Painted Wolves = new Swedish hardcore featuring members from Anchor, Death is Not Glamorous, Dead Vows and The Smackdown. This is a tune from the band's upcoming 7" coming out later this spring. Dig the music, especially the rhythm section, but not the vocals.
will be releasing the solo debut album "The invisible dialogue" from The Soundtrack of Our Lives frontman Ebbot Lundberg on June 6. Details/samples soon? Also coming up from the label in May, the Fleshquartet 3x10" boxset "Wallander - The Music" featuring music from the Swedish TV series of the same name, and the debut album "Reverie" from Ripple & Murmur, the duo of jazz/experimental artists Andreas Tengblad and Anna Ahnlund. Follow the links for details and samples for the latter two.
has announced that they will be releasing the new Entombed single "Amok" -- yes, a re-recorded version of the song from the album "Serpent saints" -- on May 23.
From Gamla Pengar's upcoming 7" "Vackra land som ingenting gav", due out May 1 via .
Gaffa reports thatSophie Rimheden will be releasing the new, Skåne-themed album "Haj" in conjunction with her photo book "Electronikadrottning?": http://gaffa.se/nyhet/59669
Fellow Scania-resident Emil Jensen joins her with lyrics and vocals for the lead single "Grannens gräs".
A new video from Swedish indierockers Let's Say We Did.
Gaffa has the premiere of a new live video from Danish noiserockers Darling Don't Dance: http://gaffa.dk/tv/clip/1085
The band's debut full-length album "City ghosts" was released last month via (The Megaphonic Thrift, Keith Canisus).
Terrible Feelings now have a video for the track "Intruders". The Swedish band's debut full-length "Shadows" comes out April 18 here in North America via , April 16 back home via imprint .
Soso aka Swedish bedroom-pop artist Sophia Somajo is giving away her new album "T.T.I.D.S.D.I.E.U.I.C" as a free download, both via her website and The Pirate Bay: http://www.youcancallmesoso.com/
Pitchfork is streaming a track from the new Neneh Cherry/The Thing collaboration which just happens to be a cover of "Dream baby dream" by Suicide: http://pitchfork.com/reviews/tracks/13425-dream-baby-dream/
Perhaps you've seen this? Well, it's hopefully not too surprising for most of you regular readers, here's a short follow-up article on the subject from The Atlantic that includes actual academic citations: http://www.theatlanticcities.com/arts-and-lifestyle/2012/04/where-heavy-metal-bands-are/1714/
Daniel "Fagge" Fagerström (The Skull Defekts, The Je Ne Sais Quoi, ) has assembled a new 65m mixtape featuring a selection of his favorite Swedish experimental/noise cassette tracks, mostly from the last few years but also throwing in a few pre-millennium cuts. Featured artists include Alvars Orkester, Skeppet, Sewer Election, Joachim Nordwall and Altar of Flies, among many others.
The David Berlin Wall of Sound: a new-ish psychrock band featuring members from Jeniferever Mother Superior whose demo tracks were all (individually) written, recorded and mixed in a single evening: http://wallofsound.bandcamp.com/
Can't say that I'm all that into it, but if you're a Roky Erickson superfan it might be worth a listen.
Check out a video for the title track of The Nature's excellent new EP "Allting blir OK" and go to the record release show at South Side Pub in Stockholm on Friday, April 13.
