The first taste of Tandem Bridges, a new project featuring Daniel Westerlund of The Goner and Swedish folk artist Anita Livstrand. "Some mornings" is a tune off the massive new Lee Jackson tribute album "For Lee Jackson in Space", an all-star compilation for the dearly departed Texas writer/cultural enthusiast featuring contributions from a huge array of other artists such as Øyvind Holm, Kemialliset Ystävät and more. Full details + album stream here.
Not as visually entertaining as other Steed Lord clips, but worth checking out if you dig their big disco sound.
Finnish hardcore act Hero Dishonest heads eastward to Mother Russia next week:
06/04 - Jolly Roger Cafe, Minsk
06/05 - Hospitable Ed, Smolensk
06/06 - Chocolate Factory, Moscow
06/07 - Heaven Club, Vologda
06/08 - London, Novgorod
06/09 - Dusche, St. Petersburg
New Finnish synthpop from Sähkö-Isku, from the just-released 12" EP "100 kaljaa" out now via . Very weird, but very cool.
It's been awhile since we've heard anything new from Finnish industrial/noise label , but they've just released a new CD called "Immune to jewels" from Lost Weight aka plunderphonic sound artist Jukka Vallisto. More details and ordering info here.
From Heartbreak Stereo's upcoming double EP release.
Finnish act Disco Ensemble will be touring extensively in Northern Europe this fall: http://www.discoensemble.com/
Excellent Finnish occult rockers Hexvessel have announced that their sophomore album will be called "No holier temple" and will be released on September 5 via , both on CD or 2LP. And speaking of Svart, their latest release from similarly-minded act Jess and the Ancient Ones is streaming in full now via Terrorizer: http://www.terrorizer.com/blog1.php/2012/05/22/terrorizer-stream-jess-and-the-ancient-ones
Excellent Finnish noiserockers Fun are heading out for a few dates on the continent next week:
05/30 - le Café de Paris, Paris (FRA)
05/31 - le Troglobale, Angers (FRA)
06/01 - La Bascule, Rennes (FRA)
06/02 - Kixkil, Bayonne (FRA)
06/03 - Bar Sentinel, Bilbao (ESP)
06/04 - Würlitzer Ballroom, Madrid (ESP)
06/05 - tba (ESP)
06/06 - Liceo Mutante, Ponteverda (ESP)
Cvlt Nation reports from Scandinavian fest Heavy Days in Doom Town with lots of blurry pics and a bit of text on all the bands they saw: day 1 / day 2 / day 3
Day 4 coming soon.
I get a lot of garbage via the new contact form, but when the message says only "Hail Satan from Finland!" and includes a video link like this, you can bet that I'll be paying attention! For tech-heads, read all about the shoot right here, otherwise I'm still catching up and won't be back up to full speed until next week.
No, not calling it quits just yet like my compatriots at Dagensskiva, just attending to family issues. Back in a week or so.
Built on a Weak Spot has a good summation of the new Forkboy discography collection released by : http://builtonaweakspot.com/post/22701681436/forkboy-1993-1999
"Confetti" is the new single from Ninni Forever Band, the electro solo project of Ninni Luhtasaari from Pintandwefall.