Norwegian act Tommy Tokyo & Starving for My Gravy will head to the UK in May:
05/14 - The Great Escape, Brighton
05/15 - The Great Escape, Brighton
05/17 - TJs Woodhouse, Leeds
05/19 - Borderline, London
Norway's Hole in the Sky festival will be celebrating their 10th anniversary this year with a special all-star performance featuring Enslaved plus members of Darkthrone, Emperor, Mayhem and possibly more. Read on: https://www.holeinthesky.no/
Check out the video for "Six feet down" from Swedish rockers The Spitts: https://vids.myspace.com/index.cfm?fuseaction=vids.individual&videoid=56060451
Swedish hardcore punks Kvoteringen have posted a mix of tracks from their forthcoming LP at myspace: https://www.myspace.com/kvoteringen
Maribel are doing a few London gigs at the end of May:
05/25 - The Luminaire, London w/Crystal Stilts
05/26 - Queen of Hoxton, London w/The Telescopes
05/27 - Old Blue Last, London
Adrian Recordings has three b-side remixes of the new Adrian Tilliander single "Caught in a riot" posted for free download: https://www.adrianrecordings.com/default.asp?newsid=230
All three artists features are up-and-coming talents out of Malmö and their names are Per Hammar, Staffan Lindberg and Karachi.
Cloudberry Records next 7" single will feature the Swedish act Signed Papercuts. Go here to peep the artwork and to download a sample: https://www.cloudberryrecords.com/
Three Scandinavian artists reviewed at The Silent Ballet today:
Jasper TX/Anduin - The bending of light
Svarte Greiner - Man bird dress + Anduin split
Jeniferever - Spring tides
John ME's new video for the song "Run" is now posted on his website: https://www.johnme.se/
Hiawata!'s entire new album "These boys and this band is all i know" is now streaming at myspace: https://www.myspace.com/hiawata
It comes out April 27 via SellOut! Music.
The Lasse Lindh/Eniac collaboration "Sunday afternoon" will be included as a bonus track on the Korean edition of Lasse's album "Sparks" which will be released over there on April 23. Also, Lasse's sophomore album "You wake up at Sea Tac" will get a Korean release that same day in a new edition containing five bonus tracks.
The excellent Luleå-based indiepop act Park Hotell is working on a 7": https://blogs.myspace.com/index.cfm?fuseaction=blog.view&friendId=113880675&blogId=484342692
Swedish death/grind legends General Surgery are doing a short West Coast jaunt after they play LA Murderfest:
05/09 - LA Murderfest @ Knitting Factory, Los Angeles, CA
05/10 - The PHiX, Phoenix, AZ
05/11 - Blue Lagoon, Santa Cruz, CA
05/12 - DNA Lounge, San Francisco, CA
05/13 - Satyricon, Portland, OR
05/14 - Old School Pizza, Olympia, WA
A show here in smalltown Olympia? Hell yes! You know where to find me...
Gaffa reports that Danish rock act The Sandmen have cancelled all upcoming live dates and are going on indefinite hiatus: https://gaffa.dk/nyhed/32179
Norwegian avant-metal weirdos Virus have a new demo track on myspace: https://www.myspace.com/czral