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Bobby Farrell
RoastingHouse Records
June 22nd, 2009
We are very proud to announce our new signing, legendary Bobby Farrell ! Welcome to our roster ! His coming single “Bamboo Song” (Wrethov/Deltinger) will be released soon in several parts of the world, more info soon.
2008 news
January 1st, 2009| December 12, 2008 - THREE (RoastingHouse Records/Dreamusic) Our beautiful and talented triplets THREE are climbing the radio charts in Japan with their version of LAST CHRISTMAS ! The most important radio station ZIP FM, have the girls on No 11 in the ZIP DANCE HITS 20 !!! |
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| December 12, 2008 - CLOUDSCAPE (Golden Core/RoastingHouse Records/Universal) Critically aclaimed 3rd album of CLOUDSCAPE “Global Drama” is nominated by SWEDISH METAL AWARDS for best Heavy/Power Metal album of the year ! The Award show will take place in Gothenburg on January 23, 2009 ! Be sure to go to the website to vote for your favorite Metal band CLOUDSCAPE !!! |
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| November 24, 2008 - ROASTINGHOUSE MUSIC Songwriter/producer Alexander Holmgren just returned from a songwriters camp in Tokyo. Alexander is also currently producing tracks and writing songs for the Japanese band WHITE JAM. The band’s first single “Bounce to the beat” was released Oct 30, 2008. |
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| September 19, 2008 - MOLE (RoastingHouse Records/Universal) Tomorrow is the release party of MOLE’s debut album “Ready to go” and the venue is STORAN in Gothenburg which is the home town of the band. The band will be playing live and lots of people invited, so good luck guys ! |
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| September 2, 2008 - RoastingHouse Music Anderz Wrethov and Erik Lidbom is actually competing for the best selling single of 2008 with ARASHI in Japan right now - Anderz with â€How to fly†on the â€One love†single and Erik with â€Smile” on the â€Truth†single. Both singles have past 460 000 copies in sales. May the best man win !!! |
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| July 18, 2008 - Anderz Wrethov (RoastingHouse Music) Once again a successful co-write from our writers, Anderz and Youth Case’s song “How to fly”, featured on the “One love” single was last week No 1 in the Japanese single charts with ARASHI (J-Storm). Anderz has just returned from a co-writing session in Japan where he spent one week writing with the latest top songwriters of Japan. He also spent a few days in a CH!IPZ writing camp this spring for the next coming album and did a great job, we will tell you the details as soon as we are allowed…  |
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| June 30, 2008 - RoastingHouse Records RoastingHouse Records, Malmo, Sweden just came back from a label signing ceremony in London. Shanghai Synergy Culture & Entertainment Group SSCEG led by Shanghai Municipal Committee of CPC and People’s government and a-Peer Management Holding Group LLC signed label deals with RoastingHouse Records and the German classical music company Unlimited Media Gmbh for China and Taiwan. The Legendary UK manager Peter Jenner widely known for managing Pink Floyd, and a long-time Chinese music industry advisor signed an international consultancy deal. Peter also received a lifetime long Chinese working permit, as a gift for his great achievements between east and west. - It’s absolutely fantastic to be part of this, the Chinese government â€opens†up in a broader way for western music. Of course there are some bureaucratic and political hindrance in the way for the development still to be resolved but every part agrees on to multitude western music in China. I’m extremely proud of being part of this front line collaboration, exiting! – Anders “Theo†Theander |
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| June 11, 2008 - Erik Lidbom (RoastingHouse Music) Erik continues with his successful cooperation with Japan’s best selling artist right now, KAT TUN “Queen of Pirates”. Erik has three songs songs on the album; “Affection” (Lidbom/Soba), “Distance” (Lidbom/Gin.K) and “Our story” (Lidbom/Yamamoto). Congratulations to No 1 in the album charts ! |
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| May 23, 2008 - MOLE (RoastingHouse Records/Universal) Congratulations to the # 10 position in the single charts in Sweden for “Say my name”, the first single from MOLE ! They sold out the famous STICKY FINGERs club in Sweden last week and head off to Liverpool to perform at the legendary The Cavern Club. This weekend they will do an acustic performace at the ROCKS store in Malmö to continue to promote their new single. |
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| May 20, 2008 - FAITHFUL DARKNESS (Golden Core/RoastingHouse/Universal) We are happy to announce we have our first Golden Core band in the sale charts of Sweden ! Faithful Darkness “In shadows lies Utopia” entered in the album charts at #41 and is actually the 4th best selling metal album in Sweden right now ! The band is also played on the most important national radio shows like P3 Rock and P3 Rockster. There’s an interview in Close-Up and the band is also featured on the Close-up MySpace-site as “Selected artists”. |
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| April 11, 2008 - ROASTINGHOUSE MUSIC We just finished a co-writing week with successful Japanese duo YOUTH CASE. These talented guys wrote the two latest singles of NEWS, a popular Japanese boy band released by Johnny Company. Due to our writers Anderz Wrethov, Alexander Holmgren and Erik Lidbom recent successes in Japan these guys came together and wrote several great songs for 4 productive days. |
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| April 1, 2008 - PAIN OF SALVATION (Insideout/Marquee-Avalon/Hellion Records) It’s now confirmed that PAIN OF SALVATION will perform at SWEDEN ROCK FESTIVAL on June 5, 2008 as well as several other festivals this summer. Please check out the PoS homepage for details. |
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| March 10, 2008 - ROASTINGHOUSE MUSIC On Wednesday, FRIDA will release her album “Hoppa Upp” (Warner Music) and the single “Upp och hoppa” (Anderz Wrethov/Sam Persson/Frida) will be featured but also additional RoastingHouse Music tracks like “Aj (aj, aj)” (Wrethov/Frida), “Frida’s sommarvisa” (Wrethov/Frida) and “Varför gräva ner sig” (Holmgren/Frida). Good luck at The Globe finals !!! |
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| February 25, 2008 - ROASTINGHOUSE MUSIC This weekend no one in Sweden could not have heard about the fantastic saga of FRIDA feat. HEADLINE (Warner Music) who got the “ticket directly to The Globe Arena” in MELODIFESTIVALEN 2008 with their song “Upp och Hoppa” (Anderz Wrethov/Sam Persson/Frida). It’s a fantastic achievement by Frida and Headline who the Swedish audience took to their hearts and voted for instead of established artists who is still very popular with the Swedish people. Congratulations for writing such a strong and irresistible song and good luck in the Globe Arena finals ! |
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| February 13, 2008 - Erik Lidbom (RoastingHouse Music) We are happy to announce that Erik Lidbom’s songs “Love” and “Message for you” (japanese titles) are featured on the new KAT-TUN single “Lips” (Johnny Co.)! KAT-TUN is one of Japan’s most successful artists and the expectations are huge. The single (3 versions) was released on February 6, 2008 and we just heard this morning that it’s No 1 in the single charts !!! Congratulations to Erik and Kat-Tun ! |
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2007 News
May 26th, 2007| December 3, 2007 - CAITLYN (RoastingHouse Records) CAITLYN is climbing the radio charts in Japan with their single “Scenes from a sunny dream”: a-STATION, OVERSEAS TOP 40 at No.16 FM Ishikawa, KANAZAWA TOP 100 at No.41 as well as several spins on most of the radiostations over there. |
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| October 29, 2007 - ROASTINGHOUSE MUSIC We are really happy to congratulate Anderz Wrethov to his song “Journey” featured on the No 1 album in Japan right now “BEST” with the artist TACKEY & TSUBASA ! |
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| October 17, 2007 - Anderz Wrethov (RoastingHouse Music) We congratulate Anderz and his co-writers Sam Persson and Frida Muranius for the song “Upp och hoppa” which is one of the 28 entries in Sweden’s biggest music event “Melodifestivalen” which is the national version of “Eurovision Song Contest”. |
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| October 15, 2007 - ANDROMEDA (RoastingHouse Records) Andromeda will do a tripple PROGPOWER ! The band is recording their coming album right now and have just been invited to PROGPOWER USA in 2008 ! So now they will do PROGPOWER SCANDINAVIA, then PROGPOWER UK and in October 2008 PROGPOWER USA ! - Nov 10, Progpower Scandinavia, Denmark Copenhagen |
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| October 10, 2007 - CAITLYN (RoastingHouse Records) CAITLYN just returned from a successful showcase in Tokyo, which actually was the RoastingHouse Records marketing presentation for Japan. Over 130 media people and VIP guests were invited and flown in for this special event. Managing Director Anders “Theo” Theander of RoastingHouse Records and Mr Mitsuo Takaku of Dreamusic held their speaches and a big screen showed our artist’s videos and greetings. The first release from our roster is CAITLYN “Brain vs Heart” on November 14, 2007. CAITLYN’s album was also released in Sweden October 1st so check out live dates on their website. |
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| October 2, 2007 - CARLITO (Dream Wave) CARLITO is leaving for Japan today to perform live in Osaka and Nagoya and do tons of promotion work… and CONGRATULATIONS to the No 1 position in the ZIP FM Dance chart !!! |
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| Aug 24, 2007 - CARLITO (Dream Wave) CARLITO IS BACK ! We are proud to announce the coming of Carlito’s second album titled “World Wild” where Carlito tells you fantastic stories about his world wide travels. His first single is “Russkij Pusskij” (A.Wrethov/E.Wrethov/Carlito) produced by his buddy Anderz Wrethov once again ! This time the album has also other various talented producers and songwriters such as Erik Lidbom, Johan Bejerholm & Salle, MÃ¥ns Ek, Johan Deltinger & Elin Wrethov again as well as Mattias Levén and Magnus Ã…gren ! Japanese release is set to September 26, 2007 and Carlito will go to Japan in October for promotion and to perform live ! |
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| Aug 21, 2007 - ROASTINGHOUSE RECORDS / EMERGENZA FESTIVAL Congratulations ! AND THE WINNER IS… FIRE FLIES FROM NEW YORK! After a season full of wonderful music, the festival has finally ended. With over 1500 concerts around the globe where over 6000 bands in 130 cities it came to the last 17 at the Taubertal Festival. Our representative, producer Pontus Lindmark, was over working in the jury and presenting the grand prize, album recording in RoastingHouse Studio 1. |
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| July 18, 2007 - ROASTINGHOUSE MUSIC Congratulations to songwriter/producer Erik Lidbom (Hitfire Productions) for his song “Wave” (E.Lidbom) on the popular japanese artist ARASHI’s album “Time”, which is currently No 1 in the japanese album charts !!!! |
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| June 25, 2007 - GÃœNTHER & The Sunshine Girls (Metronome/Warner Music) The man, myth and legend - Günther entered No 1 this week with “Teeny weeny string bikini” (Wrethov/Soderlund) on the farmost popular youth radiostation ZIP-FM in Japan today ! Congratulations ! |
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| May 24, 2007 - ROASTINGHOUSE MUSIC Songwriter/producer Alexander Holmgren’s song “Funky kickass song” was picked up by popular Japanese boyband SHONENTAI for their PLAYZONE performances. |
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| April 27, 2007 - CLARK (RoastingHouse Records) CLARK’s new album “Our best 2nd album” was released on April 16 here in Sweden and the band has performed their new material on MTV, TV4 and SVT already. The band will perform on several important festivals this summer and their new single “Yeah.Baby” will be shipped out next week to media along with the new video. Keep your eyes and ears open this summer ! |
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| April 4, 2007 - ROASTINGHOUSE RECORDS/UNIVERSAL MUSIC SWEDEN We are proud to have a new powerful distributor of RoastingHouse Records in Sweden as of April 1st, 2007. - “It’s a real pleasure to start working with Universal for Sweden since we have only heard great things about their sale team and strong leadership”, says MD Anders “Theo” Theander. We also thank Playground for doing a good job in 2006. |
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| March 26, 2007 - MON ROE (RoastingHouse Records) “Boys & Girls” will be featured in the WARNER BROS hit series VERONICA MARS in episode “Papa’s Cabin†#3T5815. Hope you catch it! |
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| February 23, 2007 - CAPTOR (RoastingHouse) The band CAPTOR have their song “Break it” featured in the THE-N TV NETWORK series SOUTH OF NOWHERE (Episode 205). A very popular drama series in the US. |
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| February 22, 2007 - PAIN OF SALVATION (Insideout/Marquee-Avalon/Hellion Records) Congratulations to re-entering the Swedish album charts at No 40 ! |
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| February 22, 2007 - GIRI (RoastingHouse Records/PGM/ZYX) Congratulations to re-entering the Swedish single charts at No 24 ! |
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| February 8 , 2007 - GIRI (RoastingHouse Records/PGM/ZYX) The latest single “Save Me” from GIRI went straight up to No 33 on the single charts in Sweden ! The single is also No 3 in the Tele 2 mobile ringtone charts ! The guys are still on signing tour around Sweden, so check them out ! 9/2 Nordstan, Göteborg [SE]
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| January 26, 2007 - PAIN OF SALVATION (Insideout/Marquee-Avalon/Hellion Records) PAIN OF SALVATION “Scarsick” went straight into No 6 in the Swedish album charts this week ! Congratulations guys ! |
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2006 News
May 26th, 2006| December 19, 2006 - PAIN OF SALVATION (Insideout/Marquee-Avalon/Hellion Records) The long awaited new album from the leaders of progressive music, in it’s true meaning, PAIN OF SALVATION “Scarsick” will hit the streets worldwide in January-February 2007 ! The band will also tour with a new band member on bass guitar and here are the dates: 21.01.2007 GR-Athens / Underworld |
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| December 19, 2006 - Carlito (Dream Wave) “Carlito (who’s that boy)” has been ranked No 5 on song of the year at ZIP FM ! The most important radiostation in Japan. Fiesta !!! |
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| December 4, 2006 - CLARK (RoastingHouse Records) These past few days CLARK performed a full show with their new material at KB in Malmö but also two “in-store” acustic shows in record shops to support their new single “Whatever”. It’s the first single from their coming album “Our best 2nd album” which will be released in the beginning of 2007. The single is part of a campaign together with CDON where you have a chance to win a trip to England as well as Samsung’s latest MP3 player. Please visit CDON.COM for more details or check out the flyer (in swedish only). |
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| November 28, 2006 - CLARK (RoastingHouse Records) Clark is back from China ! CLARK performed in front of about 40 000 people at the Tianhe Sports Complex which was broadcasted on national TV and in front of 3 000 people at the Sun Yat-sun Memorial Hall which was also broadcasted on national TV. The band did interview and acoustic live performance at two TV-shows for Guangzhou TV; the English channel and the Chinese channel. CLARK also performed live at THE OLIVE in Guangzhou, one private party and finally Guangzhou University in front of 500 people with amazing feedback. They also did an acoustic performance at the Guangzhou Audio & Video City in front of a panel of newspapers and TV at the Export Music Sweden booth.
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| November 9, 2006 - Carlito (Dream Wave) After the enormous success of CARLITO in Japan, the label will release a “complete collection” on Nov 15, with several treats for CARLITO fans. A new Christmas single and a packed CD with lots of re-mixes from Japan’s finest DJs/producers and videos and commercials…. A real gem for Carlito fans… |
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| September 14, 2006 - THE POODLES (Lionheart/BAM) Congratulations to THE POODLES for their gold single “Metal will stand tall” ! |
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| August 22, 2006 - Mon Roe (RoastingHouse Records) In May the guys in MON ROE did their first German tour and because of the instant success they will come back for yet another tour in conjunction with the release of their second single “Boys & Girls”. Check out the new dates here ! |
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| August 22, 2006 - Carlito (Dream Wave) Today good old CARLITO arrived in Tokyo again to promote his single “Go! Go! Carlito” which features 7 versions of the song from various famous Japanese re-mixers. It also includs a DVD of the awesome promotion video. He will spend to weeks over there and appear in several TV-shows and of course interviews in radio and printed press. There will also be about four live shows in cities like Tokyo, Fukuoka and Nagoya. |
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| August 17, 2006 - Emergenza Final The world wide band battle EMERGENZA final 2006 is now completed and the wining band is:“THE SESSIONS†from Vancouver - (CA).
2nd “The New Brand†from Copenhagen - (DK)
-”It was a very professional and well organized event and all of the bands where very pleased to be part of EMERGENZA 2006. Many of the bandleaders told me that they have learned a lot and gained experience that they didn’t have before about the music industry, taking part of EMERGENZA. To all you upcoming bands or others working in the music business I have to tell you to check this event out for 2007 ! It’s a win-win situation that you shouldn’t miss” – says Anders “Theo†Theander of Roastinghouse.
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| August 14, 2006 - Knikkedik & The Kids (RoastingHouse Records) We congratulate the whole Swedish athletic team during the European Championships in Gothenburg the past week. An incredible effort and we currently have a celebration song called “Carolina Klüft” by the artist Knikkedik available for download on CDON.COM. Check it out ! |
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| August 10, 2006 - Emergenza Final This weekend it’s time for the finals of the Emergenza on the Taubertal open Air Festival in Rothenburg (Germany) and as one of the main sponsors, MD Anders “Theo” Theander is travelling down there to be part of the jury. The winner will win an album production here at our studios as well as a fully sponsored promotional Tour in U.S.A. (c/o ERNIE BALL), winning a customized Music Man Guitar and a customized Music Man Bass. Good luck to you all ! |
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| August 7, 2006 - Carlito (Dream Wave) We are of course extremely happy to announce the enormous success for CARLITO in Japan with several chart positions, sales as well as radio/TV, as a result of the first promotion trip in July. CARLITO and his “crew” will return again for another two weeks in Aug-Sept for additional promotion. Selected radio charts “Go Go Carlito”: Sale charts, download “Go Go Carlito”: Ringtone “Go Go Carlito”: Album “Fiesta” (”Mexican hero”) sales:
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| June 15, 2006 - THE POODLES (Lionheart/BAM) Congratulations to THE POODLES and writers J.Samuelsson/J.Reingold for the No 2 in the single charts this week ! |
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| June 15, 2006 - LeGRAND (RoastingHouse Records/PGM/ZYX) LeGRAND made their way into the single charts this week as No 25 ! So if you like melancholic rock with fantastic songs, don’t miss out on their single “One quick look” !!! |
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| June 8, 2006 - THE POODLES (Lionheart/BAM) New single of The Poodles is……. “Metal will stand tall”(J.Samuelsson/J.Reingold) !!! check out this fantastic band on Sweden Rock Festival this weekend ! |
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| June 8, 2006 - ON PAROLE (Punk N Drunk/ZYX) We are really proud to introduce you to rock n rollers ON PAROLE with their debutalbum “Classic Noise” on the Punk n Drunk label coming out in August 2006 !!! Enjoy !!! Check out German tourdates to be announced soon… |
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| June 5, 2006 - CLOUDSCAPE (Metal Heaven Records/Nightmare Records) One of the first 4 bands to be announced on PROGPOWER UK show in Cheltenham in England on March 31st, 2007 is our very own CLOUDSCAPE ! |
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| May 18, 2006 - THE POODLES (Lionheart/BAM) We wish to congratulate The Poodles for their enormous success since the Melodifestivalen and also songwriters J.Samuelsson/J.Reingold for the titlesong of the album “Metal will stand tall” (RoastingHouse Music) which went straight into No 5 at the album charts of Sweden ! |
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| May 18, 2006 - GIRI (RoastingHouse Records/PGM/ZYX) The single “Do it” went straight into No 25 in the Swedish single charts this week. The band did a stunning show in Germany last friday together with MON ROE and SUGARPLUM FAIRY and went back to Sweden the day after for a show in Eksjö. Keep up the good work ! |
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| May 17, 2006 - MON ROE (RoastingHouse Records/PGM/ZYX) MON ROE is enjoying their first German tour which has turned out to a great success for the band and their single “Get Away” that today reached No 18 in the German Alternative Charts (DAT) ! Radio 1 and Motor , two very important German radio stations, have the single on high rotation. Congratulations guys ! |
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| May 9, 2006 - Chipz (Glam Slam/Universal) “Carnival” went straight in to No 28 in the German single charts this week ! |
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| April 7, 2006 - Chipz (Glam Slam/Universal) We just heard that “Carnival”(A.Wrethov/J.Deltinger/E.Wrethov) will be released as the 2nd single in Germany on April 28. Universal is determined to promote the single as THE SUMMER HIT OF 2006 !!! |
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| April 6, 2006 - MON ROE (RoastingHouse Records/PGM/ZYX) MON ROEs first single “Get Away” went straight in to the single charts in Sweden at No 27 !!! We are also proud to announce the German tour dates: 11. Mai Hamburg - Warehouse
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| April 5, 2006 - Chipz (Glam Slam/Universal) We are really happy to say that CHIPZ second album entered the charts at No 5 in Germany and is still in the Top 20 after 3 weeks ! Congratulations to our writers A.Wrethov/J.Deltinger/E.Wrethov !!! |
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| April 4, 2006 - MON ROE (RoastingHouse Records/PGM/ZYX) Mon Roe released their debut single “Get Away” last week and the band held an in-store show at ROCKS in Malmö which turned out great ! Great show and lots of people. |
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| April 3, 2006 - CLOUDSCAPE (Metal Heaven Records) We are happy to announce that CLOUDSCAPE will be performing at SWEDEN ROCK FESTIVAL this summer ! The coming album will also be released in connection with the festival. |
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| March 30, 2006 - PAX (RoastingHouse Records/PGM/ZYX) PAX entered the Swedish single charts at No 46 with their debut single “Why this had to be” !!! Other RoastingHouse related releses on the charts are CLARK “I don’t need you” on No 42 and GÃœNTHER “Like fire tonight” on No 35 and finally CHIPZ “Chipz in black” on No 37. |
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| March 16, 2006 - PAX (RoastingHouse Records/PGM/ZYX) The first reactions from German important media has been quite stunning ! ROCKHARD 8/10 |
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| March 14, 2005 - GÃœNTHER & The Sunshine Girls (Metronome/Warner Music) Tomorrow, the new single “Like fire tonight” that was featured on “Melodifestivalen 2006″ is released and the album “Pleasureman” will also be re-released but this time with some additional songs. |
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| March 9, 2006 - CLARK (RoastingHouse Records/Playground Music) We are extremely happy to announce that CLARK’s first single “I don’t need you” entered at No 6 in the Swedish official single charts this week ! Congratulations to the band ! The band will also be “tested” at the Swedish hit radioshow “Tracks” this saturday so please vote for the band if you want them to be featured on the show ! |
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| March 2 , 2006 - CLARK (RoastingHouse Records/Playground Music) Very welcome to an in-store show for RoastingHouse Records first release in Sweden. The band is CLARK and the single is “I don’t need you”. The band will perfom on March 4 an un-plugged set at 13.00, 14.00 and 15.00 at the ROCKS Record Shop in Malmö (Triangeln). |
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| February 13, 2006 - ROASTINGHOUSE RECORDS / CDON.COM We’ve become official partner for CDON.COM DEMO site which is, just as it sounds like, a site where bands and artists can send their demos which will be listened to and judged by all the partners and “the public” as well. If you’re interested, click on the logo and read all about it. |
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| February 13, 2006 - ROASTINGHOUSE RECORDS / RYKO DISTRIBUTION / LOCOMOTIVE MUSIC More label news: We were approached by Locomotive Music a while ago for distribution in USA and it all ended up with a label-license on our entire roster. It is a great set-up in the US where RYKO DISTRIBUTION is a well established and praised distribution company and Locomotive Music takes care of all promotion and coordination. Our first releases will be out in May 2006 ! |
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| January 31 , 2006 - PAX (RoastingHouse Records/PGM) We are happy to finally announce the releasedates of PAX. The single “Why this had to be” will be released in Sweden on March 20 and the album will follow on April 3, 2006. In Germany the album will be released on March 31, 2006. |
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| January 31 , 2006 - ROASTINGHOUSE RECORDS / PLAYGROUND MUSIC SCANDINAVIA In 2005 we proudly launched our label ROASTINGHOUSE RECORDS together with label holder ZYX MUSIC (Germany) distributed by ROUGH TRADE for Germany, Austria and Switzerland with several single and album releases in the pop, pop/rock genre with great feedback. We’ve received several proposals to expanding our territories, so the story continues… In February 2006, ROASTINGHOUSE RECORDS will have its first releases in Scandinavia distributed and promoted by PLAYGROUND MUSIC. -We are so exited to launch our own label in Scandinavia as well of course, and to do this with our good friends at Playground (just a block away from PG headoffice in Malmö) is such a privilige and we hope to have great success together in the near future”, says Anders “Theo” Theander. Not only Scandinavia is in the deal, so this is the ROASTINGHOUSE RECORDS distribution/licensing network through PLAYGROUND MUSIC: Scandinavia (Playground Music), Poland/Bulgaria (Magic Records/Universal Music), Ukraine (Odyssey Records), Russia/CIS (Soyuc/Dance Paradise), Greece/Cyprus (Sony BMG Greece), Australia/NZ/South Africa (Big Records, owned by the former MD of Jive Zomba). (Photo shows Thomas and Theo together with Playground label manager Martin Theander in the middle - and “no, Theo and Martin are not releated” ;-)…) First bands out in Sweden:
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| January 31, 2006 - EMIL SIGFRIDSSON (Mariann Grammofon) Swedish pop artist Emil sigfridsson (Fame Factory) finally releases his album “Antligen” with one of Anderz Wrethov’s productions called “Ingen dag” (Wrethov/Lundgren/Attlerud) co-published with Space Mace Music. The album entered at No 27 in the album charts last week. |
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| January 10, 2006 - GIRI (RoastingHouse Records) We are extremely proud to welcome pop/rock band Giri to our artist roster ! The first single is “Do it” from their stunning album ! More info will follow…. |
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2005 News
May 26th, 2005| December 20, 2005 - GÃœNTHER & The Sunshine Girls (Metronome/Warner Music) Not only will Günther & The Sunshine Girls appear on the biggest showevent in Sweden “Melodifestivalen” next year and perform the song “Like fire tonight” co-written and produced by Anderz Wrethov…. he also released a Christmas song last week (dec 14) simply called… “Christmas Song (Ding Dong)” also co-written and produced by Anderz Wrethov. The video is currently on the B-list rotation on Z-TV ! |
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| December 1 , 2005 - PAX (RoastingHouse Records) For those of you who’d like to se a great rock band live, you should go to Kino in Karlskrona (SE) where PAX is performing live as their releasedate is getting closer. The brothers will also perform “unplugged” in Karlskrona on dec 7 on a gala in benefit for the Tsunami victims. Their debut album “10 000 words” will be released around Feb 2006. More details later… |
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| October 27, 2005 - SMAXONE (Scarlet Records/Gencross Records) We are thrilled to say that SMAXONE is nominated in two categories on the DANISH METAL AWARDS 2005event on November 26 in Amager Copenhagen this year. “Best newcomer” SMAXONE and “Best producer” Casper Skafte. Let’s keep our fingers crossed for the guys ! |
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| October 17, 2005 - Patrycja Markowska (Universal) The young Polish artist Patrycja Markowska released her third album today featuring the titel song “Nie zatrzyma nikt”, which is her adaption of a song composed by our successful writers team A.Wrethov/J.Deltinger/E.Wrethov. Patrycja sings this song together with her father Grzegorz Markowski, the most famous rock artist in Poland. |
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| October 14, 2005 - RoastingHouse Records The releases on our own label RoastingHouse Records continues with last weeks release WONDERBOYS and todays release LEGRAND. Please visit their homepages and listen to their fantastic music and we are certainly proud to represent these great rock/pop bands. LEGRAND was formed in Motala in 1998 by two pairs of brothers and a bass player. Anders needed an education in the very south of Sweden so the band members decided to follow to keep their beloved band running. The rumour started spreading about a good band rehearsing at Kajplats 305 and one of the band’s demos came into the hands of RoastingHouse and after watching a live show with the band the plans for their debut album was set. It’s a brilliant album with a lot of melancholic poprock, energy and hitsongs. They guys have an incredible stage presence because of their numerous gigs on small clubs to big festivals. Video available for “One quick look”. WONDERBOYS is the new band of Per Davidsson, former member of successful duo The Trampolines that was extremely popular in Japan a few years ago and sold hundreds of thousands albums and toured extensively over there. On this album Per explores his roots in American rock but still keep a firm grip of the wonderful catchy melodies of Swedish songwriting. Guitarist and long time friend Pelle Jerneryd co-produced with Per and helped creating the wonderful atmosphere of this debut album. Video available for the title track “Stronger than you”. |
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| October 13, 2005 - Melodifestivalen/RoastingHouse Music We’re very happy to announce that the song “Like fire tonight”, co-written by Anderz Wrethov, got selected to participate in Sweden’s absolute biggest TV music event “MELODIFESTIVALEN” (SVT), which is the national version of EUROVISION SONG CONTEST. Congratultions to writers Anderz Wrethov and Mats Söderlund, we wish you the best of luck at the festival. |
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| October 12, 2005 - Emergenza Festival/RoastingHouse Roastinghouse are proud to be a part of Emergenza European and North American Live Festival as an main sponsor. – This is one of the greatest events for unsigned and upcoming bands to be part of. Emergenza doesn’t only provide live concerts, they provide a “how it works and what it takes†with their initiative and “know-how” with this festival. Emergenza is also a perfect forum for independent companies and A&R’s to be able to check out so many bands at one place, says “MD/Producer†Anders “Theo†Theander. More information will follow soon. |
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| October 11, 2005 - Carlito (Egmont/Dance Paradise/ZYX Music) CARLITO will perform on the NICKELODEON/MTV event “Kids choice awards” on October 31st. The event is broadcasted by NICKELODEON/MTV as well as TV4 here in Sweden. |
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| October 10, 2005 - RoastingHouse Records RoastingHouse Records started a collaboration with Heartbreak Nightclub in Malmö Sweden. All bands in our labels roster will perform every second friday starting this friday 14th, 2005. First band out is MON ROE !!!!! Fri 14 october MON ROE |
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| October 6, 2005 - Carlito (Egmont/Dance Paradise/ZYX Music) CARLITO’s new single “Poco Loco”, released last week, went straight into the TOP 20 single charts in Sweden today !!! |
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| September 20, 2005 - COSMIC BALLROOM (RoastingHouse Records)
“DRUG OF CHOICE” - Tour 2005 Tour presented by FFM Rock / Radio Melodic / Laut.de / Scarred For Life / Sellfish / Walls Of Fire / Whiskey Soda |
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| September 8, 2005 - Carlito (Egmont/Dance Paradise/ZYX Music) CARLITO has now signed an exclusive deal with prestigious booking agency MAR Y SOL MUSIC for the territory of Germany/Austria/Switzerland. |
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| September 8, 2005 - Carlito (Egmont/Dance Paradise/ZYX Music) CARLITO’s single “Who’s that boy”will be featured on Russian mega-compilation “Turbo Music-9″, release 30 September. |
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| September 7, 2005 - Chipz (Glam Slam/Universal) The single is No 1 in it’s third week and now it’s also No 1 in the TOP 40 CHARTS which is sales and airplay combined !!! |
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| September 5, 2005 - Carlito (Egmont/Dance Paradise/ZYX Music) CARLITO is busy with the video shooting of his coming 2nd single “Poco Loco” from the amazing album. Director is Rainer Holmgren and it will be completed around Sept 10.
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| September 5, 2005 - STUDIO 1 Anders “Theo†Theander and Pontus Lindmark has started with the mix of the famous christian hard rock band NARNIA. The album is schedule to be finished in October. Release date is still not set but keep yourself updated by visiting their homepage. CLARK is entering studio 1 today to record their second album. Producer Anders “Theo†Theander says – “This will be an album that the world couldn’t be without cause it has some of the best songs I’ve ever heard.” |
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| September 5, 2005 - ALLEN / LANDE (Frontiers Records) The fabulous project featuring the two monster Hard Rock vocalists RUSSELL ALLEN of SYMPHONY X and JORN LANDE of MASTERPLAN and the guitar wizard and songwriter MAGNUS KARLSSON of LAST TRIBE and producer ANDERS “THEO†THEANDER “The Battle†is getting an amazing response from the critic! The album is mixed and mastered by Anders “Theo†Theander at Roastinghouse Recording Studio AB. Some reviews include:
BURRN! 84/100
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| August 29, 2005 - Chipz (Glam Slam/Universal) Still No 1 this week as well !!! |
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| August 23, 2005 - Chipz (Glam Slam/Universal) We are extremely glad and proud to announce that Chipz single “Carnival” is No 1 in their home territory The Netherlands this week !!! We congratulate our fantastic writers A.Wrethov/J.Deltinger/E.Wrethov ! |
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| August 23 , 2005- Pain of Salvation (Insideout Music/Marquee/Hellion) LIVE DATES of the second leg of the tour; Aug 20 – Crescendo (free festival), Saint-Palais-sur-Mer, France |
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| August 18, 2005 - CLARK (RoastingHouse Records) CLARK is getting promoted in Austria with Don Gil, an austrian fashionwear chain. They have an own magazine (circulation of 90.000 ex) where CLARK will appear and where some CDs will be raffled. They will get a number of CDs for their listening stations in the shops (over 30 shops in Austria) that means that in the store the clients will hear CLARK for sure ! It is now official that the CLARK line-up is changed. We welcome Oskar Humlebo on bass to the band and wish Peter (ex bass) and Olof (ex keys) good luck in their career. Click cover to he right to check out their new website. |
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| August 18, 2005 - Carlito (Egmont/Dance Paradise/ZYX Music) It is now fully confirmed that SONERA/ZED will do a massive ringtone campaign for “Carlito (who’s that boy)” for it’s German release !!! |
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| August 18, 2005 - GÃœNTHER & The Sunshine Girls (Metronome/Warner Music) Günther’s new single “Tutti Frutti Summerlove”, set for release on Aug 31, is No 1 on Z-TV charts ! Produced and co-written by Anderz Wrethov. |
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| August 10, 2005 - HELENA PAPARIZOU Yesterday evening we had Eurovision Song Contest winner HELENA PAPARIZOU in the studio rehearsing with her band for the performance supporting ANASTACIA at Mölleplatsen in Malmö this evening. |
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| August 1, 2005 - CLARK (RoastingHouse Records) We are happy to inform that CLARKs debut album “Two of a kind” is released today in Germany/Austria/Switzerland through RoughTrade Distribution and the feedback from media has so far been very good. It’s also now official that the album will be promoted in The Netherlands/Belgium/Luxemburg and a release will follow sometime in September. All releases are marketed through Zyx Music. |
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| August 1, 2005 - Chipz (Glam Slam/Universal) Chipz coming single, in their home territory The Netherlands, is “Carnival” (A.Wrethov/J.Deltinger/E.Wrethov) and it’s finally scheduled for release on August 12. It has a huge campaign supporting the single on Jetix (fka Fox kids), there will also be a Big campaign with teen magazine Tina as well as Tros Radio !!! |
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| July 7, 2005 - SMAXONE (Scarlet Records/Gencross Records) The song “Waiting”(Skafte) is featured on the extreme sport DVD released by worldfamous clothingcompany OXBOW. Their debut album “Regression” will be released in Asia by GENCROSS on July 27 and rest of the world by SCARLET RECORDS on August 22. |
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| July 6, 2005 - Miracle Kids (Cloud9 Music) The song “ABRACADABRA†by MIRACLE KIDZ is compiled on the soundtrack ZOOP IN AFRIKA. A kids movie to be released 14th of july. Zoop is a dayly tv-episode on Nickelodeon with over a million viewers a week and are so popular that the 2 main characters have their own statue in Madam Tussaud in Amsterdam. The soundtrack is a compilation with all kids-hits. “Abracadabra” (A.Wrethov / E.Wrethov / J.Deltiner) is produced by Anderz Wrethov. |
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| June 28, 2005 - Carlito (Egmont/Dance Paradise) We are happy to inform you that CARLITO came in to the single charts at No 17 this week ! He’s single is No 1 on RADIO CITY 107 playlist ! He also released the fantastic “Carlito (who’s that boy)”-video and is featured at NICKELODEON TV as HIT-PICK of the week ! |
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| June 21, 2005 - Chipz (Glam Slam/Universal) Chips debutalbum entered the German, as well as Austrian, sale charts at No 9 !!! |
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| June 20, 2005 - Andromeda The band will perform at ROCKISTANBUL on June 22nd together with bands such as Megadeath, Garabage and Kraftwerk ! |
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| May 27, 2005 - Carlito (Egmont/Dance Paradise) We are extremely proud to present the new Mexican popsensation CARLITO to the world !!! In 1998, he came from nowhere to the scene telling incredible stories in his popsongs and he became a massive hit in Scandinavia, Europe and Asia and sold around a million albums and toured for three years straight !Now he’s back with a new single produced by Anderz Wrethov called “CARLITO (who’s that boy)” !!! His first performance with the new single will be at Liseberg in Gothenburg (OKEJ Dagen) around 19:30 TONIGHT !!! |
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| May 11, 2005 - Lucas Wägbo (Wägbo) Producer Pontus Lindmark completed the debut album of Lucas Wägbo a while ago and they held the releaseparty in Olofström at First Hotel and the band played live. The album was produced by Lindmark/Wägbo. |
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| May 11, 2005 - Chipz (Glam Slam/Universal) Chips new single in Germany “Cowboy” entered the German single charts at No 1 !!! It’s also No 1 in Austria and No 4 in Switzerland… The album will be released at the end of May and features one of our songs called “4 who U R” (A.Wrethov/E.Wrethov). |
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| April 28, 2005 - Princess Rock We welcome Malmö based pop/rock band Princess Rock to our roster ! Their self titled debut album is produced by Pontus Lindmark and will be released on our own label in G/A/S, but is available for other territories interested. |
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| April 25, 2005 - Chipz (Glam Slam/Universal) Chips new album “The world of Chipz” has just sold PLATINUM (over 80 0000) in The Netherlands and, as told before, our songwriters A.Wrethov/J.Deltinger/E.Wrethov has two songs featured on the album, “Happy Song” and the coming single (!!!) “Carnival” due to be released in May. |
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| April 18, 2005- Pain of Salvation (Insideout Music/Marquee/Hellion) LIVE DATES of the first leg of the European tour; April 19 Germany Essen Zeche Carl Second leg of the tour will be in Sept-Oct 2005 so stay tuned… |
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| April 18, 2005 - KARLSSON/LANDE/ALLEN (Frontiers Records) This week Anders “Theo” Theander will finish the long awaited mix of the album featuring Magnus Karlsson (Last Tribe, Starbreaker), Jorn Lande (Masterplan) and Russel Allen (Symphony X). Magnus is the guitarist and songwriter with Jorn and Russel on vocals/duet’s. The album will be released by Frontiers Records so please visit their website for further information. |
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| April 12, 2005 - SMAXONE (Scarlet Records) It’s now official that Smaxone is signed to Scarlet Records in Italy for the world except Asia. The release is scheduled for June 2005. Further details will follow….. |
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| April 11, 2005 - Chipz (Glam Slam/Universal) Chips new album “The world of Chipz” is currently No 4 in the Dutch album charts and our songwriters A.Wrethov/J.Deltinger/E.Wrethov has two songs featured on the album, “Happy Song” and the coming single (!!!) “Carnival” due to be released in May. |
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| April 11, 2005 - Arash (Warner Music Sweden) Arash is having huge success with his self-titled album outside of Scandinavia as well. His album is currently international No 1 in Russia and in Czech Rebublic ! Anderz Wrethov co-wrote and produced the song “Behnaz” (Wrethov/Arash/Stentorp) featured on the album. |
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| April 4, 2005 - RoastingHouse Records We are proud to announce the first release dates of our brand new label RoastingHouse Records, distributed in Germany/Austria/Switzerland by Rough Trade, marketed by ZYX Music. 2005-05-17 COSMIC BALLROOM ”Your drug of choice” |
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| April 4, 2005 - The Mobile Mob Freakshow (Punk n Drunk) Swedens infamous horrorpunk rockers TMMFS is heading off for a summer tour and here are the first confirmed dates: 29/4 Hårdrock Skåne, Malmö, Sweden
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| March 15, 2005 - Emergenza Festival SkÃ¥ne Emergenza Festival SkÃ¥ne och Roastinghouse Recording Studio AB i samarbete!-”Roastinghouse Recording Studio har gjort sig kända för att arbeta hÃ¥rt för “up & coming” band, därför känns samarbetet mellan Emergenza Festival SkÃ¥ne och Roastinghouse självklar” säger Björn Homdén (Emergenza Festival SkÃ¥ne). Som ett första led i detta samarbete öppnar Roastinghouse Recording Studio sina dörrar för det band som tar hem finalplatsen i den skÃ¥nska uttagningen av Emergenza Festivalen pÃ¥ KB den 28 maj”.
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| March 14, 2005 - Cloudscape (Marquee/Metal Heaven/Progman Records) We are proud to announce that CLOUDSCAPE will perform at the prestigeous PROGPOWER FESTIVAL in Baarlo, Netherlands on October 2nd 2005. It’s a pleasure to reveal that the album will also be released in USA by Progman Records on March 28, 2005 ! |
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| March 4, 2005 - Timeless Miracle (Massacre Records/Marquee/Avalon) It is now official that metallers Timeless Miracle is signed to Massacre Records for Europe, Canada, Australia and New Zealand. They also got signed to Marquee/Avalon for the territory of Japan and South East Asia. The album will be released on Marquee/Avalon on June 22nd and on Massacre Records on June 27th. |
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| March 2, 2005 - Wonderboys (RoastingHouse Records/ZYX Music) We welcome Wonderboys to our roster and at the same time are proud to introduce our first signing to RoastingHouse Records, our label on ZYX Music in Germany. Wonderboys is the new band of Per Davidsson, former member of successful duo The Trampolines that was extremely succesful in Japan a few years ago and sold hundreds of thousands albums and toured extensively over there. On this album Per explores his roots in American rock but still keep a firm grip of the wonderful catchy melodies of Swedish songwriting. Guitarrist and long time friend Pelle Jerneryd co-produced with Per and helped creating the wonderful atmosphere of this debut album. |
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| February 15 , 2005 - RoastingHouse & ZYX Music Theo had a little surprise afternoon toast, to celebrate the “kick-off” of the RoastingHouse Records label, with the crew…;-) From left to right: Johan Deltinger (songwriter), Sam Persson (artwork), Anders “Theo” Theander (MD/Producer), Anderz Wrethov (songwriter/producer), Thomas Wallén (A&R), Pontus Lindmark (Producer) |
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| February 10, 2005- Arash (Warner Music Sweden) Anderz Wrethov has just completed the mix of a song with successful Swedish artist ARASH who’s singing in Persian language. The song “Behnaz” is produced by Anderz and written by Wrethov / Stentorp / Arash. The first single “Boro Boro” went No 1 in the single charts in Sweden and is starting to do well in other territories as well. |
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| February 4, 2005- Pain of Salvation (Insideout Music/Marquee/Hellion) The DVD of the fantastic “BE” shows in Eskilstuna-Sweden is set to be released March 21st. The demand and feedback for Pain of Salvation was even larger than we expected and the band were forced to make two legs of their European tour. That means the first leg will be taking place between the 13th of April and the 7th of May, and the second leg will be taking place between the 24th of June and the 11th of July. On their website, you can find the fully confirmed shows. Merchandise, albums and the coming DVD will be available during these tours. |
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| February 1, 2005 - Mon Roe We are proud to welcome sensational Swedish rock band MON ROE to our roster ! We will start the recordings of their debut album during this spring. |
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| January 31, 2005 - RoastingHouse & ZYX Music It is with great pleasure and pride that we announce our collaboration with ZYX MUSIC in Germany as of MIDEM 2005. -”We’ve known each other for years and it was a pleasure to accept their proposal of opening a label for an important territory as Germany, Austria and Switzerland” says Anders “Theo” Theander (MD). -”We will simply call the label RoastingHouse Records since Roastinghouse is known for it’s quality bands and top notch productions”, says Gregor Minnig, Head of A&R atZYX Music. The first releases will hit the streets in late April 2005. |
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| January 31, 2005 - New photos ! Check out new photos from Cloudscape release party and midem 2005 ! |
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| January 5 , 2005 - Cloudscape (Marquee/Metal Heaven) The band’s debut album has gained a lot of good feedback from the media, here are a few; Jester´s - 11/15 (Ger)
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