morten Abel's new album "Some of us will make it" has been confirmed for release on November 27. The first single "Big brother" debuts on Norwegian radio today.

Grizzly Twister leaves to tour France tomorrow with their friends Nesseria:

10/25 - Lilo, Tours
10/26 - Astrolabe, Orléans
10/27 - Escapade, Clermont Ferrand
10/28 - Locaux Larsen, Chambéry
10/29 - molodoi, Strassburg
10/30 - Babylon Café, Amiens
11/01 - Chez Steve "Halloween Party!", La Rochelle
11/02 - El Inca, Bordeaux w/Smackdown
11/03 - Camji, Niort
11/04 - mondo Bizarro, Rennes

Dach has posted the video for Petter's latest single "Själen": mov" target=_blank>https://www.dach.se/pettersjalen.mov

Sirius Satellite Radio will be broadcasting free over the Internet tommorow and Thursday. Why do I care? Well, I don't really but it does mean you can listen to Nordic Rox, their Scandinavian speciality show: m/servlet/ContentServer?pagename=Sirius/Page&c=FlexContent&cid=1146347242424" target=_blank>https://www.sirius.com/servlet/ContentServer?pagename=Sirius/Page&c=FlexContent&cid=1146347242424
They're still lacking content from beyond Sweden, but the tracklists are definitely getting better all the time.

Stylus reviews Luomo's latest: magazine.com/reviews/luomo/paper-tigers.htm" target=_blank>https://www.stylusmagazine.com/reviews/luomo/paper-tigers.htm

Aversionline on Sonores: m/blahg/2006/10/sonores-elefanten-cd.html" target=_blank>https://www.aversionline.com/blahg/2006/10/sonores-elefanten-cd.html
One of the year's best records - very highly recommended.

Swedish indierockers The Carny have posted a new three-song EP entitled "Baby blue" for free download: m/" target=_blank>https://www.thecarny.com/
I don't like the flash-heavy website, but the music is good.

Don Agbai has posted a new track on myspace: myspace.com/donagbai" target=_blank>https://www.myspace.com/donagbai

Check out "Lost tape", a free download project from the mysterious Ori L Joans: m/" target=_blank>https://www.losttape.com/
He comments: "It's just a tape, containing a very ambituous pop-album (by my standards at least) that's given away for free. It's supposed to indicate sometimes, even in this world, it's possible to find something sweet without having it pushed upon you by any marketing powers. Also, it's meant to signal that this type of music can indeed be art for it's own sake, without any economical, or even personal motifs behind it. Furthermore (phew, right?) I think it's a sad development that artists and their music are so disposable these days. For instance with all the downloading for mp3 players I feel that fewer people care about records as a whole, or even about the artists behind - it's all just songs. That's why all the songs on this album are blended together to one long file."

Komplott has a new EP from Swedish experimental artist Tsukimono for free download: mplott.com/catalogue/tsukimono_-_etudes.php" target=_blank>https://www.komplott.com/catalogue/tsukimono_-_etudes.php
The work is entitled "Études" and consists of "five short selections cut out from longer recordings made in malmö during the summer of '06."

Check out the Jimmy O remix of Ohm's "Spoon me": myspace.com/jimmyjimmyo" target=_blank>https://www.myspace.com/jimmyjimmyo

MP3: Starflower - Dance till morning light

Guest post today from frequent contributor Nancy Baym:

I wrote in m/index.php?article=226">my IAT review that Starflower songs sound too much alike, but lucky for them, it's a good sound. "Dance till morning light" from their debut record "moment in the sun" is probably the best song on their record, a disposable yet imminently loveable pop song about a girl living in the now who doesn't care, doesn't mind, just wants to dance till the morning light. It's more like a snack than a real meal with it's jingle jangle guitars and plaintive vocals, but I don't care and I don't mind because it's still really yummy.

Starflower - Dance till morning light

Anna Ternheim
Separation road
Universal

To write singer/songwriter Anna Ternheim off as a one-hit-wonder who didn't even write her "hit" ("Shoreline", a Broder Daniel cover), is a bit cruel and not really that fair. I found her first album "Somebody outside" a bit uninteresting and "Seperation road" - her latest offering - does seldom raise itself above the mediocre mark, although I do think it's a better album than Ternheim's first. With the days getting colder and darker, songs such as "The loneliness is gone" and "Such a lonely soul" are a comfortable company, together with a cup of tea. Still, the ten songs on the album are in general a bit too obtuse to make me want to go back listening to them on any regular basis, no matter what the weather's like.
- Simon Tagestam

Nikola Sarcevic
Roll roll and flee
Burning Heart Records

millencolin (Sarcevic's band) has always been more about killer melodies than any Dostoyevsky-like lyrics, and one problem with Sarcevic's first solo album was that the lyrics appeared naïve and awkward, being laid so bare with only an acoustic backdrop. Don't get me wrong, I've always liked millencolin's lyrics - they work well with the music - but in a The Descendents sort of way, not in a The mountain Goats way. This time around, Nikola Sarcevic's lyrics have really improved. The overtly simple rhymes from "Lock-sport-krock" shine with their absence. The music itself has also improved, the album feels much more “natural” and less stilted this time around. It's still of the same singer/songwriter school as his debut though, but just much more solid and … better! Hopefully Sarcevic will bring along all this progression to the next millencolin album.
- Simon Tagestam

Real Ones
Home with the girls in the morning
Breaking Records/V2

After seeing two great live shows, I made sure to snatch a copy of the Real Ones' latest effort. I listened to it when I got home and heard the beautiful harmonies and folk-rock sound and was just floored instantly. This band has a knack for writing great songs and, with perfect production, has delivered a damn fine album. "Home with the girls..." is just one of those records that gets better as it plays through, moreso with each listen. It's one of those albums that you can go back to a few weeks or even months later and still have the same feeling that Real Ones' songcraft is top-notch (at least for me). If you are unfamiliar with their sound, I'd suggest checking out the tracks "The long sentence" (complete with harpsichord), "Orlando" (with its peaceful harmonies), and the centerpiece "Ballad of an old man" (with their neighbourhood choir joining them on the chorus). Real Ones have spent a bit of time in my CD player lately and it's well deserved.
- Matt Giordano