Here is the It's a Trap! listening group top 10 artists of the week, unique to our group:
01. Mew
02. Jenny Wilson
03. Kristofer Åström
04. Kent
05. Håkan Hellström
06. Montt Mardié
07. Love Is All
08. JJ
09. Sally Shapiro
10. The Bear Quartet
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Here's the playlist for this week's radio show Sirius XMU:
01. Gocart System - Always been the same
02. TALK 1
03. [ingenting] - Halleluja
04. The Kid - Transient dance
05. Thåström - Kort biografi med litet testamente
06. TALK 2
07. Small - Sunshine lover
08. Heroin and Your Veins - The trigger
09. Kongh - Tank pa doden
10. Villebråd - Vaknar aldrig
11. TALK 3
12. Anna Leong - Guillotine
13. Ison & Fille - Jag skrattar idag
14. Dyno - Burning blood
15. TALK 4
16. The Bear Quartet - Sweet beef
17. Entombed - State of emergency
18. Skatan - Top of the mountain
19. Familjen - Mine øyne de ska se
20. TALK 5
21. Suzy Thunder - Big
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.
Drowned in Sound on the UK release of The Tough Alliance's "The new school": https://drownedinsound.com/releases/14520/reviews/4137399
Swedish alt-rock act Lingua are keeping a blog as they record their sophomore album: https://linguamusic.blogspot.com/
Unfortunately I didn't see this until it was already half-over, but Göteborg based indie/experimental music promoter Koloni is currently in San Francisco with a number of acts at the Mission Creek Music & Arts Festival. Go here for full details: https://www.ollehuge.com/test/?p=245
This week's top 20 Norwegian album chart:
01. Espen Lind, Kurt Nilsen, Alejandro Fuentes og Askil Holm - Halleluja Live Vol. 2
02. Alexander Rybak - Fairytales
03. A-ha - Foot Of The Mountain
04. Smurfene - Smurfeparty 2
05. Postgirobygget - Øyeblikk
06. Henning Kvitnes - Tid for latskap
07. Narum - Samma Hen Du Fær
08. Lollipop - Lollipop - 50 beste
09. Erik og Kriss - Tabu
10. Röyksopp - Junior
11. Reidar Larsen - Kom in te oss
12. Eriksen - De aller beste
13. Too Far Gone - Sola i ryggen
14. Datarock - Red
15. Aasmund Nordstoga - Ein visefugg
16. Tone Damli Aaberge - I Know
17. BigBang - Edendale
18. Terje Formoe - Hiv o'hoi - Kaptein Sabeltanns beste
19. Vømmøl Spellmannslag - Vømmøl'n
20. Eva & The Heartmaker - Let's Keep This Up Forever
Bloodlights are heading to Japan:
08/30 - Club Acid (Cathouse), Shinjuku, Tokyo
08/31 - Club Mission's, Koenji, Tokyo
09/01 - Rock Joint GB, Kichijoji, Tokyo
09/05 - Sunphonix Hall, Shin-Yokohama, Kanagawa
Finnish act Lodger have a neat new animated video for the song "Go": https://www.lodger.tv/
The latest "Show No Mercy" column at Pitchfork features an interview with part-Scandinavian act Code: https://pitchfork.com/features/show-no-mercy/7684-show-no-mercy/
This week's top 20 Swedish album chart:
01. Malena Ernman - La voix du nord
02. Tomas Ledin - 500 dagar om året
03. Lasse Stefanz - Truck stop
04. Benny Andersson Band - Story of a heart
05. Rolandz - Efter regn kommer solsken
06. Erik Linder - Inifrån
07. Caroline Af Ugglas - Så gör jag det igen
08. Theresa Andersson - Hummingbird, go!
09. Hans Edler with String Orchestra - Remember the sixties
10. Sten & Stanley - Allsånger på vårt sätt
11. Smurfarna - Smurfparty 2
12. Veronica Maggio - Och vinnaren är...
13. The Poodles - Clash of the elements
14. Dead By April - Dead By April
15. Style - Vill ha dej igen
16. Blackjack - Summertime blues
17. Björn Afzelius & Mikael Wiehe - Olympiska nätter
18. Von Benzo - Von benzo
19. The Refreshments - A band's gotta do what a band's gotta do
20. Ted Gärdestad - Helt nära dig - samlade album
JJ's album "n° 2", Sincerely Yours' latest release, gets the "Best New Music" tag at Pitchfork: https://pitchfork.com/reviews/albums/13326-jj-n-2/
Rune Grammofon will beging taking pre-orders for the debut album "You like me five minutes ago" from all-star Swedish freejazz act Fire! on Monday: https://www.runegrammofon.com/artists/fire_/rlp-3091---fire_-you-liked-me-five-ago-_lp_
Fire! consists of Mats Gustafsson (The Thing), Johan Berthling (Tape) and Andreas Werliin (Wildbirds & Peacedrums). The official release date is August 10. Also, note that the new Motorpsycho LP will also be available for preorder next week as well.
New North American dates for Datarock:
08/28 - Foufounes Electriques, Montreal, QC
09/04 - The Modern, Vancouver, BC (DJ set)
09/04 - Gossip, Vancouver, BC
09/06 - Broken City, Calgary, AB
09/07 - Starlite Room, Edmonton, AB
09/09 - The Zoo, Winnipeg, MB
09/10 - 7th Street Entry, Minneapolis, MN
09/11 - Double Door, Chicago, IL
09/12 - Grog Shop, Cleveland, OH
09/14 - Paradise, Boston, MA
09/17 - Highline Ballroom, New York, NY
09/18 - Johnny Brenda's, Philadelphia, PA
09/19 - Rock N Roll Hotel, Washington DC
09/20 - Local 506, Chapel Hill, NC
09/22 - Masquerade, Atlanta, GA
09/23 - Republic, New Orleans, LA
09/24 - Warehouse, Houston, TX
09/25 - Emo's, Austin, TX
09/26 - Granada Theater, Dallas, TX
09/28 - Rhythm Room, Phoenix, AZ
09/29 - Brick By Brick, San Diego, CA
09/30 - El Rey, Los Angeles, CA
10/01 - Slim's, San Francisco, CA
10/02 - Holocene, Portland, OR
10/03 - Nectar, Seattle, WA
Erased Tapes will be doing a proper physical CD release of Icelandic artist Ólafur Arnalds' "Found songs" project. The official release date is set for August 31.
Avant-garde Metal interviews Pär Gustafson of Bergraven: https://www.avantgarde-metal.com/content/stories2.php?id=108