Via Discobelle, check out Swedish hip-hop artist Paragon covering The Knife's "Heartbeats": http://www.discobelle.net/2007/03/28/hjartslag/
Kinda lame that he's basically doing karaoke over the original track, but whatever. It's interesting enough.

Interview: Christer Lundberg (Universal Poplab)

Profile: Hearts of Black Science

Check out the It's a trap! Last.fm listening group top 10 artists of the week:

01. The Arcade Fire
02. Bloc Party
03. The Shins
04. The Knife
05. Modest Mouse
06. Explosions in the Sky
07. David Bowie
08. Death Cab for Cutie
09. Radiohead
10. The Radio Dept.

Yep, pretty much the same ol' story as usual. If you listen to music on your computer or with an iPod, please please please join us! The more people that join, the more interesting our chart will be, the more interesting new music you'll discover. Go here to learn more: http://www.last.fm/help/

Listen to Castanets cover The Knife: http://asthmatickitty.com/akradio/players/akradio_sxsw.php

Check out the It's a trap! Last.fm listening group top 10 albums of the week:

01. The Arcade Fire – Neon Bible
02. Bloc Party – A Weekend In The City
03. Modest Mouse – We Were Dead Before The Ship Even Sank
04. The Knife – Silent Shout
05. The Shins – Wincing The Night Away
06. Camera Obscura – Let's Get out of This Country
07. The Arcade Fire – Funeral
08. Bloc Party – Silent Alarm
09. The Postal Service – Give Up
10. Beirut – Gulag Orkestar

Someone stop me before I fall asleep! If you listen to music on your computer or with an iPod, please please please join us! The more people that join, the more interesting our chart will be, the more interesting new music you'll discover. Go here to learn more: http://www.last.fm/help/

The Knife are sponsoring a new single to benefit the woman of Ystad Penitentiary. Contributing artists include Cecilia Nordlund (Monkeystrikes, Souls) and Lotta Wenglen as well as producer Oskar Ling (Promoe, Hans Appelqvist) who will mix the project. Read more: http://www.aftonbladet.se/vss/noje/story/0,2789,1006940,00.html

This week's It's a trap! Last.fm/Audioscrobbler listening group top 10 artists of the week:

01. The Arcade Fire
02. Bloc Party
03. The Shins
04. Sufjan Stevens
05. Modest Mouse
06. Of Montreal
07. The Knife
08. Peter Bjorn and John
09. The Radio Dept.
10. Jens Lekman

Album charts are still not working and the top 10 tracks are all from the same 2-3 records, so I'm not going to bother. If you listen to music on your computer or with an iPod, please join us! The more people that join, the more interesting our chart will be, the more interesting new music you'll discover. Go here to learn more: http://www.last.fm/help/

This week's top 20 Swedish album chart:

01. Sophie Zelmani - Memory loves you
02. Caroline Af Ugglas - Joplin på Svenska
03. Lena Philipsson - Lena 20 år
04. Lasse Stefanz - 40 ljuva år!
05. Salem Al Fakir - This is who I am
06. Calaisa - Calaisa
07. Säkert! - Säkert
08. Ane Brun - Live in Scandinavia
09. Fläskkvartetten - Voices of Eden
10. Laleh - Prinsessor
11. Martin Stenmarck - Nio sanningar och en lögn
12. Moneybrother - Pengabrorsan
14. The Knife - Silent shout
15. Anna Ternheim - Separation road
16. Nisse Hellberg - Snackbar blues
17. Björn Skifs - Andra Decennier
18. Lisa Miskovsky - Changes
19. Bo Kaspers Orkester - Hund
20. Markus Fagervall - Echo heart

Laleh
Princessor
Warner Music Sweden

Second album from hippiechick-come-eccentric who can sing like bat out'a hell, and is named after the fifth Tellytubby (allegedly). Brace yourself, it's a full on affair. That I set the player to random seems to have made no difference because 'random' is the operative for "Prinsessor". Warped classical, circus bigtop, singer/songwriter mark a few of the turns - and don't she just love la-la-la-la's, ma-ma-ma-ma-ma's and bird song sound effects. Note the dual assault of English and Swedish language songs. There's lots of movement to "Closer"; bombastic to begin then insipid McDonald's equivalent of Dub is: "Call on me".
A horrendous mish-mash of styles and so ear bashingly provided; but she does have these flashes between keys throughout. Bear in mind Laleh is one massive pastiche, and that "Step on You" could be called 'The world's best song by the greatest session musicians ever' - Fleetwood Mac would have been proud! It's preposterous, but The Knife ought to get Laleh's vocal sampled - not least on the first few versus of "I know this". This album is genuinely good when ambling, but hideous when clever.
- Jason Christie

This week's It's a trap! Last.fm/Audioscrobbler listening group top 10 artists of the week:

01. The Arcade Fire
02. Bloc Party
03. The Shins
04. The Radio Dept.
05. The Knife
06. Belle and Sebastian
07. Kent
08. Sufjan Stevens
09. Jens Lekman
10. Radiohead

I'd list the top 10 tracks too, but it's so dreadfully boring and the albums charts are currently broken. If you listen to music on your computer or with an iPod, please join us! The more people that join, the more interesting our chart will be, the more interesting new music you'll discover. Go here to learn more: http://www.last.fm/help/

The winners of this year's Manifest Awards, Sweden's alternative to the Grammis:

Hip-hop/R&B/soul: Ison & fille
Pop/rock: The Radio Dept.
Hard-rock/punk: Asta Kask
Folk/worldmusic: Ranarim
Singer/songwriter: Andreas Mattsson
Dance/house/techno: The Knife
Best newcomer: Lo-Fi-Fnk - Boylife
Digfipriset (best unsigned artist): The Wonderful Guinea Pigs
Postrock/electronica: Ebb
Jazz: Lennart Åberg with Peter Erskine - "Free Spirit"
Best live artist: The Knife

Read more: http://www.manifestgalan.se/125.aspx

This week's top 20 Swedish album chart:

01. Lena Philipsson - Lena 20 år
02. Caroline Af Ugglas - Joplin på Svenska
03. Salem Al Fakir - This is who I am
04. Lasse Stefanz - 40 ljuva år!
05. Fläskkvartetten - Voices of Eden
06. Moneybrother - Pengabrorsan
07. Martin Stenmarck - Nio sanningar och en lögn
08. Anna Ternheim - Separation road
09. The Knife - Silent shout
10. Laleh - Prinsessor
11. Calaisa - Calaisa
12. Nisse Hellberg - Snackbar blues
14. Lisa Miskovsky - Changes
15. Björn Skifs - Andra Decennier
16. Bo Kaspers Orkester - Hund
17. Markus Fagervall - Echo heart
18. Jill Johnson - The woman I've become
19. Orup - Faktiskt
20. Lars Winnerbäck - Efter nattens bränder - 1996-2006

The Knife comes in at #16 on the Village Voice Pazz & Jop poll for 2006's top albums: http://www.villagevoice.com/pazzandjop06/winners.php?type=album

Loney, Dear's video for "I am John" is now online: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WA57ImfVqcE
The animated clip was done by Silverbullit guitarist Andreas Nilsson, a name many are now familiar with because of his work with The Knife.