New North American dates for Lo-Fi-Fnk:

10/04 - PS14, Miami, FL
10/05 - TSI Jacksonville, FL
10/06 - Backbooth, Orlando, FL
10/08 - Sonar, Baltimore, MD
10/10 - Starlight Ballroom, Philadelphia, PA
10/11 - The Gramercy Theatre, NYC, NY
10/12 - Studio B, NYC, NY
10/13 - Paradise Rock Club, Boston, MA
10/14 - The Tralf, Buffalo, NY
10/16 - Metro, Chicago, IL
10/18 - The Opera House, Toronto (CAN)
10/19 - La Tulipe, Montreal (CAN)
10/20 - tba, Montreal (CAN)

iDEAL Recordings will be pressing an extra-special Skull Defekts 10" dubplate for the upcoming Göteborg Art Sounds exhibition featuring artwork by Thomas Ekelund (Nullvoid/Dead Letters Spell Out Dead Words). There will only be a grand total of 8 copies with a mere 5 being made available for purchase to collectors. More details about the fest: https://www.gas-festival.com/

Enemy Alliance has started to post new tourdates for November on myspace: https://www.myspace.com/enemyalliance

Updated tourdates for Danish noir-rockers Skywriter:

10/10 - Forum, Bielefeld (GER) w/Lord Bishop Rocks
10/11 - Gogo Club, Münster (GER) w/Lord Bishop Rocks
10/12 - K4 Club, Nürnberg (GER) w/Lord Bishop Rocks
10/13 - Kulturhof, Lübbenau (GER) w/Lord Bishop Rocks
10/14 - Logo, Hamburg (GER) w/Lord Bishop Rocks
10/15 - Kofferfabrik, Fürth (GER)
10/17 - Pirate Cove, Berlin (GER)
10/19 - Chrämerhuus, Langenthal (SWI)
11/15 - Raahuset, Copenhagen (DK)
11/29 - Astra Stube, Hamburg (GER)
11/30 - Barfly, Schönebeck (GER)
12/01 - Vierradenmühle, Görlitz (GER)

Norwegian black-metallers 1349 will return to the UK in October:

10/16 - Cathouse, Glasgow
10/17 - Junktion 7, Nottingham
10/18 - Underworld, London
10/19 - Corporation, Sheffield
10/20 - Damnation Festival, Leeds

MIC Norway on the various Norwegian acts playing CMJ this year: https://www.mic.no/mic.nsf/doc/art2007092811421576004119

Maia Hirasawa and Jonna Lee will tour Sweden together in November:

11/13 - Victoriateatern, Malmö
11/15 - Stenhammarsalen, Göteborg
11/16 - Sagateatern, Borås
11/17 - Konsert och Kongress, Linköping
11/18 - Rival, Stockholm
11/28 - Hörnet (Konsterhuset), Västerås
11/29 - Universitetsaulan, Uppsala
11/30 - Mejeriet, Lund

Torpedo will support Dia Psalma on tour in Sweden next month. The latter's new album "Djupa skogen" comes out October 10 and you can find more details at their website: https://www.diapsalma.net/

Norwegian act Syme on tour in North America:

10/02 - Trash Bar, Brooklyn, NY
10/03 - Lit, New York, NY
10/04 - Hennessy's, Boston, MA
10/05 - Le Academy (Pop Montreal), Montreal
10/07 - Garfield Artworks, Pittsburgh, PA
10/08 - Wilbert's, Cleveland, OH
10/09 - The Horseshoe Tavern, Toronto, ON
10/10 - Café Nine, New Haven, CT
10/11 - TT and the Bears, Boston, MA
10/14 - The Khyber, Philadelphia, PA
10/15 - DC9, Washington DC
10/16 - Ace of Clubs (CMJ), New York, NY
10/18 - The Delancey Lounge (CMJ day show), New York, NY

Listen to samples: https://www.myspace.com/symenorway

Swedish booking agency/show promoter Luger has started doing direct ticket sales: https://www.luger.se/biljetter
Can anyone tell me if they still charge the horrible so-called "service fees" that are endemic in this industry?

Powersolo has announced their West Coast dates for November:

11/06 - Pappy and Harriet's, Pioneertown, CA
11/07 - Rhythm Room, Phoenix, AZ
11/09 - The Casbah, San Diego, CA
11/10 - The Echo, Los Angeles, CA
11/11 - SOhO Music Club, Santa Barbara, CA
11/13 - Moe's Alley/The Attic, Santa Cruz, CA
11/14 - Bottom of the Hill, San Francisco, CA
11/16 - Doug Fir Lounge/Dante's, Portland, OR
11/17 - Crocodile Cafe, Seattle, WA

Loney, Dear has posted another big batch of European tourdates, this time as support for Andrew Bird: https://www.loneydear.com/

Sahara Hotnights have confirmed their CMJ appearance as well as one of their upcoming Japanese dates: https://www.myspace.com/saharahotnights

Pinto's new album "Hook me up" is out today on Krusty Stills and there's a whole bunch of tracks available for either downloading or streaming at their website: https://www.pinto.se/
The band will also be playing a release party at Pusterviksbaren in Göteborg tonight.

In case you were wondering, here's the live lineup for Death Breath's upcoming Swedish tour: Scott Carlson (Repulsion) - vocals/bass; Robert Pehrsson (Thunder Express) - vocals/guitar; Nicke Andersson (Hellacopters, ex-Entombed) - drums; Erik Wallin (Harms Way, Merciless) - guitar; Jörgen Sandström (ex-Grave/Entombed) - vocals.