(Norra Kust, Magnus Ekelund) has signed Maria Eriksson (The Concretes, Santa Maria, Heikki) and will be releasing her debut solo album på svenska "Stjäl det du behöver" early next year. Teg has also officially picked up Mattias Alkbergs Begravning, the new band from The Bear Quartet frontman, and will be releasing their new album next year as well.
PSL reports that Maria Eriksson of The Concretes/Santa Maria/Heikki is recording a new album in Swedish with Mattias Alkberg and Jakob Hellman's backing band Neverna: http://blogg.svt.se/psl/2012/03/05/det-handlar-om-vad-som-sker-nar-man-spelar-tillsammans-maria-eriksson-spelar-med-nerverna/
Swedish indie act Idiot Kid has a new song posted on myspace: http://www.myspace.com/idiotkidslottet
The band's new album "Darkness in our house" comes out November 5 via Slottet (Santa Maria, Jean-Louis Huhta).
Santa Maria aka Maria Eriksson (also in The Concretes + Heikki) does the Listed thing for Dusted: http://www.dustedmagazine.com/features/643
I wanted this to be good, I wanted this to be great, so it's a shame that it's just ok. Santa Maria is Maria Eriksson from The Concretes and Heikki, which are two bands that I adore. This is a pleasant album, but too often the pleasantness drags on a bit too much and it all becomes a bit boring. The great melodies that make The Concretes and Heikki so fantastic are sadly missed. It feels like the album could have done with an energy injection at regular intervals. Maybe next time... (it took The Concretes about 8 years to become the great band they now are)
- Simon Tagestam
Fluxblog has new tracks today from both Robyn and Santa Maria, the solo project of Concretes/Heikki vocalist Maria Eriksson: http://www.fluxblog.org/2007/02/things-i-abandon-only-abandon-me.html
Maria Eriksson of The Concretes just released a solo record under the name Santa Maria. The record was produced by Johan Bethling (Tape) and features guest appearances from both Lars Skoglund and Marcus Krunegård of Laakso. Read more: http://www.slottet.eu/santamaria/