Kim Hiorthøy will be releasing a new 12" on Smalltown Supersound before the end of the year featuring two extended versions of tracks slated to appear on his next proper full-length, due out in early 2006. more info to come.

Parasol has licensed Peter, Bjorn and John's very excellent most-recent album "Falling out" for release in the US. Look for it in September.

Karmageddon media has signed two new Swedish bands: first is Ghamorean, a band they describe as a mix of The Haunted with a touch of grind, and second is my Own Grave who they say is a Dark Angel-influenced death/thrash act. Look for albums from both bands in the near future.

"Special" will be the next single from mew's upcoming album "mew and the glass kites", both due out September 12.

Check out the video for "Bundy" from Animal Alpha: m/Videos/animalalpha.mpeg" target=_blank>https://www.racingjunior.com/Videos/animalalpha.mpeg

Norway's Backstreet Girls have posted a clip of the song "Back in jail" that was filmed at the band's 20th anniversary show in Oslo and which will also be appearing on the group's upcoming DVD: me.no.net/broerby/jubileum/media/backinjail.mov" target=_blank>https://home.no.net/broerby/jubileum/media/backinjail.mov

Confirmed dates for the upcoming HIm tour with Finch and Skindred:

10/04 - House of Blues, Las Vegas, NV
10/05 - SOmA, San Diego
10/06 - SOmA, San Diego
10/07 - Bren Events Center at UC Irvine, Irvine, CA
10/08 - The Warfield, San Francisco, CA
10/09 - Roseland, Portland, OR
10/10 - Showbox, Seattle, WA
10/12 - In The Venue, Salt Lake City, UT
10/13 - Fillmore Auditorium, Denver, CO
10/14 - Sokol Auditorium, Omaha, NE
10/15 - Beaumont, Kansas City, mO
10/16 - Pop's, St. Louis, mO
10/18 - Playmaker's Pavilion, Fargo, ND
10/19 - Quest, minneapolis, mN
10/20 - The Rave, milwaukee, WI
10/21 - The Riviera, Chicago, IL
10/22 - State Theatre , Detroit, mI
10/23 - Bogarts, Cincinnati, OH
10/25 - House Of Blues , Cleveland, OH
10/26 - The Docks, Toronto, ON
10/27 - Capital music Hall, Ottawa, ON
10/28 - Centre-Pierre Charbonneau, montreal, QC

US tourdates for renown Finnish act Circle:

09/02 - Great American music Hall, San Francisco, CA w/merzbow, Growing, Earth
09/04 - Arthur Festival, Los Angeles, CA
09/06 - Knitting Factory, New York, NY w/merzbow, Jim O'Rourke and Carlos Giffoni, Double Leopards
09/07 - Ottobar, Baltimore, mD w/Urdog
09/10 - tba, Atlanta, GA w/Urdog
09/11 - tba, Knoxville, TN w/Urdog
09/13 - Empty Bottle, Chicago, IL w/Urdog
09/14 - tba, Columbus, OH w/Urdog
09/15 - tba, Pittsburgh, PA w/Urdog
09/16 - Khyber, Philadelphia, PA w/Urdog
09/17 - The Hook, Brooklyn, NY

On Saturday, August 6 the "modul modal" radio program on Radio Orange in Wien, Austria will be broadcasting a special one-hour program on Swedish music entitled "De Svenskarna kommer!". The program will be in German, but the playlist lineup includes a great assortment of up-and-coming indie artists such as All of my Brother's Girlfriends, Firefox AK, The Je Ne Sais Quoi, Ninja massacre, Tokyo Eye and Torpedo. The program airs live at 3pm local time and can be streamed mintern.orange.or.at/live.m3u" target=_blank>here, but I do believe that host Janis meißner will try to post a recording somewhere after the fact. more info on the program here: ms/modul_modal/" target=_blank>https://orange.or.at/programs/modul_modal/

Pitchfork reviews the US reissue of Dungen's "Ta det lugnt": media.com/record-reviews/d/dungen/ta-det-lugnt-2.shtml" target=_blank>https://www.pitchforkmedia.com/record-reviews/d/dungen/ta-det-lugnt-2.shtml

Popmatters interviews Röyksopp: matters.com/music/interviews/royskopp-050801.shtml" target=_blank>https://popmatters.com/music/interviews/royskopp-050801.shtml

Timbuktu, Chords, DJ Amato and Damn! will doing three nights together at mosebacke Etablissement on August 11-13 which will all be recorded for a DVD to be released later this year via JuJu Records. more info: m/news.php?id=40" target=_blank>https://www.jujurecords.com/news.php?id=40

Jester Records has posted the cover art and tracklist for the upcoming Kåre João album "2", due out August 22: m/releases_sub.php?ID=38" target=_blank>https://www.jester-records.com/releases_sub.php?ID=38

Bedroom Records will be releasing new CDRs from elektro act Holding a Peach and indie rockers Happy Go Lucky on August 8. Samples and more info: mrec.com/" target=_blank>https://www.bedroomrec.com/

Finnish ska-punks Evilsons will be recording their sophomore album in September with producer Hannu Leiden. Look for it to be released via Fullhouse Records sometime before 2006.