Also via MIC Norway comes word that Thomas Dybdahl will do a few acoustic shows on the US East Coast in mid-July: https://www.mic.no/mic.nsf/doc/art2007062115073254222018

PopMatters reviews Slaraffenland: https://www.popmatters.com/pm/music/reviews/slaraffenland-private-cinema/

Norwegian avant-metal act [code] has signed with Tabu and will be releasing a new album early next year.

Gustav Ejstes (Dungen) lists five of of his favorite Swedish albums for Harp: https://harpmagazine.com/articles/detail.cfm?article_id=5700

Teitur's new album "Káta Hornið", previously only released in his native Faroe Islands and in Iceland, will receive a wider release on June 25. This is considering his "homecoming record" and is sung entirely in the Faroese language.

DN reports on this year's Sommarplågor (summer plagues): https://www.dn.se/DNet/jsp/polopoly.jsp?d=2198&a=663606

DigitalMetal is not too stoked on the new Nine album "It's your funeral": https://www.eclipsemagazine.ws/forum/viewtopic.php?t=383

Delusions of Adequacy reviews Danish shoegzers Rumskib: https://www.adequacy.net/review.php?reviewID=7984

This week's top 20 Swedish album chart:

01. Per Gessle - En händig man
02. Markoolio - Värsta Plattan
03. Ted Gärdestad - För kärlekens skull - Det bästa med
04. Danny - Heart beats
05. Oh Laura - A song inside my head, a demon in my bed
06. Mustasch - Latest version of the truth
07. Tommy Körberg - Rakt upp och ner
08. Sahara Hotnights - What if leaving is a loving thing
09. Streaplers - Bästa!
10. Bosson - Future's gone tomorrow life is here today
11. Måns Zelmerlöw - Stand by for...
12. Sonja Aldén - Till dig
14. Sarah Dawn Finer - A finer dawn
15. The Ark - Prayer for the weekend
16. Salem Al Fakir - This is who I am
17. Sofia Karlsson - Visor från vinden
18. Eldkvarn - Svart blogg
19. Timbuktu - Oberoendeframkalland
20. Takida - Bury the lies

This week's top 20 Norwegian album chart:

01. Turbonegro - Retox
02. Diverse artister - Melodi Grand Prix Junior 2007
03. BigBang - Too Much Yang
04. The Kids - Hits fra Kids
05. Susanne Sundfør - Susanne Sundfør
06. Superfamily - Warszawa
07. Dimmu Borgir - In Sorte Diaboli
08. Vømlingan - Vømmølminner
09. Tord Gustavsen Trio - Being There
10. Magnet - The Simple Life
11. Samvirkelaget - Musikk
12. TNT - The New Territory
13. Silje Nergaard - Darkness out of blue
14. Vamp - I full symfoni (med KORK)
15. Jokke & Valentinerne - Prisen for popen
16. Gest - I grevens tid
17. Hardingrock - Grimen
18. Geir Børresen/Smurfene - I Smurfeland
19. Tone Damli Aaberge - Sweet Fever
20. Jonas Fjeld og Chatham C. - Amerikabesøk

Swedish indiepop act Bedroom Eyes has a new 4-track EP posted on myspace for free download: https://www.myspace.com/bedroomeyesosd
Sounds really nice actually - go check it out. If myspace gives you trouble, you can download the mp3s from the band's website too: https://www.bedroomeyes.se/

Tobias Hellkvist, another artist I've featured here recently, has a new untitled song up on myspace from his forthcoming record: https://www.myspace.com/tobiashellkvist
More acoustic guitar-based than pure drone and, like all his stuff, it's really, really nice. Tobias' remix of "Doppelgänger" by Efterklang is also online now and can be downloaded right here: https://efterklang.net/home/2007/06/21/doppelganger-remix/

Michael Bach of Swedish indie collective Wild Geese Music has a new three-track EP entitled "Over and over again" posted for free download: https://www.wildgeesemusic.com/

The National Anthems have a new website: https://www.the-national-anthems.com/

Sincerely Yours just released a new 7" "New city love" from Jonas Game: https://www.sincerelyyours.se/index.html