Via Jens Lekman ho appena scoperto questo Swedish Music Landscape , interessantissimo volume (e anche app per iPad) che raccoglie ritratti di musicisti svedesi. Lo ha curato il fotografo francese Julien Bourgeois, che ha raccontato per immagini e parole il suo amore per la Svezia, "a country I didn't know, my only guide being the answers offered by the musicians to this request: show me a place inspiring your music". Tra le band coinvolte, anche svariati nomi cari a questo blogghetto: Frida Hyvönen (nell'immagine qui sopra), Dag för Dag, El Perro Del Mar, Loney Dear, Peter, Björn & John, Svensson ...

[ Gelezen in NRC Handelsblad, zaterdag 19 mei 2012, geschreven door Pieter Steinz. ] Bij Waterloo begon de victorie – althans voor ABBA, het Zweedse viertal dat van het midden van de jaren zeventig tot het begin van de jaren tachtig de hitparade domineerde en daarna zou uitgroeien tot een van de invloedrijkste popgroepen aller tijden. Anni-Frid Lyngstad, Benny Andersson, Björn Ulvaeus en Agnetha Fältskog wonnen op 6 april 1974 in Brighton het 19de Eurovisiesongfestival met Waterloo, een kauwgomrocknummer over een smoorverliefde vrouw. ‘Bij Waterloo gaf Napoleon zich over’, zongen de blonde Anna en de bruinharige Frida tweestemmig nadat rollende gitaren het liedje ...

Photo by Lilja Birgisdottir In an interview with Icelandic newspaper The Reykjavík  Grapevine , Sigur Rós  frontman Jónsi said that band member Kjartan Sveinsson is "tired of touring." Thus, he will not accompany his band mates when they go on their world tour to promote the upcoming album Valtari . Rumors that the band is breaking up or that Sveinsson's left altogether are false, Jónsi and band member Georg "Goggi" Hólm told the Grapevine . Sevinsson just "wants to spend his time doing something else" and says that time spent touring is "not necessarily the most productive." Ólafur Björn Ólafsson of Stórsveit ...

Earlier this week, our buds at Metal Sucks discovered something pretty cool: The Night Flight Orchestra, featuring none other than Soilwork singer Björn “Speed” Strid and Arch Enemy bassist Sharlee D’Angelo. Though this project (also featuring members of Mean Streak and Von Benzo) has apparently been in the works for a while now, The Night Flight [...]

Vocalist Björn 'Speed' Strid from Soilwork and bassist Sharlee D’Angelo from Arch Enemy have formed a band called Night Flight Orchestra – and the musical results are completely unexpected

“West Ruth Ave” might be the single catchiest song I’ve heard all year. No joke, this is like beyond Gotye levels of catchy! I’m hooked. The song is by The Night Flight Orchestra, the new “classic rock” band featuring vocalist Björn “Speed” Strid from Soilwork and bassist Sharlee D’Angelo from Arch Enemy. It’s cool to hear [...]

Aunque los muchachos de Peter Bjorn and John son más conocidos por cierta “canción del silbidito” que por cualquier otra cosa, lo cierto es que los suecos tienen ya una larga carrera y un nombre no sólo en su natal Suecia sino en buena parte del mundo. Lo mismo podemos decir de Teddybears, una banda que más allá de la nacionalidad no tiene realmente mucho en común con la primera, excepto que ahora uno de sus miembros, Joakim Ahlund, se ha unido con el Björn (Yttling) de los poperos para...

Sweden’s indie-pop overlords are banding up. Ingrid is a new collective founded by Lykke Li, Miike Snow, Peter Bjorn & John’s Björn Yttling, and the Teddybears’ Joakim Ahlund, among others. Yttling and Ahnuld also have a new project together called Smile, and they’ll soon release their debut album A Flash In The Night on the [...]

Fact : We asked Black Dice co-founder Eric Copeland (pictured above, centre, with Aaron Warren and Björn Copeland) to pick, and tell us about, five records that have significantly impacted on the band and its creative stance. From “scumbag rock” and Californian ska-punk to pulsating proto-darkwave, it’s quite a selection. Read and comment. From factmag.com.

THE NIGHT FLIGHT ORCHESTRA — the new classic-rock band featuring Björn Strid (SOILWORK) and Sharlee D' Angelo (ARCH ENEMY, SPIRITUAL BEGGARS) — will release its debut album, "Internal Affairs", on June 18 via Coroner Records.

Gothenburg based death metal band Miasmal signed a recording contract with Century Media Records. The band issued its self-titled debut release on April 15, 2011 through Dark Decent Records subsequent to the self-titled EP of a year earlier and the highly tauted self-titled demo in 2008. The band features drummer Björn and guitarist/vocalist Pontus... Read More/Discuss on Metal Underground.com

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Ingrid has posted their upcoming spring/summer release schedule: http://www.ingrd.com/2012/ingrid-springsummer-2012/ Look for new stuff from all three Peter Bjorn and John dudes -- Smile (Björn Yttling + Jocke Åhlund), Peter Morén (solo) and Hortlax Cobra (John Erikssson) -- plus Starlight Serenaders and more.