Cph-Sound has signed The Lips. The first single "Suburbia" is out now.
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This week's top artists for the It's a trap! Last.fm/Audioscrobbler listening group:
01. The Decemberists
02. Franz Ferdinand
03. Sigur Rós
04. Broken Social Scene
05. Interpol
06. The Cardigans
07. Kent
08. Sufjan Stevens
09. Death Cab for Cutie
Top tracks:
01. Håkan Hellström - Ge mig arsenik
02. I'm from Barcelona - Treehouse
03. I'm from Barcelona - We're From Barcelona
04. The Decemberists - Leslie Anne Levine
05. Animal Collective - Grass
06. I'm from Barcelona - The Painter
07. The Mopeds - Refused Demo Land
08. Animal Collective - Did You See the Words
09. Randy - Better Than Art
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Dach is currently working on a Broder Daniel TV special.
This week's Time Out New York which hits newstands on November 3 will feature an interview with Marit Bergman who is currently residing in NYC. Last week's issue including a preview of this past weekend's NYC Ark shows. Both artists are indeed worthy of your attention, so check it out. And don't forget that The Ark is playing a show tonight at the Mercury Lounge. I've been lucky enough to see them twice this year and they were amazing both times.
It's a review bonanza! Look over to the articles section on the right for a new batch of CD reviews as well as a live review of Turbonegro and The (International) Noise Conspiracy) in LA and Tack! Tack! Tack! organizer Nick Levine's take on the new Swedish-themed club night's first ever evening.
The one artist who taught me that I should take mainstream Swedish pop seriously was Håkan Hellström. I was perusing files on Napster and just starting to get obsessive with my Scandinavian music obsession when I came across some HH tracks. All I knew was that it was Swedish, so I figured what the heck? Why not? That's the beauty of p2p after all. Well, those songs turned out to be Håkan's amazing debut album "Känn ingen sorg för mig Göteborg" and I was blown away. This album proves that you don't need to understand a single word of Swedish to appreciate great pop music. It wasn't long before I had a copy of the real CD in my hand and was busy hunting down bootlegs and b-sides. So here's one of those rare finds for you now - the demo version of the title track, labelled as "Ge mig arsenik". I'm not sure if this is the actual demo that got Håkan signed, but it certainly could be. I don't think that Håkan will ever again touch the brilliance of his first record, but it was such a monumental piece of work that I don't think anyone minds. It was the perfect album at the perfect time, a certified classic.
This week's YLE X3M video chart:
01. Kent - Den döda vinkeln (SWE)
02. Smak - Vesi tulvii sisään (FIN)
03. Jermaine - Goodbye sign (FIN)
04. Mew - Special (DK)
05. The Rasmus - No fear (FIN)
06. Steen1 - Carosol Kid (FIN)
07. Technicolour - Nowhere to go (FIN)
08. Korpiklaani - Kädet siipinä (FIN)
09. HIM - Wings of a butterfly (FIN)
10. Alice in Videoland - Cut the crap (SWE)
Challengers:
11. Nightwish - Sleeping sun (FIN)
12. The Cardigans - I need some fine wine and you, you need to be nicer (SWE)
13. El Caco - Substitute (NOR)
Nosordo has posted a thirty-minute live set from Swedish experimental electronic/noise artist The Idealist for free download: https://www.nosordo.com/
Download "Tonight I don't sleep" from The Chrysler: https://chrysler.blackside.org/musik/tonight.mp3
The song comes from the group's forthcoming "The first blood" EP.
Musique Machine reviews Kåre João: https://www.musiquemachine.com/reviews/reviews_template.php?id=685
Avarus, Kemialliset Ystävät and Spacious Mind will be travelling to Providence, Rhode Island for next year's Terrastock Festival on April 21-23. Read more: https://www.terrascope.co.uk/TerrastockPages/terrastock6.html
Gaffa is reporting that Danish indierockers Figurines have licensed their album "Skeleton" for international release: https://gaffa.dk/nyheder/view.php/news_id=14370 (in Danish)
The nominees for this year's Danish Metal Awards have been announced: https://www.dmea.dk/
I haven't heard all of the bands, but I can definitely endorse The Psyke Project. Their album "Daikini" is easily one of the year's best releases.