The new album "Sista försvarslinjen" from Swedish hardcore act Sista Sekunden is now available: https://blog.myspace.com/index.cfm?fuseaction=blog.view&friendID=54025215&blogID=393835884

Finnish act Clark Kent has signed with the production/management/PR firm Sonic Kitchen and will be releasing their debut album in early 2009 via Bonnier Music Group. The record will be produced by Jukka Backlund with assistance from Aku Sinivalo and Tony Kimpimäki.

Black Star Foundation will be releasing two new albums in September. The first is "It's not me, it's you!", the full-length debut of postrockers Pg.Lost and the second is "Wolves" from the band Holmes. Also on the way is a new Tias Carlson record - look for that one around October.

Tiger Lou has finished tracking his new album "A partial print". Next up, it's off to LA for mixing.

Norwegian techno act Mental Overdrive will release their new album "You are being manipulated" on May 26.

Bob Hund is back and will be playing a few festivals this summer: https://www.myspace.com/bobhundofficial
Expect new music from the band in August too.

Finnish indiepop act Regina has signed with Johanna Kustannus (Astrid Swan, Tigerbombs) and will be releasing a new album early next year with a single to precede it sometime before the end of 2008.

The new Under Byen "Samme stof som stof" remix LP as done by Goodiepal should be out soon, hopefully in time for the band's Danish shows at the end of the month.

Patrik Isaksson will release a new album on July 2 entitled "10 år – en snäll mans bekännelser", a collection of his greatest hits mixed in with a few new tracks celebrating 10 years of being in the music business. He'll be touring Sweden as well, starting the very next day.

Scraps of Tape head out on tour tomorrow and have launched a new website to coincide: https://www.scrapsoftape.com/
Go there for dates and details along with a full-stream of their most recent album "This is a copy is this a copy".

Crowpath reports that they have completed tracking for their new album and will returning to the studio next weekend to begin mixing.

Legendary Swedish postpunk act Dom Dummaste has created a new website in anticipation of their 30th anniversary in 2009: https://www.domdummaste.net/
Go there for info on the band and full discography downloads.

The New York Times recently ran a travel section feature on the music scene in Stockholm: https://travel.nytimes.com/2008/05/11/travel/11next.html?ref=travel

Gaffa reports that Danish singer/songwriter Mikkel Glasser will be working with American producer Gordon Raphael (The Strokes) on his next album: https://gaffa.dk/nyheder/view.php/news_id=21961

Fluxblog is featuring a track from Swedish pop artist Veronica Maggio today: https://www.fluxblog.org/2008/05/dr-allt-blir-bra-imonrn.html