The band Mr. Falcon, hailing from Malmö, was formed in 2011 by singer and guitarist Rasmus Ehrnborn, bass player Andreas Grufstedt and drummer Jonas Karlström. The band name is taken from a line in a censored version of the movie Die Hard, where “Yippee-ki-yay motherfucker” turned into “Yippee-ki-yay Mr. Falcon”.
This far they have two songs out in the open, and one of them is this seventies’ retro vibing rock track here below. You can follow the band on Facebook.
Vikunja have taken their band name from a small camelid animal (vicuña) that lives high up in the Andes. With their grand sound they clearly aim for the big arenas, which they already have tried as the opening act on Roxette’s arena tour through Sweden last year. Coldplay comes to mind when I listen, especially in the ballad “Strangers”, and there is no doubt that they have a sense for efficient, simple, sing-along-inspiring choruses, which you can hear below.
The band released an EP during spring as a first taste of the upcoming full length album. You can find them on their site and on Facebook.
Last year I wrote about Frida Selander’s excellent debut album “Try Again Baby”. Now she’s back with her great rock voice in the new single “Mountains Define You”. She’s recently toured the inland of the north of Sweden and as a bonus we get a video from this journey with the song “Geography”.
Follow Frida on her site and on Facebook.
No year is quite complete here on this blog without som soulful, energic rock from The Rumble. Therefore I’m happy to present a new single from the band, “Rock ‘n’ Roll Is the Medicine”, a great blues rock track you can listen to here below.
If you want more excellent rock from The Rumble, you can listen to more on Spotify or on Wimp. Follow the band on Facebook.
If there was a reward for the longest take-off run, I’m sure the band Tennis Bafra would be nominated. They started the band in the mid-nineties and during fifteen years they neither played live nor made any recordings. They were satisfied with playing together and having a good time in the rehearsal room. A couple of years ago the bass player Thomas Gjerdingen entered the band and took the role of the prince before the Sleeping Beauty-like band as he suggested that they should record something. Things took off and resulted in gigs, a label deal with Nomethod Records and now, in the beginning of the year, the debut album “Abulia Jubilee”.
They call it slacker noise and say that they got stuck in the nineties’ rock era with Sonic Youth and similar bands. I don’t argue with that, but they got stuck in their own special way and it works great for me as I listen now in 2012. They have a comfortable, relaxed, although rough, attitude on the album, more indie rock than noise I’d say, but I might add here that the last song is a 20 minutes long instrumental piece that feels like a journey with a creaking container ship in space.
They don’t have a clear explanation for the somewhat peculiar band name. They recall that they consciously wanted to do the opposite in some way. All the youth around them were all into either sports or music, so obviously they went for something that signalled sports in the name. Hockey didn’t sound to good but Tennis did. About Bafra they can only tell us that it was added shortly after Tennis, but noone remembers how and why.
You can listen more to Tennis Bafra on their site, on Spotify or on Wimp. You can also follow them on Facebook.
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