Cold Meat Industry has details and preorder info posted for new releases from Norwegian industrial/metal act V:28 and long-running Swedish dark-ambient artist Raison d'être
This week's top 20 Norwegian album chart:
01. Kurt Nilsen - Rise To The Occasion
02. Bare Egil Band - Jeg er helt rå
03. Espen Lind - Army of one
04. Knutsen & Ludvigsen - Dum og deilig -beste
05. Vassendgutane - Xo
06. Ingenting - Kjempegreier
07. Madrugada - Madrugada
08. Åge Aleksandersen - Katalysator
09. Lindstrom - Where you go I go to
10. Real Ones - All For The Neighbourhood
11. Ida Maria - Fortress Round My Heart
12. Return - Best Of Both Worlds
13. Major Parkinson - Major Parkinson
14. Kathrine Moholt - Sweethearts
15. Kaizers Orchestra - Maskineri
16. Hovedøen Social Club - Que Viva Noruega
17. Too Far Gone - Livåt
18. Trygve Hoff - Tørrfesk og Ballader
19. Malin - Pang
20. Diverse artister - Sorgen og gleden: Matte Marit
Viktor Sjöberg (V. Sjöberg New Jazz Ensemble, Jens Lekman, etc.) will be doing a rare solo show in Chicago, IL on October 4 at An Old Grey Stone.
Dusted reviews Icelandic artist Ólafur Arnalds : http://www.dustedmagazine.com/reviews/4522
Check out the new Division of Laura Lee e-card for their new album "Violence is timeless": http://www.violenceistimeless.com/ecard/
MP3: Madrugada - Not to touch the earth
Today's mp3 post comes courtesy of contributor Nancy Baym:
Most lists of Madrugada's influences include The Doors. What better time to revisit their roots than at their own end? One of the unexpected treats of their postmortem tour in 2008 has been the steady supply of covers -- from Jacques Brel's "Amsterdam" (you can guess where they played that), to Johnny Thunders' "You can't put your arms around a memory". Recently, they covered The Doors' "To touch the earth" for P3's anniversary show (watch their impressive 6-song set here: http://nrkp3.no/konserter/). Given the impossibility of replicating late guitarist Robert Burås' delicacy, and perhaps sobered and grounded by his passing, this final incarnation of the band, featuring Alex Kloster-Jensen and Cato Salsa turned out more aggressive, more massive, and a lot more generous in its use of keyboards. You can hear it all here. They'll be missed.
Madrugada - Not to touch the earth (live)
Superfamily is looking for a new bassist (sort of): http://superfamilypop.blogspot.com/2008/09/b-bass-og-forfttere.html
Norwegian alt-country act Tommy Tokyo & Starving For My Gravy are streaming their new album at myspace: http://www.myspace.com/tommytokyo
Check out Danish hardcore act Last Mile and their new video "Steadfast": http://www.lastmilehardcore.com/videos.php
Hybris has the new Biker Boy single posted for (limited) free download: http://hybrism.blogspot.com/2008/09/biker-boy-september-song.html
Jeniferever reports that their new as-yet-untitled album is done and awaiting mastering. No word yet on what label will be releasing it, but apparently the band is still shopping it around. In other news, the band will be contributing a cover of Bruce Springsteen's "One step up" for a Boss tribute on Where It's At Is Where You Are. For more info, including upcoming tourdates, check myspace: http://www.myspace.com/jeniferever
The new Parken album "Länge leve Parken" is streaming in its entirety at myspace: http://www.myspace.com/parken12056
Recommended!
Finnish doom masters Skepticism will finally return with their new album "Alloy" on October 20 via Red Stream. Same lineup and same instrumentation so that means they still have no damn snare drum for tr00 heavy dooooooom-ness. This will be the band's first release since 2003's "Farmakon".
Icelandic/Italian artist Emiliani Torrini has a new website: http://www.emilianatorrini.com/
Swedish indiepop act The Charade will release their third album "Keeping up appearances" on November 18 via Skipping Stones Records. Download the title track here: http://www.skippingstonesrecords.com/the_charade/samples//kpa/The_Charade-Keeping_Up_Appearances.mp3