Melody Club to premiere new song at Rockbjörnen

Melody Club will be premiering their new single "Girls don't always wanna have fun" at the upcoming Rockbjörnen awards ceremony on January 22.

SXSW showcase update

Here's the latest list of Scandinavian acts officially confirmed for SXSW:

Årabrot (NOR)
Baskery (SWE)
Benny Crespo's Gang (ICE)
Blood Red Throne (NOR)
Bloodgroup (ICE)
Casiokids (NOR)
Dmitry Fyodorov (SWE)
Grande (NOR)
Adam Heldring (SWE)
Jaakko & Jay (FIN)
Kaka (SWE)
Kakkmaddafakka (NOR)
The Latebirds (FIN)
Love:Fi (NOR)
Mixtapes & Cellmates (SWE)
Peter Bjorn and John (SWE)
Kristofer Ragnstam (SWE)
Sprengjuhollin (ICE)
Steed Lord (ICE)
Steso Songs (SWE)
The Shitsez (NOR)
The Tallest Man On Earth (SWE)
Sofia Talvik (SWE)
Those Dancing Days (SWE)
The Tiny (SWE)
Wildbirds & Peacedrums (SWE)

The Bombettes in France, Spain

Umeå punkrockers The Bombettes will be heading to France next week:

01/22 - Le Pixi, Paris (FRA)
01/23 - 1929, Rennes (FRA)
01/24 - Le Fiacre, Bordeaux (FRA)
01/25 - Ibu Hots, Vitoria (FRA)
01/26 - Wurlitzer Ballroom, Madrid (ESP)
01/27 - Sidecar Club, Barcelona (ESP)
01/28 - In Civic Zone, St Feliu de Codines (FRA)
01/29 - Crockmore, Perpignan (FRA)
01/30 - Le Poste à Galene, Marseille (FRA)
01/31 - Trokson, Lyon (FRA)
02/01 - Le Tigre, Selestat (FRA)

Beta Satan cancel German tour

Beta Satan's drummer broke his arm yesterday so their upcoming German tour has been scrapped.

I Walk the Line to tour etensively in 2009

Finnish act I Walk the Line will be touring Europe in late May/early June as well as heading to Australia/New Zealand in the near future. Dates soon.

Next Life on tour

Upcoming tourdates for Norway's Next Life:

02/19 - Salon Des Amateurs, Düsseldorf (GER)
02/20 - Worm, Rotterdam (NL)
02/21 - Hafenklang, Hamburg (GER)
02/22 - Westgermany, Berlin (GER)
02/23 - Chapeau Rouge, Prague (CZ)
02/26 - Cave, Genf (CH)
02/27 - Bad Bonn, Düdingen (CH)
02/28 - Hirscheneck, Basel (CH)
04/23 - Donau Festival, Krems an der Donau (AUS)

Monomen head to Austria, Hungary

New tourdates for Norwegian act Monomen:

01/29 - A38, Budapest (HUN)
01/31 - Berghamer, Sigharting (AUS) w/Der Otsch 02/02 - B72, Wien (AUS)
02/05 - Bierstindl, Innsbruck (AUS) w/The Banshee 02/06 - Yeah!Club @ Rockhouse, Salzburg (AUS)
02/07 - Bertholdsaal, Weyer (AUS)

Elias and the Wizzkids in Japan

Elias and the Wizzkids are heading to Japan in March for a few dates with Handsomeboy Technique

03/19 - Seco Bar, Shibuya, Tokyo
03/20 - Mago, Nagoya
03/21 - Club Karma, Osaka

The Alexandria Quartet to support Travis redux

The Alexandira Quartet will once again go out on tour as support for Travis in February:

02/04 - Live Music Hall, Cologne (GER)
02/05 - Docks Music Hall, Hamburg (GER)
02/06 - Kesselhaus, Berlin (GER)
02/08 - Muffathalle, Munich (GER)
02/09 - Mousonturm, Frankfurt (GER)
02/10 - Casino De Paris, Paris (FRA)
02/12 - Razzmatazz, Barcelona (ESP)
02/13 - La Riviera, Madrid (ESP)

PB&J confirm album title, release date and tour

Via Skivkoll comes word that the new Peter Bjorn and John album "Living thing" will be released worldwide on March 27. Tracklist:

01. The feeling
02. It don't move me
03. Just the past
04. Nothing to worry about
05. I'm losing my mind
06. Living thing
07. I want you!
08. Lay it down
09. Stay this way
10. Blue period Picasso
11. 4 out of 5
12. Last night

And tourdates:

02/25 - Strand (fd. Street), Stockholm (SWE)
02/26 - KB, Malmö (SWE)
02/27 - Storan, Göteborg (SWE)
03/05 - Scala, London (UK)
03/06 - Academy 2, Manchester (UK)
03/07 - The Button Factory, Dublin (UK)
03/23 - Estragon, Bologna (ITA)
03/24 - Nouveau Casino, Paris (FRA)
03/25 - Botannique, Brussels (BEL)
03/26 - Melkweg, Amsterdam (NL)
03/27 - tba, Cologne (GER)
03/28 - Kesselhaus, Berlin

TSOOL back in the US at long last

The Soundtrack of Our Lives are doing a short batch of US dates in March:

03/09 - Paradise Rock Club, Boston, MA
03/13 - Double Door, Chicago, IL
03/15 - The Independent, San Francisco, CA
03/16 - Troubadour, West Hollywood, CA

Plus two more shows TBA (SXSW?).

The Topeka Twins give new EP a release date

The new EP "Swim, swam, swan" from The Topeka Twins aka Björn Kleinhenz + Thomas Denver Jonsson will get an official release on January 24 and the duo will celebrate with a show at Hagateatern in Göteborg. Besides the hand-assembled 3" CD version which I'm sure will be available at the show, the EP will also be posted for free download.

Winter Took His Life, et al bigband tour in May

Winter Took His Life, Euphoria And The Lazy Boy, Hajen and Tvärvägen will all be touring Europe together in May playing as one big band. Some dates are booked, but not all so help out if you can: https://blogs.myspace.com/index.cfm?fuseaction=blog.view&friendID=46503669&blogID=463137548

Burst + Medeia European tour

Scandinavian metalcore acts Burst and Medeia will be touring Europe together along with The Ocean and Bison BC:

02/26 - FZW, Dortmund (GER)
02/27 - Conne Island, Leipzig (GER)
02/28 - Progresja, Warsaw (POL)
03/01 - Exit Chmelnice, Prague (CZ)
03/02 - Arena, Wien (AUS)
03/03 - Dürer Kert, Budapest (HUN)
03/04 - Feierwerk - Hansa 39, München (GER)
03/05 - Dynamo 21, Zürich (CH)
03/06 - Latte + Club, Brescia (ITA)
03/07 - Rock Planet, Pinarella di Cervia (ITA)
03/08 - Die Stadtmitte, Karlsruhe (GER)
03/11 - tba, London (UK)
03/12 - Corporation, Sheffield (UK)
03/13 - Dornrosje, Nijmegen (NL)
03/14 - The Legend, Sneek (NL)
03/15 - VK, Bruxelles (BEL)
03/16 - Logo, Hamburg (GER)
03/17 - Mühltal Steinruch Theater, Darmstadt (GER)
03/18 - Kulturfabrik, Esch (LUX)
03/20 - Fernverkehr, Zedtwitz (GER)
03/21 - Lido, Berlin (GER)

Peter Morén live in Portugal

Peter Morén (Peter Bjorn and John) will be heading down to Braga, Portugal for a one-off solo show at Theatre Circo on January 23.