Tag: News

CRI to compile old tracks from The Heartburns

Combat Rock Industry will be releasing a CD of old 7" and comp tracks from The Heartburns on May 28.

New Rigas 7" on Flora and Fauna in April, will include Sound of Arrows cover

Flora and Fauna will be releasing a new 4-track 7" from Rigas on April 22 featuring the single "It's a shame" plus the previously unreleased track "Simple" b/w a cover of "Your friends" by Labrador act The Sound of Arrows and a skweee remix of "Stench of you" by Pavan.

Kid Down offer up songs for download

Kid Down is giving away a batch of songs to help promote themselves while on tour with Fall Out Boy: https://www.kiddown.com/giveaway.zip

Stream the new Florence Valentin album

Florence Valentin's new album "Spring Ricco" is currently streaming in its entirety at myspace: https://www.myspace.com/florencevalentin

Metal Blade signs As You Drown

Metal Blade has announced the signing of Swedish metal act As You Drown and will be releasing their debut album in July. Listen here: https://www.myspace.com/asyoudrownsweden

Moist - Just say you're sorry (feat. Sophie Rimheden)

Download a new single from Moist featuring guest vocals from Sophie Rimheden and remixes by Håkan Lidbo and Stefan Aronsson: https://www.moist.se/

New EP from Penny Century + UK tour

Swedish indie act Penny Century is offering their 5-track EP "Valencia" as a free download: https://promotion.pennycentury.se/
Be sure to check out the band when they're in the UK next month:

04/14 - The Liquid Ship, Glasgow
04/15 - The White Room, Sunderland
04/16 - Newcastle Arts Centre, Newcastle Upon Tyne
04/17 - The Enterprise, London
04/18 - tbc, London

Marit Bergman has a new website

Marit Bergman has given her website a much-welcome facelift to coincide with the release of her new album "The tear collector": https://www.maritbergman.net/
Good to see that the Mubito system is no longer heavy on frames and URLs that make no sense.

The Low Frequency in Stereo + Hypertext to Germany

The Low Frequency in Stereo are doing a batch of German dates in May and bringing fellow Norwegians Hypertext along for the ride:

04/30 - Drone Bar, Copenhagen (DK)
05/01 - Klub Drushba, Halle (GER)
05/02 - Beatpol, Dresden (GER)
05/04 - Magnet Club, Berlin (GER)
05/05 - Gladhouse, Cottbus (GER)
05/06 - Kukuun, Hamburg (GER)

New Anchor CD on Self True

Russian label Self True Records has put out a new CD from Swedish sXe hardcore act Anchor called "First year" which collects all of the band's recordings so far: the 5-track "Captivity songs" EP as well as two from their split with The Kind That Kills and one previously unreleased track. More info: https://www.myspace.com/selfxtrue

Raised Fist to record new album in April

Swedish hardcore act Raised Fist will be entering Studio Dug Out in Uppsala in April with producer/engineer Daniel Bergstrand to record a new album, their fifth overall.

Cops shut down TSOOL gig in LA

Aftonbladet reports that The Soundtrack of Our Lives' show at the Swedish Consulate in LA got shut down by the cops: https://www.aftonbladet.se/nojesbladet/musik/article4683887.ab (in Swedish)
It's a damn shame I live too far away to have been able to attend.

The Change to play two German shows in May

Swedish hardcore act The Change will do a couple German gigs in May:

05/20 - Knaack, Berlin
05/21 - Backstage, Munich

Velvet interview at Scandipop

Scandipop interviews Swedish pop sensation Velvet: https://www.scandipop.co.uk/?p=633

New David Sandström Overdrive single in May

The new David Sandström Overdrive single "These are the days" will be released in May.