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

01. Death Cab for Cutie
02. Kent
03. Hello Saferide
04. Suburban Kids With Biblical Names
05. The Cardigans
06. I'm from Barcelona
07. Franz Ferdinand
08. The Shins
09. The Arcade Fire
10. Coldplay
11. Jens Lekman
12. Iron & Wine
13. Laakso
14. The Decemberists
15. Bloc Party
16. Tiger Lou
17. Architecture in Helsinki
18. The Strokes
19. David Fridlund
20. Sigur Rós

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Britta Persson's upcoming London dates have been cancelled. Her upcoming debut full-length will be out this spring and it looks like Startracks is seeking out other labels to partner with for a wider release. Any takers?

New pics of Burst and Lolita Stasi at photohenrik.com.

Download the new single "Something cooking" from Swedish hip-hop act Downtown Cookin': https://downtowncookin.com/musik/

Check out the video for "Optional endings" from Swedish act Familiar Faces: https://www.goodstufproduction.com/OESC.mov

Ink19 reviews Acid House Kings: https://ink19.com/issues/november2005/musicReviews/musicA/acidHouseKings.html
They also got another nice writeup in the new URB magazine.

Sara Culler, better known to some of you (for now) as the better half of David Fridlund, has posted two songs for download over at her website: https://saraculler.webblogg.se/

I am moving into my new house this evening, so I may not be able to update tomorrow. Most likely not, but I may get my new Internet connection installed and get all my stuff unpacked early. Who knows?

Music 77 has posted a new mp3 for download: https://www.music77.nu/media/music/Musika77_LlanvairLlew.mp3
The song is the lead track from the forthcoming album "Brave you free may", out soon.

Slideshaker has given their website a bit of a new look: https://www.slideshaker.com/

Crunchy Frog Records has helped to compile a soundtrack to the new book "Beat city" from Danish rock'n'roll photographer Søren Solkær Starbird. Read more: https://www.crunchy.dk/asp/default.asp?News_Id=156

David Birde and Jens Jansson of Brainpool have a new project called Mom & Dad. The instrumentation will be only drums, guitar and harmonica and Florian Horwath will guest on some of the songs. As for Brainpool, the band is still active and actually has plans to record new material tomorrow.

The video of Jenny Wilson's latest single "A hesitating cloud of despair" can be viewed here: https://www.mtve.com/article.php?ArticleId=4845

Check out the video for "Captain Morgan" from Swedish female-fronted new-wave act Paris: https://www.decoyfilm.com/reel.html

Burning Heart reports that Raised Fist will soon be entering Dugout Studios with producer Daniel Bergstrand (In Flames, Meshuggah etc) later this month to work on a new record. Expect a spring 2006 release.