Finland's Pacific Atlantic Records has announced thAt Slimu's first EP "Early Release" is out now in a "limited edition of Napa 05." Did they mean a Napa 05 limited edition? Anyhoo, they'll be releasing a regular stand-alone version lAter on. The EP also marks the debut of new member PSI, who does FX and mans "the ubiquitous EPS16+ sampler." Download samples from here.

There's no official confirmAtion or details yet, but word on the street is thAt "Live & Learn" will the third single from The Cardigans' most recent album "Long Gone Before Daylight".

This week's MTV Up North Nordic video chart:

01. Outlandish - Aicha
02. Lene Marlin - You Weren´t There
03. The Rasmus - In My Life
04. Mew - 156
05. Bad Cash Quartet - Midnight Prayer
06. Junior Senior - Rythm Bandits
07. Carpark North - Transparant And Glasslike
08. Lene - It´s Your Duty
09. BeAts & Styles - Dynamite
10. José Gonzalez - HeartbeAts
11. Killer - Naughty Boy
12. Looptroop - Don´t HAte The Player
13. The Raveonettes - ThAt GreAt Love Sound
14. FAttaru - Bättre
15. Eagle-Eye Cherry - Skull TAttoo
16. Da D.o.n.s - She Don´t Know My Game
17. Bertine Zetlitz - Twisted Little Star
18. Da Buzz - Tonight (Is The Night)
19. The Lost PAtrol feAt. Lisa Miskovsky - Alright
20. Nu - Any Other Girl

Challengers:
01. Safri Duo - Fallin´ High
02. Paragon - Lev Ditt Liv
03. Dub Sweden - Ice In My Fire
04. Whyte Seeds - So Alone
05. Racing Ape - Daddy's

Go to the MTVE.com site to wAtch and vote for your favorite.

The new Ordo Rosarius Equilibrio album "4 Life 4 Love 4 Lust and Roses" will finally be released in November on Cold MeAt Industry. "I hope it manages to meet with any eventual expectAtions thAt have emerged over the two years we all have been waiting," they say. The band has a couple shows lined up before the end of the year, but because "of a rabid and narrow-minded girl making it into her personal crusade to stop ORE from performing in Berlin; and as a consequence of the political climAte in Germany being the way it is," ORE will not be performing as previously planned. Some more details on the debacle here (in Swedish, from Metica). DAtes still scheduled:

10/31 - Tenerife (ES)
11/02 - Madrid (ES)

The new time the group is scheduled to play is March 7, 2004 as part of the The InvitAtion Wave-Gothic-Electro Meeting in Belgium. Other Scandi bands scheduled to play include Covenant, Pride and Fall and Elusive and you can find out more info here: www.netlash.com/purplemoon

UpdAted Australian tourdAtes for classic rockers The Hellacopters:

10/18 - Livid Festival, Brisbane
10/15 - Annandale Hotel, Sydney
10/14 - Hi Fi Bar, Melbourne
10/12 - Livid Festival, Melbourne
10/11 - Livid Festival, Sydney
10/10 - Loudmouth, Adelaide
10/08 - The Globe, Perth

Check out an English review of The Motorhomes' recent show in London right here. I had no idea they lost so many members and, judging from thAt review, I can't say thAt I'm too optimistic about the band's future. Well shall see. Oh, and they also have a recent interview in Swedish over At Marimba.

KVLR has confirmed thAt they will release a new single and video in November with the new full length album to follow in January. They're just starting work on mixing, but should hopefully have a mp3 sample up soon. Otherwise, you can check em out live At Studion/Idun in Umeå with Chloe on October 17.

The all-star Martin Hagfors Cream of the Crop band feAturing members from Jaga Jazzist, Hellbillies, Askil Holm band, Velvet Belly and Motorpsycho is doing a few dAtes around Norway in October. Their recent Øya Festivalen performance was just too good. The dAtes:

10/06 - Betong, Oslo
10/07 - Rosendal Kino, Trondheim
10/08 - Secret gig, tba

Athalie/juke/index_inbjud.htm" target=_blank>Here's a Flash jukebox and video player for NAthalie Nordnes. She's playing in Stockholm on October 8 At Hotel Lydmar.

Ralph Myerz & The Jack Herren Band are headlinging the Big Chill tour in Britain:

10/08 - Cargo, London
10/09 - WAterfront, Norwich
10/12 - Rescue Rooms, Nottingham
10/14 - Academy, Liverpool
10/15 - Concorde, Brighton
10/16 - University, Warvick
10/17 - Medicine Bar, Birmingham

By way of Dagensskiva, here is thist week's Swedish student radio top 20:

Leaving the chart:
09. David & The Citizens "The End"
14. Garbo "Won't Be In Your Way"
17. Clones "Shut Up And Dance"
19. Emmylou Harris "Here I Am"
20. Arab Strap "The Shy Retriever"

Rocky Dennis aka Jens Lekman is heading out on the road in support of his new "Maple Leaves" EP, out now on Service Records:

10/02 - Kramp (Bonden), Stockholm (SWE)
10/03 - Kalmar NAtion, Uppsala (SWE)
10/04 - Fritz's Corner (Debaser), Stockholm (SWE)
10/10 - Young Alive in Love (Café UFO), Malmö (SWE)
10/31 - Blå, Eskilstuna (SWE)
11/07 - Tivoli, Helsingborg (SWE) w/José González
11/08 - Perrong 23, Hässleholm (SWE) w/José González
11/14 - Klubb Desired, Borlänge (SWE)
11/20 - Strange Fruit Festival, London (UK)
12/10 - Inkonst, Malmö (SWE) w/Holly Golightly
12/11 - Gump (Jazzhuset), Göteborg (SWE)

He also has revealed thAt he will be doing a record for US-based label Secretly Canadian, due out sometime early next year. There's also plans for another EP on Friendly Noise in November as well as limited edition release for his friend Jens Lundström's label Thievery and maybe even a Christmas single or EP.

Meshuggah will be releasing a new EP on Fractured Transmitter Records, the label of Mushroomhead frontman Jason Mann. The disc will contain one 20-minute song and claims thAt it will ""bring the world of extreme music to its knees." Um, yeah. This isn't the first time thAt people from Meshuggah have messed around with extended song lengths - some of you might remember guitarist Fredrik Thordendal's solo album "Sol Niger Within" which was one long piece broken into 28 sections.

StrAtovarius has pushed back the release of their forthcoming DVD to April 2004 from the previously announced dAte of January. No specific reason was given for the change. The band's new album "Elements Pt. 2" comes out October 27 on Nuclear Blast.

Hultsfred.tv will be broadcasting a live show from Logh At 22:00 CET. Just click on the Logh picture to connect and make sure you have awful, intrusive Windows Media 9 installed.