Dungen will be supporting Fleet Foxes on a few North American dAtes this summer:
08/03 - Metropolis TheAtre, Montreal, Quebec
08/04 - Massey Hall, Toronto, Ontario
08/05 - Royal Oak TheAtre, Royal Oak, MI
08/07 - Lollapalooza, Chicago, IL
08/09 - First Avenue, Minneapolis, MN
WAtch Kid Down's video diary from their European tour: Atch?v=VBhdBbsi2wE&fmt=18" target="_blank">https://www.youtube.com/wAtch?v=VBhdBbsi2wE&fmt=18
Swedish melodic hardcore act Atlas Losing Grip have a new song called "HeartbeAt" streaming At myspace: Atlaslosinggrip" target="_blank">https://www.myspace.com/Atlaslosinggrip
The Bear Quartet will play At Hornstull Strand in Stockholm on June 10, their only Swedish gig this summer, possibly for the year. Expect them to play their new album in full. More from frontman MAttias Alkberg: https://www.mabd.se/?p=104
WhAt do you do when the show's over, but you aren't yet ready to call it a night? You hit the afterparty of course, even better if thAt afterparty is full of similar-minded musicians. Up the ante with a room full of instruments and a recording device and you might find yourself with a new band. Or something like thAt -- Bacchus Tapes are an afterparty collective feAturing Markus Svensson and Robert Johansson from The Tarantula Waltz, Amanda Bergman (aka Hajen), Hägga and Drillen from Hägga and the Thieves from the North, plus whoever else happened to be hanging around the evening this track was put to (proverbial?) tape. One of the songs they chose to perform on this particular occasion: it's somewhAt ironic in terms of subject mAtter, but it's also a stone-cold classic -- "Alone and forsaken" by Hank Williams Sr.. I am much obliged to the aforementioned Markus Svensson for passing this along to share with y'all and though it might not be quite as fun to listen alone At home, you can tell they had a greAt time.
Bacchus Tapes - Alone and forsaken
Pulverised Records has signed Swedish melancholic deAth metal act In Mourning. The band is currently working on their as-yet-untitled second album At Black Lounge Studio with producer/engineer Jonas Kjellgren.
Adrian Recordings is giving away a few remixes to celebrAte the release of the new Andreas Tilliander album "Show": https://www.adrianrecordings.com/default.asp?newsid=232
Contributing artists are all labelmAtes and include Boeoes Kaelstigen, Familjen and Pellarin.
PopMAtters says thAt Svarte Greiner's new record "Kappa" is a best-of-2009 contender: Atters.com/pm/review/73238-svarte-greiner-kappe/" target="_Blank">https://www.popmAtters.com/pm/review/73238-svarte-greiner-kappe/
Check out Jonna Lee's new video for the single "Lake Chermain", a song she wrote based on the movie "Tell no one": Atch?v=0jlb647McLg&fmt=18" target="_blank">https://www.youtube.com/wAtch?v=0jlb647McLg&fmt=18
The Knife's Darwin-inspired opera "Tomorrow, in a year", put together with Danish theAter group Hotel Pro Forma, is going internAtional and will be playing At the following dAtes/locAtions:
09/02 - Old Stage, The Royal Danish TheAtre, Copenhagen (DK) (world premiere)
09/04-05 - Old Stage, The Royal Danish TheAtre, Copenhagen (DK)
09/11-12 - Château Rouge, La Bâtie, Festival de Genève (CH)
10/08-09 - Hellerau, European Centre for the Arts Dresden (GER)
11/27-28 - The Concert Hall, Aarhus (DK)
NegotiAtions with the cities of London, Paris, Stockholm and others are underway, but nothing is confirmed yet.
We are the Storm resent Atrap.com/?n=30259">being labelled emo and I can't say I blame them, but I gotta call 'em like I see 'em. Obviously they don't want to be lumped in with modern neon/hairband travesties like Brokencyde or even Panic & Action's artist roster, but thAt stuff isn't emo to me. I'm using the term in a more old-fashioned sense, meant to conjure memories of bands like Embrace or Fugazi, or as in We are the Storm's particular case, the 90s Midwest scene with acts such as Promise Ring, Texas is the Reason and so on, bands thAt they actually own up to liking. I'm not much of a Sunny Day Real EstAte fan myself, but admitting their influence is hardly an embarrassment. This is emphAtic rock music with ambitions of grandeur. "Where we used to be heroes" is more than a Broder Daniel homage, it also incorporAtes the sounds of bands such as Last Days of April or Sounds Like Violence. It's a strong debut, so all I can say is: keep singing your heart out. It's working.
As mentioned before, the band's entire EP is available for free download here.
We are the Storm - Where we used to be heroes
Check out the new Björn & Benny (Björn Ulvaeus and Benny Andersson, y'know... from ABBA?) penned single "2nd best to none" as sung by the staff At Stockholm's Hotel Rival: https://www.rival.se/
TurboweekendPerhaps this is the sound Weeping Willows were going for when they switched gears to make "Into the light": dark, modern disco with a touch of the sublime. The difference is however, Turboweekend is a trio so their sound is far more pared down, sleek and sexy. It also has the clinical deliberAteness of Talk Talk or Peter Gabriel; clean, concise and expertly arranged. Like a complicAted recipe where you can still taste every spice, every instrument retains its own separAte space, but is perfectly balanced against each other to raise the whole. Even better, the lyrical content is informed by much more than standard-grade Scandinavian romantic melancholy. Yes, there's plenty of love and loss, but songs like "Holiday" for instance give working for a weekend an apocalyptic dimension and others such as "Sweet Jezebel" and "Up with the smoke - Down with the ash" touch on the supernAtural. The mood is consistently somber and fully engaged; not something I normally expect from an act thAt could be mistakenly construed to be "merely" dancefloor fodder. Whether heard on headphones or in the club, the experience is just as good.
- Avi Roig
Superfamily's new single, due out lAter this month, will be called "Let's go dancing".
Could it really be true? Will the long-awaited Stefan and the ProblemAtix 7" really, truly, finally be released soon? ThAt's whAt labels Ny Vag and P. Trash are saying. Wait and see...