Swedish glam-rockers Hardcore Superstar have posted a live video of "She's offbeat" for download: https://www.hardcoresuperstar.com/downloads/offbeat.wmv

Music Export Finland reports on the various success stories from the recent Midem conference: https://musex.fi/mxf/news?articleId=92

Christopher Porter gives a less-than-enthusiastic review to Icelandic jazz musician Sigurdur Flosason : https://www.christopherporter.com/2006/01/siggi-flosa-and-those-reykjavik-blues.html

PopMatters reviews Björn Olsson's "The lobster": https://www.popmatters.com/pm/music/reviews/bjorn_olsson_the_lobster/

The latest Dusted "Still Single" column attempts to play down the hype of recent imports Figurines and Serena Maneesh: https://www.dustedmagazine.com/features/467

Also at Dusted today is a review of the new one from Swedish doom/black-metal act Craft: https://www.dustedmagazine.com/reviews/2648

Pitchfork reviews the recent NYC debut of Serena Maneesh: https://www.pitchforkmedia.com/features/live/s/serena-maneesh-06/

Speaking of Serena Maneesh, here's some updated tourdates:

02/09 - Storsalen, Kulturhuset, Tromso (NOR)
02/10 - RICA Hall, Tromso (NOR)
02/14 - Madame JoJo's, London (UK) w/The Jesus Years, Kyote
02/15 - Hoxton Bar & Grill, London (UK)
02/17 - Samfundet, Trondheim (NOR)
02/18 - Studenthuset Rokken, Volda (NOR)
02/22 - Østsia, Kristiansand (NOR)
02/23 - Kroa, Bø (NOR)
02/24 - Hulen, Bergen (NOR)
02/25 - Folken, Stavanger (NOR)
03/02 - John Dee, Oslo (NOR)
03/06 - Bowery Ballroom, New York, NY
03/07 - Iron Horse, Northampton, MA
03/08 - TT The Bears, Boston, MA
03/09 - First Unitarian Church, Philadelphia, PA w/Psychic Ills
03/10 - Little Brothers, Columbus, OH w/Psychic Ills
03/11 - Empty Bottle, Chicago, IL w/Psychic Ills , Dirty on Purpose
03/12 - Creepy Crawl, St. Louis, MO
03/13 - Bottleneck, Lawrence, KS
03/14 - Hailey's, Denton, TX
03/15 - Emo's, Austin, TX
03/16 - SXSW, Austin, TX
03/17 - SXSW, Austin, TX
03/19 - Spaceland, Los Angeles, CA
03/20 - Spaceland, Los Angeles, CA
03/21 - Bottom Of The Hill, San Francisco, CA
03/23 - Doug Fir / Holocene, Portland, OR
03/24 - Neumo's, Seattle, WA
03/25 - Richards, Vancouver, BC
03/28 - Entry, Minneapolis, MN
03/30 - Lee's, Toronto, ONT
03/31 - La Sala Rosa, Montreal, PQ

Swedish singer/songwriter Racingpaperplanes has posted a new song called "You if anyone" on his myspace page: https://www.myspace.com/racingpaperplanes

New mp3 today from Gustav and the Seasick Sailors. I started selling stuff from their label Marilyn Records in my webstore recently, but I only recently got a chance to really give their bands a good listening. Achordian and Shooting John, the other two bands on the label, are both kind of countrified pop (indiepop with a twang?), but GatSS has more of a driving powerpop feel. It's similar to countrymates David & the Citizens in that they're both the creative outlets of their singer/songwriter frontmen, but at the same time, it's also a band effort. Change the backing band and it most certainly would not be the same. "Charlie Fay" is the band's most recent single, a first taste of what's to come on their upcoming album "Sirkus" which is due out on March 9. Looking forward to it.

Be forewarned: the upcoming Tiger Lou/Jeniferever Tack! Tack! Tack! show on February 13 is in imminent danger of selling out. Jeniferever's label Drowned in Sound will be buying up a lot of remaining tickets for various industry types, so if you want in, you better get your act together: https://www.wegottickets.com/event/8678

NTSC versions of the Supersilent DVD "7" are now available at Rune Grammofon.

The Kid's upcoming album on Hybris will be called "La Société Nouvelle" and it has been confirmed for release on February 8.

In other Hybris news, here's some their updated release schedule:

Siberia - "Omtagning" single
Hell on Wheels - "Alexandr" single and video
Vapnet - "Thoméegränd" EP and video
Andreas Mattsson (ex-Popsicle, Vanessa and the O's) - "The lawlessness of the ruling classes" album

Check out the video for the new Whyte Seeds single "Bold as love": https://www.universalsweden.com/showelement.asp?FileElementId=4169
The band's new website is finally online now too: https://www.whyteseeds.com/