The Cardigans website has an English translation of Nina Persson's recent DN interview discussing the new A Camp record, among other things: http://www.cardigans.com/?sid=article&pid=read&id=7011

While The Cardigans take a break, Nina Persson has decided to resurrect her solo project A Camp: http://www.dn.se/DNet/jsp/polopoly.jsp?d=2198&a=648039

Speaking of The Cardigans, PopMatters talks to Peter Svensson: http://www.popmatters.com/pm/features/article/7176/the-l-words-an-interview-with-the-cardigans/

The Cardigans will be playing one and only one US show this year at The Knitting Factory in NYC on October 31 with The Format and Dan Keyes (Young Love). It will be an acoustic set and they are scheduled to go on at 8:30pm.

Video mix: KVLR, El Perro Del Mar, Totalt Jävla Mörker, Entombed, Division of Laura Lee, Abhinanda, more...

PopMatters on the US release of the The Cardigans' latest album "Super extra gravity": http://www.popmatters.com/pm/music/reviews/5475/the-cardigans-super-extra-gravity/
Check out a new microsite for the album here: http://static.cardigans.com/microsites/super.extra.gravity/

Video mix: Alarma Man, At the Gates, The Bear Quartet, Kings of Convenience, Montt Mardié, more...

The Cardigans maybe have cancelled their scheduled US tourdates in September, but they'll still be making it over to Brazil. Dates and details soon.

The Cardigans will finally be back in the US this September for some live dates - I see a confirmed show at the Paradise in Boston on September 15 and the First Unitarian Church in Philly announced for September 16. Their most recent album "Super extra gravity" finally gets a US release on September 19.

MP3: Nathan Larson and Nina Persson - Itämaista rakkautta

I have yet to see "Om gud vill" ("God willing"), the big-screen acting debut of The Cardigans' Nina Persson, but I have been fortunate enough to have heard the soundtrack. A lot of people seemed quite excited to hear her take on "Dead leaves and dirty ground" by the White Stripes, but if you ask me, the highlight is Nina singing the Finnish tango classic "Itämaista rakkautta" ("Oriental love"). It's pretty amazing to hear how much Nina has progressed over the years - those first few Cardigans records are near and dear to my heart, but they are so far removed from what the band is capable of nowadays. Singing a White Stripes cover is slumming, plain and simple.

Nathan Larson and Nina Persson - Itämaista rakkautta

Stream the Led Zeppelin Polar Prize TV special from Sweden featuring The Soundtrack of Our Lives playing a few Zep classics with help from Nina Persson (The Cardigans) and Maja Ivarsson (The Sounds): http://www.tv4.se/player/categories.aspx?treeId=3013&pid=54314&more=1

Check out the video for "Sharks", the debut single from The Animal Five: http://qstream-rm.qbrick.com/ramgen/00307/TheAnimalFive/TheAnimalFive-Sharks-Broadband.rm
TA5 are the first new band signed to the recently relaunched Trampoline Records run by bassist Magnus Svenningsson of The Cardigans.

The soundtrack for the movie "Om Gud Vill", y'know - the movie in which Nina Persson of The Cardigans makes her big screen debut, will be released on April 26. Nina's cover the The White Stripes' "Dead leaves and the dirty ground" is on it, along with four other tunes.

Nina Persson's (The Cardigans) cover version of the White Stripes tune "Dead leaves and the dirty ground", as heard in her film debut on the soundtrack to "Om Gud Vill", will be including on the CD that comes with Groove Magazine in their next issue.

This week's top 20 Swedish album chart:

01. Petter - P
02. Sebastian - Sebastian
03. Christer Sjögren - King creole
04. The Knife - Silent shout
05. Rigmore Gustafsson - On my way to you
06. Laleh - Laleh
07. Magnus Uggla - Ett bedårande barn av sin tid
08. Björn Skifs - Decennier sånger från en annan tid
09. Andreas Mattsson - The lawlessnes of the ruling classes
10. Thåström - Skebokvarnsv 209
11. Sanna Nielsen - Nära mej - nära dej
12. Cue - Guide in blue
13. The Cardigans - Super Extra Gravity
14. Lisa Ekdahl - Pärlor av glas
15. Bodies Without Organs - Prototype
16. In Flames - Come clarity
17. Agnes - Agnes
18. Thåström - Solo vol 1
19. Darin - Darin
20. Son of a Plumber - Son of a Plumber

The Village Voice covers the special Opeth show "Chronology MCMXCIV-MMV" in which they played rarely heard songs from the entire band's career: http://www.villagevoice.com/music/0611,bosler,72487,22.html