Just posted: a review of Swedish troubador Nicolai Dunger live from Vancouver: [click here]

Live report: Nicolai Dunger @ Media Club, Vancouver, BC 07/22/06

The folks behind Denmark's Spot festival have posted special interview/studio sessions with the bands Davenport (ft. a guest appearance by Nicolai Dunger), PowerSolo, Spektr (interviewed by David Fricke, chief editor of Rolling Stone), Diefenbach and WhoMadeWho for free streaming: http://www.spotfestival.dk/index.php?SectionID=1204&ContentID=6024&ParentIDs=0/1204/&1152964717

Updated Nicolai Dunger tourdates:

07/06 - Slussens Pensionat, Orust (SWE)
07/08 - Brännö Visfestival, Brännö (SWE)
07/12 - Stadsmuseet Parkteatern, Stockholm (SWE)
07/17 - The Echo, Los Angeles, CA
07/18 - Bottom of the Hill, San Francisco, CA
07/19 - Aladdin Theater, Portland, OR w/Gjallarhorn
07/21 - Sunset Tavern, Seattle, WA w/Jesse Sykes
07/22 - The Media Club, Vancouver, BC
07/24 - Dogfish Head, Rebot Beach, DE
07/25 - Kennedy Center, Washington, DC
07/27 - Iron Horse, Northhampton, MA
07/28 - Seaport Atrium, New York, NY w/Richard Hawley
07/29 - Narrows Art Center, Fall River, MA
07/30 - T.T. The Bears, Boston, MA w/Jim & Jennie and the Pinetops
07/31 - Higher Ground Showcase Lounge, Burlington, VT
08/01 - Lee's Palace, Toronto, ONT
08/02 - The Lager House, Detroit, MI
08/03 - Schubas, Chicago, IL w/Jim & Jennie and the Pinetops
08/11 - Atelje Tidvatten, Lidköping (SWE)
08/15 - Gustav Adolfs Torg, Stockholm (SWE)

Nicolai Dunger's latest album "Sjunger Edith Södergran" will be made available in the US as a paid download on June 27 via EMI. I suppose this is a way to test the waters before doing a full CD release? Not that I'd expect one for such an overwhelming Swede-centric record.

Nicolai Dunger is touring Europe with Josh Ritter next month:

05/09 - Glee Club, Birmingham
05/10 - Academy 2, Manchester
05/12 - Vicar St, Dublin
05/13 - Vicar St, Dublin
05/14 - Empire, Belfast
05/15 - Oran Mor, Glasgow
05/17 - Fiddlers, Bristol
05/18 - Gardener Centre, Brighton
05/19 - Shepherds Bush Empire, London
05/20 - Café De La Dance, Paris
05/23 - MTC, Cologne
05/24 - Club 103, Berlin
05/26 - Lille Vega, Copenhagen
05/27 - Berns, Stockholm
05/28 - Blå, Oslo
05/29 - Stage Club, Hamburg
05/30 - Ab Box, Brussles
05/31 - Paradiso, Amsterdam

Stylus on Nicolai Dunger and the US release of "Here's my song...": http://www.stylusmagazine.com/review.php?ID=3978

Nicolai Dunger has reportedly dropped off the current Rhett Miller tour. There's no official explanation as to why, but I'll keep you posted.

Nicolai Dunger talks to Harp: http://harpmagazine.com/articles/detail.cfm?article_id=4118

High Bias is updated with a crapload of new Scandinavian music reviews, including new stuff from The Ark, Babylon Bombs, Nicolai Dunger and more: http://highbias.com/

Pitchfork on the new Nicolai Dunger record: http://www.pitchforkmedia.com/record-reviews/d/dunger_nicolai/heres-my-song-you-can-have-it-i-dont-want-it-anymore.shtml

Billboard reviews the US release of Nicolai Dunger's "Here's my song...": http://billboard.com/bbcom/reviews/album_review_display.jsp?vnu_content_id=1002236306

Various Artists
Jävla kritiker!
NONS

This could have been the compilation album that would make other compilation albums obsolete, since it's a brilliant idea – get some critics to write reviews of non-existent songs then let the bands record them. What a shame then that most of the tracks here are rubbish. Before I dug into this album, I read the individual reviews, and they made me expect something great, which is a bit unfortunate since "Jävla kritiker!" only contains a couple of interesting songs. There are definitely none of those masterpieces that the reviews suggest that there is to be found here. It's kind of odd that they've managed to get some of Sweden's best critics and writers together for this project, but hardly any of Sweden's best bands (ok, Sophie Rimheden is perhaps the undisputed master of what she does and Nicolai Dunger seems to hit the right strings with certain folks). The best thing about this compilation is how some of the artists (like Nicolai Dunger) have either submitted a song chosen on random, or totally ignored the text they were meant to base their song on.
- Simon Tagestam

If you check the 'Bittorrent Bunch' section over at Largehearted Boy, you'll see that a lot of live sets from SXSW are already online, including artists such as Nicolai Dunger and José González.

The Boston Globe profiles Nicolai Dunger and the US release of his album "Here's my song...": [click here]