Here is this week's top 20 Norwegian album chart: 01. Øystein Sunde - Meget i Sløyd 02. Jarle Bernhoft - Ceramik City Chronicles 03. Kurt Nilsen - Rise To The Occasion 04. Diverse artister - Mgp Jr 2008 05. Espen Lind - Army of one 06. Vassendgutane - Xo 07. Knutsen & Ludvigsen - Dum og deilig -beste 08. Malin - Pang 09. Bare [...]
This week's top 20 Norwegian album chart: 01. Kurt Nilsen - Rise To The Occasion 02. Bare Egil Band - Jeg er helt rå 03. Espen Lind - Army of one 04. Knutsen & Ludvigsen - Dum og deilig -beste 05. Vassendgutane - Xo 06. Ingenting - Kjempegreier 07. Madrugada - Madrugada 08. Åge Aleksandersen - Katalysator 09. Lindstrom - Where you go [...]

Kev's already made his apology and so here's mine, in the form of a light-on-words 40 song clear-out of everything I've been going to post but just haven't been able to come up with a suitable tenuous sexually ambiguous rant and pun post title for. And even with a 40 song post I still can't manage any sort of real variety. Sorry. Prints - Me & Ms Archer (MP3) Not sure what to call this other than electronic indie pop. Anyway, it's new and good and was apparently [...]
This week's top 20 Norwegian album chart: 01. Kurt Nilsen - Rise To The Occasion 02. Ingenting - Kjempegreier 03. Lindstrom - Where you go I go to 04. Espen Lind - Army of one 05. Knutsen & Ludvigsen - Dum og deilig -beste 06. Vassendgutane - Xo 07. Kathrine Moholt - Sweethearts 08. Return - Best Of Both Worlds 09. Åge Aleksandersen [...]
This week's top 20 Norwegian album chart: 01. Kurt Nilsen - Rise To The Occasion 02. Espen Lind - Army of one 03. Kathrine Moholt - Sweethearts 04. Knutsen & Ludvigsen - Dum og deilig -beste 05. Vassendgutane - Xo 06. Åge Aleksandersen - Katalysator 07. Return - Best Of Both Worlds 08. Madrugada - Madrugada 09. Too Far Gone - Livåt [...]
Bergen, Norway-based act Real One will release their debut UK album "Home with the girls in the morning" on August 11 via Breaking Records. Said album was originally released in Scandinavia back in 2005. Samples: http://www.myspace.com/realone smusic
Check out Norwegian pop act Real Ones and their new video for "Lonesome town" : http://vids.myspace.com/index. cfm?fuseaction=vids.individual &videoid=38401211
This week's top 20 Norwegian album chart: 01. Espen Lind - Army of one 02. Kurt Nilsen - Rise To The Occasion 03. Åge Aleksandersen - Katalysator 04. Vassendgutane - Xo 05. Too Far Gone - Livåt 06. Return - Best Of Both Worlds 07. Knutsen & Ludvigsen - Dum og deilig -beste 08. Kathrine Moholt - Sweethearts 09. Maria Haukaas Storeng - [...]
Real Ones will release their second single, Ballad Of An Old Man, through Breaking Records on June 30th. Comprising two brothers and three lifelong friends from Bergen, Norway, Real Ones folk-tinged, Eastern influenced Scandi-pop music has a habit of building melody upon melody and projecting them with the beauty and sweetness of three-part harmonies. Where acoustic guitars and tumbling drum sweeps weave with the lesser-known surreal sound of Eastern instruments such as the Bouzouki and Indian Jaisalmer violin, Real Ones are bringing a gentle touch of the East to a broader audience. [...]

As this blog has noted before, the Swedish pop sound has been overtly seeping into other Scandinavian and European countries in a pretty massive way. No longer is the world's best guitar-pop and light Euro-pop originating in Stockholm or Gothenburg. No ... now Finland, Denmark, Norway, and every other nation in that vicinity is duly pumping out stellar pop fodder. BBBD's most recent find? Real Ones ( MySpace ), a Bergen-based quintet. The group sounds sort of like Talking Heads circa 1983 with an extra large dose of banjo-driven hillbilly twiddling about. They claim to be [...]
Back in 2006 Erol was named by Mixmag as the DJ of the year, and, before then, a select few of us knew him from his residency at Trash, The End (now replaced by Durr Durr where he makes an odd appearance here and there). It was exciting to see him play in such intimate spaces; there was a definitive buzz surrounding his sets; a distinct feeling that we have something special to hold on to here that hasn't quite blown up yet. The widespread accolades and praise that arrived at the end of 2006 and beginning of 2007 put [...]
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Can't I do one simple GIS for "postman" without being bombarded with mail-on-mail action ? All things considered, I had a pretty good week last week. My boss gave me a raise out of the blue; it won't be enough to keep me working at that soul-killing death factory one second longer than I have to, but hey, free money. datA and the inexplicably-named MY!GAY!HUSBAND rocked shit at IHEARTCOMIX Saturday night, despite datA being hampered by some truly disheartening tech diffs (bass cutting out right when [...]
When I posted the last "baker's dozen downloads" a couple weeks ago, I got crazy hits and lots of nice notes, so I'm gonna try to make it a bi-weekly thing. Here's a cd's worth of good stuff that's been making my ears smile lately: Purrbot - "Hologram" mp3 Real Ones - "Orlando" mp3 Monster Movie - "Vanishing Act" mp3 Xiu Xiu - "Boy Soprano" mp3 Pinback - "Messenger" mp3 Team Band - "Bond"