Swedish hardcore Sista Sekunden will tour Japan in September and will also be doing a split CD with tourmates Iscream 7 Showers for the occasion. Look for their new album "Skyll inte på oss" to be released over there as well, both of those coming out through Rockroom Records.

Promenade Recordings will finally release part three of their food compilation series in November on CDR and this last one will include all tracks from the earlier (vinyl-only) comps. I don't have a full tracklist, but artists include Nixon, Jens Lekman, Action Biker, Robotboy and Blood music.

Norwegian artists appearing at this year's PopKomm in Berlin: musicexportnorway.no/norwegian-artists-at-popkomm-2007.534205-32166.html" target="_blank">https://www.musicexportnorway.no/norwegian-artists-at-popkomm-2007.534205-32166.html
A Swedish artist list is here: ms.se/" target="_blank">https://www.exms.se/

Looptroop has an exclusive new track to celebrate the m/" target="_blank">Swedish Entourage Tour: myspace.com/looptrooprockers" target="_blank">https://www.myspace.com/looptrooprockers

more European dates for I'm From Barcelona:

10/06 - Het Depot, Leuven (BEL)
10/07 - Vooruit, Gent (BEL)
10/08 - Cabaret Electric, Le Havre (FRA)
10/09 - Le Bikini, Toulouse (FRA)
10/10 - Le 4 Sans, Bordeaux (FRA)
10/11 - Le Ninkasi Kao, Lyon (FRA)
10/12 - Radar Festival @ Le Grand mix, Tourcoing (FRA)
10/13 - Nancy Jazz Pulsations @ l'Autre Canal, Nancy (FRA)
11/12 - Festival Les In Rocks, Paris (FRA)

Finnish act The Sugarrush battles plagarists and records a cover tune of their own: m/" target="_blank">https://www.thesugarrush.com/

A new download single from The Tallest man On Earth entitled "Pistol dreams" will be released this week after it premieres on the TV show "Upp till kamp".

Bob Hund has a new website: https://www.bobhund.nu/
I understand that the band has a new album on the way?

Avant-metal takes a look back at Alf Svensson's (ex-At the Gates) solo project Oxiplegatz: metal.com/content/reviews2.php?id=106" target="_blank">https://www.avantgarde-metal.com/content/reviews2.php?id=106

Anna Ternheim will make her US debut with an EP featuring her sublime cover of Broder Daniel's "Shoreline" as the main track. Otherwise, she plans to spend the rest of the year touring Europe in support of "Separation road".

PSL with live music from Boat Club: https://svt-psl.colo.netstar.se/default.aspx?entryID=120

Crashdiet's new single "In the raw" is up on myspace: myspace.com/realcrashdiet" target="_blank">https://www.myspace.com/realcrashdiet

The Silent Ballet has chosen Imannu El's new record as their release of the month: m/dnn/Home/tabid/36/ctl/Details/mid/367/ItemID/813/Default.aspx" target="_blank">https://thesilentballet.com/dnn/Home/tabid/36/ctl/Details/mid/367/ItemID/813/Default.aspx

Swedish music blog Absolut Noise is back after an extended summer break with a post on Sara Rumnar: m/2007/09/summer-is-over-nice-pop.html" target="_blank">https://absolutnoise.blogspot.com/2007/09/summer-is-over-nice-pop.html

The latest addition to the Friendly Noise mp3 series is a four-track comp including Radio Dept. covering the Go-Betweens: mp3-releases" target="_blank">https://www.friendlynoise.se/mp3-releases