King Crimson is working on the album The Power To Believe. It is slated for release in february 2003. The EP mentioned earlier in the weblog will precede it early october and is a taster of things to come. Besides that an archival double CD will be released called Ladies Of The Road with liverecordings from 1971/2. The second CD of the set will contain mainly guitar- and saxophone solo's from 21st Century Schizoid Man.
Killing Joke has reformed with Jaz Coleman, Geordie Walker, Paul Raven and Ted Parsons and are planning to record a new album. They hope to release it early 2003.
A reconstruction of the legendary unissued Beach Boys album Smile can be found here here. It's the holy grail among Beach Boys adepts.
You can listen to an interview (in Norwegian) with Gåte regarding their new album, released today in Norway at this internetspot. They also play, live and acoustic, a song of the album.
King Crimson's new EP Happy With What You Have To Be Happy With is set for release on October 8th. Discipline Global Mobile does not take pre-orders this time. So you have to wait.
Legendary band Suicide will relase their new album, American Supreme on October the 29th. A limited edition consisting of the album plus a live CD will also be available.
Jaga Jazzist will embark on a five weeks long european tour in october. The first show is scheduled around october the 10th in London.
...and speaking of Beyond Dawn: Be sure to check out their web site www.beyonddawn.com - which has just come online. It will also tell you that the album in fact has been named - so far, the title is "frysh".
Beyond Dawn have nearly finished mixing their as yet untitled new album, which will now be out in February 2003 through Peaceville Records.
The twenty fifth of November 2002 sees Warp Records re-release Boards of Canada's Twoism EP. Remastered and recut, this nine track mini album will be available on CD for the first time, seven years after it’s original, semi-mythical pressing on Boards of Canada's own label Music70. Their esoteric release, limited to an exclusive hundred copies on vinyl, made it a most sought after contemporary item, copies being known to change hands for 800 pounds on-line.
The flyer with more info about the Jester Records festival is available here.
The cover and a press release about the new Ulver album Lyckantropen Themes: Original Soundtrack For The Short Film By Steve Ericsson can be viewed here.
It's quite easy to order all possible The Gathering releases online. Just surf to the 4tune-shop, and order whatever you want. In a short time the band will add t-shirts and longsleeves.
Three snippets of Buckethead's new album Electric Tears available here.
The recording of both the Strapping Young Lad and Devin Townsend albums will begin on September 3 at the Armoury Studio in Vancouver. A February release is intended for both.
Finally the long awaited Deli Creeps download from the upcoming CD is available at TDRS Music. Deli Creeps is Buckethead's first band and features Maximum Bob on vocals and Pinchface on drums.
Forthcoming releases from Rune Grammofon: Food - Veggie (09.09.02), Maja Ratkje - Voice (21.10.02) and Supersilent - 6 (20.01.03). Available right now: Kim Hiorthøy - Melke CD, a collection of remixes, 7-inches, rare compilation tracks, etc. Dag-Are Haugan - 9 Solitaires LP, debut solo album from Alog member, vinyl only, ltd edition 500. Jaga Jazzist - Going Down 12", ltd edition (700 only), very few left.
Radiohead entered a studio in Los Angeles with producer Nigel Godrich to lay down songs for the new album. No title or release date has been settled yet.
Brave Yester Days - A Kompendium is going to be the title of a Katatonia rarities album. This disc will feature songs from the sold out EP's and various other leftovers. The album will be released in Europe by Avantgarde Music and in the US by Century Media.The band is also working on writing new material and doing pre-production for the next full-length album. The band hopes to start recording somewhere this autumn.
Buckethead will release a new album called Electric Tears pretty soon. Tentative releasedate is set on October 8th.
The monthly update of the not-to-be-missed electronic music magazine Absorb.org is here! Check it out.
Issue 058 of the Incursion music review website is now online.
Delikatessen Records will serve its next plate soon in the shape of 10" vinyl by Lilienthal called Anti-matter.
The legendary Japanese noise musician Masami Akita aka Merzbow will perform live in Toronto, Canada on the 20th of September. Check out the flyer here.