Via Dagensskiva, here's this week's top 20 Swedish student radio chart:
01. (01) Beastie Boys - "An Open Letter To NYC"
02. (03) The Ark - "One Of Us Is Gonna Die Young"
03. (02) Promoe - "Long Distance Runner"
04. (04) Ison & Fille - "Vill Va Highwon"
05. (06) Radio LXMBRG - "L'Indiffirence EP"
06. (05) Faithless - "Miss U Less, See U More"
07. (NY) Slam - "This World"
08. (07) Bloc Party - "Helicopter"
09. (08) Timo Räisänen - "Lovers Are Lonely"
10. (09) The Chrysler - "Blue Gold"
11. (14) The Chemical Brothers - "Galvanize"
12. (NY) Acid House Kings - "This Heart Is A Stone"
13. (NY) Morrissey - "I Have Forgiven Jesus"
14. (13) Rantoboko Feat. Promoe - "Ironical World... Mr President"
15. (NY) ...Trail Of Dead - "Worlds Apart"
16. (18) John Legend - "Used To Love U"
17. (16) Keane - "This Is The Last Time"
18. (NY) USCB Allstars - "Cheap Imitation/Rise Above"
19. (10) The Go! Team - "Ladyflash"
20. (NY) Timbuktu - "Alla vill till himmelen men ingen vill dö"
Hot tracks outside the top 20:
David Lindh & Hail Marys - "Good Thing"
The Concretes - "Lady December"
Nancy Sinatra - "Burnin' Down The Spark"
Leaving the chart:
(11) The Tough Alliance - "Holiday"
(12) CDOASS - "Speak To Me"
(15) Mando Diao - "God Knows"
(17) Snow Patrol - "How To Be Dead"
(19) The Soundtrack Of Our Lives - "Believe I've Found"
(20) Björk - "Who Is It?"
Here's the first list of names confirmed for the upcoming P3 Popstad fest in Stockholm on February 3-5: Bergman Rock, Christian Walz, The Latin Kings, Eric Prydz, Teddybears STHLM, The Concretes, Caesars Palace, Infinite Mass, Sophie Rimheden, Weeping Willows, Steve Angelo, Two Times The Trauma, Ison & Fille, The Killers, The Baboon Show, Ayesha, Peter Bjorn and John, Petter, The Sunshine, Axwell, The Plan, Andreas Tilliander, Richard Reagh & wwnb2, Anna Ternheim, Medina, Hanky and Panky, Florence Valentin, I Love You Baby!, The Nomads, Ted, Revlon 9, Tiger Lou, Suburban Kids with Biblical Names, Tobias Lindén, Tristes Tigers, The Happiest Girl in The World, Hundarna från Söder, Nadie Affecta, Stella Rocket, [Ingenting], Midnight Monkeys, Sebastian Ingrosso, Johnossi, Fatfred and the Superfast Truckers and Damn!.
MTVe is launching four new Nordic channels for the countries of Sweden, Norway, Finland and Denmark, each one specifically targeted to the local audience. Read more: https://www.mtve.com/article.php?ArticleId=5253
Aftonbladet's music critics offers up their picks for the year's best albums, starting with Per Bjurman: https://www.aftonbladet.se/vss/noje/story/0,2789,575639,00.html (in Swedish)
Some of the number ones include Marit Bergman, Koma and Mattias Alkberg.
Finntroll and Graveworm will be teaming up for a European tour next spring. Tentative dates:
04/07 - F House, Jena (GER)
04/08 - K17, Berlin (GER)
04/09 - Turnhalle, Giebelstadt (GER)
04/10 - Lokschuppen, Rosenheim (GER)
04/11 - Black Pess, Praha (CZ)
04/12 - Stara Peraken, Nitra (SLO)
04/13 - Mega Club, Budapest (HUN)
04/14 - Arena, Vienna (AUS)
04/15 - Posthof, Linz (AUS)
04/16 - tba (ITA)
04/17 - Alpheus, Roma (ITA)
04/18 - Kiff Arrau (SWI)
04/19 - Rockstore, Montpellier (FRA)
04/20 - Mephisto, Barcelona (SPA)
04/21 - Ritmo Compas, Madrid (SPA)
04/22 - El Tren, Granada (SPA)
04/23 - tba (POR)
04/24 - tba (SPA)
04/25 - Tunk, Irun (SPA)
04/27 - Effenaar, Eindhofen (NL)
04/28 - Melkweg Amsterdam (NL)
04/29 - Vera, Groningen (NL)
04/30 - tba (NL)
05/01 - tba (BL)
05/02 - tba (UK)
05/03 - tba (UK)
05/04 - Underworld, London (UK)
05/05 - The Pitz, Milton Keyns (UK)
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.
Today's top 10 from Kristofer Åström is the best yet! Check it out!
Thirdimension has added a couple mp3s and some silly flash animations to their site: https://www.thirdimension.nu/
Norway's Kite has parted ways with guitarist Reiten and is currently seeking a replacement. Read more: https://www.kiteweb.net/kiteweb/iFrontpage.php?ID=34
Laakso will be heading into the studio in January to record a new album.
Download a demo version of the brand new Abduktio song "Tämä kaupunki" ("This city") right here: https://www.fullsteamrecords.com/popupikkunat/mp3/Abduktio/Abduktio%20-%20tama%20kaupunki.mp3
The band will start recording a new album in February.
This would probably never happen in the US: the city of Oslo has decided to bail out internationally renown jazz club Blå in light of their recent financial hardships. Even better, the action sets a precedent for continued support in the future. Read more: https://www.aftenposten.no/english/local/article930630.ece