Author Archives: Pär Berglund
Leidi Misterie is what Jennie Boije af Gennäs calls herself when she creates her electronica music. She started the project in 2002 and has now released her third album, “Our Love”. It’s minimalistic and with sweeping electronica brushes she paints a nice, mellow ambience, peaceful, fragile and dreamy.
You can find Leidi Misterie on Myspace and on Last.fm. Here are a couple of tracks from “Our Love”:
Fingers
Broken Birdie (Múm cover)
You can’t ignore The Rumble. When I first heard them a couple of years ago, it was like a jet of energy that shot through everything else. We have written about them before, and now they have released their first full length album.
And there’s nothing wrong with the energy on the new album, it’s full speed ahead from the start, maybe a little less dirty than before but with a heavier and better beat and drive. At the same time the album shows more of the band, as they explore rock music in different corners, where Hank’s rock-bluesy vocals glues it all together. An album that’s perfect both at the warm-up party as well as on the dancefloor.
You can meet The Rumble on Myspace and you can listen to the album on Spotify. Here are a couple of songs:
Today it’s all about “Heaven’s On Fire”. No, not Kiss, but The Radio Dept. It’s the name of their new singel that was released a little more than a week ago. The song is also included on their upcoming album “Clinging To a Scheme” scheduled to be released on the 21st of April.
You can find The Radio Dept. on their site.
The other day I visited the Easter Island in the Pacific Ocean. The great statues were there, like they’ve been for the last thousand years, hiding their secrets, revealing nothing. But suddenly, as we were exploring the area, a strong sound, low and dull, startled us, and it seemed to emerge from the ground beneath the old statues. Was this finally a clue to the mysteries of the Easter Island?
The sound gained in strength, echoing across the hills, and we crouched in awe but with the curiosity lurching beneath. The sound shaped itself into a voice, and the voice said: “Let there be rock!”
Maybe a little boring message after all this time, since the statues are made of that, rock. But there were a few people among us that interpreted the words in their own way: the members of Badmouth. Chris LeMon grabbed hos big axe for a Bass, Mike Hill and Randy Joy armed their guitars, in a frenzy Vinnie Sharpe started hitting the rocks with his drum sticks and Tom Pearson let out a wild cry that boomed within our heads for hours afterwards: “Yeah, we will rock the world!!!”
Today Badmouth are missionairies for rock music and are eagerly delivering their message wherever they go. They are right now finishing their second full length album, an album that is rumoured to penetrate the toughest anti-rock walls mankind has seen so far.
If you’d like to remain sane, continue to live in peace and feel it’s uncomfortable to be in an area where the ground will shake for two days, then you should definitely avoid Stockholm between the 30th of April and the 1st of May.
Why? Because Stockholm Rock Out, a new big rock festival will take place in Stockholm, containing some of the best rock that’s ever been squeezed out of a Marshall stack. Badmouth, Slaughter, Kix, Keel, Great White, Steelheart, Bullet Boys and many other bands plus fans from all over the world will gather and join in Badmouths mission. The high priest of the event is Chris LeMon from Badmouth.
Well, let’s start ahead with a couple of tracks from Badmouth’s last album:
Pedal to the Metal
Cocaine Girl
Listen more to Badmouth on their Myspace page and follow the band on their site.
Happy easter! (well at least within a day or two)
The story about the members of Ioseb‘s road trip, how they stopped at an old church, stumbled upon a pile of thrown goods and an old trunk, feels rather appealing. Seems like they was caught in the moment, and in a way started all over right there and then. Ioseb was formed and from the experience emerged something that would later on become the album “The Ghost of 33”.
Most of us probably need to stop moving on sometimes, and try to feel who we are, where we are and what we want. Maybe Ioseb’s own post-rock-version, “The Ghost of 33” can help. It’s a journey, mostly instrumental, consisting of 8 tracks of quite varying length. It can be powerful, sometimes fragile, beautifully melodic and emotional. The melancholy from cold northern winds is there, but in the end the warmth and the strength is what feels most strongly.
You can read and listen more on Ioseb’s site and you can also find them on Myspace.
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