The Soundtrack of Our Lives on tour in Australia:
12/02 - Corner Hotel, Richmond, Melbourne
12/08 - Annandale Hotel, Sydney
12/09 - Meredith Music Festival, Meredith
12/12 - The Tote, Collingwood, Melbourne
Swedish emocore act Kogo has posted three new songs on their website for listening: https://www.kogomusic.com/
The bare-bones press release for The Embassy's new CD: https://www.acompactdiscincludingtheembassy.com/SERV028press.doc
"A compact disc including The Embassy" comes out October 4.
L'amour â trois has yet another remix of Peter Bjorn and John's "Young folks": https://lamouratrois.blogspot.com/2006/09/peter-bjorn-john-young-folks-punks.html
Swedish synth-rock act Strip Music will release their new album "Hollywood & Wolfman" on October 11. The first single "Sugar and lime" comes out October 4 and can be previewed at myspace: https://www.myspace.com/stripmusic
I dug their debut album, so I'm definitely looking forward to this one. The track "Headlights" is a good'un.
Stylus on the latest from Norway's Kaada: https://www.stylusmagazine.com/reviews/kaada/music-for-moviebikers.htm
Norwegian sludge-rockers Årabrot will be hitting the road to support the release of their new album "Rep rep":
09/22 - Truckstop Alaska, Göteborg (SWE)
09/23 - Aktivitetshuset, Malmö (SWE)
09/25 - Gieszerstr. 16 , Leipzig (GER)
09/26 - tba, Jena (GER)
09/27 - tba, Leipzig (GER)
09/28 - tba, Potsdam (GER)
09/29 - tba, Siegen (GER)
09/30 - Kino la bim, Halle (GER)
10/06 - The Adelphi Club, Hull (UK)
10/10 - Old Angel, Nottingham (UK)
10/12 - The Croft, Bristol (UK) w/Geisha
10/13 - Star & Garter, Manchester (UK)
10/14 - The Umpire, London (UK)
10/19 - Cricketers Arms, Sheffield (UK)
A new message from Backyard Babies: https://www.backyardbabies.com/index_message2.html
MIC Norway profiles Thomas Dybdahl: https://www.mic.no/mic.nsf/doc/art2006092210531639045548
The video for his most recent single "B A part" is available for download here: https://www.thomasdybdahl.com/media/musicvideos/bapart.wmv
Pitchfork does the track review thing with Pelle Carlberg: https://www.pitchforkmedia.com/page/track_reviews/Pelle_Carlberg_Musikbyran_Makes_Me_Wanna_Smoke_Crack
What's more telling is that they have now inaugurated a "swede-pop" category.
Under the Stars, Me! has started booking The Tiny in Europe and here's the first of some new tourdates for the end of the year:
11/25 - tbc, Hamburg (GER)
11/27 - Cultureel Podium Roepaen, Ottersum (NL)
11/29 - Sunny Red, München (GER) w/Musika 77
12/01 - Magnet Club, Berlin (GER)
12/02 - UT Connewitz, Lepzig (GER) w/Musika 77
12/03 - ISC, Bern (CH)
12/06 - Bastion, Bochum (GER)
Look to your right and see that I've added this week's video mix as well as a brand new podcast mp3 mix. Been awhile since I've done that, eh? The theme for the latest mix is "death disco" which is my retarded way of saying that these songs are all dark, but danceable. Hope you dig it!
Denmark's Port Largo has a new song posted at myspace: https://www.myspace.com/portlargo
Pelle Carlberg has posted a rough version of the new song "Middleclass kid" for listening: https://www.pellecarlberg.se/Pelle%20Carlberg/Songs/Pelle%20Carlberg%20-%20Middleclass%20Kid.wma
A fuller version is set to appear on his next album which he says should be due around February 14 next year.
Marble's video for "Bam!" is now online: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VnX9qTA8voY