Electronic Music Cavalcade is the name of a new techno-focused festival put on by the folks behind clubnight Electronic Music Club which is happening in Göteborg in May, spread across three Fridays. Read more at Gaffa (in Swedish) and then bookmark the official website: http://www.emcgbg.com/cavalcade.html
Alibi Tom's video for their new single "Now like then", off the forthcoming record "This sleeping" which is due out March 14. Direct link: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9v-4WZHVPo8&hd=1
Check out Lykke Li doing a live studio session for The Line of Best Fit: http://vimeo.com/20245672
The superb Norwegian Early Music vocal ensemble Trio Mediaeval have announced that their new album "A Worcester Ladymass", their fifth for 's New Series imprint, will be released on March 15. The music on the album is "a reconstruction of a 13th century votive Mass to the Virgin Mary, based on surviving manuscripts from a Benedectine Abbey in the English Midlands" and can be previewed at this e-card: http://player.ecmrecords.com/trio-mediaeval
Very highly recommended!
reports that "Metalion: The Slayer Mag Diaries", a compilation of every issue of famed Norwegian metal zine Slayer Mag plus author Jon Kristiansen's memories of such, is on track for release on June 6 and is now available for preorder: http://blog.bazillionpoints.com/2011/02/25/metalion-the-slayer-mag-diaries-is-really-real/
If you're a fan of underground metal, this is an essential buy.
Electronic artist Sophie Rimheden and rapper Eboi have collaborated on a new track and are giving it away as a free download: http://soundcloud.com/s-r-p/sophie-rimheden-eboi-whiz-kid
Pitchfork interviews Lykke Li about her new album "Wounded rhymes" and other related topics: http://pitchfork.com/features/interviews/7913-lykke-li/
Stereogum has the premiere of the new Hexvessel video "Invocation summoning", as well as links to a number of other tunes: http://stereogum.com/645091/hexvessel-invocation-summoning-video-the-death-knell-tolls/franchises/haunting-the-chapel/
If you dig dark neofolk or stuff like Wovenhand and The Goner, you should definitely check out Hexvessel. It's a great record.
Swedish death metallers Vanhelgd have a new track posted for free download: http://www.myspace.com/vanhelgd/blog/542207805
Look for the band's new album "Church of death" to be released in April.
Pitchfork gives high marks to the new The Skull Defekts album "Peer amid" and rightfully so: http://pitchfork.com/reviews/albums/15139-peer-amid/
It's a great record, picked up the 2LP myself over the weekend.
Not that it can compete with actually being there, but here's live footage from this weekend's iDEAL Fest featuring the last-ever performance by Dead Letters Spell Out Dead Words. Direct link: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2VsBb_DD2KU
It shares a name with a tune by related act Volcanic Places, but this new track by Pistol Disco is not at all the same: http://pistoldisco.tumblr.com/post/3526221716
And as always, new music from Pistol Disco is a good thing.
The William Blakes' new album "Music wants to be free" is now streaming in its entirety via Soundcloud: http://soundcloud.com/music-wants-to-be-free/sets/music-wants-to-be-free-album/
Said album will be officially released on Monday.
Danish psychrockers Baby Woodrose are now up on Bandcamp with their entire discography available for streaming/purchase, including various sideprojects such as Dragontears and Spids Nøgenhat as well as rarities including a number of things never released before: http://babywoodrose.bandcamp.com/
Pitchfork gives high marks to The Radio Dept.'s singles collection "Passive aggressive", though I'm not so sure about them ever being regarded as underdogs: http://pitchfork.com/reviews/albums/15035-passive-aggressive-singles-2002-2010/