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The Raveonettes' final EP release of the year will be a Christmas EP entitled "Wishing you a rave Christmas". I'm not sure of the actual release date, but here's the tracklist:
01. Christmas (Baby please come home)
02. Come on Santa
03. Christmas ghosts
04. Christmas In Cleveland
Norwegian act Real Ones recently headed upstate to Woodstock, NY to pay tribute to "Big Pink", the house made famous by Bob Dylan/The Band. Read more: https://blog.myspace.com/index.cfm?fuseaction=blog.view&friendID=54424291&blogID=448945607
IAT.MP3 artist Tsukimono, the solo project of Johan Gustavsson (Scraps of Tape, V. Sjöberg New Jazz Ensemble, Gutted String), will be releasing the new album "Great blood" on November 29 via Hwem. There will be release party in Stockholm (details tba), but in the meantime you can hear three tracks at myspace: https://www.myspace.com/tsukimonoswe
Kristofer Åström and backing band The Rainaways recently completed a new studio session at Svenska Grammofon in Göteborg and you read more about it here: https://blog.myspace.com/index.cfm?fuseaction=blog.view&friendID=42713210&blogID=448925914
Norwegian artsy shoegazers The Low Frequency in Stereo have signed with Rune Grammofon and will be releasing their new album "Futuro" on January 12. Preview a few tracks at myspace: https://www.myspace.com/lowfrequencyinstereo
Magnus Lindberg, drummer for Cult of Luna and engineer at Tontektik in Umeå, reports that he just finished mixing a new album from Swedish artist Gustav Spetz which is due to be released via Imperial Recordings sometime next year.
The US release of the new In Flames EP "The mirror's truth" is being sold exclusively via Hot Topic and includes three exclusive tracks not available on their most recent album "A sense of purpose".
Swedish progg act Gösta Berlings Saga reports that basic tracking for their new record is complete. Check out their studio blog for pics and video clips: https://www.gostaberlingssaga.se/gbs2/2008/11/initial-recording-session-completed/
Fysisk Format has delayed the release of Next Life's new album "The lost age" to the first week of 2009.
Swedish emopop act Jettie has officially broken up: https://blog.myspace.com/index.cfm?fuseaction=blog.view&friendID=6110080&blogID=448730309
Luxury has signed legendary Gbg-based indie act Franke and will be releasing a new 7" from the band in December with a new full-length to follow on January 14. Whether they'll live up to expectations remains to be seen, all I know is that they were awful at Way Out West two years ago. Take that with a grain of salt though - my understanding is that they've always been a bad live act, so maybe the music will still be alright.
On Volcano reports that their excellent debut EP "My sleep was filled with dreams" is sold out, but have no fear - copies are still available through me at a reasonable price: [click here]