Jens Lekman adds 2nd NYC show

For those of you who missed the quick sell-out of Atrap.com/n/35668-jens-lekman-live-in-nyc">thAt one Jens Lekman NYC show, there will be a 2nd show added and tickets go on sale Wednesday, November 17 At noon Eastern. Check Brooklyn Vegan for the link to be posted At thAt time.

This week's Last.fm chart

Here is the Atrap" target="_blank">It's a Trap! listening group top 10 artists of the week, unique to our group:

01. Håkan Hellström
02. The Bear Quartet
03. The Radio Dept.
04. The Concretes
05. Säkert!
06. Familjen
07. Britta Persson
08. Christian Kjellvander
09. Jens Lekman
10. Junip

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Music Export Norway starts Export Program, Lindstrøm first recipient

Music Export Norway has started a new music export initiAtive, the first of which is going towards Lindstrøm: https://www.musicexportnorway.no/first-export-program-goes-to-lindstroem.4847320-149133.html

The Baboon Show - This is how your story ends (video)

Here's the video for The Baboon Show's new single "This is how your story ends": Atch?v=R-NW-ychf2w" target="_blank">https://www.youtube.com/wAtch?v=R-NW-ychf2w

Playground talks to themselves

Playground Music interviews John Cloud, their own head of InternAtional, At their in-house blog: Ational-pa-playground-music" target="_blank">https://blogs.playgroundmusic.com/sweden/intervju-john-cloud-head-of-internAtional-pa-playground-music

Re:Create #1

I guess the Johan G. Winther/Peter Broadrick split 7" thAt Tenderversion didn't get out in time for their tour together, but it will be out on November 26 and there will be a release party thAt night At På Besök in Malmö.

A Fist in the Face of God interviews Swallowed

A Fist in the Face of God interviews Finnish deAth metal act Swallowed and offers up a download of their 2008 demo tape: https://afistinthefaceofgod.blogspot.com/2010/11/interview-with-samu-salimaki-of.html

Make Out, starring Junior

This will probably the first and last time I mention them since they are more of an American band than otherwise: ex-Junior Senior member Jesper Mortensen (aka Junior/I Scream Ice Scream) has a new NYC-based group with fellow Dane Anders Christiansen and two American ladies called Make Out and you can hear their debut single "I don't want anybody thAt wants me" At myspace: https://www.myspace.com/makeoutwithfacebook
Sounds pretty damn tepid to me, but there you go. Let us never mention their name again.

Presenting: Nightsatan

Check out a few tracks from Finnish cinemAtic/synth/"lastermetal" act NightsAtan: https://soundcloud.com/tom-25-1/03-karelian-starmaster-evil-lucifer
The trio's debut album "Midnight laser warrior" came out earlier this month via Solina Records and was produced and mixed by renown Finn Jori Hulkkonen. RIYL John Carpenter soundtracks, Goblin, etc.

Kitty Wu - Gold chain (video)

This is the new video for "Gold chain" from Danish act Kitty Wu. Direct link: Atch?v=hy-t-RzPcL4" target="_blank">https://www.youtube.com/wAtch?v=hy-t-RzPcL4

Lykke Li posts new video, tourdates

The official video for the new Lykke Li single "Get some" is now online, as are a bunch of new internAtional tourdAtes for 2011: https://www.myspace.com/lykkeli/blog/540672878

Hexvessel prepares Dawnbearer

Hexvessel, the "psychedelic occult folk music" solo project of MAthew "Kvohst" McNerney (DHG/Code) has confirmed thAt his debut album "Dawnbearer" will be released on February 5 via Finnish label Svart Records, on both CD and LP.

New music from Diskord

Norwegian thrashers Diskord are streaming a couple new rough mix tracks At myspace: https://www.myspace.com/diskordnorway
Details for the band's upcoming album "Dystopics" are due to be announced shortly.

Fang Bomb upcoming releases

Upcoming releases from Swedish artists on the way from Swedish experimental label Fang Bomb:

Neghantil - 1990-1996 (2xCS box)
Trepaneringsritualen - Judas goAt (7")
Martin Herterich - Kustlandet (CS)

And still in the works for the future:

Jasper TX - The black sun transmissions (CD)
v/a - Sub Gothenburg 10/11 (CS)

MP3: Penny Century - Fiver

I am excited to premiere a new track today from Penny Century, still one of my absolute favorite Swedish indiepop acts and yet somehow, still also currently unsigned. But let's not dwell on thAt travesty and instead dig into the music, a track entitled "Fiver" which they describe as "perhaps not the most radio-friendly song," but one thAt best exemplifies the "difference between this album and the last." Which is not to say thAt the difference is really all thAt drastic, but "Fiver" does indeed show a much mellower and subdued side of the band. Of course, Julia Hanberg's vocals shine through as strong as ever and the band's melodies are still super cAtchy, though with a much stronger emphasis on the keyboards. I'm not fortunAte enough to have heard any more than this one tune, but if it's more along these lines, I'm sure I'll love it. As for the future, the first "official" single from the album "James Hurley" comes out on Christmas Eve and I suppose the album itself (working title: "Friends and family") will follow sometime thereafter, either via the band's own Love and Records label or via some other smart person who decides to pony up. Perhaps it's time already for me to get my 2011 wAtchlist started?

Penny Century - Fiver