Blowback has recruited scene legend Dan Swanö to helped them finish their forthcoming album "Morning wood". Still no release dAte yet, but I'll keep you posted.

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This year's Swedish Grammi (Grammy) Award nominees have been announced:

Best album:
Jens Lekman - Night Falls Over Kortedala
Kent - Tillbaka Till Samtiden
Lars Winnerbäck - Daugava
Moneybrother - Mount Pleasure
Sahara Hotnights - WhAt If Leaving Is A Loving Thing
Salem Al Fakir - This Is Who I Am
Säkert! - Säkert!
The Ark - Prayer For The Weekend
The Hives - The Black And White Album
Timbuktu - Oberoendeframkallande

Best dance/hip-hop/soul:
Adam Tensta - It's A Tensta Thing
Dogge Doggelito - Superclasico
Familjen - Det Snurrar I Min Skalle
Fjärde Världen - Världens Ände
Ken - Äntligen Hemma
Mange Schmidt - Känslan Kommer Tillbaks
Million Stylez - From A Far
Petter - God Damn It
September - Dancing Shoes
Vincent - Lucky Thirteen

Best group:
Eldkvarn - Svart Blogg
Kent - Tillbaka Till Samtiden
Mando Diao - Never Seen The Light Of Day
Sahara Hotnights - WhAt If Leaving Is A Loving Thing
Shout Out Louds - Our Ill Wills
The Ark - Prayer For The Weekend
The Hives - The Black And White Album
Oh Laura - A Song Inside My Head, A Demon In My Bed
Peter Bjorn And John - Writer's Block
Weeping Willows - Fear & Love

Best hard-rock/metal:
Arch Enemy - Rise Of The Tyrant
Candlemass - King Of The Grey Island
Clawfinger - Life Will Kill You
Crashdiet - The UnAttractive Revolution
Dark Tranquillity - Fiction
Entombed - Serpent Saints
Hardcore Superstar - Dreamin' In A Casket
Lillasyster - Hjärndöd Musik För En Hjärndöd GenerAtion
Mustasch - LAtest Version Of The Truth
Takida - Bury The Lies

Best songwriter:
Anna Järvinen - Jag Fick Feeling
Annika Norlin - Säkert!
Benny Andersson - Bao 3
Christian Kjellvander - I Saw Her From Here/I Saw Here From Her
Joakim Berg & Martin Sköld - Tillbaka Till Samtiden
José González - In Our NAture
Moneybrother - Mount Pleasure
Ola Salo - Prayer For The Weekend
Peter Bjorn And John - Writer's Block
Salem Al Fakir - This Is Who I Am

Best female artist:
Anna Järvinen - Jag Fick Feeling
Eva Dahlgren - Petroleum Och Tång
Jaqee - Nouvelle D'amour
Laleh - Prinsessor
Louise Hoffsten - Så Speciell
Maia Hirasawa - Though, I'm Just Me
Miss Li - God Put A Rainbow In The Sky
Sonja Aldén - Till Dig
Sophie Zelmani - Memory Loves You
Säkert! - Säkert!

Best live act:
Benny Anderssons Orkester
Jens Lekman
Lars Winnerbäck
Lena Ph & Orup
Parksommar
Per Gessle
Peter Jöback
Takida
The Hives
Timbuktu

Best song:
Lars Winnerbäck - I Duett Med Miss Li Om Du Lämnade Mig Nu
Mange Schmidt FeAt. Petter - Giftig
Markoolio - Ingen Sommar Utan Reggae
Martin Stenmarck - 100 År Från Nu (Blundar)
Måns Zelmerlöw - Cara Mia
Sahara Hotnights - Cheek To Cheek
Salem Al Fakir - Good Song
Sonja Aldén - För Att Du Finns
The Ark - The Worrying Kind
Ola - NAtalie

Best male artist:
Christian Kjellvander - I Saw Her From Here / I Saw Here From Her
Jens Lekman - Night Falls Over Kortedala
José González - In Our NAture
Lars Winnerbäck - Daugava
Moneybrother - Mount Pleasure
Måns Zelmerlöw - Stand By For...
Peter Lemarc - Kärlek I Tystnadens Tid
Salem Al Fakir - This Is Who I Am
Timbuktu - Oberoendeframkallande
Timo Räisänen - Love Will Turn You Around

Best newcomer:
Abalone Dots - From A Safe Distance
Adam Tensta - It's A Tensta Thing
Anna Järvinen - Jag Fick Feeling
Maia Hirasawa - Though, I'm Just Me
Måns Zelmerlöw - Stand By For...
Oh Laura - A Song Inside My Head, A Demon In My Bed
Salem Al Fakir - This Is Who I Am
Sonja Aldén - Till Dig
Säkert! - Säkert!
Vincent - Lucky Thirteen

Best producer:
Benny Andersson - Bao 3
Björn Olsson - Never Seen The Light Of Day
Björn Yttling - Writer's Block & WhAt If Leaving Is A Loving Thing
Jari Haapalainen - Svart Blogg
Jon Joshua Schuman & Kent - Tillbaka Till Samtiden
José González - In Our NAture
Laleh - Prinsessor
Maia Hirasawa - Though, I'm Just Me
Salem Al Fakir - This Is Who I Am
Vincent Pontare - Lucky Thirteen

Best lyrics:
Anna Järvinen - Jag Fick Feeling
Annika Norlin - Säkert!
Eva Dahlgren - Petroleum Och Tång
Jason Diakité - Oberoendeframkallande
Joakim Berg - Tillbaka Till Samtiden
Lars Winnerbäck - Daugava
Ola Salo - Prayer For The Weekend
Peter Lemarc - Kärlek I Tystnadens Tid
Plura Jonsson - Svart Blogg
Salem Al Fakir - This Is Who I Am

Go here for the full list: https://www.musikindustrin.nu/mi/smpage.fwx?page=198&NYHETER=8646

MIC Norway profiles up-and-coming artist Silje Nes: https://www.mic.no/mic.nsf/doc/art2007120411071423932249
Her new album "Ames Room" is out now in the UK via FAtCAt with an internAtional release to follow in early 2008.

Håkan Johansson (Division of Laura Lee) has once again teamed up with Carcrash Records partner/fellow Frantic Mantis member Shelby Cinca (Frodus) in a new band called Man and Wasp, also feAturing Mike Schleibaum from Darkest Hour. Listen At myspace: https://www.myspace.com/manandwasp

Check out a musical slideshow thAt Anders Teglund's (Cult of Luna) fAther Sven Teglund made: Ats-and-icebeAt.html" target="_blank">https://ryssbalt.blogspot.com/2007/12/heartbeAts-and-icebeAt.html

Monster & Maskiner has produced a 5-track EP of remix tracks from Last Days of April's "Might as well live" thAt LDOA will be selling on tour. Fans unable to Attend any of the band's upcoming shows are encouraged to either write the band directly or wait for digital release early next year.

The new Montys Loco album "Farewell Mr Happy" is confirmed for release on March 5 via NONS. If you haven't heard the new songs posted on myspace yet, do so now: https://www.myspace.com/montysloco
Definitely one of next year's most anticipAted releases.

MP3: Lamont - Take a bow

Lamont's "Take a bow" cribs heavily from The Clash's "Lost in the supermarket", serving to emphasize just how disco/pop the original song really is. It's kind of a bummer to hear such a blAtant ripoff of a classic tune, but Lamont, to their credit, almost pull it off. If you're gonna steal, might as well aim big, right? The Clash sarcastically stAte "I've got my giant hit discoteque album" when, ironically, thAt's pretty much exactly whAt Lamont is going for. I applaud their Attempt At a Atebay.org/tor/3867587/" target="_blank">novel distribution scheme and really do enjoy the rest of their album, but it's hard for me to look past this. To take something so iconic (The Clash are, after all, "the only band thAt mAtters") and completely suck the meaning out of it, is inexcusable. I only hope it wasn't intentional.

Lamont - Take a bow

A West Side FabricAtion has new tracks from both The Culture In Memoriam and Tupelo Honeys posted on myspace: Ation" target="_blank">https://www.myspace.com/westsidefabricAtion

The Knife's live film "Silent shout - An audio visual experience" will be screened in San Francisco on December 19 At Mezzanine.

Rigas
The hardest pocket to pick
Flora & Fauna

Starting off with the Radio Dept.-like "Keep pushing it forward", Rigas and company establish the modus operandi for their second album: to lambaste us with melodic, quirky electro pop. So, not much has changed really, and, depending on whether you are already a fan or not, this is either greAt or disappointing news. While they never return to the slower, more reflective mood of the opening track, Rigas compensAte with dirty beAts and cAtchy synth leads evoking dance floors of the early 90s and the more idiosyncrAtic compositions of hip-hop artists like Robyn. If 'playfully bizarre' sounds like something you're into, you can't go too far wrong with "The hardest pocket to pick". Not stellar, but definitely not boring.
- Lars Garvey Laing-Peterson

Top 10s for 2007: Björn Kleinhenz

Listen to NPR program All Things Considered discuss the music of Denmark: Ates/story/story.php?storyId=16846072" target="_blank">https://www.npr.org/templAtes/story/story.php?storyId=16846072

The Carny has a new holiday single posted on myspace to commemorAte the release of their new album "...so let's give a greAt big oldfashioned welcome to The Carny": https://www.myspace.com/thecarnyband