The video for the latest Samuraj Cities single "All along the shoreline" is now online: m/watch?v=IW8QJmpJwZm" target=_blank>https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IW8QJmpJwZm

A Perfect Friend, the indietronic duo of IAT.mP3 artist Pacta Sunt Servanda and singer/songwriter Thomas Denver Jonsson, has a new website: m/" target=_blank>https://www.aperfectfriend.com/

Speaking of Pacta Sunt Servanda, his doom/noise sideproject Ondo just posted a new track on myspace: myspace.com/avondo" target=_blank>https://www.myspace.com/avondo
Look for a split 3" CD with French act The Austrasian Goat to be released via Burning Emptiness in April.

Did Christian Kjellvander elope? Read more: myspace.com/index.cfm?fuseaction=blog.view&friendID=78351505&blogID=242169463" target=_blank>https://blog.myspace.com/index.cfm?fuseaction=blog.view&friendID=78351505&blogID=242169463
If so, congrats and best wishes!

Check out the video for "It will follow the rain" from Swedish act The Tallest man on Earth: m/watch?v=Wsy4Qbwl5a8" target=_blank>https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Wsy4Qbwl5a8

New tourdates for The Animal Five:

05/04 - Club Drushba, Halle (GER)
05/05 - Keller Klub, Stuttgart (GER)
05/06 - Arena Club, Vienna (AUS)
05/08 - musikklub meyer @ Visions Party, Siegen (GER)
05/09 - Britwoch Party @ Grüner Jäger, Hamburg (GER)
05/11 - Blue Shell, Köln (GER)
05/12 - Get Addictes Party @ Suite 023, Dortmund (GER)
05/14 - Ringlokschuppen Club, Bielefeld (GER)
05/16 - Berlin Independent Night Festival @ Kalkscheune, Berlin (GER)
05/18 - Wehrschloss, Bremen (GER) w/King Khan & His Shrines

Danish rockers Anomoly have decided to break up: maly.dk/" target=_blank>https://www.anomaly.dk/

Indie mP3 talks to Swedish twee act Liechtenstein: mp3.co.uk/2007/03/liechtenstein_16.html" target=_blank>https://www.indie-mp3.co.uk/2007/03/liechtenstein_16.html

Check out the Alina loop machine: m/alina/" target=_blank>https://www.ljudbilden.com/alina/

I'd post the weekly m/group/itsatrap" target=_blank>It's a trap! Last.fm listening group charts, but it's just too depressing this week. The same sad story, every damn week. So, again I implore you: if you listen to music on your computer or with an iPod you should join us! The more people that join, the more interesting our chart will be, the more interesting new music you'll discover. Go here to learn more: m/help/" target=_blank>https://www.last.fm/help/

As was hinted at m/index.php?d=1201">a week ago, Junk music has come to an end: musik.com/" target=_blank>https://www.junkmusik.com/

Pitchfork reviews the "Labrador 100" compilation: media.com/article/record_review/41658/Various_Artists_Labrador_100_a_Complete_History_of_Popular_music" target=_blank>https://www.pitchforkmedia.com/article/record_review/41658/Various_Artists_Labrador_100_a_Complete_History_of_Popular_music

MP3: Maia Hirasawa - Gothenburg

maia Hirasawa's debut single "And I found this boy" is classic indiepop through and through, right on down to the big dance number in m/watch?v=BRIyb8Sqol8" target=_blank>the video. A little sugary sweet perhaps, but perfect for that transition from winter to spring. But what of the rest of the record? Thankfully, it's more than cutesy girlpop and songs about boys. There are moments of that, sure, but it's all very well-done and balanced with other, more introspective and contemplative material. In the same way that I suspect some people were turned off from Hello Saferide because of "the lesbian song" ("my best friend"), understand that there's much more to it. It's the non-single tracks that elevate the album as a whole. Take "Gothenburg" for example - a song about a very specific place and time. The music is totally different, but I can't help but be reminded of Jawbreaker's "West Bay invitational". That's a song that is even more time/place specific, but its essence - the power of capturing that singular moment - is what's important and what makes it so strong and memorable. This will be a song to revisit in years to come.

Maia Hirasawa - Gothenburg

MP3: The Bear Quartet - Earthly pastime

Once again, Aymeric of m" target=_blank>Absolut Noise takes care of our weekly Bear Quartet post:

Preamble: "Earthly pastime" is certainly not the best Bear Quartet song; too square, too pop, too "regular". Released on their "moby Dick" album, it was made during the early part of BQ story. It could actually be taken as a "country" song. In this respect, it reminds me a bit the sound of "Ditt hjärta är en stjärna", the latest mattias Alkberg BD album.

There are three kind of songs: the ones you hate, the ones you love and the ones you'd better listen to while you are driving a car. "Earthly pastime" belongs to this third category. I cannot exactly remember when I have begun to fall in love with it. I used to listen to it at home and find it nice, but it was not a killer to me. And then I was driving near monaco, just next to the French Riviera, exactly on the road where Grace Kelly died in a car crash. I was actually thinking about the Hitchcock actress when I started to realize that I was moving my head back and forth, driving a bit too fast on this serpentine road. The feeling was just too good. I wanted to let the car go, put my hands off the steering wheel and clap them in rhythm. I did not dare though. I am still alive.

The Bear Quartet - Earthly pastime

MP3: Lill Lindfors - Jag tycker inte om dig

Today's post belongs to Simon Tagestam:

It's a trap! is mostly concentrated on music from the last few months, so to give you a little break from all this I'd like to present to you a song that was initially released 42 years ago. Lill Lindfors is a Swedish entertainer who's done a wide range of things, but her biggest achievement is surely her album "Du är den ende" from 1967. It's a bit of a varied mix that contains some annoying samba/bossanova/jazz numbers, but the true gold is the sad and slow songs that have got some of the most hardcore, cold and "punk" lyrics I've ever heard. The chorus to "Jag tycker inte om dig" goes "I don't like you, I'm not fond of you, but I've got a lot of sympathy," and it also contains the brilliant line "If you don't trust me when I whisper to you 'my love', you're right, because you're not that to me" (all sung in Swedish of course). It's great stuff, and one of few songs that I can listen to with my parents without either of us going insane (please feel free to do a Freudian interpretation).

Lill Lindfors - Jag tycker inte om dig