I will no longer be writing album reviews. Instead, I will be posting album recommendations with links to a few reviews that I agree with. There are just so many reviews out there and I can’t spend the time anymore. The Radio Dept. – Clinging To A Scheme The 3rd full length from this...
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What is it with the Swedish bands hiding their identity? The Knife always covered their faces, jj hid who they were for the first year or so and now Miike Snow take the stage with their faces hidden behind white masks. I’m not complaining, because all three bands make great music, I just find...
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Another new track from jj, this one called is called I Know and is only available as a bonus-track on the vinyl version of their new jj nº 3 LP. Other tracks from jj. The LP is available now on Secret Canadian.
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Every so often I will be posting under the ‘Derailed’ heading. This is for posts that are outside my normal comfort area…indie rock/pop. Probably beginning to sound like a broken record here, but I am no expert in the metal genre. I am the last person you should be listening to about modern metal. ...
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Every so often I will be posting under the ‘Derailed’ heading. This is for posts that are outside my normal comfort area…indie rock/pop. While I’m standing in line ,the guys behind me are talking about how they can’t share a cigarette with their buddy because he has herpes. Five minutes later a guy selling...
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There are some albums that I have had in heavy rotation lately that I just haven’t had time to review…these are those albums: Johnny Cash – American VI: Ain’t No Grave The latest and last installment of the American Recordings; this is another Rick Rubin produced collection of tracks from the American V: A...
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Taken By Trees aka Victoria Bergsman recorded one of the best albums of the year in 2009. It’s called East of Eden, it’s the second by the Swedish, ex-Concretes lead singer under the Taken By Trees moniker and it was recorded in Pakistan. This is a great video on the process and the journey…
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The Knife has put their new album, a soundtrack to the electro-opera Tomorrow, In A Year, up on their website. This is not the proper follow-up to their modern classic, Silent Sound, but should be interesting. Stream and/or purchase Tomorrow, In A Year (via theknife.net) (also, check out Fever Ray‘s appearance at the P3...
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The Knife is my favorite creepy Swedish electronic group. Fever Ray is the female half of The Knife, Karin Dreijer Andersson. If you have seen her videos, you know she is one strange chick. But now, she’s gone one-step further with her acceptance speech at the P3 Guld Awards in Sweden. Watch the video...
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I posted links to two new jj songs from their upcoming n° 2.1 vinyl LP a few days ago. And now these two songs have been posted from the upcoming album n° 3, out March 9th. from previous entry Thanks to gorilla vs. bear for posting two new songs from jj’s n° 2.1 vinyl...
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Thanks to gorilla vs. bear for posting two new songs from jj’s n° 2.1 vinyl LP. jj has become my favorite mysterious band out of Sweden. We now know a little more about them than we did last year (which was pretty much nothing but their blood splattered logos). The band consists of Joakim...
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