Swedish indierock act The Bombhappies have announced that their new album, tentatively titled "A good fire", is done and ready for release on March 9. They will be playing a release show that night in Stockholm at Kägelbanan/Södra Teatern, details here.
Egil Olsen is currently on tour with Marit Larsen in Norway and is keeping a blog: http://egilolsen.tumblr.com/
The Swedish Consulate in NYC will be hosting a party at Galapagos Art Space in Brooklyn on February 2 called "Under the Bridge" featuring live music from Nina Persson of Cardigans/A Camp alongside her husband Nathan Larson plus Fibes, Oh Fibes! and Sibille Attar of [ingenting]/Little Red Corvette. There will also be an art exhibition of photos and videos from Lars Tunbjörk, Roxy Farhat, MOCH and Ruvan Wijesooriya, as well as DJ sets by Tiedye, Puss Puss and The Swede Beat. Full details: http://www.swedenabroad.com/News____13053.aspx?slaveid=135706
Meshuggah will be touring the US in May to support the release of their new album "Koloss".
Mastodon will be taking Swedish metal acts Opeth and Ghost on tour in North America this coming April. Exact dates to be confirmed soon.
New 2012 live dates for Danish neofolk artist Of the Wand and the Moon:
03/17 - Café la Palma, Madrid (ESP)
04/29 - The Villa Festival, Magione (ITA)
08/18 - Dark Bombastic Evening 4, Alba Lulia Fortress (RO)
Swedish postrock act Scraps of Tape will be heading to Germany next week:
01/27 - Reilstr. 78, Halle
01/28 - Big Buttinsky, Osnabrück
01/29 - Apex Kultur, Göttingen
01/30 - Schocken, Stuttgart
01/31 - Cafe Wagner, Jena
02/01 - Az Conni, Dresden
02/02 - Hafen 02/0Offenbach
02/03 - Drucklufthaus, Oberhausen
02/04 - Waldmeister, Solingen
It sold out in 10 minutes, but just so you're aware: Refused and The Hives are playing The Warfield in SF on April 18.
Swedish metal acts Watain and In Solitude will be touring the US together alongside Behemoth and my wife's favorite band The Devil's Blood this coming April as part of the Decibel Magazine Tour: http://www.decibelmagazinetour.com/
Actual dates to be announced January 24.
artists Jenny Hval and Phaedra will be making their London debut together at the Borderline on March 19. And in related news, labelmates Motorpsycho will be playing London as well, at the Garage on April 12.
Ja Ja Ja pays tribute to their forebears from Tack! Tack! Tack!: http://www.jajajamusic.com/index.php/2012/01/flipside-of-a-memory-tack-tack-tack-retrospective/
I am thrilled to announce that in addition to the previously announced It's a Trap! Clubnights gigs with We Are the Storm/Helsinki Poetry (this Friday! holy shit!) and Caotico (April 13!), we will be welcoming Millencolin/The Peepshows indierock sideproject Franky Lee plus Tiger Bell to the stage of Debaser Malmö on February 17. And that's not all: we've also got Vånna Inget, EL-SD and Gamla Pengar coming down on March 16 and you know that one is gonna rule! Wish I could be there personally, but hey, maybe I'll make it over this coming summer.
Ex-Detektivbyrån member Martin Molin is going the opposite direction of Dödsvarg and is composing the music for the upcoming show "The Famous Swedish Project" (emphatically "not theater, not performance and not dance, but everything at once"), to be performed by PLAY Teaterkonst and set to premiere on February 6 in Göteborg. More info at Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/playteaterkonst
Hyped Swedish new-age pop duo Korallreven will be coming to the US for a short string of shows in March, including a couple West Coast dates with Victoria Bergsman:
03/04 - Bowery Ballroom, New York, NY
03/05 - Black Cat, Washington DC
03/06 - Lincoln Hall, Chicago, IL
03/07 - Independent, San Francisco, CA
03/08 - Echoplex, Los Angeles, CA
The Øyafestivalen and Music Export Norway are teaming up to bring upstart Norwegian acts Young Team and Razika to London for a pair of showcases in late February. They'll also be doing a split 7" in collaboration with Rough Trade. Full details: http://www.musicexportnorway.no/oya-and-men-bring-acts-to-london.5006721-149133.html