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Copenhell 2013: The flashback

Thomas Brunstrøm — Thu, 20 Jun 2013 08:34:30 +0000

June 14-15 a former industrial area at the outskirts of Copenhagen was for the fourth time transformed into a metal mecca with pretty much anything you could ask for in thrash, death, black, power… Well, just all kinds of metal. Getting better by the year Copenhell have several great features: A great mix of old [...]

Sigur Rós: Kveikur

Peter Krogholm — Tue, 18 Jun 2013 10:10:01 +0000

Just over a year on from their sixth album, ‘Valtari’, and a goodbye to Kjartan Sveinsson, Sigur Rós released their seventh full length yesterday. Now a trio the Icelanders have taken themselves to a new and in no way less compelling place on ‘Kveikur’, a place where their ethereal trademarks and undeniable pop qualities spoon [...]

Music Alliance Pact – June 2013

Peter Krogholm — Sat, 15 Jun 2013 06:45:14 +0000

We’re halfway through June and that means time for a fresh edition of the World’s Greatest Mixtape bringing you 34 free songs from 34 countries around the planet courtesy of the Music Alliance Pact. Today we say goodbye to Coltran run by Tom, who’s represented Germany every month since December 2008. Other than that it’s [...]

Efterklang & Copenhagen Phil: The Piramida Concert

Peter Krogholm — Fri, 14 Jun 2013 07:14:58 +0000

Last year Efterklang released their marvelous album ‘Piramida’, which they then began travelling the world with. Not on a regular tour as one could expect, but as a series of 18 concerts with different symphony orchestras starting at the Sydney Opera House with the Sydney Symphony Orchestra, and visiting New York (with The Wordless Music [...]

The Ball And The Wall: Dragonfly (feat. Raise Dead)

Peter Krogholm — Thu, 13 Jun 2013 08:02:50 +0000

Today Danish guitarist, producer and composer Noah Rosanes (Nelson Can, The Freudian Slip, Echo Me, Boho Dancer etc.) launch himself as The Ball And The Wall, a new project with which he will release a yet unknown number of singles. Each song will be a collaboration with other artists and first shot is ‘Dragonfly’, a [...]

Streak And The Raven: Ahora The Tipsy Queen

Peter Krogholm — Tue, 11 Jun 2013 07:28:58 +0000

Up for little less than three minutes of avantgarde synthpop? The feast your ears (and eyes on the Otto Kylmälä directed visual side of it) on ‘Ahora The Tipsy Queen’, the opening track of Streak And The Raven’s debut album ‘Love And War’. It’s minimalist and sinister and can put you in a trance-like state [...]

Supermale: Living The American Dream

Peter Krogholm — Tue, 11 Jun 2013 07:27:56 +0000

Back in 2011 Norwegian synthpop trio Supermale were one half of a Friday SpaceScan with their excellent 80s disco thumper ‘Living The American Dream’. Today it’s released again in a new, beefed up mix by Digory Smallz as half of a maxi-single titled ‘I Do However Recognize The Cultural And Social Importance Of Dance’ with [...]

Like Swimming: God Knows

Peter Krogholm — Tue, 11 Jun 2013 07:26:41 +0000

A brand new trio, risen from the ashes of their former band You Say France And I Whistle, Like Swimming debuts with the single ‘God Knows’ and its accompanying video. Also here is B-side ‘Dance Away I Please’ and all three make for a pretty splendid first release, which is sure to please most indiepop [...]

Soliti Turns Two: Odds, Sods & Found Sounds

Peter Krogholm — Fri, 07 Jun 2013 08:31:09 +0000

Finnish label Soliti, founded and run by Finland based Brit Nick Triani, celebrates its second birthday with a compilation of new tracks, demos and unreleased songs from the Soliti bands Cats On Fire, Delay Trees, Big Wave Riders, Black Lizard, The New Tigers, Astrid Swan, Paperfangs and Black Twig – and it’s all yours to [...]

Blåtime: Leave, Go

Peter Krogholm — Fri, 07 Jun 2013 08:19:07 +0000

Hailing from Trondheim, Blåtime (directly translated “blue hour” and likely a reference to the twilight moment each morning and evening where there is neither full daylight nor complete darkness) is a brand new trio with just one song out and about. They are, however, off to a pretty good start with ‘Leave, Go’, which places [...]