The Swedish-American Chamber of Commerce just announced that Joel Kinnaman is the winner of the Eliason Merit Award 2014! The Award ceremony will take place on November 7:th at one of our favorite spots in Santa Monica – The Victorian. The Eliason Merit Award is an annual event honoring Swedes that have contributed towards strengthening Swedish-American relations in the areas of commerce, culture, science and art. Performing artists and additional details will be announced shortly.
We’re happy to announce the release of the first live Danko Jones album ever – “Live At Gröna Lund”, recorded in Stockholm on May 16th 2014. It’s released exclusively on Spotify on August 11th. Check out the cover, tracklist and a clip of “Had Enough” taken from the show below.
Tracklist:
1. Who Got It?
2. Sugar Chocolate
3. Play The Blues
4. First Date
5. I Think Bad Thoughts
6. She’s Drugs
7. Dance
8. Heartbreak’s A Blessing
9. Baby Hates Me
10. Invisible
11. Best Good Looking Girl in Town
12. Full Of Regret
13. Mango Kid
14. Sex Change Shake
15. Cadillac
16. Lovercall
17. Had Enough
18. Code Of The Road
19. Legs
20. Bring On The Mountain
In the upcoming season of MTV’s 16 & Pregnant no less than 9 Feeble tracks will be featured!
We Are The Storm will have their songs: Western Wall, The Secret Is Still Here, This Dried Out Sea, Bermuda, The War, The Tree By The River, The Wastelands and Caves in the show and Solander will also be featured with their song The Woods Are Gone.
“Never Again” by Danko Jones will be featured in the new action-adventure video game “Watch dogs”. The release date is just a week away so make sure to check it out May 27th!
Monitor 66 is a production/DJ duo from Stockholm who’s been getting a lot of attention lately in the nu-disco/deep house genre for their remixes. But when they have to describe their own music they say that it is “music for sunsets”. This Saturday they’ll play their sunset music at Debaser Medis in Stockholm, opening up for The Magician. Tickets are sold at the door on first come first basis, you can find out more at this Facebook event.
Rhys Graham’s film “Galore” will soon be released in Australia and the movie is about four teenagers in the suburbs of Canberra trying to find their way around secrets, friendships and possible love while bush fires are just outside the door. The movie will be accompanied by a soundtrack featuring “At Your Most Beautiful” by Last Days Of April (available on iTunes in Australia and New Zealand). Galore had its international premiere at the Berlinale Film Festival in February earlier this year and has gotten great reviews, see for yourself and watch the trailer below.
The multi platinum selling rapper Wiz Khalifa has joined the lineup for Finlands oldest rock festival Ruisrock. The festival will take place on July 4th – 6th this summer with Wiz performing the last day. Make sure to get your tickets and check out Wiz Khalifa’s latest video below.
We’re proud to announce that the first ever truly crowd-sourced record, Strange Journey Volume Three by CunninLynguists, is out and available in all territories today. Not happy simply “crowd-funding” a release via Kickstarter like so many other artists, Deacon The Villain, Natti and Kno asked their fans for no money – instead they spent a year interacting with fans via social media & allowing them to vote on guest artists, suggest song concepts, letting them peek in on studio sessions & make decisions on album artwork. Check out the result and/or order below:
Spotify
iTunes
US
Scandinavia
G/A/S
They just kicked off the first tour of many in support of the album on the westcoast last week and the full list of tour dates can be found right here:
8/4 – Arcata Theatre – Arcata, CA, USA (Tickets)
9/4 – WOW Hall – Eugene, CA, USA (Tickets)
10/4 – Alhambra Theatre (formerly Mt. Tabor Theater) – Portland, OR, USA (Tickets)
11/4 – The Crocodile – Seattle, WA, USA (Tickets)
12/4 – Wild Buffalo House of Music – Bellingham, WA, USA (Tickets)
13/4 – Knitting Factory Concert House – Spokane, WA, USA (Tickets)
14/4 – The Palace – Missoula, MT, USA (Tickets)
16/4 – Neurolux – Boise, ID, US (Tickets)
17/4 – Urban Lounge – Salt Lake City, UT, USA (Tickets)
18/4 – Hodi’s Half Note – Fort Collins, CO, USA (Tickets)
19/4 – Cervantes’ Other Side – Denver, CO, USA (Tickets)
20/4 – Sister – Albuquerque, NM, USA (Tickets)
22/4 – The Green Room – Flagstaff, AZ, USA (Tickets)
23/4 – Club Congress – Tucson, AZ, US (Tickets)
24/4 -Pub Rock – Scottsdale, AZ, USA (Tickets)
25/4 – Porter’s Pub, UC San Diego – La Jolla, CA, USA (Tickets)
26/4 – SOhO – Santa Barbara, CA, USA (Tickets)
27/4 – The Observatory – Santa Ana, CA, USA (Tickets)
7/5 – Hulen – Bergen, Norway (Tickets)
8/5 – Blaest – Trondheim, Norway (Tickets)
9/5 – Sinus – Bödö, Norway (Tickets)
10/5 – Parkteatret – Oslo, Norway (Tickets)
11/5 – Kuuden Linja – Helsinki, Finland (Tickets)
14/5 – Nalen Stora Salen – Stockholm, Sweden (Tickets)
16/5 – Kulturbolaget – Malmö, Sweden (Tickets)
17/5 – Pumpehuset Stor Sal – Copenhagen, Denmark (Tickets)
18/5 – Atlas – Aarhus, Denmark, (Tickets)
20/5 – Übel & Gefährlich – Hamburg, Germany (Tickets)
22/5 – Lido – Berlin, Germany (Tickets)
23/5 – Bahnhof Ehrenfeld – Cologne, Germany (Tickets)
24/5 – Zoom – Frankfurt, Germany (Tickets)
25/5 – Karlstorbahnhof – Heidelberg, Germany (Tickets)
26/5 – Le Molodoï – Strasbourg, France (Tickets)
28/5 – La Maroquinerie – Paris, France (Tickets)
29/5 – La Péniche – Lille, France (Tickets)
30/5 – Dachstock – Bern Switzerland (Tickets)
31/5 – Härterei – Zürich, Switzerland (Tickets)
As time rolls by the uniqueness of a true rock spirit can silently fade but in the case of Danko Jones they have developed a stronger connection to the genre they love and breathe for. Today we’re releasing a collection of lost tracks for all their core fans, recorded in Toronto, New York and Washington DC between 1996 and 1998. Out in stores today and you can also listen to the album on Spotify and iTunes.
The band is currently writing their upcoming studio album and will take a short break from the pre-production work to play the Gröna Lund amusement park in Stockholm, Sweden on May 16th (cap 15,000). In addition to that the Canadian festival Rockin The Fields outside of Winnipeg is confirmed on Aug 3:rd and more Canadian festivals will be announced shortly. The band also just got a new Canadian home through New Damage Records who are set to release Garage Rock in Canada on April 8th.
“If a band continues past the gesticulation stage, the term ‘Garage Rock’ is usually rendered unusable. Back in the 90’s, the Garage Rock scene, as I knew it, was a warts-and-all approach that favoured low-fi recordings and rudimentary playing over any modicum of musical prowess in order to glean some Rock N’ Roll essence. However, once a band got better at their instruments, songwriting and stage performance, the inevitable crossroads would eventually appear.
Deliberately continuing to play against their growing skill would only evolve into a pose. There were a lot of bands who did exactly this in order to sustain scenester favour. We did the opposite.
What you hold in your hands is a document of what we were and where we came from. We didn’t know how to write songs and could barely play but we wanted to be near to the music we loved so badly. We ate, slept and drank this music. We still do. That’s why we have never had to reunite because we’ve never broken up. After 18 years, we’ve stayed the course, got tough when the going did and, above all else, we have never stopped. This album is the proof.”
– Danko Jones
