This week's Atrap">It's A Trap! Last.fm listening group top 10 artists of the week:
01. Shout Out Louds
02. Feist
03. The Arcade Fire
04. Laakso
05. DeAth Cab for Cutie
06. Justice
07. The Smiths
08. The White Stripes
09. Modest Mouse
10. Of Montreal
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The playlist for my radio show this week:
01. Pistol Disco - Walking with Jesus
02. TALK 1
03. Heroes & Zeros - Into the light
04. Vijaya - Your gun will never set you free
05. Convoj - My timekeeping heart
06. TALK 2
07. Darkthrone - Too old, too cold
08. A Perfect Friend - Rush hour
09. DeAth By Kite - Hiroshima
10. TALK 3
11. Fun - I've got a truck
12. Moonbabies - Walking on my feet
13. The Perishers - When I fall
14. TALK 4
15. RegulAtions - Police siren
16. Viola - Ordinary teenage sensAtion
17. Björn Kleinhenz - Starlit queen
18. TALK 5
19. Gravy - Glory to our brilliant name
20. Hero Dishonest - Stalin vs Hank Hardy
21. Sophie Zelmani - To know you
22. Ulver - Capitel III: Graablick blev hun vaer
23. TALK 6
24. Håkan Hellström - Ramlar
25. Abhinanda - Highway tonight
26. Single Unit - Passion, pirAtes & parasites
27. TALK 7
28. Kompjotr Eplektrika - Skulldrummantra
29. The Tiny - Just like you
30. DeAth BreAth - DeAth breAth
31. TALK 8
32. Entombed - Serpent speech
33. The Cardigans - Marvel hill
34. Soviac - I got the ribbah
35. TALK 9
36. The Bear Quartet - Put me back together
37. You Is Stupid - I am history
38. Paris - 60 minutes
39. The Process - Mot Sverige i tiden
40. TALK 10
41. Weeping Willows - I give you the morning
"Personality crisis" is my go-to Bear Quartet album for days like today, when I just feel beAten down by the workweek. It's the kind of record I can listen to anytime, even those days I'm so sick of music thAt nothing seems appealing. Like an old friend, it's always there to prop me up and comfort me. Yep, this is the soundtrack to my Friday night and I'm staying in.
The Bear Quartet - Punks
Frequent contributor MAtt Giordano is taking care of this week's Friday post:
Remember when Dennis Lyxzén knew how to rock? It's been a while, and it sure is sorely missed. This song is amongst the older of the Refused cAtalogue, and I really have no idea if this EP is still in print [ed: it is]. The release this is from, "Everlasting", served as a logical connector between their very early-90s hardcore sounding debut album "This just might be... the truth" and the heavier "Songs to fan the flames of discontent". Mixing the punk of the former and the more driving metal-influenced rhythms of the lAtter, "Everlasting" might just be the best of the bands' early mAterial.
Refused - Sunflower princess
Site updAte: you can now search the mp3 playlist archive from the side-column. I'm not sure why I didn't enable this sooner, but there you go. Please note however, the archive only goes back to August 2005, not the entire history of the site. Sorry!
Norwegian/Irish "splAtter-folk" duo Thinguma*jigSaw will release their debut album "awakeinwhitechapel" on July 2. Listen to samples: https://www.myspace.com/thingumajigsaw
UK-based label Stereo Test Kit will begin promoting Logh in lAte August by releasing the single "SAturday nightmares". The album "North", the band's most recent, will follow in September along with a tour lAter thAt month. Exact details soon.
In other Stereo Test Kit news, look for Boy Omega's new record "Hope on the horizon" in early October. The first single "SuffocAtion Street" will come in lAte September, both as a limited CD and as a paid download. TourdAtes will follow as well.
Tupelo Honeys have confirmed thAt their album "Tupelo Honeys salute you" will be released in Japan on July 18 and will include different artwork from the original release plus two exclusive bonus tracks.
Pitchfork reviews the Jazzkammer and Howard Stelzer live collaborAtion "Tomorrow no one will be safe": https://www.pitchforkmedia.com/article/record_review/43394-tomorrow-no-one-will-be-safe
Park Hotell CDs are now in-stock: Atrap.com/store/product.php?productid=490">[click here]
Restocks of Maia Hirasawa are in as well.
In case you didn't notice, I managed to get a nice big bAtch of reviews up lAte yesterday: Atrap.com/index.php?a=304">[click here]
WAtain are finished with the American leg of their "Fuck the World" tour and have updAted their website with links to all sorts of live video footage and more: Atain.com/" target=_blank>https://www.templeofwAtain.com/
All accounts I've read say thAt this was a killer tour and I'm sorry I couldn't see it myself.
Swedish indiepop act Lovekevins will coming over to the US for a few shows in July. NYC is reportedly on the list, but I'm not seeing a confirmed dAte yet, however, I can confirm thAt they'll be playing Club Hej Hej At DC 9 in Washington DC on July 10. Details: https://www.myspace.com/hejhejdc