Snake and Jet's Amazing Bullit Band reports from NYC where they've been hanging out, recording and playing a few shows: https://www.crunchy.dk/asp/default.asp?News_Id=246
Skweeelicious talks to rising skweee star Mrs. Qeada: https://skweee.com/?p=7
Pelle Carlberg has posted a couple preview tracks from his forthcoming album "The lilac time" on myspace: https://www.myspace.com/pellecarlberg
As mentioned before, it's set for an August 27 release via Labrador Records.
Instigate Records (Sista Sekunden) has signed up-and-coming Gbg hardcore act We Live In Trenches. Expect a 7" by the end of summer, but in the meantime you can hear samples at myspace: https://www.myspace.com/weliveintrenches
Killer band - expect to see them featured in an upcoming edition of our Gbg Spotlight Series.
The vinyl edition of Björn Kleinhenz's excellent new album "Quietly happy and deep inside" will be out in September to coincide with a solo tour. Of course I'll be getting copies for anyone interested in grabbing a copy, myself included. Otherwise, look for mp3s of eleven different artists doing covers + remixes of every single track to be posted as free downloads to countdown to the release. More details on that when I get 'em, but I'm excited to hear it. Björn is pretty excited about the results he's heard so far.
Music blog 20 Jazz Funk Greats has a new track from Lindstrøm: https://www.20jazzfunkgreats.co.uk/wordpress/2008/07/09/do-androids-dream-of-electric-shoggoths/
Musique Machine on the new Maja Ratkje 3" sound collage CD "Teip": https://www.musiquemachine.com/reviews/reviews_template.php?id=1838
Dusted reviews the new Ole-Henrik Moe double-album on Rune Grammofon: https://www.dustedmagazine.com/reviews/4384
More new music from Marcus Cato now available for streaming at Adrian Recordings: https://www.adrianrecordings.com/
Antenna talks to the four bands performing at this year's Danish Metal Awards: Dawn Of Demise, Svartsot, The Arcane Order and A Kid Hereafter in the Grinding Light: https://www.antenna.nu/?p=398
NRK Lydverket has live footage of Ungdomskulen performing "Modern drummer" acoustic (almost PSL-style) at Hovefestivalen: https://link.brightcove.com/services/link/bcpid1378342454/bclid1411847775/bctid1632758849
MP3: The Goner - Spirit roundup
Here's another one that probably should've been included in last week's "best music of 2008 thus far" series of posts (here, here and here), but I ran out of days so what can ya do? As I stated before with regards to The Goner, the music he creates is willfully obscure psych/pop/drone par excellence and this particular track is the perfect culmination of everything he stands for. "Halartrallar", the first EP of his planned H-Trilogy, leaned more towards the pop side of things with a few tracks that approximated a standard verse/chorus/verse format, but "Hind Hand", the second installation of the series, is all dronedronedronedronedrone. And I'm not talking about ambient electronic noodling either, this is heavily influenced by Indian raga, so it's very rhythmic, not to mention incredibly melodic. As for esoteric? Hardly. There is no challenge to appreciating blissed-out jams like this. It also passes the toughest test of my household in that even my hard-to-please wife loves it. Undertand: that's high praise from a fickle source.
Only 33 copies were made, so you better grab one before they're gone: [click here]
Stars In Coma
You're still frozen in time
Music Is My Girlfriend/Plastilina Records
Think back to the time when The Field Mice released their EP "Sensitive", add some melancholic electro beat, the 80's synth and a thinner version of Pelle Almquvist's voice, with a tiny flashback to London, to The Beatles. This is Stars In Coma. Not flashy or classy. "You're still frozen in time" ain't giving that wow feeling, but rather a conclusion of alright pop music with a general positive impression and a few hits. When listening to "I saw my heart passing by" I had to look at the playlist, to make sure it wasn't Andreas Jonsson's "Sing for me", parenthesis: meaning high quality, therefore their best track. Vocalist André Brorsson has, sadly, a too fragile and ordinary voice, sometimes too whiny, to reach the top. Chris Martin is fragile and whiny, but importantly eccentric. Maybe André needs to twist it up to make his sound more tweepoppy, more special. Well, I think of London when I listen to this. I bet my head that this will be suitable to the taste of 'Londoners'. Right now I'm wondering if the lath in Sweden is placed high up above, coming to the scene of pop and indie.
- Therese Buxfäldt
Dungen will be playing a special acoustic show in NYC at Le Poisson Rouge on July 15. It's mostly an invite-only affair apparently, but a limited number of tickets will be available via Brooklyn Vegan or at Other Music starting July 9 at noon.
Cake On Cake is now streaming two songs from her forthcoming album "Hymns I remember": https://www.myspace.com/cakeoncake