Tag: News

Don't forget to check out the recent Don Juan Dracula interview and, while you're at it, be sure to enter the contest! We're giving away 10 free digital copies of their "Young debutantes 2" album all you need to do is email djd.contest@itsatrap.com with you contact info to enter.

New tourdates for Suburban Kids with Biblical Names:

05/01 - Great Scott, Boston, MA
05/02 - The red and the black, Washington DC
05/03 - Lo Fi Social Club, Baltimore, MD
05/04 - Private college date, Portland, ME
05/05 - Pianos, NYC, NY
05/07 - White Heat, London (UK)
05/08 - The Monto, London (UK)
05/09 - Nice n' Sleazy, Glasgow (SCO)
05/10 - Whelans, Dublin (IRL)
05/12 - tba, Galway (IRL)

Muisc blog Perfect Sounds on multinational jazz act 4 Corners, featuring Scandinavians Magnus Broo and Paal Nilssen-Love: https://perfectsounds.blogspot.com/2007/08/brilliant-4-corners-lane-vandermark.html

Lasse Marhaug has posted some video clips from the recent Jazkammer and Testicle Hazard shows he did in Japan: https://www.lassemarhaug.no/

Speaking of Jazkammer, look for the new album "Artbreaker" on Smalltown Superjazzz in August.

Datarock is streaming their entire album "Datarock Datarock" at Virb: https://www.virb.com/datarock

Swedish electro act Scapesonik is reinventing themselves as the new band Type Red. They'll make their live debut at Teater Scenario in Stockholm on April 13. Listen to samples: https://www.typered.se/

The Silent Ballet reviews Detektivbyrån: https://thesilentballet.com/dnn/Home/tabid/36/ctl/Details/mid/384/ItemID/425/Default.aspx

Isolation Years have posted one of the tracks from their new one-sided LP, out now on Do You Dream of Noise?: https://www.myspace.com/isolationyearsmusic
The song is called "Dear Satan" and it's great.

Swedish experimental/drone artist Jonas Lindgren has a new two-track EP available for free download: https://www.archive.org/details/jonas_lindgren-hovering

Norrland doom act Seven Nautical Miles (ex-Oceans Have No Memory) have signed with UK-based label Sound Devastation Records and will be recording their debut full-length this summer. Preview a track here: https://www.myspace.com/sevennauticalmiles

Arcade Fire still rules the It's A Trap! Last.fm listening group top 10 track chart, but Logh did manage to slip into this week's top 10:

01. The National – Fake Empire
02. The Arcade Fire – Keep the Car Running
03. Modest Mouse – Dashboard
04. The Arcade Fire – Intervention
05. Bright Eyes – Four Winds
06. Patrick Wolf – Overture
07. The Arcade Fire – No Cars Go
08. The Arcade Fire – Ocean of Noise
09. The Arcade Fire – Black Mirror
10. Logh – Thieves in the Palace

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A loooong time back I mentioned that Swedish singer/songwriter Johan Bergqvist was contributing to a Shawn Smith tribute. Well, that came out in 2004 and was only available in a very limited edition with one of two tracks Johan recorded, so he's decided to make both of them available now as a free download. Check it out: https://www.pristine.se/johanbergqvist/downloads.html

Got some extra money burning a hole in your pocket? Check out the Sincerely Yours bulletproof vest: https://www.sincerelyyours.se/

Norwegian hype New Violators check in on their return home after their debut US jaunt: https://blog.myspace.com/index.cfm?fuseaction=blog.view&friendID=67999052&blogID=251089150