Dungen's performance from this year's Bonaroo Festival in June is now available as a paid download, in both mp3 and lossless FLAC format: http://www.livebonnaroo.com/

Interview: Jonas Skybakmoen (Johndoe)

Keith Abrahamsson of Kemado Records (Dungen) is launching a new enterprise called Anthology Records that will be dedicated to digital and vinyl reissues of obscure and out-of-print experimental albums. One of their first selections: Swedish psych/prog pioneers Parson Sound. Read more: http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20060724/music_nm/anthology_dc

Indieworkshop.com checks in with a live review of Dungen from Vancouver: http://www.indieworkshop.com/articles.php?id=307

Dungen will tour Australia with Wolfmother in July:

07/13 - The Barton Theatre, Adelaide
07/15 - Festival Hall, Melbourne
07/16 - Challenge Stadium, Perth
07/20 - Hordern Pavillion, Sydney
07/22 - The Riverstage, Brisbane

Updated tourdates for Dungen:

04/23 - Richards on Richards, Vancouver, BC
04/24 - Neumo's, Seattle, WA
04/25 - Doug Fir, Portland, OR
04/27 - Great American Music Hall, SF, CA
04/28 - Brewing Company, San Luis Obispo, CA
04/30 - Coachella Music & Arts Festival, Indio, CA
05/01 - Casbah, San Diego, CA
05/06 - Loppen, Copenhagen (DK)
05/17 - Koko, London (UK) w/The Shins
05/18 - Koko, London (UK) w/The Shins
05/20 - All Tomorrow's Parties, Camber Sands, East Sussex (UK)
05/21 - All Tomorrow's Parties, Camber Sands, East Sussex (UK)
06/02 - Logan Sq., Chicago, IL
06/03 - Little Brothers, Columbus, OH
06/05 - Magic Stick, Detroit, MI
06/06 - Lees Palace 1H, Toronto, ONT
06/07 - La Salla Rossa, Montreal, QUE
06/08 - Middle East, Boston, MA
06/09 - Iron Horse, Northampton, MA
06/10 - Irving Plaza, New York, NY
06/11 - BAR Nightclub, New Haven, CT
06/12 - First Unitarian Church, Philadelphia, PA
06/14 - Black Cat, Washington, DC
06/15 - Satellite Ballroom, Charlottesville, VA
06/16 - Grey Eagle, Asheville, NC
06/17 - Bonnaroo Arts & Music Festival, Manchester, TN

Updated Dungen tourdates:

03/15 - Charlatan, Gent (BEL)
03/16 - La Maroqin, Les Inrocks, Paris (FRA)
04/23 - Richards on Richards, Vancouver, BC (CAN)
04/24 - Neumo's, Seattle, WA
04/25 - Doug Fir, Portland, OR
04/27 - Great American Music Hall, SF, CA
04/30 - Indio, CA (Coachella Festival)
05/01 - Casbah, San Diego, CA
05/17 - Koko, London (UK) w/The Shins
05/18 - Koko, London (UK) w/The Shins
05/20 - ATP, Camber Sands, East Sussex (UK)
05/21 - ATP, Camber Sands, East Sussex (UK)
06/17 - Bonnaroo, TN

Dungen's acclaimed album "Ta det lugnt" will finally be released in Australia and New Zealand in the near future via Dew Process and in Japan on March 15 through Vroom Sound.

Dungen has been confirmed for the Coachella, ATP and Bonnaroo festivals.

Scandinavians in the 2005 Pazz and Jop top album chart: Dungen (#31), Annie (#48), Sigur Rós (#50), Opeth (#79), Robyn (#80), José González (#158), Shout Out Louds (#161). Robyn's "Be mine" is #48 on the single chart with Annie charting at #88 and #112 for "Heartbeat" and "Chewing gum" respectively.

Swedish rock'n'roll power trio Black Belt will be heading over to Germany for some dates in February:

02/03 - Pirate Cove, Berlin
02/04 - White Pig, Bad Frankenhausen
02/05 - Dipol, Freiberg
02/06 - Subway To Peter, Chemnitz
02/07 - Schützengasse, Weimar
02/08 - Kreuz, Obermarchtal
02/09 - Club Scheune, Erlangen
02/10 - Barfly, Schönebeck
02/11 - NVA-Club, Ludwigsfelde
02/13 - Unikum, Osnabrück
02/14 - Schaubude, Kiel

A new single entitled "Hold on" will be released in Sweden in February. The song was produced by Magnus "Existensminimum" Henriksson and Pierre Lindsjöö (Dungen, Ceasars, etc.). As for the band's next full-length, they plan to enter the studio following the tour.

Ratatosk Online interviews up-and-coming Finnish singer/songwriter Astrid Swan: http://www.ratatoskonline.net/?axelref=news&id=294
Also posted at the site are pics of Dungen and Animal Alpha from the recent Eurosonic festival.

Rounder Records has confirmed a March 14 release date for the US edition of Nicolai Dunger's album "Here's my song...". In other Dunger-related news, 2006 marks the 10-year anniversary of his recording career and to celebrate he will be releasing a new album entitled "Nicolai Dunger sjunger Edith Södergran" on February 1. The album is exactly what it says it is: Nicolai singing the words of Finnish/Swedish poet Edith Södergran set to music he wrote back when he was just 17 years old. The record features multi-instrumentalist Mats Schubert (Bo Kasper's Orkester), bassist Johan Berthling (Häpna), American drummer Timothy Barnes (Sonic Youth, Beth Orton, Royal Trux, Silver Jews) and Dungen guitarist Reine Fiske as well as artwork from Jockum Nordström. Dunger considers the album a natural culmination of his artistic journey thus far and dedicates the work to his mother who sadly passed away recently.

Check out a live clip of Dungen from ATP: [click here]

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