Aske Zidore and Kristoffer Rom of Danish indie act Oh No Ono have launched a new record label called to handle all of the various sideprojects and other extracurricular activities the guys are involved with. First up from the label in May will be an EP from Kirsten & Marie, yet another Scandinavian twin sister duo which was produced by Aske, to be followed by new releases from 4 Guys From The Future, Treefight for Sunlight and Thulebasen.
On May 5 Swedish artist Anna Von Hausswolff will follow up her well-regarded double single "Track of time" with her full-length debut "Singing from the grave" via the label . Said album was recorded with much-respected producer Henryk Lipp (besides being a member of Blue for Two with Freddie Wadling, he also recorded much of 's output among many other fine records) and is said to have been largely tracked live in the studio.
Finnish indie act Cats on Fire will be releasing the new odds'n'ends collection "Dealing in antiques" on May 12 via , compiling together much of the band's old EP and single material along with two new tracks including recent download-only single "The Hague" and a cover of "Your woman" by White Town.
Swedish indiepop act Hari & Aino have a new EP that they're selling as a cheap download (it can also be streamed in its entirety): https://hariandaino.bandcamp.com/album/all-that-remains
Check out a video for the title track "All that remains": https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6IPW1wg8UqQ
Swedish rockers The Accidents have a new 3-song 7" coming out soon via German label .
says that they are working on a new boxset compilation (#2) to include No Balls, The Dements plust two other as-yet-unnamed acts: https://blogs.myspace.com/index.cfm?fuseaction=blog.view&friendId=412756052&blogId=531273896
The first box came out last year and included four 7"s from the likes of Brainbombs, Poppets, Black Bug and The Homostupids and sold out almost immediately.
Lasse Pyykkö has announced that he is laying his band Vacant Coffin to rest and will instead be concentrating on his new band Swarming with Rogga Johansson (Paganizer, Ribspreader) moving forward. Listen to some demo tunes of the new band here: https://www.myspace.com/swarming
Pitchfork weren't the only ones let down by jj's pitiful live performance at SXSW, Perez Hilton was also quite disappointed: https://music-mix.ew.com/2010/03/21/perez-hilton-sxsw-interview/
PSL reports that Swedish guitarist Ludwig Böss (Ray Wonder, a million other bands) has parted ways with American act Band of Horses: https://blogg.svt.se/psl/2010/03/19/extra-extra-ludwig-boss-har-slutat-spela-med-band-of-horses/
has announced that the next two 7"s in their classic Finnish punk reissue series will be Eppu Normaali's "Jee jee jee" and Briard's "Fuck the army". As always, keep an eye out for when they go up for sale because they'll probably go fast. In other label news, hardcore act Deathbed will be releasing their new album in May and samples should be posted soon. I've heard some of the demos (somewhat illicitly, I must admit) and am pretty excited to hear the final result.
Billie the Vision and the Dancers report that their new album "From burning hell to smile and laughter" is finished and will be sent off for pressing next week. They're also previewing new songs at myspace and will be swapping out tracks every 24 hours: https://www.myspace.com/billiethevisionandthedancers
Cellphone users with an Android-enabled phone can download a new app from PlusFourSix that will let you hear the new Teddybears album "Devil's music": https://www.plusfoursix.com/news/70
No idea if this is Sweden-only or what, but feel free to try it out and post a comment.
has announced that The Amazing's sophomore album "Wait for a light to come" will be released on April 14 and will be available on both CD and vinyl, the latter in a limited run of 1000 copies.
Swedish label is digitally reissuing two full-length albums from early 90s Swedish act Two Sheds; both "Out of our sheds" and "Not good" will be made available on March 22. Sasmples at myspace: https://www.myspace.com/twoshedssweden
Moloken's excellent album "Out astral circle" will receive a much-needed vinyl release in May via the band's own in cooperation with . 300 copies, 100 color + 200 black. If you've seen the stellar job they did with the CD layout, I bet this will look killer.