Swedish post-punks Paper will be going into Cobra Studios in October with producer Konie to record their debut full-length. Expect an early 2008 release.

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"My valentine" (as posted here last week) will be Timo Räisänen's next single. It will be released on September 26 and will include a cover of "You shook me all night long" by AC/DC as the b-side.

The video for the new National Bank single "Let go" is now online: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FWqrILeHWqw

The Sounds will do a few California dates next week: https://www.the-sounds.com/news.html

Taken By Trees will perform live this fall:

09/13 - Stenhammarsalen Gothenburg (SWE) w/Ass
09/14 - Inkonst Teatern, Malmo (SWE) w/Ass
09/16 - Södra Teatern, Stockholm (SWE) w/Ass
09/25 - Sugar Club, Dublin (IRL) w/Ass
09/26 - Bush Hall, London (UK) w/Ass
10/02 - Le Divan Du Monde, Paris (FRA)
10/04 - Botanique (Witloof Bar), Brussels (BEL)
10/05 - Privatclub, Berlin (GER)
11/24 - Crossing Border Festival, Haag (NL)

For all the trials and tribulations that went into Victoria Bergsman's decision to return to the stage, go here: https://www.takenbytrees.com/

The new Impaled Nazarene album "Manifest" will be out October 24. Been a couple years since we've heard anything new from those guys.

Swedish alt.country act Sleeping Beauty will travel to the legendary Sun Studios in Memphis this October to do some recording.

Swedish indie act Speedmarket Avenue has completed work on a new Jari Haapalainen-produced album. They have no idea when/where/how it will be released, but there's a track up on myspace: https://www.myspace.com/speedmarketavenue

Supersilent will play a bunch of record release shows in Norway next week:

09/18 - Blå, Oslo
09/19 - Blå, Oslo w/Nils Petter Molvær, Terje Rypdal
09/20 - Blå, Oslo w/Hans Magnus Ryan, Bent Sæther
09/21 - Sardinen, Bergen

Danish indierockers Ruined By Martin have two new tracks on myspace: https://www.myspace.com/ruinedbymartin

Komplott has confirmed that the new album "Det fysiska och det psykiska" from Andreas Bertilsson and Thomas Öberg (Bob Hund) will be ready for release in October. Read more: https://www.komplott.com/ (in Swedish)

Wasted Sounds has confirmed that the new Auktion LP "Spader ess" and Sayyadina's "Mourning the unknown" are both on track for release in October. No samples of the former seem to be online yet, but you can hear new stuff from the latter at myspace: https://www.myspace.com/sayyadinagrindcore

Download a brand new remix of "World going down" from Norwegian alt.country act Paynbird: https://www.paynbird.com/music/World_going_down.mp3

24:hours has a new track from Swedish electro-disco act Ultracity: https://2-4-hours.blogspot.com/2007/09/swedens-rollerboys-recordings-started.html
Look for the new "Swetalic EP" to be released via Rollerboys Recordings in the near future.