Listen to Norway's first new episode of 2012 of their excellent podcast series "99 Minutes" is now online and features an interview with Ivar Peersen of Enslaved, as well as the usual diverse array of Norwegian music: https://www.listento.no/mic.nsf/doc/art2012013011222443117418
New Converge-esque hardcore outta Tromsø from a band called Die X Legend. The band's debut LP "VS. Goliath" will get a proper vinyl release on February 3.
PSL has the premiere of the new video "Halal haircut" from authentic 90s Swedish indierock relics Tennis Bafra: https://blogg.svt.se/psl/2012/01/30/premiar-tennis-bafra-halal-haircut/
New music from Finnish folk act Värttinä off the group's new album "Utu", due out February 1.
PSL has the premiere of the new single "About to tell" from recent signee Noonie Bao: https://blogg.svt.se/psl/2012/01/27/premiar-noonie-bao-about-to-tell/
Swedish indiepop act Liechtenstein have a brand new album called "Fast forward" out now via and the label is giving away the tune "Ambitions" as enticement: https://www.fractiondiscs.se/
New music from the northern reaches of Sweden.
Here's a video for that new Oh My! song from that upcoming comp.
Want a FLAC audiophile version of Apparatjik's "Square peg in a round hole"? Get thee to Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/apparatjik?sk=app_122139254463179
A new track from Swedish indierockers Tennis Bafra, the 2nd single off their upcoming album "Abulia jubilee".
Gaffa has the premiere of the new Invasionen video "Demonerna": https://gaffa.se/tv/clip/1023
"Inside world" is latest single from Danish dance/rock act WhoMadeWho and here now is the creepy only vaguely SFW video.
I don't talk up Gimme Indie on a regular basis since our tastes don't intersect all that often, but kudos to them for getting a big writeup in Dagens Nyheter on the eve of their two year anniversary.
Coming March 15 via , the new album "Little goes a long way" from Kristoffer & The Harbour Heads. This is the video EPK.
Check out a sample clip from the upcoming film "Oslo Jazzed Out" featuring saxophonist Håkon Kornstad performing "Symphonies in my head". Other performers to be featured in the production include Bugge Wesseltoft, Nils Peter Molvaer and Tord Gustavsen, among others.