Beyond Dawn's long-awaited retrospective collection "Bygones", containing the group's early doom-heavy EPs "Longing for scarlet days" and "Up through the linear shades" plus various demo tracks, is finally on the way back from the printer and is available for preorder. Full details: https://blogs.myspace.com/index.cfm?fuseaction=blog.view&friendId=394452287&blogId=493918373
Wildbirds & Peacedrums' album "The snake" will finally get a North American release on August 25 via The Control Group.
The Raveonettes are letting fans keep up with them in the studio by posting demo tracks via Twitter: https://twitter.com/theraveonettes
You Know, For Kids!, the classic Swedish punk reissue imprint run by the folks at Imperial Recordings, have two new albums on the way. First up is the 1981 self-titled full-length from Kommissarie Roy, a band that the Encyclopedia of Swedish Punk files under "Peripheral Bands" and labels as powerpop. Second is the album "Små röda, lätta regndroppar" from Noise, yet another Klippan-based powerpop act that released their sole full-length in '81. June 17 is the release date for both and this will be the first time either are available on CD.
Trust Me Records reports that the new Adjagas is being mastered this week and is scheduled for an October release.
Swedish indierockers Hell On Wheels will be performing live at Nudie Jeans in Stockholm tomorrow June 10 at 7:30pm local time where they will be premiering new material. Even better, you can watch it live online: https://hybrism.blogspot.com/2009/06/world-premiere-for-three-new-songs-by.html
No idea why the countdown lacks a day(s) column, but there you go.
Cloudberry Cake Proselytism uncovers the mystery of Swedish indiepop act Boys Like Charlotte: https://cloudberryrecords.com/blog/?p=1096
Fluxblog has a track from Lisa Milberg (The Concretes) today: https://www.fluxblog.org/2009/06/cant-think-about-too-much-too-hard
Black Feather, the solo project of ex-Jaga Jazzist guitarist Harald Frøland, has finally found a label home at Portland, OR-based Other Electricities following two years of various harddrive meltdowns, label collapses and other industry ailments. His debut album "Silhouette" will finally be released on September 15 and you can get a bit of a preview at this link: https://www.other-electricities.com/eCards/BlackFeather/
The excellent Norwegian pop/folk act Katzenjammer just released a new single called "Demon kitty rag". Listen at myspace: https://www.myspace.com/katzenjammerne
Swedish rockers Robert Johnson and Punchdrunks will release the new album "100% pot success" on August 18. The first single "Tired of Thurston" will be out on August 4.
The new album "Sikter på månen og lander på taket" from Norwegian rappers Jester & Don Martin is getting caught up in a distributor boycott war and as such will not be carried by Platekompaniet, Norway's #1 music retailer. In response and in order to drum up more publicity, the act has posted four songs from said album for free -- go to Kingsize to download and to read more: https://kingsize.no/News.aspx?ArtNo=8184
Swedish melodic hard-rock act Enter the Hunt has a new single called "Fighters" and you can stream it at their new website along with a bunch of b-side remixes: https://www.enterthehunt.com
Björn Kleinhenz will release his new album "Head held high on fearsome pride" on June 15. It will first be available as a paid download, but there will also be a CD edition later this summer. You should buy it too because all proceeds to to pay for his rabbit Humle's recent medical care, a worthy cause if I ever heard one.
DeathMetal.org talks the history of Norwegian death metal with Fenriz (Darkthrone), Anders Odden (Cadaver) and Kjetil Manheim (Mayhem): https://www.deathmetal.org/death_metal/music/norwayDM.html