This week's top 20 Swedish student radio chart:

01. (01) The Pipettes - "Your kisses are wasted on me"
02. (02) Primal Scream - "Country girl"
03. (03) Dub Sweden - "On your telly"
04. (04) Christian Falk w/Robyn & Ola Salo - "Dream on"
05. (NY) Peter, Bjorn And John w/Victoria Bergsman - "Young folks"
06. (05) The Sounds - "Tony the beat"
07. (09) Archie Bronson Outfit - "Dead funny"
08. (08) Arctic Monkeys - "The view from the afternoon"
09. (NY) Whyte Seeds - "Back in town"
10. (20) Danko Jones - "First date"
11. (13) David & The Citizens - "Are you in my blood?"
12. (NY) Sator - "Angelina & Sister Ray"
13. (NY) Supersci w/Remedeeh - "Get!"
14. (NY) The Strokes - "You only live once"
15. (07) Tiger Lou - "Nixon"
16. (NY) The Knife - "We share our mother's health"
17. (NY) Promoe w/Capleton - "Songs of joy"
18. (NY) Morrissey - "The youngest was the most loved"
19. (ÅT) Swingfly - "Save the trees"
20. (NY) Nathan Larson w/Nina Persson - "Dead leaves and the dirty ground"

Leaving the chart:
Supersci med Chords - "On the grind"
Schneider TM - "Pac man"
The Coup w/Talib Kweli & Black Thought - "My favourite mutiny"
The Raconteurs - "Steady as she goes"
Placebo - "Infra-red"
SLS - "Get back"
Hot Chip - "Boy from school"
Animal Five - "Sharks"
Tool - "Vicarious"
Wolfmother - "Dimension"

This week's top 20 Swedish album chart:

01. BWO - Halycon days
02. Totta & Wiehe - Dylan
03. Lars Winnerbäck - Efter nattens bränder - 1996-2006
04. Eric Gadd - Eric gadd
05. Backyard Babies - People like people like people like us
06. Anna Book - Let's dance + 13 favoriter
07. Linda Bengtzing - Ingenting att förlora
08. Magnus Uggla - Ett bedårande barn av sin tid
09. Sebastian - Sebastian
10. The Refreshments - 24-7
11. Andreas Johnson - Mr johnson, your room is on fire
12. Björn Rosenström & Det Jävla Bandet - Syster Gunbritts hemlighet
13. Takida - ...make you breathe
14. The Radio Dept. - Pet grief
15. Anna Christoffersson/Steve Dobrogosz - It's always you
16. Björn Skifs - Decennier sånger från en annan tid
17. The Knife - Silent shout
18. Laleh - Laleh
19. Sator - Basement noise
20. Christer Sjögren - King creole

Norwegian electronic/jazz/post-rock act Wibutee will release their new album "Sweet mental" on May 22, but you can already preview a couple tracks at myspace: http://www.myspace.com/wibutee
In case you don't recognize that voice on "Sweet ball", it's Anja Garbarek. Sounds great. (via)

There's a preview clip of the new Sator album at EMA's website: http://www.ema.se/boka/artister/sator/sator.htm

Chips K (Sator) makes a guest appearance on the new album "Piangi Con Me" from old-school California punks White Flag, billed as El Swe. It comes out February 28.

Swedish rockers Captain Murphy are working on their second full-length album, once again joining up with acclaimed producer Chips K (Sator, etc.). Look for a new 7" on US label Fandango Records in the near future, too.

In case you didn't already find out, Sator was the secret band at Hultsfred Festival this year. Various guests joined the band on stage including Moneybrother, Joppe Pihlgren (Docenterna), Nix Wahlberg (Nomads), Nina Natri (Fidget), Kent Norberg (Sator), Maria Andersson (Sahara Hotnights), Robert "Strängen" Dahlqvist (Hellacopters), Patrik Arve (Teddybears Sthlm), Bo Sundström and José González.

The new Hellacopters album "Rock & rock is dead" has been confirmed for a June 8 release. The record was produced by Chips Kiesbye (Sator) at Atlantis studio in Stockholm and mixed by Michael Ilbert at Megaphon Studio. Tracklist:

01. Before the fall
02. Everything's on TV
03. Monkeyboy
04. No angel to lay me away
05. Bring it on home
06. Leave it alone
07. Murder on my mind
08. I'm in the band
09. Put out the fire
10. I might come see you tonight
11. Nothing terribly new
12. Make it tonight
13. Time got on time to wait for me

The first single will reportedly be for the song "Everything's on TV".

Mando Diao, Sator and Silverbullit are the first bookings for this summer's Peace & Love Festival in Borlänge, Sweden on July 8 and 9.

Read all about Sator's various secret aliases throughout the years: http://www.sator.se/babydemons.php

Chips K of Sator will produce the new Wilmer X album. Read more: http://w1.sydsvenskan.se/Article.jsp?article=10086470 (in Swedish)

Sator side-project The Wild Kings report that they have finished work on their "Down at Wild Kingdom" 7". The b-side will be a live cover of "Career of Evil" by Blue Oyster Cult, and if that's not 'wild' enough for you, it will be released by the label Wild Kingdom.

Millencolin report that they've written about 20 songs for their next album, 12-14 of which will make the final cut. Chips Kiesbye from Sator will produce and recording is scheduled to begin on August 7 at Kuling Studios in Örebro, Sweden.

Sator checks in with a studio report and commentary on every track set to appear on the new album: http://www.sator.se/studio04/studio04.htm

Sator entered Music-a-Matic Studios on May 2 to begin work on the band's sixth album "Basement Noise". Look for more updates coming soon.

The latest on The Hellacopters:

Carl Von Schewen (Wild Kingdom Records, founder of White Jazz Records), Henrik Walse (Hellacopter minister of art) and Nick Royale are running a club night at Debaser in Stockholm together called Club Wild Kingdom. Not only are they claiming to spin the best hard-rock, power-pop and classic punk records around, but they also have a hot house band called The Wild Kings with features members of The Hellacopters, Sator, The Turpentines, The Republicans and Thåström. They'll be playing all sorts of classic cover tunes and also promise to host surprise guests. Check out a flyer here: http://www.hellacopters.com/news/bomp.jpg

Strings' new band Thunderexpress has a 2-track single coming out soon on Razzle and will follow up with a full-length later this year.

There's still no official release date, but "Cream of the Crap, Vol. 2" is coming very soon. Or so they say.

Frontman Nick Royale also has a new band with Scott Morgan (The Rationals, Sonic's Rendezvous Band, The Hydromatics, Powertrane) called Soulmover. They will be recording an album of old-school soul/r'n'b which should hopefully be out on Wild Kingdom before the summer.

And lastly, Nick reports that the new Kurt-Sunes Med Helvetes Hundarna 7" will be out soon on Birdnest Records. "What it is?" he says, "I'm part of it but I don't have a clue." Check out www.birdnest.se for more info.