Stockholm Beat Connection is doing a remix contest with the Looptroop Rockers track "Naïve": http://stockholmbeatconnection.blogspot.com/2008/08/looptroop-remix-contest.html

Festival report: Hultsfred 08 (pt. II)

Check out the video for the latest Looptroop Rockers single "Naïve" (ft. Timbuktu): http://vids.myspace.com/index.cfm?fuseaction=vids.individual&videoid=35522610

Check out the Jimmy Ledrac remix of the Looptroop Rockers single "The building": http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YTUNGPl1jbY

Here's this week's radio show playlist:

01. Siena Root - Waiting for the sun
02. TALK 1
03. Cult of Luna - Eternal kingdom
04. Svartbag - Black Capricorn
05. Kite - Ways to dance
06. TALK 2
07. Eero Johannes - Finnrexin
08. Looptroop Rockers - The building
09. Holiday for Strings - Touch the tiger
10. TALK 3
11. Silverbullit - Magnetic city
12. Thomas Denver Jonsson - My wardrobe
13. Samtidigt Som - Constant in motion
14. Wolfbrigade - Feelings you don't want to feel
15. TALK 4
16. Johndoe - Piggtråd og piss
17. Sol Andersson - All is full of love
18. King of All the Animals - The snowflake song (I Was A Teenage Satan Worshipper remix)
19. TALK 5
20. Last Days of April - You don't believe me (Monster & Maskiner remix)
21. Pacta Sunt Servanda - To claim your prize
22. The Goner - Spirit round-up
23. TALK 6
24. Tape - Altamira
25. Letum - Tallriksis
26. Zeigeist - Black milk
27. TALK 7
28. Knife and Ape - Semiotic dysfunction
29. Terveet Kädet - Message
30. Giant Boar - Chronic date
31. The Lionheart Brothers - Time river floaty
32. TALK 8
33. Echo Is Your Love - Lion tamer vs tigers
34. Agent Side Grinder - Lashes of flashes
35. Skitsystem - Solidaritetens sista utpost
36. TALK 9
37. Final Exit - Punk enough

Reminder: my show on Sirius Blog Radio runs Saturdays at 12 noon and midnight ET on channel 26 (Left of Center). My show is being preempted this coming weekend (05/24) for a special Memorial Day Block Party special, but I'll be back in full effect on June 7.

Bad Taste Records (Logh, Looptroop Rockers) has signed Sahara Hotnights and will be releasing their most recent album "What if leaving is a loving thing" all over Europe sometime around September. Expect European tourdates to be confirmed soon as well.

Check out the video for the international hip-hop collaboration "Diversidad" which features cameos from Promoe (Looptroop Rockers) and Noora Noor: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xtJrD2SJY5c

This week's top 20 Swedish album chart:

01. Charlotte Perrelli - Hero
02. Sanna Nielsen - Stronger
03. Looptroop Rockers - Good things
04. Christer Sjögren - Jubileum 40 år med Christer Sjögren
05. Brolle - Ett hjärta som glöder som en gång brann
06. The Hellacopters - Head off
07. Håkan Hellström - För sent för Edelweiss
08. Nordman - Djävul eller gud
09. BWO - Pandemonium - The singles collection
10. In Flames - A sense of purpose
11. Linda Bengtzing - Vild & galen
12. Pugh Rogefeldt - Vinn hjärta vinn
14. Amy Diamond - Music in motion
15. Takida - Bury the lies
16. Maia Hirasawa - Though, I'm just me (new edition)
17. Oh Laura - A song inside my head, a demon in my bed
18. Veronica Maggio - Och vinnaren är...
19. Monica Zetterlund - Sakta vi gå genom stan - Det bästa med Monica
20. Tommy Körberg - Rakt upp och ner

Here's the playlist for this week's radio show:

01. Peter Morén - This is what I came for
02. TALK 1
03. Entombed - Hollowman
04. King Of All The Animals - Concrete skyline
05. Jettie - The lay up
06. TALK 2
07. Happy Trash Culture - Frisky pet
08. Josse - You had a plan
09. Ondo - Sleep
10. TALK 3
11. Dead Letters Spell Out Dead Words - This room seems empty without you
12. Håkan Hellström - För sent för edelweiss
13. Marvins Revolt - Deliberate deeds
14. Marybell Katastrophy - Hey Frank
15. TALK 4
16. The Bear Quartet - Mvh contempt
17. Lögnhalsmottagningen - Snacka gär ju
18. Ghost Brigade - Based on you
19. TALK 5
20. September Malevolence - I shut doors and windows
21. The End Will Be Kicks - Ass of a friend
22. Anna Leong - Battered, bruised and cold
23. TALK 6
24. Bright Oak - On the list
25. Tape - Moth wings
26. Axewitch - Hot lady
27. TALK 7
28. Nationalteatern - Jack the Ripper
29. Tsukimono - Heart beater
30. Zeigeist - Bunny
31. TALK 8
32. First Floor Power - The jacket (Karin Dreijer remix)
33. No Hope for the Kids - Angels of destruction
34. Docenterna - Popmusik
35. Vapnet - Skorpan
36. TALK 9
37. Björn Kleinhenz - Olis
38. Fireside - Ambulance
39. Looptroop Rockers - Living on a prayer
40. TALK 10

Discobelle is offering up the new Looptroop Rockers cover of Bon Jovi's "Living on a prayer" as a free download: http://www.discobelle.net/2008/04/23/living-on-a-prayer/
It's better than you might expect!

The new Looptroop Rockers album "Good things" is now streaming at myspace: http://www.myspace.com/looptrooprockers
Also check out the group's new video blog right here: http://vids.myspace.com/index.cfm?fuseaction=vids.channel&channelid=36552526

Somehow I almost forgot to post this week's radio show playlist:

01. Bloodbath - Blasting the virginborn
02. TALK 1
03. Håkan Hellström - Långa vägar
04. Montys Loco - Farewell Mr. Happy
05. Victims - Bomben har fallit
06. TALK 2
07. Death By Kite - Sweet M
08. Ef - Thrills
09. The Bombhappies - Nothing at all
10. TALK 3
11. Motorpsycho - The alchemyst
12. Marybell Katastrophy - Hidden agenda
13. TALK 4
14. In Flames - Moonshield
15. Maskinen - Alla som inte dansar (100dirty remix)
16. The Social Services - Baltic Sea
17. TALK 5
18. Peter Morén - Social competence
19. Lack - Bombing the moon
20. Dmitry Fydorov - Signal
21. TALK 6
22. Looptroop Rockers - The building
23. Six Guns - Think positive
24. Nybakat! - Limu limu lima
25. TALK 7
26. Saft - Sizzling
27. Electric Retard - Greenvalley High
28. Lukestar - The shade you hide
29. Samtidigt Som - Constant in motion
30. TALK 8
31. Bad Cash Quartet - Monday morning
32. Monkeystrikes - I'm sorry, but I'm very dramatic
33. Commando M Pigg - Shoeshine boy
34. Weeping Willows - Touch me
35. TALK 9
36. Pistol Disco - Beat of the tune

New live music from PSL featuring Looptroop Rockers: http://blogg.svt.se/psl/2008/3/28/musik-med-looptroop-rockers/

Looptroop Rockers and Form One are touring together in April:

04/23 - Pluto, Västerås
04/25 - Den Grå Hal, Köpenhamn, DK
04/26 - Allhuset, Stockholm
04/30 - The Tivoli, Helsingborg
05/01 - Livestation, Dortmund (GER)
05/02 - E-Werk Club, Erlangen (GER)
05/03 - Wuk, Wien (AUS)
05/04 - Ampere, München (GER)
05/05 - Rockhouse, Salzburg (AUS)
05/07 - Kopfmehl, Solothurn, CH
05/05 - Karlstorbahnhof, Heidelberg (GER)
05/09 - Festsaal Kreuzberg, Berlin (GER)
05/10 - Mandarin Kasino, Hamburg (GER)
05/11 - No Stress Festival, Krauchenwies (GER)
05/12 - Studio 672, Köln (GER)
05/15 - Katalin, Uppsala
05/16 - O’Learys, Östersund
05/21 - Rockborgen, Borås
05/22 - Sticky Fingers, Göteborg
05/23 - Allkårveckan/Amflum, Växjö
05/24 - Arena, Karlstad
05/28 - Satin, Örebro
05/29 - Platens Bar, Linköping
05/30 - Siesta!, Hässleholm
05/31 - KB, Malmö

Here's the playlist for this week's radio show:

01. The Bear Quartet - Put me back together
02. TALK 1
03. Karin Ström - Silent night
04. Camouflage - Syster sol
05. Ulf Ljusberg - Whatever was
06. TALK 2
07. Juvelen - Don't mess
08. Invocator - Breed of sin
09. The Grand Opening - Secrets revealed
10. TALK 3
11. Motorpsycho - For free
12. Coldworker - Flammable
13. Mixtapes & Cellmates - Photo Jenny
14. TALK 4
15. Egil Olsen - Singer/songwriter
16. Last Days of April - Will the violins be playing?
17. Desert Planet - Riot sector 68
18. TALK 5
19. Printer - Satisfaction
20. Psyke Project - Physical romance
21. Promise and the Monster - Light reflecting papers
22. TALK 6
23. Marybell Katastrophy - Hidden agenda
24. Pan Sonic - Johdin
25. Opération Zéro - Etude no. 1
26. TALK 7
27. Jonas Game - Nothing to lose
28. Mari Boine - Tundra flower
29. Vapnet - Plötsligt händer det inte
30. TALK 8
31. Moto Boy - Ride my wild heart
32. Markus Krunegård - Jag är en vampyr
33. Gravy - Behind my walls
34. TALK 9
35. Looptroop Rockers - The building
36. Victims - Victims in blood #5
37. Anna Leong - Guillotine
38. Zeigeist - Humanitarianism
39. TALK 10
40. Ef - Appendix