Here's a scan of that write-up The Fashion got in Rolling Stone: http://thefashion.dk/rolling_stone.jpg

Go here to check out The Cardigans' performance from 'Morning Becomes Eclectic' of LA's KCRW radio: http://www.kcrw.com/cgi-bin/db/kcrw.pl?show_code=mb&air_date=5/24/04&tmplt_type=show

Speaking of The Cardigans, here's some new summer dates in Scandinavia:

06/11 - Tivoli, Copenhagen (DK)
06/19 - Norwegian Wood, Oslo (NOR)
06/24 - Ringe Midtfyn Festival (DK)
06/25 - Nibe Festival (DK)
07/31 - Ankkarock Festival (FIN)

Check out the video for "I'll follow you tonight" from Anna Ternheim: http://www.stockholmrecords.se/showelement.asp?FileElementId=3749

Check out some pics from Promoe's (Looptroop) recent European tour: http://www.looptroop.nu/tour/kort/TLDReuropa/index.html

David Sandström says he has plans to work on yet another new album in August.

Luger totally copy and pasted from me: http://www.luger.se/nyheter.asp?PK_Id=119 (see my formatting below)
Not that I mind - it's just funny to me that they didn't use the info straight from the Startracks press release/newsletter.

It's official - Epitaph Records will release C.Aarmé's excellent self-titled debut album in the US on July 13. Tour?

Download the song "A list of things" from My Orchard: http://www.myorchard.net/popup/audio/my_orchard_a_list_of_things.mp3
The track comes from the new mini-album "Silhouettes", out now from Massproduktion. A video is being worked on and should be done soon.

Go here for a bit of updated show info for the upcoming Kaospilot US tour: http://www.level-plane.com/kaospilot/

Aftonbladet reports that Kent is back in the studio working on an album that should be ready for release sometime next year: http://www.aftonbladet.se/vss/noje/story/0,2789,482531,00.html (in Swedish)

I'm not sure why I haven't done it already, but here's the tracklists for those carious upcoming Startracks-produced Festival compilations:

Accelerator 2004
01. M. Craft – Sweet
02. The Shins – So Says I
03. Electrelane – The Valleys
04. Lali Puna – Faking the books
05. Broken Social Scene – Stars and sons
06. Explosions in the Sky – The only moment we were alone
07. Laakso – Blizzard
08. Jens Lekman – The wrong hands (prev. unreleased)
09. Jonas Kullhammar – Bebopalulia
10. The Go! Team - Panterdash
11. The Von Bondies – C'mon, C'mon
12. Existensminimum – The on and on
13. Franz Ferdinand – Take me out (Naum Gabo re-mix) (prev. unreleased)

Picknick
01. Kristofer Åström – Idiot talk
02. Richard Buckner – Jewelbomb
03. Tiger Lou – Rushmore (prev. unreleased)
04. Ane Brun – Are they saying goodbye?
05. Denison Witmer – Stations
06. Tomas Andersson Wij – Tommy och hans mamma
07. Christian Kjellvander – For the sake of the song (prev. unreleased. Zandt cover, recorded live at Mondo)
08. Anna Ternheim – Troubled mind
09. Nicolai Dunger – Slaves (we're together like)
10. Tomas Andersson Wij – En vän till mig
11. Ane Brun – Fight Song (prev. unreleased. Likely to be recorded for her next album due 2005)
12. Syd Matters – Have a nice day
13. Kristofer Åström – Cardiac (prev. unreleased, from the "There for" sessions)
14. Syd Matters - Bones
15. Richard Buckner – Put on what you wanna
16. Tiger Lou – Like you said
17. Nicolai Dunger - City sun

And speaking of Startracks, here's a couple mp3s from the label's upcoming releases:

Kristofer Åström - The wild
Gustaf Kjellvander/The Fine Arts Showcase - Mock ivory

One last Startracks thing: the label will be holding their very own festival on August 20 at Vitabergsparken in Stockholm. 'Startracks Fucking Dagen', as Fredrik is calling it. So far only Christian and Kristofer are lined up to play, but it's free so hey, why not?

The new Psycho Sonic Cindy single "Yeahbabyc'mon" comes out today on Dead Frog Records in a special 3" mini CD format. Download the track right here: http://www.deadfrogrecords.com/playlist/PSC-YeahBabyCmon.mp3