Niccokick reports that they are mixing their new record and on-track for a January release: http://www.niccokick.com/nyheter.asp?nav=nyheter&ID=268

The playlist for my radio show this week:

01. At the Gates - Suicide nation
02. TALK 1
03. Moving Oos - Stronger
04. Eskju Divine - Hold on
05. Mechanical Bird - Sunday
06. TALK 2
07. Mixtapes & Cellmates - Quiet
08. DS13 - Thrash lifestyle
09. Montt Mardié - Metropolis
10. Junior Senior - Can I get get get
11. TALK 3
12. Niccokick - Love & neon lights
13. Kristofer Åström - I collect knives
14. Death Breath - His protoplasmic worship
15. TALK 4
16. Mob - Ghost track
17. MZ412 - Unhealing wounds
18. Ugress - Manhattan sapphire
19. TALK 5
20. Shining - Låt oss ta allt från darandra
21. No Hope for the Kids - Rainy day
22. Moneybrother - Det blir ingen dans
23. Amandine - For all the marbles
24. TALK 6
25. Familjen - Det snurrar i min skalle
26. Last Days of April - Aspirins and alcohol
27. M:40 - När bomberna faller
28. TALK 7
29. Espen Jørgensen - The immaculate conception
30. Motorpsycho - For free
31. The Carny - Man under the sun
32. TALK 8
33. Karin Ström - Klaustrofobi
34. Badun - Pulsen
35. Meshuggah - Future breed machine
36. Värttinä - Mero
37. TALK 9
38. Randy - Better than art
39. Closer - Open casket
40. Alog - Buffalo demon
41. TALK 10
42. On Trial - Speaking of witch

Startracks finally has a new website: http://www.startracks.se/
Check out the jukebox - almost every single Startracks release is available for streaming. They've also announced the signing on Niccokick! Look for a single this fall and a new album in early 2008.

Listmania! 2007 so far

Niccokick is working on a new album for release this fall that will come out on an as-yet-to-be-confirmed label (not Burning Heart): http://www.niccokick.com/nyheter.asp?nav=nyheter&ID=266

Swedish indierockers Niccokick will record a new album in December.

Niccokick has posted a brand new demo track at myspace: http://www.myspace.com/niccokick

Think-Box
Demo
self-released

This is manic indierock, not too unlike Danish hype act Figurines crossed with a touch of Niccokick's histrionics. Unfortunately, it's not quite as memorable as either of those acts and I doubt they'll ever rise above mediocre, but who knows? Stranger things have happened.
- Avi Roig

Burning Heart has announced that they have signed a license agreement with Deep Elm to release Sounds Like Violence's debut full-length in Europe. The band (fronted by Andreas Söderlund of Niccokick/Hello Saferide) garnered a lot of attention for their debut EP "The pistol" in 2004, so expectations are high for the follow-up. They will record at Mission Hall in Lund and it should be ready for a September release.

In my mind, the sound of classic Swedish indiepop is forever associated with bands such as Broder Daniel and Bad Cash Quartet. Revved-up garage rock riffs, lots of reverb and baleful, weary vocals. It's echoes can be heard in acts as disparate as Niccokick and The Embassy, but regardless - the roots still show. Citylights, today's featured demo act, epitomizes that original classic sound perfectly. The band's actually been around for awhile now (since '98/99 they say) and they also enlisted the help of Pelle Carlberg to produce their latest recording from which today's new mp3 is taken. The experience shows - this is sublime pop, done just as well as any of the so-called big names. Download more songs from the band's website: http://www.mysecretscience.com/citylights

MP3: Citylights - Moby Dick

In my mind, the sound of classic Swedish indiepop is forever associated with bands such as Broder Daniel and Bad Cash Quartet. Revved-up garage rock riffs, lots of reverb and baleful, weary vocals. It's echoes can be heard in acts as disparate as Niccokick and The Embassy, but regardless - the roots still show. Citylights, today's featured demo act, epitomizes that original classic sound perfectly. The band's actually been around for awhile now (since '98/99 they say) and they also enlisted the help of Pelle Carlberg to produce their latest recording from which today's new mp3 is taken. The experience shows - this is sublime pop, done just as well as any of the so-called big names. Download more songs from the band's website: http://www.mysecretscience.com/citylights

Citylights - Moby Dick

Niccokick posted a new song on myspace: http://www.myspace.com/niccokick

Now available in the webstore: various titles from Razzia including Niccokick, Timo Räisänen, They Live By Night and Hello Saferide as well as preorders for new albums from Firefox AK, Loney, Dear and the long-awaited US debut EP from David & the Citizens on NY-based label Friendly Fire! Please note that not only do you save $1 if you preorder now, but you will also recieve said CD on the day of release. Maybe even a day or two before if the postal service hauls ass. Check it out!

David & the Citizens will be blogging the recording on their next album: http://citizensdiary.webblogg.se/
The band will officially enter Mission Hall studio on February 8 with producer Andreas Söderlund (Niccokick, Sounds Like Violence), but for now is working on a couple songs at Gula Studion with their old producer Jens Lindgård.

Niccokick will play two shows in the UK at the end of September:

09/22 - The Junction, Cambridge
09/23 - Barfly, London