Danish act Dúné will make their Japanese debut on November 20 at Astrohall in Tokyo.

Updated dates for Swedish postrock act Yamon Yamon:

11/27 - MUK, Giessen (GER)
11/28 - Cafe Central, Weinheim (GER)
11/29 - d:qliq, Luxemburg (LUX)
12/02 - Bar Sartea, Vicenza (ITA)
12/03 - Metelkova, Ljubljana (SLO)
12/04 - Schokoladen, Berlin (GER)
12/05 - Panam, Leipzig (GER)
12/06 - Nora club, Kopřivnice (CZ)
12/07 - Rhiz, Wien (AUS)

Swedish Showcase, together with help from the Swedish Institute, is sending a group of Swedish acts to Belarus in order to "inspire and develop the Belarusian music scene, its artists and organizers." The acts participating: I Love You Baby!, Alice in Videoland, Paris and Pluxus. Dates and details: https://www.swedishshowcase.com/belarus/

Jens Lekman is doing a couple solo shows in the US next month:

11/01 - Northampton High School Auditorium, Northampton, MA
11/08 - Sadler Center, Williamsburg, VA

Read more about the Northampton show here: https://www.jenslekman.com/records/smalltalk.htm

Atalante and Kning Disk are teaming up to put on a music (+ film) festival in Göteborg on December 5/6 called "Preview Festival". Check it: https://www.kningdisk.com/preview2008/
Looks like a very impressive lineup.

Look for a new LP from Swedish cult act Brainbombs called "Fucking mess" to be released on LP in November, their first album of new material in 10 years. More info at Lystring: https://www.lystring.com/
The band will also play their first show in ages at the Sonic Protest Festival in Paris on December 12: https://www.sonicprotest.com/

Lasse Marhaug (Jazkammer) and Jon Wesseltoft (Thorns) will play a one-off show as noise duo Cock of Corpse at Revolver in Oslo on November 6.

Danish experimental noise label 8k Mob will be throwing a release party on October 30 together with Noisejihad to celebrate the release of new discs from Hector Rottweiler and Fallingapparatus. It all goes down at Spanien19c in Aarhus and is also somehow part of the Danish music industry's "Spil Dansk"/"Play Danish" day celebration: https://www.spildansk.dk/

Updates tourdates for Finnish act Boomhauer:

11/02 - Plan B, Moscow (RUS)
01/21 - tba, Örebro (SWE)
01/25 - The Rambler, Eindhoven (GER)
01/26 - Bei Chez Heinz, Hannover (GER)
01/27 - Sonic Ballroom, Cologne/Köln (GER)
01/28 - Atelier Art & Cafe, Wohlen (GER)
01/30 - Sunny Red, Munich/München (GER)
01/31 - Kunstkeller o27, Fürth (GER)

More dates tba.

Norwegian artist Kenneth Ishak (Beezewax) is doing a bunch of solo dates in the US next month:

11/04 - Frog & Peach, San Luis Obispo, CA
11/05 - Molly Malone's, Los Angeles, CA
11/06 - Silverlake Lounge, Los Angeles, CA
11/07 - Club Fred, Fresno, CA
11/08 - The Satellite, Reno, NV
11/12 - Music Millennium (Instore) Portland, OR
11/12 - Doug Fir, Portland, OR
11/15 - Goodbye Blue Monday, Brooklyn, NY
11/16 - Cake Shop, NYC, NY
11/16 - Arlene's Grocery, NYC, NY

His latest album "Silver lightning from a black sky" gets a US release on November 18.

New Love Is All tourdates:

11/16 - Echoplex (Part Time Punks Festival), Los Angeles, CA
11/17 - The Casbah, San Diego, CA
11/18 - The Smell, Los Angeles, CA
11/20 - Bottom of the Hill, San Francisco, CA
11/21 - The Fungarden, Sacramento, CA
11/22 - Backspace, Portland, OR
11/23 - Nectar Lounge, Seattle, WA
11/24 - Richard's on Richards , Vancouver, British Columbia
12/06 - Rock and Roll Hotel, Washington, DC
12/07 - Bowery Ballroom, New York, NY
12/08 - Great Scott, Boston, MA
12/10 - La Sala Rossa, Montreal, Quebec
12/11 - Horseshoe Tavern, Toronto, Ontario
12/14 - Empty Bottle, Chicago, IL

Swedish posi-hardcore act Sista Sekunden has updated US dates on their myspace page: https://www.myspace.com/sistasekunden

Satyricon will perform in India in early November at the Great Indian Rock Festival. Dates:

11/01 - Mumbai
11/03 - Pune
11/07 - Bangalore

Saturday night! Hello Saferide @ The Bell House in Brooklyn, NY with Blackstrap and The Seabellies! Doors @ 8pm, $10 cover. Be there!

Speaking of HS in the US, anyone got any pics from either the House of Sweden show on Monday or last night's performance at Bowery Electric to share?

PR company The Musebox is giving away a track from Norwegian act The Royalties as their "featured band of the week": https://www.themusebox.net/featured_artist/the_royalties/02_music%20_for_cooking_with_gass.mp3
Upcoming US dates:

10/25 - Spike Hill (CMJ), Brooklyn, NY
10/26 - DC9, Washington, DC
10/30 - Public Assembly, Brooklyn, NY
11/04 - Viper Room, West Hollywood, CA
11/05 - Tangiers, Los Angeles, CA
11/06 - On The Rox, Los Angeles, CA