New website for Blood Command
Norwegian act Blood Command has a new website: http://bloodcommand.com/
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Bear Pilot - Do you know where your heart is? (video + more)
A very Swedish new video from Bear Pilot for the track "Do you know where your heart is?". Direct link: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WHYPLGb9p-I
Download said track along with another new one called "Wait! Wait! Wait!" right here: http://www.bearpilot.com/html/Music.html
Ef to tour China, giveaway remix
Swedish post-rockers Ef are heading East in March:
03/03 - Hertz Bar, Dalian
03/04 - Mao Live Club, Beijing
03/05 - Yuyintang, Shanghai
03/06 - VOX, Wuhan
03/08 - Aperture Club, Xian
03/09 - New little bar, Chengdu
03/10 - Nuts Club, Chongqing
03/11 - Iron Age, Guangzhou
03/12 - Hangout, Hongkong
03/13 - The Wall, Taiwan
In other news, head to their myspace blog to download a new Porn Sword Tobacco remix of the track "Sons of ghosts".
Year-end site updates
This will mostly only be of interest to the tech-minded, but just in case anyone at all is curious, here's the latest updates I've done on the site's back-end:
First, I've updated the version of jQuery I'm running (v1.4) and switched over to Google's CDN. Usually I'm pretty adamant about self-hosting all of the site's functionality, but I think it's fairly safe to lean a little on Google at this point and I believe that many users will already have it cached, hopefully giving our loadtime a slight boost. This also means that some of my older scripts might act up due to backwards compatibility issues, so if you see anything funny that isn't solved with a shift-refresh, please let me know.
Secondly, I've added Twitter and Facebook buttons to replace the outdated share links. I'm optimistic that we won't see huge lag times as those widgets load, but if you do see performance issues, again, please do let me know.
And last but not least, I've updated the in-line streaming mp3 widget to be use HTML5 on compatible browsers with a seamless rollback to Flash if not. Unfortunately I don't own an iPod/iPad and can't troubleshoot whether it works properly on those devices, but feel free to browse my mp3 posts to see it in action. Thanks!
Ghamorean album gets official release date
has officially confirmed that Ghamorean's new album "Terra ruina", their third overall, will be released on January 28 with a release party planned for January 7 at Scharinska Villan in their hometown of Umeå. Samples at myspace: http://www.myspace.com/ghamorean
Thumbin' a ride with Anchor
Two of the guys from Anchor hitchhike from Reno to SF and live to tell the tale: http://www.swehc.com/2010/12/25/saturday-early-morning-vgn-powa-with-claes-anchor/
Monzano interview at The 405
interviews Norway's Monzano as part of their week-long takeover of the site The 405: http://thefourohfive.com/articles/4844
Musik med Tobias Fröberg
PSL is finishing up the year by posted a number of extra live music clips from artists they've featured earlier, such as this one from Tobias Fröberg: http://psl.svt.se/psl/2010/12/26/musik-med-tobias-froberg-4/
Intervalo Banger talks to Haust
Check out the full English text version of an interview that Haust vocalist Vebjørn Guttormsgaard did with Brazilian blog Intervalo Banger: http://okkultokrati.blogspot.com/2010/12/uma-entrevista-com-vebjrn-de-haust.html
Promoe - Never follow
Promoe is giving away his latest single "Never follow" as a free download: http://www.looptrooprockers.com/download-never-follow/
The Silent Ballet top 100 albums of 2010
The Silent Ballet has started to post their top 100 album picks for 2010 which, as always, includes quite a few Scandinavian releases: http://www.thesilentballet.com/tsbt/2010/100_91.html
At a cursory glance I see the names Sistol, Youth Pictures of Florence Henderson and Jaga Jazzist.
Penny Century - James Hurley
More X-mas downloads: a new track from Penny Century is up at Absolut Noise: http://absolutnoise.blogspot.com/2010/12/exclu-penny-century-new-song-james.html
David Åhlén in collaboration with Samuel Sander
David Åhlén is collaborating with artist Samuel Sander on a project based on The Book of Lamentations: http://www.bookoflamentations.net/
Håll käften vad vill du? album now available for download
In case you missed the comment, Håll käften vad vill du? is now available for free download as promised: http://bit.ly/efU0di
Musik med Säkert!
Check out Säkert! performing the brand new tune "Du är inte själv" for PSL: http://psl.svt.se/psl/2010/12/24/musik-med-sakert/
Lyrics here: http://sakert.blogspot.com/2010/12/god-jul-onskar-sakert-och-psl.html