Download a new Grace Jones edit as done by Norway's Mental Overdrive: https://myblurrywindow.blogspot.com/2008/05/medits-1.html
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
Speed of Sound has signed Danish act Le Fiasko, a band that features members from Choir of Young Believers and Under Byen. Listen at myspace: https://www.myspace.com/lefiaskocph
PopMatters pans Norwegian indiepop artist Soda Fountain Rag: https://www.popmatters.com/pm/music/reviews/soda-fountain-rag-its-rag-time/
Stereogum has an mp3 of Danish popsters Alphabeat doing an acoustic Daft Punk cover: https://stereogum.com/archives/mp3/alphabeat-cover-daft-punk_009812.html
Paper Thin Walls on Swedish shoegazers Blackstrap: https://www.paperthinwalls.com/singlefile/item?id=1593
Swedish indiepop act The Carny is streaming their latest single "Where the daffodils grow" at myspace: https://www.myspace.com/thecarnyband
The download-only single also includes the previously unreleased tracks "Let me sleep with you" and "Your life doesn't do your living" as b-sides.
MIC Norway talks to Lars Horntveth (Jaga Jazzist) whose new solo album "Kaleidoscope" will be out in August to coincide with his appearance at Øyafestivalen: https://www.mic.no/mic.nsf/doc/art2008051515504776567177
Jeniferever has added yet another new track from the new EP "Nangijala" on their myspace page: https://www.myspace.com/jeniferever
See 'em on tour next week:
05/22 - Magnet, Berlin (GER) w/The Paper Chase
05/23 - Treibstoff, Beeskow (GER)
05/24 - UT Connewitz, Leipzig (GER) w/Björn Kleinhenz
05/25 - Mozg, Bydgoszcz (POL)
05/26 - Gleis 22, Münster (GER) w/Bishop Allen
05/27 - Prinzenbar, Hamburg (GER)
05/28 - Musikcafeen, Aarhus (DK)
Bad Taste Records (Logh, Looptroop Rockers) has signed Sahara Hotnights and will be releasing their most recent album "What if leaving is a loving thing" all over Europe sometime around September. Expect European tourdates to be confirmed soon as well.
Check out Blända, a new band featuring Magnus Josefsson (Mollgan, Jonny Kock), Johan Lejmark (Varmvatten), Christoffer Schlee and Fredrik Björling (Dungen, The Guild): https://www.myspace.com/blandaband
The band's debut 7" will be released this summer via Fashionpolice Records and features a wide assortment of guest stars such as Ulf Stureson, Mattias "Tiaz" Gustafsson (Dungen, Life On Earth), Tove Leander (Stella Rocket) and more.
Swedish hip-hop producer Prime Skitz (nee-Skitzophrenic, ex-Perfect Combination) is giving away an EP from his latest project Monday Monkey Riot, featuring rapper Shizzywigg. Check it out here: https://www.myspace.com/mondaymonkeyriot
Swedish act Marching Band has made the Pfork Forkcast: https://www.pitchforkmedia.com/article/download/50601-marching-band-feel-good-about-it-mp3stream
MP3: MABD - Jag vill inte förstå
I went through my day yesterday thinking it was Thursday and then woke up this morning dismayed to discover I'd have to go through it all again. Summer cannot come soon enough, amirite? Alright, so anyhow- I know it might seem incongruous, but the reason I bring it up is because I was all set to post my interview with Mattias Alkberg of MABD/The Bear Quartet and was thinking that an old MABD track would be the perfect Friday accompanyment. But it's not Friday, it's Thursday and just because people say that Thursday is the new Friday doesn't make it true. Well, I decided to go with it anyway and let Matti decide on which song would be most appropriate:
Below my post on the MABD web site there is an unreleased track, "Allting är drömt", did you notice that? Not a lot of people have, not yet anyway. It's a live demo from the the Easter holidays this year, our final rehearsals and I think it's one of the best things we ever did.
But if I were to choose, it would have to be this one: one of the songs from the "Ragnar EP": "Jag vill inte förstå". It might be a bit hard to decipher, but I sing about Tomas Tranströmer and the art of not understanding. It's not very representative of the band, but it's very representative of me to pick it.
Enjoy the track and be sure to read the interview.
MABD - Jag vill inte förstå