The esteemed Village Voice has a sizable profile piece on Finnish/Ethiopian artist Mirel Wagner in advance of her hitting the States for SXSW: https://www.villagevoice.com/2012-02-22/music/on-mirel-wagner-and-the-alleged-death-and-apparent-spread-of-freak-folk/
Nutid, the excellent instrumental duo of Åsa Jacobsson and Alf Håkan Åkesson, will be releasing a new album this coming spring. Check out their new website: https://www.nutid.info/
Copenhagen-based Industrial/postpunk label has announced two new releases, a 12" from Swedish act Street Drinkers and a 2x C-40 comp entitled "Port out, starboard home" which is devoted to "the struggles of human trafficking to Scandinavia." More info here and also via Discogs.
Steel Mammoth frontman Garfield Steel is going solo and will release his debut album "Darkness freedom" on March 28 via in collaboration with sublabel and . Says the press release: "Darkness Freedom is part classic [huh?] NWOFHM and part futuristic synthesizer exploration. Hard rocking guitars intertwine with smoothly pulsating drum machines and eerie effects, creating a haunting new synthesis of heavy rock and electronic sound manipulation."
PSL has the premiere of a new collaboration track featuring Per Egland and Kicki Halmos (Masquer): https://blogg.svt.se/psl/2012/02/22/extra-peregland/
Said tune is from Per's new album "Allt för din skuld" (due out March 7) and will also be released as a split single with Masquer covering Per's old song "Franco för mig" on the flip.
Danish melancholy pop/dance act Turboweekend will be back with a new single this spring and a new album in summer.
has posted details for the upcoming Susanna album "Wild dog", due out March 16: https://www.runegrammofon.com/artists/susanna/rcd-2128-susanna-wild-dog-cd/
In case you were wondering (I was), Magnus Flagge (nee Björklund, from Cobolt) will be rejoining Refused as their bassist for the upcoming reunion tour: https://officialrefused.com.preview.binero.se/2012/02/we-want-to-present-the-bassplayer/
How cool is this? Haleiwa went to Havana, Cuba in January and recorded three new songs for his next album with local musicians: https://haleiwamusic.com/#news
has announced that they will be releasing the debut album "Det ska se ut som slutet" from Uppsala, Sweden-based act Diskoteket as part of their series. Listen to some old tracks via Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/Diskoteket
Says the label: "Diskoteket ascends the Upplandian underground with forty minutes of brutally romantic post-punk; "...slutet" is lush, raw, pompous and painfully honest."
have added psychedelic black-metal act Furze to their roster and will be releasing the band's 5th album "Psych minus space control" on May 11 on both CD and LP.
Layla Gibson wisely recommends Dark Times in her monthly MRR column: https://darktimesoslo.tumblr.com/post/17831049858
reports that they will be handling the vinyl edition of the album "Inevitable decay" from Swedish thrashers Entrench. No official release date yet on that, but you can preview the whole thing right here. In other news, the label will also be handling the debut release from Sundsvall-based death metallers Decomposed. Again, no exact release date yet, but they are working to get sent to press ASAP.
"Ants" is the first single from The Bombhappies' upcoming album "A good fire" and it sounds just as lovely and jangly as their earlier material. Look for said album to be officially released on March 9.
(Moloken, Terrortory) is branching out from their usual genre preference to release a new album from Umeå garage-rockers Johnny Electric. Entitled "Communication radio highway", this will be the 2nd album from the band and it will be released on vinyl only this coming March 15.