Here is the It's a Trap! listening group top 10 artists of the week, unique to our group:
01. Hello Saferide
02. Håkan Hellström
03. Tiger Lou
04. A Camp
05. The Legends
06. Jenny Wilson
07. Jens Lekman
08. Shout Out Louds
09. The Fine Arts Showcase
10. Fleet Foxes
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Here's the playlist for this week's radio show Sirius XMU:
01. Miss Li - Dancing the whole way home
02. TALK 1
03. Graveless - The covenants genocide
04. Abramis Brama - Kylan kommer inifran
05. NEI - City of gold
06. TALK 2
07. Love Potion - Nitefever
08. Pistol Disco - Beat of the tune
09. Black Sheep - We're gonna die
10. The End Will Be Kicks - Little pill
11. TALK 3
12. Tribulation - Crypt of Thanatophilia
13. Makabert Fynd - Folkfacist, halvnazist
14. Bruket - Polisen lägger pussel
15. TALK 4
16. The Bear Quartet - I was a weapon
17. Mangrove - Pieces of our yesterday
18. Elmo - Shine down on us
19. TALK 5
20. Aqua - Back to the 80s
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.
Swedish electronic/experimental act Fontän will release their new full-length album "Winterhwila" in Sweden on August 19 via Information, the label run by Studio. A UK/international release will follow on August 24 and the album will be available on CD, LP and digital.
Pre-listen to the new Constructdead album "Endless echo": http://www.soundpollutiondistribution.se/construcdead/Construcdead_pre-listen.html
It's a Trap! is heading to the coast for some much needed R&R. See you Monday! RIP MJ.
This week's top 20 Norwegian album chart:
01. Espen Lind, Kurt Nilsen, Alejandro Fuentes og Askil Holm - Halleluja Live Vol. 2
02. A-ha - Foot Of The Mountain
03. Alexander Rybak - Fairytales
04. Postgirobygget - Øyeblikk
05. Henning Kvitnes - Tid for latskap
06. Vømmøl Spellmannslag - Vømmøl'n
07. Too Far - Sola i ryggen
08. Aasmund Nordstoga - Ein visefugg
09. Terje Tysland - Lidderli gla
10. Eriksen - De aller beste
11. Reidar Larsen - Kom in te oss
12. Erik og Kriss - Tabu
13. Röyksopp - Junior
14. Tone Damli Aaberge - I Know
15. Datarock - Red
16. Kaizers Orchestra - Maskineri
17. BigBang - Edendale
18. Tina Lie - Free Enough To Fall
19. Eva & The Heartmaker - Let's Keep This Up Forever
20. Anita Skorgan - Hele veien - 47 utvalgte sanger
Sofia Karlsson has a new EP called "Norr om Eden" that she will only be selling exclusively at live shows on her just kicked-off tour. The music is described as "the sad little sister" of recent album "Söder om kärleken".
The latest issue of email newsletter The Swede Beat is out and it's a special feature on Norrland with bits on Hello Saferide, Addeboy vs. Cliff, artist Hugo Sundkvist and more: http://eepurl.com/b36sTweet
Sahara Hotnights are doing a one-off free gig at Frannz in Berlin next Thursday on July 2. Full details: http://www.frannz.de/event.php?id=2296&special=&year=2009&month=7
Spinner has a new track from Mew for download called "Repeaterbeater": http://www.spinner.com/2009/06/25/mew-repeaterbeater-free-mp3-download/
Swedish suicide-metal act Shining has signed with Norwegian label Indie Recordings.
The Silent Ballet reviews the Ingebrigt Håker Flaten/Håkon Kornstad collaboration "Elise": http://thesilentballet.com/dnn/Home/tabid/36/ctl/Details/mid/384/ItemID/2486/Default.aspx
The Pirate Bay's appeal to get a retrial due to apparent judicial bias has been thrown out: http://www.reuters.com/article/rbssConsumerGoodsAndRetailNews/idUSSAT00634120090625
Absolut Noise talks to Matti and Jari from The Bear Quartet about their new album "89": http://absolutnoise.blogspot.com/2009/06/back-to-89.html
Releasing a demo cassette in 2009 pretty much guarantees you willful obscurity, but it's perfectly fitting for a kvlt death metal act like Graveless. Music like this is supposed to sound like it crawled its way out after being buried alive and no format suits that better than the brittle sound of 1/8" tape. Even better if you play it out of an old boombox, but I suppose a mediocre mp3 rip from said cassette kind of approximates that effect when you play it through your typical, tinny computer speakers. Audio clarity is the enemy, this is supposed to sound raw, muddled and near-inhuman. Trve evil does not reveal itself so easily! Obfuscate! Embrace the darkness! Revel in real underground Swedish death metal!
Graveless - The covenants genocide