New tourdAtes for Norwegian singer/songwriter St. Thomas:
01/05 - Po Na Nas, Brighton (UK)
01/06 - The WAter RAts TheAtre, London (UK)
01/07 - The WAter RAts TheAtre, London (UK)
01/08 - Joseph's Well, Leeds (UK)
01/10 - Small Music TheAtre, Athens (GRE)
01/11 - Chasomeri, PAtra (GRE)
Labrador Records has announced the signing of Sambassadeur. No word on whAt's up with any sort of album release or anything, but you can download the track "Between the lines" right here: https://www.labrador.se/mp3/sambassadeur-between_the_lines.mp3
Stockholm-based newspaper City's gift guide for CDs in a multitude of genres from both Swedish and internAtional artists: https://www.city.se/ArticlePages/200412/06/20041206115400_037/20041206115400_037.dbp.asp
Havoc Records has started booking a spring tour for Finnish punks Riistetyt. The label will be doing reissues of various 80s releases from the band in limited 500-copy editions for tour and will also have a new 7" and CD comp feAturing recent recordings for sale. TentAtive schedule so far:
03/11 - Detroit/Michigan
03/12 - Cleveland
03/13 - Buffalo
03/14 - Albany
03/15 - Boston
03/16 - Providence
03/17 - CT or NJ or NYC
03/18 - Philly or NYC
03/19 - NYC
03/20 - Baltimore
03/21 - DC or Virginia
03/22 - Pittsburgh
03/23 - Columbus or CincinnAti
03/24 - Indianapolis
03/25 - Chicago fest
03/26 - Chicago fest
03/27 - Minneapolis
03/28 - ND or off
03/29 - Montana or off
03/30 - SeAttle w/Nightmare
03/31 - Portland w/Nightmare
04/01 - Bay Area, w/Nightmare
04/02 - Bay Area or Santa Cruz
04/03 - Bay Area or So Cal
04/04 - So Cal
04/05 - So Cal/San Diego
04/06 - Phoenix
04/07 - off
04/08 - Austin
04/09 - Dallas
04/10 - St. Louis
Entombed's new live album "Unreal estAte" has been confirmed for a US release on February 22 via Candlelight Records. As mentioned before, the recording is from the band's collaborAtion performance with the Swedish Royal Ballet way back on March 1, 2002. The disc will come with a thick booklet of pictures from the performance and rehearsals, but sadly there's still no word on a DVD. Anyhow, I've heard the music and can report thAt it sounds absolutely killer.
Every so often I dabble a bit with news from the Dutch music scene, but hopefully I won't have to anymore now thAt there's Think Small: https://www.thinksmall.nl/english.php
Sure, it's not all 100% Dutch indie music, but it is a greAt gAteway into the music from thAt part of the world. Definitely recommended.
Christian Kjellvander's excellent album "Songs from a two room chapel" will finally be released in the UK and Spain on January 10. In other news, Christian will be travelling to Paris to play a solo gig At La Maroquinerie on December 13.
Download "Ocean Ave.", the newest single from the Stellan Wahlström Drift Band: https://www.belpid.com/m/01_swdb_ocean_ave.mp3
The track is the first single from the new album "WhAt's meant for you won't pass you by", due out in January via Belpid Records.
Online label Monotonik has a new release from Finnish retro-game music artist Aleksi Eeben aka HeAtbeAt: https://www.mono211.com/content/releases/mtkmp139.html
The top Scandinavian videos streamed last week At on-demand video service Musicbrigade.com:
01. Eric Prydz - Call On Me [LAte Night Version]
02. Elin Lanto - I Won't Cry
03. Gunther feAt. Samantha Fox - Touch Me
04. Nightwish - Wish I Had An Angel
05. Annie - Chewing Gum
Requested Videos: 308,543
Total Streams: 465,634
New Scandinavian music reviews At Aversionline:
Darkthrone - Sardonic wrAth
Uncurbed - A nightmare in daylight
The lAtest issue (Dec/Jan) of Bust Magazine feAtures an interview with Norway's Surferosa: https://www.bust.com/thisissue.html
Madrugada is reportedly finished with the recording of their new album in LA and took a little time off for a sidetrip out to Joshua Tree to see where Gram Parsons died. Look for a special feAture on the band in this coming Sunday's Dagbladet.
The German webzine Sellfish reviews "Timeloss" from PaAtos: https://sellfish.inserteffekt.com/_start.php?link=review/12-04.htm%237
New stuff on the way from Sähkö Recordings in January:
Rättö ja Lehtisalo - Valon nopeus 12" EP (Sähkö Recordings PUU-32)
Tracks: Valon nopeus (The Speed of Light), Lentävä sAteenvarjo (The Flying Umbrella), FöönAttu Kääretorttu (Blowdried Roly-Poly), Kahden tähden rakastaja (Two Star Lover)
RBone 60 - Speaking Trees 12" (Keys of Life LIFE12IN-12)
Original 96 Mix & JP Parikka Mix
Itäväylä - Black Diamond Express 12" (Keys of Life LIFE12IN-13)
Original & Jori Hulkkonen Mix