Schallgrenzen Festival...

has a Myspace profile. Hurry up and be a friend, because you are going! Aren't you?

Stream if you like...

Andreas of blog favorite Celestial is in a new band/project called Northern Fields. Unfortunately it's only possible to stream the tracks, but the four songs all sound very promising.

Irene has uploaded their new single to myspace. It will be released August 1 as a free download single, but until then it's "streaming only". The band's new album will be released September 12 on Labrador (of course).

Ramblings...

This is just one of those posts that really serve no other purpose than adding to the total number of posts posted (sounds incredible stupid, but if you google the phrase "posts posted" you get 69,100 hits!). Actually I'm just kidding, though some might agree that I've never written anything of the slightest importance anyway, making all my posts being posted entirely for the sake of posting...

My old friends from Anamia will hopefully enter the studio very soon and start recording some new songs. At least that's what they promised a month ago - and "late July" is NOW - isn't it?
+ Butterfly In Paris

Another favorite act - Ruined By Martin - is also busy recording.
+ Dear Reo

Wonderful Swedish duo Tower of Foil has recorded a new EP. It's to be called Faster Than Your Eye and will be released very soon (whatever that means exactly?)!
+ Lilac Sky

More news on another favorite band - Kind of girl has been signed to Sonet/Universal, but are still looking for a label to take care of the export market(s).
+ Poetry Boy

If you understand Danish I strongly recommend this blog written/run by Jonas of Entakt. Quite entertaining.

Soundvenue reviews the new album When the Deer Wore Blue by Figurines. 3 out of 6 stars and the headline is - "the melodies are missing".

If you're all wondering why the weather is so bad this summer - this guy admits he is to blame!

The Hype Machine Toplist has been updated. Hits In The Car is no. 150 (up from no. 177 in February).

I have 1,975 Myspace friends, but that's certainly way too many. So I've started to delete those artists/bands that only post garbage bulletins and aren't willing to share any songs!

I really like the whole idea/concept of Last.fm. But do you honestly want the entire world to know what you're listening to. I mean - no (hidden) guilty pleasures! They will all be revealed. So yes, yes. I admit to like Rhinestone Cowboy by Glen Campbell.

Green Concorde Remix...

The track We Set Sail By The Way We Feel from the Green Concorde debut album Ten Cities has been remixed by EloPhonic. Somehow the music of this band always sounds absolutely fantastic when it is being remixed. My favorite (so far) among the mixes remains the fabulous version of This Time done by tWAMi, which has been featured in the blog several time before. Two more remixes for download can be found here.
+ We Set Sail By The Way We Feel (EloPhonic remix)
+ This Time (remix by tWAMi)

Two different paths, a heartbreak and a record deal...

Probably 90% of the songs posted in this blog are either indie pop tunes or tracks by Danish artists. But every now and then I decide to follow a completely different path in my quest for new music and the other day it paid off (at least for me it did), when I came across UK band hornby pylons. The quartet (based in Cardiff) writes this about their music: "The music made by hornby pylons has so far defied accurate description but is thought to live somewhere between the soul sonic force drum machine, 90's grunge, DFA synths and a badly mixed charity shop DJ set. And the band adds: "the music sounds like electronic drums with electric guitar near a human singing along to keyboards. if you listen closely you may hear the bands actual voices." So not at all the type of stuff you'd normally see (or hear) me post in the blog, but I really, really enjoy this very electronic sounding, somewhat monotonous, highly infectious, absolutely insisting and extremely cool track.
+ Think For Each Other

Following my little hike down the most unusual path, what would be more natural than taking a stroll in more familiar territory? So I decided to visit the "no. 1 indie pop expert himself" - Tom over at Indie MP3 - and it only took a few minutes, before I had fallen absolutely in love with his recent featured band - the Swedish indie pop outfit Hari and Aino. The band (which is not a duo) has just released the wonderful 3" and 3 track CDR Your Heartache and Mine on Cloudberry Records, but all the tracks have generously been made available as legal free downloads over at Last.fm. But the one track that has really caught my attention (which is quite a feat, as all the songs are excellent) is the wonderful, charming and very Swedish indie poppish Seasons that (according to the band) has received some airplay on the radio program P3 pop. I believe this is a rather new recording as well, though it (for whatever reason) is not included on the CDR.
+ Seasons

Danish indie rock trio Heartbreak Disco has recorded two new tracks during the band's annual "Heartbreak Summer Camp". Catchy stuff taken from the band's forthcoming EP.
+ Canada
+ Godspeed When You Sleep

Andreas from the Swedish blog We Say Disco (which now seems to be called Cellmates.se) posted a comment yesterday informing me that The William Blakes has signed a record deal and will start recording in September. Actually I already knew this, but shame on me for being to lazy to post this great piece of information. So thank you Andreas for the "wake up call". You can listen to a couple of new demos at Myspace or download the older tracks that I've re-posted below. Links taken down...
+ Violent God
+ Innocence and Experience
+ Science is Religion
+ Secrets of the State
+ On Fire
+ Beginnings

Kent News...

According to the official wepage the band's 7th album Tillbaka Till Samtiden will be released October 17. And the band will be playing in Copenhagen December 8.

Stay in Munich...

Things aren't exactly going my way today, so I really have no time for writing. So while I'm working and trying to get everything back to square one, I'll leave you with these two brand new tracks, by a couple of bands previously featured in the blog.

The Young Ones is from the forthcoming debut album by Danish indie-rock act Munich. It's up-tempo, haunting and catchy, and if the rest of the album is this great, it certainly is something to be looking forward to.
+ The Young Ones

The Myspace page of Spanish quartet Stay is entirely in Spanish, so I really have no idea what is going on. But I believe I Feel You Around must be a brand new one, but of course I could be wrong here (J.A. - can you help?). But a nice one it is, and the Kashmir reference makes perfect sense once you've listened to the track.
+ I Feel You Around (Kashmir Reflection)

That and This...

According to this page Under Byen will be touring Denmark this fall. September 29 the band will make a stop in Helsingør and it probably would be stupid not to go?
+ Af Samme Stof Som Stof

The youngsters from Electrojuice have created a remix of the VETO track You Are A Knife. Think I prefer the original version!
+ You Are A Knife (Electrojuice Remix)
+ You Are A Knife

That Labrador Summer Sampler yesterday took forever to download. And it just seems to be a compilation of all their previous freebies (see the complete list here), so it's kind of disappointing. But I'll try to listen my way through all the tracks later today. I really should be fair. Even though I know most the tracks already, this sampler certainly has made me listen to a few tracks that I haven't been listening to for a very long (perhaps even too long) time. Like for example...
+ Sambassadeur - Between The Lines
+ Afraid of Stairs - Not Today
+ [Ingenting] - Släpp In Solen
+ The Legends - Play It For Today

Anyone know if Memoplay (Adam Svanell + Björn Kleinhenz) will ever record another song? The band's webpage closed down a while ago, but now the 4 songs from the duo's (one and only) EP are available for free again - this time at Last.fm.
+ Words Are Small
+ Song For No Ears

Download the EMP remix of the Human League track Dreams Of Living.

Labrador Summer Sampler 2007...

Just passing this on. Download the Labrador Summer Sampler 2007. It's 336MB, so it might take a while! The original link is no longer working, but go here instead.

Spies on Holiday...

Just a few thoughts on the Spion/The Holiday Show double concert Friday evening.

Apparently 8 PM is too early to start a concert? Not that many people showed up, which was quite a shame. Though I don't really think I should complain about this, because it meant that there was plenty of room for everyone.

The Holiday Show delivered a fine performance. Unlike last year on Vesterbro the boys had time enough to do a sound check, so the band sounded a lot better than back then. The guys are actually taking a break right now (saying they are on Holiday, would sound like a stupid attempt at trying to be funny), but decided to take "a break from the break" to be able to play the concert. They seemed to have a great time performing, so I don't think they regret that decision at all. Afterwards I spoke briefly to Mads and Casper of the band and it seems like lots of positive things are happening. But we'll get back to that, whenever they are ready to share the news.

Second act Spion also gave a fine and energetic performance and certainly seemed to have a great time on stage, despite a few equipment problems. Luckily I got my hands on their newest demo and after listening to it during my drive home ("pump up the volume"), it is absolutely unbelievable that they haven't been signed to a record label.

In between the two acts I had the pleasure of speaking to Thomas of Volvoe. He admitted to be a regular visitor to the blog, so if you read this Thomas - It was really nice talking to you!!
+ The Holiday Show - City Girlfriend
+ Spion - Tynd Is
+ Volvoe - Travelling