Stella By Starlight, hailing from Helsingborg, have just released their new single “Shine With Me”. They serve us two tracks, the rock/pop-mellow title track full of nice rock riffs and the softer “Silent as the Shadow”.

They’d like to place the music somewhere in the vicinity of R.E.M.’s  “Automatic For the People” and when it comes to style I’d agree with that but maybe not when it comes to the ambience. Listen for yourself here below.

The single is available on Spotify and on the Facebook page.

Shine With Me

This single caught my attention, a nice intro and the music is a bit heavy with a touch of grunge. The vocals are very nice and have a lot of melody. The A-side of this single is the better one of the 2 songs there is, which you can listen to here below.

Stone Carpet has released an EP before but with a different line-up. This time they say it’s a fresh start and there’s nothing holding them back, just full steam ahead. This single is worth a shot if you happen to like rock with melody.

Stone Carpet’s site can be found here, and their single on Spotify can be found here.

The Sound of a Thousand

In These Woods have created a really nice sound on their debut EP, which was released in December. It’s indie rock, 5 songs with big lush guitars, sweeping guitar riffs and good melodies. There’s a great drive in the songs that just sweep me right into the music. A band that will be interesting to follow in the future.

Listen to the EP on Spotify or on Bandcamp. You can follow the band on their  Facebook page or on Myspace.

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Here’s a band from Gothenburg that I think many people might like. Their music sounds heavy and groovy, sounds of the seventies. Until the vocals enter, in Swedish and all of a sudden it feels like Swedish progg. The songs have catchy melodies and you will happily listen more than once. A band that I would like to see at a local pub while I’m drinking a beer or two. A pretty high grade in other words.

As all of you know the climate is really harsh among bands that want to be heard, unfortunaetly Ett Rop På Hjälp just has a myspace-page, which you can find here. Myspace has totally bailed out and they don’t have as many users anymore. I really hope that this band will get a proper site plus other services where they can show their music. Ett Rop På Hjälp is an awesome band that I’m afraid will drown if they don’t promote themself in more ways soon.

Josef K

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Bring the Mourning On brings us to the US and to the country music areas where Neil Young spent a lot of time in during the seventies. Dark, alternative country with a hint of rock, the band says about their music, which I think is a good description.

The sound feels classic and Henning Pettersson show the right suffering in his voice; listen especially to the song “Let the Battle Begin” here below, a song that has a lot of what you could ask from the genre.

The debut album, “Going Going Gone”, was released in January and is available since a few days on Spotify. Find out more about Bring the Mourning On on their site.

Let the Battle Begin
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