Updated tourdates for Swedish singer/songwriter Kristoffer Ragnstam in NYC:

10/25 - Knitting Factory
10/26 - Living Room
10/27 - Hard Rock Café
10/29 - Delancey

Upcoming release schedule for Norway's SellOut music:

November: Delorean - s/t CD album
Jan/Feb 06: Torpedo - Anticlockwise EP
mar/Apr 06: Kenneth Ishak - tba cover EP
Aug/Sep 06: City On Film (Bob Nanna from Braid/Hey mercedes) tba cover EP

Yeah, it's not all Scandinavian stuff, but whatcha gonna do? Anyhow, those cover EPs are the first in a series in which an artist records 4-5 of their favorite songs. Sounds like fun, so I'm def looking forward to that.

Check out the video for the new Kristian Anttila single "Paul Weller": mov" target=_blank>https://www.dach.se/pw.mov

I don't think I've properly expressed just how amazing the new Bear Quartet album is. I posted the first single "I have an itch" m/index.php?story_id=797">a little over a month ago, but I hadn't heard the full album yet. Now that I've time to fully digest and process "Saturday night", I can sincerely attest to what an amazing piece of music it is. The band promised us a mindblowing experience and they delivered. I think a lot of twee indierockers will be scared off by how noisy, sinister and straight-up fucked this album is, but I'm here to assure you - it's worth the challenge. The most intellectually satisfying works of art usually are. So here's another song to pique your interest. Listen to those dense chords shift and build. The chittering vocals. The foreboding wash of reverb and flanger over the breaks. It shouldn't work, but somehow it does.

Upcoming releases from Service Records:

11/09 - Harlem - Game/Watch EP
11/16 - Erik de Vahl - Friendly Fire CD
11/16 - The Embassy - Tacking CD

London's Sunday Times interviews The Cardigans: mesonline.co.uk/newspaper/0%2C%2C176-1822536%2C00.html" target=_blank>https://www.timesonline.co.uk/newspaper/0%2C%2C176-1822536%2C00.html

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This song is the title track for the act's new album, out now via Ssschuitt.

Just like I suspected, Fat Wreck has licensed the new Randy album "Randy the band" for release in the US and will put it out on January 10. This isn't the first time they've worked together: if you remember that recent 2xCD Burning Heart comp featured a duet with Randy and Fat label honcho Fat mike (also of NOFX). Hopefully this means the band will finally get the attention they deserve when it comes time to promote the damn thing. But what I really wanna know - when's the tour?

French label Ocean music has licensed the album "Unlike you" from Danish melancholy duo munck/Johnsson for release in France and Spain. Details to come.

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Swedish shoegazers LKWRm will be remixing and rereleasing most of the tracks from their first two self-released EP as a new mCD to be entitled "It really tied the room together". No word on an exact release date yet, but soon.

The new album "A third opinion" from The maharajas will be released on November 2 via Low Impact Records.

Stream the new Tiger Lou single "The loyal": mediaservices.com/delivermedia.asp?id=9ffd1efb-2002-4542-9784-6fe30b457fc5" target=_blank>https://exodus.interoutemediaservices.com/delivermedia.asp?id=9ffd1efb-2002-4542-9784-6fe30b457fc5

Tess of Kamikatze and the person behind the "Who Killed marilyn?" club is now Bruce Banner's 2nd vocalist, replacing the recently departed Kristoffer.

Dark Dose posts a track from long-running Swedish prog act Anekdoten: m/?p=87" target=_blank>https://darkdose.com/?p=87