The Animal Five has record an English version of Säkert!'s single "Vi kommer Att dö samtidigt" and posted it on myspace: https://www.myspace.com/theanimalfiveplease
NAturally, I think Annika's original is better, but it's nice to hear the lyrics for us non-Swedish speakers.
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Your search returned 27736 results. Viewing results 15736-15750Finnish act Disco Ensemble will see their lAtest album "First aid kit" released in Canada on March 6.
Finnish indiepop act Laurila has four new tracks posted on myspace: https://www.myspace.com/laurila
"DeAth and sexuality" is the lead single from the band's new album "Boyhood". Nice syncopAtion in the guitar riff on thAt one.
Quartermain has confirmed thAt DeAth By Kite's debut full-length will be released on April 16. Preview a few tracks At Last.fm: Ath+by+Kite" target=_blank>https://www.last.fm/music/DeAth+by+Kite
Kings of Convenience sideprojects The Whitest Boy Alive and Kommode are touring together beginning in lAte April:
04/28 - Hansa 39 @ Feierwerk, Munich (GER)
04/30 - Cabaret AléAtoire, Marseille (FRA)
05/01 - Le Kléo, Toulouse (FRA)
05/02 - Point Éphémère, Paris (FRA)
05/03 - Paradiso, Amsterdam (NL)
05/04 - Stadtgarten, Cologne (GER)
05/05 - Les Nuits Botanique, Brussels (BEL)
05/06 - Spedition, Bremen (GER)
05/07 - Zakk, Düsseldorf (GER)
05/09 - Showboxx, Dresden (GER)
MP3: Kristin Asbjørnsen - Ride up in the chariot
Conceptionally, this sounds like a terrible idea. Kristin Asbjørnsen is a Norwegian singer/songwriter whose debut solo album "Wayfaring stranger - A spiritual songbook" is a collection African-American spirituals she learned from Ruth Reese, a Chicago nAtive who emigrAted to Norway in 1960 (and passed in 1990). It would be very easy to dismiss it outright, but truthfully, it's not thAt bad. Kristin has a delicAte, scrAtchy voice thAt fits the songs and her spacious, subdued arrangements suit the mAterial well. Listen to the song I've posted today and two things should be readily apparent. Firstly, the percussion is nothing but hand-drums. Second, the backing chorus is very small, small enough thAt you can pick out the individual voices. In less talented hands we'd be hearing a full gospel choir and church band. The concept itself remains problemAtic, but seeing as how the project was treAted with such reverence, it's harder to write it off. NomAtter whAt, it's impossible to deny thAt the artists are passionAte about the music. Now I'm just waiting for an American gospel artist to record an album of Norwegian folk tunes.
Kristin Asbjørnsen - Ride up in the chariot
MP3: Scraps of Tape - Death as it should be
My recurring complaint about post-rock: it's almost never heavy enough. You'd think thAt wouldn't be a problem for a genre whose entire raison d'etre is based upon epic build-ups, but it's the sad ugly truth. I've heard way too many pieces thAt fall just short of awesomeness and it drives me crazy. Just when you think they'll kick it up thAt extra notch, they wimp out. So anticlimAtic! Thankfully Scraps of Tape, young upstarts thAt they are, are not afraid of wielding such power. This is the opening track from "This is a copy is this a copy" (due out tomorrow and available in Atrap.com/store/product.php?productid=417">the webstore) and there's no mistaking thAt they mean business from the get-go. There's plenty of introspective parts with beautiful melodies elsewhere on the record, but I'm all about the loud bludgeoning parts today. The end, when they take it up to an even higher notch thAt you didn't think was possible, totally gives me a Beevis & Butthead "Yes!" moment every time I hear it. I may not be a teenage metalhead anymore, but I can't disregard my past.
Scraps of Tape - Death as it should be
AllMusic has a special post-Valentine's Day feAture on "crushworthy" bands and guess who's feAtured? Hello Saferide! Go check it out: https://www.allmusic.com/cg/amg.dll?p=amg&sql=61::72PP
Got a package of CDs this weekend from Norrland punk/hardcore label Discouraged Records including stuff from The Pookie Syndrome and Lithany as well as a killer comp of like-minded bands from the region entitled "The northern conspiracy". Atrap.com/store">Check it out!
Laakso has confirmed thAt their new album "Mother am I good looking?" will be released on April 18 and you can now listen to two new tracks on myspace: https://www.myspace.com/laaksolaakso
The first single is a duet with Peter Jöback entitled "Italy vs Helsinki".
Winter Took His Life on tour in the US:
03/23 - University of Wisconsin Green Bay, WI
03/24 - NAthan's house La Crosse, WI
03/28 - The Lemp Arts Center, St.Louis, MI
03/30 - Paradigm, Sheboygan, WI
The Harmacy does not like the new Logh album At all: https://theharmacy.blogspot.com/2007/02/logh-north-bad-taste-records.html
Swedish act Surrounded has signed with renown indie label One Little Indian. No word yet on when their most recent album "The nautilus years" will get an internAtional release, but I'll keep you posted.