Relapse has posted an ecard for the new Regurgitate album: m/ecards/regurgitate/" target=_blank>https://www.relapse.com/ecards/regurgitate/

Indieworkshop.com interviews mew: m/interviews.php?id=151" target=_blank>https://www.indieworkshop.com/interviews.php?id=151

The Indie mP3 music blog interviews Finnish indiepop act Cats on Fire: mp3.co.uk/2006/08/cats-on-fire.html" target=_blank>https://www.indie-mp3.co.uk/2006/08/cats-on-fire.html

The Tough Alliance asks "Did you know that Leif Loket is Tobjörn from Embassy's uncle?" Nope, sure didn't but I guess I do now.

music blog The Overgrown Path on Swedish jazz artist Jan Johansson: m/2006/08/swedens-best-kept-secret-jan-johansson.html" target=_blank>https://theovergrownpath.blogspot.com/2006/08/swedens-best-kept-secret-jan-johansson.html (m/blog/archives/2006/08/saturday_miscel_14.php" target=_blank>via)
I too posted about Jan way back in m/index.php?story_id=622">January 2005, so consider that my endorsement.

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

01. Thom Yorke - The Eraser
02. Tiger Lou - The Loyal
03. The Arcade Fire - Funeral
04. The Postal Service - Give Up
05. The Knife - Silent Shout
06. mew - And The Glass Handed Kites
07. Radiohead - Kid A
08. The Radio Dept. - Lesser matters
09. Bloc Party - Silent Alarm
10. Camera Obscura - Let's Get out of This Country

Top 10 tracks for the week:

01. marit Bergman – No Party
02. Tiger Lou – Until I'm There
03. Thom Yorke – harrowdown hill
04. Timo Räisänen – Fear no darkness, promised child
05. Kasabian – Empire
06. Tiger Lou – The Loyal
07. Tiger Lou – Nixon
08. Arctic monkeys – I Bet You Look Good on the Dancefloor
09. The Lovekevins – Happy Happy
10. mew – Apocalypso

Want to make your own playlist count? Join us! Go here to learn more: m/help/" target=_blank>https://www.last.fm/help/

Speaking of Last.fm, go there now to preview the entire "Five years" cover compilation from Danish label Play/Rec: m/music/Various+Artists/Play%252FRec%2BFive%2BYears?autostart" target=_blank>https://www.last.fm/music/Various+Artists/Play%252FRec%2BFive%2BYears?autostart
It's a collection of all the artists from the label covering eachothers songs and of course highly recommended.

Cake on Cake's forthcoming US tour in November is currently being booked by the folks at Desolation Records. Dates and details soon.

A Perfect Friend, the indietronica collaborating between Swedish troubadour Thomas Denver Jonsson and IAT.mP3 artist Pacta Sunt Servanda, will be releasing their debut self-titled album this coming spring via Belgian label Stilll. Details (and samples) to come.

Pitchfork does the track review thing with Swedish singer/songwriter Frida Hyvönen: media.com/page/track_reviews/Frida_Hyv%C3%B6nen_You_Never_Got_me_Right#38105" target=_blank>https://www.pitchforkmedia.com/page/track_reviews/Frida_Hyv%C3%B6nen_You_Never_Got_me_Right#38105

Cult of Luna has posted a special version of the song "marching to the heartbeats" on myspace, now retitled "Heartbeats (Elektroniskt Balanserad)" and performed by drummer magnus Lindberg and keyboardist Anders Teglund. It will only be available for a limited time so get it now: myspace.com/cultofluna" target=_blank>https://www.myspace.com/cultofluna

MP3: Silver - The personal decay

I can't remember exactly when I first heard of the band Silver, but I certainly never paid them much attention until their newest CD "World against world" showed up in my mailbox. I know a lot of people are probably interested in them now since Emil Nikolaisen of Serena maneesh used to be in the band. His brother Ivar aka Blanco still fronts the band and Emil produced the new record, so it's not as if they had a falling out or anything. Emil just wanted to do his own thing and that seems to be paying off, so who can fault him? Anyhow, seeing as how Bad Afro is handling this new release, I knew it was time to take notice. I haven't been too stoked on the current lot of Scandinavian dirty rock'n'roll bands, but Bad Afro always delivers the goods and Silver is no exception. They're actually punkier than I thought they'd be - lots of downstoke-heavy Ramones-style riffage as opposed to the usual bluesy New York Dolls worship. Of course, there's still tons of blustery soloing in the Johnny Thunders tradition, not as if that's a bad thing. Dig it.

Silver - The personal decay

MP3: Nihilist - When life has ceased

my mom's in town visiting today, so regular updates won't be happening and I doubt I'll get around to putting together this week's newsletter. At least not today like I usually do. However, I still want to leave you with something to listen to, so here's a track from Nihilist, the band that would later become Entombed.

Nihilist - When life has ceased

Oh, and just one thing: m/index.php?story_id=1046">remember when I mentioned that I'm from Barcelona was coming to the UK in September? Well, it's still not quite 100% confirmed according to my sources, but chances are high that you'll see them at the End of the Road Festival.

This week's video mix is up: m/index.php?article=209">[click here]