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To celebrate their 10-year anniversary, Swedish darkwave act Arcana will be doing a 'label split' release with Frédéric Arbour's Cyclic Law and their own Erebus Odora Records. It will feature unreleased tracks, alternative versions and new songs, all packaged in a special 'tall digipack' alongside a booklet with writing about the group's history. A release has been tentatively set for mid-july.

Here's a scan of that write-up The Fashion got in Rolling Stone: jpg" target=_blank>https://thefashion.dk/rolling_stone.jpg

Luger totally copy and pasted from me: https://www.luger.se/nyheter.asp?PK_Id=119 (see my formatting below)
Not that I mind - it's just funny to me that they didn't use the info straight from the Startracks press release/newsletter.

It's official - Epitaph Records will release C.Aarmé's excellent self-titled debut album in the US on july 13. Tour?

Aftonbladet reports that Kent is back in the studio working on an album that should be ready for release sometime next year: je/story/0,2789,482531,00.html" target=_blank>https://www.aftonbladet.se/vss/noje/story/0,2789,482531,00.html (in Swedish)

I'm not sure why I haven't done it already, but here's the tracklists for those carious upcoming Startracks-produced Festival compilations:

Accelerator 2004
01. M. Craft – Sweet
02. The Shins – So Says I
03. Electrelane – The Valleys
04. Lali Puna – Faking the books
05. Broken Social Scene – Stars and sons
06. Explosions in the Sky – The only moment we were alone
07. Laakso – Blizzard
08. jens Lekman – The wrong hands (prev. unreleased)
09. jonas Kullhammar – Bebopalulia
10. The Go! Team - Panterdash
11. The Von Bondies – C'mon, C'mon
12. Existensminimum – The on and on
13. Franz Ferdinand – Take me out (Naum Gabo re-mix) (prev. unreleased)

Picknick
01. Kristofer Åström – Idiot talk
02. Richard Buckner – jewelbomb
03. Tiger Lou – Rushmore (prev. unreleased)
04. Ane Brun – Are they saying goodbye?
05. Denison Witmer – Stations
06. Tomas Andersson Wij – Tommy och hans mamma
07. Christian Kjellvander – For the sake of the song (prev. unreleased. Zandt cover, recorded live at Mondo)
08. Anna Ternheim – Troubled mind
09. Nicolai Dunger – Slaves (we're together like)
10. Tomas Andersson Wij – En vän till mig
11. Ane Brun – Fight Song (prev. unreleased. Likely to be recorded for her next album due 2005)
12. Syd Matters – Have a nice day
13. Kristofer Åström – Cardiac (prev. unreleased, from the "There for" sessions)
14. Syd Matters - Bones
15. Richard Buckner – Put on what you wanna
16. Tiger Lou – Like you said
17. Nicolai Dunger - City sun

And speaking of Startracks, here's a couple mp3s from the label's upcoming releases:

Kristofer Åström - The wild
Gustaf Kjellvander/The Fine Arts Showcase - Mock ivory

I am seriously stoked - radio station Indie 103.1 in Los Angeles played KVLR yesterday on the 'Dead Air' program alongside a ton of other highly respected artists like the Mountain Goats, Calexico and Pj Harvey. Not bad, eh? Now the thing to do would be to call or email the station to make sure they play it again. For info on the 'Dead Air' program, go here (full playlist should be posted soon). For contact/request info, go here.

Don't forget! Christian Kjellvander plays solo in SF tonight at the Make-out Room. If you're in the area, I expect to see you there.

Burst will be playing some UK dates in june together with Dillinger Escape Plan and Blood Valley:

06/08 - Manchester University, Manchester (UK)
06/09 - The Cathouse, Glasgow (UK)
06/10 - The Garage, London (UK)
06/11 - Phoenix Arts Center, Exeter (UK)
06/12 - Engine Room, Cardiff (UK)

The new Peter, Björn and john EP will be called "Beats Traps and Backgrounds". It'll be out soon on Planekonomi. The first single will be for the song "It beats me every time" which will accompanied by a video made with the help of photographer/cook Magnus Magnusson and Oscar Tillman.

The new josé González EP "Stay in the shade" has been cofirmed for a june 16 release through Imperial Recordings.

Also coming up from Imperial is the debut EP from Eskju Divine on june 23 and Melpo Mene's "Don't save me" EP on june 9.

Fonal Records has confirmed the new TV-Resistori album "Intiaanidisko" for a june 21 release. Check out the microsite: https://www.fonal.com/intiaanidisko/index.html
Look for a special Internet-only mix of the title-track to be released june 1.