Datarock - True stories (video)

Datarock have a new video for the Talking Heads-inspired track "True stories": http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MBRXGFcsrMg&fmt=18

This week's top 20 Norwegian album chart

This week's top 20 Norwegian album chart:

01. Espen Lind, Kurt Nilsen, Alejandro Fuentes og Askil Holm - Halleluja Live Vol. 2
02. Alexander Rybak - Fairytales
03. A-ha - Foot Of The Mountain
04. Smurfene - Smurfeparty 2
05. Postgirobygget - Øyeblikk
06. Henning Kvitnes - Tid for latskap
07. Narum - Samma Hen Du Fær
08. Lollipop - Lollipop - 50 beste
09. Erik og Kriss - Tabu
10. Röyksopp - Junior
11. Reidar Larsen - Kom in te oss
12. Eriksen - De aller beste
13. Too Far Gone - Sola i ryggen
14. Datarock - Red
15. Aasmund Nordstoga - Ein visefugg
16. Tone Damli Aaberge - I Know
17. BigBang - Edendale
18. Terje Formoe - Hiv o'hoi - Kaptein Sabeltanns beste
19. Vømmøl Spellmannslag - Vømmøl'n
20. Eva & The Heartmaker - Let's Keep This Up Forever

Datarock back to North America in late August

New North American dates for Datarock:

08/28 - Foufounes Electriques, Montreal, QC
09/04 - The Modern, Vancouver, BC (DJ set)
09/04 - Gossip, Vancouver, BC
09/06 - Broken City, Calgary, AB
09/07 - Starlite Room, Edmonton, AB
09/09 - The Zoo, Winnipeg, MB
09/10 - 7th Street Entry, Minneapolis, MN
09/11 - Double Door, Chicago, IL
09/12 - Grog Shop, Cleveland, OH
09/14 - Paradise, Boston, MA
09/17 - Highline Ballroom, New York, NY
09/18 - Johnny Brenda's, Philadelphia, PA
09/19 - Rock N Roll Hotel, Washington DC
09/20 - Local 506, Chapel Hill, NC
09/22 - Masquerade, Atlanta, GA
09/23 - Republic, New Orleans, LA
09/24 - Warehouse, Houston, TX
09/25 - Emo's, Austin, TX
09/26 - Granada Theater, Dallas, TX
09/28 - Rhythm Room, Phoenix, AZ
09/29 - Brick By Brick, San Diego, CA
09/30 - El Rey, Los Angeles, CA
10/01 - Slim's, San Francisco, CA
10/02 - Holocene, Portland, OR
10/03 - Nectar, Seattle, WA

This week's top 20 Norwegian album chart

This week's top 20 Norwegian album chart:

01. Espen Lind, Kurt Nilsen, Alejandro Fuentes og Askil Holm - Halleluja Live Vol. 2
02. Alexander Rybak - Fairytales
03. A-ha - Foot Of The Mountain
04. Narum - Samma Hen Du fær
05. Postgirobygget - Øyeblikk
06. D.D.E. - Ut av kontroll
07. Smurfene - Smurfeparty 2
08. Henning Kvitnes - Tid for latskap
09. Röyksopp - Junior
10. Too Far Gone - Sola i ryggen
11. Reidar Larsen - Kom in te oss
12. Erik og Kriss - Tabu
13. Vømmøl Spellmannslag - Vømmøl'n
14. Eriksen - De aller beste
15. BigBang - Edendale
16. Lollipop - Lollipop - 50 beste
17. Tone Damli Aaberge - I Know
18. Aasmund Nordstoga - Ein visefugg
19. Datarock - Red
20. CC Cowboys - Morgen & kveld

This week's top 20 Norwegian album chart

This week's top 20 Norwegian album chart:

01. Espen Lind, Kurt Nilsen, Alejandro Fuentes og Askil Holm - Halleluja Live Vol. 2
02. Alexander Rybak - Fairytales
03. A-ha - Foot Of The Mountain
04. Postgirobygget - Øyeblikk
05. Henning Kvitnes - Tid for latskap
06. D.D.E. - Ut av kontroll
07. Too Far Gone - Sola i ryggen
08. Röyksopp - Junior
09. Eriksen - De aller beste
10. Smurfene - Smurfeparty 2
11. Erik og Kriss - Tabu
12. Vømmøl Spellmannslag - Vømmøl'n
13. Reidar Larsen - Kom in te oss
14. Tone Damli Aaberge - I Know
15. BigBang - Edendale
16. Datarock - Red
17. CC Cowboys - Morgen & kveld
18. Aasmund Nordstoga - Ein visefugg
19. Eva & The Heartmaker - Let's Keep This Up Forever
20. Skambankt - Hardt regn

This week's top 20 Norwegian album chart

This week's top 20 Norwegian album chart:

01. Espen Lind, Kurt Nilsen, Alejandro Fuentes og Askil Holm - Halleluja Live Vol. 2
02. A-ha - Foot Of The Mountain
03. Alexander Rybak - Fairytales
04. Postgirobygget - Øyeblikk
05. Henning Kvitnes - Tid for latskap
06. Vømmøl Spellmannslag - Vømmøl'n
07. Too Far - Sola i ryggen
08. Aasmund Nordstoga - Ein visefugg
09. Terje Tysland - Lidderli gla
10. Eriksen - De aller beste
11. Reidar Larsen - Kom in te oss
12. Erik og Kriss - Tabu
13. Röyksopp - Junior
14. Tone Damli Aaberge - I Know
15. Datarock - Red
16. Kaizers Orchestra - Maskineri
17. BigBang - Edendale
18. Tina Lie - Free Enough To Fall
19. Eva & The Heartmaker - Let's Keep This Up Forever
20. Anita Skorgan - Hele veien - 47 utvalgte sanger

This week's top 20 Norwegian album chart

This week's top 20 Norwegian album chart:

01. Espen Lind, Kurt Nilsen, Alejandro Fuentes og Askil Holm - Hallelujah - Live
02. Alexander Rybak - Fairytales
03. Henning Kvitnes - Tid for latskap
04. Too Far Gone - Sola i ryggen
05. Vømmøl Spellmannslag - Vømmøl'n
06. Eriksen - De aller beste
07. Datarock - Red
08. Erik og Kriss - Tabu
09. Terje Tysland - Lidderli gla
10. Reidar Larsen - Kom in te oss
11. Tone Damli Aaberge - I Know
12. Röyksopp - Junior
13. Kaizers Orchestra - Maskineri
14. Aasmund Nordstoga - Ein visefugg
15. Eva & The Heartmaker - Let's Keep This Up Forever
16. BigBang - Edendale
17. Anita Skorgan - Hele veien - 47 utvalgte sanger
18. CC Cowboys - Morgen & kveld
19. Jorn - Spirit Black
20. Terje Formoe - Kaptein Sabeltann og den forheksede Øya

This week's top 20 Norwegian album chart

This week's top 20 Norwegian album chart:

01. Alexander Rybak - Fairytales
02. Henning Kvitnes - Tid for latskap
03. Too Far Gone - Sola i ryggen
04. Röyksopp - Junior
05. Tone Damli Aaberge - I Know
06. Eriksen - De aller beste
07. Eva & The Heartmaker - Let's Keep This Up Forever
08. Aasmund Nordstoga - Ein visefugg
09. Terje Tysland - Lidderli gla
10. BigBang - Edendale
11. CC Cowboys - Morgen & kveld
12. Anita Skorgan - Hele veien - 47 utvalgte sanger
13. Steff Nevers - Closest to My Heart
14. Heine Totland - The Sunny Side
15. Lene Marlin - Twist the Truth
16. Kari Bremnes - Ly
17. deLillos - Huskeglemme
18. Nils Petter Molvær - Hamada
19. Maria Mena - Cause & Effect
20. Datarock - Datarock

New Datarock now streaming

Datarock's new record "Red" is currently streaming in its entirety at myspace: http://www.myspace.com/datarock

Datarock - Give it up (video)

Datarock's video for their new single "Give it up" is now online: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SmNR21tY-VM&fmt=18
The band's new album "Red" will be out September 1 via Nettwerk.

New Karin Park at the end of the month

Norwegian pop artist Karin Park will release her new album "Ashes to gold" on April 27 via the Datarock-run label YAP Records. Fredrik Saroea of Datarock also produced said record.

This year's Scandinavian lineup at the Great Escape

Scandinavians representing at this year's Great Escape Festival in Brighton, England include team Norway: The New Wine, Harrys Gym, Thomas Dybdhal, Casiokids, I Was A King, Tommy Tokyo and Starving For My Gravy and Datarock; Sweden: The Deer Tracks, A Sad Day for Puppets and Dag for Dag; Finland: TV Off and Jaakko and Jay; and finally, repping for Iceland: Hjaltalín and Lay Low. Details: http://www.escapegreat.com/

Hypertext - Stellarwind

Hypertext are streaming a new track at myspace called "Stellarwind" featuring sax by Kjetil Møster of Datarock: http://www.myspace.com/hypertextband

New Datarock album this fall

Overrated Norwegian act Datarock will eventually put out their new album "Red" this fall via Nettwerk with the first single "Give it up" preceding it as a digital release on April 7. Read more at MIC Norway: http://www.mic.no/mic.nsf/doc/art2009022016210620393224

Young Aspiring Professionals (YAP Records), the label run by Datarock, has decided to start a local Bergen, Norway single series and will releasing a new 7" each month for the next 10 months. All of the a-sides will be produced by Datarock themselves and the flip will consist of live takes or remixes and eventually all of the a-sides will be compiled for a larger release to be called "One city one dream". The first band up is Syntax TerrOrkester with "O herliga London".