Ja Ja Ja pays tribute to their forebears from Tack! Tack! Tack!: music.com/index.php/2012/01/flipside-of-a-memory-tack-tack-tack-retrospective/" target="_blank">https://www.jajajamusic.com/index.php/2012/01/flipside-of-a-memory-tack-tack-tack-retrospective/
Popmatters reviews Swedish pop artist Azure Blue and his debut album "Rule of thirds": matters.com/pm/review/152996-azure-blue-rule-of-thirds/" target="_blank">https://www.popmatters.com/pm/review/152996-azure-blue-rule-of-thirds/
New visuals from Sleep Party People off their upcoming record "We were drifting on a sad song", due out April 8 via .
A new pro-quality live video from Swedish rockers Bombus.
m/n/39277-its-a-trap-clubnights-2012-update">Speaking of Gamla Pengar, it appears that the band's new 7" EP "Stekt orm" is currently streaming in full over at SoundCloud. Recommended!
I am thrilled to announce that in addition to the m/n/39133-clubnights-2012">previously announced It's a Trap! Clubnights gigs with We Are the Storm/Helsinki Poetry (this Friday! holy shit!) and Caotico (April 13!), we will be welcoming millencolin/The Peepshows indierock sideproject Franky Lee plus Tiger Bell to the stage of Debaser malmö on February 17. And that's not all: we've also got Vånna Inget, EL-SD and Gamla Pengar coming down on march 16 and you know that one is gonna rule! Wish I could be there personally, but hey, maybe I'll make it over this coming summer.
Ex-Detektivbyrån member martin molin is going the opposite direction of Dödsvarg and is composing the music for the upcoming show "The Famous Swedish Project" (emphatically "not theater, not performance and not dance, but everything at once"), to be performed by PLAY Teaterkonst and set to premiere on February 6 in Göteborg. more info at Facebook: m/playteaterkonst" target="_blank">https://www.facebook.com/playteaterkonst
Grande Roses, one of my m/n/39156-top-10s-for-2011-its-a-trap">favorite bands of 2011, are premiering their new video "Dancing away" at Gaffa: https://gaffa.se/tv/clip/1017
Look the band to release their debut full-length later this coming year.
Can't say that I'm much of a fan of various acts on display here aside from maybe Keep Rising (ex-meleeh/Ashram), but SWEHC has a good rundown on new music from various Swedish hardcore acts such asLose the Life, Agent Attitude and more: m/2012/01/14/swehc-jan10/" target="_blank">https://www.swehc.com/2012/01/14/swehc-jan10/
If you're into youth-crew or NYHC-style jams, you'll dig it, but it's not for me.
Hyped Swedish new-age pop duo Korallreven will be coming to the US for a short string of shows in march, including a couple West Coast dates with Victoria Bergsman:
03/04 - Bowery Ballroom, New York, NY
03/05 - Black Cat, Washington DC
03/06 - Lincoln Hall, Chicago, IL
03/07 - Independent, San Francisco, CA
03/08 - Echoplex, Los Angeles, CA
Danish artist CALLmeKAT has confirmed that her new album "Where the river turns black" will be released on march 26.
In case you m/n/38666-rising-album-preview">missed it when it was streaming at Rock-a-Rolla magazine, Rising's excellent new album "To solemn ash" is now streaming in full at The Obelisk for a limited time: m/" target="_blank">https://theobelisk.net/obelisk/2012/01/17/risingstream/
Check out The Raveonettes playing the b-side tune "Railroad tracks" live for They Shoot music Don't They's Copenhagen Sessions: https://gaffa.dk/tv/clip/1009
more here: music.at/posts/The_Raveonettes" target="_blank">https://theyshootmusic.at/posts/The_Raveonettes
Preview a new track from Heathers/Hollows, the noise/improv duo of Johannes Brander (Skogar) and Johan G Winther (Scraps of Tape, Thee Gutted String, etc.): mblr.com/post/15738150476/new-noise-improv-supergroup-johannes-brander" target="_blank">https://skogars.tumblr.com/post/15738150476/new-noise-improv-supergroup-johannes-brander
Expect a bunch of releases to surface later this year.
Various ArtistsFifth signature compilation from the very cool Oslo-based label , celebrating their five years of existence and a variety and diversity of styles. The label's ability to act as an umbrella collective works when the sum of so many contrasting creative devices, at times, outweigh some particulars -- but in the spirit of camaraderie, we're not here to pick those out. Experimental yet smart, the label is a solid example of successful DIY'ing in today's world. The comp could probably roughly grouped into categories: quirky-electronic-based tracks (Hans Ice - "Phone home" / satanicpronocultshop - "Tennnojizoo (remix by Kesalan Patharan)", Toshybot - "Super Nintendo Chalmers"); 80s synth-pop tunes in the vibe of Bill murray on a karaoke dance-floor (Cyranoarmageddon - "50 cent" / Pilemil - "Back to 1010"); nods to Can (Radio 9 - "Damo Suzuki is staying at my house"); literary freak folk star magnus moriarty with, "Distant athletic parts of you" and other serious folk-ies (Yoreyolk - "Eggs" / Feather and Folly - "Emma's island"). my two favourite tracks however, are Hanny - "Can't", female fronted rapping/vocals producing some catchy beats. Then Easy & Center of the Universe - "Bosphorus (Coco high energy rewerk)", mixing the "irresistibly funky sound of Skweee with rich Eastern melodies that one would usually hear in styles like Turkish Anatolian pop, Egyptian our music or dance latest dance sound pounding from a Persian bazaar." If that ain't descript enough for you, let's just say it sounds like the parents have finally reigned home and inundated the kids with who's boss. A comp highly recommended for anyone wanting an appealing taster through Oslo's underground.
- Ann Sung-an Lee