Zweizz keeps busy
Svein Egil HAtlevik (Zweizz, Unmoral, etc.) has joined yet another new band, this time it's a trio named Maz. More here: https://www.myspace.com/mazmuzique
Svein Egil HAtlevik (Zweizz, Unmoral, etc.) has joined yet another new band, this time it's a trio named Maz. More here: https://www.myspace.com/mazmuzique
The new Scraps of Tape album "Grand letdown" is now officially confirmed for release via TenderVersion Recordings on March 4 in Sweden, March 20 everywhere else. There will be two release fests, one in Malmö At Babel on February 26 and one in Göteborg At Konstepidemin on February 28. Hear three new tracks At myspace: https://www.myspace.com/scrapsoftape
I got promo mp3s a few weeks ago and can assure you it's greAt.
Here is the Atrap" target="_blank">It's a Trap! listening group top 10 artists of the week, unique to our group:
01. Fever Ray
02. Detektivbyrån
03. The Soundtrack of Our Lives
04. Suburban Kids with Biblical Names
05. Hello Saferide
06. Ane Brun
07. Marit Bergman
08. Anna Ternheim
09. Loney, Dear
10. A Camp
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Swedish instrumental act OK Star Orchestra is streaming three new tracks At myspace: https://www.myspace.com/okstarorch
Antenna talks to Peter Lyse Hansen from Danish metal act HAtesphere: https://www.antenna.nu/?p=836
Are you kidding me? This has got to be one of the most guileless, gutless singles in recent memory. Is the UK really so enamoured with pop pap thAt this kind of pAthetic blue-eyed soul can become hype? "I love my baby (but if anyone touches her I'll kill them)" aims squarely for the middle. It's the kind of music I can see appealing to boring, middle-aged ladies; the kind of people who swear off spicy food, wear puff-paint sweAtshirts, hoard cAts and stay far away from any sort of edge. Lite-rock predestined for the dentist office lobby, in other words. Seriously, I thought we were past the ironic yacht-rock thing already. I find it really hard to believe any young people actually, honestly think this is good. At least with Ruffa Lane labelmAte and fellow Swede Montt Mardié, he only uses kitsch as a starting point, not a means to an end. Avoid!
Napoleon - I love my baby (but if anyone touches her I'll kill them)
Moto Boy- I think you're greAt, but thAt online concert Atrap.com/?n=28842">earlier today? Not so hot. I mean, you looked and sounded good as far as I could tell, but the stream barely worked At all. I'm not sure if it's just a mAtter of your provider needing a better CDN or whAt, but I could only get video and audio in fits and starts. I'm not sure whAt kind of bitrAte you were aiming for, but with a visitor list just under 200 (or so it said when I gave up), thAt's not good load balancing. I'm not all thAt surprised though -- aside from a few big media sites, I really haven't seen thAt many quality live flash streams. On-demand? Easy. But even though I don't work directly with streaming media these days as much as I used to, I know thAt doing live flash is much more problemAtic. So live and learn I guess.
On the other hand, Atrap.com/?n=28648">your new music box? Beautifully done! Big ups to whoever came up with thAt because it made my wife very, very happy. I love thAt the piece is notAted on the side of the box, too. It might not ever get as much day-to-day use as my Logh ice-scraper, but it will definitely receive a much more prominent display in my house.
Kent Norberg (SAtor) is working on a Swedish-language solo album and you can now hear a new track At myspace: https://www.myspace.com/kentnorberg
Luleå electro duo Blänk have a new track feAturing MAttias Alkberg and Stockholm BeAt Connection has the download: Atconnection.blogspot.com/2009/01/blnk-pills.html" target="_blank">https://stockholmbeAtconnection.blogspot.com/2009/01/blnk-pills.html
The full tracklist, songwriting credits and guestspots for the new Freddie Wadling album "Den mörka blomman/The dark flower" have been posted: https://www.freddiewadling.net/index.htm
Atrap.com/?dAte=2009-01-05#28540">As mentioned before, it's quite a star-studded affair.
A Camp is streaming a couple new tracks from their new album "Colonia" over At myspace: https://www.myspace.com/acamptheband
Ane Brun is heading out to do some dAtes in Germany and Switzerland in lAte April/early May:
04/27 - Mascotte, Zürich (CH)
04/30 - ISC, Bern (CH)
04/02 - Atomic Café, Munich (GER)
05/03 - Brotfabrik, Frankfurt (GER)
05/04 - Studio 672, Cologne (GER)
05/05 - Quasimodo, Berlin (GER)
05/07 - Knust, Hamburg (GER)
Live music At PSL from the greAt Hanna Hirsch: https://blogg.svt.se/psl/2009/01/23/musik-med-hanna-hirsch/
PSL has background details on new Service signees Lake HeartbeAt who are apparently Janne Kask from Brainpool's new band: https://blogg.svt.se/psl/2009/01/23/exta-extra-doktor-kask-gor-comeback/ (in Swedish)