New tourdates for Danish indierockers Gravy:
04/12 - Studenterhuset, Århus (DK)
05/11 - Flockenpop Festival, Hannover (GER)
05/24 - Astra Stube, Hamburg (GER)
05/25 - Buschbrand, Duisburg (GER)
09/07 - Hafenstrasse tbc, meißen (GER)
09/08 - Objekt 5, Halle (GER)
"Back with the nerds", the first single from the band's forthcoming album "Glory to our brilliant name", will be out in march. The album itself comes out April 16.
NmE is running a special on Danish music in their February 24th issue. Artists featured include Figurines, Oh No Ono, Kashmir, Nephew, The Broken Beats, The Blue Van and WhomadeWho. See a scan of the article here: https://www.rosa.org/v3/uploads/gallery/2/2289_full.jpg
Goto80's live set from Worm in Rotterdamn on January 26 is now available online: mstation.nl/" target=_blank>https://www.wormstation.nl/
Click on 'stage' and then 'dance to the bit'.
Finnish post-rockers magyar Posse are planning some sort of 10-year anniversary special this coming may.
Sandy mouche frontwoman Helena Josefsson has a new website for her solo career: m/" target=_blank>https://www.helenajosefsson.com/
Check out the video for "When we were Indians" from Norwegian jazz vocalist Solveig Slettahjell: mov" target=_blank>https://curlinglegs.no/wewereindians.mov
Combat Rock has posted updated US tourdates for I Walk the Line as well as Japanese dates for Bombshell Rocks: music.com/ekeikat.htm" target=_blank>https://www.fireinsidemusic.com/ekeikat.htm
New tourdates for Franky Lee:
02/21 - Sticky Fingers, Göteborg (SWE)
02/22 - KB, malmö (SWE)
02/23 - Kino, Karlskrona (SWE)
02/24 - The Tivoli, Helsingborg (SWE)
02/28 - mittwoch, Nyköping (SWE)
03/01 - Arenan, Karlstad (SWE)
03/02 - Garage, Oslo (NOR)
03/03 - millencolin Open @ Satin, Örebro (SWE)
03/15 - Logo, Hamburg (GER)
03/16 - Kamp, Bielefeld (GER)
03/17 - magnet, Berlin (GER)
03/18 - Prime, Köln (GER)
03/19 - Ampere, münchen (GER)
03/20 - KAB-Usine, Geneva (CH)
03/21 - ISC, Bern (CH)
03/22 - Albert, Zurich (CH)
03/23 - Transivania, milan (ITA)
03/24 - Rockplanet, Pinarella Di Cervia (ITA)
03/25 - The Szene, Wien (AUS)
03/26 - Substage, Karlsruhe (GER)
03/27 - Exhaus, Trier (GER)
03/29 - Debaser Slussen, Stockholm (SWE)
04/13 - Haffas, Ludvika (SWE)
04/14 - Lokomotiv, Trollhättan (SWE)
04/18 - Norrlands Nation, Uppsala (SWE)
04/26 - Kuudes Linja, Helsinki (FIN)
Not only does Last Days of April's new album "might as well live" come out in Japan today on Imperial/Teichiku, there's also a new tribute album on Evol Records being released simultaneously. Tracklist:
01. Nature Living - All will break
02. Veltpunch - Bitter taste
03. Reach Up To The Universe - Will the violins be playing?
04. Pinkloop - Somehow
05. Even - Off the cliff
06. The Featherside - Too close
07. Everyday, It's Like Carnival - Playerin
08. mule - Last Days Of April (eary 90'S style )
Via m" target=_blank>One Chord to Another comes word that Finnish indierockers Johnny Superhero have their entire recent album "Finally nowhere" available for download: https://www.johnnysuperhero.net/
Lots of other interesting Finnish indiepop tips at One Chord, so check the above link for more.
The video for the new Penniless single "messenger" is now online: m/watch?v=04eYcxXVD74" target=_blank>https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=04eYcxXVD74
The track comes from the band's new album "The attraction", out today on A West Side Fabrication.
Sean from Said the Gramophone visits Iceland, almost dies: mophone.com/archives/on_almosts.php" target=_blank>https://www.saidthegramophone.com/archives/on_almosts.php
Kristofer Åström's new album "RainawayTown" will be released in April. Definitely looking forward to that one.
The video for Johndoe's new single "Hardt som faen" is now online: m/watch?v=z1UtvoxrJmY" target=_blank>https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z1UtvoxrJmY
The clip was filmed live by fans at a show in Oslo and the live sound was mixed by Swedish producer/engineer Pelle Gunnerfeldt (Fireside, The Hives, etc.). The track is the third single from "Dødvinkel", one of my favorite records from 2006.
Pitchfork reviews the new Shining album "Grindstone": media.com/article/record_review/41234/Shining_Grindstone" target=_blank>https://www.pitchforkmedia.com/article/record_review/41234/Shining_Grindstone