After a six-year break from playing music, Jonas Rosén (Asterisk*The Female Anchor of Sade) is back with the new moniker Orchestra Senza Testa and an album called "Fabula" on Kalligrammofon. Collaborators on said album include Fred Lonberg-Holm, Råd Kjetil and the Loving Eye of God, Tatsuya Yoshida (Ruins), WT Nelson (Bastard Noise), among others. More info: http://www.kalligrammofon.com/main.php?artist=6
Industri Royal's new website is open: http://www.industriroyal.com/
Look for the band's new album "Tacky skills" on January 28 via Alleycat Records.
"Give me fire" will be the title of Mando Diao's next album. As mentioned before, it's due out in February.
Look for Daniel Savio's debut solo LP on Flogsta Danshall in late January/early February. This will be the skweee label's very first full-length release. In other news, check out new 7"s from both Limonious and Mangrove out now.
Hanne Hukkelberg is back in Oslo at Propeller Studios recording a new album. Expect a spring release.
Hybris has a brand new Christmas single from TIAC available for free download entitled "It's Christmas (but not for you)": http://hybrism.blogspot.com/2008/12/tiac-christmas-single.html
Full details here: http://iloapp.tiac.se/blog/www?Home&post=13
Download Flunk's version of the Christmas classic "Silent night": http://www.flunkmusic.com/flunk_silentnight.mp3
Look for the band's new album "This is what you get" on May 25.
Finnish humppa madmen Eläkeläiset will be touring Germany next April:
04/14 - SO36, Berlin
04/15 - Klub Neue Mensa, Dresden
04/16 - Moritzbastei, Leipzig
04/17 - F-Haus, Jena
04/18 - Live Club, Bamberg
04/19 - Alte Mälzerei, Regensburg
04/20 - Backstage, München
04/21 - Substage, Karlsruhe
04/22 - Schlachthof, Wiesbaden
04/23 - Faust, Hannover
04/24 - Markthalle, Hamburg
04/25 - SO36, Berlin
Check out the video for the new single "Pretty boy" from Swedish hip-hop artist J-Son: http://vids.myspace.com/index.cfm?fuseaction=vids.individual&videoid=47865979
All Scandinavian has a new track from Swedish/Danish act Lampshade with guest vocals from Teitur: http://allscandinavian.com/448/exclusive-new-lampshade-single-%e2%80%98silkesar%e2%80%99/
Musique Machine on the Swedish Death in June tribute Down in June: http://www.musiquemachine.com/reviews/reviews_template.php?id=2063
Universal has signed Swedish pop-metal act Dead By April and will be sending them into the studio with producer Henrik Edenhed (Robyn, Lambretta) to record their debut album. Hear demo tracks at myspace: http://www.myspace.com/dbaswe
MIC Norway profiles young composer Øyvind Torvund: http://www.mic.no/mic.nsf/doc/art2008120412525795697413
"Baltic Sea" by The Social Services is Indie MP3's #7 track of 2008: http://www.indie-mp3.co.uk/2008/12/tracks-of-year-7-baltic-sea.html