Crescens Collective member mago might be doing a few West Coast dates after playing the Cornerstone Festival in Illinois in July. Details soon.

Swedish metal label Regain Records has revamped their website: m/" target=_blank>https://www.regainrecords.com/

The new menteroja website is up and has the video for "Ho Chi minh Style" available for streaming: menteroja.net/" target=_blank>https://www.menteroja.net/

Isolation Years have finally confirmed some new European tourdates. Here's the latest:

03/12 - Norrlands Nation, Uppsala (SWE)
04/09 - Umeå Open, Umeå (SWE)
04/13 - Woody @ Pusterviksbaren, Göteborg (SWE)
04/14 - Herrgårn, Linköping (SWE)
04/15 - Garage, Oslo (NOR)
04/16 - Café mic, Vänersborg (SWE)
04/17 - Klubb Söndag @ Strömpis, Örebro (SWE)
04/27 - molotow, Hamburg (GER)
04/27 - molotow, Hamburg (GER)
04/28 - Knaak, Berlin (GER)
04/29 - Star Club, Dresden (GER)
04/30 - The Rodeo club @ Projekt 7, magdeburg (GER)
05/01 - Forum, Bielefeld (GER)
05/03 - E-Werk, Erlangen (GER)
05/05 - ISC, Bern (SWI)

melpo mene is currently recording a new EP for release later this spring. Samples should be online soon.

Swedish indiepop act The Lovekevins have announced that they will start doing a weekly online radio show. Read more at their website: https://www.lovekevins.laparole.se/

Check out Jim Stärk and Jaga Jazzist playing live together on NRK P3: ml" target=_blank>https://www.nrk.no/kanal/nrk_p3/4531450.html

Some new, mostly tentative dates for Finland's Echo is Your Love:

04/15 - tba (LAT)
04/16 - tba (LIT)
04/17 - tba (LIT)
04/18 - Kurow (POL)
04/19 - Krakow (POL)
04/20 - tba (POL)
04/21 - Potsdam (GER)
04/22 - Leipzig (GER)
04/23 - tba (GER)
04/20 - Cologne (GER)
04/25 - Bremen (GER)
04/26 - Hengelo (NL)
04/27 - Utrecht (NL)
04/28 - Amsterdam (NL)
04/30 - Roskilde (DK)

There's not much that I haven't already posted about, but the march newsletter from music Export Finland is out: musexfinland.fi/index.php?page=news&id=64" target=_blank>https://www.musexfinland.fi/index.php?page=news&id=64

Disco Ensemble's new album "First Aid Kit" has been confirmed for release in GAS on April 4 via Cargo Records.

Think Small posts about a few new Swedish indiepop bands of note: mall.nl/blog.php?id=6#55" target=_blank>https://www.thinksmall.nl/blog.php?id=6#55

The very excellent music blog mystical Beast posts about 70s Danish hard-rockers Gasolin': mysticalbeast.blogspot.com/2005/03/anytime-you-start-to-think-that.html" target=_blank>https://mysticalbeast.blogspot.com/2005/03/anytime-you-start-to-think-that.html
I haven't had a chance to listen to the posted songs yet, but the story is definitely interesting.

José González will finally get his excellent full-length album "Veneer" released in the UK on April 25 via Peacefrog/Agenda Records. About time methinks. Look for coinciding European tourdates to be confirmed soon.

The new 22-Pistepirkko album "Drops & kicks" has finally been confirmed for release on march 30 in their native Finland, April 6 elsewhere in Scandinavia. The 22-Pistepirkko book also comes out on march 30 and, assuming you can read Suomi, more can be found here: https://www.likekustannus.fi/kirjakeko/tiedot.php?id=734

Here's this week's m/musik/nvllistan.php" target=_blank>YLE/morjen top 10 Nordic video chart:

01. Disco Ensemble - We might fall apart (FIN)
02. Smak - Nousen (FIN)
03. Korpiklaani - Hunting song (FIN)
04. Kent - max 500 (SWE)
05. Padington - Hey now (NOR)
06. The 69 Eyes - Lost boys (FIN)
07. The mo - Howl in the jungle (SWE)
08. PmmP - Päiväkoti (FIN)
09. moneybrother - They're building walls around us (SWE)
10. Pain - Same old song (SWE)

Challengers:
11. Anniina - Who's about to cry (FIN)
12. Hammerfall - Bloodbound (SWE)
13. Infernal - From Paris to Berlin (DK)