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Funky Nashville. Funky. Nashville. Two words that should never, ever go together, especially in the context of a Danish band name. There's something so intrinsically wrong about that, even moreso when said band performs some fucked-up, bastardized version of Young Country. It's bad enough when American performers embrace the style, but please don't let Europe try and sell it back to us! For those of you lucky enough to be sheltered from the sounds of the genre, let me explain it to you: it's simply top 40 pop wrapped up in the artifice of country music. That means having a singer with a pronounced Southern twang and a few 'traditional' instruments such as pedal steel and fiddle. It may look like country music at first glance, but as Waylon Jennings famously sang, "Are you sure Hank done it this way?". It the case of Funky Nashville, the music is plenty comptetant, but so astonishingly jaw-droppingly wrong that it's worth sharing with you. In fact, I'd say that it's so bad that it's good. Really! You can tell from their stern looks in the sepia-toned cover art that these dudes ain't messing around either. When they play "California mansion girl" and decide to throw in a little jaw-harp, it's from the heart man. They mean business! Listen to those "Ring of fire" horns on the song I've posted today and ask yourself why? It just ain't right, but they don't let anything stop them from pulling out all the stops. Fer crissakes, I swear it's only a small step removed from Gerardo ("Rico Suave"). I'd say download at your own risk, but fuck it - you need to hear this.
Funky Nashville - Gone away
Don't forget to enter to win a copy of "The odd church", the latest album from Stockholm's Hell on Wheels. Click the banner on the right!
Upcoming releases for Swedish experimental artist Viktor Sjöberg:
Viktor Sjöberg/Jonas Odhner split w/Dead Letters Spell Out Dead Words (Kalligrammofon)
tba CD (Kning Disk)
V. Sjöberg New Jazz Ensemble CD (iDEAL)
The Hour is Late, the label of David Åhlén from Namur, has announced that their next release will be a digital EP from Isaac Since 1980 coming in September. Exact details tba.
Some new livedates for Bobby Baby, including a batch of shows in Germany:
06/30 - Alsters Herrgård, Karlstad w/Thomas Denver Jonsson
07/06 - Norrköping w/marit Bergman
07/07 - Shemusic festival, malmö
07/14 - Patsy Soundsystem, Stockholm
07/22 - Kaffe & Konst, malmö
08/16 - Schokoladen, Berlin (GER)
08/17 - Grüner Jäger, Hamburg (GER)
08/18 - Das Bett, Frankfurt (GER)
08/19 - tbc, Berlin (GER)
08/20 - Salon Elitaer, Kassel (GER)
Swedish melancholy country act The Lancaster Orchestra has completed work on a new album, due out in September via Rootsy Records. One half of Logh makes up the backing band behind singer/songwriter Carl mathson and mark Olson of The Jayhawks was set to produce, but was held up at the last minute by a family emergency. Despite the setback, the band feels like it came out quite nice regardless.
This week's top 20 Swedish album chart:
01. Tomas Ledin - Plektrum
02. marie Fredriksson - min bäste vän
03. Peps Persson Oh boy - Det bästa med Peps Persson
04. Ola - Given to fly
05. West End Girls - Goes petshopping
06. Benny Anderssons Orkester - Bao på turné
07. Lars Winnerbäck - Efter nattens bränder - 1996-2006
08. Carola - Från nu till evighet
09. Amy Diamond - Still me still now
10. Shirley Clamp - Favoriter på Svenska
11. The Poodles - metal will stand tall
12. Lill Lindfors - Här är den sköna sommaren
13. Lasse Stefanz - Pickup 56
14. Elias - Shine
15. BWO - Halcyon days
16. Eric Gadd - Eric Gadd
17. Totta & Wiehe - Dylan
18. Caracola - Caracola
19. Patrik Isaksson - Patrik Isaksson
20. Laleh - Laleh
Swedish bit-rockers 64Revolt have confirmed that they are nearly completion on a new five-song EP to be released maybe even as soon as July. In other news, the band will also contribute a track to an upcoming Atari Teenage Riot tribute to be released via D-Trash Records.
Hey, happy midsummer everyone!
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Elsewhere on the Interweb: I've contributed to yet another group post on mars Needs Guitars. This time the subject is the best song from the first half of 2006, so there's no way I could hold back from raving about C.Aarmé yet again. Check it: marsneedsguitars.com/2006/06/music-bloggers-favorites.html" target=_blank>https://www.marsneedsguitars.com/2006/06/music-bloggers-favorites.html
The report from last night's Sweden vs UK/IAT vs Baggy mondays match-up courtesy of my London correspondent Jason Christie:
Last night was ramjammed, Swedes in the house put the English to shame by singing louder post the second goal AND because they took a flag in with them..... Baggy monday's won the DJ battle cos they played CheezyTunez, but IAT DJs dropped some smelly hits in return....!
Unarmed Enemies has posted their song from the recent monstera comp for streaming on myspace: myspace.com/unarmedenemies" target=_blank>https://www.myspace.com/unarmedenemies