Blood Harvest has confirmed that the new Goddefied 7" "Remnants of the art" has been sent off for pressing and will be ready for order soon. The record will contain two brand new tracks plus a reworked version of "Zephaniah dwells" from their very first EP "Abysmal grief", released way back in 1993.
Check out the new Robert Johnson and the Punchdrunks video "Tired of Thurston": http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B2GM8JTGJCw&fmt=18
The new Hearts of Black Science single "Gold and dust" is available as a (semi-)free download via Klicktrack, along with a few other new Wonderland Records singles (Arvid, Thermostatic, Emmon): http://www.klicktrack.com/klicktrack/releases/various/hearts-of-black-science-the-wonderland-records-ep-1
Here's the playlist for this week's radio show Sirius XMU:
01. TALK 1
02. Elias and the Wizzkids - Mr. Right Guy
03. Marit Bergman - Thoughts grow darker in the night
04. Jomi Massage - I see those who died
05. The End Will Be Kicks - Luleå Los Angeles La Paz
06. TALK 1
07. Viola - Shimmery summary (sha-la-la-love)
08. The Bear Quartet - Sailors
09. [ingenting] - Halleluja!
10. TALK 2
11. Erik de Vahl - Got it all
12. The Scrags - Twist at the graveyard
13. Trapdoor Fucking Exit - DOA
14. Iisole - The words
15. TALK 4
16. Death By Kite - Scared of heights
17. Sonic Ritual - Take the edge off
18. Mainliners - Olivia
19. Ted Gärdestad - Räcker jag till
20. TALK 5
21. Darkthrone - Hiking metal punks
Reminder: my show airs every week on Sundays and Mondays at 11pm ET on Sirius XMU. That's channel 26 on Sirius, 43 on XM and 831 for DirecTV subscribers.
Under the Radar talks to Mew about their new album and upcoming tour plans: http://www.undertheradarmag.com/interviews/mew/
Check out The Gentle Act Incident's new video for "The city doesn't know me": http://vids.myspace.com/index.cfm?fuseaction=vids.individual&videoid=61509939
It's not too visually interesting IMO, but the song sounds great -- they've got a really good, classic indierock sound.
The new Ikons single "Skull city" is out now via Service Coop. Listen here: http://srvc.se/catalog/item.php?catno=SRVC008
The band's debut album will be out this fall and if it's a continuation of what we've heard so far, I'm sure it'll be great.
Since my laptop was confirmed deceased on Friday I have slowly started the long and arduous process of rebuilding my daily bookmark database. We're still deep into the dogdays of summer and not much is happening, so I'm taking it slow and will try to get back up to speed by the end of the week (or next). I doubt I'll ever get back all 2000+ links that I lost, but that's fine -- starting fresh is not so bad.
Adrian Recordings has announced that "Millions" will be the lead single from the new Bear Quartet album. Labelmate Adreas Tilliander will provide a b-side remix (a BQ first!) and The Skull Defekts will also contribute a cover version. Listen at myspace: http://www.myspace.com/thebearquartet
Bone Voyage Recordings will be releasing the new album "Wild girl walk" from Finnish garage-rockers The Micragirls on September 9 with a wider international release to follow one month later on November 9.
Swedish electronic/pop duo Pacific! new project is a ballet entitled "Narcissus", created together with choreographer Olof Persson and dancers Rebecca Evans and Lina Räftegård. They'll be presenting the work live in September around Sweden and then following up with an album version in spring 2010. Dates:
09/18 - KB, Malmö
09/25 - Debaser Medis, Stockholm
09/27 - Trädgården, Göteborg
New music from Taken By Trees in the Pitchfork Forkcast: http://pitchfork.com/forkcast/13233-watch-the-waves/
My laptop bit the dust this weekend, so I'm going to take a bit of a break from heavy-duty daily posting until I get things fixed. Updates will still happen, just not as much as you might be normally used to.
UPDATE: Well, my laptop is totally kaput along with all the data on it, so it looks like it'll be a long, slow slog as I try to rebuild my extensive bookmark database, recreate my notes and so on. Let this serve as a reminder to back up your data frequently!
This is the single that Erik de Vahl previously released via Service Coop and has since re-released on his new 2x3" CDR collection "Scattered vacations/As I am beating". Billed as containing both his best pop songs and some of his most experimental works, it's an incredibly satisfying piece of work and I'd say that his description does it justice. "Got it all" definitely heads more towards the pop direction, no doubt, but it's also much more interesting than most typical guy-with-guitar type artists. He is nothing of sort, though that is indeed the foundation of this particular song. It builds into something different very quickly by piling on layers of delay, subtle backing vocals and other accompaniments. I realize now that Viktor Sjöberg was 100% on-point when he called him "sonically restless," there's no better way to describe this. The physical package is interesting too; the 4-panel fold-out that houses the discs reveals an image not at all like you'd expect, but one that fits perfectly with the mood. But I will say no more -- visit his page and click on the hi-res link to see for yourself. Also worth noting: this release was mastered by Daniel Lissvik of Studio. I say that not because they sound alike, but they are complimentary. There's much more to the music of Göteborg than Balearic pop.
Erik de Vahl - Got it all
I Am Bones' contribution to the upcoming Crunchy Frog 15th anniversary comp featuring current Danish acts covering tracks from the label's back-cataglogue is now streaming at myspace: http://www.myspace.com/iambonesband
After attempting a Raveonettes song and then Junior Senior, they settled on "Lovesong" by First Floor Power in a version they describe as "Timberlake vs funk-Meshuggah." The entire collection "Saluting the Crunchy Frog-a-logue" comes out September 5.