Norwegian Eardrums posts a selection of tracks to help ease your transition from summer to fall: http://noreardrums.blogspot.com/2005/08/norwegian-music-for-time-between.html
MTVe has a special feature on Quit Your Dayjob with a contest and streaming audio for their entire new record: http://www.mtve.com/article.php?ArticleId=5809
Iconcrash has posted the video for the song "Heaven's map": http://www.iconcrash.com/video/Heavens_Map.wmv
Download the track "It girl" from Friday Bridge: http://www.bedroomrec.com/mp3/friday_bridge_-_it_girl.mp3
The song comes from their split record with Le Sport on Volupté Records. The new minialbum "Friday Bridge 2" will be out soon on Bedroom Records.
Check out the video for "Protected by Judas" from Swedish metalcore act Crowpath: http://www.earache.com/bands/crowpath/protected/player.html
Preliminary tourdates for Swedish punks Regulations:
10/13 - Chicago, IL
10/14 - Milwaukeefest
10/15 - Detroit/Ann Arbor, MI
10/16 - Cleveland, OH
10/17 - Pittsburgh, PA
10/18 - Rochester, NY
10/19 - Albany, NY
10/20 - Providence, RI
10/21 - Boston, MA
10/22 - NYC
10/23 - Philadelphia, PA
10/24 - New Jersey
10/25 - DC
10/26 - Richmond, VA
10/27 - Georgia
10/28 - Daytona Beach, FL
10/29 - Sound Idea, Brandon, FL
10/30 - New Orleans, LA
10/31 - Houston, TX
11/01 - Austin, TX
12/02 - Dallas/Fort Worth, TX
11/03 - Oklahoma City, OK
11/03 - Lawrence, KS
11/04 - Midwest Hardcore Fest III, Minneapolis
11/07 - North Dakota
11/09 - Bellingham, WA
11/10 - Seattle, WA
11/11 - Reed College Festival, Portland, OR
11/12 - Gilman St., Berkeley, CA
11/13 - Burnt Ramen, Richmond, CA
11/14 - Fresno, CA
11/15 - Che Café, San Diego, CA
11/16 - LA, CA
11/17 - Long Beach, CA
11/18 - Las Vegas, NV
11/19 - Denver, CO
11/20 - St. Louis, MO
Stream some soundclips from the new Rasmus album: http://www.musicbay.se/buy/index.asp?movie_id=981&company_id=39
Swedish instrumental rockers Ellis the Vacuumchild will be recording a couple new songs for a 7" on Jezebel Recordings. They plan to do include a version of "Summershitty thongs/songs" with Ed Greene on vocals and the new track "Bauer kraut".
Sweden's Transport League has officially broken up and reformed as M.A.N., the main difference being that frontman Tony Jelencovich will no longer play guitar, only sing. Check out some samples: http://www.myspace.com/transportleague
Check out some new tracks from Iskra, a mellower sideproject of Iisole: http://www.purevolume.com/iskra
The tracks come from the group's just-released third EP "Sunflower surrealism".
The latest Aquarius Records new arrivals list includes stuff from Scandinavian artists Henrik Nordvargr Bjorkk, Kemialliset Ystavat and Keuhkot along with the usual assortment of other goodies: http://www.aquariusrecords.org/cat/newest.html
Norway's Animal Alpha will finally release their debut full-length album on September 5. As mentioned before, the record was recorded at Radio Star Studios in Weed, CA with producer Sylvia Massy (Johnny Cash, Tool, Red Hot Chili Peppers, REM, etc.).
The X-Dump Collective has a new comp out on the 8bitpeoples netlabel for free download: http://www.8bitpeoples.com/discography_gfx.php#8BP048
Artists include Psilodump, Din Stalker, Dorothy's Magic Bag and more.