This week's top 20 Swedish album chart:

01. Lars Winnerbäck - Daugava
02. Peter Lemarc - Kärlek i tystnadens tid
03. Peter Jöback - Människor som du och jag
04. José González - In our nature
05. Hans Martin & Tommys - Mina egna favoriter
06. September - Dancing shoes
07. Moneybrother - Mount pleasure
08. BWO - Fabricator
09. The Poodles - Sweet trade
10. Jens Lekman - Night falls over Kortedala
11. Mange Schmidt - Känslan kommer tillbaks
12. Arch Enemy - Rise of the tyrant
14. Rigmor Gustafsson - Alone with you
15. Povel Ramel - Karameller - Det bästa med Povel Ramel
16. Sahara Hotnights - What if leaving is a loving thing
17. Sonja Aldén - Till dig
18. Roland Cedermark - Mirandas dröm
19. Danny - Heart beats
20. Markoolio - Värsta plattan

Christian Kjellvander has posted the first single "Two souls" from his forthcoming album "I saw her from here/I saw here from her" on myspace: https://www.myspace.com/christiankjellvander Look for a Robinovich-directed video to surface online very soon. "I saw her from here/I saw here from her" will be released on November 7 via Startracks/V2.

Swedish AOR duo Strangers in Wonderland were recently featured on an episode of the DigiVegas podcast: https://digivegas.wordpress.com/2007/10/02/dvi-podcast-057-strangers-in-wonderland/

Danish electro act Dampfbahn! got a whole bunch of other (mostly?) Danish artists to remix their track "All is swell" and are now offering the results for free download: https://www.reverbnation.com/dampfbahn

Hits in the Car has a new Skywriter track for download: https://stytzer.blogspot.com/2007/10/stream-train-to-utopia.html

The Open Up and Bleeds have added two more demo tracks to their myspace page: https://www.myspace.com/openupandbleeds

José González will take labelmate Promise and the Monster on tour in Scandinavia in December:

12/11 - KB, Malmö (SWE)
12/12 - Vega, Copenhagen (DK)
12/13 - John Dee, Oslo (NOR)
12/16 - Folkets Hus, Umeå (SWE)
12/17 - Cirkus, Stockholm (SWE)
12/18 - Lorensbergsteatern, Göteborg (SWE)
12/19 - Tavastia, Helsingfors (FIN)

Säkert! will do a few shows around Sweden this fall:

11/02 - Popup 2007, Umeå
11/28 - Nefertiti, Göteborg
11/29 - Nefertiti, Göteborg
12/01 - KB, Malmö
12/03 - Cirkus, Stockholm

The new Kasper Bjørke video for the single "Back & spine" is now online: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N1PfzirjQ40

The Tough Alliance will be travelling to NYC to perform at CMJ. So far all I've seen listed is a show at The Annex on October 19, but if I come across anything else, I'll be sure to post it.

New releases on the way from Smalltown Superjazzz:

10/22 - Peter Brotzmann, Mats Gustafsson and Paal Nilssen-Love - The fat is gone
10/22 - Free Fall (aka Ingebrigt Håker Flaten, Ken Vandermark and Haavard Wiik) - The point in a line
10/22 - Mats Gustafsson and Paal Nilssen-Love - Splatter MCD
10/29 - Two Bands and a Legend (aka Cato Salsa Experience and The Thing plus Joe McPhee) - I see you baby EP

More details here: https://www.smalltownsupersound.com/v1/superjazzz/new_releases.php

Norwegian singer/songwriter Robert Post is adding new tracks to his myspace page ever month until his new album comes out in February: https://www.myspace.com/robertpost

The latest Music Export Finland newsletter is now online: https://musex.fi/mxf/news?articleId=142

Finland's Black Audio has now migrated to Virb since their myspace account was mysterious erased: https://www.virb.com/blackaudio
Perhaps Blaqk Audio is to blame?

Paper Thin Walls with a track review for Luomo/Vladislav Delay alias Uusitalo: https://www.paperthinwalls.com/singlefile/item?id=1114