Great news, Danko Jones will be a part of the maiden voyage of Motörhead’s Motörboat, The Loudest Boat In The Wörld! They will set sail on September 22nd 2014 and cruise until the 26th on the spectacular Carnival Ecstasy, from Miami to Key West and Cozumel, Mexico! The Motörboat lineup includes Motörhead, Megadeth, Anthrax, Zakk Wylde, Fireball Ministry, Jim Breuer and more!
Tickets go on-sale Tuesday, March 18th at 12:00pm-ET! Visit www.motorheadcruise.com for all the details!
We’re super happy to announce that Josefin Hafen has joined the Bad Taste team. She was previously positioned as digital account manager at Universal Music. Along with Johan Nordqvist and Jose Saxlund she will be based at the Stockholm office. You can reach her at hafen@obamanagement.com
We can now proudly announce that the American punk legends in NOFX are coming to Scandinavia in May for four club gigs. For the first time in 10 years they are doing exclusive club gigs after only have been seen on the scandinavian festival stages in the last decade.
NOFX who are well known for their raw and straight forward music often criticising the american republican government have with their energetic stage performances taken on the world over and over again. After 28 years together they have covered everything from gold records, reality TV shows and tours all over the world.
May 7th – Lund, Mejeriet (Tickets)
May 9th – Göteborg, Trädgår’n (Tickets)
May 10th – Oslo, Sentrum Scene (Tickets)
May 11th – Stockholm, Lilla Arenan (Tickets)
Check out more info on www.badtasteevents.com
Today Flow Festival in Helsinki added Joey Bada$$ and Action Bronson to their lineup. The festival is taking place on the 8th – 10th of August and the tickets went up for sale today, get your ticket here.
We’re pleased to announce that Deacon The Villain, Natti and Kno – collectively known as CunninLynguists – finally will be returning to Europe this spring!
They will be doing so in support of Strange Journey Volume Three, the first ever truly crowd-sourced album. After spending a year interacting with fans via social media and allowing them to vote on guest artists, suggest song concepts, letting them peek in on studio sessions and make decisions on album artwork, the result will finally be released on April 1st via Bad Taste Records.
The album will feature fan-selected artists such as Murs, Del The Funky Homosapien, Aesop Rock, Grieves, Celph Titled, Tonedeff and more and a first sample, In The City featuring Zumbi of Zion I, can be heard here: https://soundcloud.com/cunninlynguists
Joining them on the tour are Sadistik (starting in Finland) and Thomax with Norway, Sweden, Finland, Denmark, Germany, France and Switzerland all included on the itinerary.
Full list of dates below:
May 7th – Bergen, Hulen (Tickets)
May 8th – Trondheim, Blaest (Tickets)
May 9th – Bodo, Sinus (Tickets)
May 10th – Oslo, Parkteatret (Tickets)
May 11th – Helsinki, Kuudes Linja (Tickets)
May 14th – Stockholm, Nalen (Tickets)
May 16th – Malmo, KB (Tickets)
May 17th – Copenhagen, Pumpehuset (Tickets)
May 18th – Aarhus, Atlas (Tickets)
May 20th – Hamburg, Ubel & Gefaehrlich (Tickets)
May 22nd – Berlin, Lido (Tickets)
May 23rd – Cologne, Bahnhof Ehrenfeld (Tickets)
May 24th – Frankfurt, Zoom (Tickets)
May 25th – Heidelberg, Karlstorbahnhof (Tickets)
May 28th – Paris, Le Maroquinerie (Tickets)
May 29th – Lille, La Péniche (Tickets)
May 30th – Bern, Dachstock (Tickets)
May 31st – Zürich, Härterei (Tickets)
Trash metal guitarist and legend Marty Friedman has confirmed the track list for his upcoming solo album “Inferno” and among the final list you find no less than two tracks with vocal guest appearances by Danko Jones. The album is due out in late May 2014 worldwide and will be Friedmans most thrilling and adventures effort to date.
Äntligen kan vi meddela att det blir en tredje säsong av Tomas Andersson Wij pratar med. Tomas sätter sig ner med kulturpersonligheter från Svenskt rampljus på Teater Brunnsgatan Fyra där han redan satt sin prägel med två tidigare säsonger. Inför en livepublik för han djupare samtal med utvalda gäster och inför den nya säsongspremiären möter han upp med Sebbe Staxx från Kartellen. Kolla in vårens gäster och köp dina biljetter här!
Last night was the yearly Kingsize gala in Stockholm, Sweden celebrating HipHop, Soul, R&B and it’s surrounding culture. We’re happy that three of our artists together claimed 4 prices at the event. Timbuktu won best live of the year as well as the Kingsize artist price for his work against racism. Bad Taste Events artists A$AP Rocky won best international album for “Long. Live. ASAP” and Macklemore & Ryan Lewis won best international music video for the track “Can’t Hold Us”
It is with great joy we can announce that Grieves is coming back to Scandinavia for a bunch of shows at the end of april this year.
In the past few years he has built up a reputation of being one of the best performers within the indenpendet hiphop scene and with his past album “Together/Apart” released in 2011 through Rhymesayers he finally made a break through in the European market. With previous shows at Roskilde, Peace & Love and Malmöfestivalen he is now stepping in to the club scene with his first headline tour in Scandinavia, playing in Århus, Copenhagen, Oslo and Stockholm.
On March 25th his new album “Winter & The Wolves” will be released, but you can already get a sneak peak of his single “Shreds” on Soundcloud here: https://soundcloud.com/rhymesayers/grieves-shreds or via Spotify here: http://open.spotify.com/track/0Y69GGIsaslupJZSFaNhH1
