The Hives, The Von Bondies (US), M Craft (AUS) and Jonas Kullhammar Quartet have been added to this summer's Accelerator tour in Sweden. Tickets go on sale tomorrow.
New pics of Totalt Jävla Mörker up at Rockfoto.nu.
German webzine Sellfish reviews the new David & the Citizens "Big Chill" EP: https://sellfish.inserteffekt.com/_start.php?link=review/05-04.htm%23david
Matti from Swedish death metal act Dismember talks to Concreteweb about their new album "Where Ironcrosses Grow", their deteriorated relationship with old label Nuclear Blast and subsequent signed to Hammerheart nee Karmageddon Media and more: https://www.concreteweb.be/interviews_2004/dismember/dismember2004interview.htm
Finnish electronic music and video art label Abflug has announced the release of "Kids Used to Dream of Becoming Astronauts", the new EP from Karri O.. Here's the synopsis, straight from the label:
This five-track EP from Karri O. is a sincere attempt to render digital sounds as organic as possible. With echoes of influences ranging from minimal German techno to Rhythm & Sound to Warp, the end result is a danceable experiment that is nostalgic without being melancholy, innocent without being naïve. It is also Karri's first solo recording since he traded in his decks for a laptop after over a decade of deejaying. "Kids Used to Dream of Becoming Astronauts" comes with a deceivingly simple two-player computer game called Robotit for Windows machines. Use the money you earn to make your robot more and more powerful as the game progresses and then try to beat your friends. Original music for the game provided by Karri O.
Look for more releases from Karri on various labels to be announced soon.
Legendary, long-running Norwegian black-metal act Enslaved has signed a new record deal with Tabu Recordings. They'll be entering Grieghallen Studios in the near future with Jørgen "Sir Duperman" Træen and Eirik "Pytten" Hundvin. Mixing will follow at Jørgen's own Duper Studios. A release date is expected before the end of the year.
Yet another Finnish goth band, The 69-Eyes, have reportedly signed a 'big major label deal' and have already begun recording their new album with producers Johnny Lee Michaels and Hiili Hiilesmaa (HIM, Moonspell, Sentenced). The first single "Lost Boys" is due out in June and the album should follow around October.
Stockholm-based psyche-rock band Qoph will release their new Per Wikström produced album "Pyrola" on May 19 and will be having a record release party at Tantogården in Stockholm on the same day. Download the track "Woodrose" here: https://w1.832.telia.com/~u83202554/01%20%20Woodrose.mp3
"Tone of Finland" is the name of a forthcoming compilation of music from, remixed and inspired by Ilppo Pohjola's documentary film "Daddy and the Muscle Academy" on Finnish gay artist Tom of Finland. The music will include the original score by Elliott Sharp as well as the complete soundtrack, remixes from various Finnish electronic musicians and sound designers and a couple tracks inspired by the subject. Some of the artists include RinneRadio, Circle, Giant Robot, Juhani Liimatainen, Otto Romanowski, Jimi Tenor, Pekka Lappi, Esa Kotilainen and Mika Vainio. More info about the film can be found here: https://www.zeitgeistfilms.com/catalogue/daddy/daddy.html
Danish psychobillies PowerSolo will be travelling to Copenhagen later this week to film a video for their new single "Oak Tree Girl". The clip will be directed by Anders Morgenthaler whose previous work includes Kashmir's "Surfin' the warm industry" and "Rocket Brothers", and "Wasting time" from the Superheroes.
In other news, on Thursday at 4pm local Danish time, the guys from the band will be sitting at their computers for a live chat via the Crunchy Frog website: https://www.crunchy.dk/
New streaming radio mix up on the right. Yeah, some of the dates have already happened, but that doesn't mean you still can't enjoy some quality live tunes from a number of artists. Big thanks to Jason Christie for the concept and a couple of the tracks. Enjoy!
There's a new 'album of the month' here as well. Dialog Cet's new album "Like Animals" is strange, but not imposing. They take the precepts and idioms of what's considered indie math-rock and mold them into something uniquely their own, but they always remain melodic and compelling. Definitely a band deserving of much more attention. They just get better and better with every release.
The people from Moder Jords Massiva have a couple new releases. First is their King Kong Puppet Theatre collaboration which was produced by Slummer and Pelle of MJM. Seven tracks of "instrumental thrilling and atmospheric dancehall monkey business." Next is a 12" from Hundarna Fran Soder. Their description:
The EP brings to you two new tracks from the prominent trio, "Carmen" and "Dovas", which pays tribute to two of Stockholmís finest hangabouts, plus "Abyss" and "Orgio" from their debut album. HFS has taken their original deep and dark sound to a whole new level, guaranteed to cause havoc at any dancefloor.
And lastly, the new MJMPropaganda full-length is finished and ready for delivery. Expect "hard-hitting feminist roots reggae."
Confirmed summer dates for Burst:
06/06 - Download Festival, Donington Park (UK)
06/27 - Furyfest, Le Mans (FRA)
07/15-17 - Arvika Festival, Arvika (SWE)
08/06-08 - Augustibuller, Lindesberg (SWE)
08/06-14 - Göteborgskalaset, Göteborg (SWE)
Updated summer festival schedule for Tiger Tunes:
06/04 - Rock im Park (GER)
06/06 - Rock am Ring (GER)
07/15 - Zeltmusikfestival , Freiburg (GER)
07/16 - "Stimmen der Welt", Loerrach (GER)
07/17 - MELT-Festival, Dessau-Ferropolis (GER)
08/14 - Vibracrunch 06, Malmö (SWE)
08/21 - Openflair, Eschwege (GER)
08/22 - MuseumsInselFest, Berlin (GER)
09/04 - Crosspoint OpenAir, Berlin (GER)