Jens Lekman contributes to this week's 'Listed' feature at Dusted: http://www.dustedmagazine.com/features/289
Aftonbladet says that Dennis Lyxzen from The (International) Noise Conspiracy is the sexiest man in Sweden: http://www.aftonbladet.se/vss/noje/story/0,2789,530409,00.html (in Swedish)
Pelle Almqvist from The Hives ranks #3.
Odd Ahlgren, lead vocalist for Swedish garage rockers The Robots, is releasing his debut novel "Förlösaren" and will be celebrating with a show at Debaser in Stockholm on September 15. The show will also be a release party for Odd's other band Cryptkicker 5 and their new single "Redeemer" on Debaser Records. The lyrics of the single tie in with the storyline from the novel and "makes it odd stuff from an odd man called Odd." The first 200 people at the show will recive a free copy of the single of which only 400 are being produced.
Uncurbed will be touring the US for the first time in October along with their friends Star Strangled Bastards. Dates:
10/22 - Unitarian Church, Philadelphia, PA
10/23 - Abc No Rio, New York, NY
10/24 - AS220, Providence, MI
10/25 - tba, Connecticut, CT
10/26 - Mr Roboto Project, Pittsburgh, PA
10/27 - Bernie's Destillery, Columbus, OH
10/28 - tba, Ann Arbor, MI
10/29 - Depaul University, Chicago, IL
10/30 - The Triple Rock, Minneapolis, MN
10/31 - The Haunted Kitchen, Lawrence, KS
11/01 - Red Blood Club, Dallas, TX
11/02 - Day off
11/03 - Emo's, Austin, TX
11/04 - tba, Memphis, TN
11/05 - The End, Nashville, TN
11/06 - tba, Athens, GA
11/07 - The Ark, Gainesville, FL
11/08 - Sound Idea, Brandon, FL
11/09 - The Jinx, Savannah, GA
11/10 - Green Eggs and Jam, Ashville, NC w/World Burns To Death
11/11 - Broasis, Baltimore, MD w/World Burns To Death
11/12 - Unitarian Church, Philadelphia, PA w/World Burns To Death
11/13 - Knitting Factory/Tap Bar, New York, NY w/World Burns To Death
Finnish punks Kyklooppien Sukupuutto are doing a short tour of Lapland later this month:
09/15 - Club 25, Caasa w/Kara Kuniklo
09/16 - tbc, Oulu w/Yhteiskunnan Ystävät
09/17 - Karhu, Rovaniemi w/Yhteiskunnan Ystävät
09/18 - Killan, Luleå w/Avgång 77, Personkrets 3:1, Yhteiskunnan Ystävät
Download their entire nine-song demo right here: http://www.saunalahti.fi/~kaihi/kyklooppiensukupuutto/sivut/audio.html
Here's this week's top 20 Swedish album chart:
01. Lena Philipsson - Det gör ont en stund på natten men inget på dan
02. Benny Anderssons Orkester - Bao!
03. Stefan Sundström - Hjärtats melodi
04. Gyllene Tider - Finn 5 Fel
05. Raymond & Maria - Vi ska bara leva klart
06. Alcazar - Dancefloor - Deluxe
07. Vikingarna - Bästa Kramgoa Låtarna
08. The Hives - Tyrannosaurus Hives
09. Carola - Credo
10. Melody Club - Face the Music
11. Ted Gärdestad - Sol Vind & Vatten - Det Bästa
12. Shirley Clamp - Den Långsamma Blomman
13. Teddybears Sthlm - Fresh
14. Christian Walz - Paint by Numbers
15. Caj Karlsson - Gud straffar somliga med en gång
16. Agnetha Fältskog - My Colouring Book
17. Gyllene Tider - Gt 25 - Samtliga Hits!
18. Nic & the Family - Hej hej skiva
19. Marit Bergman - Baby Dry Your Eye
20. Lisa Miskovsky - Fallingwater
Go here to check out the video for "Song with no words" from Sweatmaster: http://www.grancanaria.fi/
The Je Ne Sais Quoi are touring Europe later this year:
12/03 - tbc, Göteborg (SWE)
12/04 - Tanzclub, Halle/Saale (GER)
12/05 - tbc, Berlin (GER)
12/06 - tba
12/07 - Clubkeller, Frankfurt/Main (GER)
12/08 - tbc, Den Haag (NL)
12/09 - Café Dwaze Zaken, Amsterdam (NL)
12/10 - Astra Stube, Hamburg (GER)
12/11 - tbc (DK)
The new record should be available from Coalition Records any day now.
The new Mando Diao website is online: http://www.mando-diao.com/
There's a bunch of dates posted for Japan in December, too.
The JuJu Records site is updated with some news about the label's upcoming activities: http://www.jujurecords.com/
Check out Homeland's video for the song "Love Lies Lost": http://www.cumbersome.net/grace01cdmov.htm
Sanctum celebrates their 10 year anniversary with the free Internet rerelease of the "Clarify" CDR EP that they sold on their 2001 US tour. The disc includes three tracks from the very excellent "[~]" 10" as well as other material the band felt was good, just not good enough for a 'full scale' release. Anyhow, since enough people seemed interested in the music, here it is again for your enjoyment: http://www.ratblast.net/cc/node/view/57
Björn Kleinhenz says he's quit Johnny Bråttom Records to start his own label. He says he'll probably still work with Johnny in the future, but for now wants to try and do stuff on his own.