Check a few songs from The New Brand, an up-and-coming Danish rock act: myspace.com/tnbdk" target=_blank>https://www.myspace.com/tnbdk
Sounds pretty darn good ImO.

Popmatters covers the US release of Daniel Cirera in their short takes column: matters.com/shorttakes/2006/06/au-revoir-simone-dave-stoops-jovina.shtml" target=_blank>https://www.popmatters.com/shorttakes/2006/06/au-revoir-simone-dave-stoops-jovina.shtml

Katatonia will finally be doing a full US tour this fall with moonspell and Daylight Dies. Dates so far:

10/20 - The Loft, Poughkeepsie, NY
10/21 - mark's Place, manchester, NH
10/22 - BB Kings Blues Club, New York, NY
10/23 - medley, montreal, QUE
10/24 - L'Imperial, Quebec City, QUE
10/25 - Opera House, Toronto, ONT
10/26 - Peabody's, Cleveland, OH
10/27 - IRock, Detroit, mI
10/28 - Pearl Room, mokena, IL
10/29 - Star Central, Columbia Heights, mN
10/31 - Lliff Park Saloon, Aurora, CO
11/02 - Studio Seven, Seattle, WA
11/03 - Rock N Roll Pizza, Portland, OR
11/04 - The Pound, San Francisco, CA
11/06 - House of Blues, Anaheim, CA
11/11 - White Rabbit, San Antonio, TX

Download the Assid remix of Existensminimum's "Changing lines": minimum.com/sounds/Changing_Lines_(ASSIDremix).mp3" target=_blank>https://www.existensminimum.com/sounds/Changing_Lines_(ASSIDremix).mp3

Norwegian singer/songwriter Thomas Dybdahl will finally have his most recent album "One day you'll dance for me, New York City" released in North America on August 1 via Recall Records. He will reportedly be touring in support, but no dates have been announced yet. He's a bit more mOR than José González, but I really like his smokey voice, so I expect he'll do well with the right marketing push. Ideally, I see him as a perfect fit for the Starbucks-music-buying crowd. Read more about Thomas here: m/damn/2006/06/1245.cfm" target=_blank>https://www.chartattack.com/damn/2006/06/1245.cfm

Swedish new-wave/post-punk act marble has a couple songs from their forthcoming album available for streaming and download at myspace: myspace.com/marlbefromsweden" target=_blank>https://www.myspace.com/marlbefromsweden

This post today is #1001. Hard to believe I've kept this thing going so long, but here I am, over one-thousand posts later. Here's to thousands more!

New profile piece posted today on Iisole, a band that could not be more perfect for my tastes: m/index.php?article=192">[click here]

Swedish hardcore act The Change is not only busy recording a new album, but they'll also be touring Europe in September. Details soon.

Danish rockers The Royal Highness has started to upload new demo tracks to myspace: myspace.com/theroyalhighness" target=_blank>https://www.myspace.com/theroyalhighness

Psilodump on his new album, new label and new-found love: mp.com/2006/06/11/new-album-a-label-noonono/" target=_blank>https://blog.psilodump.com/2006/06/11/new-album-a-label-noonono/

On Parole has posted the video for "Hard rockin' man": mv" target=_blank>https://www.on-parole.net/Hard.wmv

Check out a video of The Vicious playing live at Scharinska Villan in Umeå: m/watch?v=e9-_gFxoqjo" target=_blank>https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e9-_gFxoqjo
The audio is a bit rough, but the picture quality ain't bad.

Anja from montys Loco broke her collarbone in a biking accident. Get well soon, ok?

Tomorrow (June 13) Swedish singer/songwriter Lars Bygdén will be releasing a special 5-song download-only EP via iTunes that will include his cover of Iggy Pop's "The passenger" plus the album outtake "I'm coming home" and three live tracks. Lars' label massproduktion will have a few CDR copies for resale as well: https://shop.textalk.se/se/shop.php?id=161