So I got my "Multiply":http://irenzero.multiply.com/music/item/1?mark_read=irenzero:music:1 page started, and figured it might be the ideal place to post my latest podcast project... Out of the Midnight Lands... which is aimed at spreading the word about the Nordic High Energy Rock and Roll scene that I love so much... so please check it out and let me know what you thing....
Ok, for those who are new around here, this is what's going on, each month this year since Feb I have been creating a iTunes play list of stuff that has caught my ear this past month... somewhere along the way I started posting a commentary on each track.. this month rather than wait until the end of the month to look back and write about each track I have tried to write about each track as I a...
Note: This is a music related short story that I wrote a few years back that I figured a few of you might enjoy....Down on Free StreetThese streets we walk upon: 6 feet down, 8 miles high, pure revolution. The Bright New World’s digitally dark armaghetto, Illuminated, by sterilizing glare of fluorescence from antiquated cut-rate neon lights. Free Street, down where the freaks meet. In the shado.
I’d heard of Entombed, which would give up drummer Nick Royal and it’s roadies to form the almighty Hellacopters, but wasn’t a fan. Death Metal had never been my thing. I’d seen their name in MRR, and I swear that I had thought ‘Cool a band with a horror punk sounding name from Sweden, who is this band The Stooges that they are being compared to?’ it was the mid 90’s, likely ’95 an
"The Hellacopters":http://www.hellacopters.com/ more than any other band are who I think of when I hear someone mention the Nordic Hi Energy Rock and Roll scene (or the Scandi Garage Rock Scene, which is what is was being called once upon a time)... they may not have been the first band in the scene, they might not have been the best, or the most popular (at least internationally), but to me th...
The Night before the Fall Friday night and the faithful gathered at Debaser medis in the Medborgarplatsen area of Stockholm for a night before the fall weekend. There was trivia, hanging out, and a band the Crypt kicker 5 (http://www.myspace.com/cryptkicker5) were present to officiate the start of the end… which was kinda strange considering The Hellacopters are a Hi Energy Garage Punk ban.
Back in April the NPR Show "Studio 360":http://www.studio360.org/episodes/2008/04/04 did a story on the emerging number of bands from Sweden who are making waves in the American music scene. I have also started to run into people who profess that they are fans of Swedish Pop Music. Now I have been following the music coming out of Sweden (along with Finland and Norway) for about the last 10 yea...
Soon I will write a whole lot more about my trip and witnessing the last weekend of the Hellacopters.. but it is safe to say that this was the theme song of the weekend.....'and we are everywhere' Indeed.