Norwegian act Grand Island has posted a whole bunch of new tracks on myspace from their forthcoming album "Boys & brutes": https://www.myspace.com/thegrandisland

Check out Hello Kinski's new video for the track "Keep the lid on": https://dach.se/Sequence 1_liten.mov

The video for Jonna Lee's latest single "And your love" (ft. Ed Harcourt) is now on YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gH1nxuJxEgs
It's a far, far darker clip than you might expect.

Check out another teaser video for the new Barra Head album "Go get beat up" featuring the track "Gradiska" set to animation from Sarah Bodil Hansen: https://vids.myspace.com/index.cfm?fuseaction=vids.individual&VideoID=25808913

Check out Little Big Adventure covering fellow Swedish indiepop singer/songwriter Erik Halldén: https://www.littlebigadventure.se/?p=45

Danish pop act The Alpine has posted their new single "Youniverse" on myspace: https://www.myspace.com/thealpinepop
The band's new album "There's only so much you can do" will be released on April 2. Unfortunately, I have to say that my first impression is underwhelming.

The video for the new Britta Persson single "Cliffhanger" is now online: https://myspacetv.com/index.cfm?fuseaction=vids.individual&videoid=25701714
Stream the full album as well: https://www.myspace.com/brittapersson
Copies should be arriving in for mailorder next week.

Malmö-based indie duo Her Eyes Wild has three new tracks posted for free download: https://www.hereyeswild.com/
The group features members from The Light Bulb Project and 64revolt and will be releasing their debut EP "From my cold dead hands" soon.

The Goatboys, the band built on the charred remains of IAT favorites Closer, have posted two demo tracks at myspace: https://www.myspace.com/thegoatboys

As promised, the final recordings of The Royal Highness are posted for free download: https://www.theroyalhighness.com/

Pitchfork has a new track from Norwegian artist Silje Nes in their Forkcast section: https://www.pitchforkmedia.com/article/download/47794-silje-nes-ames-room-mp3stream

Madrugada's new video for the single "Look away Lucifer" is viewable here: https://www.emi.no/madrugada/video.asp

Discobelle has a new track from Nomethod electronic artist Matts Katt posted for download: https://www.discobelle.net/2008/01/08/about-the-french/

Check out a brand new video from Pinto for the song "Iron and rust": https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eCT_VZgQCuc

Absolut Noise has a track from the new Pascal album "Galgberget": https://absolutnoise.blogspot.com/2008/01/some-loud-thunder.html
Eardrums has a full review as well: https://eardrumsmusic.com/2008/01/06/pascal-soon-out-with-new-album-galgeberget/
I thought the band's first album "Förbi fabriken" was kinda boring, but this new one lives up to the hype of the PR. Way more exciting, noisy and energetic.