is working on an 8CD Nationalteatern boxset to be released for the classic Swedish progg band's 40th anniversary this fall. Besides all of the band's studio recordings, the set will also include a new live disc and 30 never-released bonus tracks along with commentary text from 15 members of the group, both new and old, talking about the group's history and much, much more: https://www.mnwmusic.com/artists/nationalteatern/nationalteatern.html
Khoma's new video for "In it for fighting" is available for streaming via Gaffa: https://gaffa.se/tv/clip/299
is reissuing The Loch Ness Mouse's 1999 debut album "Flair for Darjeeling" on July 5 in a new remastered version with an additional CD containing 11 bonus tracks, including two previously unreleased songs. To celebrate, the band will be playing the entire record live on July 1 at Egersund Visefestival in Egersund, Norway. More info plus a few samples: https://hypecity.no/?p=806
Håkan Lidbo's new DVD album "grf_rmibht9" was created as a project with students from the Berghs School Of Communication in Stockholm in which each pupil was assigned to create a visual representation for a track created by Lidbo. The end result is a set of songs, all in the same tempo and key, all with individual videos and all easily layered on top of one another. Check it out and play around: https://hakanlidbo.com/archives/1418
Makes me wish I had a bigger monitor.
PopMatters sits down to do 20 questions with Norwegian indie/pop act Casiokids: https://www.popmatters.com/pm/post/126344-20-questions-casiokids
The Silent Ballet reviews the intriguing Swedish artist Chicagojazzen: https://thesilentballet.com/dnn/Home/tabid/36/ctl/Details/mid/384/ItemID/3425/Default.aspx
Here is the It's a Trap! listening group top 10 artists of the week, unique to our group:
01. Robyn
02. Familjen
03. Oskar Linnros
04. The Drums
05. Jens Lekman
06. Efterklang
07. The National
08. Shout Out Louds
09. Dungen
10. Bob Hund
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are giving away a new single from GBG-based powerpop act Chick-e-Chack: https://www.butisitart.org/
Fatboy's upcoming third album "Overdrive", their first under new label , will be released on October 6.
Raunchy's new album "A discord electric" is confirmed for release on September 20. Various guests are said to appear on the recording, including fellow Danes Dúné on the track "Big truth".
The Håkan Hellström book "Ps. Lycka till ikväll" will be released on September 23 and will include lots of never-before-seen pictures from his childhood to present along with reminiscences from both himself and fans, among other things.
Swedish troubadour Thomas Denver Jonsson has passed along word that after his show in Fensbol, Sweden on July 4 he will be changing his stage name to I'm Kingfisher. Same songs, same style, and so on, he says, just a new name and yes, I do believe his new album "Arctic" will be released with the new moniker.
are giving away the This Is Head track "0011" as a free download along with a remix by fellow Malmö artists VED: https://www.adrianrecordings.com/default.asp?newsid=275
20jazzfunkgreats gets hip to Agent Side Grinder: https://www.20jazzfunkgreats.co.uk/wordpress/2010/06/14/the-night-of-the-replicants/
A-ha's new (final?) single "Butterfly, butterfly (the last hurrah)" is posted for preview: https://www.warnerwall.no/h%C3%B8r-den-nye-singelen-til-a-ha/
The track will be available as a paid download on July 5 and will also be included on "25", the band's best-of compilation to be released on July 19.