This Gift is a Curse album and tour

Discouraged Records reports that Swedish sludge-metal act This Gift Is A Curse has completed work on their debut album which is currently being mixed. No word on a release date yet, but they'll be hitting the road in October for a number of dates with Italian act Curse this Ocean:

10/14 - Cafe Nova, Essen (GER)
10/15 - Sub, Graz (AUS)
10/16 - This is Underground, Vicenza (ITA)
10/17 - Corso Pub, Chelm (POL)
10/18 - Irish & Music Club, CLuj Napoca (RO)
10/19 - Houseshow, Pesc (HUN)
10/20 - Szabad az Á, Budapest (HUN)
10/21 - tba (ITA)
10/22 - Ak 44, Gießen (GER)

New album from Alcoholic Faith Mission in October

The new Alcoholic Faith Mission album "Ask me this" will be released on October 3.

AWSF talks to Oh My! Oh My!

A West Side Fabrication interviews Oh My! Oh My! whose new single "Time will tell" will be released next week: https://www.westsidefabrication.se/news/oh-my-oh-my/

I'm Kingfisher live sesh at We are the Sound

Check out a two-song live session that I'm Kingfisher did for UK blog We are the Sound: https://wearethesoundla.blogspot.com/2011/09/what-me-worried.html

Invasionen pushed back

The release of the new Invasionen album "Saker som jag sagt till natten" has been pushed back one week to September 28.

The Nature announce new EP

Skrammel Records has announced that The Nature has a new EP called "Allting blir OK" in the works. More details to come...

New Thus:Owls in October

The new Thus:Owls album "Harbours" will be released on October 5 via Hoob Records.

Promise and the Monster album preview

Gimme Indie is doing a streaming preview of the new Promise and the Monster album "Red tide": https://www.gimmeindie.se/

RIP Jonas Bergqvist (Lifelover)

Guitarist/songwriter Jonas Bergqvist of Swedish depressive metal act Lifelover has passed away: https://www.noisecreep.com/2011/09/12/lifelover-guitarist-jonas-bergqvist-dies/

Svensk Musik label of the month: Luxury

Luxury is Svensk Musik's label of the month for September -- go there to read an interview with bossman Rasmus Hansén: https://svenskmusik.org/article/september-luxury/

New Kristofer Åström gets release date

Good news! Startracks has confirmed that the new Kristofer Åström album will be released on February 3, 2012.

Urban Cone on the rise

Looks like the young Stockholm band Urban Cone is on the up-and-up and are now being booked by Luger in addition to releasing music via the legendary Polar Music label: https://www.luger.se/urban-cone

Lapko in the studio

Lapko are back in Woodstock, NY recording their next album: https://lapkolive.blogspot.com/

FIMIC: Contemporary folk

The Finnish Music Information Centre previews a few new contemporary folk albums from the artist Suo, Polka Chicks and Freija: https://www.fimic.fi/fimic/fimic.nsf/0/52E62730C4F48882C22578E70029BAF4?opendocument
I just wish there was an easy way for me to actually hear these artists.

Nordwall's 'Ignition'

As mentioned back in May, Joachim Nordwall's (The Skull Defekts, The Idealist) long-awaited sophomore solo album "Ignition" will finally be getting a CD release in November via Ash International. Full details: https://deepshitbynordwall.tumblr.com/post/10158573193/ignition