Club 8's new album "The boy who couldn't stop dreaming" will be out September 26.

I heard a bit about this from Embee while at Way Out West, but now it's public: JuJu and David vs. Goliath are sending Timbuktu + Damn!, Looptroop, Chords and more on an all-star Swedish hip-hop tour of the US kicking off in LA on August 29. Check out the JuJu site for a flyer: https://www.jujurecords.com/

Dead to this World, the new band led by ex-Immortal bassist Iscariah, has posted a new track on myspace: https://myspace.com/deadtothisworld
The band's debut album "First strike for spiritual renewance" will be released on November 19 via Dark Essence Records.

Candlelight will be reissuing Opeth's first three albums, "Orchid" (1995), "Morningrise" (1996) and "My arms, your hearse" (1998), and is looking for fans to send in any band photos they might've taken during those times. Send files to conord@plastichead.com.

Ambolthue has a new EP from Torstein Wjiik posted for free download: https://www.ambolthue.com/mp3_releases/mp3ambolt8.html

pHinnWeb reports with some highlights from Tampere's "Monsters of Pop" festival: https://phinnweb.blogspot.com/2007/08/monsters-of-pop-2007-memories.html

Santa Maria aka Maria Eriksson (also in The Concretes + Heikki) does the Listed thing for Dusted: https://www.dustedmagazine.com/features/643

Danish postpunk act The Floor Is Made Of Lava will release their debut album "All juice, no fruit" on October 15. Look for Danish tourdates beginning in late September along with Germany in November.

UK-based label Stereo Test Kit (Logh, Boy Omega, Audrey, etc.) has signed Band in Box and will be releasing their debut album early next year along with a split 7" in November. Listen to demo tracks: https://www.myspace.com/bandinbox

Hey look, Jakob and Lovisa Nyström (Isolation Years, Säkert!) have a myspace page for their band as a duo: https://www.myspace.com/2whitehorses

Norwegian act The Opium Cartel, the sideproject of White Willow's Jacob Holm, is currently recording a new album with Mattias Olsson (Änglagård, Pineforest Crunch, Nanook of the North, etc.) and will also be doing some recording/mixing with producer Brian McTear (Espers, Swearing at Motorists, etc.) later on at his studio in Philadelphia. Holm also reports that he is mixing songs for an album with Italian electronica artist Giancarlo Erra and No-Man/fellow Opium Cartel collaborator Tim Bowness. Read more about the process on Mattias Olsson's studio blog: https://www.roth-handle.nu/

The Hives have thankfully added a few headlining gigs to their upcoming US tour supporting Maroon 5:

09/30 - Metro, Chicago, IL
10/03 - Phoenix Concert Theatre, Toronto, Ontario
10/09 - Webster Hall, New York, NY
10/14 - Middle East, Boston, MA
10/17 - The Black Cat, Washington, DC
11/01 - The Showbox SoDo, Seattle, WA
11/07 - Avalon, Los Angeles, CA

The video for the new José González song "Killing for love" is now online: https://vids.myspace.com/index.cfm?fuseaction=vids.individual&videoid=15943380

I picked up a few extra copies of the new Regulations 7" "Different needs" last night. Email me if you're interested in picking one up 'cuz I'm not sure they'll make it to the webstore. I also forgot to mention it, but I've restocked copies of both Björn Kleinhenz CDs. Oh, and in case anyone is wondering, the new album sounds fantastic from what I've heard so far. No idea when it will be done, but I'm sure I'll be the first to let you know.

Check out A Saga, a new act on West Side Fabrication featuring singer/songwriter Anna Lindén along with help from Jari Haapalinen, Nicolai Dunger and Thomas Tjärnkvist: https://www.myspace.com/ensaga