Timely without being Christmas-themed, here's a brande new duet single from Emil Jensen and Familjen entitled "Nyår": http://www.adrianfiles.com/01.Nyar.mp3
If you don't want to bother with downloads, stream it on Spotify here.
A new video from Korallreven, directed by Marcus Söderlund.
The new DWNSTRS album "Satanic adventures of Hector" is now streaming in full at SoundCloud: http://soundcloud.com/fullsteam/sets/dwnstrs-hector
Perhaps not the best Powersolo video, but still entertaining as always.
Peter Bjorn and John are doing an Advent calendar thing and normally I wouldn't care because I'm a Scrooge, but I can't pass up some behind-the-scenes footage from their dog photo shoot: http://peterbjornandjohn.com/blog/2011/12/gimme-some-advent-calendar-7/
Loney Dear plays his Tomas Tranströmer tribute piece for PSL: http://blogg.svt.se/psl/2011/12/07/musik-med-loney-dear-2/
will be releasing a 7-track mini-album from Vädret, the new solo project from Scraps of Tape guitarist Marcus Nilsson. Release date TBA.
The Ark are officially done as a band now, but they'll be putting out (at least) one final release: a live DVD filmed at last summer's Peace & Love Festival as part of their farewell tour. Official release date is February 15 and 10% of the proceeds will be donated towards the Swedish Childhood Cancer Foundation.
Swedish rapper Timbuktu and live backing band Damn! will be celebrating 10 years of collaboration by recording a new album containing studio versions of songs previously only heard in concert. No word yet on what it will be called or when it will be released, but I'll keep you posted.
Brooklyn Vegan reports that I Break Horses will be making their US live debut in May when they support M83 at Terminal 5 in NYC: http://www.brooklynvegan.com/archives/2011/12/i_break_horses.html
A second track off of EL-SD's excellent new 7" EP "Repeating patterns".
David Åhlén translates an old German Christmas tune for the art+music project A Light Goes On.
UK artist and sometime duet partner Theoretical Girl covers The Fine Arts Showcase as part of her Advent calendar -- Gustaf, we still miss you.
"Sand" is the 2nd single from Promise and the Monster's latest record "Red tide".