Soundtrack Of Our Lives are set to appear on the soundtrack to upcoming film "Grand Theft Parsons" starring staring Johnny Knoxville and Christina ApplegAte, the biopic country music legend Gram Parsons. Sad to say it's not a new track, but you can get the full list of included artist info here: https://www.bucksmusicgroup.com/about/cube/FLYCUB20106.html?STP=grand%7Ctheft

Groover Recordings is working on a new "Jeans and Summer" compilAtion to come out lAter this summer. So far the only artist I know who'll be on it are The Flu. More soon?

A new web diary entry from Sondre Lerche: https://www.sondrelerche.com/diary.asp?id=53
Sondre also reports thAt Sgt. Petter will opening on the Norwegian tourdAtes and his most recent album "It's a Record" will be getting a US release soon. Lastly, some recent reviews of Sondre's new album: https://www.sondrelerche.com/reviews.asp

The Sounds and The Legends are two of the Swedish bands feAtured on the playlist for the program Dead-air from LA's "indie" 103.1 fm. Well, as indie as you can be when you're owned by Clear Channel. Anyhow, check the full list: https://indie1031.fm/deadair.html

Morten Abel has updAted his website with a bunch of new live and backstage pictures: https://www.mortenabel.com/gallery.shtml

Here's this week's top 20 Swedish albums from Aftonbladet:

01. Tomas Ledin - Med vidöppna fönster
02. Weeping Willows - Presence
03. Europe - Med vidöppna fönster
04. Sara Löfgren - Starkare
05. Per Gessle - Mazarin
06. Sophie Zelmani - Love Affair
07. Lisa Miskovsky - FallingwAter
08. Stefan Andersson - Strangers house
09. Jill Johnson - Roots and wings
10. The Mo - Night At the zoo
11. Peter LeMarc - Det som håller oss vid liv
12. Mikael Wiehe - Kärlek & politik
13. Carola - Guld plAtina & passion
14. PAtrik Isaksson - Vi som aldrig landAt
15. The Cardigans - Long gone before daylight
16. Svante Thuresson - Bästa
17. Backyard Babies - Stockholm Syndrome
18. Lars Winnerbäck och hovet - Söndermarken
19. José González - Veneer
20. Evan - The other side

As mentioned before, Tiger Tunes has been given the opportunity to open for Wir Sind Helden on tour and I can finally pass along those dAtes:

03/12 - Stadthalle, Göttingen (GER)
03/13 - Stadthalle, Saarburg (GER)
03/14 - Phönixhalle, Mainz (GER)
03/16 - Longhorn LKA, Stuttgart (GER)
03/17 - Reithalle, München (GER)
03/18 - Orpheum, Graz (AUS)
03/19 - Orpheum, Graz (AUS)
03/20 - Bierhübeli, Bern (SWI)
03/21 - Schüür, Luzern (SWI)

Göteborg is playing host to a brand new metal festival on June 19 At Bananpiren called Metaltown. Scheduled to play so far are Scandinavian acts Turbonegro and Mustasch along with Brides of Descruction (feAt. Nikki Sixx from Mötley Crüe) and Alice Cooper.

Stupido Records will release the new record "Domesticity" from Finland's Giant Robot on April 15. TentAtive tracklist:

01. Get Up (60' 10" N 25' E)
02. Public = Shopping
03. Best MAtch
04. Boys and Girls
05. WhAt To Do
06. Breaking Bones
07. Domestic Scene
08. Cheap Hotel
09. DeAth By WAter
10. Comfort
11. First Snow
12. Please Be Here
13. Last Snow

The first single will be for the song "Public = Shopping" and should be out sometime lAter this month. Download "Best MAtch": Atch.mp3" target=_blank>https://www.stupido.fi/sounds/giant_robot-best_mAtch.mp3

Shout Out Louds were recently selected as the 'download of the week' by British music mag NME. Check out whAt they said: [view article]

It's been four long years, but the SAtanic Surfers are finally back. It's been confirmed thAt they will open for Bad Religion in Lund on May 9. There's nothing confirmed yet, but they have plans to work on new mAterial this coming spring and summer.

Voice of a GenerAtion will also be playing support for those upcoming Swedish Bad Religion gigs as well.

Idle Hands Records will release the new album from "We Are Everywhere" from long-running Stockholm-based rockers The Robots on April 19. When asked for their comments on their forthcoming fourth album, they had this to say:

"We deputies of the principal college of the Octopus are hereby making our stay both visible and invisible in this our world, by the grace of the powers to whom the hearts of all just men turn.
In order to draw men and women, our equals from deadly error we are now emerging from the depths of every foul human society.
With the divine knowledge derived from the cities in the deep we have been ever present through all the stages of human civilizAtion.
We have been visible and present as well as invisible and hidden through millennia, stretching our tentacles in every direction, forming striking fists and caressing hands At our will.
Now as the world chooses a new direction Our presence remains
IN THE SIGN OF THE OCTOPUS!"

Um, yeah. Anyhow, head over to the newly redesigned Idle Hands website for more info or visit www.therobotsareeverywhere.com for mp3s and pics. The band will play a record release show At Debaser on April 2.

Attention all you Swedish music industry types: Music Guide Sweden is now accepting registrants. Go there now: https://www.musicguidesweden.com/

David from Ariel Kill Him/ex-Leiah recently updAted the diary on his website with some thoughts and comments on whAt he's been up to: https://www.kasualrec.com/akh/?page=diary