New music today on the right: two tracks from the new Swedish-rock tribute to the Rolling Stones "We Love You". First up is Winnerbäck, Dregen, and Nord doing "Dead Flowers". Yes, that's singer-songwriter Lars Winnerbäck, Dregen from Backyard Babies, and studio guitarist extraordinaire Micke "Nord" Andersson all playing together. Pretty cool. Next up is Hederos & Hellberg doing "Shine a Light". It may not be exclusive to the collection, but it's still a damn good track. So sorry to hear they won't be continuing on as a band, but at least we'll still have their two albums and upcoming EP to remember them by.
Sweden´s hottest band at the moment are without a doubt The Sounds. They are so special that they´ve worked with ex-Smashing Pumpkins guitarist James Iha and the Foo Fighters have chosen them as support on their Scandinavian tour.
The Sounds are the band of the week over at MTVE.com. They've got videos to watch and a short interview to read. Their new video for the song "Seven Days a Week" will be on ZTVs Tryck Till this Friday.
The band Paris just signed a publishing contract with Universal Music and and will have a new EP out on Look Left Recordings very shortly.
Kristofer Åström recorded 5 new songs over the weekend. At least a few of them will end up on a mini-CD to be released early next year, if not the whole lot.
Beyond Dawn will have a 12" remix album out soon featuring the artists Trulz&Robin, Verbose, Bjørn Svin, Eva Cazal, Martin Horntvedt, Nextlife, Vildensky and Origami. Their statement on the release:
We are very proud of this line-up and as you see this will simply be a FANTASTIC RELEASE with everything from lush electronica to crackling brokenbeats on pure deathmetal !!! ROCK.
Beyond Dawn have also finalized the title for their upcoming full length. It will be called "Frysh" and it should be out sometime around February. Check their website in the near future for samples to preview.
It's kinda old news now, but guitarist Randy Bachman of Bachman-Turner Overdrive joined The Soundtrack of Our Lives onstage at the band's Vancouver, Canada show for the encore. They ran through 2 BTO classics: "Rock Is My Life, and This Is My Song" and "You Ain't Seen Nothing Yet". I sure hope someone taped it!