We’ve written about UK’s Ting Tings before and we’ll do it again. Here’s a video from their Glastonbury performance + some interview bits. Enjoy!

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On September 25, our favourite Canadians, Stars will release their fourth studio album, “In Our Bedroom After The War“, on Arts & Crafts. The album was recorded at the Warehouse Studios in Vancouver, BC and was mixed by Joe Chiccarelli (Morrissey, The Shins, The White Stripes). Stars�will be touring North America and Europe throughout the fall. Are we excited? Yeeees!!

Here is a song from the upcoming album:”The Night Starts Here”:

Stars – The night starts here

What do you think? I am not 100% sure about it yet, – it sounds very much like the Stars I love so much, but it’s something about the sound and the repetitive arrangement that gives me a remix-feeling about it. Do you agree? Experience has so far shown me that Stars do not disappoint, so I am really, really looking forward to their new album.

The tracklisting of the new album will be:

It�s time to look back at the last week of the beautiful month of June, and some of the music posted on this music blog. Eardrums is entering the holiday mood and things are slowing down a bit, but we will keep the music coming. All summer long! Here are some of the best of this week at Eardrums.

The Embassy – It Never Entered My Mind (Read)

The Swims – We Need Lava (Read)

xoxo – panda – A Single Hand (Read)

Bedroom Eyes – Norwegian Pop (Read)

Dobbelmono – Someday (Read)

Lykke Li – Tonight (Read)

Littl ‘ans – Their Way (Read)

The Figurines – Hey, Girl (Read)

Hellsongs – Breaking The Law (Read)

The Field Mice – Missing The Moon (Read)

The Danish quartet The Figurines are set to release the follow up to their acclaimed 2006�full-length “Skeleton”, with “When The Deer Wore Blue” on September 11th. And you, you lucky bastard, have the opportunity to get a sneak preview here on Eardrums today!

The Figurines is energetic and fun music. This album finds Figurines exploring with greater depth their love of ’60s rock from both sides of the Atlantic, favoring the rich harmonies and infectious melodies of such acts as Love, Zombies and The Beach Boys.

Cathcy beats and�simple, yet nice lyrics. Listening to The Figurines you are�guaranteed to get in a great mood!

The Figurines – Hey, Girl

When I was younger, – very much younger, – I listened a lot to heavy metal-bands like Kiss, Judas Priest, Ozzy, Iron Maiden and several others. Today, I can’t stand metal at all, but I admit that listening to old Kiss and Iron Maiden-songs still gives me a kick, sort of… What gives me more of a kick these days, is LOUNGE METAL, and the only true performer of the genre that I know of is the Swedish trio Hellsongs. They totally re-interpret the old metal classics into soft, folky acoustic songs. The new versions have very little in common with the originals, but just enough for them to be recognized and embraced by metal-lovers. You don’t need to know the original versions to enjoy Hellsongs, – their versions are brilliant all by themselves.

I got an email from Kalle Karlsson a.k.a. “The Axemaster” in Hellsongs with some great news. The band has just released the first single from their upcoming and long awaited album “Hymns in the key of 666″, and the single is a really groovy, Primal Scream-y version of Megadeth‘s “Symphony of Destruction”, acoustic of course. The image above is the cover of their new single, and like the music, it shows the perfect combination of the sweet, flower-power hippie folk-roots and the tough metal-roots of the band.

Have a listen to the new single! Death to false Lounge Metal!
Hellsongs – Symphony of Destruction (Megadeth-cover)

I can’t resist including another one from Hellsongs’ Lounge-EP (which should be available all over Europe by now, – check iTunes):

Hellsongs – Breaking the law (Judas Priest cover)

BTW, – the vocalist of the Norwegian band Delaware, Richard Holmsen, does some really good cover-versions of old metal/grunge songs on his acoustic solo-gigs. I’ve heard him do a fantastic version of Twisted Sister‘s “We’re not gonna take it”, a cover of Kiss‘ “I was made for loving you” and “Heart shaped box”, I think, by Nirvana. Recommended!