Pistol Disco just posted a new track on myspace entitled "Liquid sky": myspace.com/pistoldisco" target="_blank">https://www.myspace.com/pistoldisco

Last Days of April, Sahara Hotnights, maia Hirasawa and Pernilla Andersson will represent their homeland at Sweden Sounds in Tokyo on November 6. Read more: https://www.swedensounds.net/ (in Japanese)

Here's an e-card for the new Nightwish record "Dark passion play": m.fi/nightwishecard/" target="_blank">https://www.spinefarm.fi/nightwishecard/

Finnish Eurovision champs Lordi will support Type O Negative on tour in the US this fall: m/label/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=1025&Itemid=1" target="_blank">https://www.theendrecords.com/label/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=1025&Itemid=1

Swedish electro/art project Zeigeist, who first came to fame by attaching a track to a leaked version of The Knife's "Silent shout", have effectively disbanded. Read more: https://www.zeigeist.eu/

The Swedish Film Institute has named Roy Andersson's film "Du levande" ("You, the living") as this year's contender for the Best Foreign Language category of the Academy Awards: https://www.thelocal.se/8601/20070925/
View a short clip at YouTube: m/watch?v=dxonYRUX4NE" target="_blank">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dxonYRUX4NE

mIC Norway gives a short preview to this year's by:Larm Festival, the first time the annual industry event will take place in the capital of Oslo: mic.no/mic.nsf/doc/art2007092516094014439917" target="_blank">https://www.mic.no/mic.nsf/doc/art2007092516094014439917

Dusted talks to Lasse marhaug (Jazkammer) and Norwegian composer Nils Henrik Asheim about the intersection of noise and classical music: magazine.com/features/655" target="_blank">https://www.dustedmagazine.com/features/655
The two collaborated on the album "Grand mutations".

Dusted reviews the new José González album "In our nature": magazine.com/reviews/3858" target="_blank">https://www.dustedmagazine.com/reviews/3858

Danish indie act Ruined By martin has a new (unfortunately, all Flash-based) website: martin.com/" target="_blank">https://www.ruinedbymartin.com/
At least they have a decent streaming audio player.

Swedish/English act and recent Shelflife signees The Ruling Class have posted a couple new tracks on myspace: myspace.com/therulingclassuk" target="_blank">https://www.myspace.com/therulingclassuk

MP3: The Je Ne Sais Quoi - Rhythm

Typically, I'm not too big on the punk-funk thing. !!! was a massive disappointment after the m/artists/theyahmos.html" target="_blank">Yah mos and I always liked the Rapture better back in the beginning, when they sounded more like Wire. Yet, somehow The Je Ne Sais Quoi appeals to me. maybe it's the lack of personal history? Or perhaps it's simply because they're a better band? TJNSQ succeeds where the others fail, by maintaining that punk energy and, at the same time, displaying serious musical chops. I wouldn't necessarily call them virtuosic, but they hold their own far better than the other examples I've cited. There's a lot of syncopation going on in the title track "Rhythm" (as one would expect from the title), but it's nothing that would trip you up on the dancefloor. That would defeat the point, right? And listen to those tight vocal lines - that's the stuff that makes TJNSQ better than average. While I'm still not bonkers about this sort of thing, they do what they do and they do it well. I can get down with that.

The Je Ne Sais Quoi - Rhythm

Anders Weberg from Recycled recently filmed David Fridlund performing a few solo tracks in his living room and has posted them on YouTube: m/watch?v=F_0HzgK7kZg" target="_blank">"Tears are in your eyes" / m/watch?v=BEpeSnNGbaw" target="_blank">"Line"

Pitchfork reviews the new album "Höstluft" from Swedish act Library Tapes: media.com/article/record_review/45323-hstluft" target="_blank">https://www.pitchforkmedia.com/article/record_review/45323-hstluft

Norma
1
Novoton

"Love no other" is one of the finest opening tracks an album has ever used as an inception point. An effortless blend of electronic, shoegaze, and post-rock influences - like a bastard child of some unholy union between Aerial, the Radio Dept., Ulrich Schnauss, and my Bloody Valentine - Norma's debut EP is astounding, a heralding cry of a band with the future wide open ahead of them. my only true complaint with this collection of songs is that fact that the ending of "The dark", before it is appreciated for what it is (which doesn't take long), feels like its building to an even heavier, thunderously devastating finale, and the abrupt close is a little abrasive at first - the drums come in for just that final bar... and then fade. In all seriousness, this grievance is extremely minor, and slips from your consciousness with repeated listening. "1" is the first collected recordings of an amazingly talented group of musicians, laden with youthful energy and confidence beyond their years, and, especially for an EP, worth investing in.
- Lars Garvey Laing-Peterson