has confirmed that First Love, Last Rites' self-titled debut will be released on January 5 and will be available on 12" vinyl or as a paid download. The LP of course, comes with a download code. Cover and tracklist: https://nomethod.se/?p=221
Fredrik is heading out for a few dates in Northern Europe:
11/24 - Astrastube, Hamburg (GER)
11/25 - Steinbruch, Düsseldorf-Duisburg (GER)
11/26 - Ricarda Huch Haus, Jena (GER)
11/27 - tba, Berlin (GER)
11/28 - Final, Prague (CZ)
11/29 - Eufemia, Warsaw (POL)
11/30 - Stanica, Zilina (SK)
12/01 - Rhiz, Vienna (AUS)
12/02 - Cairo, Würzburg (GER)
12/03 - Ostpol, Dresden (GER)
Swedish sister folk/pop duo Piroth will be releasing a remix album on January 26 featuring six reworked tracks selected from both their "Safe haven" and "Prima ballerina" albums. Full details: https://www.myspace.com/sisterspiroth/blog/540706890
Massgrav went on tour to Finland and survived to tell the tale: https://www.massgrav.com/giglog_finland.html
For those of you who missed the quick sell-out of that one Jens Lekman NYC show, there will be a 2nd show added and tickets go on sale Wednesday, November 17 at noon Eastern. Check Brooklyn Vegan for the link to be posted at that time.
Here is the It's a Trap! listening group top 10 artists of the week, unique to our group:
01. Håkan Hellström
02. The Bear Quartet
03. The Radio Dept.
04. The Concretes
05. Säkert!
06. Familjen
07. Britta Persson
08. Christian Kjellvander
09. Jens Lekman
10. Junip
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Music Export Norway has started a new music export initiative, the first of which is going towards Lindstrøm: https://www.musicexportnorway.no/first-export-program-goes-to-lindstroem.4847320-149133.html
Here's the video for The Baboon Show's new single "This is how your story ends": https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R-NW-ychf2w
Playground Music interviews John Cloud, their own head of International, at their in-house blog: https://blogs.playgroundmusic.com/sweden/intervju-john-cloud-head-of-international-pa-playground-music
I guess the Johan G. Winther/Peter Broadrick split 7" that didn't get out in time for their tour together, but it will be out on November 26 and there will be a release party that night at På Besök in Malmö.
A Fist in the Face of God interviews Finnish death metal act Swallowed and offers up a download of their 2008 demo tape: https://afistinthefaceofgod.blogspot.com/2010/11/interview-with-samu-salimaki-of.html
This will probably the first and last time I mention them since they are more of an American band than otherwise: ex-Junior Senior member Jesper Mortensen (aka Junior/I Scream Ice Scream) has a new NYC-based group with fellow Dane Anders Christiansen and two American ladies called Make Out and you can hear their debut single "I don't want anybody that wants me" at myspace: https://www.myspace.com/makeoutwithfacebook
Sounds pretty damn tepid to me, but there you go. Let us never mention their name again.
Check out a few tracks from Finnish cinematic/synth/"lastermetal" act Nightsatan: https://soundcloud.com/tom-25-1/03-karelian-starmaster-evil-lucifer
The trio's debut album "Midnight laser warrior" came out earlier this month via and was produced and mixed by renown Finn Jori
Hulkkonen. RIYL John Carpenter soundtracks, Goblin, etc.
This is the new video for "Gold chain" from Danish act Kitty Wu. Direct link: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hy-t-RzPcL4
The official video for the new Lykke Li single "Get some" is now online, as are a bunch of new international tourdates for 2011: https://www.myspace.com/lykkeli/blog/540672878