First Floor Power frontwoman Jenny Wilson is going solo and releasing an album on Rabid Records, the label run by the people behind The Knife. Her debut album "Love & Youth" comes out April 6.

The Soundtrack of Our Lives have rescheduled their UK dates:

02/21 - Wedgewood Rooms, Portsmouth (UK)
02/22 - Rescue Rooms, Nottingham (UK)
02/23 - King Tuts, Glasgow (UK)
02/24 - Liquid Room, Edinburgh (UK)
02/26 - Univ Stanley Theatre, Liverpool (UK)
02/27 - Cockpit, Leeds (UK)
02/28 - Concorde 2, Brighton (UK)

The new single "Heading for a Breakdown" comes out February 9 and an animated video from directors Andreas Nilsson and Johannes Holm (The Knife, The Plan, Hell On Wheels, Silverbullit) will be airing shortly.

Pitchfork declares "Heartbeat" from Norway's Annie to be the single of the year and manages to name-drop Swedes The Knife and Fox n' Wolf in the process: http://www.pitchforkmedia.com/top/2004/singles/index5.shtml

Pitchfork reviews The Knife: http://www.pitchforkmedia.com/record-reviews/k/knife/deep-cuts.shtml
So I guess V2 is releasing the record in the US? And the reviewer talks about Olof's vocals? WTF? Do your research dammit!

The Knife on their new 10" EP "Gender bender":

"We think it's very exciting to create a vocal from which you can't tell the gender. For us it's a way to loosen up and play with the gender roles, a way to work with our feminist ideas and the the problem with specifying gender roles. Sometimes the voice sounds really male but still there is something very different about it. And sometimes, when the voicetransformer works as its best, the voice sounds really androgynous. To maximise the expression of the song we also like to go into different characters. The voicetransformer makes this easier and the result gets stronger and more clear".

As mentioned before, the record contains three previously released tracks ("Handy-Man", "You Make Me Like Charity" and "Hangin' Out") along with the new song "Manhood". It's out now.

P3 Musikjournalen is saying that pop starlet Robyn will be with various artists such as Klas Åhlund and The Knife on a new album, tentatively due out around summer next year.

The Knife will be releasing a new 10" EP called "Gender bender" in the UK on December 13. Most of the tracks come from the UK edition of "Deep cuts", but there is one exclusive cut. Full tracklist:

A1. Handy-Man
A2. Manhood (exclusive)
B1. You Make Me Like Charity
B2. Hangin' Out

500 copies only.

How cool is this? The Knife will be doing a remix of the next Stina Nordenstam single "Parliament Square" for release in January or February via V2. They are also doing a remix of "Keep you Kimi" for Swedish electronic artist Hird for release on the lounge label DNM (Dealers of Nordic Music).

Here's this week's top 10 Nordic video chart from YLE/Morjen:

01. Lars Winnerbäck - Elegi (SWE)
02. The Confusions - Window (SWE)
03. Steep - Complete lack of ideals and integrity (FIN)
04. Kevin - Theme from forever (FIN)
05. Nightwish - Wish I had an angel (FIN)
06. Týr - Regin smidur (DK)
07. Nephew - Superliga (DK)
08. Anna Ternheim - To be gone (SWE)
09. The Knife - Heartbeats (SWE)
10. Promoe - Long distance runner (SWE)

Challengers:
11. Apocalyptica - Bittersweet (FIN)
12. Melody Club - Baby (SWE)
13. Infinite Mass - Fire fire (SWE)

Here's this week's top 10 Nordic video chart from YLE/Morjen:

01. Lars Winnerbäck - Elegi (SWE)
02. The Confusions - Window (SWE)
03. Nephew - Superliga (DK)
04. Peggy Lejonhjärta - Att dansa och slåss (SWE)
05. Steep - Complete lack of ideals and integrity (FIN)
06. Kevin - Theme from forever (FIN)
07. Týr - Regin smidur (DK)
08. Nightwish - Wish I had an angel (FIN)
09. The Knife - Heartbeats (SWE)
10. Giant Robot - Get up (FIN)

Challengers:
11. Hybrid Children - Barricade boy (FIN)
12. Promoe - Long distance runner (SWE)
13. Anna Ternheim - To be gone (SWE)

Here's this week's top 10 Nordic video chart from YLE/Morjen:

01. Nephew - Superliga (DK)
02. Steep - Complete lack of ideals and integrity (FIN)
03. The Confusions - Window (SWE)
04. Týr - Regin smidur (DK)
05. The Rasmus - Guilty (FIN)
06. Nightwish - Wish I had an angel (FIN)
07. The Knife - Heartbeats (SWE)
08. Johnny Deluxe - Drömmer jeg? (DK)
09. Humane - Crucify (FIN)
10. Giant Robot - Get up (FIN)

Challengers:
11. Kevin - Theme from forever (FIN)
12. Lars Winnerbäck - Elegi (SWE)
13. Peggy Lejonhjärta - Att dansa och slåss (SWE)

Here's this week's top 10 Nordic video chart from YLE/Morjen:

01. Steep - Complete lack of ideals and integrity (FIN)
02. Nephew - Superliga (DK)
03. Týr - Regin smidur (DK)
04. The Confusions - Window (SWE)
05. The Rasmus - Guilty (FIN)
06. Nightwish - Wish I had an angel (FIN)
07. Ana Johnsson - Don't cry for pain (SWE)
08. Snook - Mister Cool (SWE)
09. Johnny Deluxe - Drömmer jeg? (DK)
10. Humane - Crucify (FIN)

Challengers:
11. Giant Robot - Get up (FIN)
12. The Knife - Heartbeats (SWE)
13. Virgo - Bubbles (DK)

Isolation Years will soon be releasing a brand new single entitled "Nurse Hands" on November 24, the first from what will be the group's eagerly awaited third album. A video is in production with director Andreas from Silverbullit who also did worked on clips for TSOOL and The Knife. The still-untitled full-length has a tentative release date set for February next year, but they're still busy mixing it, so anything could happen. Look for samples and new press pics and so forth soon. Otherwise the guys will be hitting the road in November for a few dates around Sweden alongside Grand Drive from the UK. Dates:

11/24 - KB, Malmö
11/25 - Herrgår'n, Linköping
11/26 - Sticky Fingers, Göteborg
11/27 - Nalen, Stockholm
11/28 - Klubb Söndag @ Strömpis, Örebro

The Guardian reviews The Knife: http://www.guardian.co.uk/arts/reviews/story/0,11712,1327260,00.html

Playlouder reviews The Knife: http://www.playlouder.com/review/+deepcuts/