Cake On Cake US tourdates:
11/17 - Garfield Artworks, Pittsburgh, PA
11/18 - Swathmore College, Philadelphia, PA w/Ian Thomas
11/19 - Bard College, Red Hook, NY
11/20 - AS220, Providence, RI
11/22 - SUNY Purchase College, Purchase, NY
11/23 - Zeitgeist Gallary, Boston, MA w/The Brute Choir
11/25 - Sin-e, New York, NY
11/26 - Warehouse Next door, Washington, DC w/Ryan Newmyer of The Winter Set
12/02 - Earlham College, Richmond, IN w/Elephant Micah and On Fire
12/03 - The Church, Bloomington, IN w/Elephant Micah, Drekka and Volmar
12/04 - Secret Location, Indianapolis, IN w/Red Queen Hypothesis
12/14 - Empty Bottle, Chicago, IL
12/15 - Radio Cherokee, St. Louis, MO
12/16 - Murphy's Pub, Memphis, TN w/Antique Curtains
12/18 - Night Light, Chapel Hill, NC
12/21 - Rudyard Kipling, Louisville, KY
Cake On Cake's debut album "I see no stars" will be November 8 on Desolation Records in the US and in Sweden next January.
For the Eardrums shines a spotlight on Swedish singer/songwriter Juni Järvi: https://eardrums.blogspot.com/2005/10/juni-jarvi.html
Chalksounds, one of my favorite labels, is drawing its final breath and has announced that The End Will Be Kicks will be their absolute final release. It's a bittersweet time, but as we all know, the record industry is in dire straits and many small indies are suffering badly. Read the full statement: https://www.chalksounds.com/shownews.php?show=71
The flipside of this is that label honcho Magnus is starting a new enterprise called (The Method of) No Method. I'll be sure to keep you posted on their progress.
Jens Lekman is doing a DJ set at Cakeshop in NYC on October 15 with Matthew from Fluxblog, among others. See the flyer: https://homepage.mac.com/mperpetua/.Public/ipdp1.jpg
Danish post-rockers Efterklang on tour in Scandinavia with American labelmates Grizzly Bear:
11/17 - Feber, Oslo (NOR)
11/18 - Trondheim (NOR)
11/19 - Touscene, Stavanger (NOR)
11/22 - Vega, Copenhagen (DK)
11/23 - Rytmeposten, Odense (DK)
11/24 - Studenterhuset, Aalborg (DK)
11/25 - Voxhall, Aarhus (DK)
11/26 - Upcome, Silkeborg (DK)
11/29 - Katalin, Uppsala (SWE)
11/30 - Nalen, Stockholm (SWE)
12/01 - Herrgårn, Linköping (SWE)
12/02 - Stenhammarsalen, Göteborg (SWE)
12/03 - KB, Malmö (SWE)
Trust Me has set a February 2006 release date for the debut EP from Norwegian post-punk act Monomen.
Norwegian hardcore act Amulet has posted the video for the song "Warpriest": https://www.amulet.no/files/amulet-warpriest.mp4
Via Bates Motel, here's some live tracks from the Norwegian all-female Motorpsycho cover act Trio Søt: https://motorpsycho.fix.no/musicbox/audioclips/triosoet/triosoet.html
Finnish electronic artist Karri O. has a new website: https://www.karri-o.net/
"Fall at your feet" will be the first proper single from the new Magnet album "The tourniquet" and will include the exclusive b-side "This bird can never fly". A video was filmed on Devil's Island, outside Bergen recently and should be out sometime around mid-November, the same time the proper single is released.
The Aversionline mp3 blog posts some tracks from Swedish black-metal act Naglfar: https://www.aversionline.com/blahg/2005/10/embracing-apocalypse.html
This week's top artists for the It's a trap! Last.fm/Audioscrobbler listening group:
01. Death Cab for Cutie
02. The Decemberists
03. The Strokes
04. Hello Saferide
05. The Arcade Fire
06. Mew
07. The Libertines
08. Broken Social Scene
09. Sufjan Stevens
Top songs:
01. Laakso - In my blood
02. Mew - Special
03. The Strokes - You Only Live Once
04. The Decemberists - We Both Go Down Together
05. I'm from Barcelona - The Painter
06. Broken Social Scene - Stars and Sons
07. Hello Saferide - If I Don't Write This Song, Someone I Love Will Die
08. Hello Saferide - Get Sick Soon
09. Death Cab for Cutie - Lightness
Again, I'd like to encourage all regular readers to join up so we can get a better idea of what we're all listening to. It's fun! Go here: https://www.last.fm/group/itsatrap/
Danish hardcore thrash act Blindfault will tour Europe next spring. Here's the tentative schedule:
04/06 - Germany
04/07 - Germany
04/08 - Germany
04/09 - Germany
04/10 - Germany
04/11 - Germany
04/12 - Germany
04/13 - Germany
04/14 - Benelux
04/15 - Luxemburg
04/16 - Benelux
04/17 - UK
04/18 - Carringtons Nightclub, Harrogate (UK)
04/19 - UK
04/20 - UK
04/21 - UK
04/22 - Scotland
04/23 - Scotland
04/24 - Scotland
04/25 - UK
04/26 - UK
04/27 - UK
04/28 - Germany / Benelux
04/29 - Germany
04/30 - Denmark
Once again I'm posting a track from Hyacinth House. I was mightily impressed by the three-song sampler the band sent me awhile back, but now I've got the full album and can confirm that it's a stunner. I had it solid repeat for a week after I got it before I realized I needed to lay off before I got burnt out. The music is classic Americana with a touch of darkness ala 16 Horsepower/Will Oldham and I think I also hear a touch of 70s rock in the mix. There's a number of parts that remind of (gasp!) Led Zeppelin, but not the heavy-rock parts - no no no, I'm talking about the acoustic/bluesy stuff. But there's another reason why I'm posting about Hyacinth House again today. It seems I got sent two copies of the new CD, so I've got one to give away. You want it? Email contest at itsatrap dot com with the subject line "Hyacinth House". Enter now because I'll be announcing the winner tomorrow morning (that's Tuesday AM Pacific Time, in case you were wondering).
Hyacinth House - New day arising
It's a small, small world that we live in. About a week ago my wife went to a meeting of the local weavers guild where a woman was talking about her upcoming trip to the Swedish speaking region of Finland so of course my wife mentioned something about this site and my interest in such things and so forth. So then this other lady relates a tale from one of her ealier trips to Sweden years ago where she stayed with some friends who had a surly punk-rocker daughter who later became a pop star. And who would that daughter be? Why, Marit Bergman of course. I can only imagine that this must've been during the Candysuck days, but I don't know for sure as it's all second-hand. As for my own Marit Bergman story: we met very briefly at SXSW in Austin when I was on tour with KVLR. I was totally out of my head from driving all night and probably made no sense, but whatever - it was years ago. I'm over it. So Marit, should you ever read this, I hope you're enjoying your stay in NYC. Hopefully we'll get some new music from you in the not-too-distant future. In the meantime, here's a live track from Popstad 2003.
Marit Bergman - I take my wings off you (live)