The SVT live music program Garage, hosted by Johannes Hallbom of the band Tony Clifton, has been quite busy adding new clips to YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/profile?user=garage07&view=videos
Definitely great to see new stuff from Two White Horses.
Black Star Foundation will soon be rereleasing a special double-disc bundle of Pg.Lost's album "It's not me, it's you!" and the "Yes I am" EP as a single package with new artwork.
Powersolo is giving away the song "Pirates of the oblivion" as a free download: https://www.powersolo.dk/BSB
Their new album "Bloodskinbones" is also available for streaming at myspace in its entirety: https://www.myspace.com/powersolo
Jonna Lee's new album "This is Jonna Lee" will be streaming on myspace for a week starting tomorrow: https://www.myspace.com/jonnaleemusic
Mattias Hellberg & The White Moose have licensed their album "Out of the frying pan, into the woods" to German label Stickman for a wider European release. It will be out in Germany, Austria, Switzerland and Italy on April 17 and in BeNeLux on April 20.
Check out Dundertåget's brand new video for the single "Ifrån mej själv": https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ucb8eALLBqQ&fmt=18
Listen to Swedish lounge-rockers Hellsongs cover "10,000 lovers" by TNT: https://www.myspace.com/hellsongs
Pistol Disco has a new website: https://www.pistoldisco.com/
Look for their new album "Evergreen" to be offered as a free download soon, as well as on vinyl for old folks.
Aerial has now signed with Flake Records for the Japanese release of their upcoming third album. No release date yet, but Swedish label Nomethod informs me that it's 95% mixed and on track for being mastered in mid-March.
Hommage Records is a new Norwegian label devoted to early 80s synth music and their first release is "Maskindans", a 2CD comp exploring the roots of Norwegian postpunk. See their website for more detail: https://www.hommage.no/
I'm pretty excited to hear this as is one of my absolute favorite genre timeperiods.
Norwegian artist Kim Hiorthøy has a new band called Drivan that just finished recording an album for release on Smalltown Supersound. The group got together when Kim was asked to create music for a dance performance put on by Swedes Lisa Östberg, Louise Peterhoff and Kristiina Viiala and Kim enjoyed their vocalization so much, they decided to continue the collaboration. All of the lyrics are in Swedish and the music is described as "folky hip-hop loops meet Marine Girls." No official release date yet, but I'll keep you posted.
Here's the playlist for this week's radio show Sirius XMU:
01. Saralunden - Les mains d'un autre
02. TALK 1
03. Agent Side Grinder - The screams
04. Victims - Victims in blood #5
05. The Garlands - Freedom
06. Livaventura - Keep on driving
07. TALK 2
08. Anna Ternheim - Better be
09. NEI - City of gold
10. Dead Letters Spell Out Dead Words - Lost & losing
11. TALK 3
12. A Camp - Golden teeth and silver medals
13. Leif Jordansson - Mellan drömmar och bränder
14. Mechanical Bird - Harbour me
15. Samtidigt Som - Vid min sida
16. TALK 4
17. Wolfbrigade - Deny tomorrow
18. Dismember - Beyond good and evil
19. Marvins Revolt - Deliberate deeds
20. Timo Räisänen - Sweet Marie
21. TALK 5
22. Voices Break the Silence - This awful friend
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.
Marit Bergman's latest single "Bang bang" is streaming at myspace: https://www.myspace.com/maritbergman
Be sure to note the upcoming live dates too - two NYC shows plus a Swedish tour!
Series Two and Eggnog Records are teaming up for a limited 3" CDEP series featuring releases from Swedish artists Double Dan, Robert Church plus two others and a seven-song comp with cuts from Death Valley Sleepers (DK), Mike Downey (SWE) and Sweet Sweet Concorde (SWE). Details: https://blogs.myspace.com/index.cfm?fuseaction=blog.view&friendID=31429084&blogID=471146547
As promised, the new Hiawata single "Valley boys" is now available as a free download along with b-side covers by Harrys Gym/I Was a King, Monzano, Dylan Mondegreen, My Little Pony and more. Get it right here: https://sellout-music.net/hiawata-valley_boys.zip