Finland's Disco Ensemble has posted four of their videos for free download: mble.com/" target=_blank>https://www.discoensemble.com/

Norwegian webzine Panorama's top picks for 2005: ma.no/vis.php?kat=3&did=4782" target=_blank>https://www.panorama.no/vis.php?kat=3&did=4782

Finnish indiepop music blog One Chord to Another has posted their top picks for 2005: m" target=_blank>https://www.onechord.net/2005.htm

Chronic Heist has a new drummer, a new website and one new song for download: https://www.zoopeople.se/chronicheist/

Norwegian singer/songwriter Askil Holm's new single "Ain't no cure loving you" will be released to radio on December 27. His new as-yet-untitled album comes out early next year and will feature 10 or 11 new tracks from a Waterboys cover. Look for various extra tracks to be posted online for free download in the near future.

JR Ewing will be heading out on a Kerrang! sponsored tour of the Barflys in the UK this coming January:

01/19 - Barfly, Cardiff
01/20 - Barfly, Birmingham
01/21 - Barfly, Glasgow
01/22 - Barfly, York
01/23 - Barfly, London

Opeth claims the number one spot on the Popmatters top 20 metal album list: matters.com/columns/begrand/051219.shtml" target=_blank>https://www.popmatters.com/columns/begrand/051219.shtml (it's also #26 on their matters.com/music/best2005/cds3.shtml" target=_blank>top 50 list)

The nominees for Denmark's critic prize, the Steppeulven, have been announced: minering2005.htm" target=_blank>https://www.steppeulv.dk/nominering2005.htm

music (for Robots) posts a track from Finnish producer/electronic artist Vladislav Delay: music.for-robots.com/archives/001283.html" target=_blank>https://music.for-robots.com/archives/001283.html

Swedish indiepop act Celestial has a new downloadable EP available via UK-based netlabel Lostmusic: music.co.uk/recordings/" target=_blank>https://lostmusic.co.uk/recordings/

Ex-Nasum members Anders, Urban and Jon (along with new recruits Jesper and Rickard) have started a new grind project and have posted six brand new demo tracks for free download: m.com/" target=_blank>https://www.nasum.com/

Asombria, the Swedish electropop project consisting of 2/3rds of the now-dormant band EnCounter, will be releasing their new single "Coming home" as a free download on December 24 via their website: mbria.com/" target=_blank>https://www.asombria.com/

Check out musikbyrån top 52 picks for 2005: https://svt.se/svt/jsp/Crosslink.jsp?d=32988

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

01. Death Cab for Cutie
02. Belle and Sebastian
03. The Strokes
04. The Arcade Fire
05. Kent
06. Sufjan Stevens
07. Jens Lekman
08. Suburban Kids With Biblical Names
09. Bloc Party
10. David Bowie

Top tracks:

01. The Arcade Fire - Neighborhood #1 (Tunnels)
02. The Strokes - You Only Live Once
03. Broken Social Scene - 7/4 (Shoreline)
04. Broken Social Scene - Fire Eye'd Boy
05. Death Cab for Cutie - Soul meets Body
06. I'm from Barcelona - We're From Barcelona
07. The Strokes - Juicebox
08. Tiger Lou - Nixon
09. mogwai - Folk Death 95
10. Broken Social Scene - Swimmers

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The video for "We don't celebrate Sundays" from Swedish glamrockers Hardcore Superstar is now online: m/downloads/SundaysWeb.mov" target=_blank>https://www.hardcoresuperstar.com/downloads/SundaysWeb.mov