Danish act Dad Rocks! are coming to the US for CMJ and will be doing a bunch of East Coast dates while they're over here:
10/18 - Living Room, NYC, NY(Paper Garden official showcase, 3pm)
10/19 - Angels & Kings, NYC, NY (TJO Presents showcase, 7:30pm)
10/20 - Spike Hill, Brooklyn, NY (Mecca Lecca showcase, 1:15pm)
10/20 - The Acheron, Brooklyn, NY (8pm)
10/21 - PA Lounge, Boston, MA
10/22 - tba
10/23 - M Room, Philadelphia, PA
10/24 - tba, Washington, DC
International electronic artists Tim Exile (UK), Mental Overdrive (NOR) and Boska (SWE) are teaming up for a special Occupy Wall Street-themed performance at the Insomnia Festival in Tromsø, Norway on October 21 and are asking for protest participants to upload sound, pictures and video footage to be incorporated into the event. They say, "We will then use snippets of this media as the basis for a sonic and visual real-time event to show both our support of those who work for a more just global financial system, as well as to celebrate the immediacy of our wonderful world of present time communication technology." Submit sounds here via SoundCloud; post videos and other media via Facebook.
Pitchfork reviews the new Casiokids record "Aabenbaringen over Aaskammen": https://pitchfork.com/reviews/albums/15934-aabenbaringen-over-aaskammen/
Long-running Swedish death metal masters Dismember have officially called it quits after 23 years of being genre pioneers: https://www.roadrunnerrecords.com/blabbermouth.net/news.aspx?mode=Article&newsitemID=164728
I'll be away travelling the next few days, expect updates to resume Monday or thereabouts.
will be releasing a new 7" EP from Uppsala-based hardcore act Agent Attitude in collaboration with and . Exact release date and details forthcoming.
Listen to side A of the ultra-limited (only 23 copies!) Trepaneringsritualen cassette released via : https://dreadwords.tumblr.com/post/11348995165/side-a-of-the-ultra-limited-trepaneringsritualen
Invisible Oranges is doing a full album stream of the new Bastard Priest record "Ghouls of the endless night": https://www.invisibleoranges.com/2011/10/full-album-stream-bastard-priest-ghouls-of-the-endless-night/
Peter Bjorn and John performing on Jimmy Kimmel Live last night. More at Hulu: https://www.hulu.com/watch/288053/jimmy-kimmel-live-peter-bjorn-and-john-dig-a-little-deeper
Pitchfork reviews the new Pallers album "The sea of memories": https://pitchfork.com/reviews/albums/15920-the-sea-of-memories/
Little Gang, the new band of Jacob Snavely (Dag för Dag), Carl von Arbin (Shout Out Louds), Rebekka Karijord and Erik Nilsson, will release their debut album "Half of everything" on October 19 and have a new website where you can preview a few tunes: https://wearelittlegang.com/
New Finnish indie with somewhat of an 80s vibe, apparently making waves in Germany. The album "Imaginary future" comes out November 11; RIYL Figurines or maybe Jaill.
is giving away a new song from Black Twig, the first sample of the band's upcoming debut album "Paper trees" which will be out in January. There's some definitely Sonic Youth vibes going on here, so be sure to check it out if you're into that sort of noise.
From Hector FR's self-titled debut EP, out now via .
"Kevätlaulu" ("Spring song") is the second single from Juho Salmi & Suuri Voima's sophomore album "Kesä tulee, tunnetko", out now via and available on Spotify here in the US. Maybe not seasonably appropriate, but maybe that's a good thing.