Another day in December means another top 10. Read about Amandine's top 10 places they slept this past year: m/index.php?article=246">[click here]

They Live By Night have confirmed that their debut full-length is set for a march 14 release via Razzia Records. The first single (still tbd) will be out February 7.

The Radio Dept. have finally rescheduled their previously cancelled London gig at Water Rats from last November for January 26. All tickets purchased for the eariler event are still valid.

Assuming you can read a little Norwegain, go here to study up on all the various Kaizers Orchestra sideprojects: musikknyheter.no/news/1607" target=_blank>https://www.musikknyheter.no/news/1607

This week's m/group/itsatrap" target=_blank>It's a trap! Last.fm/Audioscrobbler listening group top 10 tracks of the week:

01. The Knife – Silent Shout
02. The Arcade Fire – Funeral
03. The Knife – Deep Cuts
04. Death Cab for Cutie – Plans
05. Band of Horses – Everything All the Time
06. The Radio Dept. – Pet Grief
07. Sufjan Stevens – Illinois
08. Beirut – Gulag Orkestar
09. The Pipettes – We Are the Pipettes
10. The Postal Service – Give Up

And the top 10 artists of the week:

01. Sufjan Stevens
02. The Knife
03. Radiohead
04. Death Cab for Cutie
05. The Shins
06. The Beatles
07. Belle and Sebastian
08. Cat Power
09. The Radio Dept.
10. Bloc Party

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Upcoming gigs for molotov Jive:

12/14 - The Good Ship, London (UK)
12/16 - The Warehouse, London (UK)
12/29 - Arena, Karlstad (SWE)
02/16 - molotov, Hamburg (GER)

Coming up on Finnish label Kissankusi Records:

Kaivosurma - CDr
Shit loads of unreleased material!
Can Can Heads - Headcracking Lifestyle
Long gone out of print full-length CD by Hostile Reggression Records (1999) as a CDr-version. Around 30 songs and 40+ minutes.

The Jam Session reports that Erode Records will be releasing their albums "När mörkret väller över" and "Att skingra det mörker som betäcker landet" on cassette tape format.

Danish act The Kissaway Trail has posted a new track on myspace from their forthcoming self-titled album: myspace.com/thekissawaytrail" target=_blank>https://www.myspace.com/thekissawaytrail

Swedish electropop duo Cat5 has a new song up at myspace: myspace.com/wearecat5" target=_blank>https://www.myspace.com/wearecat5

Updated Firefox AK tourdates:

12/08 - magnet, Berlin (GER) (solo)
01/22 - Fundbureau, Hamburg (GER)
01/23 - Cafe Glocksee, Hannover (GER)
01/24 - Elfer, Frankfurt (GER)
01/25 - DQLIQ, Luxemburg (LUX)
01/26 - Blue Shell, Cologne (GER)
01/27 - Juz, Leer (GER)
01/28 - Cafe Central, magdeburg (GER)

Death Breath's video for their namesake song is now online: https://www.deathbreath.se/site/death_breath_video.asp
Death Breath is the old-school death-metal revival act of Nicke Andersson (Hellacopters, ex-Entombed). As for the clip, the ending is kinda meh, but the concept is hot.

Check out the video for the new Rupesh Cartel single "Ghost white": megahype.com/new_releases/ghost_white_video.html" target=_blank>https://www.megahype.com/new_releases/ghost_white_video.html
The new album "The disco and the what not" will be out soon via megahype.

Download the title track from Finnish act Baby Sweetcorn's new album "New low": ml/sweetcorner.htm" target=_blank>https://www.tulva.net/babysweetcorn/html/sweetcorner.htm
It comes out December 18 via Karkia mistika Records.

The Faintest Ideas (nee Javelins) new album "What goes up must calm down" is out now on US label magic marker: magicmarkerrecords.com/" target=_blank>https://www.magicmarkerrecords.com/