Despite the recent exit of frontwoman Victoria Bergsman (who I never liked much in the first place), The Concretes report that they have pretty much wrapped up the recording of their third album. There's no title yet or anything, but they say to expect a release around march.

Tiger Lou has added another show at Debaser in Stockholm on the 20th to make up for the second set he had to cancel the other night due to vocal fatigue. This might be their last Swedish show for awhile, so be there if you can.

Smalltown Supersound has announced that they will be releasing a new album from Bjørn Torske entitled "Feil knapp" ("Wrong button") on January 12. Their description: "Filled with typical Torske dub, some quirky electronica, some disco, some weirdness. But so melodic. So wonderful." There will also be a 12" entitled "Kokt kveite" released on January 22 as well as a tour of Japan will more dates tba.

Segerhuva will be rereleasing the long out-of-print album "Engrama" from noise/drone act mnem, originally released as a 10" by Kaos Kontrol in 2000. The new edition will be on a 12" with an additional unreleased bonus track.

Also on the way from Segerhuva will be a vinyl reissue of two Blod cassettes from the late 90s, "Notorious" and "Primordial". They say "Expect nothing else but pure sexnoise with some dirty-talk samples as usual."

There's some new songs from The Plan's forthcoming album "Walk for gold" on myspace: myspace.com/theplansweden" target=_blank>https://www.myspace.com/theplansweden

Lorraine has a special microsite for the new "Heaven" EP: music.co.uk/heaven" target=_blank>https://www.lorrainemusic.co.uk/heaven

Now that the physical copies of The Skull Defekts album "Rotating feedback & save the skulls" (Ideal Recordings/AA) is sold out, it's being offered up as a free download: m/downloads.htm" target=_blank>https://www.nosordo.com/downloads.htm

Icelandic act Ghostigital will support The melvins on tour in the US this fall:

09/25 - Fine Line music Cafe, minneapolis, mN
09/26 - High Noon Saloon, madison, WI
09/27 - Shank Hall, milwaukee, WI
09/28 - Double Door, Chicago, IL
09/29 - magic Stick, Detroit, mI
09/30 - The Intersection, Grand Rapids, mI
10/01 - Frankie's, Toledo, OH
10/02 - Top Cats, Cincinnati, OH
10/03 - Little Brothers, Columbus, OH
10/05 - Grog Shop, Cleveland, OH
10/06 - Showplace Theatre, Buffalo, NY
10/07 - Chameleon Club, Lancaster, PA
10/08 - Axis, Boston, mA
10/10 - Higher Ground, South Burlington, VT
10/11 - Pearl Street, Northampton, mA
10/12 - Toad's, Place New Haven, CT
10/13 - The Living Room, Providence, RI
10/14 - Revolution Hall, Troy, NY
10/16 - maxwell's, Hoboken, NJ
10/17 - Warsaw, Brooklyn, NY

Norway's Don Juan Dracula reports back from their trip to China: m/article/news_20060918.asp" target=_blank>https://www.donjuandracula.com/article/news_20060918.asp
Great band - glad to see they are back together after a short intermission.

Swedish post-punk/dance act Cut City will finally release their long-awaited debut full-length "Exit decades" early next year. GSL and Deleted Art will collaborate on the CD and the new label Some Industries will do the vinyl.

Norway's Blokk 5 is currently recording their debut full-length album, due for release early next year on dBut Records. Check out a recently uploaded video clip from the group's trip to France earlier this summer: m/watch?v=BOrltF5kHw0" target=_blank>https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BOrltF5kHw0

Swedish electropop duo Papercut has posted two new songs on myspace: myspace.com/musicbypapercut" target=_blank>https://www.myspace.com/musicbypapercut

NRK is reporting that Norwegian all-star group The Nation Bank (feat. Thomas Dybdahl and members of Jaga Jazzist) are working on a new record: musikk/1.1016101" target=_blank>https://www.nrk.no/musikk/1.1016101

Finnish dronepop act Cahier has a new cassette release entitled "Che me ne importa?" out now on Slooow Tapes. Listen to a sample: m/cahier/13.jour0.mp3" target=_blank>https://www.pyhpyh.com/cahier/13.jour0.mp3
Look for more new releases on Foxglove and Audiobot in the near future.