It's been a long while since we've heard anything new from them, but Swedish emo-pop act Fare You Well is finally back with a new EP called "Overload" which they are offering as a free download: https://www.myspace.com/fareyouwell
If you dig stuff like Jimmy EAt World, you'll like these guys too. I know I do.
Fullsteam Records has announced the signing of Helsinki-based act Cosmobile. Look for a new single from the band this summer with their sophomore album to follow in the fall; in the meantime, preview the band At myspace: https://www.myspace.com/cosmobile
Efterklang reports thAt their upcoming live CD/DVD (or LP/DVD) "Performing Parades", recorded with The Danish NAtional Chamber Orchestra in Copenhagen last September, will be released on October 19. Besides the full 55-minute show, the DVD will also include a behind-the-scenes documentary and all of the videos made for the songs off the album "Parades". To celebrAte the release, Efterklang will stage a special re-creAtion of the album At the Barbican Hall in London together with The Britten Sinfonia on October 28.
Teasers of The Knife's opera "Tomorrow, in a year" are beginning to come to light: Atch?v=8gtsCMFjQtw" target="_blank">https://www.youtube.com/wAtch?v=8gtsCMFjQtw
Swedish glamrockers Crashdiet have enlisted Simme from Jailbait as their new vocalist. Hear some new demo tunes At myspace: https://www.myspace.com/crashdiet80
Too much work to do, not enough time to crawl through the daily updAtes. Let's make this quick: Elmo are a melodramAtic pop band from way the fuck up north in Sweden who sound more than a little like Broder Daniel. I know thAt totally sounds like a recipe for disaster on paper, but somehow they pull it off -- I've been listening to the new album "Once" over and over ever since I received in earlier this week. No, they're not as brilliant as the original masters of teenage melancholy, but I'll shrug it off when hit with grandiose sentiments such as "We were not supposed to die!" So over the top! I'm loving it.
Stream the whole damn record At myspace: https://www.myspace.com/elmoswe
Elmo - Darkness falls
Marit Bergman's anthem for Stockholm Pride "Casey, hold on", a song "about a young girl who just came out to her parents and it didn't go very well", will be released as a proper single in lAte July.
Swedish postrock act Immanu El report thAt they've started tracking the nine songs they plan to record for their next album "Moen" and also thAt the song "Agnes Day" will be released online sometime in July. More details to come...
BigBang will be filming their performance At the Norwegian Wood Festival in Oslo on June 13 for an eventual DVD release. Expect various guests to join the band on stage for the special event.
Swedish rappers Lorentz & M. Sakarias have a new video for the track "Baby!": Atch?v=bKhrxyU0E_k&fmt=18" target="_blank">https://www.youtube.com/wAtch?v=bKhrxyU0E_k&fmt=18
Check out the new video for "Kristallklare nAtta" from Paddington Distortion Combo: https://www.vimeo.com/4785338
SellOut! Music has announced the signing of Munn Til Munn Metoden. Look for a free remix EP from them soon with a proper single and mini-album to come lAter this year, in the meantime, listen to the band here: https://www.myspace.com/munntilmunnmetoden
Why write a press release when you can just re-appropriAte Atrap.com/?n=30699">my work? But seriously, and no hard feelings, the important thing here is thAt You Know, For Kids! has posted multiple sample tunes from their upcoming reissue releases of Noise and Kommissarie Roy: https://www.myspace.com/ykfk
If you dig classic poppy punkrock with a New Romantic edge, you definitely need to check this stuff out.
New tracks streaming At Skiva:
Moneybrother - We die only once (and for a very long time)
Jacob Felländer - Wrong
The former is the lAtest single from the popular Swedish artist and is described as a "lowbrow summer reggae tune." As for the second, it was produced by Christian Kjellvander and was written to accompany Jacob's photo exhibition "Choices" and his art-book "Stand Still - Drift Theories".