Tag: News
It's Memorial Day here in the US, so I'm gonna keep this short so I can go out and enjoy my day off.
New mp3 today from the terminally underrated Norwegian act Beyond Dawn off of their new 2xLP remix album "We're down with species of any kind". As one would expect from such a project, it's a mixed bag of sounds and styles. This Snuten track that I picked to share with y'all is the funnest of the bunch. Who would've thought that the sounds of West Coast hip-hop would work so well in such a context? It's especially exciting to hear a piece like this and to compare it to the band's early doom roots. I can't think of any other act that's progressed so far and managed to stay interesting and relevant their whole career. It just doesn't happen. It makes me all the more excited to hear the forthcoming 3xCD 15th anniversary comp "Strictly Mondays – 15 Years Far From Showbiz". Can't wait.
I can hardly believe it, but there's another set of new reviews posted: [click here]
The winners of the Novoton Records contest are Jason Christie, Jan Pahlstad and Karl Birgersson. I'll get your discs sent out as soon as I can.
Tonight: Cult of Luna at Bottom of the Hill in SF. It's the last show of their US tour, so hopefully there will be shenanigans.
Finnish techno act Symptom has posted an entire live for download from a recent performance at the Mbar in Helsinki: https://www.symptomrecords.com/mp3/SymptomLive-Mbar-200505.mp3
The Institute of Contemporary Arts (ICA) is presenting a special show in London on June 3 featuring Denmark's Efterklang and Under Byen. Read more: https://www.ica.org.uk/index.cfm?articleid=14189
Swedish Minister of Arts and Culture Leif Pagrotsky sporting a Dark Funeral wristband: https://expressen.se/content/1/c6/29/19/92/09b9edf1.jpg
The Norwegian Eardrums blog interviews Safe As Milk festival coordinator Kristian Kallevik: https://noreardrums.blogspot.com/2005/05/safe-as-milk-festival-interview-with.html
Kite Recordings has announced that the title for the new Tomas Denver Jonsson album will be "Barely touching it". The record features twelve new songs produced by Carl Edlom and features Tomas' regular backing band The September Sunrise alongside guest appearances from Ned Oldham (Anomoanon/Palace Music) and Nina Kinert. Look for it around September.
Ah, Friday. It never comes soon enough. This week's classic tune comes from Last Days of April off their 2000 album "Angel youth", easily the best record they've ever done. Which is not to say they haven't put out decent material since then- they've just never been able to match the ridiculously high standard they set on this release. The band tends to catch a lot of flack for being on Deep Elm in the US (Bad Taste in Sweden) and getting lumped in with the dreaded emo scene, but the music is much better appreciated if you think of it as a pop record. Sensitive boys making great pop songs. Nothing wrong with that. In a lot of ways "Angel youth" is very similar to Jimmy Eat World's breakthrough release "Bleed American": Both bands came from similar scenes and both records have amazing production, gigantic hooks and excellent pacing, 'cept the Swedes probably haven't raked in anywhere near the same amount of money. But what I'm saying is that they could. The potential is there, or at least was. It'll be interesting to see what LDOA mainman Karl Larsson does now that he's gone "solo". I'll be waiting.
Last chance to enter the Novoton Records single giveaway! Winners will be announced Monday.
Finnish hip-hop artist Redrama will release his new album "Street Music" in August. The title track is the first single and it should be out now in Finland and will be released elsewhere in June.
Download the video for "Pyromantikk" from Norway's Johndoe: https://www.johndoe.no/video/Pyromantikk.mpg
Denmark's Figurines will have their album "Skeleton" released in Germany, Austria and Switzerland on June 13. More details soon.