Avarus, Kemialliset Ystävät and Spacious Mind will be travelling to Providence, Rhode Island for next year's Terrastock Festival on April 21-23. Read more: http://www.terrascope.co.uk/TerrastockPages/terrastock6.html
Gaffa is reporting that Danish indierockers Figurines have licensed their album "Skeleton" for international release: http://gaffa.dk/nyheder/view.php/news_id=14370 (in Danish)
The nominees for this year's Danish Metal Awards have been announced: http://www.dmea.dk/
I haven't heard all of the bands, but I can definitely endorse The Psyke Project. Their album "Daikini" is easily one of the year's best releases.
This week's top 20 Swedish student radio chart:
01. (01) Kristian Anttila - "Paul Weller"
02. (05) Tiger Lou - "The Loyal"
03. (NY) Test Icicles - "Circle Square Triangle"
04. (NY) Queens of the Stone Age - " Burn the Witch"
05. (07) Christian Kjellvander - "Drunken Hands"
06. (14) Saian Supa Crew - "La Patte"
07. (04) David Sandström Overdrive - "The Crotch of a Saturday"
08. (NY) Arctic Monkeys - "I Bet U Look Good on the Dancefloor"
09. (03) Willowtree - "Attention Ms"
10. (05) Tiga - "You Gonna Want Me"
11. (06) Katie Goes to Tokyo - "Moving From This Town"
12. (19) Sophie Rimheden - "Can You Save Me"
13. (09) Bloc Party - "Two More Years"
14. (NY) Architecture in Helsinki - "Do the Whirlwind"
15. (12) Röyksopp - "What Else is There?"
16. (NY) Thåström - "Fanfanfan"
17. (NY) The Strokes - "Juicebox"
18. (ÅT) Randy - "Razorblade"
19. (15) Princess Superstar - "My Machine"
20. (11) Loveninjas - "Keep Your Love"
Leaving the chart: Acid House Kings, Brakes, CDOASS, Paris, Pharell, Pete Philly & Perquisite and The Rakes
Twopointeight has posted the video for "Red eye": http://www.twopointeight.net/redeye.wmv
Check out the video for "Wild boys" from Hardcore Superstar: http://www.hardcoresuperstar.com/downloads/Wild%20Boys%20Web.mov
MTVe has a feature on Swedish electro act I Love You Baby and is streaming every track from their new album "Mondegreen": http://www.mtve.com/article.php?ArticleId=5992
MP3: Håkan Hellström - Ge mig arsenik
The one artist who taught me that I should take mainstream Swedish pop seriously was Håkan Hellström. I was perusing files on Napster and just starting to get obsessive with my Scandinavian music obsession when I came across some HH tracks. All I knew was that it was Swedish, so I figured what the heck? Why not? That's the beauty of p2p after all. Well, those songs turned out to be Håkan's amazing debut album "Känn ingen sorg för mig Göteborg" and I was blown away. This album proves that you don't need to understand a single word of Swedish to appreciate great pop music. It wasn't long before I had a copy of the real CD in my hand and was busy hunting down bootlegs and b-sides. So here's one of those rare finds for you now - the demo version of the title track, labelled as "Ge mig arsenik". I'm not sure if this is the actual demo that got Håkan signed, but it certainly could be. I don't think that Håkan will ever again touch the brilliance of his first record, but it was such a monumental piece of work that I don't think anyone minds. It was the perfect album at the perfect time, a certified classic.
Håkan Hellström - Ge mig arsenik (demo)
Sweden's The Idle Hands have joined the modern world and now have a myspace page: http://www.myspace.com/theidlehandsswe
Ink19 reviews José González: http://www.ink19.com/issues/october2005/musicReviews/musicG/joseGonzalez.html
Realease Records has posted an entire live show from artist Racingpaperplanes for free download: http://www.realease.se/
Astrid Swan has a new website to coincide with the release of her new single "Good girl": http://www.astridswan.com/
Check out the video for "Regnbågsfiskarnas dam" from Dorothy's Magic Bags, as created by Skrivmaskinen from Jossystem: http://www.jossystem.se/regndamm.avi