Low Impact Records has announced thAt The Maharajas' new album "In pure spite" will be released on November 30 in all formAts: vinyl, CD and mp3.

Finnish hardcore act St. Hood has a new track up At myspace: https://www.myspace.com/sthood

PopMAtters talks to Krystoffer "Garm" Rygg of Ulver (as well as Anneke van Giersbergen, ex-vocalist for the fine Dutch band The GAthering): Atters.com/pm/columns/article/49495/sun-and-air-an-interview-with-anneke-van-giersbergen-and-krystoffer-garm-ry/" target="_blank">https://www.popmAtters.com/pm/columns/article/49495/sun-and-air-an-interview-with-anneke-van-giersbergen-and-krystoffer-garm-ry/

#1 Hits from Another Planet has a track from the new Laakso EP "Vasterbrön & Vampires": At-times-underground-we-grow.html" target="_blank">https://alienhits.blogspot.com/2007/10/laakso-greAt-times-underground-we-grow.html

Also At MIC Norway, a profile of ECM artists Trio Mediæval ahead of their upcoming tour: https://www.mic.no/mic.nsf/doc/art2007101113113590934767
DAtes:

10/14 - Ultima Oslo Contemporary Music Festival, Det Norske TeAtret, Oslo (NOR)
10/26 - Sandefjord Kirke, Sandefjord (NOR)
10/27 - Trinity Chapel, Cambridge (UK)
10/30 - Firth Hall, Sheffield (UK)
10/31 - Sir Jack Lyon's concert Hall, York (UK)
11/03 - Allerheiligenhofkirche, Munich (GER)
11/04 - Enjoy Jazz Festival, Schlosskirche, Mannheim (GER)
11/06 - Hannover-Neustadt, Schloss Landestrost, Hannover-Neustadt (GER)
11/16 - Maison de l'Architecture-Cloître des Recollets, Paris (FRA)
11/24 - The Fitzgerald TheAter, St. Paul, MN
11/27 - Friends of Chamber Music / St. Philip Neri Church, Portland, OR
11/29 - PAC Concert Hall, Western Washington University, Bellingham, WA
11/30 - Town Hall, SeAttle, WA
12/01 - Macky Auditorium, University of Colorado, Boulder, CO
12/02 - Friends of Chamber Music/CAthedral of the ImmaculAte Conception, Kansas City, MO
12/04 - Carnegie Hall's Weill Hall, New York, NY
12/14 - Bijloke Concertzaal, Gent (BEL)

This week's top 20 Norwegian album chart:

01. Henning Kvitnes - Stemmer i gresset
02. Vidar Johnsen & Peter Nordberg - Ord & Øgonblick
03. Alejandro Fuentes - Tomorrow only knows
04. Raga Rockers - Ubermensch
05. Minor Majority - Candy store (2 CD edition)
06. Sigvart Dagsland - Forandring
07. Jørn Hoel - På grunn av dæ
08. Valkyrien Allstars - Valkyrien Allstars
09. Dance With A Stranger - Everyone needs a friend - The Very Best of DWAS
10. Black DebbAth - Hyller kvinnen
11. Trond-Viggo Torgersen - Det du kan + noe rart & noe nytt
12. GT-Sara - På farten med full rulle
13. Darkthrone - F.O.A.D
14. Vazelina Bilopphøggers - Bensin på bålet
15. Finn Kalvik - Bjerke/Hagerup/Kalvik
16. Bjølsen Valsemølle - Over elva
17. Leif Ove Andsnes - Ballad for Edvard Grieg
18. Leieboerne - Følg oss hjem Ole Paus
19. Superfamily - Warszawa
20. Kari Bremnes - Live

This week's top 20 Swedish album chart:

01. Lars Winnerbäck - Daugava
02. Peter Lemarc - Kärlek i tystnadens tid
03. Ola - Good enough
04. Thorleifs - Våra bästa år
05. Peter Jöback - Människor som du och jag
06. Crashdïet - the unAttractive revolution
07. Rigmor Gustafsson - Alone with you
08. Hans Martin & Tommys - Mina egna favoriter
09. José González - In our nAture
10. The Poodles - Sweet trade
11. Jens Lekman - Night falls over Kortedala
12. Moneybrother - Mount pleasure
14. Sahara Hotnights - WhAt if leaving is a loving thing
15. Abalone Dots - From a safe distance
16. BWO - FabricAtor
17. Sonja Aldén - Till dig
18. September - Dancing shoes
19. Povel Ramel - Karameller - Det bästa med Povel Ramel
20. Roland Cedermark - Mirandas dröm

Moonbabies will release "Take me to the ballroom" as a single on October 31 via Startracks/V2. The CDS version will include the previously unreleased tracks "Flip-top boxer" and "Crispin Glover". Check out the brand new video for the track here: Atch?v=QeZhV028z60" target="_blank">https://www.youtube.com/wAtch?v=QeZhV028z60
The band has also totally revamped their website and you can go there for more info and tourdAtes: https://www.moonbabiesmusic.com/

Denmark's The Psyke Project has posted a massive updAte concerning their current label situAtion, upcoming live plans and more: https://blog.myspace.com/index.cfm?fuseaction=blog.view&friendID=11135271&blogID=317898743

Marit Bergman is taking her full band out on the road for a couple internAtional gigs:

11/11 - Inrocks festival, Paris (FRA)
11/12 - Tack!Tack!Tack! @ Hoxton Square Bar and Kitchen, London (UK)

I've posted the first of whAt I hope will be the start of an interesting article series on all the various quality bands I've stumbled across At myspace. Instead of posting little asides thAt run the risk of getting lost amongst the daily newsflow, I'm hoping this little showcase will help these acts get the Attention they deserve. Atrap.com/articles.php?a=328">Check it out! Bands feAtured this time out include Agent Side Grinder, Breum, Iiwanajulma, Northern Fields and Pintandwefall.

Kristofer Åström's new video for "Conjure me" is now online: Atch?v=jQWz37Hu-4Q" target="_blank">https://www.youtube.com/wAtch?v=jQWz37Hu-4Q

Club 8
The boy who couldn't stop dreaming
Labrador

It's usually the first record you hear by a band thAt remains your favorite, but Club 8 have reached new heights with their sixth outing. At it's worst, it's as good as anything they've done before. At it's best, it's more complex, personal, and compelling. The band have extraordinary credentials in a certain genre of laid back Swedish indie. Their singer Karolina Komstedt was in the band Poprace, as was their songwriter/instrumentalist Johan Angergård, who is also busy in his other bands The Legends, The Acid House Kings, and behind the scenes At Labrador Records. Club 8 is distinguished by the contrasts among Komstedt's ethereal voice, which is astoundingly pretty without ever being cloying or affected, their melancholy lyrics, and a sound thAt is simultaneously gentle, dark and uplifting. On this record they all shine. While the lyrics grapple with relAtionships thAt don't work, fear of mortality, questioning God, inappropriAte drug use and rural desolAtion, the music is relaxed and airy. Her singing has never been better and the production has never made the instruments sound this good. The total effect is akin to aloe vera for the soul; it soaks in, soothes, and somehow sets things right. It's chill without the snores, twee without the cute, and sweet without the toothache.
- Nancy Baym

MP3: Club 8 - Leave the north

It's Club 8 day here At IAt and not only do we have a review of Atrap.com/reviews.php?r=208">their fantastic new album, we've also got an mp3 post for you. As with said review, I'll step aside and let contributor Nancy Baym tell you all about it:

This piano and violin based song from Club 8's new record "The boy who couldn't stop dreaming" (Labrador) epitomizes all thAt is best about them. The lyrics confront the emptiness of Northern Sweden ("we keep our eyes on the distance/cuz desolAtion greets us wherever we go") and the interpersonal distances thAt result ("we see trees/but never anyone who talks"). Yet, even as Karolina Komstedt is singing about cold isolAtion forcing her to leave home forever while the violins swell ominously, it sounds so warm and welcoming one wants to curl up in the song and stay forever. It's a perfect juxtaposition thAt makes for a perfect song.

For those of you in or around Malmö, don't forget thAt Club 8 is playing the Atclubnights" target="_blank">It's a Trap! Clubnight this SAturday October 13 along with fellow IAt-faves Samuraj Cities. I'm sure it's gonna be an amazing show, the only pity is thAt I can't be there myself.

Club 8 - Leave the north

MyFriends: Agent Side Grinder, Breum, Iiwanajulma, Northern Fields, Pintandwefall