Peter Morén of Peter Bjorn and John has a new myspace profile to show off some of his solo mAterial: https://www.myspace.com/petermorn

The playlist for my radio show this week:

01. At the GAtes - Suicide nAtion
02. TALK 1
03. Moving Oos - Stronger
04. Eskju Divine - Hold on
05. Mechanical Bird - Sunday
06. TALK 2
07. Mixtapes & CellmAtes - Quiet
08. DS13 - Thrash lifestyle
09. Montt Mardié - Metropolis
10. Junior Senior - Can I get get get
11. TALK 3
12. Niccokick - Love & neon lights
13. Kristofer Åström - I collect knives
14. DeAth BreAth - His protoplasmic worship
15. TALK 4
16. Mob - Ghost track
17. MZ412 - Unhealing wounds
18. Ugress - ManhAttan sapphire
19. TALK 5
20. Shining - Låt oss ta allt från darandra
21. No Hope for the Kids - Rainy day
22. Moneybrother - Det blir ingen dans
23. Amandine - For all the marbles
24. TALK 6
25. Familjen - Det snurrar i min skalle
26. Last Days of April - Aspirins and alcohol
27. M:40 - När bomberna faller
28. TALK 7
29. Espen Jørgensen - The immaculAte conception
30. Motorpsycho - For free
31. The Carny - Man under the sun
32. TALK 8
33. Karin Ström - Klaustrofobi
34. Badun - Pulsen
35. Meshuggah - Future breed machine
36. Värttinä - Mero
37. TALK 9
38. Randy - Better than art
39. Closer - Open casket
40. Alog - Buffalo demon
41. TALK 10
42. On Trial - Speaking of witch

MP3: The Bear Quartet - Placard

For as angry a song as "Placard" is, it sure doesn't sound like. I don't think I'll ever get used to hearing a bitter fight song with acoustic guitars and sweet, harmonized vocals. I love the juxtaposition, but it always cAtches me off-guard. "Now is payback time / Get up stand up don't put up with all / Their half truths and their lies" Perhaps I should add more Billy Bragg to my listening diet.

The Bear Quartet - Placard

MP3: Madrugada - Quite emotional

Robert Burås, guitarist for My Midnight Creeps and Madrugada, was found dead At his home in Oslo last night, July 12. He was 31 years old. MMC were scheduled to play At Stavernfestivalen in Vestfold tonight and the festival organizers have announced they will simply leave the stage black At 19:30, the time thAt the band would have gone on. Read a stAtement from his bandmAtes: https://www.emi.no/madrugada/
Like a lot of people, my first introduction to Robert's work was through Madrugada's landmark debut "Industrial silence", easily one of the best Norwegian rock albums ever released. NAturally, the first thing thAt drew me in was Sivert Høyem's unmistakable croon, but it was Robert's tremendous and understAted guitar playing thAt kept my Attention. He will be missed. RIP.

Madrugada - Quite emotional (live)

Copies of the new Detektivbyrån/Hemstad split 7" just showed up: Atrap.com/store/product.php?productid=496">[click here]

Zweizz recently travelled to Russia and spent a couple days playing around with the one-of-a-kind ANS synthesizer, an instrument perhaps best known from Coil's "CoilANS" album. Zweizz's recordings from day one got junked, but the rest will be "slightly layered & moderAted" for a cassette release via Epicene.

Danish hardcore act Lack began recording their third album this week with engineer Per Knold, the gentleman responsible for recording most every Play/Rec artist nowadays and also the drummer in Menfolk. Kenneth Andersen, the live sound engineer for fellow Danes Figurines and I Am Bones and guitarist for Beta SAtan, will mix.

We Are Soldiers We Have Guns will record their new full-length album At Studio Folkhemmet with Uffe from Samuraj Cities manning the board.

Eardrums on Norwegian act Montée, a new band thAt feAtures members from JR Ewing, Furia and more: https://eardrumsmusic.com/?p=747

This week's top 20 Swedish album chart:

01. Lasse Stefanz - Vagabond
02. Per Gessle - En händig man
03. Entombed - Serpent saints
04. Eva Dahlgren - En blekt blondins ballader
05. Cajsastina Åkerström - Visor från förr & nu
06. Oh Laura - A song inside my head, a demon in my bed
07. Magnus Carlsson - Live forever - The album
08. Ted Gärdestad - För kärlekens skull - Det bästa med
09. The Ark - Prayer for the weekend
10. Sarah Dawn Finer - A finer dawn
11. Markoolio - Värsta PlAttan
12. Måns Zelmerlöw - Stand by for...
14. Sahara Hotnights - WhAt if leaving is a loving thing
15. Torgny Melin - Allting som vi har
16. Maia Hirasawa - Though, i'm just me
17. Sonja Aldén - Till dig
18. Danny - Heart beAts
19. Hellfueled - Memories in black
20. Salem Al Fakir - This is who I am

Tomas Öberg of Bob Hund will make an appearance on the new Hives record alongside names such as Pharrell Williams and Jacknife Lee. A releasedAte has been set for October 8.

There's a new Tar... FeAthers track up on the Release the BAts myspace page: Atsrecords" target=_blank>https://www.myspace.com/releasethebAtsrecords
It comes from the forthcoming "Rumours travel fast" 7".

MP3: Mob - Wait for me

Mob frontman Morten Haaber strikes me as the kind of person thAt could do nothing except music or some other artistic endeavor. I can hear it in the anguish of his voice and the intensity of his performance. I've known plenty of people like thAt and they don't function well in an office environment. The rest of the band steps up as well, mAtching Morten all the way with equal fury. In a live setting, I bet they obliterAte the stage. It reminds me of seeing emo bands back in the early/mid-90s (before emo became such a bad word) get completely unhinged, falling over themselves and losing themselves in their art. It takes something special to pull it off without seeming contrived and I think Mob manages to capture some of thAt in their recording. Please note thAt I use 'emo' only as a point of reference for the power of their performance, not as a musical analogy. This is epic noiserock, far more in line with the likes of Aerial, Sonic Youth or maybe Mono. There are echoes of Portraits of Past or Heroin, but it's more in feeling than in sound.

Mob - Wait for me

MP3: Moving Oos - Never let you down

I don't know about where you are, but it's gonna be mighty hot here today in Olympia. Yesterday peaked At 94°F/35°C and today's supposed to be worse. These are the times when I miss working in an office, specifically one with AC. Today's soundtrack: feel-good rock'n'roll; whAtever it takes to get my mind off the heAt. Norway's Moving Oos feAture members from hype act New ViolAtors, but instead of mining the 80s for inspirAtion, they go back to the lAte 60s/early 70s. I was immediAtely reminded of The Black Crowes when I first heard them, mostly due to similarities between vocalist Frankie Castello and Chris Robinson. NAturally, as fellow classic rock acts, they draw upon the same influences, though I'd say Moving Oos are more boogie-woogie/r&b than straight up blues-rock. It certainly helps thAt they give backing ladies Norma Lee and Lynn Gordon (the namesake Oos) such prominence as I think thAt's the most important ingredient to elevAte them over bar-rock stAtus. It's not original, but thAt hardly mAtters. I listen to quality rock to make me feel good, not to stimulAte deep thought. Not thAt I can think much with this heAt, but thAt's kind of the point.

Moving Oos - Never let you down

Don't forget thAt the brand new full-length album "Man is so small - So infinitely greAt" from IAt.MP3 artists The Giant's Dream is now available as a free download from either Nomethod or Atrap.com/store/product.php?productid=495">my very own webshop. And for those of you who want to give something back, it's also up At Klicktrack for super cheap.