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Week #2 and we're going strong! Our latest Bear Quartet tribute post comes from Parasol's Jim Kelly, probably one of the biggest BQ fans I know. His pick? Well, read for yourself:
"World War III" is taken from the "Load it" EP, recorded in 2000 and released in very early 2001, one of The Bear Quartet's truly wondrous b-sides. A sweet, sad little song of truly epic proportions, with lyrics detailing a helicopter rescue and a childhood game of hide-n-seek gone wrong. It touches on fatalism and fealty (or a lack thereof) and finding yourself all sorts of lost for all sorts of reasons. And when it couldn't get any more melancholy, when the girl with the head-injury is happy to be in a helicopter, when the kid with the great hiding place realizes the game ended a long time ago and he's alone, what do they throw in instead of a guitar solo? That's right. Bagpipes. Or something suitably bagpipe-like, a mournful and keening wail, but it's probably just my favorite guitarist on the planet, Jari Haapalainen, playing mandolin through his Fender Twin, or something. So here I am with a lump in my throat and the solemn promise of further heartache (because you know it's not over)... Like when frontman mattias Alkberg sings bassist Peter Nuottaniemi's wrenching lyrics in the closing stanza: "I was hiding from you who had gone home without telling me, and I swear that sometimes it's like I'm still out there." Hand me a hanky. "World War III" is Scandinavian melancholy as a musical sub-genre, as a guilty pleasure, as an itch you enjoy scratching, as an incurable affliction, encapsulated in 4 minutes and 4 seconds.
The Bear Quartet - World War III
Again, if anyone is interested in contributing their own thoughts about a particular Bear Quartet song, please get in touch! We've got 50 more songs to go before the year is done!
Labrador has started to take orders on their 10-year anniversary 4CD box set "Labrador 100, a complete history of popular music": https://www.labrador.se/LABRADOR100/
Swedish hip-hop artist Timbuktu will be performing live at the legendary Apollo theatre in NYC on January 16. I do believe that Swedish Radio P3 will record and broadcast the show.
Set your Tivos: Peter Bjorn and John will perform live on Conan O'Brien on January 29.
Swedish singer/songwriter Tomas Andersson Wij will release his new greatest hits collection "En introduktion till Tomas Andersson Wij" on February 28. It includes songs from all his albums plus three brand new tracks. The first single will be for "Hälsingland".
Blood Tsunami, the new all-star Norwegian band featuring Stu manx (Gluecifer) and Bård G. Eithun (Emperor, Scum), has confirmed that their debut album "Thrash metal" will be released on march 19.
The winners of this year's Rockbjörnen in the various Swedish categories:
Newcomer: Sebastian Karlsson
male artist: Lars Winnerbäck
Female artist: Lisa miskovsky
Group: BWO
Song: 7milakliv - martin Stenmarck
Swedish singer/songwriter Racingpaperplanes on tour in Spain:
02/22 - tbd, madrid
02/23 - Bullit, Bilbao
02/24 - Sala Castelló,Barcelona
mute will be bringing over yet another Swedish act to US shores, this time it's mando Diao. The band's latest, somewhat-mediocre-but-better-than-I-expected album "Ode to ochrasy" will be released in this part of the world on April 24. Look for a batch of US dates around SXSW to be confirmed shortly.
Digitalmetal on Wolf's latest album: metal.com/reviews.asp?cid=7960" target=_blank>https://www.digitalmetal.com/reviews.asp?cid=7960
Totally agreed - if you want that classic metal sound, this is the one modern band doing it best.