The much-anticipated international release of I'm From Barcelona's album "Let me introduce my friends" on mute/Interpop has been confirmed for August 18 in Germany, September 11 in the UK and September 25 in France. As for the US, who knows?

Some new dates for José González, including a new US tour:

08/12 - The Eden Project , Cornwall (UK) w/The magic Numbers
08/13 - Summer Sundae, Leicester (UK)
08/13 - Picnic In The Park, Twickenham. (UK) w/Zero 7
08/14 - Roisin Dubh, Galway (IRL)
08/17 - Pukkelpop, Hasselt (BEL)
08/18 - Lowlands Festival, Biddinghuizen (NL)
08/19 - The Green man Festival (UK)
08/20 - Flow Festival, Helsinki (FIN)
08/26 - House of Blues, San Diego (solo + w/Zero 7)
08/27 - Hollywood Bowl, Los Angeles, w/Zero 7, Gotan Project, Herbert
08/29 - The Fillmore Auditorium, San Francisco (solo + w/Zero 7)
08/30 - The Fillmore Auditorium, San Francisco (solo + w/Zero 7)
09/01 - Wonder Ballroom, Portland (solo + w/Zero 7)
09/02 - Commodore Ballroom, Vancouver (CAN) (solo + w/Zero 7)
09/03 - Bumbershoot, Seattle (solo + w/Zero 7)
09/06 - Gothic Theatre, Englewood (solo + w/Zero 7)
09/08 - Fine Line music Cafe, minneapolis (solo + w/Zero 7)
09/09 - Park West, Chicago (solo + w/Zero 7)
09/10 - V Fest, Toronto (CAN) (solo + w/Zero 7)
09/12 - Avalon Ballroom, Boston (solo + w/Zero 7)
09/13 - 9:30 Club, Washington (solo + w/Zero 7)
09/14 - Theatre of Living Arts, Philadelphia (solo + w/Zero 7)
09/15 - Webster Hall, New York (solo + w/Zero 7)
09/16 - Webster Hall, New York (solo + w/Zero 7)
09/17 - Austin City Limits, Austin
09/20 - Starr Hill music Hall, Charlottesville
09/21 - Cat's Cradle, Carrboro
09/22 - Orange Peel, Asheville
09/23 - The Earl, Atlanta
09/24 - Bijou Theatre, Knoxville
09/25 - Bottletree, Birmingham
09/26 - House of Blues Parish, New Orleans
09/29 - Limelight, San Antonio
09/30 - Gypsy Tea Room, Dallas
10/02 - Plush, Tucson
10/03 - Rhythm Room, Phoenix
10/04 - Casbah, San Diego
10/12 - Fillius Events Barn, Clinton
10/13 - German House, Rochester
10/14 - Wexner Center, Columbus

Danish indierockers Gravy will enter the studio on August 14 to begin recording their sophomore album. In the meantime, their self-titled debut is out now in France via Revolution Records/Socadisc and will soon be released in Germany through Cargo and in the UK through Independent music Distribution/Shellshock. Buy why wait? I've got it for sale on both m/store.php?item=100">CD, mp3 and m/store.php?item=213">vinyl.

Norwegian troubadour Thomas Dybdahl will release his new album "Science" in late September.

Finnish punkers Hero Dishonest started recording a new album today. Combat Rock Industry will handle the CD release and I imagine that If Society will do the vinyl.

IAT.mP3 artist The Grand Opening on tour:

09/30 - Hus 25, Sundsvall (SWE)
10/26 - Scheune, Dresden (GER) w/Whitest Boy Alive
10/28 - Schokoladen, Berlin (GER)
10/30 - Kulturhaus 73, Hamburg (GER)
10/31 - Bei Chez Heinz, Hannover (GER)
11/01 - Das Bett, Frankfurt (GER)
11/03 - E-Werk, Erlangen (GER) w/Samba, Kolkhorst
11/04 - Glashaus, Bayreuth (GER) w/Samba, Wolke
11/05 - B72, Wien (AUS)
11/08 - Pretty Vacant, Düsseldorf (GER)

The debut full-length "This is nowhere to be found" comes out September 22 via German label Tapete Records. Can't wait to hear it!

Updated tourdates for The Horror The Horror:

09/22 - Kammgarn, Kaiserslautern (GER) w/Crash Tokio
09/23 - Das Bett, Frankfurt (GER)
10/13 - Knust, Hamburg (GER) w/Darlo
10/14 - mau Club, Rostock (GER)
10/15 - Amadeus, Oldenburg (GER)
10/16 - Pretty Vacant, Düsseldorf (GER)
10/17 - Trauma im G-Werk, marburg (GER)
10/18 - maria am Ostbahnhof (INTRO INTIm), Berlin (GER)
10/19 - Gebssude 9 (INTRO INTIm), Köln (GER)
10/20 - D:qliq, Luxembourg
10/21 - E-Werk, Erlangen (GER) w/Crash Tokio
11/24 - Flex, Wien (AUS)

11/27 - Schocken, Stuttgart (GER)
11/28 - Unperfekthaus, Essen (GER)
11/29 - musikzentrum, Hannover (GER)
11/30 - Orangehouse, münchen (GER)
12/01 - Schlachthof, Wiesbaden (GER)

Dagensskiva reports that Adrian Recordings act Björns Vänner are getting back together: m/news.asp?id=3407" target=_blank>https://dagensskiva.com/news.asp?id=3407

Norwegian avant-metal act Van Buens Ende has posted a new song on myspace: myspace.com/vedbuensende" target=_blank>https://myspace.com/vedbuensende
Read an interview with guitarist Carl-michael Eide here: m/god/document.php?doc=10bae0453569b3044fd1ef469800c302" target=_blank>https://www.gutsofdarkness.com/god/document.php?doc=10bae0453569b3044fd1ef469800c302

Check out the video for "Bahamas" from Norway's Low Frequency in Stereo: mas_eksoportert_web.wmv" target=_blank>https://heute.no/2004/video/bahamas_eksoportert_web.wmv
The band just signed a license deal with NY-based label Gigantic music so I imagine their most recent album "The last tempation of..." will get a US release soon.

Aversionline gushes about Finland's metalcore scene and the latest from Breamgod: m/blahg/2006/08/finland-still-fuckin-rules.html" target=_blank>https://www.aversionline.com/blahg/2006/08/finland-still-fuckin-rules.html
I'm usually not at all into this sort of macho hardcore, but I have to admit that quite a few Full House bands totally rule that sound.

Check out the Hillsboro Bandits, a Swedish act doing live-music versions of old NES tunes: https://www.hillsborobandits.tk/

This week's winner of the promopack giveaway is Tobias Volker. I'll continue to give away CDs every week throughout August, so if you haven't entered yet, m/special/contest.html" onclick="window.open(this.href,'contest','width=410,height=230');return false;">now is the time.

You can now download the new Fibes! Oh Fibes! single "Get up" for free at their website: m/" target=_blank>https://www.fibesohfibes.com/
The band's new album "Emotional" comes out August 30.