Baron Bane/Anna Frank in Germany, Switzerland

Swedish art-rock acts Baron Bane and Anna Frank are doing a couple dates together in Northern Europe:

02/14 - Aufsturz Klub, Berlin (GER)
02/16 - Hirscheneck, Basel (CH)

New label: Too Many Notes

Too Many Notes is a new Swedish label home to Nutid and Alf: https://www.toomanynotes.se/
Look for Nutid's debut album in March.

The label page is back

In case you haven't noticed, I managed to get the label page back up this past weekend.

Cats On Fire album title revealed

Word on the street has it that the new Cats On Fire album will be called "Our temperance movement". Assuming everything is going according to plan, it will be released on March 14 via Johanna Kustannus.

This week's Last.fm chart

Here is the It's a Trap! listening group top 10 artists of the week, unique to our group:

01. The Bear Quartet
02. Håkan Hellström
03. Laakso
04. Marit Bergman
05. Anna Ternheim
06. Frida Hyvönen
07. Hello Saferide
08. Glasvegas
09. Markus Krunegård
10. Bon Iver

Do you listen to music on your computer or with an iPod? Please join us and make your playlist count! Go here to learn more: https://www.last.fm/help/

Lisa Milberg (The Concretes) goes solo

Lisa Milberg of The Concretes has a new myspace page for her solo project: https://www.myspace.com/milbergmakesmusic

Pfork on José González' new live EP

Pitchfork on José González' new "Live at Park Avenue" EP: https://www.pitchforkmedia.com/article/record_review/148386-jos-gonzlez-live-at-park-avenue-ep

We Live In Trenches back in the studio

We Live In Trenches (remember?) will be going into the studio later this month to record a 12" for an unnamed German label. More details when I get 'em.

Skweeelicious interviews Daniel Savio

Skweeelicious talks to Daniel Savio, not only one of the skweee genre's founders but also the man who coined the term: https://skweee.com/?p=22
2009, the year of skweee? Wait and see...

Dazed Digital talks to Fever Ray

Dazed Digital talks to Karin Dreijer Andersson about her new solo project Fever Ray: https://www.dazeddigital.com/Music/article/1622/1/The_Fever_Dream_of_Fever_Ray

CNN talks to Nina Persson

CNN talks to Nina Persson about her solo project A Camp: https://edition.cnn.com/2009/TRAVEL/01/07/nina.interview/

Music from Norway 2009

Nö Music lists many of the prominent Norwegian albums due out this coming year: https://www.nomusicmedia.com/2009/01/09/the-future-in-albums/

Debut album on the way from Factory45

Danish indie act Factory45 will release their as-yet-untitled debut album on April 6.

Cosy Den celebrates five years

Indiepop clubnight/record label Cosy Den will celebrate their 5th birthday with a five-day celebration in Stockholm at the end of July: https://www.smallstepforward.com/cosy/wordpress/?p=386

New music from Sparrow

Swedish indiepop/rock act Sparrow is streaming a bunch of new tracks at myspace: https://www.myspace.com/sparrowswe