Redlight Attraction startad as late as August last year with the singer Terry Blade as the front figure. One can guess that this is about glam rock, by looking at the band picture. And glam rock it is, melodic glam rock, with heavy, driving metal drums and a load of rock energy. Listen for yourself here below.

The songs you can listen to was recorded in Martin Sweet’s studio (guitarist in Crashdïet) in the end of last year. The band is now again in the studio, as the the plan is to release a debut EP further on. If you want to see them live, they will do a couple of gigs in Sundsvall in the beginning of March, fronting Wolf.
You’ll find more info about this and more music on Redlight Attraction’s Myspace page.

Rockin’ Tonite
Couldn’t Care Less

Excuse the little break this week, but now I’m back again, and I and others will continue to present great music on this page. And I think it’s perfect to start with Moose Trail. We have written about Ulf Ljusberg before, and this time we see him in the company of Tobias Thun in Moose Trail, a band they have continuously developed beside their other projects.

In 2005 they released an EP, and now they are following this with the release of the song “Oh Lord”, which you can listen to here below. And I wouldn’t mind if this country and americana inspired music, with a nice touch of Nick Cave’s darkness, would lead to a full length album. According to plans, they will have Moose Trail have it’s live debut in the near future. To keep yourself informed of this, you can visit Moose Trail’s Myspace page, where you also can listen to more tracks.

Oh Lord
Return of the King
Hard to

“Pop in 110 mph” my collegue Jesper described the music of Industri Royal, as he presented Industri Royal last summer. The 28th of January Industri Royal will release their notified debut album “Tacky Skills” (Alleycat Records), and after having listened beforehand, I find that there’s no reason to change Jesper’s overall description.

Even if it doesn’t feel retro in the sound, I would like to add the vibes of Ramones, New Wave and sometimes even the Rolling Stones of the seventies (before the disco period) and surf pop to the description. It’s a great album, full of energy, and I’m certain that no one that has heard Industry Royal before will be disappointed.

“Location Location Location” was in our earlier post, and here you get another song from “Tacky Skills”, “The Beat Boy”. Other brilliant songs are “I Can Keep a Secret” and “Lie Lie Lie”. The release party takes place the 23 of January at Scharinska in Umeå. Go there and be part of the nice euphoria in a record release. Read more about it on Industri Royal’s site and on their Myspace page.

The Beat Boy

Somteimes it’s hard to explain why you are atttracted to a certain song or a certain artist. Sure, there’s always these direct melodies and/or lyrics that cut through your heart from the first moment, but I believe they are quite few for most of us. Many times I just get a hunch of what I will like. And then when I listen again it’s most often true, because it’s something that makes me feel good, makes me wake up, feel something special or something that I can I identify myself with, something that I want to hear more of.

When I and others then write about it it’s almost always a reconstruction after the event (I think), where I try to motivate in words what it was that caught me. And many times I find the seeds to why it did and then also try to relate to you what it is that I have listened to.

And sometimes, when it doesn’t work, when the words on why and how are not there, it’s really nothing strange, since we’re not rational beings. Like with Tractor Pulling People. Something caught me the moment I heard them, and after having listened to them many times, they still feel just right for me.

I like indie rock, but I can’t say that I know the genre very well, so I’ll skip the references this time. It feels close and direct, it feels genuine and… well it feels really good.

You can listen for yourself here to their latest EP “Sketches of Dark”. For the moment they have a pause in their songwriting, but you can listen to more songs at Tractor Pulling People’s Myspace page.

June Above Par
Midtempo Approach
Grace Under Pressure

Baron Bane is a band that wants to challenge the concepts of what a band is and how you relate to a band’s music. Baron Bane is the fictitious front figure and also the leader of the band and the one that sets the direction of the music.

Maybe this is most obvious seen live, where the band, which consists both of musicians and graphic artists, try to give an audiovisual experience to the audience and move some boundaries. An example of this a while ago, was when they performed with prerecorded lead vocals, instead of the other way around!

In November they released an EP with the song “Love.Cure.All”, accompanied by four remixes of the song, made by Sophie Rimheden, Tony Senghore and others. Here you can listen to the suggestive titel track, electronica and pop with massive synths, and also to a remix by Sophie Rimheden.

If you visit Baron Bane’s site you can download the entire EP fro free, and you can also go to Baron Bane on Myspace to listen more.

Love.Cure.All
Love.Cure.All (Sophie Rimheden remix)