Niels Nielsen has signed with upstart American label and will be releasing his new album "Welcome to the promising land of hi-5ers and hopeless people" on May 2. Also signed, fellow Swede Patrik Torsson whose new album "At the line of the border" will be out this spring as well. More info: http://www.saintmarierecords.com/
Swedish synth-focused mag Zero Music is going online-only after a 16-year run. Read the editors' statement here: http://www.zeromagazine.nu/nyhet.asp?id=1911 (in Swedish)
The publication will continue on as an online-only venture and as such will be expanding their web offerings in the near future.
Shout Out Louds are heading back out on the road in late March:
03/28 - La Machine du Moulin Rouge, Paris (FRA)
03/29 - La Nef, Angoulême (FRA)
03/30 - La Vapeur, Dijon (FRA)
03/31 - La Laiterie, Strasbourg (FRA)
04/01 - Centre Culturel Paul B, Massy (FRA)
04/02 - Le Brise Glace, Annecy (FRA)
04/03 - La Salumeria della Musica, Milan (ITA)
04/04 - Bronson, Ravenna (ITA)
04/05 - Cabaret Aleatoire, Marseille (FRA)
04/06 - Apollo, Barcelona (ESP)
04/07 - Sala Heineken,, Madrid (ESP)
04/08 - Santiago Alquimista, Lisbon (POT)
04/09 - Mondo Club, Vigo (ESP)
The latest featured aritst on Umeå's excellent live music site Hammock Sessions is instrumental/folk act Folkvang: http://www.hammocksessions.com/2011/02/19/folkvang-konditori-nybro-umea/
RIYL whistling.
So does this mean that The Haunted is looking to cash in on Takida fans or what?
Check out the brand new Giana Factory single "Dirty snow", the first of of their "Remakes Collection" in which a different act covers said tune for the flip: http://gianafactory.dk/2011/02/new-release-dirty-snow-anders-trentem%c3%b8ller-remake/
Trentemøller is featured on this one and upcoming collaborators include Glasvegas, Veto, Autolux and WhoMadeWho.
Finnish punks No Shame will be filming their upcoming gigs at Semifinal in Helsinki on April 8-9 for an eventual DVD release.
Coming out at the end of the month via , the self-titled debut 2xLP/CD from Juv aka Norwegian experimental/noise artists Are Mokkelbost and Marius von der Fehr, a collaboration finally seeing the light of day fourteen long years after it was initially conceived. Read more in this interview conducted by Erik Skodvin of Svarte Greiner: http://www.miasmah.com/recordings/juv/juv_interview.html
Ex-Esbjörn Svensson Trio drummer Magnus Öström will be releasing his first album as a bandleader on April 24, "Thread of life", which I guess puts it in direct competition with his old bandmate. Not that the two have beef, Dan Berglund guests on the tribute track "Ballad for E" along with renown guitarist Pat Metheny while the rest of the album features Andreas Hourdakis on guitars, Gustaf Karlöf on keyboards and Thobias Gabrielson on bass. Read more at Magnus' website: http://www.magnusostrom.com/
has announced that Dan Berglund's new album "Allt är idioternas fel" will be released the week of Easter, which I presume means April 25?
PopMatters interviews The Concretes: http://www.popmatters.com/pm/feature/131665-no-more-trouble-an-interview-with-the-concretes/
has signed the excellent Swedish melodic punk act Atlas Losing Grip and will be releasing the band's new album "State of unrest" on May 28. Listen to some tunes at Bandcamp: http://atlaslosinggrip.bandcamp.com/
"Bubbelgum" is the new single from Marcus Price and Carli (Savage Skulls) and it's officially released on March 1 via .
Speaking again of 90s nostalgia, how 'bout this old Lemonator clip from 96? I seriously had no idea those dudes used to go off so hard! Pretty exciting to have stumbled across it over the weekend.
I started to write something about how disgruntled this sort of mundane indie/dance/disco-pop makes me, but I decided to delete it because it was getting far too mean-spirited compared to how innocuous the track really is. Momofoko's new single, "What you want to hear", is officially released on March 5 while the band's upcoming full-length "Momoism" follows on April 15. Direct link to the video: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1-POKiGkGgs