"Islands" now on vinyl

The Mary Onettes' latest album "Islands" is now available on vinyl from Labrador Records: http://www.labrador.se/shop.php3

Top 10s for 2009: Magnus Wikmark (We are the Storm)

New The Mary Onettes to get UK, French release

The Mary Onettes' latest album "Islands" will receive a UK and French release on January 25. Expect tourdates in both territories to be announced soon.

This week's Last.fm chart

Here is the It's a Trap! listening group top 10 artists of the week, unique to our group:

01. Kent
02. Markus Krunegård
03. Tutankamon
04. Håkan Hellström
05. The Mary Onettes
06. A Camp
07. Bob Hund
08. Anna Ternheim
09. Moneybrother
10. Deportees

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Musik med The Mary Onettes, Stella Rocket

Watch The Mary Onettes play "Once I was pretty" for PSL: http://blogg.svt.se/psl/2009/11/06/musik-med-the-mary-onettes/
Also check out the latest episode with Stella Rocket, who are back with a new album after a long absence: http://blogg.svt.se/psl/2009/11/09/musik-med-stella-rocket/

The Mary Onettes - Puzzles (video)

The Mary Onettes have a new video for the single "Puzzles": http://vimeo.com/6943092
The band's new album "Islands" will be released on November 4 via Labrador Records.

The Mary Onettes on tour

Labrador act The Mary Onettes will be touring Spain, the US and Germany over the next couple months:

10/08 - Circulo de bellas artes., Madrid (ESP)
10/09 - Monkey Week Mucho Teatro, Puerto de Santa María (ESP)
10/10 - Music Box, Lisboa (POR)
10/11 - Sala Mondo, Vigo (ESP)
10/12 - O Meu Mercedes, Porto (POR)
10/13 - Centro Cultural Ollerias, Málaga (ESP)
10/14 - C.C Universidad, Zaragoza (ESP)
10/15 - Sala Estéreo, Alicante (ESP)
10/16 - La [2] de Nitsa, Barcelona (ESP)
10/17 - Sala Zero, Tarragona (ESP)
11/03 - TT The Bears, Boston, MA
11/04 - Union Hall, Brooklyn, NY
11/07 - Kung Fu Necktie, Philadelphia, PA
11/12 - Debaser, Malmö (SWE)
11/13 - Debaser Medis, Stockholm (SWE)
11/14 - V-Dala nation, Uppsala (SWE)
11/18 - Bang Bang Club, Berlin (GER)
11/19 - Bunker Ulmenwall, Bielefeld (GER)
11/20 - Gloria Sublime, Regensburg (GER)
11/21 - Silber, hit the North, Hamburg (GER)

Labrador Records to press wax

Labrador Records says that they'll be releasing vinyl editions of upcoming albums from The Mary Onettes, The Radio Dept. and so on.

This week's Last.fm chart

Here is the It's a Trap! listening group top 10 artists of the week, unique to our group:

01. Taken By Trees
02. Frida Hyvönen
03. The Mary Onettes
04. The Soundtrack of Our Lives
05. The xx
06. Little Dragon
07. Mew
08. Håkan Hellström
09. Kent
10. The Hidden Cameras

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The Mary Onettes - Puzzles

Download the new The Mary Onettes single "Puzzles": http://www.labrador.se/Puzzles/TheMaryOnettes_Puzzles.mp3
The official release date is September 30.

The Mary Onettes confirm new album

The Mary Onettes have announced that their new album "Islands" will be released on November 4. I presume that Labrador will continue to handle Europe, but it looks like they've been picked up by Avex Group in Japan (release date: October 28) and EMI in the US (November 3). Look for the first single on September 30.

The Mary Onettes
Dare EP
Labrador

My roommate has held that The Mary Onettes are the best band hailing from Sweden for quite some time now, and with the release of "Dare" I can no longer deny the group their rightful placement among the mass of creative genius that emanates from Scandinavia. The title track, and first single from the upcoming album, has The Mary Onettes exploring new territory with a confidence and proficiency that is almost impossible for a band with only one album and a handful of EPs under their belt. Philip Ekström's vocal delivery on "Dare", especially in the final moments of the chorus where his words spiral upwards along a lavish, inspired string arrangement, is simply brilliant, as is the songwriting that provides the melodic tapestry through which Ekström explores the introspective, doubt-ridden material of which the entirety of the EP is comprised. "Kicks" and "God knows I had plans" finds elements of "Pet sounds"-era Beach Boys and the Spector-esque (and criminally underappreciated) The Brother Kite worming their way into The Mary Onettes' instrumentation - "Kicks" as a slower, piano-driven, magnificently layered exploration of lost friendships; "God knows I had plans" driving forwards on a vehicle of jangled guitar lines and soaring vocals, surveying the shadows existent between shafts of sunlight. It's been a long time since a band has inspired in me this level of excitement and passion for music, feelings I thought were relegated to those adolescent years when an album still had the power to change the course of your life.
- Lars Garvey Laing-Peterson

New music from The Mary Onettes

Swedish shoegazers The Mary Onettes have two new tracks streaming at myspace: http://www.myspace.com/themaryonettes
As mentioned before, their new EP "Dare" will be released on April 29.

The Mary Onettes live at LaundroMatinee

Check out a live session at LaundroMatinee with Swedish shoegazers The Mary Onettes: http://www.laundromatinee.com/sessions/video_session__the_mary_onettes

The Mary Onettes are heading to southern Europe for a few dates at the end of September:

09/29 - MusicBox, Lisboa (POR)
10/01 - O Meu Mercedes, Oporto (POR)
10/02 - Playa Club, A Coruña (ESP)
10/03 - Donosti Klubba Festival, Donosti / San Sebastián (ESP)
10/04 - Tribeca Club, Oviedo (ESP)