Hellsongs is calling it quits following the stroke suffered by lead singer Siri Bergnèhr, but they will be doing one last show on March 11 in their hometown of Göteborg together with the Göteborgs Symfoniker. Read more: https://www.hellsongs.com/
Something new from Gaby and the Guns. Direct link: https://vimeo.com/19970219
The band's new album "Bränner staden" will be released on April 6.
Look for Video Violence's debut album "Medulla oblongata" to be released soon via /. Direct video link: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y4eWPuyT2ik
Check out Svensk Musik, a new website founded/funded by STIM (the Swedish Performing Rights Society) focusing on new/contemporary Swedish music for an international audience: https://svenskmusik.org/
Numerous essays are already online, as is a feature on their label of the month, .
It's not 100% confirmed and I hope that me posting about it doesn't jinx it, but apparently will be putting out the next Craft LP.
Slightly OT but not really: Jakob Lusensky's book "Sounds like branding" (with design by Robert Samsonowitz, who brews a great beer besides playing in We Live in Trenches) will be getting an international release in July: https://www.soundslikebranding.com/?p=2136
The book's subtitle is "How to use the power of music to turn customers into fans", in case that helps perk your interest.
The new Ticktock EP "In the belly of the whale #1" (remember?) is out now and can be previewed at Soundcloud: https://soundcloud.com/ticktockgoestheclock/sets/ticktock-in-the-belly-of-the-whale-1/
Swedish pop duo The Sound of Arrows have a new single: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1FHEn8rJ4Vw
It will be officially released on April 25 as a 12" and digital download via .
Iceland Music Export reports on For a Minor Reflection's upcoming US dates centered around their appearance at SXSW: https://www.icelandmusic.is/News/1712/For-a-Minor-Reflection-Hit-US-Shores/default.aspx
Scraps of Tape are done tracking their new album -- read the full studio report: https://scrapsoftape.wordpress.com/2011/02/22/post-recording/
Kind of underwhelming considering the long wait for new material, but I'll take it. Even mediocre Margaret Berger tunes are better than most.
Up next from on March 18, "Spiritual non-believers" from The Last Hurrah!!, a "dronepop" project headed by HP Gundersen: https://www.runegrammofon.com/artists/the-last-hurrah/rcd-2109-the-last-hurrah-spiritual-non-believers/
"Paranoid", video #9 out of 11. Direct link: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=udlojutPxFU
Music Export Norway has awarded their 2nd Export Program grant to label (Moddi, Katzenjammer, Far From Tellus, etc.): https://www.musicexportnorway.no/propeller-receives-export-program.4888137-149133.html
Niels Nielsen has signed with upstart American label and will be releasing his new album "Welcome to the promising land of hi-5ers and hopeless people" on May 2. Also signed, fellow Swede Patrik Torsson whose new album "At the line of the border" will be out this spring as well. More info: https://www.saintmarierecords.com/