Peter Bjorn and John cover Otis Redding for The Onion AV Club as part of their mostly-awful "Undercover" series: https://www.avclub.com/articles/peter-bjorn-and-john-cover-try-a-little-tenderness,53056/
Check out St Andreas, a new Swedish act featuring two members from Autisterna with a new 4-song EP out now: https://www.standreas.se/
Not nearly as obviously pastoral as their other band, but definitely still in a similar vein.
A 2nd sample tune from Finnish act The New Tigers off their upcoming self-titled debut album, due out September 21 via .
The 15th edition of Listen to Norway's excellent and eclectic "99 Minutes" podcast program is now online: https://www.listento.no/mic.nsf/doc/art2011090609365753834744
Swedish rocker Robert Pehrsson (Death Breath, Dundertåget) recently recorded a couple new tracks at Gutterview Recorders with Nicke Andersson (The Hellacopters, Imperial State Electric) and Tomas Eriksson (Captian Murphy) and is streaming the rough mixes at myspace: https://www.myspace.com/robertpehrsson
Danish indierockers Larsen & Furious Jane have pledged to give away their first album "Zen sucker" as a free download provided that 3000 people download their latest record "Dolly" and then 1000 "like" them on Facebook. More here: https://www.momowave.org/main.php
A new clip from Swedish AOR hard-rockers Badmouth off their sophomore album "Heavy metal parking lot".
Brand new from Iceland's Apparat Organ Quartet, off the album "Pólýfónía" which is out now via .
Sjöarna = A new Swedish band featuring Pelle Lindroth (Parken), Andreas Söderström (ASS), Cecilia Österholm and Henrik von Euler (Rigas). Look for their debut album to be released on October 19 via .
The first cut from the new Rigas album "Bring the dead", due out September 28 via .
Swedish rockers The Open Up and Bleeds are giving away their album "An act of love and violence" as a free download via : https://claudiomarino.com/soz/soz-009.php
Norwegian label has a new digital sampler available for free download: https://duplicate-records.com/sampler.htm
Featured acts include recent stuff from Virus, Execration, Solstorm and more as well as a few tracks from up-and-coming bands such as Repellent and Viðr who will have new releases on the label in 2012.
The first taste of Norwegian crusties Livstid's debut album, due out October 21 via .
Finnish act Damn Seagulls are back with a new (old) drummer, new music, and new live dates. More here: https://www.fullsteamrecords.com/sitenews/view/-/nid/426/ngid/3
has confirmed that Vånna Inget's debut LP "Allvar" will be released in mid-September and apparently will be doing the CD version. Look for the band on tour in October:
10/07 - Mejeriet, Lund (SWE)
10/08 - Grüner Jäger, Hamburg (GER)
10/09 - help wanted (GER)
10/10 - help wanted (GER)
10/11 - AK44, Giessen (GER)
10/12 - help wanted (GER)
10/13 - tbc, Dresden (GER)
10/14 - Cortina Bob, Berlin (GER)
10/15 - Bastard Club, Osnabrück (GER)