Every week we invite a reader to share with us some of the songs they've been listening to recently. This week, a selection of music from Sydney-based artists Each week, we invite someone to share a playlist of songs they've been listening to recently. This week it's the turn of Marcus Thaine, a 19-year-old media student from Melbourne who writes at totemmag.com. Follow him on Twitter here . Here is just a selection of some of the best new music coming out of Sydney. Melbourne gets all the attention on the Australian music scene when really Sydney-siders ...

A mere 23 seconds into "Craver" from the Copenhagen punk band  Lower 's sub-nine minute debut EP and it's clear the song is a threat, its shrill, piercing guitar line screeching on like fingernails against a chalkboard. The track's ensuing two minutes are characterized by their loud, slow-pummeling brashness, working with creaking, distorted tension and menacing drum rolls that nearly suffocate a vaguely tuneful bass line underneath. Hardly any of what frontman Atrian Tubro shouts throughout the air-deprived "Craver" is even reasonably audible, save for a permeating desire for something inherent to survival. He's sinking and dragging ...

Nonpoint has posted a sneak peek online of vocalist Elias Soriano recording the track "I Said It" from the band&aposs; forthcoming new album. Check out the clip below. Further details on the upcoming new album, expected to be released later this year, will be announced as they are made available, and you can also find more info on Nonpoint at the ban... Read More/Discuss on Metal Underground.com

Video footage of NONPOINT members Elias Soriano, Rasheed Thomas and Dave Lizzio performing an acoustic version of a new song, "Another Mistake", earlier today (Tuesday, May 15) for the Madison, Wisconsin radio station WJJO 94.1 FM can be seen below.

Gli ICEAGE sono una giovane band danese composta da Elias Bender Ronnenfelt, Jakob Tvilling… Vinci ICEAGE @ Roma, Traffic, Via Prenestina 738 pubblicato su Indie For BUNNIES

[Humphrey Davies] Next Wednesday, May 16th, award-winning translator Humphrey Davies (The Yacoubian Building, Naguib Mahfouz, Elias Khoury) will be the special guest on my weekly radio show. Davies is going to share some of his favorite sounds from Cairo and the Middle East — everything from spellbinding Quranic recitation to a surprisingly convincing defense of [...]

"War, huh, yeah, what is it good for? Absolutely nothing," and with that in mind, Danish duo Loke Rahbek (Sexdrome & co-owner of Posh Isolation) and Elias Bender Rønnenfelt (Iceage) have changed their name to Vår , which apparently means 'spring' in old Norse. Rahbek had this to say about the project: "Vår started as a post industrial project releasing limited edition cassettes and now has become a multi media project, where in sound and image is of equal importance." Their debut album will be released early 2013, but until then you can enjoy the Kristian Emdal-directed video for 'In Your Arms ...

May 5th, 1945 marks the day the Nazi's were forced out of their occupation of Denmark. May 5th marks "Liberation Day" in Denmark. On Saturday, May 5th, NPR announced Danish duo WAR will now go by Vår. In old Norse, Vår translates to spring. Vår is Loke Rahbek (Sexdrome & co-owner of Posh Isolation) and Elias Bender Rønnenfelt (Iceage). Their music can be best be described as lo-fi dance with punk sensibilities, however the intention of the artists is far more in depth. "Vår started as a post industrial project releasing limited edition cassettes and now has become a multi ...

Young Danes Elias Ronnenfelt (Iceage) and Loke Rahbek make up War, a group that creates dark, electronics-heavy tracks like “Somme, Maggio.” And now, like some other bands have done recently — trend piece! — they’re changing their name. They’re going with VÅR, which translated means “spring.” Their new song, “In Your Arms (Final Fantasy),” is [...]

War , the Danish punk band comprised of  Iceage  frontman Elias Bender Rønnenfelt and  Sexdrome 's Loke Rahbek (who co-runs the label Posh Isolation ), have changed their name to VÅR. The new name translates to "spring," and signals a new direction for the band, which now identifies as a multimedia project. Today, they share the video for "In Your Arms (Final Fantasy)", which opened the recent  Sacred Bones  compilation  Todo Muere vol. 2 , released on Record Store Day.

It would seem we weren't the only ones not entirely sold on the moniker for Elias Bender Rønnenfelt and Loke Rahbek new project. It's been a couple decades since the last War, but the memory lingered. May 5 is Liberation Day in Denmark, commemorating the day Denmark pushed the Nazi's out of the country. The boys, possibly feeling riled up with patroitism, chose this day to announce the re-naming of their group as Vår, which is Danish for "spring time" - so...

From wiki:- Douglas Veitch, better known as Champion Doug Veitch (born 1960, Hawick, Scotland) is a Scottish musician and songwriter.  The self styled 'King of Caledonian Swing' rose to some prominence in the mid 1980s. A favourite of John Peel, for whom he recorded two radio sessions, he holds the record for having most (six) consecutive NME singles of the week. His music was a ground-breaking polycultural mix, using elements from dub, reggae, country Music and Scottish folk music, which foretold the cross cultural mixing more common in later years.  In 1985, he co-founded the label DiscAfrique with his colleague ...

Drummer Blas Elias (SLAUGHTER) on and bassist Chris Kael (FIVE FINGER DEATH PUNCH) joined SIN CITY SINNERS on stage last night (Sunday, April 15) at Las Vegas, Nevada's Ovation (inside Green Valley Ranch Resort) to perform a cover version of the JUDAS PRIEST classic "You've Got Another Thing Comin'".

The Danish four-piece comprising* Iceage* -- Jakob Tvilling Pless (bass), Dan Kjær Nielsen (drums), Elias Bender Rønnenfelt (vocals/guitar), and Johan Wieth (guitar) -- have kept busy since the release of their debut full-length album, New Brigade (What’s Your Rupture?/Abeano/Escho). Following a...

Gnome – ‘Dew Drop’ mp3 Deep electronic beats, squiggly tweaks and pulsing glitches with the gorgeous harmonies of siblings Elias and Freya Berkhout make up the new track from Gnome called ‘Dew Drop’. Freya is one half of the wonderful Sydney band kyü and between scoring a short film and working on a new kyü record, [...]