PopMatters reviews Jens Lekman: https://www.popmatters.com/music/reviews/l/lekmanjens-ohyoure.shtml

Ane Brun has been selected to open for fellow Norwegians A-ha on a few select UK dates:

12/03 - NEC, Birmingham
12/04 - Clyde Auditorium, Glasgow
12/06 - MEN, Manchester, England
12/07 - Wembley Arena, London

Music (for Robots) posts on Junip and gives IAT a shout-out: https://music.for-robots.com/archives/001249.html

The North American release of "Skeleton" from Danish act Figurines has been pushed back to April, but their label The Control Group will be releasing a 7" with the tracks "Silver ponds" and "The wonder" on January 24.

El Perro Del Mar has posted a brand new mp3 for download: https://www.hybrism.com/files/elperrodelmar-godknows.mp3

Cold Meat Inudstry has posted new details and samples from a number of upcoming releases:

Decadence - Where do broken hearts go to? CD (cmi147)
The Protagonist - Songs of experience CD (cmi153)
Beyond Sensory Experience - The dull routine of existence CD (cmi154)

Look for a live DVD from Jaga Jazzist next spring.

Norway's Shining will tour the US next April. Dates soon. In other news, the band plans to enter the studio with producer Kåre Vestrheims in late January/early February to begin work on the follow-up to "In the kingdom of kitsch you will be a monster".

Check out the video for "Rosinante" from Aavikko: https://www.aavikko.net/video.php?file=rosinante

Lords of Metal interviews Burst: https://www.lordsofmetal.nl/showinterview.php?id=1152&lang=en (via)

It's time to start voting for the Rockbjörnen: https://www.aftonbladet.se/ettor/webb/2805_normal.html

Sweden's TV 4+ has caved and will now be showing the Dungen guest appearance on Conan O'Brien after all. If you remember, the episode was unable to be transferred for Swedish replay due to a technical error and the station decided to air a rerun instead. Well now it's all going to be made right: the episode has been set to air on December 12 with replays on both December 13 and 17.

Yet another fine review of the Acid House Kings: https://www.firstcoastnews.com/entertainment/news-article.aspx?storyid=47520

David & the Citizens are now on myspace: https://www.myspace.com/davidandthecitizens

Yttling Jazz, the jazz project of Björn Yttling (obviously), now has a website: https://www.yttling.se/