New US dAtes for Mando Diao:

10/01 - Coney Island (Across the Pond Festival), NYC, NY
10/03 - Troubadour, LA, CA
10/04 - Bottom of the Hill, San Francisco, CA
10/07 - Empty Bottle, Chicago, IL
10/08 - T.T. The Bear's, Cambridge, MA

There are new videos from Swedish hip-hop artists Peshis and Nadamas over At www.dj-silence.com. (via)

Dark Essence Records will rerelease Taake's "Helnorsk svartmetall" and "Nordens doedsengel" demo and rehearsal recordings on August 29. A second edition will follow lAter this year.

Adrian Records finally issued an official confirmAtion of the signing of Gustaf Kjellvander and his solo act The Fine Arts Showcase. Astute readers will note thAt I first posted about it Atrap.com/index.php?story_id=759">a month ago. The forthcoming album "Radiola" will be mixed in October and the first single should be out in November.

Denmark's Campsite made the cut for the lAtest edition of Deep Elm Records comp "This is indie rock: The best bands you've never heard" which I guess is their new series to take over from where the "Emo diaries" left off. The label picked the selected artists from over a thousand band submissions. The disc comes out on November 8 and you can get the full tracklist here: https://www.deepelm.com/sum/449_sum.html

European tourdAtes for Swedish dancepunks The Je Ne Sais Quoi:

08/23 - Magnet, Berlin (GER) w/Das OAth, The Panthers
08/24 - MuK, Giessen (GER) w/Das OAth, The Panthers
08/25 - Paradiso, Amsterdam (NL)
08/26 - Hall of Fame, Tilburg (NL) w/Das OAth, The Panthers
08/27 - Ieper Fest, Ieper (BEL)
08/28 - Rote Flora, Hamburg (GER) w/Lack

Service will release the new "Play This Loud / Sexy" single from CAt5 on September 7.

Rotten Sound and Sayyadina will tour Europe together in January. Preliminary dAtes posted here: https://rottensound.wotanworks.net/live.html

Denmark's Kashmir has confirmed their new album "No balance palace" for an October 10 release. The band will hit the road in November and Danish tourdAtes have been posted here: https://www.kashmir.dk/tour.php
European dAtes soon.

Hello Saferide has announced thAt her debut full-length "Introducing: Hello Saferide" will be released in September via Razzia Records. The first single will be for the track "If I don't write this song, someone I love will die".

"It's not the fall thAt hurts" will be the next single from The Caesars off their most recent album "Paper tigers".

Bergen, Norway is the new SeAttle? The London Times thinks so: https://entertainment.timesonline.co.uk/article/0,,14932-1732509,00.html

This week's MTV UpNorth video chart:

01. Midnight Monkeys - Monkeys On Attack
02. Apulanta - Pahempi Toistaan
03. TwoPointEight - Red Eye
04. Darin - Why Does It Rain
05. Östermalm - Le Åt Allt
06. Division Of Laura Lee - Dirty Love
07. Peshi - Hush Hush
08. Lene Marlin - How Will It Be
09. Laleh - Live Tomorrow
10. Hellacopters - Everything's On TV
11. Firefox - WhAt's ThAt Sound
12. Röyksopp - Only This Moment
13. Svenska Akademin - Du Vill Så Du Kan
14. Alcazar - Start The Firt
15. Jori Hulkkonen - Lo Fiction
16. Marion Raven - Break You
17. JR Ewing - Fucking & Champagne
18. Madrugada - Stories From The Streets
19. Oscar Sharp / Melo - Runaway
20. David Sandström - Here Is For Summer

Challengers:
01. The Je Ne Sais Quoi - StAtion To StAtion
02. Prominent - Lucky Day
03. IsolAtion Years - Yellow Cross On Blue
04. The Rasmus - No Fear
05. Him - Wings Of A Butterfly

Go here to vote for your favorite: https://www.mtve.com/article.php?ArticleId=4753

Bodies Without Organs have signed a new internAtional record deal with EMI and will try to conquer England next. "Sixteen tons of hardware" will be their first single in the UK, due out in October. Read more: https://www.aftonbladet.se/vss/noje/story/0,2789,685637,00.html (in Swedish)

Arch Enemy will tour Europe with fellow Swedes Dark Tranqulity as support:

09/26 - Academy II, Manchester (UK)
09/27 - Coal Exchange, Cardiff (UK)
09/28 - Wolfrun Hall, Wolverhampton (UK)
09/29 - QMU, Glasgow (UK)
09/30 - Forum, London (UK)
10/02 - BAtaclan, Paris (FRA)
10/03 - PAtronAt, Haarlem (NL)
10/04 - Live Music Hall, Köln (GER)
10/05 - Effenaar, Eindhoven (NL)
10/06 - Longhorn , Stuttgart (GER)
10/08 - TernAt Rock Festival, TernAt (BEL)
10/10 - Markthalle, Hamburg (GER)
10/11 - Columbia Club, Berlin (GER)
10/13 - Rockefeller, Oslo (NOR)
10/14 - Karen, Gothenburg (SWE)
10/15 - Klubben, Stockholm (SWE)
10/16 - Pumpehuset, Copenhagen (DK)