and the Magical Orchestra album reviewed at DiS
Drowned in Sound reviews the new Susanna and the Magical Orchestra album "3": http://drownedinsound.com/releases/14619/reviews/4137742
Sounds Like Violence gets new release date
Burning Heart is now saying the much-delayed new album "The devil on Nobel Street" from Sounds Like Violence will be released on November 9 with the single "The emperor's new clothes" preceding it on October 19. Wait and see...
Fever Ray tour 7"
Fever Ray has a new 7" that she recorded with tour partners Van Rivers and The Subliminal Kid featuring covers of Nick Cave's "Stranger than kindess and Vashti Bunyan's "Here before".
This Years Model - A whisper around town
Swedish powerpop act This Years Model are streaming a new track at myspace: http://www.myspace.com/thisyearsmodelpop
Expect a new album from the band in 2010 via Marsh-Marigold Records.
Astrid Swan - 2000-2010 (I'm not even 30) (video)
Astrid Swan has a new video for the song "2000-2010 (I'm not even 30)": http://www.vimeo.com/6396696
I still need to listen to the record more, but this was my favorite track on my first run-through.