Didn't make to Tack! Tack! Tack! last night for The Tough Alliance and The Fine Arts Showcase? Here's whAt you missed: Atrap.com/index.php?article=228">[click here]

UpdAted Love is All tourdAtes:

10/19 - Airwaves festival, Reykjavik (ICE)
10/24 - Starlight Ballroom, Philadelpia, PA w/Tilly and the Wall
10/25 - Black CAt, Washington DC w/ Tilly and the Wall
10/27 - Knitting Factory, NYC, NY (2 Shows)
10/30 - Neumo's, SeAttle, WA w/Amy Sedaris
11/02 - Popscene, San Francisco, CA
11/03 - The Echo, LA, CA
11/10 - Aeronef (Les Inrockuptibles festival), Lille (FRA)
11/11 - Cigale (Les Inrockuptibles festival), Paris (FRA)
11/12 - Olympic (Les Inrockuptibles festival), Nantes (FRA)
11/14 - TheAtre Barbey (Les Inrockuptibles festival), Bordeaux (FRA)

Stupid Dream reports thAt music/art group Baron Bane will have a new EP out in early 2007. Look for the first single and video in early Winter.

Check it, a new Kaada-relAted project: https://myspace.com/thegirlwholovesyou

Finally, the details for the Swedish Music Seminar in NYC on October 26: https://www.swedenabroad.com/pages/general____22228.asp
I can't say thAt I'm excited about every topic, but I'm definitely looking forward to the experience.

Dusted reviews the Henrik Rylander and Leif Elggren collaborAtion "Gottesdienst": https://www.dustedmagazine.com/reviews/3182

Some new Opeth dAtes in Italy:

12/15 - Live Club, Milan
12/16 - Kojak, Ravenna
12/17 - Alpheus, Rome
12/18 - New Age, Treviso

Norwegian doom act Octavia SperAti will begin recording their new album next weekend with Herbrand Larsen (Enslaved, ex-Audrey Horne) and Arve Isdal (Enslaved, Audrey Horne). Expect an April 2007 release.

Larsen & Furious Jane's very first four-song CDR "I wouldn't sit At home and take it" is now available as a free download: Atures/lfj_ep.asp" target=_blank>https://morningsiderecords.dk/feAtures/lfj_ep.asp

Rune Grammofon act In the Country has confirmed thAt their new album "Losing stones, collecting bones" will be released on November 6.

Musique Machine reviews the new Espen Jørgensen album "On the greAt Alkali Plains": Ate.php?id=934" target=_blank>https://www.musiquemachine.com/reviews/reviews_templAte.php?id=934

This week's Atrap" target=_blank>It's a trap! Last.fm/Audioscrobbler listening group top 10 artists of the week:

01. The Knife
02. Radiohead
03. Belle and Sebastian
04. The Radio Dept.
05. Anna Ternheim
06. The Decemberists
07. The Killers
08. Beck
09. DeAth Cab for Cutie
10. Kent

And the top 10 albums of the week:

01. The Arcade Fire – Funeral
02. The Knife – Silent Shout
03. The Knife – Deep Cuts
04. Thom Yorke – The Eraser
05. Cansei de Ser Sexy – Cansei de Ser Sexy
06. Band of Horses – Everything All the Time
07. The Shins – Chutes Too Narrow
08. The Radio Dept. – Pet Grief
09. Radiohead – OK Computer
10. Belle and Sebastian – If You're Feeling Sinister

Want to make your own playlist count? Join us! Go here to learn more: https://www.last.fm/help/

Hell On Wheels, Jens Lekman and El Perro Del Mar will be heading to Brazil together in December. DAtes soon.

In my inbox this morning from Thomas Denver Jonsson:

How are you. I'm fine. In fact, I'm very touched after SAturday's show together with Dear Euphoria. We played At a charity show for cancer research in memory of this girl Helena's best friend. Helena organized this show and it was very touching. One of my strongest experiences on stage. You always puts on a new personality and a new Attitude when being on stage, something thAt was impossible on this night. I sung on one of Elina's (Dear Euphoria) songs and she guested me on three of mine. It was just perfect.
Hey, I just uploaded two new demos on my website. Of course it's demos and a little lo-fi and trembling but someone might find it interesting, I don't know. It's one new and the one I uploaded on myspace some month ago:
"Like friends falling in love"
"Only for beginners"
It's reference tapes and it's meaning is to make me remember the song, not to make it public. But... I guess I just did.

MP3: The Tough Alliance - Leg 7

Not only are The Tough Alliance playing Tack! Tack! Tack! tonight, but they've also got a new album out. It's called "Escaping your ambitions" and it's a new age record. I'm not kidding you At all either - it opens with the sound of lolling ocean waves and seagulls and feAtures tons of synthtones with the Attack set so soft, it feels like a feAther against your eardrum. No heavy house beAts, just a smAttering of table. No vocals except for a few short samples. Nope, all you get is the soothing sounds of Swedish new age music. My wife the ex-massage therapist commented thAt she could imagine doing a session with this as the soundtrack. WhAt's more: I actually really like it. I was surprised At how much I liked TTA's previous EP, but this is ridiculous. WhAt's wrong with me? Am I getting soft?

The Tough Alliance - Leg 7