Top tens for 2010: It's a Trap!

Silje Nes, The Concretes to Noise Pop 2011

Silje Nes and The Concretes will be playing this year's Noise Pop festival in SF: m/" target="_blank">https://2011.noisepop.com/

Harrys Gym lining up European tourdates

Splendour has confirmed that Harrys Gym will be doing a bunch of international dates in 2011 starting off with the UK in February to be followed by Germany: https://splendour.no/

Pintandwefall - King of all the animals (video)

Pintandwefall get funky; not at all what I expected. From the new album "Time is right for Romans, baby", due out January 19.

And the Novell prize goes to...

The winner of this year's Novell prize from the Swedish mag of the same name for excellent story-telling in music goes to Johan Duncanson of The Radio Dept. for the song "You stopped making sense". Read more: magasinetnovell.se/2010/12/15/och-vinnaren-ar-2/" target="_blank">https://magasinetnovell.se/2010/12/15/och-vinnaren-ar-2/ (in Swedish)

The Lionheart Brothers - The desert

A new song and video from The Lionheart Brothers plus a fan challenge to create their own version of the same: meo.com/17761903" target="_blank">https://vimeo.com/17761903

MRR new band spotlight: 1981

mRR features Finnish act 1981 in their new band spotlight: maximumrocknroll.com/2010/12/15/new-band-spotlight-1981/" target="_blank">https://maximumrocknroll.com/2010/12/15/new-band-spotlight-1981/

Misantropic to get vinyl release via Southern Lord

Female-fronted Norrland crust act misantropic will have their album "Insomnia" released on vinyl via US label Southern Lord: m/?p=312" target="_blank">https://blog.southernlord.com/?p=312

Miasmal US tour

Preliminary dates are now confirmed for miasmal's US tour:

05/17 - Austin, TX
05/18 - Dallas, TX
05/19 - St. Louis, mO
05/20 - Chicago, IL
05/21 - Cleveland, OH
05/22 - Providence, RI 05/23 - Boston, mA
05/24 - Brooklyn, NY
05/25 - Philadelphia, PA
05/26 - maryland Death Fest
05/27 - maryland Death Fest
05/28 - maryland Death Fest
05/29 - maryland Death Fest
05/30 - North Carolina
05/31 - Atlanta,GA
06/01 - New Orleans, LA
06/02 - Chaos in Tejas
06/03 - Chaos in Tejas
06/04 - Chaos in Tejas
06/05 - Chaos in Tejas
06/06 - El Paso, TX
06/07 - Phoenix, AZ
06/08 - Los Angeles, CA
06/09 - Los Angeles, CA
06/10 - San Jose, CA
06/11 - San Francisco, CA
06/12 - Oakland, CA
06/14 - Portland, OR
06/15 - Seattle, WA
06/16 - Olympia, WA

Hatred Surge and mammoth Grinder will support the first run up until Chaos along with Innumerable Forms on some dates and then local (to me) death dealers Bone Sickness will bring them out west.

Fun in Russia

Finnish noiseniks Fun are heading back to Russia next month:

01/07 - Act Hall, moscow
01/08 - Zoccolo, St. Petersburgh
01/09 - Somewhere, Novgorod

Doomsday best of

Doomsday mag lists his top picks for 2010, albums and otherwise: msdaymag.blogspot.com/2010/12/bast-2010-listalistalista.html" target="_blank">https://doomsdaymag.blogspot.com/2010/12/bast-2010-listalistalista.html

New Sin Fang album in March, single sooner

Sin Fang nee Sin Fang Bous aka Sindri már Sigfusson of Seabear will be releasing his new solo album "Summer echoes" this coming march with a 7" to precede it, featuring covers of "Landslide" by Fleetwood mac and "The only living boy" by Simon & Garfunkle.

New PB&J gets a name

The forthcoming Peter Bjorn and John album, m/n/35928-new-pb-j-gets-release-date">confirmed for release on march 29, now has a name: "Gimme some".

Medeia - We all fail (video)

New music from Finnish metalcore act medeia off their forthcoming album "Abandon all", due out in April. Check out the straight-up WEAK crowd shots!

22-Pistepirkko vinyl reissues on the way

Bone Voyage has announced that they'll be going back through 22-Pistepirkko's extensive back-catalog to do a number of limited vinyl reissues: m/component/content/article/87" target="_blank">https://www.bonevoyagerecordings.com/component/content/article/87