The Silent Ballet talks to Swedish post-rockers Immanu El: https://thesilentballet.com/dnn/Home/tabid/36/ctl/Details/mid/367/ItemID/497/Default.aspx

As always, NRK provides on-demands streams of many performances from this year's Øya festival: https://rita.nrk.no/community/oya07/
Anyone see any decent coverage of this? I've only looked at Pitchfork's coverage which is amazingly light in terms of actual Norwegian band content. C'mon, why bother travelling all that way only to see all the same bands playing every other fest?

Pinto's debut album "Hook me up" will be released on September 26 via Krusty Stills Records. Look for them to tour Germany with Racingpaperplanes in early September:

09/06 - Bar A.Mora, Hamburg
09/07 - Antje Oklesund, Berlin
09/08 - Backsteinhaus, Duderstadt

Monzano has added a bunch of new tracks to their myspace page: https://www.myspace.com/monzano

Check out an e-card for the new Enemy Alliance/Indecision Alarm split: https://www.noreasonrecords.com/ecard_EA-IA.html
I especially recommend listening to the latter band's tracks - really really good stuff.

A West Side Fabrication reports that Olle Nyman's forthcoming album will now be called "Way out of weariness". The first single is "Don´t let those bastards reel you in" and you can hear it here: https://www.myspace.com/ollenyman

Fest update! Friday was great - Low exceeded expectations and Woven Hand was amazing. I couldn't get into Trail of Dead, but I did manage to catch Last Days of April to wrap up the evening and they were pretty damn good too. Saturday started nicely with a thunderous set from Boredoms followed by my first-ever in-person Hello Saferide show. Some folks tell me it wasn't their best, but I was more than happy. The Hellacopters and The Hives both brought the rawk like you would expect and after that I decided to bail early to Sticky Fingers so I could stake out a position for Laakso. It was obviously the right move 'cuz that place filled up mighty quick right after we got there. Seeing Juvelen open was bonus. As for Laakso, it was brilliant. Practically a greatest-hits set you could say. Oh, and Annika Norlin performed the "Italy v Helsinki" duet. Good times! Pictures to come as well.

The playlist for this week's all-GBG radio show:

01. Maia Hirasawa - Gothenburg
02. TALK 1
03. Hemstad - Sommar i Göteborg
04. Division of Laura Lee - We are numbers
05. Håkan Hellström - Kom igen Lena!
06. TALK 2
07. In Flames - Everything counts
08. Pistol Disco - Walking with Jesus
09. Viktor Sjöberg - W/nothing
10. TALK 3
11. Kristofer Åström - Just a little insane
12. The Knife - Listen now
13. Broder Daniel - Dark heart
14. TALK 4
15. Samuraj Cities - All along the shoreline
16. MPTP - Jim Morrison
17. At the Gates - Cold
18. TALK 5
19. The Book of Daniel - The camels parade
20. Silverbullit - Magnetic city
21. The Soundtrack of Our Lives - Nevermore
22. TALK 6
23. Nicolai Dunger - What tomorrow
24. The Kid - Portion control (Fatsuit haze/Zlatan wins the World Cup remix)
25. The Idealist - The knives are my eyes
26. C.Aarmé - Visions
27. TALK 7
28. Dead Letters Spell Out Dead Words - I could have sworn I heard them SING
29. Junip - Official
30. Diabolique - Catholic
31. TALK 8
32. Convoj - My timekeeping heart
33. Tsukimono - Dear sister
34. Eric Beyond - Step off
35. TALK 9
36. Björn Kleinhenz - Out of style
37. Detektivbyrån - E18
38. TALK 10
39. Bad Cash Quartet - Too bored to die

Better late than never, contributor Nick Levine checks in with his report from this year's Emmaboda: [click here]

I leave for Göteborg, Sweden early tomorrow morning so if there's anything that anyone wants me to bring 'em, they better speak up quick. Monday news updates will continue as usual, but the rest of the week will be dedicated to the music of GBG.

Oh, and I just got copies of the new Printer EP from Adrian Recordings. Looks like it'll have to wait until my return before they get added to the webstore though. However, I will say this: it sounds killer.

Saybia has now unveiled the cover art and tracklist for their forthcoming album "Eyes on the highway", due out on August 27: https://www.saybia.dk/

Danish psychobillies Powersolo will support Heavy Trash (ft. John Spencer) on tour in the US this September: https://www.powersolo.dk/

Killing the Legacy on some more older Finnish hardcore, this time covering the NYC-influenced Homefront and their 2003 demo: https://killingthelegacy.blogspot.com/2007/08/strength-through-diversity.html

Norwegian hip-hop group Gatas Parliament are not broken up, they're just busy with other projects: https://www.gatasp.no/