Iceage have been forced to cancel their upcoming UK/Ireland tour plans in May due to illness, but they've also updated their schedule with a lot more dates all over the world: http://iceagecopenhagen.blogspot.com/2012/04/cancelling-adding-shows.html
Speaking of 120 Days, here's the set times for tomorrow night's It's a Trap! Clubnight at Debaser Malmö:
22:00 - Caotico
23:00 - 120 Days
Check out a video for the title track of The Nature's excellent new EP "Allting blir OK" and go to the record release show at South Side Pub in Stockholm on Friday, April 13.
Iceage have announced a new string of US dates to follow their appearance at the Pitchfork Music Fest in July:
07/15 - Union Park (Pitchfork Music Festival), Chicago, IL
07/17 - Now That's Class, Cleveland, OH
07/18 - Horseshoe Tavern, Toronto, Ontario
07/20 - La Sala Rossa, Montreal, Quebec
07/21 - 285 Kent St., Brooklyn, NY
07/22 - Le Poisson Rouge, New York, NY
07/23 - Johnny Brenda's, Philadelphia, PA
07/24 - Black Cat, Washington, DC
07/25 - Strange Matter, Richmond, VA
07/26 - Caledonia, Athens, GA
07/27 - 529, Atlanta, GA
New creepy visuals from Danish electronic act Rosemary. See them perform abroad for the first time ever in NYC at Glasslands Gallery on April 17.
Swedish act The Deer Tracks will be coming over to the US in June for their first-ever full-on US tour:
06/03 - Casbah, San Diego, CA
06/05 - Bootleg Theater, Los Angeles, CA
06/06 - Bottom of the Hill, San Francisco, CA
06/08 - Mississippi Studios, Portland, OR
06/09 - Media Club, Vancouver, BC
06/10 - Sunset Tavern, Seattle, WA
06/13 - 7th St. Entry, Minneapolis, MN
06/14 - Shuba's, Chicago, IL
06/17 - Il Motore, Montreal, QC
06/19 - TT The Bears, Cambridge, MA
06/20 - Piano's, New York, NY
06/21 - Glasslands, Brooklyn, NY
06/22 - Johnny Brenda's, Philadelphia, PA
06/23 - Metro Gallery, Baltimore, MD
I know it's mostly off-topic, but I don't care: my friends Christian Mistress are heading across the Atlantic for their first-ever European tour and you should go see them because, not only are they one of the finest Heavy Metal bands going today, but they are also a stellar live act and excellent human beings. Buy their records and buy them drinks! And to add a bit of IAT relevance, they'll be replacing Victims on tour with Tormented and Black Breath from April 21 onward. Check it:
04/06 - L'Orient (Tre Dagar av Metal och Hårdrock), Linköping (SWE) w/Bombus
04/07 - Metaal Paaskabaal, Tongeren (BEL) w/Paul Di'anno, Hammers of Misfortune
04/09 - TRIX Centrum voor Muziek, Antwerpen (BEL), w/Absu
04/11 - Dystopia, Den Haag (NL) w/Saviours, Danava
04/12 - Roadburn Festival (Stage 1), Tilburg (NL)
04/13 - The Wheelbarrow (Free Show/Friday the 13th Party), Camden (UK)
04/15 - Minsters Bar, Stoke on Trent (UK)
04/16 - Moho Live, Manchester (UK)^
04/18 - Underworld, London (UK)^
04/19 - Doornroosje, Nijmegen (NL)^
04/20 - Asteriks, Leeuwarden (NL)^
04/21 - Fetsaal Kreuzberg, Berlin (GER)*
04/22 - FZW, Dortmund (GER)*
04/24 - Ajz Chemnitz, Chemnitz (GER)*
04/25 - Arena, Vienna, (AUS)*
04/26 - Etnoblog, Trieste (ITA)*
04/27 - Lo-Fi, Milan (ITA)*
04/28 - Jungendhous Wangen, Wangen (GER)*
04/29 - Lakei, Helmond (NL)*
^ w/Red Fang, Black Tusk
* w/Black Breath, Tormented
Simian Ghost will be heading back to the UK in June as one of the co-headliners on The Best Fit Tour presented by The Line of Best Fit. Dates:
06/01 - 60 Million Postcards, Bournemouth
06/02 - Leaf Cafe, Liverpool
06/03 - Nation Of Shopkeepers, Leeds
06/05 - Bodega, Nottingham
06/06 - Buffalo, Cardiff
06/07 - The Lexington (Clash "Ones to Watch" show), London
06/08 - Central Station, Wrexham
06/09 - The Cellar, Oxford
The Göteborg-based recording studio Svenska Grammofon is playing host to the art exhibit "Svart Ljus" this weekend, a collection of drawings, photos and other multimedia from the highly vaulted local scene centered around the labels and between the years 1983-1993. Featured artists include Freddie Wadling and Cortex as well as Annika von Hausswolff, Union Carbide Productions/Henrik Rylander, among many others. For what I imagine will be a taste of what to expect, go here.
The exhibit will run from April 6-8, between the hours of noon and 6pm.
Finnish fiddler Arto Järvelä (JPP, etc) will be doing a West Coast tour in May alongside Finnish/American folk duo Kaivama: http://www.kaivama.com/shows.html
Nice to see they're doing a show here in Olympia, so if my wife decides that's how she'd like to spend her birthday then we will be in attendance.
Berlin-based clubnight Nordic By Nature has posted their latest mixtape for April/spring. To get the latest on their activities for the month, go here: http://www.nbnberlin.de/dates.html
Dates are now posted for We Are Serenades US/North American tour in May: http://www.weareserenades.com/
I'd copy/paste, but the text is embedded in an image and the band isn't nearly exciting enough to make me work that hard.
New stuff from Danish act Late Night Venture, due to be released on the band's next album this coming fall. Upcoming tourdates:
04/07 - Waldmeister, Solingen (GER)
04/08 - DUNK! Festival, Zottegem (BEL)
04/09 - Hafen 2, Offenbach (GER)
Preview a track from Smegma's forthcoming LP "Wild blue yonder", due out this coming April via . There will be a one-time pressing of 100 copies first available at the Perspectives Festival in Västerås, Sweden on April 20 with any leftovers getting posted to iDEAL's webshop on the 23rd.
Refused have announced a new batch of US/North American dates for July:
07/15 - Masquerade Music Park, Atlanta, GA
07/16 - The Fillmore, Silver Spring, MD
07/18 - Williamsburg Waterfront, New York, NY
07/19 - Riot Fest East, Philadelphia, PA
07/20 - House of Blues, Boston, MA
07/21 - Metropolis, Montreal, Canada
07/22 - Sound Academy, Toronto, Canada
07/23 - Sound Academy, Toronto, Canada
07/25 - Royal Oak Music Theater, Royal Oak, MI
07/26 - Congress Theater, Chicago, IL
I also understand that they'll be playing another "secret" show somewhere in Sweden this weekend, but my lips are sealed.