22-Pistepirkko will celebrate their 25th anniversary with a special show at Tavastia in Helsinki on November 3.
Helena Josefsson (Sandy Mouche) is now on myspace as a solo artist and you can hear her first single there: https://www.myspace.com/112543243
The always-interesting music blog Dark Dose on Finnish act Dawn of Solace: https://darkdose.com/?p=140
Catbird Records has a new EP from Pet Politics for sale: https://www.catbirdrecords.com/cbr_007.shtml
As always, limited edition with beautiful packaging.
The Guardian on the new EST (Esbjörn Svensson Trio) album "Tuesday wonderland": https://arts.guardian.co.uk/filmandmusic/story/0,,1877808,00.html
Swedish post-rockers September Malevolence have posted some new European tourdates at myspace: https://www.myspace.com/septembermalevolence
Tracklist and details for the new Zweiss album "Yawn of the new age", due out January/February via Vendlus: https://blog.myspace.com/index.cfm?fuseaction=blog.view&friendID=101585526&blogID=171651135
Been awhile since I've heard a good boundary-pushing black-metal record, so I'm really looking forward to this.
Jenny Wilson's video for "A hesitating cloud of despair" is now up on myspace: https://vids.myspace.com/index.cfm?fuseaction=vids.individual&videoid=1136744723
This week's It's a trap! Last.fm/Audioscrobbler listening group top 10 albums of the week:
01. The Arcade Fire - Funeral
02. The Knife - Silent Shout
03. Camera Obscura - Let's Get out of This Country
04. The Knife - Deep Cuts
05. The Postal Service - Give Up
06. Tiger Lou - The Loyal
07. The Killers - Hot Fuss
08. My Bloody Valentine - Loveless
09. Mew - Frengers
10. Hello Saferide - Introducing...
Top 10 tracks for the week:
01. Marit Bergman – No Party
02. Britta Persson – You Are Not My Boyfriend
03. Marit Bergman – Sun Goes Down
04. Marit Bergman – Mama, I Remember You Now
05. The Arcade Fire – Neighborhood #3 (Power Out)
06. I'm from Barcelona – We're From Barcelona
07. The Knife – Heartbeats
08. The Knife – Neverland
09. Britta Persson – Winter Tour
10. Yo La Tengo – Beanbag Chair
Want to make your own playlist count? Join us! Go here to learn more: https://www.last.fm/help/
Randy invades the French-speaking part of Canada:
10/13 - Spectrum, Montreal w/Les Vulgaire Machin
10/14 - Centre Recreatif, Thetford
10/15 - Nord Ouest, Trois Rivieres
10/16 - tba, Fredericton
10/17 - The Attics, Halifax
10/18 - Paramount, Moncton
10/19 - La Coudée, Rimouski
10/20 - Cégep, Sept-Iles
10/21 - Secret Show, Chicoutimi
10/23 - Dagobert, Québec
10/25 - Le Richelieu Metric, St-Jean Sur
10/26 - Le Vestiaire, Montreal
All dates with Hope and PMX except the first and the last three which include Mute, but no Hope on the last two. Got it? Good.
Logh has uploaded a new demo clip of the song "Black box" to their website: https://www.logh.se/IV.html
Hello Saferide in the UK:
11/12 - Blue Old Last w/Au Revoir Simone
11/13 - The Monto @ Water Rats
11/14 - Dublin Castle
I Am Bones gives us a golf lesson: https://blog.myspace.com/index.cfm?fuseaction=blog.view&friendID=30882408&blogID=172324380
MP3: KVLR - Capitol city child
Not only is it Friday, but it's also the fall equinox and the Jewish New Year. The end of the summer and the end of the year, but the start of many new things. Hard to believe that It's a trap! will be four years old next week. When I look back, I'm amazed at how much I've accomplished over the years. I've gone from irregularly posting quips whenever I found some factoid I thought was interesting enough to share to daily news updates with mp3 posts and a weekly newsletter. Somewhere in there I also decided that it would be a good idea to start a record label (one of the very first music blogs to do so, I might add) and now have four releases to my name with more to come. The band that started it off: KVLR. It started off so innocently - all I did was ask them for an interview and before I knew it, I was booking them a week-long tour to get them to SXSW and back. Things went so well between us, I ended up doing the US release of their next album. However, the album that drew me to the band was 2003's "The great collapse", still one of my favorite records to this day. It achieves the perfect balance of melody, dissonance and heaviness - huge interweaving guitar lines set against a pounding rhythm section. The band is pretty much just a studio project these days, but there is new material on the way, so I'm excited. They might even play a hometown gig in Umeå, you never know! I'll be sure to keep you informed.