Upcoming fall dates for Satirnine:
10/29 - Smålands Nation, Lund
10/30 - Tegelhuset, Malmö
11/01 - Folkets Hus, Helsingborg
11/02 - tba
11/04 - Last Train, Oslo
11/05 - Sticky Fingers, Göteborg
11/07 - Beat Packing District, Köpenhamn
11/08 - Rock Lobster, Svalöv
It's not totally done yet, but Komeda finally got themselves an official website.
Is the future of Norway's Quart festival in jeopardy? Read this article about investment troubles that could potentially lead to the event's demise.
Nasum has posted a whole bunch of new video collage footage on their website from the recent Uppsala show and others this past summer.
Gluecifer reports the masters for the new album "Automatic Thrill" are finished and sent off to the label and they should be posting audio samples online closer to the time of the actual release date.
The new Backyard Babies single "Minus Celsius" just came out in Scandinavia today and will follow for the rest of the world in January.
Supertanker.tk posted a bunch of news items on new releases from Danish acts Diefenbach, Learning From Las Vegas, Nikolaj Nørlund/Rhonda Harris, Traening, The Violet Hour and more.
Unioncarbideproductions.com sadly reports that the much-anticipated box set has been postponed indefinitely because Ebbot is too busy working with current band The Soundtrack of Our Lives and label MNW seems likely to be closing in the near future. More details when I get them.
The Sounds are playing the CMJ Music Marathon event in NYC this week on October 23 at the club Northsix in Brooklyn at midnight. Details: www.northsix.com
Tiger Lou's third installment in his 7" trilogy, "The Third Tiger From The Sun", has been sent to Black Star Foundation for release. There's no official shipping date yet, but I can confirm that it will contain three acoustic tracks and will be available in a limited run of 500 copies, all on white vinyl. In other news, Tiger reports he's completed six songs for his upcoming record which he says "have vague similarities to the recent "Trouble And Desire" EP," but is definitely not all mellow acoustic stuff.
Rocket.fm is finally back online with a new web design. The Swedish radio station, "The Rock Home of Stockholm" as they like to be called, broadcasts in English and is a great place to hear breaking Swedish acts along with a wide selection of music from the US and the UK. Assuming they get the stream working, you can listen live online right here: https://studfm.cjb.net/studfm.m3u
Swedish jazz/pop singer Lisa Ekdahl makes an appearance on the new Rod Stewart jazz song and standards album "As Time Goes By: The Great American Songbook, Vol. 2", lending her vocals talents to the track "Where Or When". It came out this week on J-Records. Preview Lisa's recent comp album "En Samling Sånger" in a flash jukebox right here.
Billy Corgan (Smashing Pumpkins, Zwan) apparently contributed guitar to a track on the upcoming album from Swedish Christian nu-metallers Blindside. "[He] heard a song, flipped out, and asked if he could play guitar on the record," manager Tim Cook told Billboard. And so guitarist Simon Grenehed promptly got on a plane, flew to Chicago, and went into Billy's studio to lay down tracks for the song "Hooray, It's L.A". The band's new album "About A Burning Fire" comes out on Elektra early next year.
Swedish death metal legends Entombed have added a second Seattle show to their current US tour itinerary at Studio 7 on October 26. Single Bullet Theory and Nocturne will open, as well as local acts The Braindead, In Memorium, and NME Vs. the World. As a reminder, tonight's show in San Francisco will not feature tourmates King Diamond, but will still go on as planned at the DNA Lounge with a cheaper door price. If only I didn't have to get up so early tomorrow...
Ancient will be entering the studio in January to begin recording their next album, tentatively due out sometime next spring through Metal Blade Records. "The band has been focusing more on dynamics and power this time, in order to make it an album very catchy and interesting," they say, "As usual the songs are all rather diverse, resulting in an album to not be bored of easily."