Swedish rockers Wired for Mono have yet another new single for free download: http://www.wiredformono.com/
Danish act Choir of Young Believers have confirmed that their debut full-length "" will be released on September 1. Hear samples at myspace: http://www.myspace.com/choirofyoungbelievers
The Eardrums music blog has a new two volume comp of summer music for free download, including a quite a few Scandinavian artists: http://eardrumsmusic.com/2008/06/24/here-you-are-summers-here-eardrums-compilation-2008-vol1-and-2-yours-for-free/
MSN has quality live footage of Robyn performing in LA: http://video.msn.com/video.aspx/?mkt=en-gb&vid=5bd5370f-e557-45d6-9fa2-0498e8d25fae&fg=rss&wa=wsignin1.0
Motorpsycho played a few US gigs this past week including Terrastock and have now settled into Electrical Audio in Chicago to record some new material with Steve Albini.
MP3: Ted Gärdestad - Jag skall fånga en ängel
Roo, rest in peace little girl. I miss you like hell, but I'm glad you waited for me to come home.
It was not wholly unexpected, but there's only so much preparation you can really do. Back in the fall of 2006, Roo was diagnosed with the brain disease hydrocephalus and the prognosis was not good. By the time we got her MRI'd she had maybe 20% of her greymatter left, so it was amazing she was even alive, let alone a loving, breathing, charming little sweet-natured dog. Her mobility gradually decreased over our time with her, but she never ever lost her sunny disposition until Sunday night when she went into a grand mal seizure and never fully recovered. We said our last goodbyes yesterday afternoon.
I know this is kind of a corny song to post, but she was an angel to me and she far outlived all expectations. I treasure every moment we shared.
Ted Gärdestad - Jag skall fånga en ängel
Dead Letters Spell Out Dead Words is going on tour in August and will even make it over to Washington DC this October. Preliminary details: http://www.deadwords.org/
Swedish jazz artist Oskar Schönning will release his third full-length album on October 17 via his own Schönning Records. In the meantime, listen to a newly published live recording from 2005 of the track "Loa": http://www.myspace.com/oskarschonning
Stockholm-based postpunks Paper have a new super-limited EP they are selling that features two previously unreleased tracks and one remix. Read more: http://blog.myspace.com/index.cfm?fuseaction=blog.view&friendID=64764246&blogID=408542606
Swedish indie/alt-country act The Winston Solution have a new EP posted for free download: http://www.thewinstonsolution.com/
Here's a video trailer for the new Niko Skorpio album "Half born in half light", due out soon via Some Place Else: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jo3k8_6hTUo
Check out the excellent cello-remix version of the new Zeigeist single "Wrecked metal" at myspace: http://www.myspace.com/thezeigeist
I do believe the mp3 was sent out to the blogosphere recently, so finding an mp3 should be a piece of cake.