Culkin is a band from Stockholm that started out in 2007, and they are just about to release a new album. You can find two songs from the album below, to listen to and download.

This is indie rock which breathes some of the air that groups from the nineties like Sonic Youth did, mixed up with the melancholy and the nice ambience I find with artists like Marjorie Fair. The vocals and the melodies sort of float on top the massive guitars, almost like it was meditative rock.

Well, you can listen for yourself and see if you like it as much as I do. You can find Culkin on their blog, their site and on Myspace.

Pay Per Fist
Glow

I’m listening to The Crystal Caravan’s new album, their debut album, which they released last week. Dennis Lyxzén is the producer, and together they have filled the ten track album with loads nostalgic feelings.

If you love rock from the end of the sixties and the beginning of the seventies, this is real ear candy. I hear Cream, MC5, Lynyrd Skynyrd, jam, blues rock, southern rock and it’s like it’s made for a sweaty rock concert.  The sound is perfect for this and i hear a bunch of skilled, tight musicians with a large dose of joy and feeling for what they do.

See you on the road, I hope.

You can listen to a couple of tracks from the album here. If you’d like to listen more you should visit The Crystal Caravan on Myspace. You’ll find their site here.

A New Time Is Coming
Train Song

Normally I don’t listen that much to skate punk. Not that I dislike the genre, maybe it’s just that it doesn’t tell me anything, at least for the moment. But the Karlskoga band Same Old Story managed to catch my attention pretty quickly.

I think their music feels really good, with an attitude that feels real, and not something that’s fabricated. They also manage to create something of their own here, with rock flirts, playfulness and a lot of musicality.

The fourth of April they have a release party for their new EP “Waste of Time”. A four track record full of energy. You can listen to two tracks from the EP here below.

If you want to discover more, you can visit Same Old Story on Myspace.

4, 4 Fun
Plastic Boobs Are Oldschool

In October I wrote about Pachanga, as they invited us to a party at Möllevången. I’m happy to be able to present here a couple of new tracks I have received from them.

You will recognise Pachanga in these songs, when they first speed up with “Kula i huvudet” (“Bullet in the head”). It feels a little like a messier and more angry Dan Hylander, when he was most heard of during the eighties.

In “Fri & ut” (“Free & Out”), though, we meet a calmer Pachanga, like some lo-fi Möllevångian americana.

Listen here to the tracks:

Kula i huvudet
Fri & ut

You’ll find Pachanga on Myspace

The Västerås band Shallow Sense plays a mellow grand pop with some indie feeling. Like if  Coldplay and The Killers started playing together. And Shallow Sense does a really job at this.

You can listen to this on their 4-track EP, which they recently released. It’s an even and strong record, where I find the dramatic “Weak” the strongest track. You can listen to the song here below. I think that they have created an impressive base here, that shows that Shallow Sense really should be taken seriously.

You can download the entire EP for free on Shallow Sense’s site and on their Myspace page.

Listen to and download two songs:

Goldbrick
Weak