Depeche Mode to work with Christoffer Berg

Swedish producer Christoffer Berg (The Knife, José González, etc.) will be working on the next Depeche Mode album.

New song from Karin Dreijer Andersson on tsunami benefit comp

Karin Dreijer Andersson of Fever Ray/The Knife has contributed a new track that she composed for the recent staging of Ingmar Bergman's "The wolf hour" by The Royal Dramatic Theatre in Stockholm to a new compilation album benefitting Japanese tsunami victims. The collection is called "We are the works in progress" and other contributors include Broadcast and Deerhunter. More here: http://feverray.com/2011/12/15/no-face-by-karin-dreijer-andersson/

The Knife in Bang Magazine

Only in Swedish, but still worth noting: Karin Dreijer Andersson and Olof Dreijer of The Knife talk queer sound and more with Bang Magazine: http://www.bang.se/artiklar/extramaterial/the-knife-bang-sant-2011-09-09
Check the accompanying Spotify playlist here.

Karin Park comes to the UK

Swedish-born/Norway-residing artist Karin Park will be making her UK live debut on August 18 at The Queen of Hoxton in Shoreditch, London. Though I know her primarily as a successful pop artist (as I'm sure is the same for many others), apparently she's decided to take a left-turn with her new, far more experimental album "Tiger dreams" which was recorded with producer Christoffer Berg (The Knife, Fever Ray, Little Dragon) and will be out in September. Check out the video for the title track here: http://vimeo.com/26911844

Festival report: SPOT Festival 2011

The Knife are recording

The Knife are reportedly working on a new album for release in 2012: http://theknife.net/take-action-for-the-housing-rights-of-roma-in-rome

Interview: Penny Century

The Knife live DVD now streaming at Pitchfork

Pitchfork is streaming The Knife's live DVD "Silent shout - An audiovisual experience" for a week: http://pitchfork.com/tv/#/episode/2527-the-knife-silent-shout-an-audio-visual-experience/1

Karin Dreijer Andersson to compose for Bergman play, more

Karin Dreijer Andersson of Fever Ray/The Knife will be composing music for another play, this time a stage version of Ingmar Bergman's "The Hour Of The Wolf", set to premiere at Dramaten in Stockholm in 2011. She also reports that she is back in the studio with brother Olof working on new material for The Knife. Wait and see...

Dazed Digital presents Fever Ray interview/mixtape

Dazed Digital talks to Karien Dreijer Andersson of Fever Ray/The Knife and presents an exclusive mixtape: http://www.dazeddigital.com/music/article/8248/1/fever-ray-exclusive-mixtape

Flux interviews Andreas Nilsson

Flux interviews renown Swedish video director (Miike Snow, The Knife, etc.) and Silverbullit guitarist Andreas Nilsson: http://flux.net/who-is-andreas-nilsson

Sirius playlist week #32

Here's the playlist for this week's radio show Sirius XMU, an all-Swedish synth show (aside from the new Säkert! single of course):

01. Säkert! - Fredrik
02. TALK 1
03. The Knife - Girls' night out
04. Optic Nest - Thirst
05. Dmitry Fyodorov - Thinking of space
06. TALK 2
07. Strip Music - Oh my god
08. The Kid - Transient dance
09. Universal Poplab - I could say I'm sorry (Zeigeist remix)
10. TALK 3
11. Pearl Fiction - The ruby fever
12. Adolf Filter - 1982
13. Agent Side Grinder - Life in advance
14. TALK 4
15. Adolphson & Falk - Blinker blå
16. Ståålfågel - Stålfågeln
17. Kite - Ways to dance
18. TALK 5

Reminder: my show airs every week on Sundays and Mondays at 11pm ET on Sirius XMU. That's channel 26 on Sirius, 43 on XM and 831 for DirecTV subscribers.

More on The Knife's donation to FI

The Knife talks to Expressen about their big donation to Feministsikt Initiativ: http://www.expressen.se/noje/musik/1.2010233/the-knife-skanker-50-000-kronor-till-fi (in Swedish)

The Knife makes big donation to Feministiskt Initiativ

Gaffa reports that The Knife has donated 50,000 SEK to Swedish political organization Feministiskt Initiativ: http://gaffa.se/nyhet/40066 (in Swedish)
Always good to see artists put their money where there mouth is.

"Tomorrow, in a year" comes to London

The Knife will be taking their "Tomorrow, in a year" electro-opera to London in July. Full details at the group's newly revamped website: http://theknife.net/tomorrow-in-a-year-the-opera-comes-to-london