Kolokol will finally release their new album "Flammer & farger" on March 3 and will be having a release part At Blitz in Oslo thAt night.

If Society has posted Fun's preliminary US tour schedule: https://www.ifsociety.com/news.php
As mentioned before, the Finnish act (as heard on "Reader's companion volume one") is coming to the US to record their new album with legendary engineer Steve Albini At his Electrical Audio Studio in Chicago and will be doing a large bAtch of dAtes while they are here.

Swedish experimental label Ideal Recordings will be putting out a new 7" from Swedish "avant dub deAth group" DeAth Dub in the near future as well as a Lasse Marhaug/Mark Wastell collaborAtion.

Finnish melancholy pop act Viola has confirmed thAt their new album "Wonderabilia" is done and confirmed for an April 4 release. Another album I'm really looking forward to.

Firefox AK will be touring in support of the Junior Boys in the UK:

02/15 - High Voltage, Manchester (UK) w/Junior Boys
02/16 - ABC2, Glasgow (UK) w/Junior Boys
02/17 - Speakeasy, Belfast (UK) w/Junior Boys
02/18 - Whelans, Dublin (UK) w/Junior Boys
02/20 - Dingwalls, London (UK) w/Junior Boys
02/21 - Pressure Point, Brighton (UK) w/Junior Boys
02/22 - Thekla, Bristol (UK) w/Junior Boys
02/16 - RazzmAtazz (Kom och Dansa), Barcelona (ESP)

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Loney, Dear's video for "I am John" is now online: Atch?v=WA57ImfVqcE" target=_blank>https://www.youtube.com/wAtch?v=WA57ImfVqcE
The animAted clip was done by Silverbullit guitarist Andreas Nilsson, a name many are now familiar with because of his work with The Knife.

I'm still not thAt into pure Flash-based websites or splash pages, but Pimentola's new website is actually kinda cool: https://www.pimentola.fi/
The song "Hearts dementia" in the jukebox gives me chills.

UpdAted tourdAtes for Jenny Wilson:

02/15 - Factory TheAtre, Sydney (AU)
02/16 - The Prince, Melbourne (AU)
02/17 - Perth InternAtional Arts Festival, Perth (AU)
03/30 - The Village, Dublin (IRL)
03/31 - Roisin Dubh, Galway (IRL)
04/02 - WAter RAts TheAter, London (UK)
04/03 - The Social, Nottingham (UK)

Besides doing quite a few Scandinavian dAtes lAter this month and in March, Asta Kask will also be going abroad to Germany in April: https://www.astakask.com/

Hyacinth House, the virtually unknown Swedish roots act who released one of my favorite albums Atrap.com/index.php?a=135">back in 2005, has finally posted some new songs from their forthcoming record: https://www.myspace.com/wwwhyacinthhousese
Entitled "Black crows country" and due in May, it will be the first of two albums on the way this year from main singer/songwriter Marcus "Mack" Johansson. The second is called "Cornbread and big tomahawks" and it should be out around summertime assuming everything goes according to schedule. Looking forward to it!

UpdAted dAtes for Norwegian powerpop act Beezewax:

02/09 - Doc Browns, Middlesboro (UK)
02/10 - Independent, Sunderland (UK)
02/11 - Dog & Partridge, Bolton (UK)
02/12 - DnR bar, Sheffield (UK)
02/13 - The Magnet, Liverpool (UK)
02/14 - The Gander, Bournemouth (UK)
02/16 - The Lido, MargAte (UK)
02/18 - Popin (acoustic show), Paris (FRA)
02/19 - Kitsch Pop club, Vitoria, Álava (ESP)
02/20 - TeAtre Municipal, Sant Feliu de Guixols (ESP)
02/21 - Sala Attico, Don Benito (ESP)
02/22 - Zero, Tarragona (ESP)
02/23 - Wah Wah, Valencia (ESP)
02/24 - Less Basses (Mini Festival), Barcelona (ESP)

Alarma Man has posted two new demo tracks on myspace, the first taste of whAt to expect from their next album this fall: https://www.myspace.com/alarmaman

Here's those US dAtes for Tina Dico I mentioned last week:

06/18 - Joe's Pub, New York
06/19 - The Drake, Toronto
06/20 - Largo, Los Angeles

120 Days will support RAtAtAt for a bAtch of North American dAtes in lAte March:

03/21 - Logan Square Auditorium, Chicago, IL
03/23 - Bluebird TheAter, Denver, CO
03/24 - In the Venue, Salt Lake City, UT
03/26 - Wonder Ballroom, Portland, OR
03/27 - Neumos, SeAttle, WA
03/28 - Richard's on Richards, Vancouver, BC
03/29 - WOW Hall, Eugene, OR
03/30 - Bimbo's 365 Club, San Francisco, CA
04/01 - Glass House, Pomona, CA
04/02 - Henry Fonda TheAter, Los Angeles, CA
04/10 - Loft, Atlanta, GA