The State of Samuel has posted the entire discography of their old band Goblin Universe up for free download: https://www.thestateofsamuel.com/goblin_universe/
Tag: News
Acclaimed, but underappreciated Norwegian metal act Noplacetohide has called it quits. Frustrations from inept labels and and a seemingly endless uphill battle for attention has taken its toll, so they've thrown in the towel. Read more: https://www.noplacetohide.org/ (scroll down)
Loney, Dear has been confirmed for SXSW. I just got a copy of their latest CD "Sologne" in the mail today and I'm happy to report that I enjoyed it quite a bit on the first listen.
Junk Music will be offering up the first three Brainpool albums "Soda" (1994), "Painkiller" (1995) and "Stay Free" (1996) as paid downloads in the near future. This is one of the main benefits of digital music sales - old records no longer need to go completely out of print.
Hello Saferide has renovated her website again. Go there to see the new look and to check out some new tourdates around Scandinavia: https://www.hellosaferide.com/
Finland's Echo Is Your Love will tour the US in May with US act Blame Game. Dates so far:
05/15 - Drunken Unicorn, Atlanta, GA
05/17 - Lemp Arts, St. Louis, MO
05/21 - Party Awesome House, Milwaukee, WI
05/24 - Mr. Roboto Project, Pittsburgh, PA
05/26 - 517 Milltown, Wilmington, DE
06/01 - Veggieplex Theatre, Philadelphia, PA
The Candy Mind netlabel has posted a new release from Swedish artist Daniel Andréasson : https://www.candymind.com/
The first single from Swedish singer/songwriter Juni Järvi's upcoming album with be for the song "The stars above Indian Lake" b/w "Falling down like snow". It's due out in late February and will be accompanied by a video and a release party. The upcoming full-length album is just about done as well - it's tentatively due out at the end of March/early April.
Norwegian management/PR firm Bpop has decided to jump into the label business. They will now take it upon themselves to import their acts into neighboring Sweden via the newly founded imprint Bpop Music. Here's what they've got scheduled:
02/15 - Jim Stärk - "Jim Stärk"
03/15 - JR Ewing - "Maelstrom"
04/26 - Real Ones - "Home With The Girls In The Morning"
05/17 - WE - "Smugglers"
06/14 - Datarock - "Datarock Datarock"
07/12 - Vidar Vang - "Vidar Vang"
Distribution will be handled by V2 Scandinavia.
There's a brand new Ariel Kill Him song available for streaming on purevolume: https://www.purevolume.com/arielkillhim
Fluxblog posts a track from Danish act Figurines: https://www.fluxblog.org/2006/01/strange-towns-where-we-will-party.html
Norwegian rockers The Tennessee Beats are back with a revamped lineup and a new website: https://www.tennesseebeats.com/
The Musikbyrån website has now posted a hi-res version of the Robyn/Jenny Wilson performance of "List of demands" along with new videos from Dub Sweden, Stacs of Stamina and The Kid: https://svt.se/musikbyran
Swedish lofi pop collective Models Inc. have released a new album entitled "Season's greetings from Models Inc." More info and samples: https://www.modelsinc.tk/