The Wire has live video footage of Finnish artists Lau Nau and Kuupuu from a show at Bush Hall in early November: https://www.thewire.co.uk/articles/306/
Check out a Digfi studio session with Speedmarket Avenue: https://www.digfi.com/default.aspx?id=11298
The by:Larm website now has plenty of English info for anyone interested in the many promising up-and-coming acts already confirmed for the fest: https://www.bylarm.no/eng/artists/2-d
I'm not familiar with many of the artists, but I can definitely recommend 22, Binärpilot, Det är jag som är döden, Katzenjammer and Lukestar.
Idolator launches a new metal column with a primer on Norwegian legends Enslaved: https://idolator.com/tunes/angry-music-for-angry-people/enslaved-gets-introspective-weightless-322645.php
Making the rounds today: Check out a video of Hybris artist Montt Mardié performing a Swedish cover of Rihanna's "Umbrella", here billed as "Paraply": https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tX_KV7SvDCI
Decibel interviews Ulver: https://www.decibelmagazine.com/features/dec2007/ulver.aspx
MP3: Miss Li - Take a shower
Miss Li is on her third full-length album in less than 12 months, an amazing output of material. Surprisingly, she's managed to maintain a very consistent level of quality throughout. Unnecessary? A little redundant? Perhaps, but she's always incredibly entertaining and each new record surprises by achieving a new level of sauciness. One such highlight on "Songs of a rag doll" has got to be "Take a shower" with its heavy klezmer influence and rapidly snowballing tempo. It's hard not to get caught up in a song like that, especially with the come-on of the title line. And then, once those Cossack-style heys! come in towards the end, you might as well get up and dance. It's irresistable!
Miss Li - Take a shower
It's time once again for another myspace troll feature, except instead of uncovering total unknowns, I've gone with all sideprojects. Check it out: [click here]
In other news, I'll be a guest on Swedish radio P3 Populär on Monday talking about how I got into Swedish music. I don't remember everything I said, but hopefully I don't embarrass myself too much, so yeah, listen online here: https://www.sr.se/p3/popular/
Other guests include Craig from Swedesplease, Jason from Tack! Tack! Tack!
and Kristina from Fika Sounds in Spain. An archive of the program will be available for 30 days.
Little Big Adventure has posted the 4th of their five part single series for free download: https://www.littlebigadventure.se/?p=35
The tracks featured this time are "Where is my mind?" and "Not quite right".
Norwegian techno act Mental Overdrive will finally be releasing the "Elephantastic!" single, first sold via eBay in an edition of 1, as a digital download on December 13. Rune Lindbaek will also contribute a remix (er, "RL multitrack edit"), but in the meantime, listen to it at myspace: https://www.myspace.com/mentaloverdrive
In other news, look for a number of hand-made CDR packages to be made available in the near future as well a new 12" single for "The rage" b/w "Wotta" to be released on Prins Thomas' Full Pupp label in January.
The Vigilantes
I wanna
self-released
Being a huge fan of bands like The Clash, the Sex Pistols, and the Ramones, I was pretty excited to see The Vigilantes' record on the It's A Trap! review list. While "I wanna" definitely has its moments, and really is a solid record, it feels like a pointless excursion through territory already explored. It's more of a Rancid-esque record than anything approaching the dynamic upheaval of sound that bled from Britain and New York city in the 1970s. While there's nothing really wrong with "I wanna", I can't help but feel your money would be better spent completing your Clash collection or finally picking up that Buzzcocks record you've been meaning to for years now.
- Lars Garvey Laing-Peterson
Low Frequency in Stereo recently mixed four new tracks, but are unsure as to what to do with them. Otherwise, they plan to enter Duper Studio in Bergen, Norway on January 23 to properly begin work on their next album.
Norwegian act Lorraine will release the new single "Saved" on December 10 on vinyl 7", limited to 1000 copies with each one being individually customised. The b-side will be the previously unreleased track "The mess that we are". As for digital, a 6-track version of the single will be available with remixes from Dave Armstrong & Redroche and MHC. Listen at myspace: https://www.myspace.com/lorrainemusic