US label Cheap Lullaby has licensed the album "Beneath & beyond" from Swedish duo Standfast for release on August 28. Stream tracks at the label's annoying all-flash website: m/" target="_blank">https://www.cheaplullaby.com/

Look for a new single and video from The Sounds called "Painted by numbers" to be released soon.

The first single from the sophomore album of Norwegian all-stars The National Bank is called "Let go" and is released today. In addition to the forthcoming record, the track also appears on the soundtrack to the upcoming Varg Veum movie "Bitre blomster", to be released on September 28 in Norway. Look for a video from director Ulrik Imtiaz Rolfsen to deubt on VG's website next week as well. As far as the album goes, that won't be out until spring 2008.

Foxy Digitalis reviews A Perfect Friend: m/foxyd/reviews.php?which=2626" target="_blank">https://www.digitalisindustries.com/foxyd/reviews.php?which=2626

The latest music Export Finland newsletter is now online: musex.fi/mxf/news?articleId=140" target="_blank">https://musex.fi/mxf/news?articleId=140

Club 8's new album "The boy who couldn't stop dreaming" will be out September 26.

I heard a bit about this from Embee while at Way Out West, but now it's public: JuJu and David vs. Goliath are sending Timbuktu + Damn!, Looptroop, Chords and more on an all-star Swedish hip-hop tour of the US kicking off in LA on August 29. Check out the JuJu site for a flyer: m/" target="_blank">https://www.jujurecords.com/

Dead to this World, the new band led by ex-Immortal bassist Iscariah, has posted a new track on myspace: myspace.com/deadtothisworld" target="_blank">https://myspace.com/deadtothisworld
The band's debut album "First strike for spiritual renewance" will be released on November 19 via Dark Essence Records.

Candlelight will be reissuing Opeth's first three albums, "Orchid" (1995), "morningrise" (1996) and "my arms, your hearse" (1998), and is looking for fans to send in any band photos they might've taken during those times. Send files to mailto:conord@plastichead.com">conord@plastichead.com.

Ambolthue has a new EP from Torstein Wjiik posted for free download: mbolthue.com/mp3_releases/mp3ambolt8.html" target="_blank">https://www.ambolthue.com/mp3_releases/mp3ambolt8.html

pHinnWeb reports with some highlights from Tampere's "monsters of Pop" festival: m/2007/08/monsters-of-pop-2007-memories.html" target="_blank">https://phinnweb.blogspot.com/2007/08/monsters-of-pop-2007-memories.html

Santa maria aka maria Eriksson (also in The Concretes + Heikki) does the Listed thing for Dusted: magazine.com/features/643" target="_blank">https://www.dustedmagazine.com/features/643

Danish postpunk act The Floor Is made Of Lava will release their debut album "All juice, no fruit" on October 15. Look for Danish tourdates beginning in late September along with Germany in November.

UK-based label Stereo Test Kit (Logh, Boy Omega, Audrey, etc.) has signed Band in Box and will be releasing their debut album early next year along with a split 7" in November. Listen to demo tracks: myspace.com/bandinbox" target="_blank">https://www.myspace.com/bandinbox

Hey look, Jakob and Lovisa Nyström (Isolation Years, Säkert!) have a myspace page for their band as a duo: myspace.com/2whitehorses" target="_blank">https://www.myspace.com/2whitehorses