Backyard Babies frontman/guitarist Dregen is recovering nicely from his mugging injuries and the band has resumed rehearsals and preparing demos for their upcoming album. In other news, the band has also made their first foray into the world of sports by becoming an official endorser of their local hockey team, Njckey Club. The endorsement consists of the BB skull logo being stenciled onto one of the face-off circles.

Remember to watch Conan O'Brien on November 26 to see The Soundtrack of Our Lives perform.

Sweden student radio top 20:

Leaving the chart:
(10) The Crash "New York"
(11) Yeah Yeah Yeahs "Machine"
(13) Peter Bjorn And John "I Don't Know What I Want Us To Do"
(17) The Distillers "City of Angels"
(18) Marit Bergman "This Is the Year"
(20) Adam Green "Dance With Me"

The Knife (ex-Honey is Cool) has got a new record coming out. The first single and video "Heartbeats" will drop January 7 with the album "Deep Cuts" following on January 27.

After a rare concert appearance on Halloween, Notre Dame frontman Snowy Shaw went straight back to Fredman Studio in Sweden to record the next album from Dream Evil. The planned title is "Evilizer" and Snowy contributed four tunes. Work Notre Dame's next album will continue soon.

Watch the video for "The Band" from Mando Diao:

Real: High / Low   Windows: High / Low

Listen to Peter, Bjorn and John play live on P3 here and here. For those that don't know, the members of PBJ have connections to artists such as Caesars Palace, TSOOL, The Plan, Marit Bergman, and Nicolai Dunger among others.

The Soundtrack of Our Lives are keeping busy now that they seem to be on the up and up in America. A rumor that they were gonna be back around on the West Coast with Oasis looks to be false as it's been said they'll be back again next year with another tour of their own. Not to mention they got a new album to record. Remember, their current release "Behind the Music" is already over a year old even though most Americans are just starting to hear the band for first time.

The predictions for the upcoming Rockbjörnen competition have been announced. You have until December 9th to vote and then the top 5 artists from each category will go into the final round.

Robyn threatened by a Muslim priest? Read all about it, I guess. (In Swedish)

Bad Tase Records reports that they've finally figured out what Logh means. According to the International Standard Bible Encyclopedia is says that log or logh is "The smallest liquid or dry measure of the Hebrews, equal to about 1 pint."

Willowtree is about to embark on a 11 show German tour. The band was voted the best unsigned act in Europe as part of 2001's Emergenza band competition. Their debut single "Summer on TV" will be out early in the new year on Undertow Records with an album to follow in March.

Norweigan metal/industrial act Red Harvest is gonna do a UK tour in December. The Bezerker, Labrat, and Insision will support:

Dec. 10 – Bristol, UK @ Bierkeller
Dec. 11 - London, UK @ Underworld
Dec. 12 - Leeds, UK @ Joseph's Well
Dec. 13 - Glasgow, UK @ Strawberry Fields
Dec. 14 - Sheffield, UK @ Corporation

Preview a couple tracks from Omnium Gatherum's upcoming album "Spirits And August Light" here. Rage Of Achilles Records will release the album on February 24.

A new week and some new tunes to your right. The links page is good to go now, too.

The new issue of Rolling Stone (the one with the Simpsons covers) has a short blurb about the Flaming Sideburns in the 'New Faces' section.

The video for "Cloud Connected" from In Flames has reached the number 2 position on the Swedish video program Spinn (SVT 1). The band is currently taking some time off before they head out on a tour of Asia in December.

The new Håkan Hellström album "Det är så jag säger det" has gone platinum in Sweden, with over 60,000 copies sold. "Don't Stop the Music" from artist Robyn has gone gold with sales of over 30,000. Other big sellers on the Swedish charts include Roxette's "The Ballad Hits" and Kent's "FF/VinterNoll2".

Division of Laura Lee has dropped off the first week of the Burning Heart Records Heart Attack Tour. Labelmates The Peepshows, Bombshell Rocks, and Raised Fist will continue on without them as they proceed across Holland, Belgium and the UK. Here's what guitarist/singer Per Stålberg had to say about the unfortunate situation:

It came to a point where we could not even plug in our guitars without crying in pain, and therefore we have to cancel the shows. We have been having those troubles for a while, but carried on anyway as we hate the idea of cancelling shows. But after the first Heart Attack shows in Gothenburg, Stockholm and Örebro we realized we were not able to carry on as the injuries and illness did not only make us feel bad - it also affected our stage appearance so much that we cant continue doing this in consideration to ourselves and to our audience.

DoLL may rejoin the tour, pending a doctor's diagnosis to come later this week.

Randy finished up with the recording of 6 songs for their as-yet-untitled upcoming album. Jocke Åhlund of Caesars Palace helped out with production on a track, too. They plan to continue rehearsing new material with the goal of getting them recorded in December.

Sahara Hotnights just finished up with the filming of a video for the track "Alright, Alright (Here's My Fist, Where's The Fight?)" in Los Angeles with "Jackass - The Movie" director Jeff Tremaine. Members of the Jackass crew make appearances in the video.

The program "Musikbyrån" on SVT will show "The Hellacopters US Tour" documentary on Friday, December 6th. More info here.

Check out this VH1 Feature on The Soundtrack of Our Lives.

Nicolai Dunger will be making some appearances on Swedish TV coming up soon: 11.12 on Nyhetsmorgon TV4 and 11.15 on Riktig Talkshow SVT2.

In case you haven't noticed, I've been changing a few things around here and there. Check out the brand new links page, for instance.

The new video for the song "All Will Break" from Last Days of April is now online. Check it out: High quality / Low Quality

Swedish major label music sales are up domestically about 1.9%. 35.6% of those sales are from Swedish artists, too. Kent's "Vapen & Ammunition" and Magnus Uggla's "Klassiska Mästerverk" led in the tallies.

"Man or Mouse", the latest single from Millencolin is number one on MTV UpNorth. They will appearing on the air on Monday, November 11th to answer fan submitted questions.

Want to be in the new Turbonegro album insert? Check this out.

The Soundtrack of Our Lives said in an interview with Canadian Jam! Showbiz that their current North America tour is going well and they expect to start work on a new album very soon.

The Soundtrack of Our Lives have a feature article in Rolling Stone. The live-in-the-studio videoes they have are pretty cool, too.

Silence Records just added a couple new records to their free online jukebox. Check it out.

West Side Fabrication has two new records coming up: a four track ep from Stardog and "Flat Out", the debut from Trucker.