It's finally bright/warm/dry enough here in the PacNW for me to head out the door at 5:30am and take a good, long run through the woods, so today that's exactly what I did. It was absolutely perfect out and when this tune came up on my mp3 player I was in bliss as it just fit so well into my morning/routine/life. Since I am no techno head by any stretch of the imagination, I only checked Skudge out after they walked away with the P3 Guld over the much more obviously well-known Swedish House Mafia and, on doing so, fully understood that the jury made the right decision. Maybe it's just me, but I love the sort of stuff like this that sounds so simple on the surface, yet is so incredibly engrossing.
Well worth top-posting again because it is absolutely superb. If you haven't watched this solo set of Susanne Sundfør performing mostly new tunes for a crowd of office drones, you are seriously missing out. Direct link: https://vimeo.com/22994889
The new episode of Listen to Norway's podcast series "99 minutes" is now up and it's a special feature on Norwegian jazz featuring an exclusive interview with saxophonist Håkon Kornstad who also premieres two brand new tracks from his next album: https://www.listento.no/mic.nsf/doc/art2011051008575734734721
The new Atlas Losing Grip album "State of unrest" is now available for full streaming + preorder: https://blackstarfoundation.bandcamp.com/album/state-of-unrest
The official release date is May 28 via and if the samples I've heard are any indication, this is gonna be a stellar album. Really excited to hear it myself!
Dates for Iceage's upcoming US tour are starting to be confirmed:
06/17 - Public Assembly (Northside Festival), NYC w/Prurient, Lost Tribe, Pop. 1280, more
06/18 - Other Music (tbc), NYC
06/19 - The Barbary, Philadelphia, PA w/Puerto Rico Flowers, Leather
06/20 - Golden West, Baltimore, MD
06/21 - The Shop (4314 Main St.), Pittsburgh, PA <
06/23 - Popeye's Garage, New Haven, CT
06/24 - Royale Nightclub, Boston, MA w/Fucked Up, Jeff the Brotherhood
There will be west coast dates too, expect details soon.
Now confirmed for Friday, June 10 at Debaser Slussen in Stockholm capital city: Katharina Nuttall! Even better: it's free! So come on out and see a great artist in a great club! Full details: https://www.debaser.se/kalender/6503/
This Is Head's new 12" single "De trop" is out today via and the label is giving away the title track as a free download: https://www.adrianfiles.com/A1.De_Trop.mp3
The b-side of the physical edition features two remixes of the tune "0007", one by one by Korallreven and another by Hans Appelqvist.
This isn't really doing it for me like it should. I love my old-school Swedish death metal and I'm as much into the resurgence of the style as anyone but, let's face it, the genre is a hell of a lot more populated now than it ever was back in the day. With that in mind, bands really need to up their game in order to genuinely recreate the vibe once reserved for the genre gods of the late '80s and early '90s. There's something about the production on "Deceased to exist" that fails to hit the mark and, to these ears, it's the fact that there's no real punch behind the sound. Bands that sounded like this back in the day generally did so through lack of resources when recording a demo and, given the genre in which Maim reside, it's quite possible that they're deliberately recreating this dirty, relatively weak sonority in an attempt to sound grim and nekro. Musically, it's nothing to get excited about and, as much as I love the style, I can't see Maim getting too much airplay in Chez Norby. - John Norby
Lindstrøm and My bubba & Mi (who?) are the first Scandinavian acts confirmed for the 2011 edition of Filter Magazine's Culture Collide fest happening in LA this October: https://culturecollide.com/
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