Luxury has confirmed that the new album from The mixed will be released on June 23 and that Boat Club's forthcoming CDEP will be out shortly thereafter.

Norwegian noise legend Lasse marhaug has started a new label called Pica Disk and his first release is a 4xCD box set featuring a collection of various cassette-only releases he did in the 90s. more info: m/" target=_blank>https://picadisk.com/

Swedish singer/songwriter Elin Ruth Sigvardsson will release the new single "How you dug your own grave" on June 20. Her next album is still being worked on and is due for a fall release.

Popmatters reviews Arve Henriksen's latest solo work "Strjon": matters.com/pm/music/reviews/arve-henriksen-strjon/" target=_blank>https://www.popmatters.com/pm/music/reviews/arve-henriksen-strjon/

Pär Hagström & Cirkus Transmopol have posted a new demo track of a song that will be appearing on their forthcoming album: myspace.com/cirkustransmopol" target=_blank>https://www.myspace.com/cirkustransmopol

The new Lionheart Brothers album "Dizzy kiss" will be released on heavy 180gm vinyl via Sirkel Records. The band will play a special record release show for it at Brukbar in Trondheim on June 13.

The video for the new montt mardié single "metropolis" is now online: monttmardie.com/" target=_blank>https://www.monttmardie.com/

more Hybris downloads! Get mp3s of new singles from Vapnet (m/mp3/vapnet-tartillbakadet-radioedit.mp3" target=_blank>"Tar tillbaka det") plus new singing Elias and the Wizzkids (m/mp3/eliasandthewizzkids-thedance-radioedit.mp3" target=_blank>"The dance").

This week's m/group/itsatrap">It's A Trap! Last.fm listening group top 10 albums of the week:

01. The Arcade Fire – Neon Bible
02. The Knife – Silent Shout
03. The Knife – Deep Cuts
04. Arctic monkeys – Favourite Worst Nightmare
05. Loney, Dear – Loney, Noir
06. Beirut – Gulag Orkestar
07. Neutral milk Hotel – In the Aeroplane Over the Sea
08. The Arcade Fire – Funeral
09. The Killers – Sam's Town
10. Pelle Carlberg – In a nutshell

Do you listen to music on your computer or with an iPod? Join us! Go here to learn more: m/help/" target=_blank>https://www.last.fm/help/

A West Side Fabrication has confirmed the release of La masa's album "I allas åsyn" for June 13. Hear a sample at myspace: myspace.com/westsidefabrication" target=_blank>https://www.myspace.com/westsidefabrication

Swedish punkrockers Ninja Dolls on tour in Germany:

10/16 - E-Werk, Oschatz
10/17 - Subway To Peter, Chemnitz
10/18 - Wild at heart, Berlin
10/19 - Alte Pauline, Detmold
10/20 - Beat-Club, Hamburg

The Eardrums music blog has a nice feature on the various music videos nominated for the 30th Norwegian Short Film Festival: msmusic.com/2007/06/11/music-on-film-norwegian-music-videos-nominated-for-the-30th-norwegian-short-film-festival/" target=_blank>https://eardrumsmusic.com/2007/06/11/music-on-film-norwegian-music-videos-nominated-for-the-30th-norwegian-short-film-festival/
Featured artists include Lionheart Brothers, 120 Days, Hanne Hukkelberg, Thomas Dybdahl, Draumir, Superfamily and more.

my playlist for this week's radio show on Sirius:

01. Bogus Blimp - By five o'clock tea
02. TALK 1
03. Sivert Høyem - Smalltown supersound
04. Pluxus - Kinoton
05. Brick - No names
06. TALK 2
07. Hebosagil - Let us go
08. Dialog Cet - Crocodile hunt
09. Hurdy Gurdy - Ynglingen
10. Anja Garbarek - The last trick
11. TALK 3
12. E.S.T. - When god created the coffee break
13. miss Li - I'm sorry, he's mine
14. Afenginn - Ralli i d-mol
15. magyar Posse - Whirlpool of terror and tension
16. TALK 4
17. Susanne Sundfør - I resign
18. Sällskapet - Nordlicht
19. Nisse Hellberg - Kärlekens express
20. TALK 5
21. The Spacious mind - Rider of the woodlands
22. TALK 6
23. Him Kerosene - Ladybugs
24. Svenson - Don't get lost
25. Namur - marching
26. TALK 7
27. Tellevika + Firefox AK - Eric
28. Carpet People - A girl without a skin
29. Anna Ternheim - Lovers dream (feat. Fyfe Dangerfield)
30. Knife and Ape - No arms no legs
31. TALK 8
32. Brighter Death Now - American tale

MP3: The Bear Quartet - From nowhere

Once again, I hand things over to Jim Kelly from m/" target=_blank>Parasol for this week's Bear Quartet post:

"Gay icon" was my first introduction to The Bear Quartet. A little slipcase CD with a naked man on the artwork that sat on the shelf for a year before some Swedish pals patiently explained that "The Bear Quartet are the very best band in Sweden, maybe the world." And this coming from members of the band I considered the best rock act in the world at the time. With this recommendation in mind and beginning to appreciate seeing Jari's scrotum on the gatefold (that took some balls!) I began an odyssey of obsession that all started with the opening track "From nowhere" and one of the best lines ever written:

Adam and Eve were the first, unemployed, in love and evicted...

A short, sweet, heartrending piano ballad that touched on the garden of Eden, a dysfunctional family (a common theme in Peter's songs, see m/index.php?d=1266">"Disappearing act"), and a threesome (I think)... As soon as this poignant and plaintive narrative fades out, the rest of "Gay icon"'s glorious mayhem begins, an often shocking study in contrasts, with the tone strangely set from the start.

The Bear Quartet - From nowhere

MP3: Marit Bergman - Sweatbead

matt Giordano asked me about this song earlier this week so I figured, what the heck? Why not make it this week's Friday post. marit Bergman has done a lot of fun covers for b-sides throughout the years - X-Ray Spex ("Oh bondage, up yours!"), AC/DC ("Highway to hell"), etc. - but it's her cover of fellow Swedes Fireside and the song "Sweatbead" that stands out. There's also a nice moneybrother duet on the same disc (2003's "From now on" single) making it even more worthwhile to track down. Anyhow, marit does away with Fireside's post-hardcore syncopation and gives the big chorus hook to the horn section, wholly making it her own. It's a really sweet song when you get down to it and I think that marit does a great job of bringing that out, especially with the way she expands the song's dynamic range. Sometimes b-sides are obviously the tracks that weren't good enough for the album, but this most certainly is not.

Marit Bergman - Sweatbead