IT'S A TRAP! Scandinavian Music Journal

Tue, 17 Jun 2008 07:13:55 -0700

I almost forgot, but here's the playlist for this week's radio show:

01. Jesper Norda - Tommorrow you'll be forgiven but tonight you will have your teeth knocked out
02. TALK 1
03. On Volcano - Out of sight
04. Monday Monkey Riot - Go ape
05. Dmitry Fyodorov - Warcollapse!
06. TALK 2
07. Wired for Mono - Don't look down
08. Small - Come around (vs Hippo remix)
09. September Malevolence - ...accidents happen so fasr
10. TALK 3
11. Dead Letters Spell Out Dead Words - Facelessness erase every trace of humanity
12. Napoleon - Send me a woman
13. Rigas Den Andre - I am crane
14. TALK 4
15. Mist - Subjective pop song
16. Ebba Grön - Tyst för fan
17. Neveres - Pause
18. Pascal - Cadillac
19. TALK 5
20. Komeda - Blossom (got to get it out)

Reminder: my show on Sirius Left of Center (channel 26) is now on Sundays at 11pm ET with repeats on Monday.

Tue, 17 Apr 2007 00:00:00 -0700

Yet another 'missing link' in the same vein as Neveres (see this post): http://www.myspace.com/neitheband
Per and Anders from Breach plus Patrik from Brick and Lars from The End Will Be Kicks. Picks up fairly close to where Brick left off I think. Look for their album "New agenda" to possibly be released this fall.

MP3: Neveres - Repent

Fri, 06 Apr 2007 00:00:00 -0700

Seeing as how I had an interview published in Norrbottens-Kuriren earlier this week, I figured it would be fitting to feature another Luleå band besides the weekly Bear Quartet post. I'm not sure who Neveres is - my sources tell me that it's the old band for a few of the The End Will Be Kicks guys. Maybe Breach-related as well? It certainly sounds like it. Whoever it is, they aren't talking:

Thank you for showing an interest in the band, however I dont know who they are... I dont think anyone does... I heard that the album was written during a one-year drinking binch and recorded in the woods of northern Sweden sometime in 2003. It was supposed to be released by freedumbrecords but they never payed the sound engineer in full, so the album never got sent to the company.
The finished reording got lost somewhere along the way and all that is left is the rough mixes that are now available at neveres.cjb.net for free...
I hope this helps you and I hope you help to spread the word about the album.

I know I'm being lied to, but what can I do? Argue? Maybe someone will shed some light on the mystery in the comments. Otherwise, enjoy a track of excellent, noisy Norrland hardcore in a similar vein of the bands referenced above. If you like what you hear, go to the link to download the entire record for free.

Interview: Niklas Quintana/The End Will Be Kicks

Thu, 29 Apr 2004 00:00:00 -0700

As soon as I heard that Niklas Quintana had a new band going, I was stoked. Having been a huge fan of both Him Kerosene and Breach, I couldn't wait to hear what he'd do next. And of course, I was not let down. The new "If you see them tell them I love them" MCD on Chalksounds is brilliant. So it's with great pleasure that I was able to have Niklas answer me a few quick questions via email. Here goes...

01. It's been awhile since Him Kerosene and Breach ended. What have you been doing since then? Did you spend a lot of time between projects or did you always have new music being worked on?
Tomas Turunen have been working on an album with a band called Neveres which also includes our guitarist Lasse Holmberg. I just to a break from music after we decided to kill both HK and Breach.

02. How did everyone in TEWBK come together?
I've been playing with Tomas in both HK and Breach and I, Lasse and Emil Sandsten (bass) shared a flat in Stockholm for a while. Since not one of us was playing at the time, we started to rehearse just for fun. It came out really good and we decided to record some songs.

03. How did you come up with the band's sound?
It's something that came naturally. Kind of a mix of everything we like to listen to.

04. Tell me about the new record. How do you think people will react to it? How do you want them to react?
Hopefully people will react the same way we do when we listen to it. we love it. There's a lot of 80's style music out at the moment so maybe some people will think we're out of style, but we couldn't care less. This is the kind of music we love.

05. How has the response been for the live shows you've done?
We've only done like four shows so far but I think the response has been good taking in count that nothing had been released at the time. Also we've been blessed with a lot of good friends that have helped to fill the floors.

06. How'd you guys hook up with Chalksounds?
We've been friends with Magnus for a long time and he also released the Him Kerosene EP "no mend no repair".

07. You've been playing in bands for quite some time. Any important lessons that you learned along the way?
We're still idiots. Maybe not as a naive as we once were.

08. Any advice for up-and-coming musicians you'd like to pass along?
I dont think we've ever done anything right so we're not the ones to ask. but a lesson learned is to not trust people in the music biz. A classic. Do what you do for yourself and people who like music.

09. What kind of stuff have you been listening to recently? Any recommendations?
There's a lot of good music out there so this is hard. The list could go on forever. personally I'm in a period where I listen to a lot of older stuff like Valentine and Sonic Youth. And of course Blonde Redhead, Interpol, Riddle of Steel, Radiohead, The Smiths, The Cure, Johnny Cash, Morbid Angel, The Bear Quartet, Pixies, Aphex Twin and loads of other stuff. Also there's a new swedish band called C.Aarmé that really great. This is always a fun question to answer.

10. What's next? Tell me about your plans for the future.
We are doing a few festivals this summer and writing and recording as much as we can for the forthcoming album.