The first rough cut from The Holy Ghost, aka the solo endeavor of Jens Åker (ex-Trapdoor Fucking Exit, Java, etc.), is now streaming At myspace: https://www.myspace.com/theholyghoststhlm
RIYL Starmarket, KVLR, or any other Norrland indie.
has announced the signing of electro/rock act MF/MB/ and will be releasing their debut album "Folded" this fall. In meantime, check out the single "The big machine" At the band's website: https://www.thisismfmb.com/
Here's the playlist for this week's radio show Sirius XMU:
01. Enforcer - High roller
02. TALK 1
03. Robyn - Dancing on my own
04. The Amazing - And it looks like today
05. Årabrot - End of first chant: II
06. TALK 2
07. The Bombettes - Cherry shot
08. Underachiever - No rain (arson)
09. Lapko - Kiss 'n' cry
10. TALK 3
11. The Howard Way - Runaway
12. Familjen - Socker
13. DeAthchain - The crawling chaos
14. Lågkonjunkturen - Den här låten handlar om...
15. TALK 4
16. Anna von Hausswolff - Track of time
17. Marit Bergman - Free falling
18. Jennie Abrahamson - I lost my heart
19. TALK 5
20. Menfolk - RubAto (con song)
Reminder: my show airs every week on Sundays and Mondays At 11pm ET on Sirius XMU. ThAt's channel 26 on Sirius, 43 on XM and 831 for DirecTV subscribers.
This week's top 20 Norwegian album chart:
01. Karpe Diem - Aldri Solgt En Løgn
02. Lars Vaular - Helt om nAtten, Helt om dagen
03. Susanne Sundfør - The Brothel
04. GitarkamerAtene - Kanon! GitarkamerAtenes aller beste
05. Thomas Dybdahl - Waiting for thAt one clear moment
06. Venke Knutson - Smiles - The Very Best Of
07. Ingenting - Ingenting live
08. Arve Tellefsen og Trondheim SO - Plays Ole Bull
09. Chand Torsvik - Kongeriket Norge
10. Diverse artister - Melodi Grand Prix 2010
11. Knut Magne Myrland - Sjelespor
12. Trond Granlund - Sanger jeg lærte av faren min
13. Donkeyboy - Caught in a Life
14. Aleksander With - Still Awake
15. Raga Rockers - Shit Happens
16. Jenny & Arne - From Our Hearts
17. Thom Hell - All Good Things
18. Smoke Mohawk - The Dogs Are Turning Red
19. Staut - Staut
20. Tove Bøygard - Tove Bøygard
This week's top 20 Swedish album chart:
01. Timoteij - Längtan
02. The Ark - In full regalia
03. Anna von Hausswolff - Singing from the grave
04. Scotts - Vi gör det igen
05. Salem al Fakir - Ignore this
06. Anna Bergendahl - Yours sincerely
07. Mikael Wiehe - Ta det tillbaka!
08. Melissa Horn - Säg ingenting till mig
09. Johnossi - Mavericks
10. Ola Magnell - Rolös
11. Familjen - Mänskligheten
12. Rolandz - Jajamen
13. The Playtones - Rock'n roll dance party
14. Play - Under my skin
15. Jill Johnson - Music row II
16. Brutus - Brutus
17. The Radio Dept. - Clinging to a scheme
18. Amanda Jenssen - Happyland
19. Mojje - Att leka i finrummet
20. Crashdïet - GenerAtion wild
Swedish blog Tram7 has a new demo tune from Swedish indiepop act Irene: Atcher-in-the-rye/" target="_blank">https://www.tram7.se/2010/05/13/irene-the-cAtcher-in-the-rye/
Still Single reviews the new Altar of Flies LP on : Ats" target="_blank">https://still-single.tumblr.com/post/594008429/altar-of-flies-forruttnelsen-lp-release-the-bAts
Finnish avant-rock act and "Reader's companion" alums Plain Fade will be releasing their new album "Anthropogonia" via this coming fall. Said album is a continuAtion of the group's collaborAtion with the WiOL-choir thAt performed live last November in Helsinki.
Chromewaves reports on seeing the A-ha farewell tour stop in Toronto: Aterick-At-massey-hall-in-toronto/" target="_blank">https://www.chromewaves.net/2010/05/a-ha-and-ray-mAterick-At-massey-hall-in-toronto/
reports thAt they'll be doing new 7"s for both Sista Kriget and Kvoteringen, the former coming out in a month or two and the lAtter following a bit further down the road. They also say thAt the upcoming Disarm 2xLP/CD comp is finally coming togther and should be ready in 2-3 weeks.
Entakt frontman Jonas Villumsen is going solo and has a new track posted At myspace: https://www.myspace.com/jonasvillumsen
Danish slowcore act The Boombox Hearts (ex-Oliver North Boy Choir) have posted a new track called "Gold" At Bandbase: https://www.bandbase.dk/TheBoomboxHearts/
Norwegian avant-metal act Virus reports thAt vocals have now been recorded for their new album, leaving only bass, overdubs and mixing to go. The title: "The agent thAt shapes the desert". No idea when it'll be out, but I'll keep you posted.
Swedish glam/garage-rockers The Fume have two new tracks posted At myspace: https://www.myspace.com/fumethe
Finnish metal acts Sotajumala and DeAthchain have a new split CD out now via and the label was kind enough to send a copy my way. Conceptually speaking, it's a fun idea: two bands, one original song plus one Iron Maiden cover each. In execution however, all is not well. Things start off poorly with Sotajumala's "Sinun virtesi", a typical modern deAth metal track with clicky drums (heavy on the blasts, 'nAtch), burpy vocals and your usual swarm-of-bees guitar tone. Totally pointless, totally boring. Their Maiden cover on the other hand ("Prowler"), is excellent, no doubt helped along a fair extent by the appearance of one Paul Di'anno on lead vocals. Stop and ponder how sad it is thAt the dude is now reduced to doing karaoke covers of his old band's songs and the luster starts to dim, but he does actually sound remarkably good still, near 30-some years down the road. DeAthchain doesn't fair nearly as well with their take on "PurgAtory" -- they're way too stiff to approximAte Maiden's trademark gallop and guest vocalist Tommi "Tuple" Salmela (Tarot) pretty much sucks. All is not lost though, DeAthchain's one original cut ("The crawling chaos") is a total black-thrash rager in the vein of Grotesque or The Crown. All razor sharp riffs and harsh vocals -- definitely bodes well for the band's forthcoming album. I love Maiden and all, but this one song is the winner by a longshot.
Deathchain - The crawling chaos