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NYHETER UKE 10 - 2010FORHÅND 26. APRILTHE RADIO DEPT.CLINGING TO A SCHEMELabradorLAB 105733223300105CDTracklist1. Domestic Scene2. Heaven’s On Fire3. This Time Around4. Never Follow Suit5. A Token Of Gratitude6. The Video Dept.7. Memory Loss8. David9. Four Months In The Shade10. You Stopped Making SenseThe long wait is finally over! The Radio Department’s ”Clining to a scheme” is without doubtthis year’s most eagerly anticipated Swedish indie pop album. It’s been four long years, buta simple press on Play and you’ll know it’s been worth every second. “Clinging to a scheme”combines the best components from their previous albums “Lesser matters” and “Pet grief”with soul guitars, P-funk, cut/paste-beats and 70’s futuristic orchestra. Breathtaking!The Radio Dept. arrived with their album “Lesser matters” in 2003 which is commonly referredto as the most important Swedish indie pop album of the 21st century. It was embraced bypress and fans all over the world. They had no less than two “Single of the week” in the NMEand it, not surprisingly, ended up Top10 on the NME’s “Album of the year”-list. In 2006 SophiaCoppola chose to feature three of their songs in the film Marie Antoinette that further helpedthem to achieve worldwide recognition and the same year the chart-topping and criticallyacclaimed album “Pet grief” was released. In the end of 2009 “Lesser matters” came to beone out two Swedish albums to appear on NMEs Greatest Albums of the Decade-list.“This album is a miniature classic - here’s hoping indie snobbery doesn’t condemn it to the mistsof time (The Top 100 Greatest Albums of the Decade)” NMEThe Radio Department’s releases have been referred to as The perfect mix between SaintEtienne and early The Jesus and Mary Chain and The best songs Pet Shop Boys neverwrote and the album you’d hoped My Bloody Valentine did after ”Loveless”. And perhapsboth comparisons makes sense. In a way. But the truth is that Sweden’s No. 1 alternativepop geniuses only sound like one band - themselves.The band will do a handful of gig in May this year and a longer tour is expected in the fall of2010.FORHÅND 26. APRILJESSE MALIN & THE ST. MARKS SOCIALLOVE IT TO LIFESideOneDummySD 1415 / SD 1415-10603967141528 / 0603967141511CD/LPTracklistBurning The BoweryAll The Way From MoscowDisco GhettoThe ArcherSt. Marks SunsetLowlife In A HighriseBurn The BridgeRevelationsBlack BoomboxLonely At HeartAfter three critically acclaimed solo records, dozens of world tours and TV appearances, Jesse Malin found himself back inNew York City questioning his next move. From his days fronting seminal hardcore trio Heart Attack and glam punks D Generation,then seven years on the road as a solo artist, Malin had cultivated a devout fan base. He’d shared stages with everyonefrom The White Stripes to Counting Crows, The Hold Steady to Lucinda Williams, but felt like he was losing the plot.Malin contemplated going back to school, becoming a standup comedian or a Las Vegas wedding DJ, and evenstarted work on a documentary film about DC hardcore Rastafarians The Bad Brains. For over a year he didn’t playor record. When asked by a Hollywood screenwriter to pen songs for a film about author J.D. Salinger, Malin — a fanof Catcher in the Rye and other Salinger works — traveled to Cornish, NH hoping to speak to the famous recluse.In typical punk-rock fashion, instead of getting the interview, Malin landed at the local precinct for trespassing andwas released only after the cops watched his video duet with Bruce Springsteen for “Broken Radio” on YouTubeand were convinced he was just a writer doing research. Though he never met Salinger (who passed away this pastJanuary), Malin made the most of the experience by writing “The Archer” and “Lonely at Heart”—two songs thatwould make him want to work again and become the basis for his new album.Over the summer of 2009, in the basement of Avenue A watering hole Hi-Fi, the songs came forth. Malin, withimpresario Don DiLego, drummer Randy Schrager, guitarist Matt Hogan, and bassist/DJ Tommy USA, worked withhis newly formed band to bash out an album’s worth of gritty anthems, and The St. Marks Social was born. A solidband, but one with an open door to Malin’s community of musician friends - longtime partner in crime Ryan Adams,pop singer Mandy Moore, fellow label mate Brian Fallon, and former bandmates from D Generation Howie Pyroand Danny Sage - the Social is a group effort to keep the P.M.A. Says Malin, “To me, rock ‘n’ roll is an exorcism thatbegins every night when the sun goes down, the music starts playing, and the spirits start flowing. It helps to saythings in public over dirty microphones. It’s a way to spit out the poison.”When Jesse met producer Ted Hutt (Lucero, Flogging Molly, The Gaslight Anthem) one drunken night at a local bar,their talk of making a record fast, loose, and raw, was the beginning of Hutt’s quest to create a record that wouldencompass Malin’s roots and evolution—from hardcore thrasher to punk/folk singer-songwriter. The album’s basictracks were laid in three days at Greenpoint, Brooklyn’s Mission Studios, and the rest at Sonic Youth’s Think TankStudios in Hoboken, NJ. Filled with the characters Malin does best—messengers and misanthropes, hipsters andhypocrites—and as always, his constant themes of redemption, nightlife, heartbreak, and survival, LOVE IT TOLIFE—a sentiment taken from a ticket stub Joe Strummer autographed for Jesse—was built with desperate optimismthat shouts in gang vocals that no matter how bad it gets, you’re never alone.Tuba Records AS - Karl Johansgt. 6 - 0154 Oslo - NorwayTlf: +47 2201 0000 Fax: +47 2201 0001 tuba@tubarec.com www.tubarec.comXVI