Sasu Ripatti aka (Luomo, Vladislav Delay) plays drums and percussion on The Moritz von Oswald Trio's upcoming album "Vertical ascent", due out June 22 via Honest Jon's Records. Hit up the label site for samples: https://www.honestjons.com/label.php?pid=34157&LabelID=14815
Swedish noiserockers The End Will Be Kicks have another brand new song available for free download called "Little pill": https://theendwillbekicks.com/download
Sounds great, as always.
Danish act Under Byen will be doing a number of Belgian dates in October:
10/07 - Botanique, Brussels
10/08 - Cultuurcentrum De Spil, Roeselare
10/09 - de Warande, Turnhout
10/10 - Cultuurcentrum, Mechelen
10/11 - Cultuurcentrum, Hasselt
Live music with Existensminimum at The Tram Sessions: https://thetramsession.blogspot.com/2009/06/existensminimum.html
Updated North American tourdates for Dungen:
08/03 - Metropolis Theatre, Montreal, Quebec
08/04 - Massey Hall, Toronto, Ontario
08/05 - Royal Oak Theatre, Royal Oak, MI
08/07 - Lollapalooza, Chicago, IL
08/09 - First Avenue, Minneapolis, MN
08/10 - Picador, Iowa City, IA
08/12 - tbd, Columbus OH
08/13 - Big Orbits Soundlab, Buffalo, NY
08/14 - Bell House, Brooklyn, NY
08/15 - Johnny Brenda's, Philadelphia, PA
08/17 - Otto Bar, Baltimore, MD
08/18 - Grey Eagle, Asheville, NC
08/19 - The Earl, Atlanta, GA
08/21 - Mohawk, Austin, TX
08/22 - The Loft, Dallas, TX
08/24 - Rhythm Room, Tempe, AZ
08/26 - Troubadour, Los Angeles, CA
08/28 - Street Scene, San Diego, CA
08/29 - Kemado/Mexican Summer/Folk Yeah, Big Sur, CA
08/30 - Bottom of the Hill, San Francisco, CA
09/01 - tbd, Portland, OR
09/02 - Richards on Richards, Vancouver, BC
09/03 - Neumo's, Seattle, WA
Hardcore Superstar have updated their international tour itinerary, taking 'em out towards the end of the year: https://www.hardcoresuperstar.com/tour.shtml
Danish act The Foreign Resort has been picked up by US label Three Ring Records who will be releasing the band's debut album "Offshore" over here in October. They'll also be bringing them over for some shows, including a record release party on October 29 in San Francisco. Hit up myspace for more dates and samples: https://www.myspace.com/theforeignresort
The new album "Machine dreams" from Göteborg-based artist Little Dragon (aka Yukimi Nagano) has been confirmed for release on August 19. Samples at myspace: https://www.myspace.com/yourlittledragon
Swedish posi-hardcore act Sista Sekunden will be coming back to North America in October for an extensive tour covering the East. Preliminary details here: https://blogs.myspace.com/index.cfm?fuseaction=blog.view&friendId=54025215&blogId=495359265
Seeing as how Nordic Jazz Week is in full swing this week (no pun intended), here's a new interview with Norwegian artist Arve Henriksen from the Washington Post Express: https://www.expressnightout.com/content/2009/06/arve_henriksen.php
Norwegian artist Petter Carlsen will release his new album "You go bird" on August 24 and you can now hear the title track at myspace: https://www.myspace.com/pettercarlsen
Southside Stalkers are streaming a new single called "Bones" at myspace, along with two other new tracks: https://www.myspace.com/southsidestalkers
Expect a new album later this year.
Swedish indiepoppers Liechtenstein have a nice and simple new website: https://www.fractiondiscs.se/liechtenstein
Pitchfork reviews Norwegian act I Was A King: https://pitchfork.com/reviews/albums/13229-i-was-a-king/
Swedish act Ping will release the new album "Discotheque of darkness" on August 1 via Luftwaffel Records in both gatefold vinyl and CD format. Full details here: https://www.thepingpage.com/2009/06/discotheque-of-darkness-to-be-released-august-1st/
Says the band: "The music may be described as manure for your spiritual growth."