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Together at last: Hajen, Euphoria, Tvärvägen and Winter Took His Life Tour Europe

Posted: 24 Apr 2009 01:30 PM PDT

I’m generally not a cut and paste music blogger but I couldn’t resist telling you about this tour:

Finally Hajen, Euphoria and the Lazy Boy, Winter Took His Life and Tvärvägen made it. On the 05.05. the “Dirtfarming and Logging ‘09″ will start. A very unique and beautiful tour!

For this tour only, these four singer/songwriters from Sweden form a band and perform their songs together. Usually they are solo artists from Gothenburg and Stockholm, but in May they are on tour together through Europe. This is good stuff, please don't miss it.

These are the dates:

05.05 På Besök / Malmö
06.05 MS Stubniz / Rostock
07.05 Kulturhaus 73 / Hamburg
09.05 Kulturpalast / Hannover
10.05 Bahía de Cochinos / Castrop-Rauxel
11.05 Malteserkeller / Aachen
12.05 Exhaus / Trier
13.05 D:qliq / Luxemburg
14.05 KIFF / Aarau
15.05 Zimmertheater / Tübingen
16.05 Pop Up Festival / Leipzig
17.05 Kultiviert Anders! / Leipzig
20.05 Z Live Music Club / Stuttgart
21.05 Musigbistrot / Bern
23.05 Kulturverein Provisorium / Nürtingen
24.05 Dimensione / Winterthur
26.05 Intersoap / Berlin
27.05 Klex / Greifswald
28.05 Hasenschaukel / Hamburg
30.05 Fängelset / Göteborg

As an appetizer the Swedish quartet offer a small tour-compilation which you and your people can download here for free: http://www.zshare.net/download/591209963fec62af/

More info’s and stuff to listen you can find here:

http://myspace.com/tvarvagen
http://myspace.com/hajensmyspace
http://myspace.com/wintertookhislife
http://myspace.com/eatlb
http://knoppar.blogspot.com/

Weird pop from Rolf Fabian off of “It Kills” (Background Noise, June 9)

Posted: 24 Apr 2009 10:15 AM PDT

Music bloggers love to compare artists to other artists. In the case of Rolf Fabian it’s quite difficult to get a handle on who exactly he sounds like and more especially who else structures their songs like this. Sure he may sound a little like Jonathan Richmond and his songs do have a quirky feel to them, but there are also hints of The Mountain Goats, Connor Oberst or Bill Callahan (but not so tortured).

“Atishoo Sneezed Hank W” is the first single from Rolf’s upcoming album It Kills! on Background Noise.

Atishoo Sneezed Hank W

Aitishoo Sneezed Hank W (Acoustic demo)

Bonus songs:

DoE (och om en sommar en gang)
You Love To Say You Told Me So

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