With only a couple EPs and a single under their belt, Swedish electronic pop duo Air France are calling it quits. According to a tumblr announcement, they just couldn’t create anything worthy of a follow-up to 2008′s No Way Down. Things that came easy in the past would come no more. It’s too bad,...
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Cleveland's Cloud Nothings have arrived with Attack on Memory. There was no doubt this album would be my pick for this first month of 2012. It's inevitable that I miss out on a band at Fun Fun Fun fest every year and it seems 2011 was no exception. I had no...
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“Lu-ci-feeeeeer!” The ceremony started at 10:30pm on a bone chilling night at Denver’s Marquis Theater. The 8th of 13 ‘dates of doom’ for Sweden’s enigmatic retro-metallers brought with it all the elements that are now expected from this young, hyped group of nameless ghouls. Fronted by Papa Emeritus, a skeletal figure in red and...
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My first exposure to the sisters Söderberg was the tail end of their opening set for Lykke Li at the Ogden Theatre back in November. Regrettably missing the majority of their set, I couldn’t help but think of Neko Case while a girl next to me suggested a female Fleet Foxes. I don’t think...
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Having just caught Lykke Li‘s set at Fun Fun Fun fest over the weekend, I was among the minority of those who knew what to except at the Ogden Theatre on Friday night. The Swedish pop singer has been making waves across the sea for a couple years now, but nothing on the radio,...
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Craft – Void (Carnal Records, 2011) Over half a decade after they fucked the universe, Swedish black metallars Craft are back with a big middle finger to what they left behind. Void is a fitting title for this collection of pure black metal. The cover alone explains it all — Craft are still angry,...
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Phil Anselmo might be known as much for being an asshole as he is for bitch-slapping your eardrums with bands like (the legendary) Pantera, Arson Anthem and the super ‘southern sludge’ group, Down. Anselmo will be the first to admit he’s done and said some regrettable things in the past, sometimes he’ll say some...
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Robyn has been in the game for awhile now. She won her first Grammi (the Swedish equivalent of a Grammy) when she was 20 years old. That was in 1999. It took some 10 years after that for her to gain the fame and following she deserves here in the United States. She broke...
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Since I started going to metal shows again a couple years ago, it has amazed me how wrong my expectations prove to be. Being one of those guys that remembers wearing his hair past his shoulders, but long ago started shaving it before it wasn’t a choice anymore, I always expect the old school...
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I’m beginning to think Fever Ray is more than just a solo project for The Knife‘s Karin Dreijer Andersson. It almost seems Fever Ray has taken the place of what we knew as The Knife. Even though they did release the elecro-opera Tomorrow, In a Year with Mt. Sims and Planningtorock, I’d still say...
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jj – Kills (Sincerely Yours, 2010) There was a time when jj was an anonymous Swedish pop project that hid Lil’ Wayne lyrics under balaeric beats and were presented as nothing nothing than blood splattered marijuana leaves. Blood on the cover was ironic at the time because the music was so quiet and the...
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