The Tram Sessions is a new Swedish video blog run by GBG TV4's Jerry Bownman and Anna Flytström in the fine tradition of many other live music video blogs such Le Blogotheque, Black Cab Sessions and so on, except that of course, this time the performers are filmed performing on trams in Göteborg. Go there now for clips from Detektivbyrån and Tilde: http://www.thetramsessions.se/
Check out The Haunted's new video for "Trenches": http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ahvvQEe4Gkk&fmt=22
Fluxblog on Jenny Wilson's new single "The wooden chair": http://www.fluxblog.org/2009/02/like-a-steam-fever
MIC Norway reports that Ida Maria has signed a new international deal with Island Def Jam/Mercury: http://www.mic.no/mic.nsf/doc/art2009022313550386828564
Mathias Eick is this year's recipient of Norway's StatoilHydro grant: http://www.statoilhydro.com/heroes/en/byLarm/Pages/default.aspx/
The first single from Murmansk's upcoming album "Eleven eyes to shade" will be the song "Moth". Expect a video in mid-April and, as mentioned before, the album itself on May 6. There will be a release party at Bar Loose in Helsinki on May 8.
I Are Droid is looking for fans willing to contribute footage for the video of their next single "Before the fall": http://blogs.myspace.com/index.cfm?fuseaction=blog.view&friendID=60514786&blogID=472464237
Kvoteringen's new album is done and set for a May release via Feral Ward.
Check out Alibi Tom on SPIN Earth: http://www.spinearth.tv/articles/165
Swedish indiepop act The Pale Corners have a new track called "Makes tonight all mine" streaming at myspace: http://www.myspace.com/thepalecorners
Look for a 3" CD single from the band on Cloudberry Records later this month.
Swedish electronica artist Fredrik Jonasson has a new album called "Blood=life" available for free download, complete with bonus remixes: http://fredrikjonasson.com/blood=life/
The Tremolo Beer Gut's surf-rock cover of "Rave Kenneth" by fellow Danes Beta Satan is now streaming at myspace: http://www.myspace.com/thetremolobeergut
Hear the original here: http://www.myspace.com/betasatan
Nina Persson continues to get better and better as she gets older. She continues to improve as a musician and a songwriter with every new release. Shallow though it might make me seem, I also think she's more beautiful with each passing year. I like that she's added a bit more twang to her sound too; it fits her persona well as it seems like only country artists are allowed to age with such grace. Her duet partner Nicolai Dunger has had a more uneven career path, but his most recent work has been stellar and his voice melds perfectly on this particular piece. It's a bit on the sleepy side, as is the rest of "Colonia", but the two of them together on this piece is just too good.
A Camp - Golden teeth and silver medals (ft. Nicolai Dunger)
Here is the It's a Trap! listening group top 10 artists of the week, unique to our group:
01. Frida Hyvönen
02. A Camp
03. Hello Saferide
04. Morrissey
05. Familjen
06. The Fine Arts Showcase
07. Jens Lekman
08. The Soundtrack of Our Lives
09. Montt Mardié
10. Jonathan Johansson
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