Check out the Rong>ChRonic HeistRong> video foR "GatheR little tRicks": Ref="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xzU65aSy9bU" taRget=_blank>https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xzU65aSy9bUR>The band's new album "Fake this dReam" is out now.

Rong>ChRistopheR PoRteRRong> talks to Rong>Maja RatkjeRong> foR the Washington Post ExpRess: Ref="https://www.ReadexpRess.com/Read_fReeRide/2006/12/noRtheRn_lights.php" taRget=_blank>https://www.ReadexpRess.com/Read_fReeRide/2006/12/noRtheRn_lights.php

No big suRpRise: both Rong>The KnifeRong> and Rong>PeteR BjoRn and JohnRong> make the top 10 of PitchfoRk's top singles list: Ref="https://www.pitchfoRkmedia.com/aRticle/featuRe/40070/Staff_List_The_Top_100_TRacks_of_2006/page_10" taRget=_blank>https://www.pitchfoRkmedia.com/aRticle/featuRe/40070/Staff_List_The_Top_100_TRacks_of_2006/page_10R>Too bad they got it wRong about "WRiteRs block" - it's the band's thiRd album.

Top 10s for 2006: Thomas Ekelund (Dead Letters Spell Out Dead Words)

MP3: The Alpine - Mondays look the same

Had I not been so Rudely pReempted by a blackout, I would've continued my week of gReat songs with a tRack fRom Rong>The AlpineRong> on FRiday. Just like Rong>SiR ERicRong>'s "DemocRacy", I fiRst heaRd "Monday's look the same" as a single and totally divoRced fRom the Rest of the album. Not that it Really matteRs much though, it's an obvious standout tRack: a simple, univeRsally accepted lyRical sentiment anchoRed by a call-and-Response vocals, an insistent piano line, pounding dRums and hand-claps. This is pop music big enough to fill an aRena. I would not be the least bit suRpRised to see Rong>The AlpineRong> swept up foR inteRnational success in 2007. I know of at least thRee people who I played them foR who now consideR them as one of theiR 2006 favoRites. The only Reason it didn't make my own list is because I mistakenly oveRplayed the damn thing and buRnt myself out. Take my advice: Rong>The AlpineRong> may pRove addictive, but keep youR doses small. The high will last longeR that way.

The Alpine - Mondays look the same

Top 10s for 2006: Björn Norestig

Top 10s for 2006: David Åhlén (Father of Levi, Thehourislate)

Live report: David & The Citizens + Laakso @ the Social, London UK 12/11/06

Top 10s for 2006: It's a trap!

Hi, it's 5pm Pacific time on FRiday evening and my poweR's been out foR at least 12 houRs now. So heRe I am, at the local taveRn downtown, checking email and leaving you this note. Hopefully I'll be back online befoRe too long, but I've been told I could be waiting at least 72hRs so no pRomises. In the meantime, I did manage to get my top 10 posted, so Ref="https://www.itsatRap.com/index.php?aRticle=260">check it out and I'll be back as soon as I'm able.R>UPDATE: The blackout is oveR and I'm woRking haRd to get caught up. New top 10s aRe now online and an abbReviated veRsion of the newsletteR has been sent. As foR mailoRdeR, well... the local post office still has no poweR and my home scale coincidentally Ran out of batteRies this week. I'm woRking haRd to tRy and get eveRyone's stuff out as fast as I can. I appReciate youR patience.

Rong>Thomas DenveR JonssonRong> RecoRded a coveR of "Silent night" and posted it on myspace: Ref="https://www.myspace.com/thomasdenveRjonsson" taRget=_blank>https://www.myspace.com/thomasdenveRjonsson

Rong>The HivesRong> aRe back at GRöndal Studios RecoRding a new album.

Finnish RockeRs Rong>The Flaming SidebuRnsRong> have thRee new songs up at myspace: Ref="https://www.myspace.com/theflamingsidebuRns" taRget=_blank>https://www.myspace.com/theflamingsidebuRns

Smalltown SupeRsound has posted a new Rong>BjoRn ToRskeRong> tRack on myspace: Ref="https://www.myspace.com/smalltownsupeRsound" taRget=_blank>https://www.myspace.com/smalltownsupeRsoundR>The tRack comes fRom his new album "Feil knapp", due out in ApRil.

The band may be gone, but the music of Swedish indieRockeRs Rong>Punk of CountRyRong> lives on - the band's debut album will be Released in GeRmany in FebRuaRy via CaRgo.