The Deer Tracks - Bless the waves

Despotz Records are giving away a new mp3 from The Deer Tracks from the band's new EP "Eggegrund": http://despotz.se/secret/
The password is name of the EP, all lowercase.

The Deer Tracks in Japan

The Deer Tracks are going to Japan in April:

04/03 - Sunsui, Osaka
04/04 - Tight Rope, Nagoya
04/05 - Fever, Tokyo

The Deer Tracks to get Japanese release

The Deer Tracks will have their debut album "Aurora" released in Japan on March 10 via Vinyl Junkie Records in a special 2CD edition featuring various additional unreleased tracks as well as the entirety of the band's upcoming EP "Eggegrund". Details: http://vinyl-junkie.com/label/deertracks/

The Deer Tracks working on new EP

The Deer Tracks are currently holed up at Tonteknik Studios in Umeå working on a new EP to be released in February.

The Deer Tracks to support Patrick Wolf

Swedish act The Deer Tracks will be supporting Patrick Wolf on tour in Europe:

09/28 - Paradiso, Amsterdam (NL)
09/29 - Gleis 22, Münster (GER)
09/30 - Mousonturm, Frankfurt (GER)
10/01 - Astra, Berlin (GER)
10/03 - Z-Bau, Nürnberg (GER)
10/04 - Ampere, München (GER)
10/05 - WuK, Wien (AUS)
10/07 - Mascotte, Zurich (CH)
10/08 - Schuur, Lucerne (CH)
10/09 - Nouveau Casino, Paris (FRA)
10/10 - Orangerie, Brussels (BEL)

Despotz signs Titiyo

Despotz Records (The Deer Tracks, Twiggy Frostbite) has announced the signing of Swedish pop artist Titiyo. No word on her next release, but I'll be sure to keep you posted.

The Deer Tracks - Live on Channel M

I really enjoyed them when they performed at Hultsfred, now you can see for yourself in this 30-minute live set of The Deer Tracks from Manchester TV: http://www.channelm.co.uk/video_16x9.html?bcpid=1213860378&bctid=17718275001

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/

The Deer Tracks - 127SexFyra (video)

Check out The Deer Tracks' new video for "127SexFyra": http://vids.myspace.com/index.cfm?fuseaction=vids.individual&videoid=53442651

PopMatters reviews The Deer Tracks

PopMatters reviews The Deer Tracks' debut album "Aurora": http://www.popmatters.com/pm/review/70786-the-deer-tracks-aurora

Sad Day For Puppets
Live @ The Social, London, UK - 02/23/2009

This week is a great week for Swedish music connoisseurs living in London, both Sad Day for Puppets and First Aid Kit are playing here. Yesterday I went to The Social to see Sad Day for Puppets. First up were The Deer Tracks (also from Sweden), who play music I don't get at all – some kind of slow ambient electro drone. There are fans of this genre, I'm pretty certain on that, but I don't associate with them. I watched half their set, then I ordered another beer and sat down as far away from the stage I could.

Sad Day for Puppets are great, their album is very solid and they've got some blinding songs (they sound a bit like a more melodic The Radio Dept. or a more shoegazing Camera Obscura). Yesterday it was all shambles though, mostly due to the sound situation being catastrophic. Over the weekend I went to a festival in Oslo and, despite short changeovers and stressed out musicians, nothing there sounded as bad as yesterday's show. There was feedback throughout the whole set and Anna Ecklund's vocals were barely audible (something that the crowd kept pointing out, alas to no avail). I don't blame the band, they did as best as they could, just a shame that they had to suffer on the behalf of a sound engineer not being able to do his job (The Deer Tracks brought their own engineer who annoyingly ran back and forth all the time to check that the sound was ok, but at least he got the job done). I'm not particularly fussy about how a gig sounds, as long as I can hear the vocals I'm usually ok, so this was a very rare occasion where the quality of the sound actually ruined my whole gig experience. A total waste of £6 and an evening.
- Simon Tagestam

Twiggy Frostbite live acoustic

Despotz Records is giving away a couple live acoustic tracks from Twiggy Frostbite: "Heroes" / "Messy star"
The band shares members with The Deer Tracks and Grizzly Twister and will be releasing their debut album "Through fire" in April.

Despotz signs O'Spada

Despotz Records (The Deer Tracks, Kaka) has announced the signing of Swedish act O'Spada and will be releasing their debut album this coming fall. Samples at myspace: http://www.myspace.com/ospadamusic

This week's radio show playlist

Here's the playlist for this week's radio show:

01. Eric Beyond - Step off
02. TALK 1
03. Hanna Hirsch - Ingen kommer sakna oss
04. Francis - Bad to the bone
05. KA SO RE - Dramatically keep you
06. Susanna - Jailbreak (ft. Bonnie "Prince" Billy)
07. TALK 2
08. Love Is All - Give it back
09. Agent Side Grinder - Lashes of flashes
10. Parker Lewis - Bash the cynicals
11. TALK 3
12. Moto Boy - Pie Jesu
13. Down In June - The enemy within
14. Masshysteri - Tvivel
15. Underwater Sleeping Society - Saw you at my funeral
16. TALK 4
17. Viola - We owe love
18. Convoj - The shovel
19. Celestial - Crystal heights
20. TALK 5
21. The Deer Tracks - Yes, this is my broken shield

Reminder: my show airs every week on Sundays and Mondays at 11pm ET on Sirius XM U. That's channel 26 on Sirius, 43 on XM and 831 for DirecTV subscribers.

Despotz Records is giving away a couple new Christmas-themed tunes:

The Deer Tracks - Christmas fire
Twiggy Frostbite - Bells & chimes

Look for Twiggy Frostbite's debut album "Through fire" to be released in Scandinavia in February and the UK in April/May.