Fluxblog has a track from Sissy Wish today: https://www.fluxblog.org/2007/04/treat-me-like-gentleman.html

Danish act The Late Parade has been picked up by Good Tape Records. The band will record their debut EP with producer Frederik Thaae (Murder, I Am Bones, Beta Satan) for a September release. Listen to a demo track here: https://www.myspace.com/thelateparade

New track from The Tough Alliance over at Disco Belle: https://www.discobelle.net/2007/04/24/first-class-riot/

The Finnish netlabel Swaeg has a new EP from Toiminto for free download: https://www.swaeg.net/

The Concretes in the UK:

06/05 - Birmingham Academy 2, Birmingham
06/06 - Luminaire, London
06/07 - Rescue Rooms, Nottingham
06/08 - The Cockpit, Leeds
06/09 - The Theckla Social, Bristol
06/10 - Newcastle Academy 2, Newcastle
06/11 - King Tuts Wah Wah Hut, Glasgow

Somehow I neglected to post this yesterday: Ink19 reviews the Tiger Lou "Until I'm there" 7": https://www.ink19.com/issues/april2007/musicReviews/musicT/tigerLou.html

Danish indie Sounds of Perpetual Astonishment is putting on a special label night at Ausland in Berlin on May 9 featuring the acts KURvE, Agata & Me and Animallovers as well as Italians 9. Read more: https://www.sopa.dk/

Swedish tweepoppers Lovekevins in the UK:

05/08 - Metro, London
05/10 - Whelan's, Dublin w/SKwBN
05/12 - Roisin Dubh, Galway

Norwegian rockers The Grand have posted their new single "Traveling bound" for listening on myspace: https://www.myspace.com/thegrandspace
Reminds me of the Ricochets or My Midnight Creeps, 'cept with a little more boogie to it.

Mailorder news: re-stocks of Hello Saferide, Firefox AK and Maia Hirasawa should be arriving today along with new records from Thunder Express and They Live By Night. Check back soon! New CDs from Kristofer Åström and Laakso are ordered and supposedly on the way along with all the latest from Hybris - Montt Mardié, Vapnet, etc.

New summer festival dates for I'm From Barcelona:

05/27 - Papillons de nuit, St Laurent de Cuves (FRA)
06/29 - Microcosm, La Roche sur Yon (FRA)
06/30 - Eurockéennes, De Belfort (FRA)
07/06 - Rock dans tous ses états, Evreux (FRA)
07/07 - Oxegen, Punchestown Racecourse (IRL)
07/13 - Melt Festival, Ferropolis/Gräfenhainichen (GER)
07/14 - Latitude, Southwold (UK)
07/15 - Indian Summer, Glasgow (UK)
07/16 - Concorde 2, Brighton (UK)
07/28 - The Secret Garden Party, Cambridge/Huntingdon (UK)

If you missed my radio show on Friday, you also missed my wife and I serenading our border collie Parker with a little IFB. He sure does hate them.

Lucky Misu's latest EP "Puzzled" will be remixed and released via the Corpid netlabel later this year. He's also working on collaborations with both Johan Fotmeijer and Bleulel and you can hear a sample of the latter on myspace: https://www.myspace.com/luckymisu

Swedish indie label Luxury will be releasing a limited-edition album from The Mixed in mid-May. Also on the way around the same time is a CDEP from Boat Club.

Updated Oh No Ono tourdates:

April 28 - Forbraendingen, Albertslund (DK)
05/14 - Hoxton Bar & Grill, London (UK)
05/15 - The Fly, London (UK)
05/16 - TBA, London (UK)
05/17 - The Great Escape, Brighton (UK)
05/18 - The Great Escape, Brighton (UK)
05/19 - Vega, Copenhagen (DK)
05/24 - Jelling Festival, Jelling (DK)
05/26 - Voxhall, Aarhus (DK)
06/08 - DTU (DK) (closed party)
06/09 - Rock Under Broen (13:35) (DK)
06/09 - Haze Over Haarum (21:15) (DK)
06/15 - Hultsfred Festival (SWE)
06/16-17 - Provinssi Rock 2007 (FIN)
06/26-29 - Hove Festival (NOR)
06/30 - Kloeften Festival (21:45), Haderslev (DK)
07/04-07 - Nibe Festival (DK)
07/05-08 - Roskilde Festival (DK)
07/14 - Ung Uge (DK)
08/01 - Bork Havn Musikfestival (20:00) (DK)
08/03 - Lost Weekend (21:00), Bergen (NOR)
08/10 - Tivoli, Copenhagen (DK)
08/17 - BeatDay07, Charlottenlund Fort (DK)

Swedish metal act Machinae Supremacy is teaming up with The Royal Symphonic Philharmonic Orchestra for an extra special evening of video game music at Stockholm Concert Hall on June 2. The evening's performance is entitled "PLAY! A Video Game Symphony" and the band will make a special guest appearance to perform on"Final Fantasy VI - Dancing Mad", all while accompanied by a full orchestra and choir along with graphical projections showing top-scores, memorable game moments and so on. Sound ridiculous? More like ridiculously awesome. Read more: https://www.play-symphony.com/