Nom de Guerre - Everybody knows

Tapete Records is giving away the new Nom de Guerre track "Everybody knows" as a free download: http://www.tapeterecords.de/index.php?id=706

Nom de Guerre - Run run run (video)

Nom de Guerre's new video for the song "Run run run" is now online: http://vids.myspace.com/index.cfm?fuseaction=vids.individual&videoid=103184807

Nom de Guerre sign with Tapete

Nom de Guerre has signed with German label Tapete Records, home to fellow Swedish bands such as The Grand Opening and Lacrosse. Look for their new album "Love thy neighbor" to be released in March followed by a Euro tour in May.

Nom de Guerre finish album, offer preview

Swedish indie act Nom de Guerre are completely done with their new album and have now posted six fully mastered tracks at myspace: http://www.myspace.com/mynomdeguerrespace

Two new Nom de Guerre tracks now streaming

Swedish indiepop act Nom de Guerre has posted two more new tracks at myspace: http://www.myspace.com/mynomdeguerrespace

Nom de Guerre - Everybody knows

A rough-mix version of the new Nom de Guerre track "Everybody knows", the first taste of their forthcoming album, is now streaming at myspace: http://www.myspace.com/mynomdeguerrespace

Nom de Guerre's new single "Run run run" is now streaming at myspace: http://www.myspace.com/mynomdeguerrespace

Swedish indiepop act Nom de Guerre has another new rough-mix track up on myspace: http://www.myspace.com/mynomdeguerrespace

Swedish indie act Nom de Guerre just posted the new, just-recorded track "Dear Mr Writer" on myspace for listening: http://www.myspace.com/mynomdeguerrespace

Nom de Guerre's brand new video for "Slack vs lame" is now online: http://vids.myspace.com/index.cfm?fuseaction=vids.individual&videoid=32428163

Nom de Guerre will tour Germany in February. Dates so far:

02/20 - Zwölfzehn, Stuttgart
02/21 - Gloria, Regensburg
02/23 - Bang Bang Club, Berlin
03/01 - Unikum, Halle

The video for Nom de Guerre's single "So long sister" is now online: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YMlwhlF2Xtg

The Icky Blister remix of Nom de Guerre's single "So long sister" by Chuck Dread is available for download: http://nomdeguerreband.blogspot.com/2006/12/so-long-sister-icky-blister-remix-can.html

Nom De Guerre
La la la
Dead Frog Records/self-released

I've never heard of this band before, so this listening to this record was a nice little surprise. Avi compared these fellows to Ben Folds Five, which is very fitting. They also inhibit some of the quirkiness of The Mopeds, (both bands are Swedish all-male trios as well), and they sound like a lot Swedish indie bands did in the late 90s. I loved a lot of those bands, but with it now being almost 2007, this is what I don't really like with this album. Even though they've got pretty good songs, they unfortunately come across as really dated. Hopefully Nom De Guerre will sound a bit more up to date on their next album (I know, that sounds almost iconoclastic of me), produce some (even) better songs and improve their lyric writing skills (sometimes the rhymes are disastrous). If all this happened, I think they could produce something pretty, pretty good.
- Simon Tagestam

Dead Frog Records has announced the signing of Swedish indiepop trio Nom de Guerre and will be putting the band's previously self-released album "La la la". The piano-bass-drums trio sounds a bit like Ben Folds as opposed to, say, Eskju Divine and we should hopefully have a review of it up here before too long. Listen to some samples here: http://www.nomdeguerre.se/