Blodårstid on Swedish black metal act Orinas: m/blod/2007/04/30/ornias-death-bringer-cd/" target=_blank>https://www.holyterror.com/blod/2007/04/30/ornias-death-bringer-cd/

Swedish singer/songwriter Pelle Carlberg is confirmed for the NYC Popfest in late may: m/" target=_blank>https://www.nycpopfest.com/
He'll be playing on Sunday, may 27. Look for a few more US dates around that time as well.

Swedish hardcore act End of All will be recording a split with English d-beat act Fall of Efrafa for release in late 2007. As mentioned before, look for them to tour Spain in June.

Swedish art-punks Knife and Ape will release their sophomore album "Night touch" on a special limited-edition cassette via label Hästen Och Korset in the near future. Look for them to tour Germany soon as well. Listen here: myspace.com/knifeandape">https://www.myspace.com/knifeandape

A Perfect Friend, the "folktronic" duo of Thomas Denver Jonsson and C-J Larsgarden (Pacta Sunt Servanda), have confirmed that their debut album will be released on June 7 via Stilll.

The new Differnet album "Collapsing universe" is officially confirmed for release on may 30 via Friendly Noise.

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

01. Bloc Party
02. The Arcade Fire
03. Shout Out Louds
04. modest mouse
05. Bright Eyes
06. Arctic monkeys
07. The Knife
08. Laakso
09. Björk
10. The Beatles

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MP3: Tigerbombs - Shaking the tree

Tigerbombs might come off like a Finnish carbon-copy of Caesars/Caesars Palace, but they sure one-upped those dudes by enlisting Klas Åhlund's ex-wife Paola to help out on their new record "Thing that go boom". Otherwise, the sound is more or less the same: revved-up organ-driven garage rock with a definite retro/lo-fi vibe. It's fun stuff, perfect for the onset of summer. Original? Naah, but neither were Caesars either.

Tigerbombs - Shaking the tree

MP3: The Bear Quartet - I don't wanna

Parasol's Jim Kelly once again graces us with a song for our weekly Bear Quartet post:

Released in 2000, The Bear Quartet's "my war" was all about the austere, the sepia-toned, an album that really flirted with bleakness, especially the very very mellow quatrain of passionate acoustic ballads at the album's core. With "my war" the band further unveiled its inner-Neil Young, continued to explore its inner-morrissey, while purposefully outing its inner-Radiohead. The album finds the band at their most willfully perverse ("What I hate"), at their most celestial ("I'm walking out"), and their most brilliantly realized ("I don't wanna"). Although hidden at the tail end of the album, it was the second single, and one of The Bear Quartet's most gorgeous songs to date. A living breathing beautiful piano driven charmer, among their very lushest, with lyrics about getting away from it all, or wishing you could...

The Bear Quartet - I don't wanna

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Last night's Sirius Blog Radio playlist:

01. Superfamily - The radio has expressed concerns about what you did last night
02. TALK 1
03. Asha Ali - These months
04. Boys of Scandinavia - Why do you love me? (radio edit)
05. Promoe - Headache
06. TALK 2
07. Closer - Sensing the wake
08. The Bear Quartet - mom and dad
09. TALK 3
10. Kristofer Åström - Just a little insane
11. Familjen - Kom säger dom
12. Pavan - The bird
13. TALK 4
14. Kazakstan - Song to the past
15. Universal Poplab - Vampire in you
16. TALK 5
17. Scraps of Tape - Death as it should be
18. ARm - Drving by accident
19. The Idealist - The knives are my eyes
20. TALK 6
21. Tsukimono - Gathering heavy breathing
22. Pimentola - Wish upon a fallen star
23. Plain Fade - Uliaan leski
24. TALK 7
25. The Skull Defekts - Six six for eyes
26. Logh - Into the night
27. TALK 8
28. Aerial - You will all die, all things will
29. Tobias Hellkvist - moment at ven
30. Audrey - Views
31. TALK 9
32. Dead Letters Spell Out Dead Words - Ashen like the sky

Reminder! Friday means another episode of It's A Trap! Blog Radio on Sirius Left of Center/Channel 26 at 10pm ET. Check it out!

Tickets are now available for may's extra-special Tack! Tack! Tack! show with Shout Out Louds, Loney, Dear and maia Hirasawa - simply click the banner and you'll be taken to the right place. Also note that DJs Andres Lokko and Off the Wall are now confirmed as well.

Tigerbombs have revamped their website yet again: mbs.com/" target=_blank>https://www.tigerbombs.com/

Swedish rockers Sons of Cyrus have officially broken up. Read about the ex-members current projects: m/" target=_blank>https://www.sonsofcyrus.com/