A sold-out house greeted Maria Lindén and Fredrik Balck at their first ever Los Angeles show on Wednesday night. The Swedish duo—who perform as I Break Horses—were rolling through town in support of last year’s excellent debut Hearts.

Norwegian power/progressive metal band Pellek, featuring Damnation Angels frontman Per Fredrik "Pellek" Asly, posted a teaser video for the band&aposs; forthcoming sophomore effort "Bag Of Tricks," which is scheduled for release by the band on May 30, 2012 (Worldwide) through its official website at this location. The band previously released the first ... Read More/Discuss on Metal Underground.com

Maria Lindén and Fredrik Balck of Sweden’s I Break Horses may or may not be fans of Smog, but either way, the sonic offerings on their debut album “Hearts” is far from anything one would liken to Bill Callahan. Their shoegaze influences are obvious (My Bloody Valentine, Slowdive, Jesus & Mary Chain), but the electronic [...]

Band Celebrates 20th Anniversary with The Melancholy Connection CD/DVD Bundle Out May 29th Celebrated Swedish punk band, Millencolin invite fans to stream their upcoming May 29th release, The Melancholy Connection . This assemblage of b-sides is a follow up to 1999's The Melancholy Collection and features two brand new songs and twelve rarities spanning from their break-out album, Pennybridge Pioneers, through today. The CD is paired with a ninety minute DVD, The Pennybridge Production that takes fans inside the making of Pennybridge Pioneers with never before seen archival footage, interviews with the band and live performances. Fans are invited ...

Singer Jens Kidman and lead guitarist Fredrik Thorendal (and a few others) formed an extreme-metal band in a Swedish college town in 1987. But this wasn’t your typical heavy metal. Instead, it was a mashup of math rock, experimental jazz and thrash metal. In other words, it was crazy, which is exactly what that the [...]

Visit Indie Shuffle to download. Sounds like: Fire">Arcade Fire, Of Monsters and Men, Fredrik Song: Alcoholic Faith Mission - Running With Insanity [download here ] What's so good? Danish six-piece indie group Alcoholic Faith Mission certainly have one of the more creative band names I’ve ever heard, and fortunately their music can be just as memorable. With such an absurd name, one might wonder whether the true meaning was lost in some Danish translation, but Alcoholic Faith Mission trace their roots to a modest duo formed in Brooklyn. Now six members strong, their latest album Ask Me This was ...

Hamburg calling - wieder einmal erweitert das MS Dockville seinen Timetable mit neuen Künstlern. Zuletzt vergrößerte sich das vielfältige Line-up bereits in Form der Pop-Newcomer Me And My Drummer, sowie des britischen Indietronic-Trios We Have Band ( motor.de berichtete ). Auch der neue Bandschwall zeigt eine große Bandbreite an Musikstilen. Für den hanseatischen Singer/Songwriter-Charme sorgt Niels Frevert mit seinem aktuellen Langspieler "Zettel Auf Dem Boden" im Gepäck. Daneben bringt der geheimnisvolle, maskierte Elektronik-Künstler o F F Love die Tanzmeute zum Kochen. Außerdem zeigen Boy & Bear mit ihrer Mischung aus rollenden Drums, krächzenden Gitarren und schwärmerischen Melodien weshalb sämtliche Konzerte von ihnen ...

Recientemente he tenido conocimiento de esta banda sueca llamada Esther, compuesta por Markus Magnusson (voz), Claes Fredholm (batería), Fredrik Brosell (guitarra), David Svahn (bajo) y Victor Åderman (guitarra). Quizás todavía sea demasiado pronto para valorar al grupo, ya que apenas he tenido la ocasión de escuchar un par de temas, pero a juzgar por los mismos, la cosa pinta bastante bien, con un sonido que me recuerda a sus compatriotas Shout Out Louds. Precisamente la integrante femenina de éstos, Bebban Stenborg colabora en la canción "To Let Go", de la que podéis ver el video a continuación. Website Facebook Twitter

Icona Pop "I Love It" Universal Music Sweden 2012 Director: Fredrik Etoall Bandwagon, jumped. I love it. Enjoy.

U.K. symphonic metal band Damnation Angels has posted a studio diary for the debut full length release "Bringer of Light." The album was released early 2012 in Japan only, as the band is still negotiating a record deal for release in Europe and North America for a late summer release. Damnation Angels features vocalist Per Fredrik Pellek Åsly, voca... Read More/Discuss on Metal Underground.com

KSSU Loud Rock director Daniel Cordova recently conducted an interview with guitarist Fredrik Åkesson of Swedish progressive metallers OPETH.

«THE NIGHT THAT I LET GO» Get your free download from Elise Vatsvaag´s website Scroll down to access the four singles released by Elise Vastvaag so far in 2012 Elise Vatsvaag tells us about her latest single: I can’t believe I’m about to release a fourth single! 4 songs have been released, which basically means I’m halfway through the «This Is Not My Music» project. That is undeniably a fact that makes me feel tingly with joy and excitement. I am also very excited about this fourth single «The Night That I Let Go». ...«The Night ...

Fun fact: I photobombed one of Caroline from Icona Pop’s photo at the weekend, she seemed quite impressed with my photobombing skills. So here’s their new single ‘I Love It’. It’s rowdy, raucous and tons of fun. All screaming and chainsaw synths. It deserves to be huge. Fredrik Etoall directs the video. Buy Icona Pop’s [...]

Hear another new solo tune from Fredrik William Olsen (Kråkesølv) and download it in exchange for a like/tweet: http://www.beyondrecords.no/fredrikwilliamolsen/

After the final Hot Docs screening yesterday, audience votes were tallied for the People's Choice Award . The winner is Chasing Ice (D: Jeff Orlowski, USA), which follows renowned National Geographic photographer James Balog on a harsh Arctic expedition where he captures a multi-year record of the world’s changing glaciers. New this year, a cash prize for the People’s Choice Award winner was crowd-funded from audiences through Hot Docs’ Doc Ignite ( www.hotdocs.ca/docignite ) platform. Currently in excess of $4000, the public can further contribute to this cash prize until Monday, May 14. The top ten audience ...