5 May 2008
FOSCA TV

A video featuring Fosca playing an acoustic version of It Only Matters To Those to Whom It Matters, recorded by PSL-TV, is now online. Watch it here:

http://blogg.svt.se/psl/2008/05/02/musik-med-fosca/

28 April 2008
FOSCA RELEASED IN THE U.K.

Today sees the U.K. release of The Painted Side of the Rocket by Fosca! The album is distributed in Great Britain by Forte.

In other, related news, more and more people are discovering the brilliance of the latest Fosca album, for example:
Kiss Me, I've Quit Smoking
Terapija.net

10 April 2008
TOUR ACCOUNTS

Thank you Swedes for being wonderful on the Fosca/Friday Bridge tour a couple of weeks ago! Read a review of one of the gigs Read Dickon of Fosca's account of the tour: Here, here and here Read Rachel of Fosca's account of the tour here

19 March 2008
FOSCA AND FRIDAY BRIDGE TOUR REMINDER

To the tour plan, a Fosca instore gig in Blenda, Gothenburg has been added! Times are for doors opening, except at Blenda where it's the show time.

Mar 26 2008, 7 PM
Landet, Stockholm

Mar 27 2008, 9 PM
Arena, Karlstad

Mar 28 2008, 10 PM
Blekingska Nationen, Lund

Mar 29 2008, 3 PM
Blenda recordstore, Gothenburg

Mar 29 2008, 10 PM
On Our Honeymoon, Stars’n’Bars, Göteborg


19 March 2008
WONDERFUL, TRIUMPHANT, DEVILISHLY GOOD... FOSCA!

The Painted Side of the Rocket, the latest offering from Fosca, has received quite some praise from the Swedish press!

Some examples:
"A triumph in all possible aspects"
8/10
Sonic Magazine

"Fantastic Fosca!"
5/6
Nöjesguiden

"Devilishly good!"
Panda Magazine

"Full of clever observations"
3/5
VF

Order this brilliant album yourself today from one of these vendors:

Download album:
Buy from iTunes Store
Buy from Klicktrack

Order CD:
Buy from CDON. COM, Europe
Buy from CDON. SE, Sweden
Buy from Entangled Records
Buy from Smash Hits Production
Buy from But is it Art?

5 March 2008
THE NEW FOSCA ALBUM OUT TODAY

Today, The Painted Side of the Rocket by Fosca is released! Buy it here:

DIGITAL DOWNLOAD
Buy from iTunes Store
Buy from Klicktrack

BUY CD
Buy from CDON.COM, Europe
Buy from CDON.SE, Sweden
Buy from Entangled Records
Buy from Smash Hits Production
Buy from But is it Art?

MP3 from the album - 'Confused And Proud' found here

21 February 2008
THE NEW HIGHER ELEVATIONS ALBUM OUT TODAY

Today, The Protestant Work Ethic by The Higher Elevations is released! Buy it here:

DIGITAL DOWNLOAD
Buy from iTunes Store
Buy from eMusic
Buy from Klicktrack

BUY CD/LP - RELEASED BY TIME FOR ACTION
Buy from Time for Action
Buy from Soundflat (CD)
Buy from Soundflat (LP)

MP3 from the album - 'Breaking The News' found here

12 February 2008
PRE-ORDER THE NEW FOSCA ALBUM

Now you can pre-order the new Fosca album, The Painted Side of the Rocket. Don't miss your chance of obtaining The Portable Dickon Edwards together with your CD - a collection of Dickon Edwards's lyrics and other writings in book form, only available with 100 copies of the album!

Pre-order/more info
Download free MP3 of Confused and Proud

29th January 2008
BREAKING THE NEWS

On the 21st February Time for Action will release The Higher Elevations' second album The Protestant Work Ethic on CD and LP. But is it Art? will release the album as a digital download via iTunes. Already, you can download a track for free:

Breaking The News (MP3)

14th January 2008
FOSCA/FRIDAY BRIDGE TOUR

In connection with the 5th March release of Fosca's third studio album, entitled The Painted Side of the Rocket, Fosca will do a smaller Swedish tour together with label mates Friday Bridge. Tour dates are as follows (click on the links for more info):

26.3 Landet, Stockholm
27.3 Arena, Karlstad
28.3 Blekingska, Lund
29.3 On Our Honeymoon, Gothenburg

18th December 2007
GOD REST YE MERRY GENTLEMEN!

It has been a brilliant year for But is it Art? records, for Friday Bridge, for Fosca and for a lot of related projects. Next up is the digital release of the new Higher Elevations album 'The Protestant Work Ethic' (CD/LP available from Time For Action records). Garage pop at its finest. And then it's time for the third proper Fosca studio album. Next year will also see Friday Bridge touring in Europe and USA. And Fosca returning to Sweden for a brief stint of dates during March...

Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year!

Yours truly,
But is it Art?

17th December 2007
CHRISTMAS...
Christmas anyway... anyway... anyway... There's a new Friday Bridge remix by Dutch Rubbah. Download it for free here.

3rd December 2007
FRIDAY BRIDGE P3 GULD NOMINEES
Friday Bridge are nominated for Swedish national radio music prize P3 Guld, in the Pop of the Year category! The winners will be announced on 18th January 2008.

28th November 2007
FOSCA IN CONCERT: FREE DOWNLOAD
The Fosca in Concert album is now released for free, digital download. Download it from here.

12th November 2007
BUT IS IT ART? ARTISTS SPEAK
More But is it Art? artist interviews: a Dickon Edwards (from Fosca) interview on Digfi and a Friday Bridge interview on Djungeltrumman.

10th November 2007
LAST CHANCE: PRE-ORDER FOSCA IN CONCERT
One day until deadline... Pre-order your copy of Fosca in Concert now! Tomorrow, 11th November, is the last day for orders.

More info/pre-order

10 November 2007
DICKON EDWARDS AND FRIDAY BRIDGE AT STOCKHOLM POETRY FESTIVAL
The Stockholm Poetry Festival (at Elverket on the 30th of this month) features not less than two But is it Art? artists! Both Dickon Edwards of Fosca and Friday Bridge will perform at the festival.
More info here.

23 October 2007
PRE-ORDER FOSCA IN CONCERT
Pre-order your copy of Fosca in Concert before it is too late! (deadline: 11th November)

More info/pre-order

18 October 2007
DICKON EDWARDS DAGENS NYHETER INTERVIEW
Read an interview with Fosca frontman Dickon Edwards in yesterday's Dagens Nyheter – Sweden's biggest morning paper – here (in Swedish).

17 October 2007
FRIDAY BRIDGE + DICKON EDWARDS AT DEBASER SLUSSEN
Don't miss Friday Bridge with special guest Dickon Edwards of Fosca fame perform:

Friday 19 October, Debaser Slussen, Stockholm. 20-03, Support: The Summernights.

More info on the event

11 October 2007
FOSCA SIGNED TO BUT IS IT ART?
But is it Art? is happy to announce that London popsters Fosca will release their third studio album "The Painted Side of the Rocket" on our label. We have always been fans of Fosca and think of them as one of the best acts in the UK. Prepare for another Fosca album filled with brilliant lyrics and elegant, catchy pop tunes. The album is scheduled for release this winter.

For starters: all Fosca fans will be able to see Fosca front man Dickon Edwards guest perform at Friday Bridge´s Debaser show in Stockholm on the 19th of October – next Friday. Don't miss it!

30 September, 2007
HAUTE CULTURE/SPECIAL TOUR PRICE CAMPAIGN
Thank you everyone at the Haute Culture II festival in Norrköping for making the first date on Friday Bridge's autumn tour brilliant! Images from the show will hopefully be posted later.

In other, related news, But is it Art? is selling the album at a special tour price during the autumn tour. Buy it for 100 SEK at shows, or 119 SEK for Sweden, € 14 for the rest of the world (P&P included) from the But is it Art? website. Don't miss out! BUY HERE

The campaign is also extended to Swedish mail orders and record shops, so you can also place your order with for example Fraction Discs or CDON.

13 September, 2007
Friday Bridge on tour



Swedes: don't miss Friday Bridge on tour this autumn! Tour dates are as follows:

Haute Culture II - Norrköping, Sweden - 29th September (free!)
Blekingska Nationen - Lund, Sweden - 5th October
SVMK, Debaser Slussen - Stockholm, Sweden - 19th October
On Our Honeymoon - Gothenburg, Sweden - 27th October
Dakapo, Östgöta Nation - Uppsala, Sweden - 2nd November

15 August, 2007
Friday Bridge interview
Read a new Friday Bridge interview on the excellent pop blog Pop'n'Cherries.

25 July, 2007
More praise for Intricacy
I. In an article on digfi.com featuring the best summer tracks for 2007, Intricacy is called ‘the best pop album made in Sweden for more than twenty years’. II. A new review of Intricacy calls it ‘beautiful and seductive’.

8 July, 2007
Fosca recorded live
Yesterday's brilliant Fosca appearance at the Swedish Rip It Up festival was recorded by But is it Art? The recording will be released as a limited CD album and as a free MP3 download. To receive an e-mail when the recording is made available from But is it Art?,
please click here to sign up.

7 July, 2007
Friday Bridge interviews
New Friday Bridge interviews; at Digfi (in Swedish) and at Indiepop.it (in English or Italian).


21 June, 2007
But is it Art? releases Fosca live album



But is it Art? are thrilled to announce the forthcoming release of a Fosca live recording. The album will be recorded from their appearance at the Rip It Up festival in Värmlandsbro, Sweden. More details will be announced after the recording, which will take place on the 7th of July.

11 June, 2007
"Genius" – Sonic Magazine gives Intricacy 8/10
The largest magazine covering pop music in Sweden, Sonic Magazine, has selected Intricacy by Friday Bridge as their main review in the latest issue, out this week. Giving it an eight out of ten, the reviewer is ecstatic over the album, calling it "genius, immediately catching pop music" and talking about fantastic songs, a wellcrafted sound and a strong narrative voice.

5 June, 2007
For the Japanese Friday Bridge fan
Now you can now order the Friday Bridge album Intricacy from the fine Japanese music vendors Apple Crumble Record.

2 June, 2007
For the Italian Friday Bridge fan
A raving Italian review of Intricacy at the site Indiepop.it – describing it as music Marie Antoinette would have listened to if she had lived today and exclaiming “bello, bello”.

2 June, 2007
Choice of the week
The Friday Bridge album Intricacy is featured as one of the “choices of the week” in today's edition of Swedish newspaper Svenska Dagbladet.

28 May, 2007
Friday Bridge on the radio
Don't miss the Friday Bridge feature (including interview) on Swedish national radio P3 tonight on P3 Pop 22.00-24.00. Or listen to it afterwards at the P3 Pop site.

26 May, 2007
Friday Bridge in the press
Friday Bridge is sort of everywhere in the Swedish papers at the moment, in connection with the release of Intricacy. Some of the interviews are to be found via these links (Swedish only)

Interview in Svenska Dagbladet
Interview in NWT

And don't miss the Friday Bridge interview in today's Göteborgsposten!

23 May, 2007
Intricacy release date
Today sees the release of the new Friday Bridge album Intricacy! A happy day indeed.

The album is distributed in Sweden via Border Music and should be available in stores throughout the country. Other options to buy Intricacy include ordering it from But is it Art? here:

Order from But is it Art?

Additionally, you can find it for example at these internetbased record shops:

CDON
Skivhugget
Ginza

Finally, the album is also available as a download release from Klicktrack:

Buy album as MP3

16 May, 2007
Download release of Intricacy
The Friday Bridge album Intricacy is now available as download from MP3 vendors Klicktrack.

BUY ALBUM AS MP3

Of course, you can still pre-order the physical CD (released on the 23rd of May) from
But is it Art? here:

PRE-ORDER HERE

11 May, 2007
Pre-order Intricacy
Now you have the opportunity to pre-order your copy of the new Friday Bridge album Intricacy for a special price: 139 SEK, P&P included for Swedish buyers; 17 euro, P&P included, for international buyers. Payment can be made by all major credit cards via PayPal, or through bank transfer (international) or bankgiro (Sweden).

PRE-ORDER HERE

7 May, 2007
Friday Bridge article and radio play
Don't miss the Friday Bridge article in the new issue of music magazine Ondskan, out now. Friday Bridge also gets airplay in various parts of the world with the radio/download single Love and Nostalgia (MP3) from the forthcoming album Intricacy: Germany, Finland and the United States are among the countries who have picked up on its amazing qualitites. Lots of people have commented on the sublime quality of the new Friday Bridge track.

18 April, 2007
A Cause for Celebration
Lots of people have commented on the sublime quality of the new Friday Bridge track. Alistair Fitchett calls it fabulous, pure pop on Tangents, Coast is Clear calls it a wonderful song — POP mit einem großen P, Swedesplease says it's a cause for celebration and Sonic Magazine says it surpasses our every expectation.

Download Love & Nostalgia here:
DOWNLOAD MP3

13 April, 2007
Love and Nostalgia
But is it Art? are proud to present the first new song to be released from the upcoming Friday Bridge album Intricacy. ‘Love and Nostalgia’ is featured on the Sonic Magazine subscribers-only CD this month, and can also be downloaded for free from us.

Download: MP3
Listen: myspace.com/butisitartlabel
Lyrics: fridaybridge.net

March 8, 2007
It Girl in the UK
British label AltDelete records will feature the Friday Bridge track It Girl on their follow up to the highly acclaimed compilation Digital Penetration. Should be out shortly.

29th December
Happy New Year!
The response to The Higher Elevations Christmas single ‘All These Winter Nights’ (Art 003) has been very positive. See the Higher Elevations website for reviews. The track is still available as a free download here.

In other news, a tentative tracklist for the highly anticipated ‘Intricacy’ album by Friday Bridge (Art 005) can be found here.

But is it Art? sincerely wishes you a happy 2007.

28th November
All These Winter Nights Free Download



The Higher Elevations Christmas single 'All These Winter Nights' as a full-length free mp3 download; an early Christmas present from But is it Art?

Download

25th November
Friday Bridge review
A nice review of the The End of the Affair/Be There 7''at Glasgowbased webzine Diskant.

7th September
Order your Friday Bridge 7 inch
We have a limited number of the American Friday Bridge/Kelly Slusher 7 inch for sale. 4 €/$ 4/£ 3/SEK 40 + P&P. E-mail us with your order.

26th August
TVP-tribute available in UK
The limited vinyl only TVP-tribute is distributed in the UK by Cargo. Release date 28th August.

26th July
The End of the Affair out 15th August



The Friday Bridge/Kelly Slusher split 7'' from Surreal Ceremonies will be released in the US on the 15th of August.

6th July
Friday Bridge US only release
An alternative version of one of the songs from the upcoming Friday Bridge album will be release on a US only 7" shortly. This will be a split single with Kelly Slusher on Californian label Surreal Ceremonies. The Friday Bridge song is called The End of the Affair. Should be out early August but the release date is yet to be confirmed.

2nd June
Friday Bridge DJ-set
Don't miss Friday Bridge spinning records at Velocity in Uppsala tonight.

26th May
Friday Bridge at Popaganda
Friday Bridge did a brilliant performance during yesterday's Popaganda festival: She sang her own "It Girl (Makelberge remix)" during the Nicolas Makelberge set.

13th April
Review TVP Tribute
Read the review of Someone To Share My Life With on www.indiepop.it. Italian only.

29th March
Good Bye, Nikki
But is it Art? was tremendously happy to include the brilliant Swell Maps version of "14th Floor" on the recently released "Someone to Share My Life With". Also Nikki Sudden was kind to let us use an alternative version of "If I Could Write Poetry". It is very sad news that Nikki passed away after a show in New York last Saturday. RIP.

6th March
TVP Tribute is here!
Fresh from the press, our new release Someone To Share My Life With (Art LP 001-Beauty 010). Order your copy from us today, 10 EUR plus shipping. Distribution in Scandinavia by Border Music, Germany by Broken Silence, Austria by Ixtuluh, Switzerland by RecRec and in Canada by The Beautiful Music.

28th February
Someone To Share My Life With
The Television Personalities Tribute album is slightly delayed. Planning for a release next week.

26th January
TVP Tribute distribution
We are glad to announce the distribution for Someone To Share My Life With in more countries. Germany-Broken Silence, Austria-Ixtuluh and Switzerland-RecRec, as well as Border Music in Scandinavia.

14th January
Television Personalities Tribute
The Televions Personalities Tribute LP Someone To Share My Life With will soon hit the stores. Download press release (pdf).