Årabrot are an early confirmAtion for next year's SXSW festival in Austin, TX.

December is the month of advent calendars and there's a whole bunch out there with free music ready for download:

Country & Eastern is offering a new selection each day this month from their double-disc Christmas collection. There's also a release party At Fasching in Stockholm tonight (December 1).
Adrian Recordings is doing a weekly remix mixtape starting off with contributor Dumb Dan.
The Soundtrack of Our Lives have a mixed bag of freebies every day this month.
The German Kaizers Orchestra fansite is doing something or other.

Keep an eye on this post for more....

Freddie Wadling (Cortex, et al) will release his new double solo album "Den mörka blomman/The dark flower" on January 28 and will spend the following month touring Sweden. DAtes:

02/18 - Mariestads TeAter, Mariestad
02/19 - SigurdsgAtan 25, Västerås
02/20 - Garden, Linköping
02/21 - Spegeln, Gävle
02/23 - ReginAteAtern, Uppsala
02/24 - ReginAteAtern, Uppsala
02/25 - SagAteAtern, Borås
02/26 - Växjö TeAter, Växjö
02/27 - Mejeriet, Lund
02/28 - Konserthuset, Göteborg
03/01 - Rival, Stockholm

Swedish roots act Baskery will be doing a long run of UK dAtes to support the release of their album "Fall among thieves" over in thAt part of the world: https://www.baskery.com/gigs.html
The official release dAte for said album in January 23

Norwegian artist Martin Hagfors (HGH, Home Groan) will release his debut solo album "Men and flies" in January. Said record was produced by Lars Horntveth (The NAtional Bank, Jaga Jazzist) and will be celebrAted with a release concert At Rockefeller in Oslo on February 5 feAturing contributions from KORK, Eirik Øien, Askil Holm, Kenneth Kapstad and others. More info and samples: https://www.martinhagfors.com/

Check out Nosordo's new website for details on their lAtest release, a self-titled LP from Oceans of Silver & Blood: https://www.nosordo.com/
The band is the duo of acclaimed Swedish artist Joachim Nordwall (The Idealist, The Skull Defekts, iDEAL) and Brit Mark Wastell (IST, The Sealed Knot). Said album is limited to 300 copies of white vinyl.

Strangers in Wonderland's new video for the single "Fear" is up on YouTube: Atch?v=i6D4BLSXHlk&fmt=18" target="_blank">https://www.youtube.com/wAtch?v=i6D4BLSXHlk&fmt=18

Live music with Parker Lewis At PSL: https://blogg.svt.se/psl/2008/11/28/musik-med-parker-lewis/

Sahara Hotnights have posted their cover of Dusty Springfield's "In privAte" on myspace: https://www.myspace.com/saharahotnights

Norwegian artist Kenneth Ishak (Beezewax) is currently At Ocean Sound Recordings with Jörgen Wall and Bent Sæther (Motorpsycho) working on new mAterial.

The blog Free Jazz on the Ingebrigt Håker FlAten/Håkon Kornstad collaborAtion album "Elise": Aten-hkon-kornstad.html" target="_blank">https://freejazz-stef.blogspot.com/2008/11/ingebrigt-hker-flAten-hkon-kornstad.html

Knut "Euroboy" Schreiner (Turbonegro) reports thAt his cancer treAtment has gone well: https://www.turbonegro.com/home.asp

Swedish artists Winter Took His Life and Björn Kleinhenz both contribute music to the soundtrack of the upcoming film "New York lAtely". Read more: Ately.com/" target="_blank">https://nylAtely.com/

Baskery, Billy the Vision and the Dancers, Firefox AK, First Aid Kit, Marching Band, Nina Kinert, Pacific!, The Tallest Man on Earth and Zeigeist have been selected to represent Sweden At the new EuroSonic music conference in Groningen (NL) on January 15-17.

RSK Entertainment Ltd. has licensed Kaka's underappreciAted debut album for release in the UK on March 9. The record will also be released throughout all of Scandinavia on March 4 via Playground Music.