the knife

Listen to The Knife's Tomorrow, In a Year in its entirety here, or stream it below. You can also now purchase the album digitally here. mp3: ******

New 11-minute opus from the Knife, in collaboration with Mt. Sims and Planningtorock, taken from the studio version of "electro-opera" Tomorrow, In A Year, due out March 1: mp3: Read more about Tomorrow, In a Year here. ******

Fever Ray's Karin Dreijer Andersson contributed a haunted hour-long Halloween mix for the latest Resident Advisor podcast. Dreijer says of the mix:"I think the eclectic and wide range of music makes it more dynamic and more intense. The tracks affects each other, they get even more mean...

Video of '09 (SO FAR)? (directed by andreas nilsson // via pitchfork.tv) ************************

Fever Ray is the new "Emo / Psychedelic / Ambient" solo project from the Knife's Karin Dreijer. Not much info available at this point other than "new album out early 2009" (on the Knife's own Rabid Records), but a reader sent over a link to this foreboding preview track from the Fever Ray website...

Some of my favorite online destinations have been raving about a sultry new disco-pop group called Fan Death. While the jams on their myspace are all pretty consistently sexy, "Veronica's Veil" is the obvious "hit" (12" coming soon): a string-laden after-hours gem with an authentic retro-disco feel, the song sounds like the most spellbinding Italians Do It Better single o

Two young girls from Sweden who call themselves First Aid Kit -- Klara is 15, and Johanna is 17, and they've recently signed to the Knife's Rabid Records -- cover Fleet Foxes' "Tiger Mountain Peasant Song" in a Swedish forest. I'm generally not a big fan of covers, but at the risk of being banished from Blogville, I think I like this better than the original...