Here's those Japanese tourdates for Smalltown:
04/20 - GIG, Yokohama
04/21 - Jam, Tokyo
04/22 - Nano, Kyoto
04/23 - Ise Question, mie
04/24 - Huck Finn, Aichi
04/25 - Crowbar, Tokusima
04/26 - Jet, matsuyama
04/27 - Vaper, Saga
04/28 - Kieth Flack, Fukuoka
04/29 - megahertz, Fukuoka Kokura
04/30 - tba, Osaka
Norwegian troubador Saint Thomas will tour Europe in march with support from The Captain and me (who will also be acting as his backing band):
03/15 - Hafenklang Exil, Hamburg (GER)
03/16 - Cafe Zapata, Berlin (GER)
03/17 - Star Club, Dresden (GER)
03/18 - Cairo, Würzburg (GER)
03/20 - Schocken, Stuttgart (GER)
03/22 - Substanz, münchen (GER)
03/23 - Gravity Festival @ Planet, Wien (AUS)
03/25 - Öttinger Villa, Darmstadt (GER)
03/26 - Cookys, Frankfurt (GER)
03/27 - Ziegel Au Lac, Zürich (CH)
03/28 - Das Schiff, Basel (CH)
03/29 - Botanique, Brüssel (BEL)
Look for UK dates in may.
Kooljunk is offering up the new Wired for mono single "Calling down a hard rain" as a free download via Klicktrack: m/shop/label/kooljunk/koolcds0700107" target=_blank>https://www.klicktrack.com/shop/label/kooljunk/koolcds0700107
Amandine has posted the first taste of their forthcoming album "Solace in sore hands" on myspace: myspace.com/amandinemusic" target=_blank>https://myspace.com/amandinemusic
Look for European tourdates for April to be announced soon.
Daniel Vrangsinn (Carpathian Forest, Nattefrost, etc) has set up a new website to offer free downloads from many of his various projects: misantrof.net/" target=_blank>https://www.misantrof.net/
Groover Recordings has confirmed march 28 as the release date for Lasse Lindh's new album "Jag tyckte jag var glad". As mentioned before, the new single "Varje litet steg" comes out February 14.
The songwriting duo behind Aqua (remember "Barbie girl"?), Søren Rasted and Claus Norreen, are once again working together under the name Pooodle. Listen here: myspace.com/pooodlemusic" target=_blank>https://www.myspace.com/pooodlemusic
Not only is the subject matter dated, so is the sound. Pass.
This week's top 20 Norwegian album chart:
01. Christel Alsos - Closing The Distance
02. Sivert Høyem & The Volunteers - Exiles
03. William Hut - Nightfall
04. Bjørn Eidsvåg - Nåde
05. Vamp - I full symfoni (med KORK)
06. Sissel - De beste 1986-2006
07. Odd Nordstoga - Heim te mor
08. Jan Werner - Stronger
09. Kristin Asbjørnsen - Wayfaring Stranger - A Spiritual Songbook
10. Øystein Sunde - Sundes verden
11. Espen Lind, Kurt Nilsen, Alejandro Fuentes og Askil Holm - Hallelujah - Live
12. 120 Days - 120 Days
13. marit Larsen - Under The Surface
14. Thomas Dybdahl - Science
15. malin - malin på månen
16. Rockettothesky - To sing you apple trees
17. morten Abel - Some Of Us Will make It
18. Leif Ove Andsnes - Horizons
19. Datarock - Datarock
20. Åge Aleksandersen - Snöharpan
Fat Planet on Icelandic crunk act Steel Lord: m.au/blog/2007/01/25/steed-lord-iceland/" target=_blank>https://www.fatplanet.com.au/blog/2007/01/25/steed-lord-iceland/
Northern Vantage reports that Norwegian avant/black-metal Ved Buens Ende has broken up yet again: my.opera.com/NorthernVantage/blog/2007/01/24/ved-buens-ende-break-up" target=_blank>https://my.opera.com/NorthernVantage/blog/2007/01/24/ved-buens-ende-break-up
Franky Lee's new website is now online: m/" target=_blank>https://www.frankylee.com/
This week's top 20 Swedish album chart:
01. Lasse Stefanz - 40 ljuva år!
02. Laleh - Prinsessor
03. moneybrother - Pengabrorsan
04. markus Fagervall - Echo heart
05. Pain of Salvation - Scarsick
06. Nisse Hellberg - Snackbar blues
07. martin Stenmarck - Nio sanningar och en lögn
08. Pernilla Andersson - Baby blue
09. Calaisa - Calaisa
10. Björn Skifs - Andra Decennier
11. Lisa miskovsky - Changes
12. Abba - Number ones
14. Bo Kaspers Orkester - Hund
15. Orup - Faktiskt
16. Lars Winnerbäck - Efter nattens bränder - 1996-2006
17. Vikingarna - Bästa
18. Jay-Jay Johanson - The long term physical effects are not yet known
19. Koop - Koop islands
20. Therion - Gothic Kabbalah
Vendlus confirmed march 28 as the release date for Zweizz's new album "The yawn of the new age", but then Zweizz mainman Svein Egil Hatlevik learned that his old band DHG set march 26 as the release date for their new album so of course he had to one-up them and move his to march 24. Phew!
In other Zweizz-related news, Svein Egil Hatlevik has started a few new collaboration projects including something with Austrian black-metal act Abigor and something else with weirdo electronic? act Joey Hopkins' midget Factory. He's also doing a new 7" with his old band Fleurety to be released on Duplicate Records post-summer, another band called Umoral featuring Teloch from Nidingr, and an as-yet unnamed ambient project with artist Kim Sølve. For more details and links to samples, go here: myspace.com/zweizzmusick" target=_blank>https://blog.myspace.com/zweizzmusick
It's interesting to see old Swedish punk bands like Vacum finding new life on myspace: myspace.com/vacumsweden" target=_blank>https://www.myspace.com/vacumsweden
I probably would've never heard of these guys if it wasn't for this.