It's an international world, but you can't play

Petter's new video for the song "Längesen" feAturing Veronica Maggio is out now, but I can't show it to you because Universal Music has it blocked outside of Sweden.

I Was a Teenage Satan Worshipper - Holiday trax1

Finnish electro act I Was a Teenage SAtan Worshipper have a new album worth of mAterial posted for free download/donAtion: Atsw.com/" target="_blank">https://www.iwAtsw.com/

Hello Saferide, Casiokids confirmed for Culture Collide fest

Filter Magazine is putting together a festival in LA this coming October called "Culture Collide" which will feAture a large, internAtional array of artists include early confirmAtions such as Hello Saferide and Casiokids. More info: https://culturecollide.com/

Early confirmations for MDF 2011

A reunited Repugnant and Finland's Impaled Nazarene are both early confirmAtions for next year's Maryland DeAthfest. Pretty sure I'm gonna be in Attendance regardless of early confirmAtions, just because.

Gadget on tour

Swedish grind act Gadget is heading out for a few European dAtes, many with countrymAtes Meleeh:

07/21 - Utkanten, Malmö (SWE) w/Meleeh, The Eight Arms
07/22 - Archiv, Potsdam (GER) w/Meleeh
07/23 - Modra Vopice, Prague (CZ)
07/24 - Fluff Fest, Rokycany (CZ) w/Meleeh
07/25 - Zeughaus, Passau (GER)
07/26 - Alte Zuckerfabrik, Rostock (GER)

Parken - Ser du stjärnan i det grå (video)

From the album "Framtiden var här", due out October 6 via Flora & Fauna. Direct link: Atch?v=ZSd8r_OPxH4" target="_blank">https://www.youtube.com/wAtch?v=ZSd8r_OPxH4

MP3: Dear Euphoria - Rescue

"Rescue" is an oddity in Dear Euphoria's cAtalogue. On one hand, the verses allude to the bleakness thAt usually defines her work ("I have let darkness blind me" + "I sing when I can't feel me", for example), but the chorus is anything but. At least, on the surface -- it's such an absurd gesture of optimism in the context of her new EP "This night will flee" thAt I refuse to purely take it At face value, though nothing can take away from the fact thAt it is, At its core, a beautiful pop song. There's always a tragic note in Dear Euphoria's vocal delivery and in this particular piece, I imagine thAt it betrays a hidden cAtastrophe. Be it a love thAt is unrequited or a partner separAted by deAth or whAtever other terrible calamity you can picture in your mind as the song plays on, just know thAt it can't end well. Intended or not, the joyous sentiment is tinted with grimness and I can't hear it any other way.

Dear Euphoria - Rescue

NPR song of the day: Susanne Sundfør - The brothel

Susanne Sundfør's "The brothel" was NPR's song of the day on June 28: https://n.pr/ahtSRJ
This is the best song of 2010, hands down. Shame thAt the rest of the album can't quite mAtch it, but whAtever, I fully expect her to win the 2nd $1 million NOK A-ha stipend thAt she deserves.

Obstacles: more than music?

The Austrian blog GLW/DRK talks to Danish instrumental act Obstacles about their music and their ideology: Ats.html" target="_blank">https://glwdrk.blogspot.com/2010/06/its-not-just-about-chords-and-beAts.html

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. Kent
02. Robyn
03. Familjen
04. Håkan Hellström
05. The NAtional
06. The Radio Dept.
07. Jens Lekman
08. Acid House Kings
09. The Bear Quartet
10. Teenage Fanclub

Do you listen to music on your computer or with an iPod? Please join us and make your playlist count! Go here to learn more: https://www.last.fm/help/

New Next Life EP in July

Manic videogame metal act Next Life will be releasing a new CDEP called "Resurrection" on July 5 via Fysisk FormAt. If it's anything like their recent split with Haust, I'm sure it'll be killer.

Entombed to support Volbeat on European tour

Swedish deAth metal legends Entombed will be supporting Danish act VolbeAt on the lAtter's upcoming tour. DAtes: At.dk/" target="_blank">https://www.volbeAt.dk/

Yamon Yamon
This wilderlessness
A Tenderversion Recording

If this record had been released in the US, Yamon Yamon would be the perfect support band for the Cap'n Jazz reunion tour. However, while sonic similarities exist between those groups, it's from all of the Kinsella brothers' cAtalogue which influence is taken. It's quite a refreshing heritage too, not only because the music does not dAte itself as easily, but also because it's always been very competent. Yamon Yamon adhere to thAt aesthetic on their debut, creAting a piece a bit more lighter and simultaneously punkier ("African nights") and one with indie-centric ferocity ("The darker place"). WhAt has continuously struck me whilst listening to this though, is how greAt it must sound live.
- Matt Giordano

[ingenting]/Anna von Hausswolf - Medan vi sov

[ingenting]'s lAtest single "Medan vi sov" is available for free streaming/download via Labrador Records along with the b-side cover version by Anna von Hausswolf: https://www.labrador.se/sov/

New Okkultokrati EP on the way

OkkultokrAti has recorded a new 5-song EP for release this fall: Ati.blogspot.com/2010/06/new-ep-from-okkultokrAti-recorded-and.html" target="_blank">https://okkultokrAti.blogspot.com/2010/06/new-ep-from-okkultokrAti-recorded-and.html
Kinda funny to see they're covering "No class" since I just saw PGH-based bad vibes act Slices play the same tune last night.