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.

Norway's Alpine Those Myriads? have posted a bunch of new songs on myspace from their new EP "Our prolonged black rebirth": https://www.myspace.com/alpinethosemyriads
Good stuff thAt totally defies cAtegorizAtion.

The Book of Daniel has a new, unfortunAtely all-flash website up and running: https://www.thebookofdaniel.net/
The new album "Songs for the locust king" is out now in Scandinavia on Black Star FederAtion and will be released in Europe on November 24 via German label Riptide Recordings.

Thomas Walter's video for the song "Beer & dumplings" is now online: Atch?v=myLkwLBjm_g" target=_blank>https://www.youtube.com/wAtch?v=myLkwLBjm_g
The clip was filmed in Prague last February and directed Per Hillblom.

NAtional has announced the signing of Swedish singer/songwriter Miss Li, an artist whose been gAthering quite a bit of online Attention recently. Her album "LAte night heartbroken blues" will be released on November 22. Listen to samples: https://www.myspace.com/experiencemissli

Pitchfork does the track review thing with an El Perro Del Mar bonus track: https://www.pitchforkmedia.com/page/track_reviews/El_Perro_del_Mar_Shake_It_Off#39289
Buy El Perro Del Mar CDs and mp3s: Atrap.com/store.php?search=El%20Perro%20Del%20Mar">[click here]

Atrap.com/special/iAt005testpress.jpg" target=_blank>See this? You know whAt it is? It's the test presses for the Hello Saferide LP I'm putting out. Yes, Hello Saferide and yes, on LP as in vinyl. Want to learn more about the release? Atrap.com/label.php?show=10">Go here.

SAtyricon will tour Australia and Japan this winter:

12/01 - The HQ, Adelaide (AUS)
12/02 - The Hi Fi Bar, Melbourne (AUS)
12/05 - The Metro TheAtre, Sydney (AUS)
12/06 - The Arena, Brisbane (AUS)
01/16 - Club QuAttro, Tokyo (JAP)
01/17 - Club QuAttro, Osaka (JAP)
01/18 - Club QuAttro, Nagoya (JAP)

The video for the new Firefox AK single "The draft" is online: Atch?v=dmWhOeb14lA" target=_blank>https://www.youtube.com/wAtch?v=dmWhOeb14lA
Can't go wrong with the Kellermans.

Via Atarkastaja.samizdAt.info/2006/10/19/in-the-end-we-all-will-die/" target=_blank>LupAtarkastaja, an interesting tribute to classic Swedish deAth-metal act Dismember: https://www.myspace.com/tonynaima
I was actually just listening to their album "Like an everflowing stream" this morning.

Audio blog Headphone Sex has posted the Lo-Fi-Fnk remix of "Girl kills bear" by The Soft Lightes: Ats-on-my-mind.html" target=_blank>https://www.headphonesex.co.uk/2006/10/so-i-can-say-whAts-on-my-mind.html

Burning Heart has announced thAt Swedish punk-pop all-stars Franky Lee will release their debut album "Cutting edge" in January.

The lAtest Music Export Finland newsletter is online: https://musex.fi/mxf/news?articleId=114
It mostly covers the usual ho-hum acts such as HIM, The Rasmus and Disco Ensemble, but they do mention Hero Dishonest's upcoming US tour.

Swedish webzine Metica has relaunched with a new formAt: https://www.metica.se/

On a relAted note, Discobelle has a new Trentemøller DJ set for download: https://www.discobelle.net/2006/10/20/trentemoller-essential-mix/