Tag: News
This week's top 20 Swedish album chart:
01. Larz Kristerz - Om du vill
02. Lars Winnerbäck - Tänk om jag ångrar mig och sen ångrar mig igen
03. Bo Kaspers Orkester - Samling
04. Christer Sjögren - Schlagerminnen
05. Peter Lemarc - Klassiker
06. Nisse Hellberg - En modern man
07. Melissa Horn - Säg ingenting till mig
08. Europe - Last look at Eden
09. Mustasch - Mustasch
10. Takida - The darker instinct
11. Amy Diamond - Swings and roundabouts
12. Malena Ernman - La voix du nord
13. Per Gessle - Gessle over europe
14. Sarah Dawn Finer - Moving on
15. Caroline Af Ugglas - Så gör jag det igen
16. Mama Kin - In the city
17. Jeanette Lindström - Attitude & orbit control
18. Ebba Forsberg - Ta min vals: ebba forsberg sjunger Leonard Cohen
19. Markus Krunegård - Prinsen av Peking
20. Jerry Williams - Dynamite - live
Swedish goth-country act Isobel & November now have two new tracks from their forthcoming album streaming at myspace: https://www.myspace.com/isobelandnovember
Friendly Noise has launched a magazine and issue one is up now: https://www.friendlynoise.se/fzn/1
It's in Swedish which is bad for me, but the layout + navigation is fantastic. Artists featured include Liminals, Auton and Studio (among others) and there's also a huge Friendly Noise sampler for download (see the "Friendly Noise Survival Kit").
Free Jazz favorably reviews the Alberto Pinton, Jonas Kullhammar, Torbjörn Zetterberg and Kjell Nordeson live collaboration "Chant": https://freejazz-stef.blogspot.com/2009/10/pinton-kullhammar-zetterberg-nordeson.html
Soundvenue reports that Figurines drummer Kristian Volden and bassist Mads Kjærgaard are leaving the band following their current tour obligations this month to go back to school, studying journalism and music management respectively: https://www.soundvenue.com/nyheder/2009/10/27/figurines-reduceret-til-en-trio (in Danish)
The band plans to continue on as a trio for the time being and plans to start work on writing songs for a new record soon.
High Hats were forced to drop off their scheduled European tour with Baby Shakes due to their jobs not letting them take the required time off, but new labelmates Kendollls will take their place. Kendolls will be recording a new album this winter for release on Alleycat Records next spring.
Swedish indie act Marching Band have secured the production talents of Jari Haapalainen (Camera Obscura, The Concretes, The Bear Quartet, etc.) for their next album which they'll be recording this winter.
The Knoppar label has a new release from Tvärvägen "sideproject" Spunk available for free download: https://knoppar.blogspot.com/2009/10/some-great-news-from-tvarvagen.html
In the same link at the very bottom, there's also another free download for a mix of new Knoppar stuff which I presume includes more Tvärvägen as well as A Perfect Friend and more.
Franky Lee are in the studio and blogging about it: https://frankylee.com/blog/
Swedish newcomer Magnus Weideskog has a charming new video for his song "20 år" directed by Mats Udd: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BUdfvZJUHj4
The latest issue of email newsletter The Swede Beat just went out and it's a special feature on "Swedish Melancholia", in music, fashion and film: https://us1.campaign-archive.com/?u=80b566c77cc8873e0857b5dea&id=9a56b61423
Finnish doom act Swallow the Sun have a new song on myspace: https://www.myspace.com/swallowthesundoom
The band's new album "New moon" comes out November 4 at home, November 9 in the UK and November 10 in America.
Service has announced the signing of new band Forest and are streaming the new song "Just one day" right here: https://srvc.se/
Look for their debut album this winter.