PopMatters reviews Turbonegro: https://popmatters.com/music/reviews/t/turbonegro-partyanimals.shtml

Swedish hip-hop artist Porno has confirmed that his second solo album "Out the wazooo" will be released on January 2. Download a preview clip here: https://porno.trekant.se/files/Porno_-_Out_the_wazooo(Snippet).mp3

Stereo Test Kit has confirmed that the self-titled debut EP from We Are Soldiers We Have Guns will be out in October. As mentioned before, the band is fronted by Malin Dahlberg (Douglas Heart, Laurel Music) and features Robert Tenevall (Royal Downfall, Knugen Faller) and Pontus Wallgren (Douglas Heart).

MIC Norway lists all of the acts the country is sending to this year's Popkomm Festival in Berlin: https://www.mic.no/mic.nsf/doc/art2005090812351437198443

The Tough Alliance has reportedly left Service Records. Will a bigger label know how to handle those guys? I sense disaster.

Netherlands-based label Garden of Exile Records has announced that it will be releasing a split 7" featuring Swedish metalcore act Burst and Germany's The Ocean with artwork from Seldon Hunt (Isis, Neurosis, Pelican). Burst contributes a slower, more experimental track entitled "Flight's end" and The Ocean's song will be called "Killing the flies" and will feature guest vocals from Tomas Hallbom of Breach (SWE) and Nate Newton from Converge. It comes out in mid-October.

Expressen breaks down the new Cardigans record "Super extra gravity" song-by-song: https://expressen.se/index.jsp?a=433599 (in Swedish)

Alcazar is splitting up: https://www.aftonbladet.se/vss/noje/story/0,2789,695819,00.html (in Swedish)

Check out the video "Glósóli", the first single from Sigur Rós' new album "Takk": https://www.sigur-ros.co.uk/media/dldvideo.html
If you haven't already downloaded the leaked record and can't wait to hear it, it's being streamed on myspace: https://www.myspace.com/sigurros

Finnish experimental artist Niko Skorpio has a new piece entitled "The hidden nameless" out via Foreshadow Productions. The work is described as "44+ minutes of deep dark ambient music approached from mysterious yet experimental and innovative angle. With certain haunting Lovecraftian flavour, the album captures the ears of imaginative listeners with its extreme deepness and undoubtedly frightening atmosphere." Go here to download a sample: https://www.label.foreshadow.info/audio.php

The third annual Access All Area music conference has started to come together. It will take place November 9-10 in Stockholm and will feature live music from Sugarplum Fairy, Crashdiet, Anna Ternheim, CDOASS, Deportees and SLS as well as a number of informative discussions on the future of the music industry. As always, I am always willing to entertain any offers to fly me out. For more info, go here: https://www.accessallareas.se/

It's lonely on the night shift. Talk to me on the message board.

The hype for Robyn continues at Pitchfork: https://www.pitchforkmedia.com/tracks/05-09-08.shtml

Also at Pitchfork today is a live review of Finnish free-folk artists Islaja, Kuupuu, Pekko Käppi, Tomutonttu and Lau Nau: https://pitchforkmedia.com/features/live/i/islaja-05/

This week's top 20 Swedish album chart:

01. Peter LeMarc - Sjutton sånger - LeMarc sjunger LeMarc
02. Bodies Without Organs - Prototype
03. Opeth - Ghost Reveries
04. Laleh - Laleh
05. Tommy Nilsson - Tiden Före Nu
06. Ebba Grön - Samlingen
07. Amy Diamond - This Is Me Now
08. Toni Holgersson - Tecken på liv
09. Crashdïet - Rest in Sleaze
10. Timbuktu - Alla vill till himmelen men ingen vill dö
11. Musikal - Mamma Mia
12. Peps Blodsband - Äntligen!
13. Robyn - Robyn
14. CajsaStina Åkerström - De vackraste orden
15. Carola - Störst av allt
16. Darin - The anthem
17. Arch Enemy - Doomsday Machine
18. Benny Anderssons Orkester - Bao!
19. Kent - Du & Jag Döden
20. Helena Paparizou - My Number One

Swedish post-punks United have posted a couple new mp3s for download: https://www.ripoff.se/united/sounds/sounds.php