The angry old men in We Live in Trenches will be hitting the road for a few dates next month:
09/06 - Hafenklang, Hamburg (GER)
09/07 - Choke, Herselt (BEL)
09/08 - The Rambler, Eindhoven (NL)
09/09 - ACU, Utrecht (NL)
09/10 - Mukkes, Leeuwarden (NL)
Night Minutes, the new band of ex-We Live in Trenches bassist Anna Knutsson and ex-Cut City bassist/vocalist Max J Hansson, have finally unveiled their new album "Grateful depression" and are offering it for paid digital download and free streaming preview. Check it: http://nightminutes.bandcamp.com/
It's more like CC than WLIT and far more shoegazey than either, but any fan of good music is strongly encouraged to check it out.
Håll käften, vad vill du!? and an international delegation of punkrockers (feat. Ulf Stöckel (We Live In Trenches), Shelby Cinca (Frodus, The Cassettes), Claudio Oyarzo (Minora) and Janne Hanhela (This Bleeding Man)) get busy in the studio. Expect the band to release their sophomore album soon.
We Live in Trenches are planning to do some European dates in September; details tba.
Slightly OT but not really: Jakob Lusensky's book "Sounds like branding" (with design by Robert Samsonowitz, who brews a great beer besides playing in We Live in Trenches) will be getting an international release in July: http://www.soundslikebranding.com/?p=2136
The book's subtitle is "How to use the power of music to turn customers into fans", in case that helps perk your interest.
The first official video from We Live in Trenches' debut album "Modern hex", now available on CD via in addition to the original vinyl on . Direct link: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m5HaDvqb18Q
I make no secret of my allegiance to the sound of modern old-man hardcore. Give me a band full of dudes who are old enough to know better playing angry mid-tempo rock and chances are high I'll be stoked. And seeing as how We Live In Trenches just had a CD version of their album "Modern hex" released by , I figure it's due time I posted another track from them. I've actually been listening to the record a lot too, as I only semi-recently tracked down an affordable domestic copy of the vinyl and received a digital promo for easy gym-listening. Shame that bassist/vocalist Anna Knutsson recently parted ways with the guys though, as she provided a nice counterbalance to the male-dominance as well as a little something extra to distinguish them from other like-minded acts, but whatever -- life goes on and people gotta do their thing. Us guys still gotta blow off some steam as we age and get balder/fatter/slower/angrier.
We Live In Trenches - White knuckles
Here's the playlist for this week's radio show Sirius XMU:
01. The Radio Dept. - The new improved hypocrisy
02. TALK 2
03. Slidin' Slim - Right wing blues
04. Faråker - Den sista fajten (via är på väg)
05. We Live in Trenches - Male damage
06. Kite - If there's an if in us
07. TALK 3
08. First Love, Last Rites - Slow wind
09. Tomas Halberstad - Add to all noise
10. Last Days of April - America
11. TALK 4
12. C.Aarmé - Golden retriever
13. Far from Tellus - Norwegian fairytale mix
14. Bäddat för Trubbel - Kungen heter Jandek
15. Vidderna - Villfarelser
16. TALK 4
17. Rasmus Kellerman - The 24th
18. Mindy Misty - Inertia
19. Regulations - In the shadow of the mall
20. TALK 5
21. The Bear Quartet - Silent film
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.
Don't know why I didn't mention it last week when I first found out: bassist Anna Knutsson has parted ways with We Live in Trenches citing lack of time. There's no permanent replacement yet AFAIK, but Johan Meiton of Snakestorm has been filling in live.
Night Minutes is the new project of the always-charming Max J Hansson of the soon-to-be-departed Cut City in which he collaborates with Ms. Anna Knutsson of the likewise-great/still-going-strong We Live in Trenches (who still need to send me mp3s of the album btw). While it is surely a shame that CC is going under, the prospect of Max playing in a far more actively active band is far more exciting. You see, Max lives in Göteborg and the rest of those dudes live down in Malmö... it's not that far, but far enough to cause complications. With Night Minutes there are no such issues, just quality JAMC-inspired jangle noise. The Raveonettes are an obvious point of comparison too, though Night Minutes' fuzzy sheen is more trve lo-fi in comparison to the Dane's well-manicured gloss. Anyhow, "Sweetheart of the funeral" is my favorite of the three songs off their forthcoming self-titled debut EP, due out soon via offshoot -- heavy on the girl group vibe, but not overselling it. The female/male vocal tradeoffs in combination with the cheap and raw organ tones make for quality noisepop, that's really all there is to it. It's easy to like and I'm immediately smitten.
Night Minutes - Sweetheart of the funeral
Swedish label will be doing a CD release of We Live in Trenches' full-length debut "Modern hex". The vinyl came out earlier this year via and is highly recommended for anyone into rocked-out punk ala Fucked Up.
Here's the playlist for this week's radio show Sirius XMU:
01. Baby Alice - Piña colada boy
02. TALK 1
03. CEO - Come with me
04. Faster Katt - The girl and the crow
05. EL-SD - Walking sideways
06. Masshysteri - Dom kan inte höra musiken
07. TALK 2
08. Champagne Riot - The champagne anthem
09. Khoma - In it for fighting
10. Dear Euphoria - Rescue
11. Haust - Anti-reproductive
12. TALK 3
13. This Is Head - 0011
14. Familjen - Det var jag
15. Mikkel Meyer - Tunge (feat. Non)
16. TALK 4
17. Rasmus Kellerman - The greatness & me
18. Grande Roses - The astronaut
19. We Live In Trenches - White knuckles
20. The Amazing - And it looks like today
21. 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.
Here's the playlist for this week's "Blog Radio" show on Sirius XMU:
01. Obliteration - Exterminate
02. TALK 1
03. Dmitry Fyodorov - Coconut office
04. Cut City - Replacement
05. High Hats - The end
06. TALK 2
07. The Skull Defekts - Millions
08. Marvins Revolt - Organize your arms
09. Interlace - Nemesis (Infect My Black Dub by Void)
10. Hearts No Static - Motif
11. TALK 3
12. We Live in Trenches - White knuckles
13. Makthaverskan - Vi var människor från början
14. Cilihili and DaBook - Orinoco flow
15. TALK 4
16. Frivolvol - It smells like something died in here
17. Björn Kleinhenz - I hate it when you go
18. Oriel Joans - Knuckles whiten
19. TALK 5
20. Bruket - Stockholm kaller
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.