Amir Chamdin of Infinite Mass has a new solo project called Mean Streets which will be releasing his Nicke Andersson-produced (The Hellacopters, Death Breath, etc.) album on September 30 via Sheriff Records. Hear a track at myspace: https://www.myspace.com/amirchamdin
Danish act Grand Avenue will release their fourth album on September 28. Hear the first single "Almost gone" at myspace: https://www.myspace.com/grdavenue
Kristofer Åström is Indie Rock Reviews' band of the week: [click here]
Read their gushing review of his most recent album "Sinkadus" right here.
Pitchfork reviews Love Is All's new "Last choice" EP: https://pitchfork.com/reviews/albums/13093-last-choice-ep/
Göteborg-based artist Tomas Halberstad has got himself a new backing band: https://tomashalberstad.com/2009/06/28/proper-introductions/
Tingsek has a new song called "Coming back to you" streaming at myspace: https://www.myspace.com/tingsek
The new album of the same title comes out September 30.
Stereogum has the premiere of the new Sondre Lerche single "Heartbeat radio": https://stereogum.com/archives/new-sondre-lerche-heartbeat-radio-stereogum-premie_075022.html
The folks from the Swedish webzine Panda are once reinventing themselves, this time as Devotion Magazine, coming in July: https://devotionmagazine.se/
Ny Våg was supposed to be releasing a new 3-song 7" from Mattias Alkberg this summer, but he ended up recording a full LP instead so they're giving away the single for free: https://www.nyvag.com/
The new full-length "Nerverna" will also be released on CD by A West Side Fabrication.
Check out Maia Hirasawa's brand new video for "The wrong way": https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g7y4dXiyS48&fmt=18
Finnish gloom-rockers Heroin and Your Veins have a new video for the track "The trigger": https://www.heroinandyourveins.net/videos/thetrigger.html
Nö Music talks to The New Wine and tries to get them to bad-mouth as many other bands as possible: https://www.nomusicmedia.com/2009/06/28/the-new-wine-talking-shit-at-hove/
The new album "Alongside Death" from Swedish black/death metal act The Black is currently streaming in its entirety at myspace: https://www.myspace.com/pulverisedrecords
Finnish crust-heavy act Hebosagil has posted a new live-in-the-studio version of the track "Ei ole" on myspace: https://www.myspace.com/hebosagil
Said cut originally appears on the band's split with fellow bad-vibe Finns Viisikko.
Norwegian avant/dark rock/metal act Devar has signed with Code666 for the release of their debut album "Alternate endings", due out in September. Preview a couple tracks at myspace: https://www.myspace.com/devarno