Just got copies of Samuraj Cities yesterday as well as restocks of both EST and Peter Bjorn and John, so m/store">head to the store to hook yourself up. I'm still working on getting more copies of Hello Saferide's "Would you let me..." EP, but it's slow going. Soon, I hope.

Download an mp3 of Swedish noiseniks The Skull Defekts performing live at Tate Gallery on January 5, 2007: m/audio/hellogoodbye/SkullDefekts.mp3" target=_blank>https://www.dexterbentley.com/audio/hellogoodbye/SkullDefekts.mp3

The release of Annika Norlin's (Hello Saferide) Swedish language project Säkert! has been moved up to February 7.

Danish act Port Largo has a new song up on myspace: myspace.com/portlargo" target=_blank>https://www.myspace.com/portlargo

New UK tourdates for mando Diao:

03/05 - Audia, Brighton
03/06 - Kings College, London
03/07 - Zodiac, Oxford
03/08 - Cockpit, Leeds
03/09 - Cathouse, Glasgow
03/10 - Academy, manchester
03/11 - Academy, Birmingham

The new BSBTA Label Group website is now online: m/" target=_blank>https://www.bsbta.com/

Swedish hip-hop producer Jimmy Ledrac has produced the debut single "Excuse me" for American pop artist Angelique Cinelu and you can listen to it now on myspace: myspace.com/jimmyledrac" target=_blank>https://www.myspace.com/jimmyledrac

New tourdates for Logh:

02/01 - Cafe de la Plage, Paris (FRA)
02/02 - Cafe Nun, Karlsruhe (GER)
02/03 - Salzhaus, Winterthur (CH)
02/04 - Tams Theater, münchen (GER)
02/06 - magnolia, milan (ITA)
02/07 - Schokoladen, Berlin (GER)
02/20 - AC 30, London (UK)
02/21 - Packhorse, Leeds (UK)
02/22 - Balcony Bar, Dundee (UK)
02/24 - Cavern Club, Exeter (UK)
02/25 - The Hope, Brighton (UK)
02/26 - Porth mahon, Oxford (UK)

Bad Afro has announced that they'll be releasing the debut album "2000 micrograms from home" from Danish all-star act Dragontears on march 19. The band features members from Baby Woodrose and On Trial and started out as an improv/jam project back around New Year's 2005. Go here for samples/more info: myspace.com/dragontears2000" target=_blank>https://www.myspace.com/dragontears2000

Daniel Dellamorte from Insision has published book chronicling the early history of Swedish death-metal entitled, plainly enough "Swedish Death metal". The book is 500 pages long and features extensive interviews, photos, a complete A-Z list of over 900 (!!!) bands and zines and, best of all, is published in English so anyone can read it. There will also be an extra special releasefest on January 26 at Kafé 44 in Stockholm featuring pre-At the Gates act Grotesque (their first show in 16 years!) plus Nirvana 2002 and Internment. more info: myspace.com/tamarapress" target=_blank>https://www.myspace.com/tamarapress

Finnish act montevideo has posted the video for the single "Come clean": m/watch?v=lHPzGIbACKm" target=_blank>https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lHPzGIbACKm

Aversionline on Swedish melodic death-metal act Blinded Colony: m/blahg/2007/01/16/blinded-colony-bedtime-prayers-cd/" target=_blank>https://www.aversionline.com/blahg/2007/01/16/blinded-colony-bedtime-prayers-cd/

millencolin frontman Nikola Sarcevic has replenished his myspace profile with four new solo tracks from "Roll roll and flee": myspace.com/nikolasarcevic " target=_blank>https://www.myspace.com/nikolasarcevic
Buy the album: m/store/product.php?productid=354">[click here]

If Society has confirmed that Radiopuhelimet's new album "Viisi Tähteä" will be released on February 28 on both CD and vinyl, the latter being handled as a collaboration between labels Sweetcore, Kissankusi, Popo's Bistro and Likainen Taivas.

The folks at The Silent Ballet webzine once again bestow their 'best instrumental album' pick on a Scandinavian artist for 2006, this time selecting magyar Posse and their latest album "Random avenger": m/tsbt/2006/3.html" target=_blank>https://www.thesilentballet.com/tsbt/2006/3.html
In case you forgot, last year's pick was Norway's Samuel Jackson Five.