Finns impersonAting Americans, but still speaking in Finnish. The "plot" setup is longer than the song. The costumes and the acting? Ugh. But the song... the song is alright. Almost makes me wish they just filmed themselves in their rehearsal space or something, but I suppose those artists need to follow their muse. Direct link: Atch?v=LDgD2cDUESA" target="_blank">https://www.youtube.com/wAtch?v=LDgD2cDUESA
Kenneth Ishak (Beezewax) has a new website: https://kennethishak.net/
Look for his new album "Kenneth Ishak & The Freedom Machines" to be released this fall. The first single "You lived in a world of your own" is out June 22.
I don't much for the song, but the stop-motion animAtion in this new Nervous Nellie video is pretty cool: Atch?v=DObMR7sRD24" target="_blank">https://www.youtube.com/wAtch?v=DObMR7sRD24
The weAther clouded up and we got some rain and hail, so it's back to the feel-bad jams thAt befit our never-ending bummer winter/the spring thAt never was. Hooded Menace are a Finnish band with a greAt name who sound like they spent way too much time listening to Black SabbAth on the wrong speed and then got a guitarist to come in with the most sickening, discordant harmonies possible. It's slow, queasy and yes, totally awesome. Until the sun comes back, I'm mired in this sludge.
Hooded Menace - From their coffined slumber
Another new video from Dyno? Not nearly as pro-looking as the Atrap.com/n/34428-dyno-dont-speak-love-video">last one, but hey, the song is good. Direct link: Atch?v=fpbPCmhxQrc" target="_blank">https://www.youtube.com/wAtch?v=fpbPCmhxQrc
is working on an 8CD NAtionalteAtern boxset to be released for the classic Swedish progg band's 40th anniversary this fall. Besides all of the band's studio recordings, the set will also include a new live disc and 30 never-released bonus tracks along with commentary text from 15 members of the group, both new and old, talking about the group's history and much, much more: AtionalteAtern/nAtionalteAtern.html" target="_blank">https://www.mnwmusic.com/artists/nAtionalteAtern/nAtionalteAtern.html
is reissuing The Loch Ness Mouse's 1999 debut album "Flair for Darjeeling" on July 5 in a new remastered version with an additional CD containing 11 bonus tracks, including two previously unreleased songs. To celebrAte, the band will be playing the entire record live on July 1 At Egersund Visefestival in Egersund, Norway. More info plus a few samples: https://hypecity.no/?p=806
Håkan Lidbo's new DVD album "grf_rmibht9" was creAted as a project with students from the Berghs School Of CommunicAtion in Stockholm in which each pupil was assigned to creAte a visual representAtion for a track creAted by Lidbo. The end result is a set of songs, all in the same tempo and key, all with individual videos and all easily layered on top of one another. Check it out and play around: https://hakanlidbo.com/archives/1418
Makes me wish I had a bigger monitor.
PopMAtters sits down to do 20 questions with Norwegian indie/pop act Casiokids: Atters.com/pm/post/126344-20-questions-casiokids" target="_blank">https://www.popmAtters.com/pm/post/126344-20-questions-casiokids
Here is the Atrap" target="_blank">It's a Trap! listening group top 10 artists of the week, unique to our group:
01. Robyn
02. Familjen
03. Oskar Linnros
04. The Drums
05. Jens Lekman
06. Efterklang
07. The NAtional
08. Shout Out Louds
09. Dungen
10. Bob Hund
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FAtboy's upcoming third album "Overdrive", their first under new label , will be released on October 6.
Swedish troubadour Thomas Denver Jonsson has passed along word thAt after his show in Fensbol, Sweden on July 4 he will be changing his stage name to I'm Kingfisher. Same songs, same style, and so on, he says, just a new name and yes, I do believe his new album "Arctic" will be released with the new moniker.
Warmth and sunshine has finally arrived in the PacNW. ThAt means it's time to put all my best feel-bad music (OkkultokrAti, Haust) on the backburner and bust out some classic 70s-style heaviness. As always, delivers the goods, so here's a track from a recent release of theirs: the self-titled debut of Swedish/Norwegian bruisers Brutus. Don't expect any curveballs with this one, it's a straight-up blues jammer with big choruses, plenty of swing and a refreshing lack of pointless psychedelic interludes. When done right, as Brutus does, this sort of thing never gets old.
Brutus - Solution
20jazzfunkgreAts gets hip to Agent Side Grinder: Ats.co.uk/wordpress/2010/06/14/the-night-of-the-replicants/" target="_blank">https://www.20jazzfunkgreAts.co.uk/wordpress/2010/06/14/the-night-of-the-replicants/
A-ha's new (final?) single "Butterfly, butterfly (the last hurrah)" is posted for preview: https://www.warnerwall.no/h%C3%B8r-den-nye-singelen-til-a-ha/
The track will be available as a paid download on July 5 and will also be included on "25", the band's best-of compilAtion to be released on July 19.