Swedish EBM trio Red Cell will release their new album "Lead or follow" on May 14 via Progress Productions. Hear samples of older material at myspace: https://www.myspace.com/redcellofficial

Some April Fool's fun from Solefald: https://blog.myspace.com/index.cfm?fuseaction=blog.view&friendID=124946742&blogID=372941299

Turbonegro has been forced to cancel their US dates in April (including Coachella) due to guitarist Euroboy's ongoing health issues.

US label Pop Detective Records will be releasing powerpop artist Vibeke Saugestad's latest record "The world famous hat trick" over here in mid-May under the name Vibeke. The disc will be remastered and will include two bonus tracks plus the video for "He's peculiar".

Cult of Luna reports that they are done with the recording of their next record and are now entering the mixing phase. See pics from the sessions at their website: https://www.cultofluna.com/

Swedish reggae/hip-hop crew Svenska Akademien are taking a break for awhile: https://www.svenskaakademien.just.nu/

Norwegian label Spoon Train Audio has signed "lo-fi-indie-pop-folk" artist Cold Mailman and will be releasing his debut album "How to escape cause and effect" on May 5. Samples at myspace: https://www.myspace.com/coldmailman

Rune Grammofon has posted details for their next release, the new Scorch Trio album "Brolt": https://www.runegrammofon.com/artists/scorch_trio/rcd-2074---scorch-trio_-brolt

Check out a feature article on Robyn from Wired Magazine:

Swedish metal act Deranged has called it quits. Read more: https://www.regainrecords.com/viewItem.php?id=237

It appears that Startracks has signed Swedish indiepop act Florence Valentin. I really enjoyed them at Way Out West and expect good things in the future.

Finnish act Negative will release their new album "Karma Killer" on May 7. The first single "Won't let go" will be added to their myspace page on April 2: https://www.myspace.com/negative

Swedish avant/experimental label Kning Disk has announced that they'll be putting out new releases from both Library Tapes and Dwayne Sodahberk on April 30. There's also a new release from fellow Swede Prince Of Assyria on the way which also happens to be, like the others, available now for paid download via Klicktrack. Head to the label site for more details and links: https://kningdisk.com/01_index.asp?id=01

STIM has set May 31 as the date for this year's "Swedish Music Day", the 25th anniversary of said occasion. Find out more: https://www.mic.stim.se/smd

Xploding Plastix are back on Beatservice Records and will have a new album ready for release in the fall. More details: https://www.beatservice.no/blogg/2008/03/xploding-plastix-back-on-beatservice.html