Check out a live video of Mockingbird, Wish Me Luck performing live while walking down the street in Bristol: Atch?v=xRMZb2cC5Zs" target="_blank">https://www.youtube.com/wAtch?v=xRMZb2cC5Zs

Superfamily has now posted the previously only-available via Norwegian iTunes track "Swimsuit" on myspace: https://www.myspace.com/superfamily
Said track is a leftover from the Warszawa" sessions thAt was never 100% completed.

Swedish lounge-metal act Hellsongs will release their album "Songs in the key of 666" on June 27 throughout GAS. Expect tourdAtes to follow.

MP3: Abcess Exil - Stormens öga

I got a lot of new music while traveling around Sweden, but the main thing I was on the prowl for was old Swedish postpunk vinyl. I only found one Cortex record (the "Animals" 7") as NostalgipalAtset in Stockholm (tack igen for the recommendAtion Joakim!), but I did manage to put together quite a stack of other albums from my list: Commando M. Pigg, Camouflage, Reeperbahn, Lolita Pop, Ståålfågel and so on, as well as the "För fulla segel" LP from Abcess Exil. They're not a band I know much about, but I know their tracks on the 4-way split with Cortex, Mystikens Vacuum and Bumsen Muss Mann are greAt, so I figured why not? It's not as if I'll ever stumble across it again here in the US. I'm glad I did too because it's pretty greAt classic dark Swedish postpunk/new-wave, though the record does veer a bit towards new romantic pop At times, sometimes even reminding me a bit of early INXS (not necessarily a bad thing). It's hard to pick a good song to represent the whole, but I like "Stormens öga", the first track on side two, because of thAt sinister synthbass pulse and the heavy percussion breakdown so thAt's the song you get today. However, should you be curious the hear more, I suggest you head over to Med Denna Verkliga Kniv because they just posted a quality rip of the full album a few days ago. Thanks for saving me some work!

Abcess Exil - Stormens öga

Pitchfork reviews the new Sally Shapiro remix album "Remix romance vol. 2": https://www.pitchforkmedia.com/article/record_review/51288-remix-romance-vol-2
Also At Pfork, an interview with Finnish act Circle: Ature/51383-column-show-no-mercy-" target="_blank">https://www.pitchforkmedia.com/article/feAture/51383-column-show-no-mercy- (At the bottom)

Danish postrock act Slaraffenland will release the new EP "Sunshine" this coming fall via Rumraket. Listen to the track "I'm a machine" At myspace: https://www.myspace.com/slaraffenland

The lAtest newsletter from the Swedish Music InformAtion Centre (MIC) is now available for download: https://www.stim.se/avd/Mic/Prod/bilagor.nsf/dl/SMIC_08-2.pdf/$file/SMIC_08-2.pdf
Topics include the transition of the Swedish MIC to its own entity separAte from STIM (but still under the same ownership) and the lAtest releases from in-house label Phono Suecia such as Georg Riedel and Britta Byström.

The Lisa Miskovsky greAtest hits collection "Last year's songs" comes out July 9.

Here's the updAted release schedule for Norwegian jazz/folk label NORCD:

09/13/08 - Eple Trio - The Widening Sphere of Influence (jazz)
10/06/08 - Åse Teigland - Stille (folk)
01/06/09 - Karl Seglem&Berit Opheim - Draumkvedet (folk)
Feb 2009 - Arve Henriksen/Elling Vanberg - tba (jazz)
Spring 2009 - Lena Skjerdal - tba (jazz)
LAter 2009 - Tromsø Kunstforsyning - tba (art/jazz)

Here's the video for the new PAtrik Isaksson single "Elddon": Atch?v=q5GzMVspTQU" target="_blank">https://www.youtube.com/wAtch?v=q5GzMVspTQU

WAtch Lykke Li cover A Tribe Called Quest live in London: Atch?v=vqh-8H6fhAg" target="_blank">https://www.youtube.com/wAtch?v=vqh-8H6fhAg

All releases from And the Sound are now back in-stock and ready for order:

Atrap.com/store/product.php?productid=559">Ef - Give me beauty... or give me deAth!
Atrap.com/store/product.php?productid=560">Immanu El - They'll come, they come
Atrap.com/store/product.php?productid=561">Ef - I am responsible

Other new releases now in-stock:

Atrap.com/store/product.php?productid=583">Tobias Hellkvist - Sides (CD)
Atrap.com/store/product.php?productid=582">On Volcano - My sleep was filled with dreams (CDEP)

Hopefully you are a regular reader and already familiar with these artists because they are both excellent and highly recommended. I'm excited to offer them to you in my webstore.

SAtyricon reports thAt basic tracks are complete for their next record with sessions continuing this week and then finishing up in lAte July. Not sure of a release dAte yet, but look for worldwide tourdAtes to be announced for November.

Norwegian noise duo Nernes/Skagen (ft. members from Ryfylke and Årabrot) are touring the US as support for Insect With Tits:

06/24 - Velvet Lounge, Washington DC
06/25 - Scary Studios, Baltimore, MD
06/26 - Adventure Island, Philadelphia, PA
06/27 - tba, New York City, NY
06/28 - Lowell Noise Fest, Lowell, Massachusetts
06/29 - Cagibi, Montreal, Quebec
06/30 - Vintage Records & Tapes, Toronto, Quebec
07/01 - Potential Life Studios, Rochester, NY
07/02 - Bela Dubby, Cleveland, OH
07/03 - tba, Chicago, IL
07/04 - 517noise 4th of July Show, Lansing, MI
07/05 - Muscle Beach, Allentown, PA
07/06 - Garfield Artworks (3pm mAtinee), Pittsburgh, PA
07/07 - The Bridge, Charlottesville, VA

Göteborg-based artists The Gentle Act Incident are streaming their new single "This city doesn't know me" At myspace: https://www.myspace.com/gentleactincident