By way of Dagensskiva, here is the Swedish student radio top 20 for the week:

01. (08) The Von Bondies "C'mon C'mon"
02. (01) Broder Daniel "Shoreline"
03. (02) Belle & Sebastian "I'm A Cuckoo"
04. (04) Tiger Lou "Oh Horatio"
05. (05) The Latin Kings "T.L.K."
06. (06) David & The Citizens "Graycoated Morning"
07. (19) Jens Lekman "Rocky Dennis In Heaven EP"
08. (07) Franz Ferdinand "Take Me Out"
09. (12) Her Majesty! "You And Me Against The World"
10. (03) Shout Out Louds "Please Please Please"
11. (09) Organism 12 "Sångfågel"
12. (NY) Peaches Ft. Iggy Pop "Kick It"
13. (NY) Björns Vänner "Alexander Lukas"
14. (NY) Tribeca "Solitude"
15. (15) Timbaland & Magoo "Indian Flute"
16. (NY) Grandaddy "I'm On Standby"
17. (14) Edson "I Believe In A Thing Called Love"
18. (18) Obie Trice Ft. (Nate Dogg "The Set Up"
19. (NY) Aerospace "In A Place Of Silver Eaves EP"
20. (10) Nicolai Dunger "Here's My Song You Can Have It" (Album Sampler)

Leaving the chart:
11. The Thrills "Don't Steal Our Sun"
13. Bergman Rock "Help The Band"
16. Kamera "Suburban Boy"
17. Beezewax "Big Bad Car"
20. Disco Volante "Distort The South"

By way of Dagensskiva, here is the Swedish student radio top 20 for the week:

01. (02) Broder Daniel "Shoreline"
02. (01) Belle & Sebastian "I'm A Cuckoo"
03. (03) Shout Out Louds "Please Please Please"
04. (04) Tiger Lou "Oh Horatio"
05. (06) The Latin Kings "T.L.K."
06. (05) David & The Citizens "Graycoated Morning"
07. (08) Franz Ferdinand "Take Me Out"
08. (NY) The Von Bondies "C'mon C'mon"
09. (NY) Organism 12 "Sångfågel"
10. (NY) Nicolai Dunger "Here's My Song You Can Have It (Album Sampler)"
11. (10) The Thrills "Don't Steal Our Sun"
12. (15) Her Majesty! "You And Me Against The World"
13. (06) Bergman Rock "Help The Band"
14. (NY) Edson "I Believe In A Thing Called Love"
15. (11) Timbaland & Magoo "Indian Flute"
16. (12) Kamera "Suburban Boy"
17. (NY) Beezewax "Big Bad Car"
18. (NY) Obie Trice Ft. (Nate Dogg "The Set Up"
19. (NY) Jens Lekman "Rocky Dennis In Heaven EP"
20. (14) Disco Volante "Distort The South"

Leaving the chart:
09. Weeping Willows "Stairs"
13. Courtney Love "Mono"
16. Mazarine Street "Bourgeois Blood"
17. The Strokes "Reptilia"
18. Dizzee Rascal "Jus'a Rascal"
19. Backyard Babies "A Song For The Outkast"
20. Muse "Hysteria"

By way of Dagensskiva, here is the first Swedish student radio top 20 for the year:

01. Belle & Sebastian "I'm A Cuckoo"
02. Broder Daniel "Shoreline"
03. Shout Out Louds "Please Please Please"
04. Tiger Lou "Oh Horatio"
05. David & The Citizens "Graycoated Morning"
06. Bergman Rock "Help The Band"
07. The Latin Kings "T.L.K."
08. Franz Ferdinand "Take Me Out"
09. Weeping Willows "Stairs"
10. The Thrills "Don't Steal Our Sun"
11. Timbaland & Magoo "Indian Flute"
12. Kamera "Suburban Boy"
13. Courtney Love "Mono"
14. Disco Volante "Distort The South"
15. Her Majesty "You And Me Against The World"
16. Mazarine Street "Bourgeois Blood"
17. The Strokes "Reptilia"
18. Dizzee Rascal "Jus'a Rascal"
19. Backyard Babies "A Song For The Outkast"
20. Muse "Hysteria"

David & The Citizens, Love is All and Cato Salsa Experience have been confirmed for the Emmaboda festival.

Here are some of the nominees for the Swedish Grammies:

Best Pop Female:
Jill Johnson - Roots and Wings
Lisa Miskovsky - Fallingwater
Miss Universum - Selfelected
Pauline - Candy Rain
Elin Sigvardsson - Saturday Light Naive

Best Pop Male:
Magnus Carlson - Ett Kungarike För En Kram
Per Gessle - Mazarin
José González - Veneer
Peter LeMarc - Det Som Håller Oss Vid Liv
Mauro Scocco - Beat Hotel

Best Pop Group:
Alcazar - Alcazarized
Bo Kaspers Orkester - Vilka Tror Vi Att Vi Är
Da Buzz - More Than Alive
David & The Citizens - Until The Sadness Is Gone
The Knife - Deep Cuts

Best Rock Album (solo):
Eagle-Eye - Cherry Sub Rosa
Christian Kjellvander - Introducing The Past
Lars Winnerbäck och Hovet - Söndermarken
Moneybrother - Blood Panic
Thomas Rusiak - In The Sun

Best Rock Group:
Bad Cash Quartet - Midnight Prayer
Broder Daniel - Cruel Town
The Cardigans - Long Gone Before Daylight
Fireside - Get Shot
Randy - Welfare Problems

Best Songwriter:
Karin & Olof Dreijer
Per Gessle
Lisa Miskovsky & Joakim Berg
Peter Svensson
Moneybrother (Anders Wendin)

Best Lyrics:
Timbuktu (Jason Diakté)
Per Gessle
Peter LeMarc
Nina Persson
Lars Winnerbäck

Best Producer:
Joakim Berg/Simon Norberg
Karin & Olof Dreijer
Pelle Gunnerfeldt
Jari Haapalainen
C. Öfwerman, C. Lundquist & P. Gessle

Best Hip-hop/Soul:
Advance Patrol - Utskrivna
Kaah - Jideblasko
Ken Det - Bortglömda
The Latin Kings - Omerta
Timbuktu - The Botten Is Nådd!

Best Hard Rock:
Backyard Babies - Stockholm Syndrome
Evergrey - Recreation Day
The Haunted - One Kill Wonder
Mustasch - Ratsafari
Opeth - Damnation

Best Jazz:
E.S.T. - Seven Days Of Falling
Rigmor Gustavsson - with I Will Wait For You
Nils Landgren and The Fleshquartet
Jonas Kullhammar Quartet - Plays Loud For The People
Oddjob - Koyo
Bobo Stenson/Lennart Åberg

Best Club/Dance Song:
Hundarna Från Söder - Hundarna Från Söder BAM
Koop - Waltz For Koop - Alternative Takes
Physics - First Flight NSD
Plej - Electronic Music From The Westcoast
Sophie Rimheden - Hi-Fi Mitek

Best Pop/Dance Band:
Barbados - Hela Himlen
Fame - Give Me Your Love
Jan Johansen - X My Heart
Jill Johnson - Discography
Lasse Stefanz - Det Här Är Bara Början

Go here for the full list: http://www.ifpi.se/02.images/01.top/02.subnav_pdf/08.grammis/pdf/Grammisnomineringar_2003.pdf

David & the Citizens are heading over to Germany:

02/20 - Kuehlhaus, Flensburg
02/21 - Molotow, Hamburg
02/22 - MS Stubnitz, Rostock
02/23 - Scheune, Dresden
02/24 - Zentral, Berlin
02/25 - Rosenkeller, Jena
02/26 - Atomino, Chemnitz
02/27 - Volkspark, Halle
02/28 - Glad House, Cottbus

You can also listen to a special 'Señorita remix' of their song "The End", courtesy of Adrian Recordings: click here.
The band also plans to enter Gula Studion in Malmö with longtime producer Jens Lindgård (Franz Ferdinand, Cardigans, Saint Etienne) sometime later this spring.

David & the Citizens will be doing a live radio session at SBN Radio, the UK's CMJ station on January 12 at 10pm GMT. Listen online at www.sbn.co.uk.

David & the Citizens will be returning to London on January 30 when they will once again play Strange Fruit at The Spitz with UK band Fonda 500.

In related news, head over to the Adrian Recordings website to buy a cover version of "Songs Against Life", as done by Tallahasse, Florida-based band Plastic Mastery on their "Sverige EP". The band borrowed D&tC's backline at 2002's Emmaboda fest and have been admirers ever since.

Lake of Tears will enter the studio on February 13 to begin work on their new album, tentatively titled "Black Brick Road". An August release on Noise Records is expected.

German radio show "45 minutes", broadcast every second sunday at 7.30 pm on Radio Blau Leipzig, recently published their best-of-the-year lists and they contain a ton of Nordic acts. Here's some highlights:

Top 100 LPs 2003
01. The Bear Quartet "angry brigade" (A West Side Fabrication)
03. David & The Citizens "until the sadness is gone" (Adrian)
05. The Legends "up against the legends" (Labrador)
06. The Radio Dept. "lesser matters" (Labrador)
08. The Embassy "futile crimes" (Service)
10. Wan Light "let's wake up somewhere else" (Labrador)
12. Mew "frengers" (Sony)
13. Monastir "the modern sound for a loser generation" (A West Side Fabrication)
16. Peter Bjorn And John "s/t" (Beat That!)
17. The Crystal Committee "forever overhead" (Chalksound)
18. Dub Sweden "welcome to our world" (Silence)
21. Franke "optimismens hån" (Service)
22. Club 8 "strangely beautiful" (Labrador)
23. Komeda "kokomemedada" (Sonet)
32. The Concretes "s/t" (Licking Fingers)
42. Broder Daniel "cruel town" (Dolores)
50. The Cardigans "long gone before daylight" (Stockholm)
57. Laakso "miss you, i'm pregnant" (Adrian)
58. The Raveonettes "chain gang of love" (Dragnet)
73. Paola "stockcity girl" (Dolores)
83. Burek V "s/t" (A West Side Fabrication)
85. Carpet People "more bad weather coming out of the rain" (Chalksound)
88. Isolation Years "it's golden" (Stickman)
89. Douglas Heart "douglas heart" (Labrador)
93. Mando Diao "bring 'em in" (Majesty)
94. The Knife "deep cuts" (Rabid)
97. Ariel Kill Him "in the pyramid" (Kasual)
99. Edson "every day, ervery second" (Labrador)

For the rest of the list, as well as their singles chart, go here: http://www.pop-on-paper.de/

All you people in London, don't forget that Swedish troubadors David & the Citizens are doing two shows this coming Saturday December 20 when they play both Strange Fruit's Christmas party and Rough Trade RoTa Session's Christmas Bash. Both performances will be acoustic and you can get all the other details such as price and location on the poster, as seen right here.

David & the Citizens and Björns Vänner will be playing live on the P3 Swedish radio program "Så funkar det" on December 26 at 5pm and it will be replayed on New Year's Eve beginning at 9pm. As always, you can listen live via the P3 website.

David & the Citizens will be doing a special one-off show at Musikenshus in Göteborg on December 13 to celebrate the release of their new single "Graycoated Mornings". This is the first place the single will be readily available for sale, but you can also email annette@adrianrecordings.com to preorder a copy. As mentioned before, the b-side is the timely "Christmas Eve". Read more about that track and hear a streaming version right here. (in Danish)

New at Rockfoto.nu: pics from the Access All Areas seminar including Bad Cash Quartet, Bear Quartet, The Concretes, David & The Citizens, First Floor Power, Hell On Wheels, José Gonzales, Kamera, Melody Club, Soak The Sin, Teenage Idols, Whyte Seeds and more.

Via pHinnWeb: International Helsinki/Manchester-based electronic music label Mate Recordings has updated their website with news of upcoming live events, Roger's "Art Schools, Art Students" tour, upcoming plans for Bynatone and a new Kompleksi CDR comp that's being circulated.

David & the Citizens' next single will be for the song "Graycoated Morning" from their most recent album "Until the Sadness is Gone". The b-side will be the exclusive track "Christmas Eve" which was recorded at the band's practice space. It doesn't come out until January, but you can check out the video here: http://www.recycled.se/feature3.html

Musique One Stop has been updated with new pics from David & the Citizens, Shout Out Louds, Ultrasport, The Hommos, First Floor Power, and Rocky Dennis.