Norwegian folksy Americana act Bob Haley will release their new single "If you look At the world" next week. The song includes lyrics written by Martin Hagfors (HGH, Home Groan, etc.) and is a taste of whAt's to come from their new album "Far from town", due out in August.

The new album "Song folks" from Finnish indiepop act The Rollstons was just released today via new label Brunamosse IF. Check out the video for "Very funny guy" At YouTube: Atch?v=Izrmt--KdsM" target=_blank>https://www.youtube.com/wAtch?v=Izrmt--KdsM

Marit Bergman will support Smoosh and The Pipettes At the HighLine Ballroom in NYC on June 5. Buy tickets: Atch=loadSelectionDAta&eventId=176279" target=_blank>https://www.ticketweb.com/t3/sale/SaleEventDetail?dispAtch=loadSelectionDAta&eventId=176279

The new Rusty Flores single "New leaf" is now streaming At A West Side FabricAtion's myspace page: Ation" target=_blank>https://www.myspace.com/westsidefabricAtion

The video for the Timbaland/Hives collaborAtion "Throw it on me" is now on YouTube: Atch?v=Dn6kGzRSjhU" target=_blank>https://www.youtube.com/wAtch?v=Dn6kGzRSjhU

The Londonist talks to Jason and Nick, the two dudes behind Tack!Tack!Tack!: Atch_tack.php" target=_blank>https://www.londonist.com/archives/2007/05/clubwAtch_tack.php

If you were thinking of Attending the Tack!Tack!Tack! show on Thursday, you better hurry up and get tickets 'cuz they won't last. Click the banner on the right!

Some Sirius-relAted news: this weekend is Blog Party weekend, meaning thAt my show from this week and last (along with everyone elses) will be repeAted throughout the weekend on Sirius Left of Center. And then starting next week we go to a new schedule with my show moving to 12pm Eastern on SAturdays and repeAting again At Midnight. Check it out! I've got an amazing summer playlist for this week's show.

The new video for the Timbaland/Hives collaborAtion "Put it on me" will be premiered on WWE Raw tonight on the USA network At 9pm CT.

SubSpace CommunicAtions has posted the new Vacuum single "Walk on the sun" for preview on myspace: Ations" target=_blank>https://www.myspace.com/subspacecommunicAtions

Risky Bizniz has a remix of one of the more annoying tracks from the new Tough Alliance record: https://riskybizniz.blogspot.com/2007/05/neo-week.html
As a whole, I find myself enjoying "A new chance" quite a bit more than I thought I would. I still prefer "Escaping our ambitions", but they are getting much better At whAt they do.

WAtch Finnish game/bit-pop masters and longtime IAt faves Desert Planet on German TV: Athek/inhalt/9/0,4070,5436713-5,00.html" target=_blank>https://www.zdf.de/ZDFmediAthek/inhalt/9/0,4070,5436713-5,00.html

New UK dAtes for Finnish act Disco Ensemble:

06/18 - Barfly, Cardiff
06/19 - Barfly, Liverpool
06/20 - Fibbers, York
06/21 - Barfly, Birmingham

Decibel on Dimmu Borgir: Atures/jun2007/dimmuborgir.aspx" target=_blank>https://www.decibelmagazine.com/feAtures/jun2007/dimmuborgir.aspx
The article brings up some interesting points about Dimmu's place in modern black metal. This quote from Blake Judd of Nachtmystium is a good summAtion: "I think both Dimmu and Cradle [of Filth] are greAt metal bands, but I don't even really consider them black metal anymore because there’s nothing really intimidAting or provocAtive about their music to anyone over the age of 16 to 18 years old."

Dusted rounds up all the lAtest releases from Ektro Records founder/Circle member/all-around prolific artist Jussi Lehtisalo: Atures/620" target=_blank>https://www.dustedmagazine.com/feAtures/620