Robyn - Fembot

The full version of Robyn's new track "Fembot" is now up on Soundcloud: https://soundcloud.com/robyn/fembot

The Accidents to release new 7" on Devils Shitburner

Swedish rockers The Accidents have a new 3-song 7" coming out soon via German label Devils Shitburner Records.

El Perro Del Mar - Blue moon (live video)

Watch El Perro Del Mar cover Big Star live in NYC: https://vanloumedia.com/vlm/videos/el-perro-del-mar

Burning Hell box vol. 2 on the way

Burning Hell Records says that they are working on a new boxset compilation (#2) to include No Balls, The Dements plust two other as-yet-unnamed acts: https://blogs.myspace.com/index.cfm?fuseaction=blog.view&friendId=412756052&blogId=531273896
The first box came out last year and included four 7"s from the likes of Brainbombs, Poppets, Black Bug and The Homostupids and sold out almost immediately.

Simian Ghost - Star receiver

Nomethod is giving away the new Simian Ghost (aka Sebastian Arnström of Aerial) single "Star receiver" as a free download: https://nomethodrecords.bandcamp.com/track/star-receiver

Vacant Coffin is buried, out comes Swarming

Lasse Pyykkö has announced that he is laying his band Vacant Coffin to rest and will instead be concentrating on his new band Swarming with Rogga Johansson (Paganizer, Ribspreader) moving forward. Listen to some demo tunes of the new band here: https://www.myspace.com/swarming

Sofia Talvik album giveaway

Sofia Talvik is celebrating her birthday by giving away her 2005 debut "Blue moon" as a free download: https://www.sofiatalvik.com/download/

jj live lets down Perez

Pitchfork weren't the only ones let down by jj's pitiful live performance at SXSW, Perez Hilton was also quite disappointed: https://music-mix.ew.com/2010/03/21/perez-hilton-sxsw-interview/

Sirius playlist week #12

Here's the playlist for this week's radio show Sirius XMU, a special post-SXSW extra-mellow episode:

01. TALK 1
02. Dead Letters Spell Out Dead Words - Lost & losing
03. Raison d'Étre - Withstand the fire
04. The Bear Quartet - Carry your weight
05. TALK 2
06. Rasmus Kellerman - Five years from now
07. Jóhann Jóhannsson - Theme
08. Håkon Kornstad - Oslo
09. TALK 3
10. Patrik Andersson & Vegar Vårdal - Gråtaren
11. Folkvang - Myrmark
12. Hello Saferide - Arjeplog
13. David Åhlén - Great is thy faithfulness
14. TALK 4
15. Tsukimono - Gloomy Sunday
16. Hearts No Static - Happy holidays
17. Ted Gärdestad - Come give me love
18. TALK 5

Reminder: my show airs every week on Sundays and Mondays at 11pm ET on Sirius XMU. That's channel 26 on Sirius, 43 on XM and 831 for DirecTV subscribers.

This week's top 20 Norwegian album chart

This week's top 20 Norwegian album chart:

01. Donkeyboy - Caught in a Life
02. Diverse artister - Melodi Grand Prix 2010
03. Thom Hell - All Good Things
04. Raga Rockers - Shit Happens
05. Aleksander With - Still Awake
06. Navigators - The Straight And Narrow
07. Jahn Teigen - Teigen - 40 Største Hits
08. John Olav Nilsen & Gjengen - For Sant Til Å Være Godt
09. Ingrid Olava - The Guest
10. Sivert Høyem - Moon Landing
11. WigWam - Non Stop Rock'N'Roll
12. Burzum - Belus
13. Dum Dum Boys - Tidsmaskin
14. Audrey Horne - Audrey Horne
15. Bjørn Eidsvåg - De Beste
16. Batteri - Batteri
17. Diverse artister - Dugnad For Haiti
18. Frøya - My American Dream
19. Kråkesølv - Trådnøsting
20. Kollwitz - Like Iron I Rust

This week's top 20 Swedish album chart

This week's top 20 Swedish album chart:

01. Salem al Fakir - Ignore this
02. The Playtones - Rock'n roll dance party
03. Neo - Human frontier
04. Claes Lövgrens - Vi lever nu
05. Björn Skifs - Da capo
06. Rigmor Gustafsson & Radio String Quartet Vienna - Calling you
07. Amanda Jenssen - Happyland
08. Sophie Zelmani - I'm the rain
09. Torgny Melin - Dansbandsnatt
10. Melissa Horn - Säg ingenting till mig
11. Kent - Röd
12. Zekes - En sån natt
13. Nordman - Korsväg
14. Abramis Brama - Rubicon
15. Erik Grönwall - Erik Grönwall
16. Lars Winnerbäck - Tänk om jag ångrar mig och sen ångrar mig igen
17. Tomas Andersson Wij - Spår
18. Marulk - Marulk
19. Caroline af Ugglas - Så gör jag det igen
20. Dark Tranquillity - We are the void

Ludwig Böss no longer in Band of Horses

PSL reports that Swedish guitarist Ludwig Böss (Ray Wonder, a million other bands) has parted ways with American act Band of Horses: https://blogg.svt.se/psl/2010/03/19/extra-extra-ludwig-boss-har-slutat-spela-med-band-of-horses/

Ja Ja Ja metal showcase set for April

I knew that April's Ja Ja Ja showcase was going to be metal and now the lineup is confirmed: Thunderstone, Solstafir and Vreid @ The Lexington on April 15. Full details: https://www.jajajamusic.com/events.php?id=15

More reissues from Combat Rock + new Deathbed

Combat Rock Industry has announced that the next two 7"s in their classic Finnish punk reissue series will be Eppu Normaali's "Jee jee jee" and Briard's "Fuck the army". As always, keep an eye out for when they go up for sale because they'll probably go fast. In other label news, hardcore act Deathbed will be releasing their new album in May and samples should be posted soon. I've heard some of the demos (somewhat illicitly, I must admit) and am pretty excited to hear the final result.

Billie the Vision and the Dancers finish new album

Billie the Vision and the Dancers report that their new album "From burning hell to smile and laughter" is finished and will be sent off for pressing next week. They're also previewing new songs at myspace and will be swapping out tracks every 24 hours: https://www.myspace.com/billiethevisionandthedancers