No Privacy has split from Hard Soul Records. The band is currently wrapped up production on a new album that they recorded in their own studio for release sometime later this year.

Summer tour plans for Melody Club:

05/20 - Ågatan 29, Enköping
05/21 - Mc Evans, Borås
05/27 - Studentkåren, Gävle
05/28 - Musikfest, Aneby
06/10 - Rabarock, Järvakandi
06/11 - Göteborgstalangen, Göteborg
06/17 - Cityfest, Kramfors
06/18 - Fest i Flen, Flen
06/20 - Jahalli, Helsingfors
06/22 - Globen, Stockholm
07/02 - Olssons Brygga, Arvika
07/07 - Sundsvalls Gatufest, Sundsvall
07/08 - Peace and Love, Borlänge
07/09 - Tivolirock, Kristianstad
07/14 - Torget, Borås
07/17 - Havsbadet, Lysekil
07/23 - Rockoff, Åland
07/28 - Storsjöyran, Östersund
07/29 - Stranddagar, Karlskoga
08/10 - Göteborgskalaset, Göteborg
08/13 - Karl Oskar Dagarna, Växjö

Check out some pics from their just-finished tour with Kylie here: https://www.diary.melodyclub.com/

Every show from Jazzkammer's recent Japanese tour is now up for download: https://teks.no/lasse_marhaug/

Ikaros has a new website: https://www.ikarosmusic.com/
Head over to get all the latest tourdates with them supporting Engine Down and Further Seems Forever in Sweden.

Preview the new Jenny Wilson single "Let my shoes lead me forward" including the remixes from The Knife: https://www.jennywilson.net/flash_cds.htm

The new Magnet album "The tourniquet" has been confirmed for a May 30 release in Norway via Atlantic/Warner and will come out all over the rest of the world later on in the fall. The disc was self-produced by Magnet with the assistance of Jørgen Træen, Jason Falkner and Yngve Sætre. Tracklist:

01. Hold on
02. Duracellia
03. The pacemaker
04. Believe
05. All you ask
06. Deadlock
07. Fall at your feet
08. Blow by blow
09. Miss her so
10. Jaws

All the dates for Hammerfall's upcoming North American tour with Edguy have now been confirmed:

08/10 - Opera House, Toronto, Ontario
08/11 - Medley, Montreal, Quebec
08/12 - L´Imperial, Quebec City, Quebec
08/13 - Palladium, Worcester, Massachusetts
08/15 - Jaxx, Springfield, Virginia
08/16 - BB Kings, NYC, New York
08/17 - Trocadero, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
08/19 - House of Blues, Cleveland, Ohio
08/20 - Madison Theater, Covington, Kentucky
08/21 - House of Blues, Chicago, Illinois
08/22 - Fine Line Cafe, Minneapolis, Minnesota
08/25 - Commodore Ballroom, Vancouver, British Columbia
08/26 - Studio Seven, Seattle, Washington
08/28 - The Pound, San Francisco, California
08/29 - The Galaxy, Santa Ana, California
08/30 - The Avalon, Los Angeles, California
08/31 - Marquee Theater, Tempe, Arizona

ScandinavianMetal interviews female Norwegian doom, er um "gloom" band Octavia Sperati: https://www.scandinavianmetal.info/interviews/interviews_detail.php?id=28

The UK's Stereo Test Kit Records will be releasing a new EP from Sweden's We Are Soldiers We Have Guns this coming fall. The band started as the solo project of Malin Dahlberg from Douglas Heart and Laurel Music and now includes Robert Tenevall (Royal Downfall, Knugen Faller) and Pontus Wallgren (Franke, Douglas Heart, Afraid of Stairs) as backing musicians. The recording will be handled by Jon Brännström (ex-Refused, JFK) and you can hear samples of older home-recorded material at the band's website: https://www.wearesoldiers.net/

Monolith interviews Swedish fuzzrockers Truckfighters: https://www.monolith.gr/interviews/html/truckfighters.html
The band's new album "Gravity X" will be released in Germany and Austria on June 13 via Soulfood and in Benelux on May 30 via Suburban.

Fraction of My Former Self has revamped their website: https://www.fomfs.com/

Norway's Frantic Bleep has confirmed that their new lineup: Kjetil Fosseid (vocals), Patrick Scantlebury (guitars), Lars Gunnar Morastseter (guitars), Eywin Sundstrøm (bass) and Trond Sand (drums). The band is currently working on new material and plans to enter the studio in August with producer Anders Lind to record their second album, due out sometime in early 2006.

Sweatmaster will release their next single "Dirty rabbit" on both CDS and 7" with the unreleased b-side "Steamboat". Look for it May 30 from Bad Afro.

Aa Records, home of Det Gamla Landet and Now, has a new website design that looks awfully similar to my own: https://www.a-double-a.com/
Not that I'm complaining - it's always good to see other people posting dog pics.

New updated tourdates for Moneybrother:

05/15 - Pinkpop, Landgraaf (NL)
05/15 - Roco Del Schlacko Festival, Püttlingen (GER)
05/16 - Pfingst Open Air Werden, Essen (GER)
05/17 - Tivoli de Helling, Utrecht (NL)
05/18 - E-Werk, Erlangen (GER)
05/19 - PPC, Graz (AUS)
05/21 - Musikkantine, Ausgburg (GER)
05/22 - BPM Club, Leipzig (GER)
05/23 - Feuerwache, Mannheim (GER)
05/25 - Colos Saal, Aschaffenburg (GER)
05/26 - Kamp, Bielefeld (GER)
05/27 - Immergut Rock Festival, Neustrelitz (GER)
05/28 - Siesta, Hässleholm (SWE)
06/03 - Mejeriet, Lund (SWE)
06/04 - Tivoli, Helsingborg (SWE)
06/08 - Open Air, Fulda (GER) w/Wir Sind Helden
06/09 - Nova Rock, Nickelsdorf (AUS)
06/10 - Atomic Café, Münich (GER)
06/11 - Southside, Neuhausen ob der Eck (GER)
06/12 - Hurricane, Scheessel (GER)
06/17 - Hultsfredsfestivalen, Hultsfred (SWE)
06/19 - Provinsirock, Senäjoki (FIN)
07/01 - St Gallen Open Air, St Gallen (SWI)
07/02 - Rheinkultur Festival, Bonn (GER)
07/02 - Rothhaar Festival, Erndtebrück (GER)
07/03 - MTV Campus Invasion, Osnabrück (GER)
07/08 - Gatufesten, Sundsvall (SWE)
07/09 - Peace & Love, Borlänge (SWE)
07/15 - Arvika, Arvikafestivalen (SWE)
07/20 - After Eight, Jakobstad (FIN)
07/22 - Das Fest, Karlsruhe (GER)
07/23 - Kino, Ebensee (AUS)
08/03 - Where The Action Is, Göteborg (SWE)
08/05 - Where The Action Is, Malmö (SWE)
08/06 - Haldern Open Air, Rees Haldern (GER)
08/07 - Weinturm Open Air, Bad Winsheim (GER)
08/11 - Öya Festival, Oslo (NOR)
08/12 - Where The Action Is, Linköping (SWE)
08/13 - Where The Action Is, Karlskrona (SWE)
08/18 - Pukkelpop, Hasselt (BEL)
08/20 - Frequency Festival, Salzburg (AUS)
08/21 - Highfield Festival, Hohenfelden (GER)
08/27 - Where The Action Is, Stockholm (SWE)