Once again Thailand will play host to the Swedish export-heavy ReEarth Festival in late February: https://reearth.com/reearth-festival/
Featured artists for 2011 include Timbuktu, Looptroop Rockers, Maskinen, Tingsek and DJ Dainja.
PopMatters approves of Ghost's "Opus eponymous": https://www.popmatters.com/pm/review/132786-ghost-opus-eponymous/
Holmes is giving away "There'll be no Christmas without you" as a free download from now until the 25th: https://holmes.haleri.se/track/therell-be-no-christmas-without-you
Gaffa reports, by way of Dennis Lyxzén, that Masshysteri has split up: https://gaffa.se/nyhet/45175
Huge bummer, especially considering they released one of the best albums of 2010.
Gaffa's top 10 favorite Danish albums of 2010:
01. Efterklang - Magic chairs
02. Søren Huss - Troen & ingen
03. 4 Guys From The Future - Under the new morning sun
04. De Eneste To - De eneste to
05. Love Shop - Frelsens hær
06. Agnes Obel - Philharmonics
07. The Floor Is Made Of Lava - Howl at the moon
08. The Malpractice - Tectonics
09. The Rumour Said Fire - The arrogant
10. The Informations - Noah's ark
Sad Day for Puppets are heading back to the UK in February:
02/04 - Bodega, Nottingham
02/05 - Nation of Shopkeepers, Leeds
02/06 - Captain's Rest, Glasgow
02/07 - Moho Live, Manchester
02/08 - Social, London
02/09 - Proud Galleries (Music Week Breakout Night), London
02/10 - Cellars, Portsmouth
02/11 - Flapper, Birmingham
02/12 - Jam, Brighton
Finnish postpunk act Beastmilk recorded some new material recently and are streaming a raw mix of one track at myspace: https://www.myspace.com/beastmilkeverywhere
The band is currently seeking a label interested in doing a 7".
Agent Side Grinder have a new self-released live cassette entitled "Industrial beauty" that they are selling through their website: https://www.agentsidegrinder.com/
No idea if this is related to the live CDr planned for release on , but perhaps in the know can comment. Either way, I plan to grab a copy.
Congrats to Robyn for her US Grammy nomination of "Dancing on my own" in the "Best Dance Recording" category: https://www.cbs.com/specials/grammys/nominees/
Danish label is doing the Advent calendar thing with video sessions of various artists and first up is Our Broken Garden: https://tigerspring.net/?p=318
now has an app: https://srvc.se/service/app
Spin has the premiere of Those Dancing Days' new video for the song "Fuckarias": https://www.spin.com/articles/exclusive-those-dancing-days-debut-first-song
have posted a new single from Rumble in Rhodos for listening: https://soundcloud.com/tigerfysisiskformat/rumble-in-rhodos-white-dancing
Preview a couple tracks from Peder Nabo's debut solo album "Ur nattens prinsessa", out now via : https://soundcloud.com/kalligrammofon/sets/peder-nabo-ur-nattens-prinsessa
Says the label, as I have yet to listen: "The album could be described as a dreamy and atmospheric soundscape built around the use of electric guitars, reminiscent to works by artists like Loren Connors and even Angelo Badalamenti!"