Via Dagensskiva, here's the Swedish student radio top 40 for the fall semester (total rank, highest rank, # of weeks):

01. (01) (06) Promoe - "Long Distance Runner"
02. (02) (06) Phoenix - "You Can't Blame It On (Anybody)"
03. (04) (08) The Go! Team - "Ladyflash"
04. (01) (05) The Hives - "Two-Timing Touch And Broken Bones"
05. (01) (05) Bergman Rock - "I'm A Crab"
06. (04) (06) Bloc Party - "Helicopter"
07. (01) (06) Marit Bergman - "Can I Keep Him?"
08. (01) (06) Timo Räisänen - "Lovers Are Lonely"
09. (02) (05) The (International) Noise Conspiracy - "A Small Demand"
10. (02) (05) Ison & Fille - "Vill va Highwon"
11. (02) (04) The Soundtrack Of Our Lives - "Bigtime"
12. (01) (04) The Libertines - "Can't Stand Me Now"
13. (03) (05) Faithless - "Miss U Less See U More"
14. (05) (05) Thunder Express - "In My Mind"
15. (06) (08) Suburban Kids With Biblical Names - "#1 EP"
16. (05) (05) The Tough Alliance - "Holiday"
17. (05) (04) Ed Harcourt - "Born In The '70s"
18. (04) (04) Sahara Hotnights - "Who Do You Dance For?"
19. (01) (03) Le Tigre - "TKO/New Kicks"
20. (03) (04) The Mo - "Howl In The Jungle"
21. (01) (03) Beastie Boys - "An Open Letter To NYC"
22. (04) (05) Radio LXMBRG - "L'Indiffirence EP"
23. (02) (03) Dogs Die In Hot Cars - "I Love You 'Cause I Have To"
24. (05) (04) Baby Shambles - "Killamangiro"
25. (03) (07) Embee - "Not Tonite"
26. (08) (05) Mando Diao - "God Knows"
27. (02) (03) The Ark - "One Of Us Is Gonna Die Young"
28. (06) (04) R.E.M. - "Leaving New York"
29. (05) (04) Ron Sexsmith - "Whatever It Takes"
30. (08) (05) Starmarket - "Cologne"
31. (06) (05) Björk - "Who Is It?"
32. (07) (05) Kanye West - "Jesus Walks"
33. (02) (06) Kings Of Convenience - "Misread"
34. (09) (04) Jens Lekman - "Julie"
35. (07) (04) Blacknuss Feat. Awa Manneh & ADL - "All Your Lovin'"
36. (10) (04) Deportees - "Not Tonight"
37. (06) (03) Franz Ferdinand - "Michael"
38. (08) (03) The Chrysler - "Blue Gold"
39. (04) (04) Talib Kweli Feat. Mary J Blige - "I Try"
40. (08) (03) De La Soul - "Shopping Bag"

Some new live pics of Wild Evil Entertainment Dept.: https://wildevil.com/pic.html
The band will be releasing a new single in January.

High Bias reviews the "It's a trap! reader's companion" compilation: https://highbias.com/reviews/20041219_short2.html#ItsaTrap

Other Scandinavian reviews at High Bias this week:

Union Carbide Productions - Remastered to be recycled
Damnation - Destructo changelia
Sigur Ros - Von
22-Pisterpirkko - The nature of...

The top Scandinavian videos streamed last week at on-demand video service Musicbrigade.com:

01. Eric Prydz - Call On Me
02. Bertine Zetlitz - Fake Your Beauty
03. The Ark - One Of Us Is Gonna Die Young
04. Roxette - It Must Have Been Love [Sofa Version]
05. DJ Timo - The Robots
Requested Videos: 316,971
Total Streams: 489,564

Today's top 10 is from Tim Bertilsson of the band Switchblade and the label Trust No One Recordings, both of which are excellent and worth investigating if you're into heavy music such as Isis or Cult of Luna. Check it.

Guitarist Kim Belly has decided to leave Voice of a Generation. His statement:

Aloha punkrockers!! I am very sorry to say that my days in VOAG are over!! I have had the best of times together with my dear bandmates!! I simply just don't have the energy that it takes anymore, I am too old!! I wanna take this opportunity to thank the band, the crew and all other people that have been so great to me all these years!! Thanks you!!

Britta Persson has confirmed that she recorded a new EP together with Kristofer Åström and Micke Herrström for release in February/March via Startracks.

Totally outdoing The Perishers, SubSpace Communications is offering their own free download of "Blue Christmas", this version from electronic artist and Elvis-nut Aaron Sutcliffe: https://www.subspace.se/sounds/sutcliffe/Aaron_Sutcliffe_-_Blue_Christmas.mp3

Moving Hands interviews Swedish synth/EBM act 8kHz Mono: https://www.movinghands.net/articles/detail.asp?id=73

New live pics of Silverbullit now up at Rockfoto: https://www.rockfoto.nu/intSpelning/205/intBand/133

Keep in touch with the ongoing Mattias Alkberg-Grammy fallout at the Bear Quartet guestbook: https://www.bearquartet.com/guestbook.asp (in Swedish)

Mp3 blog The Suburbs Are Killing Us posts about Tord Gustavsen and Norwegian music: https://www.christopherporter.com/

Music (for Robots) posts a couple tracks from the newest Rune Grammofon sampler: https://music.for-robots.com/archives/000674.html

Action Biker's antcipated mini-album has evolved into a full-length. Planekonomi will release it sometime later this winter.