MIC Norway profiles Håkon Kornstad and Håvard Wiik as they will be touring Japan in December: https://www.mic.no/mic.nsf/doc/art2007111316130257221332

Meshuggah has revealed that "obZen" will be the title of their next album, due out in early 2008.

Danish metal act Hatesphere has announced that Jonathan Albrechtsen (Scarred By Beauty, Mudslide) is their new vocalist. The new lineup will make their live debut at the upcoming Danish Metal Awards on November 16 where they are nominated for five categories.

Quit Your Dayjob will play support to The Hives for a batch of dates before setting off on a string of their own headlining shows:

11/19 - Docks, Hamburg (GER) w/The Hives
11/20 - Columbia halle, Berlin (GER) w/The Hives
11/22 - ABC, Glasgow (UK) w/The Hives
11/23 - Hammersmith, London (UK) w/The Hives
11/24 - Apolo, Mannchester (UK) w/The Hives
11/25 - Academy, Birmingham (UK) w/The Hives
11/27 - Le Bataclan, Paris (FRA) w/The Hives
11/28 - Palladium, Cologne (GER) w/The Hives
11/29 - Paradiso, Amsterdam (NL) w/The Hives
11/30 - Schlachthof, Wiesbaden (GER) w/The Hives
12/02 - AB, Brussels (BEL) w/The Hives
12/11 - Steinbruch, Duisburg (GER)
12/12 - Mains D'Oeuvres, Paris (FRA)
12/13 - Belle Vue Café, Brussels (BEL)
12/14 - State X Festival, The Hague (NL)
12/15 - Patronaat, Haarlem (NL)
12/22 - Henriksberg, Göteborg (SWE)
01/25 - Transformateur, Fribourg (CH)
01/26 - Sedel, Luzern (CH)

Listen to La Masa's new single "Günter Wallraff på hal is" at myspace: https://www.myspace.com/lamasagbg

Ink19 reviews Zweizz: https://www.ink19.com/issues/november2007/musicReviews/musicZ/zweizz.html

Peter Morén (Peter Bjorn and John) did a "surprise" solo show the other night in Brooklyn and you can read about it here: https://poptartssucktoasted.blogspot.com/2007/11/peter-moren-union-hall-119.html

Superfamily, Alarm Award winners for best live act, will be playing a live show on NRK P3 next Monday at 6pm CET/12pm EST/9am PST. Follow the link and use the "NRK NETTRADIO" drop-down to listen live. UPDATE: this show has been canceled.

Norwegian rockers Silver have started recording a new album for release next spring.

The Lost Patrol Band has recorded a few new tracks recently. First up is the new song "Tidsfördriv" plus an Ebba Grön cover for a Ny Våg comp. Next we have a cover of "Come back and stay" by Jack Lee/The Nerves (and made famous by Paul Young) for tribute 7". As for the future, the band plans to do another two songs for a 7" on April77 Records.

Danish music mag Soundvenue is expanding into Sweden: https://www.soundvenue.se/

Morningside Records will release the debut EP "Carry yourself" from Shout Wellington Air Force on December 3. Listen to samples: https://www.myspace.com/shoutwellingtonairforce

The new Kaizers Orchestra album will reportedly be out on February 18.

Frukt has a new record from Fredrik Ståhl posted for free download: https://www.fruktrecords.se/

James Ausfahrt (Agent Simple, Hemstad) has a new album out on Fridlyst called "Party for the arty people/arty for the party people". Listen to samples: https://www.myspace.com/jamesausfahrt