The IAT! profile series continues with a feature on Closer, one of my new favorite bands: [click here]
Tons of new reviews posted this weekend: [click here]
Upcoming releases on the way from Finnish label Kissankusi:
Various Artists - Hahmotushäiriö LP (featuring new, mostly unreleased material from acts such as Sur-Rur, Radiopuhelimet, Can Can Heads, Valse Triste, The Insult That Made A Man Out Of Mac, Fun, Asthmatix, Jyrki Nissinen and more)
Kaivosurma - CDR (all previously unreleased material)
Can Can Heads - Headcracking lifestyle (CDR reissue of the OOP CD originally released in '99 via Hostile Reggression)
The Trondheim Hardcore website is now dead: https://www.trondheimhardcore.com/
It's too much for me to sort through, so go here to read about all of Release the Bat's upcoming jams to be released this fall: https://releasethebats.com/rtb.html
See the video for Hello Saferide's charming new single "The quiz": https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3r5lnQYwdbE (mp3 download on the right)
The always stunning Stina Nordenstam contributes guest vocals to the title track of Danish dance/electronica duo Filur's new album "Into the wasteland".
Finnish hardcore act Hero Dishonest will have a new album in September and will bring the rock to the US east coast around October/November.
Swedish netlabel Go, Jukebox! has announced the signing of You Are My Everything. Download songs here: https://www.gojukebox.net/index.php?page=download
Also featured at the above link are two new tracks from Reverend Big O, both of which feature Magnus Bjerkert of David & the Citizens/Adrian Recordings on trumpet.
Danish indierockers Epo-555 have posted the video for "Hyperschlieb": https://www.epo-555.dk/ensite/hyber/flvplayer.html
The video for "Much to cry about" from singer/songwriter Edith Backlund is on youtube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dX-rHx89wk8
Audrey's video for the song "Mecklenberg" is available on the Musikbyrån website: https://www.svt.se/svt/jsp/Crosslink.jsp?d=32531
MIC Norway offers up a summer festival preview: https://www.mic.no/mic.nsf/doc/art2006061513460278190432
Via Micke Orgel comes word that Moneybrother will have a new album in February.