Francis has been officially picked up by and will be releasing their full-length debut "Lekomberg, we were kin" on June 16. The video "Here is the key" (see here) and the lead single "Eternal souls" is out now.
will be doing a limited edition tour 7" EP for Night Fever's upcoming US East Coast jaunt in July. Dates at myspace: http://www.myspace.com/nightfever69/shows
Aftonbladet has the premiere of the new In Flames video for "Deliver us": http://www.aftonbladet.se/webbtv/noje/article13046513.ab
As mentioned when the song first premiered, I find that I'm pleasantly surprised. Dunno if I'd ever want to play drums in a ferris wheel though.
Not exactly an official video, but high quality and worth checking out. Direct link: http://vimeo.com/23894971
Peter Bjorn and John will be appearing on NPR's "World Café" program out of WXPN Philadelphia on Friday at 2pm ET. Stream it online here: http://www.xpn.org/music-artist/xpn-stream
Pitchfork has a new untitled live tune from The Tallest Man on Earth streaming in the Forkcast: http://pitchfork.com/forkcast/15789-untitled-new-song/
Troels Abrahamsen has a new tune called "Unset" streaming at his website: http://supertroels.dk/
Kind of a nice, lowkey piano-based number. Worth listening to I think.
I didn't think it was going to be released until May 30, but apparently decided to make the new De Montevert single "Skyll på mig" available as a free download early: http://www.nomethod.se/de_montevert_skyllpamig.mp3
Danish netlabel has a new release from Copenhagen-based sound artist Claus Haxholm featuring two extended tracks of "warm minimal synth drone": http://washington-inc-records.com/catalogue/wr016/
Gaffa reports that Dúné has parted ways with drummer Malte Aarup-Sørensen: http://gaffa.dk/nyhed/49554 (in Danish)
Hired gun Morten Hellborn will be filling in for Malte on the band's upcoming gigs.
Preview two tracks of heavy drone from Råd Kjetil Senza Testa off their new LP "Silverarken": http://vamusic.bandcamp.com/album/silverarken
Three years in the making, limited to 250 copies on white vinyl.
Clotted Artery interviews Swedish indie act This Is Head: http://clottedartery.com/dailybacon/?p=386
has posted an unmastered sample clip of tunes from the upcoming Dödsvarg record "Livet är en dödsorsak": http://www.dodsvarg.se/dodsvarg_sample.mp3
Turns out that the Skitsystem and Meshuggah comparisons weren't far off the mark at all, despite the Detektivbyrån connection.
Monty has a new website to coincide with his new single and upcoming record: http://stormtruppen.se/
A new video from Swedish act Francis for the tune "Here is the key". Direct link: http://youtu.be/7R0nZWGKN_Y