Denmark's Flying Virgins have broken up and returned anew as Late Night Venture. Read more: http://www.flyingvirgins.dk/story.html
Finland's Disco Ensemble will be playing some North American dates around SXSW:
03/02 - Kathedral, Toronto (CAN)
03/13 - Sin-é, New York
03/16-17 - The Drink, Austin (SXSW)
Finnish punks I Walk The Line have confirmed most of their European tourdates for March: http://www.fireinsidemusic.com/iwalktheline/tourdates.htm
Junk Musik has posted a live video clip of Sandy Mouche performing at an in-store: http://www.junkmusik.com/?p=378
Last Days of April will be supporting Fightstar on tour in the UK for a couple weeks in March. Dates soon.
Danish drum'n'bass live band F.U.K.T has signed with Murena Records. Download some tracks at the band's website: http://www.fukt.dk/
Peter of Peter, Björn and John will record a solo album later this year with the help of friend and fellow Swedish singer/songwriter Tobias Fröberg. After PB&J puts the finishing touches on their almost-complete third album, of course.
Download the song "Sunday light" from recent Punos Sounds signees Fume: http://www.punossound.net/mp3/Fume_Sunday_Light.mp3
The band's debut album "Haunts" comes out February 1 and it must be noted that Punos Sound is the label run by the folks behind the amazing Finnish post-rock act Plain Fade. I've been raving about them for awhile, so I fully expect that this record is something not to be missed.
On September 25 Satellite Records will be releasing a tribute comp for Swedish singer/songwriter Ola Magnell entitled "Påtalåtar - Hyllning till Ola Magnell". Check out the tracklist:
01. Elin Sigvardsson - Tomma Tunnor
02. Lars Winnerbäck - Ta Det Kallt (Don't Think Twice..)
03. Stefan Sundström - Påtalåten
04. Lalla Hansson - Bruten Vinge
05. Mats Ronander - På Älvors Vis
06. Sanna Carlstedt - Nya Perspektiv
07. Tomas Andersson Wij - Trasten
08. 13th Floor Escalators - Rulltrappan (I think this is Nicke from The Hellacopters with Dregen from Backyard Babies)
09. Ronny Eriksson/Kristofer Åström - Vällingklockan
10. Anna+Idde - Vargarnas Vår
11. Lars Demian - Kliff
12. Benneth Fagerlund/Max Schultz - Malvina Utan Mörker
Swedish post-punks/Tiger Lou backing band Torpedo have enlisted new member Love Martinsen on keyboards, slideguitars and whatever other instruments need playing. The band is currentlu writing and rehearsing new material.
Chips K (Sator) makes a guest appearance on the new album "Piangi Con Me" from old-school California punks White Flag, billed as El Swe. It comes out February 28.
Swedish hard-rockers Mustasch have started work on their fourth album at Studio Bohus with producer Tobias Lindell.
Dagensskiva's top 60 albums for 2005: http://dagensskiva.com/index.asp?datum=2006-01-14 (in Swedish)