The latest High Bias update features reviews of The Chrysler, Dungen and more: https://highbias.com

Check out some mp3s from Swedish noisepop band Beyond Description: https://www.beyonddescription.se/default.php?site=media
The band has two four-song EPs available for download as well as a video for the track "Full and empty".

Apartment Records has finally released Gravel Control's debut 7" and the full-length CD from Norwegian psych act Crazy River. Head to their website for more info: https://apartmentrecords.com/

Carpark North, Denmark's answer to The Killers, are now on myspace: https://www.myspace.com/carparknorth

Royal Download has a new website: https://www.royaldownfall.org/
Go there to check out some pics from their latest recording session.

This week's top artists for the It's a trap! Last.fm/Audioscrobbler listening group:

01. Death Cab for Cutie
02. Håkan Hellström
03. The Cardigans
04. Franz Ferdinand
05. Kent
06. I'm from Barcelona
07. Arctic Monkeys
08. Babyshambles
09. Sufjan Stevens

Top tracks:

01. Kent - Dom Som Försvann
02. Death Cab for Cutie - I Will Follow You Into the Dark
03. Death Cab for Cutie - Soul Meets Body
04. Death Cab for Cutie - Marching Bands of Manhattan
05. I'm from Barcelona - We're From Barcelona
06. Loveninjas - Keep Your Love
07. Death Cab for Cutie - Summer Skin
08. Sir Eric Beyond - Democracy
09. Death Cab for Cutie - What Sarah Said

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The always excellent international music mp3 blog Fat Planet has a special on Scandinavia this week: https://fatplanet.com.au/

The video for "Dreams will come true" from Cake on Cake is now available for viewing from her label's website: https://www.desolationrecords.com/
Don't forget that CoC is currently on tour in the US, so be sure to check the site for dates as well.

Updated tourdates for Björn Kleinhenz:

12/05 - Blue Shell, Cologne w/Kimono, Mercer
12/06 - Gleis 22, Münster w/Nice Man & The Bad Boys, Daniel Benjamin
12/07 - Merlin, Recklinghausen
12/08 - Juz, Leer
12/09 - Jfz der Club, Haldensleben w/Chikan
12/10 - Projekt 7, Magdeburg w/Tiger Lou
12/11 - UT Connewitz, Leipzig w/Nice Man & The Bad Boys, Daniel Benjamin
12/12 - NBI, Berlin w/Rainer Maria
12/13 - Gasthaus Vorstadt, Wien
12/15 - Südstadt, München
12/16 - Salon Elitaer, Kassel w/Nice Man & The Bad Boys, Daniel Benjamin
12/17 - tba
12/18 - Kuppel, Basel w/Whysome
12/19 - Club Carambolage, Karlsruhe

Randy has a new album that just came out, but I'm not going to post a track from it. It's not because it isn't great, because it is (Simon Tagestam reviewed it here), but instead I'm going to reminisce about the record that got me into the band: 2001's "The human atom bombs". Every couple years or so, just about when I'm about to totally give up on punk-rock, along comes a record that breathes new life into the genre. Refused did it to me in the late 90s and Randy did it again with this record. It's not even that they were doing anything all that original - it's that they were doing it with such enthusiasm and vitality that it was impossible not to stand up and take notice. "The human atom bombs" is fun and funny, energetic and entertaining and just all around amazing. So here's a track from that record that'll hopefully help brighten up your Friday.

This week's newsletter will probably end up going out tomorrow (Saturday). I'm just swamped with errands that I need to get done today.

Discouraged Records has signed Lithany from Umeå and will release their debut album very soon. Download a track here: https://213.114.113.173/~discouragedrecords/mp3s/Lithany_-_Mondegreen.mp3

To What End? has started preproduction on their next album and hopes to go into the studio in the spring. Interested labels should get in touch.

It's been quite some time before we've anything new from them, but word just came in that Denmark's The Fashion will do a few dates in Germany in January:

01/25 - Underground, Köln
01/26 - tba
01/27 - Grüner Jäger, Hamburg (UncleSallys Party)
01/28 - Silverwings, Berlin (UncleSallys Party)
01/29 - Volksbad, Flensburg

Norwegian singer/songwriter Saint Thomas has posted a full report from his recent European tour: https://www.stthomas1976.net/tour_2005.html