Here is the It's a Trap! listening group top 10 artists of the week, unique to our group:
01. The Bear Quartet
02. Kings of Convenience
03. Frida Hyvönen
04. Loney, Dear
05. El Perro del Mar
06. David & the Citizens
07. Håkan Hellström
08. Lake Heartbeat
09. The Hidden Cameras
10. The Soundtrack of Our Lives
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Adrian Recordings is heading East and sending Andreas Tilliander off to do a few shows in Thailand and China plus Boeoes Kaelstigen to play Japan: https://www.adrianrecordings.com/default.asp?newsid=242
Pitchfork reviews the new Múm record "Sing along to songs you don't know": https://pitchfork.com/reviews/albums/13470-sing-along-to-songs-you-dont-know/
Labrador act The Mary Onettes will be touring Spain, the US and Germany over the next couple months:
10/08 - Circulo de bellas artes., Madrid (ESP)
10/09 - Monkey Week Mucho Teatro, Puerto de Santa María (ESP)
10/10 - Music Box, Lisboa (POR)
10/11 - Sala Mondo, Vigo (ESP)
10/12 - O Meu Mercedes, Porto (POR)
10/13 - Centro Cultural Ollerias, Málaga (ESP)
10/14 - C.C Universidad, Zaragoza (ESP)
10/15 - Sala Estéreo, Alicante (ESP)
10/16 - La [2] de Nitsa, Barcelona (ESP)
10/17 - Sala Zero, Tarragona (ESP)
11/03 - TT The Bears, Boston, MA
11/04 - Union Hall, Brooklyn, NY
11/07 - Kung Fu Necktie, Philadelphia, PA
11/12 - Debaser, Malmö (SWE)
11/13 - Debaser Medis, Stockholm (SWE)
11/14 - V-Dala nation, Uppsala (SWE)
11/18 - Bang Bang Club, Berlin (GER)
11/19 - Bunker Ulmenwall, Bielefeld (GER)
11/20 - Gloria Sublime, Regensburg (GER)
11/21 - Silber, hit the North, Hamburg (GER)
Turboweekend will be doing a couple London showcase gigs in October:
10/14 - Tabloid Toys @ The Fly
10/15 - Levi's Ones To Watch @ The Barfly
Swedish rockers Backyard Babies have announced their plans for a 20th Anniversary Tour to take place next February:
02/04 - Bikini. Barcelona (ESP)
02/05 - Joy Eslava. Madrid (ESP)
02/06 - Kafe Antzokia. Bilbao (ESP)
02/07 - La Maroquinerie. Paris (FRA)
02/08 - Essigfabrik. Cologne (GER)
02/09 - Islington Academy. London (UK)
02/11 - Härterei. Zurich (CH)
02/12 - Estragon. Bologna (ITA)
02/13 - Backstage Halle. Munich (GER)
02/14 - Markthalle. Hamburg (GER)
Swedish gothic country act Isobel & November report that they have finished recording their deubt full-length and will be mixing and mastering it in the next few weeks for a relaese in early November.
Kalligrammofon has reissued Dead Letters Spell Out Dead Words' 2005 "Sally Hill EP" in a special limited edition of 50 copies: https://www.kalligrammofon.com/main.php?artist=9
Nicolai Dunger has a song from his forthcoming album "Play" streaming at myspace: https://www.myspace.com/nicolaidunger
Despotz Records has announced the signing of excellent Finnish act Pintandwefall. I don't have any more details beyond that, but I'll keep you posted. I was actually just listening to them yesterday and thinking about how much I really like their latest album "Hong Kong, baby" -- it hasn't left my mp3 player in many months (that's rare).
The NY Times lauds Norwegian saxophonist Håkon Kornstad: https://www.nytimes.com/2009/09/27/arts/music/27play.html?_r=1&src=tptw
There's now a video for the new Boy Omega single "Dinosaur drugs": https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vtp8plkI7BQ
Mattias Johansson, Daniel Lindlöf and Martin Alfredsson from I'm From Barcelona have a new synthpop act together called Monostrip and you can stream a bunch of tracks at myspace: https://www.myspace.com/monostrip
Norwegian act Firefly Effect has a nice, homespun animated video for their song "All the jokes are on me": https://vimeo.com/6584199
Portuguese photographer/blogger Ricardo Brandao reports on seeing Loney Dear and Those Dancing Days in Brazil: https://ricbrand.blogspot.com/2009/09/invasao-sueca-swedish-invasion-those.html