Viva Revolución planned US jaunt in September has been cancelled.

You can finally hear some new stuff from The Plan now on myspace: myspace.com/theplansweden" target=_blank>https://www.myspace.com/theplansweden
The single "Walk for gold" comes out September 27 and the album of the same name follows on October 25.

Finnish garage-rockers The micragirls are now on myspace with a new song from their forthcoming album: myspace.com/micragirls" target=_blank>https://www.myspace.com/micragirls

Bassist Flettefar has left Denmark's I Am Bones to spend more time with his family. Christian Winther will take his place. In other news, the band recently went through a ton of demo sketches on their hard drive and decided to share a mishmash of them with the public: mbones.dk/mp3/i_am_bones_-_harddrive_cleanout.mp3" target=_blank>https://www.iambones.dk/mp3/i_am_bones_-_harddrive_cleanout.mp3

Hello Saferide will be travelling to Japan for some dates in early October. Details soon.

The new Fibes, Oh Fibes! website is up: m/" target=_blank>https://www.fibesohfibes.com/

Check out the video for Petter's single "Eller": mov" target=_blank>https://www.dach.se/eller.mov

Labrador has posted the new Irene single for downloading: mp3/irene-little_things.mp3" target=_blank>https://www.labrador.se/mp3/irene-little_things.mp3

Now that he's made a name for himself as the visual artist behind The Knife, Silverbullit guitarist Andreas Nilsson has now been hired to do the video for Depeche mode's new single "martyr".

Digitalmetal has the press release for the new Borknagar acoustic album "Origin", due out October 30 via Century media: metal.com/news.asp?cid=7635" target=_blank>https://www.digitalmetal.com/news.asp?cid=7635

Danish post-punk/pop act Cartidge has posted a couple more songs from their album "Enfant terrible" on myspace: myspace.com/ilovecartridge" target=_blank>https://www.myspace.com/ilovecartridge

Franky Lee, the solo side-project of mathias from millencolin, will finally unveil their official website on Friday: m/" target=_blank>https://www.frankylee.com/

Ralph myerz & The Jack Herren Band's cover of "Forelska i læreren" ("The teacher") by early 80s Norwegian hard-rockers The Kids is now on myspace: myspace.com/ralphmyerz" target=_blank>https://www.myspace.com/ralphmyerz

Hemstad has revamped their website yet again: mstadhemstad.com/" target=_blank>https://www.hemstadhemstad.com/

The Charade
A real life drama
Skipping Stones Records

The Charade have lineage in a number of well regarded Swedish bands of days past, including Happy Deadmen and Red Sleeping Beauty, so they can at least make some claim to innovating this kind of supertwee relaxed music that brings to mind big fluffy clouds, sunny days, cotton candy, and prozac. Like Club 8, Acid House Kings, or Sambassadeur, they have gorgeous etherial female vocals with some male backgrounds (and occassional leads). The Charade also throw in a lot of background harmonies reminiscent of girl groups of the 60s. If that much fluff weren't enough, they've got happy optimistic lyrics about things going right. There's not a trace of darkness to be found. Were there not so many songs that are catchy, pretty, or both, it'd be excruciating. Instead it's a fine gentle pop record with some strong highlights mixed with mediocre filler.s
- Nancy Baym