Kamera has cancelled their upcoming Japanese tour plans in order to concentrate on preproduction for their next album.

Finnish rockers Boomhauer will head to the UK in October:

10/11 - The Canteen, Barrow-in-Furness
10/12 - Boot and Shoe, Ackworth
10/14 - The 12 Bar Club, London
10/15 - Riffs, Swindon
10/16 - Ryan's Bar, Derby
10/17 - Scruffy Murphy's, Birmingham
10/18 - The Mad Ferret, Preston

Sincerely Yours is holding a contest to see who can figure out how many copies of the new Nordpolen CD (out September 24) they will sell: https://www.sincerelyyours.se/yours0088.html
Also announced, the The Tough Alliance's "Neo violence" 12" EP will be out later this month: https://www.sincerelyyours.se/yours0089.html

Stereo Test Kit has a new single from the excellent Swedish/Glaswegian pop act The Social Services posted for free download: https://www.stereotestkit.com/

The new Rockettothesky album "Medea" will be out in about a month and you can now preview a track at myspace: https://www.myspace.com/rockettothesky

Besides the previously announced dates for October, it looks like Lukestar will be back in France in November to support the French release of "Lake Toba", out now on Rock's My Ass Records: https://www.myspace.com/rocksmyassrds

Here's the playlist for this week's radio show:

01. Small - Sunshine lover
02. TALK 1
03. Prince of Assyria - What ever you want
04. Necrovation - Putrid evocation
05. Division of Laura Lee - LAX
06. TALK 2
07. Tomas Halberstad - Travel as I wait
08. Sophie Zelmani - Yeah, okey
09. Kite - Ways to dance
10. TALK 3
11. Thomas Denver Jonsson - Light of love
12. The Tapirs - My violet you
13. E.S.T. - Leucocyte (Ad initio)
14. TALK 4
15. Enslaved - Vertebrae
16. Imagine I Had Hands - Hellbent on holding out
17. Melpo Mene - Kling klang clock
18. TALK 5
19. Puffin - A dream it seems

Reminder: My show on Sirius Left of Center (channel 26) airs Sundays at 11pm ET with repeats on Monday at the same time.

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

01. Hello Saferide
02. Detektivbyrån
03. The Radio Dept.
04. Jens Lekman
05. Logh
06. Håkan Hellström
07. Shout Out Louds
08. Tiger Lou
09. Kent
10. Juvelen

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Pitchfork reviews the new Peter Bjorn and John instrumental album "Seaside rock": https://www.pitchforkmedia.com/article/record_review/145301-peter-bjorn-and-john-seaside-rock
Also posted today in the Forkcast, a track from Kool DJ Dust: https://www.pitchforkmedia.com/article/download/145492-new-music-kool-dj-dust-comin-to-getcha-mp3

Skweeelicious talks to skweee genre founder Pavan: https://skweee.com/?p=10

Dismember will play a 20-year anniversary show on November 22 at Debaser Medis in Stockholm which will feature all present and past members of the band performing songs from throughout their career.

Finnish act Lau Nau is kicking off a run of US dates tonight:

9/12 - The 3rd Degree, Asbury Park, NJ
9/13 - Empty Bottle (Wire AIMM Festival), Chicago, IL
9/14 - The Picador, Iowa City, IA
9/15 - Rainbo, Chicago, IL
9/17 - Mills Gallery at the Boston Center for the Arts, Boston, MA
9/18 - The Marvelous Music, Philadelphia, PA
9/19 - Knitting Factory, New York, NY

Updated Lukestar tourdates:

09/23 - Saint-Etienne, L’Assommoir (FRA)
09/24 - Soraluze, Gaztetxe (ESP)
09/25 - Basauri, Basozelai (ESP)
09/26 - Torrelavega, Centro andaluz (ESP)
09/27 - Madrid, Art brut (ESP)
09/28 - Don Benito, The Rincon Pio Sound (ESP)
09/29 - Badajoz (ESP)
09/30 - Cádiz (ESP)
10/01 - El Picazo (ESP)
10/02 - Málaga (ESP)
10/03 - Zaragoza (ESP)
10/04 - Barcelona, Sidecar (ESP)
10/06 - Toulouse, Pavillion Sauvage (FRA)
10/07 - Clermont Ferrand, Atoutazar (FRA)

Look for the band to play CMJ in NYC in late October as well.

Juni Järvi is collaborating with Markus Krunegård (Laakso) on a duet called "Love is stronger than steel". No idea when it will be finished and/or released, but I'll keep you posted.

The video for the new I Are Droid single "Blood & ether" is now streaming on the band's website: https://www.iaredroid.com/