Pitchfork reviews Heikki: https://www.pitchforkmedia.com/record-reviews/h/heikki/2.shtml

New Scandinavian music reviews at Sellfish this week:

By Night - Burn the flags
The Doits - This is rocket science CD
Logh - A sunset panorama

Marduk drummer Emil Dragutinovic reportedly met the wrong end of a baseball bat in a fight the other night and had his arm broken as a result. Of course that means he'll need some to recover, so all of the band's previously announced gigs for February and March have been cancelled.

Swedish lo-fi electropop act 50 Hertz will contribute a track to the upcoming Björk remix/cover album "Army of me", coming out later this month on her own One Little Indian Records will all proceeds from sales being donated to UNICEF. The tracklist was hand-picked by Björk herself, so they consider it a great privilege to be included. The selection will be billed "50 Hertz featuring Slagsmålsklubben and Häxor och Porr" as members from both bands contributed to the recording.

It's Chalksounds day here at It's a trap! Not only did I get a new shipment of new CDs from them for the mailorder department (including the new Ellis the Vacuumchild CD and restocks of The End Will Be Kicks and Carpet People), but I also got a new mp3 from Convoj. The debut EP from these guys is absolutely guaranteed to blow people away, it's just so good. They continue the fine Swedish indierock tradition pioneered by the likes of Bear Quartet, but with a rejuvenated sense of determination and vigor. Crashing guitars, impassioned vocals and chiming, twisting melodies - all the necessary ingredients required to achieve greatness are here. I've been listening to it non-stop ever since I got it. An instant classic.

Blabbermouth has published a translation of Anders Jakobson from Nasum's comments to Close-Up regarding the disappearance of Mieszko Talarczyk: https://www.roadrunnerrecords.com/blabbermouth.net/news.aspx?mode=Article&newsitemID=32750

David Fridlund will be doing two videos for his next single "White van". The first one will be animated and it comes from director Peter Johansson, who previously worked with David (and the Citizens) on the clip for "Song against Life". The second is by Anders Weberg (D&tC, The Mo, Niccokick) from Recycled Studio and was recorded at fellow Swedish act Thirdimension's rehearsal space. The release date for the single is February 21.

The Curtain has their entire last live show available for download in video form: https://www.woorecords.se/curtain/media.htm

A new web diary entry from Sondre Lerche: https://www.sondrelerche.com/diary.asp?id=66

Shoot Charlie recently recorded five new songs with the talented Björn Yttling (Peter, Bjorn and John) and should be getting them mixed and ready for some sort of release soon.

Check out a video interview with Mr. Tiger Lou himself, the always charming Rasmus Kellerman: https://www.faceculture.nl/tiger/index.htm

Groover Recordings has signed Lasse Lindh and The Martial Arts. More info about upcoming releases coming soon.

Friendly Noise now says that Differnet's upcoming album will be out in late March.

Rockfoto.nu has new pics of Totalt Jävla Mörker and The Haunted.

Slagsmålsklubben has a new website design: https://www.smk.just.nu/