Archive for the ‘Swedish Punk’ Category

Hanna Hirsch

Wednesday, December 10th, 2008

If you speak Swedish you’ll have better luck with this press release than I did.

Hanna Hirsch kommer från Stockholm och har sedan 2004 gett ut tre sjutummare. Tala svart är deras debutalbum. Musiken bär på en desperation, ett vemod och en iver som är besläktad med band som Tant Strul och Modern Lovers. Själva säger sig Hanna Hirsch vara influerade av Blondie och Discharge. Även om Hanna Hirsch är sprungna ur en punkscen kan Tala svart snarare betraktas som en popskiva, med texter som skär djupa sår. Detta är livsviktig musik.

”Så vilket vapen skulle du välja; en motorsåg eller en pistol, en gaffel, en sked, en smörkniv, en papperskant, en hårborste, eller en kudde. Välj kudden, så blir jag av med dig.”

However if you are like me and don’t read/speak a speck of Swedish you’re better off listening to these two songs off of Hanna Hisch’s new record Tala Svart. I wrote about the band here first.

If Ida Marie hadn’t been polished up like a diamond and packaged like the next big thing she’d be lucky to sound a little like this.

En andra chans

Ingen kommer sakna oss

Förmögenhet covers by Lassus, Tar…feathers, and …

Monday, August 4th, 2008


(Förmögenhet)

There’s a new covers project for a relatively obscure Swedish band punk called Förmögenhet. I don’t know the where, how or what fors but it does feature a nice group of Swedish artists including Ass, Gentle Touch, The LK and Mexicos.

Here’s a couple songs from this upcoming release on the label Diskret Förlag. The three bands here take a more experimental approah to Förmögenhat’s typically fast and loud hardcore punk.

Tummen Up – Lassus
Lurad igen – Tar…feathers
Är det nån som är snål så är det du! – When Hell Freezes Over

The ParanoidGarageRock of Wired For Mono

Tuesday, July 8th, 2008

The Stockholm based punk/garage band Wired For Mono is doing one of those web 3.0 type of things. The deal is they are using their website to release a song every couple of weeks from their upcoming album. This week it’s the song “Man Behind The Wall”. You can get this song and three others from the band here.

The Man Behind The Wall

New Wave Gay Punk from Sweden’s Viva Revolucian

Wednesday, March 19th, 2008

There’s a good solid chance Viva Revolucian are no longer a group. Their homepage is not up to date and their MySpace comment section is filled with spam.

If that’s true it’s a shame since they seem to do the electro-new wave-gay-punk thing as well as anybody. According to their MySpace page they’re a band made up of hookers, punkers and vagabonds. Most of that’s probably a fabrication, but from the selection of pictures on their sites it seems they were always ready to play hard and strip down to their underwear for their art. I like that in a band and I like this song.

The band is/was from Gothenburg. So if you know them, give em a poke, and tell them to get back to work.

That Means I Love You

Punk via the Stockholm 4-piece Dogday

Friday, February 29th, 2008

(Editor’s Note: Just in case you’re actually paying attention and visiting with any regularity, I thought I’d better warn you that I’m off on vacation from tomorrow (March 1) until Thursday (March 6). I’m pretty sure I won’t be posting during that time, so visit the other fine sites on my sidebar and wish me well down in Mexico.)

There’s something so punk about releasing music as a 7″. There’s no way a band that’s out for the quick buck would do that, nor would punk sellouts like Green Day or Fall Out Boys. So the very fact that Dogday from Stockholm has released their debut ep as a 4 song 7″ is cool. Ahh…but how’s the music, you ask? According to the cheat sheet checklist enclosed with the EP the band prefers Punk over EMo, The Jam over Pearl Jam, King Tubby over Prince, and 77-82 over 91-96.

“New Romance” has the punkish snarl of bands like the Fall and the Godfathers, while avoiding noise just for the sake of noise and speed just for the sake of speed. Typically not my thing but loving this track. The band has taken the punk diy ethos a step further than the 7″ and has all four tracks available on their website here.

New Romance