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The nominees for the Manifest Awards, Sweden's alternative Grammy, have been announced:
Synth:
Thermostatic - Humanizer (Wonderland Records)
Zeigeist - The Jade Motel (Spegel/Imperial Recordings/Playground)
Moonlight Cove - Orphans of the Storm (Kinetophone/Hot Stuff)
Elegant Machinery - A soft exchange (Out of Line/Hot Stuff)
Rhythm:
Movits - Äppelknyckarjazz (BD Pop/Universal)
Erici - Brasilicum (Erici Music/Dead Frog)
Saft Stockholm - Ordet (Saft Productions/Stockholm Electronica)
Kungers - Galaxen (Rätta Visan/Border)
Experimental:
Anders Dahl - Doorbells (Bombaxbombax)
Nina de Heyney, Charlotte Hug & Christian Jormin - Acoustic Electronic (LJ Records)
Pär Thörn - Schöneberg/Stammheim/Gärdet/Rågsved (Treffpunkt)
Anders Hultqvist - Traces (Chamber Sound)
Pop:
Frida Hyvönen - Silence Is Wild (Licking Fingers/Playground)
Hello Saferide - More modern short stories from... (Razzia/Bonnier Amigo)
Joel Alme - A Master Of Ceremonies (Sincerely Yours/Border)
Nordpolen - På Nordpolen (Sincerely Yours/Border)
Rock:
The Hellacopters - Head Off (Wild Kingdom/Sound Pollution)
Pascal - Galgberget (Novoton/Bonnier Amigo)
Fatboy - In My Bones (Fat State Production/Playground)
Manikins - Crocodiles (P.Trash Records)
Dance:
Pär Grindvik - Samlad årsproduktion (Stockholm LTD)
Anders Ilar - Sworn (Level Records 11)
Style of Eye - Duck cover and hold (Pieces of eight records)
Zoo Brazil - No Place Like Home (Gung Ho! Recordings)
Jazz:
Bobo Stenson Trio - Cantando (ECM/Naxos)
Nina Ramsby & Ludwig Berghe Trio - Du har blivit stor nu [En kamp!] (Moserobie/Bonnier Amigo)
e.s.t. - Leucocyte (ACT/Bonnier Amigo)
The Splendor - Sound of Splendor (HOOB/Border)
Punk/Hardcore:
Disco Volante - "We are forever" (Not enough)
Disfear - "Live the storm" (Relapse/Border)
Nitad - "Ibland kan man inte hindra sig själv" (Kranium)
Meanwhile - "Reality or nothing" (Feral Ward)
Hårdrock/Metal:
Burst - Lazarus Bird (Relapse/Border)
Dismember - Dismember (Regain/Sound Pollution)
Grand Magus - Iron Will (Rise above/Border)
Opeth - Watershed (Roadrunner/Bonnier Amigo)
Hip-hop/R'n'B/Soul:
Chords - Things We Do For Things (Juju/Playground)
Afasi & Filthy – Fläcken (P.o.p.e./Playground)
Masse - Gott & Blandat Vol. 2
Allyawan - Blu Duk Mixtape Vol. 2
Folk/Ballad:
Gunnel Mauritzson Band - Det som sker...(Sandkvie Records/CDA)
Maria Hörnelius, Bernt Andersson & Kjell Jansson - En sång för Kent (Eld Records/Border)
Jonas Knutsson & Johan Norberg - Skaren - Norrland III (Act/BAM)
Bjernulf/Björklund/Lindh – Pål Olles väg (Courage)
Singer/Songwriter:
Melpo Mene - Bring the Lions Out (Imperial Recordings/Playground)
Hyacinth House - Black Crows Country (True Music Production/Glitterhouse)
First Aid Kit - Drunken Trees (Rabid Records/Border)
Olle Nyman - Venture (A West Side Fabrication/Border)
Live:
Detektivbyrån (Danarkia)
The Hellacopters (Psychout Records)
Lykke Li (LL Recordings)
Robyn (Konichiwa Records)
Myspace prize for best unsigned act:
Montauk
Hero in action
Miranda Gjerstad
Sci-Fi Hands
John F Karlsson
Dyno
Tim Schmidt
Nottee
The Bellevues
Diskoteket
Go here for more: http://www.manifestgalan.se/
After a couple failed interview attempts with artists who shall go unnamed, our Göteborg Spotlight Series is back with this week's guest Mattias Hellberg. For those of you with your heads in the ground, Mattias has been around for many years performing with acts such as Nymphet Noodlers, The Hellacopters, Hederos & Hellberg, The Solution, Nationalteatern besides working under his own name and is now back with a new group, The White Moose. That group's debut album "Out of the frying pan, into the woods" came out earlier this month and so I tracked down Mattias for a few questions...
You're still based in Gbg, right? What's kept you there all these years? Ever considering picking up and relocating somewhere else?
Yes I'm still here. Well one reason is I'm quite happy to have an apartment... some kind of safety thing I guess. I'd love to have a little shack in the Caribbean to go to in the wintertime though.
What makes the Gbg music scene special, if it's even special at all? The people, the geography, the weather... what are the primary characteristics that define the city and its artists?
I dunno if there is a special scene here. Think there's quite a good diversity of scenes/bands/clubs. People tend to say that the music from here is more working-class with a more "rough" touch. Maybe it used to be that way, but I don't think it's a general "tag" to put on the Gothenburg "sound" anymore. Maybe I'm wrong...
So you've started to do shows with Martin Hederos (The Soundtrack of Our Lives) again as Hederos & Hellberg -- why resurrect that project now? Why'd you even stop playing together in the first place?
Well, we were asked to close the Way Out West festival this summer in a big beautiful church. An offer we couldn't refuse. It was a bit scary but great fun at the same time and it was an amazing vibe in a packed church way after midnight. And of course nice to play together again. Then we did a weekend in our old hometown Karlstad and Oslo in November. But now we both got new albums to tour and promote (TSOOL & mine), so now there wont be much time for anymore reunions for a while...
Why we stopped playing together was because the project started to grow out of proportion, we had to say no to some quite good offers (tours) because it would interfere with TSOOL. So it was better to call it off and quit.
And now the new band The White Moose - how did this group come together? Do you see it as an extension of your solo career or it is more of a full band project?
I wrote the songs early this year and had already talked to Ludwig (Dahlberg, The (International) Noise Conspiracy) about him playing drums with me. Then I just asked Olle and Henke (Hagberg, Whyte Seeds and Lindén, Fox Machine respectively) to join in and the band was goin'.
I don't think I've had much of a "solo" career. This is something new. It can't really be a full-band project as I have to consider the other guys got other bands. We'll find a way to make it work though.
Obviously you keep yourself very busy with all sorts of musical adventures - got any more surprises we should look forward to? Anyone in particular you'd really like to worth with?
I'd love to learn how to play the Oud. I
also have a dream about going to some foreign country and making music with local musicians.
Lastly, got a song you'd like to share? Tell me about it.
Ok I choose "Why is it so?" from the new album "Out of the frying pan, into the woods". It's actually the first song I wrote after Nymphet Noodlers split up back in '96.
I think I had some plans for a solo album back then already, but I was not much of a songwriter, so it got put on hold for sometime... The original version was an acoustic Stooges kinda "ballad" with different lyrics, same refrain though. This new version is something else... Maximum White Moose Jazz.
Mattias Hellberg & The White Moose - Why is it so?
The Hellacopters may have played their final shows, but they're not walking away quietly. The band plans to release a final live album and some sort of live film/documentary in the near future. I'll keep you posted when I get details.
This weekend The Hellacopters will play their final run of shows and gracefully bow out of existence. I'm sure people have all sorts of varying opinions on whether or not this is the right time to call it quits, but I think it's fitting. They rocked harder and longer than most; better to end it all with dignity fully intact.
I'm bummed they never made it over to the US for one last tour, but at least I did manage to see 'em a few times, though never during the era of "Payin' the dues", easily my favorite 'Copters record. I was under 21 when that album came out in 1997, so all I could do was eye the club listings and wait. They still played a huge role in my Swedish music education though, especially with tracks like "Where the action is", a song that's not much more than a laundry list of friends' bands: Nomads, The Robots, Kids Are Sick, Entombed, Backyard Babies... and those are just the obvious names. It wouldn't matter if it wasn't also kick-ass rock'n'roll, but of course they pull that off flawlessly. See, learning can be fun!
The Hellacopters - Where the action is
The Hellacopters' final shows at Debaser Medis in Stockholm will be streamed live in HD at myspace: http://www.myspace.com/hellacopters
Showtimes are Saturday at 12:30 and 21:00 and Sunday at 15:00 and 21:00 (that's local time).
Swedish retro rockers Dollhouse are streaming their entire album "The royal rendezvous" (produced by Nicke Andersson of The Hellacopters) at myspace: http://www.myspace.com/rockandsoul
The Hellacopters have confirmed their final tour schedule which will culiminate in four shows at Debaser Medis in Stockholm: http://www.hellacopters.com/site/default.asp
The Hellacopters will be releasing the new single "Darling darling" (originally by The Royal Cream) on September 5 on both CDS and 7" vinyl with the exclusive track "Baby come" included as a b-side.
Bootleg Booze has announced that they'll be putting out a new EP from all-star punk-rock tribute act Midlife Crisis. The band features Urrke T (Maryslim), Dregen (Backyard Babies), Måns M (The Maggots), and Robban (The Hellacopters) and their repertoire consists of classic punk covers and on this record, their second EP, they cover the tracks "Cranked up really high", "Raggare", "Vital hours" and "I need nothing". I'd tell you the original artists for those songs, but honestly, I'm not 100% sure on the lot. Anyhow, the record comes out August 15 and will be issued in a pressing of 1190 copies; 580 on yellow, 380 on black and 230 club member-only black/yellow swirled.
Bloodlights will be supporting The Hellacopters on the latter's final European tour this fall. Dates soon.
This week's top 20 Swedish album chart:
01. E.M.D. - A state of mind
02. Amanda Jenssen - Killing my darlings
03. Christer Sjögren - Jubileum 40 år med Christer Sjögren
04. Sanna Nielsen - Stronger
05. Brolle - Ett hjärta som glöder som en gång brann
06. Takida - Bury the lies
07. Nordman - Djävul eller gud
08. Suzzie Tapper - Mirakel
09. Gessle - The world according to Gessle
10. Håkan Hellström - För sent för Edelweiss
11. Ebba Grön - Boxen
12. Charlotte Perrelli - Hero
13. Linda Bengtzing - Vild & galen
14. The Hellacopters - Head off
15. Maia Hirasawa - Though, I'm just me (new edition)
16. Peter Lemarc - Lemarc live!
17. Veronica Maggio - Och vinnaren är...
18. Oh Laura - A song inside my head, a demon in my bed
19. Melissa Horn - Långa nätter
20. Monica Zetterlund - Sakta vi gå genom stan - Det bästa med Monica
This week's top 20 Swedish album chart:
01. Amanda Jenssen - Killing my darlings
02. Sanna Nielsen - Stronger
03. Christer Sjögren - Jubileum 40 år med Christer Sjögren
04. Charlotte Perrelli - Hero
05. Brolle - Ett hjärta som glöder som en gång brann
06. Nordman - Djävul eller gud
07. Håkan Hellström - För sent för Edelweiss
08. Peter Lemarc - Lemarc live!
09. Veronica Maggio - Och vinnaren är...
10. BWO - Pandemonium - The singles collection
11. The Hellacopters - Head off
12. Maia Hirasawa - Though, I'm just me (new edition)
13. Melissa Horn - Långa nätter
14. Amy Diamond - Music in motion
15. Linda Bengtzing - Vild & galen
16. In Flames - A sense of purpose
17. Oh Laura - A song inside my head, a demon in my bed
18. Takida - Bury the lies
19. Papa Dee - A little way different
20. Monica Zetterlund - Sakta vi gå genom stan - Det bästa med Monica
Initial dates are now confirmed for The Hellacopters upcoming farewell tour:
09/15 - Markthalle, Hamburg (GER)
09/16 - Schachthof, Wiesbaden (GER)
09/18 - Razzmatazz 2, Barcelona (ESP)
09/19 - Rockstar, Bilbao (ESP)
09/20 - Palacio Congresos, A Coruña (ESP)
09/21 - Heineken, Madrid (ESP)
09/23 - Mascotte, Zürich (CH)
09/24 - Backstage Werk, München (GER)
09/25 - SO36, Berlin (GER)
09/26 - Vooruit, Gent (BEL)
09/27 - Live Music hall, Köln (GER)
09/28 - Tivoli, Utrecht (NL)
09/29 - LA2, London (UK)