Scandinavian acts confirmed for this year's NYC Pop Fest in May: Speedmarket Avenue, Burning Hearts, Lisa Bouvier, Pushy Parents and The Electric Pop Group. Dates and details: http://www.nycpopfest.org/line-up.html
Updated Italian dates for Swedish indiepop act Speedmarket Avenue:
04/08 - Diagonal Loft Club, Forlì
04/09 - MADS, Rome
04/10 - Lokomotiv, Bologna
04/11 - Etnoblog, Trieste
The band will also be heading back to the UK for the Indietracks festival in late July.
Swedish indie act Speedmarket Avenue is going abroad in March:
03/13 - Loose Club @ Clwd Ifor Bach, Cardiff (UK)
03/14 - Half My Heart Beats @ The Flying Duck, Glasgow (SCO)
03/15 - The Luminaire, London (UK)
03/27 - Ocho y Medio Club, Madrid (ESP)
04/09 - Traffic, Rome (ITA)
04/10 - Lokomotiv, Bologna (ITA)
04/11 - Etnoblog, Trieste (ITA)
Swedish indierockers Speedmarket Avenue have a new video for the single "Don't fall in love": http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=utAIXRCsiXU
Swedish indierockers Speedmarket Avenue will be releasing two new singles soon, a vinyl 7" for "Don't fall in love" and "Enlightened & left-wing indeed" as a digital download.
Speedmarket Avenue's new 7" single "Don't fall in love" will be out soon on red vinyl backed by their version of the Nicholas Makelberge song "Dying in Africa".
The long-awaited Licking Fingers Swedish music comp "Thank You For The Music" will finally be out on May 28 and the label will celebrate with a party that evening at Pet Sounds Bar in Stockholm. Here's the tracklist, as best I can tell:
01. Anna Järvinen - Svensktalande Bättre Folk
02. Jens Lekman - The Opposite Of Hallelujah
03. Lykke Li - Everbody But Me
04. Those Dancing Days - Dischoe
05. Friska Viljor - Old Man
06. Shout Out Louds - South America
07. The Concretes - The Sentence
08. First Floor Power - The Jacket
09. Pacific! - Runaway To Elswhere
10. Kleerup/Lisa Milberg - Music For Girl
11. The Radio Dept. - Freddy And The Trojan Horse
12. Studio - No Company
13. Peter Morén - Social Competence
14. Loney, Dear - Your Time Will Come
15. Wildbirds And Peacedrums - Liar Lion
16. El Perro Del Mar - Glory To The World
17. The Tiny - Too Heavy A Burden
18. Frida Hyvönen - See How I Come Into Town
19. Speedmarket Avenue - Sirens
20. Idiot Kid - Wide Awake
21. Nicolai Dunger - God's Waitingroom
Speedmarket Avenue's new Jari Haapalainen-produced album "Way better now" has been confirmed for release on April 23 via Elefant Records. The title track will be the first single and it will come on white vinyl with an exclusive b-side. Look for that on April 9. Hear a song at myspace: http://www.myspace.com/speedmarketavenue
Check out a Digfi studio session with Speedmarket Avenue: http://www.digfi.com/default.aspx?id=11298
Swedish indie act Speedmarket Avenue has signed with Spanish label Elefant Records. Expect a new album in the spring.
Swedish indie act Speedmarket Avenue has completed work on a new Jari Haapalainen-produced album. They have no idea when/where/how it will be released, but there's a track up on myspace: http://www.myspace.com/speedmarketavenue
Swedish indierockers Speedmarket Avenue in the UK:
10/07 - The Beat Hotel at Buffalo Bar, London w/Bearsuit
10/08 - The Winchester Club at The Woodside, Glasgow w/The State of Samuel
The UK's Stereo Test Kit Records is starting a new compilation series called "Records Make Great Pets" in which each edition will highlight the scene from a particular country. The focus on volume one? Why, Sweden of course. The tracklist:
01. El Perro Del Mar - Dog
02. Heikki - Former hero
03. Audrey - Triumphal arch
04. Britta Persson - Defrag my heart
05. Laurel Music - The way love goes
06. Caroline Soul - People I know (don't want me)
07. Melpo Mene - Don't save me
08. Club 8 - Cold hearts
09. Sambassadeur - Between the lines
10. Chasing Dorotea - The anchor song
11. Björn Kleinhenz - Out of style
12. Speedmarket Avenue - He's a rebel
13. we are soldiers we have guns - Tourists in our hometown
14. Iamuse - Dullcity (just in time)
15. Music 77 - Juniper Leo
It comes out on July 4. More details here: http://www.stereotestkit.com/pets.htm