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I love to start mornings with some live performances giving a wild pulse to whole day and that's what I can say about new rock-explosion of Sweden - Treadstone.
Band has presented new album "A New Day Sun" few days ago and though first few singles have given us impression that Treadstone are going to be hardcore Foo Fighters followers through all of this album it has turned completely different giving us a 12-tracks pack of melodic alternative modern rock inspired by all possible directions of modern radio pop-rock. It's fresh, different and powerful in full height. I really recommend you to check it if American alternative rock is your music. Remember that Swedes know how to write melodies and it's brilliant example of it. Visiting studio of Nyhetsmorgon band has presented latest single "S.O.S" (that they rejected to send to MF-2011) and another album-track - beautiful rock-ballad "Seven seas".

Today we've got a whole bunch of schlager-related news I'm gonna share with you right now!
Everyone's and everything's updating styles closer to the biggest Swedish music tv-event of the year - Melodifestivalen and here are the brightest examples which we can't miss to mention - Dilba is looking gorgeous on new photos with big dark hair and red stylish jacket and Linda Bengtzing is coming back to her long hair with very fresh and young look like it wasn't 6 years since Linda has entered competition first time.

Site of Melodifestivalen also has change its look today and now you can watch there presentations of artists talking mostly about their families, favorite songs, dishes and what they are going to do when they'll win. Site has got its editor Elsa Billgren that you can look at here, page where you can ask Christer Björkman about everything here and you can even participate in contest to get tickets to the first semifinal of Melodifestivalen in Luleå sending answer to question what Danny, Dilba and Pernilla Andersson use to do in nature (not together dirty minds!) to melodifestivalen@svt.se
Also now we've finally got the title of Love Generation song and it's "Dance Alone" written by RedOne, Bilal "The Chef", Teddy Sky, AJ Junior, Jimmy Joker and BeatGeek. If these names (except RedOne) don't tell you anything it doesn't mean you didn'n hear songs written by them:

Impressive? No, it smells like world hit!!! And hopefully Sweden won't reject it.
You can also check running order in semifinals and I'll remind you that 1st, 6th and 8th places are considered as lucky ones. So Danny, Eric Saade and Love Generation look like biggest favorites to get their tickets to the final and by the way Carola, Charlotte Perrelli and Malena Ernman performed last in 4th semifinal so definitely SVT will make everything to provide Love Generation's victory and we don't mind at all!

And finally today we've known two artists who refused to participate this year, it's popular indie-artist Håkan Hellström who has released #1 album "2 steg från paradise" and 2 Top-10 hits in 2010. And another act is Treadstone - fresh rock-band that I told you about this Summer debuted with amazing single "Six Feet Under" and now before release of album "A New Day Sun" on January 19th they present single "S.O.S" that they were asked to participate with but refused. Here's new video for "S.O.S" - powerful Foo Fighters-smelling rock-song that we'll definitely be missing this year.

Effective energy kick for everyone who just woke up or extremely needs to be musically cheered up!
Treadstone, new Swedish rock-band, is ready for release debut album "A New Day Sun" already this September and the first sneak peek we've got is the first single "Six Feet Under".
Band was formed in 2007 and since that hardly worked on material inspired by 60's rock and some modern American rock-bands getting support of producer Peter Månsson (Darin, Neverstore, Markus Fagervall, Kevin Borg, Erik Grönwall, etc.) and were signed by big label Bonnier Amigo. In 2009 they've made some final touches on the album with band's friends Mats Levén (Yngwie Malmsteen, Therion, etc.), Eric Dubowsky (Weezer, Taylor Hawkins, etc.), Johan Carlsson (Carolina Liar) and started touring and prepare public for very close release of forthcoming album.
"Six Feet Under" is very dynamic powerful song with Foo Fighters' vibes, nice tune and whole bunch of energy highly recommending band as one of the last most interesting and promising rock-formations of Sweden.