The video for Anna Ternheim's new single "Today is a good day" is now online: m-rm.qbrick.com/ramgen/00307/AnnaTernheim/AnnaTernheim-TodayIsAGoodDay-Broadband.rm" target=_blank>https://qstream-rm.qbrick.com/ramgen/00307/AnnaTernheim/AnnaTernheim-TodayIsAGoodDay-Broadband.rm

Sondre Lerche submits his list of favorite album for 2006 to Filter: mag.com/news/interior.3682.html" target=_blank>https://www.filter-mag.com/news/interior.3682.html

Paper Thin Walls does another day of music from Sweden: m/" target=_blank>https://www.paperthinwalls.com/
Artists covered include Paddington DC, September malevolence and David & the Citizens.

NRK lists the top 10 albums from Norway's three biggest newspapers: musikk/1.1433820" target=_blank>https://www.nrk.no/musikk/1.1433820
120 Days claims the top spot on 2/3rds of the lists and #2 in the other.

Swedish magazine Ondskan now has a music blog: https://www.ondskan.se/blogg (in Swedish)

Stylus reviews Linda Sundblad's (ex-Lambretta) debut album "Oh my god": magazine.com/reviews/linda-sundblad/oh-my-god.htm" target=_blank>https://www.stylusmagazine.com/reviews/linda-sundblad/oh-my-god.htm

Danish garage-rockers The Blue Van will release their new album "Dear independence" in January. The first single will be for the song "Don't leave me blue".

Dusted reviews El Perro Del mar: magazine.com/reviews/3286" target=_blank>https://www.dustedmagazine.com/reviews/3286

Logh reports that their new album is done and have posted the song titles here: myspace.com/logh" target=_blank>https://blog.myspace.com/logh
Expect a march 2007 release via Bad Taste. Listen to preview tracks here: ml" target=_blank>https://www.logh.se/IV.html

Norwegian avant-metallers Solefald will have thier first two albums "The linear scaffold" and "Neonism" remastered and reissued on Avantgarde music in the 'imminent' future.

Alarma man has posted a bunch of live videos from their recent tour: myspace.com/alarmaman" target=_blank>https://blog.myspace.com/alarmaman

The nominees for this year's P3 Gold awards have been announced:

Best female artist:
marit Bergman - "I Think it's a Rainbow"
Veronica maggio - "Vatten och bröd"
Lisa miskovsky - "Changes"
Linda Sundblad - "Oh my God!"
Anna Ternheim - "Separation Road"

Best male artist:
Darin - "Break the News"
Håkan Hellström - "Nåt gammalt, nåt nytt, nåt lånat, nåt blått"
max Peezay - "Discokommittén"
Petter - "P"
Timo Räisänen - "I'm Indian"

Best live (Guldmicken):
In Flames
The Knife
mando Diao
Snook
Anna Ternheim

Best song:
Basshunter - Boten Anna
I'm From Barcelona - We're From Barcelona
Veronica maggio - Dumpa mig
mando Diao - Long Before Rock'n'Roll
Snook - Längst fram i taxin

Best newcomer:
Asha Ali
Salem Al Fakir
I'm From Barcelona
Veronica maggio
Sebastian

Best group:
Fibes, Oh Fibes! - "Emotional"
The Knife - "Silent Shout"
mando Diao - "Ode to Ochrasy"
Snook - "Är"
The Sounds - "Dying to Say This to You"

Best rock/metal:
C.Aarmé - "Vita"
Cult of Luna - "Somewhere Along the Highway"
The Haunted - "The Dead Eye"
In Flames - "Come Clarity"
Snuffed By the Yakuza - "Everybody's Gonna Die Tonight"

Best hip-hop/soul:
Fattaru - "mina drömmars stad"
max Peezay - "Discokommittén"
Promoe - "White man's Burden"
Ramjac - "Transfusions"
Up Hygh - "The Venus Album"

Best pop:
Sir Eric Beyond and the Avant-Garde - "Sir Eric Beyond and the Avant-Garde"
Love is All - "Nine Times That Same Song"
Nicolas makelberge - "Dying in Africa"
The Radio Dept. - "Pet Grief"
Studio - "West Coast"

Best dance:
John Dahlbäck - Collected works
The Knife - "Silent Shout"
minilogue - Collected works
Studio - "West Coast"
SUmO - "The Danceband"

Go here to vote: https://www.sr.se/p3/p3guld/

MP3: The Sweptaways - Let my shoes lead me forward

Let's talk about Sweden's other 20+ member indie choir The Sweptaways. The group's standard repertoire is a capella group versions of pop hits and their debut album "Ooh ahh" is chock-full. It features indie-hits by fellow Swedes Vapnet, El Perro Del mar, The Embassy and Jenny Wilson (today's featured track) as well as songs from the likes of Kiss, Black Sabbath, Pet Shop Boys and Kate Bush ("Wuthering heights", the first single). Sometimes the formula works, sometimes not. Their take on Sabbath's classic ballad "Changes" is disappointing and a few other song selections were never that good to begin with and are not improved by The Sweptaways vocal treatment. There are many highlights, but I can't help feeling that they are better appreciated as a live act with their fanciful costumes and choreography. A studio recording is a poor substitute. Still, they manage to narrowly avoid status, so that's got to mean something. Oh, and their version of "Silver bells" together with magnus Carlson and the Gray Brigade (myspace.com/godjul" target=_blank>listen here) is fantastic.

The Sweptaways - Let my shoes lead me forward

MP3: Miss Li - Miss Li

miss Li embodies the antithesis of what most people consider Swedish girls to be like. Vivacious, risqué and devilish - not to mention, as she says herself, "pathetic... vain and wicked, self-loving and ridiculously naive," not to mention endowed with "a big mouth and heart full of shit." Not exactly the kind of girl you bring home to mom, y'know? As to whether miss Li's boasts are applicable to Linda Carlsson, her offstage alter-ego, I couldn't say.
As for the album "Late night heartbroken blues" as a whole, it has its moments, but is a little tiresome to listen to straight through. Both the recording and the songwriting are dynamically flat. However, it's easy to understand the hype as many individual tracks sound fresh and exciting on their own. I imagine that, like in the case of I'm From Barcelona and their debut album, the release got rushed to capitalize on the ongoing buzz and suffered a bit as a result. Both IFB and miss Li are very talented, there's no doubt, but they could've used more time to get it right the first time out.

Miss Li - Miss Li

Top 10s for 2006: Amandine