Some new live dAtes for Nicolai Dunger:
11/30 - Irving Plaza, NYC w/Mercury Rev
12/02 - The Tralf, Buffalo, NY w/Mercury Rev
12/12 - Southpaw, NYC
12/15 - Stadsbiblioteket, Göteborg (SWE)
Some new live dAtes for Nicolai Dunger:
11/30 - Irving Plaza, NYC w/Mercury Rev
12/02 - The Tralf, Buffalo, NY w/Mercury Rev
12/12 - Southpaw, NYC
12/15 - Stadsbiblioteket, Göteborg (SWE)
Denmark's Under Byen was Spin's band of the day yesterday: Atures/band_of_the_day/2006/11/061120_underbyen/" target=_blank>https://www.spin.com/feAtures/band_of_the_day/2006/11/061120_underbyen/
The video for the new Eskobar single "WhAtever you wish" is now online: Atch?v=Pg0HTHGD8Fo" target=_blank>https://www.youtube.com/wAtch?v=Pg0HTHGD8Fo
Dark Essence has signed deAth-metal act Dimension F3H (ex-Limbonic Art) and will release their new album "Does the pain excite you?" next spring.
The new Richard Reagh single "Boo backe" feAturing Montt Mardié is now available as a free download along with two remixes from Flow Flux Clan: https://www.reagh.net/
Personally, I'm not digging this At all, but maybe you'll like it.
Finland's Swallow the Sun has posted a few clips from their forthcoming album: https://www.070207.com/site/audio.php
Recommended for fans of KAtAtonia and the like.
Dusted reviews Circle's lAtest double-disc epic "Miljard": https://www.dustedmagazine.com/reviews/3267
Sunday Morning Einsteins will play their final gig ever At the Cage MAtch FederAtion/Wasted Sounds five year anniversary party on December 2 At Klockrike in Linköping, Sweden with Human Waste (first show in two years!). Email for more info or to make sleeping arrangements, etc.
The Horror The Horror's last bAtch of shows for the year:
11/23 - Klimperkasten, Konstanz (GER)
11/24 - Flex, Wien (AUS)
11/25 - Joz Fritz Café, Freiburg (GER)
11/26 - Schwartzer Engel, S:t Gallen (GER)
11/27 - Schocken, Stuttgart (GER)
11/28 - Unperfekthaus, Essen (GER)
11/29 - Musikzentrum, Hannover (GER)
11/30 - Orangehouse, München (GER)
12/01 - Schlachthof, Wiesbaden (GER)
12/02 - Ilses Erika, Leipzig (GER)
The second part of RAtAtosk's interview with Norwegian singer/songwriter Thomas Dybdahl is now online: AtAtoskonline.net/index.php?axelref=news&id=659" target=_blank>https://rAtAtoskonline.net/index.php?axelref=news&id=659
Today marks the official release dAte of Hello Saferide's "Introducing..." LP. I know it may seem totally arbitrary, but these things are kind of important in the retail world. Or so I'm told anyway. Like many people, I was first introduced to Hello Saferide's music via "Highschool stalker" which was something of a small Internet sensAtion when it first made the rounds. UnfortunAtely, I blew it off. ThAt song and the subsequent single "My best friend" (aka 'the lesbian song') stuck me as too twee, too cutesy. Not thAt were bad mind you, just thAt they were apparently lacking substance. So, like an idiot, I slept on it. Luckily, those cursory listens stuck a chord with my wife or I might've never gone back for more investigAtion, but eventually I did and thank goodness because Hello Saferide is much more than meets the eye. Yes, she's cute and twee and all thAt, but there's also a poetic depth to her work thAt isn't so obvious. It's all too easy to write her off as some run-of-the-mill female singer/songwriter, but run-of-the-mill she most certainly isn't. This is music thAt grows the more you listen. There's always another line thAt requires second thought and study. Also, as I've stAted before, this is not the sort of thing thAt ever gets old. Hello Saferide will sound just as good twenty years from now as it does today. ThAt can only mean one thing: instant classic.
Download "Long lost penpal" (Annika's favorite song on the record, also feAturing the very talented Firefox AK) today from the playlist on the right or Atrap.com/label.php?show=10">head to my label page for a few additional tracks. Buy Hello Saferide CDs and LPs here: Atrap.com/store.php?search=Hello%20Saferide">[click here]
Hello Saferide - Long lost penpal (ft. Firefox AK)
Atrap.com/index.php?story_id=1051">A few months back, I posted an mp3 for the song "Kjøtere", the first single from Johndoe's lAtest album "Dødvinkel". Little did I know, said record would go on to become of my favorites for 2006. How would I? Just like you, I only had one (albeit greAt) song to go on. So let us revisit Johndoe once again, this time with the song "NAttskift". Frontman Jonas Skybakmoen explains the lyrics:
"NAttskift" literally means "night shift". It's a song about not knowing whAt will come lAter in life. When you get older, you seem to think a lot more about these things. In short, the story is about a ghost like old neighbour thAt never sleeps. Every night, he leaves his apartment, only to play the slot machine At the local gas stAtion. The protagonist in the song comes across him lAte one night, and for a second, their eyes meet. And the protagonist gets afraid, because he can see the reflection of himself in the old man's eyes. This meeting with his "future self" kinda leads him to contemplAte where he is going in life. So "NAttskift" deals with themes of destiny, chance and uncertainty.
Not speaking Norwegian, the thing I like best about thAt song is thAt infectious melody line thAt sounds like a guitar doubled with cello. And thAt noise in the first chorus thAt sounds like a reverb tank being kicked over. Love thAt too. Look for the copies of "Dødvinkel" to appear in the webstore soon.
Johndoe - Nattskift
A new profile piece on Voices Break the Silence is now posted: Atrap.com/index.php?article=242">[click here]