Also from FE comes word that Finnish noise artists Mika Vainio and Ipso Vaisanen aka Pan Sonic will be collaborating once again with Alan Vega of Suicide for a release on the Mego label. Look for it sometime around March.

The Knife will be releasing a new 10" EP called "Gender bender" in the UK on December 13. Most of the tracks come from the UK edition of "Deep cuts", but there is one exclusive cut. Full tracklist:

A1. Handy-Man
A2. Manhood (exclusive)
B1. You Make Me Like Charity
B2. Hangin' Out

500 copies only.

Swedish Americana act Hanif are #1 at online indie streaming radio station Mansion on the Hill: https://mansiononthehill.biz/2004/12/halfway-to-hell-all-way-to-1.html

50 Hertz has another new EP online for free download: https://www.50hertz.tk/

"Sway" by The Perishers is being offered as a free download this week via the iTunes music store.

"To mark the release of Mental Overdrive's new album "083" (out in January on Smalltown Supersound/Love OD), the single track "Diskodans" will be released as a musical "open source" project. This means that different parts of the song have been exported as short audio clips in the shape of .wav samples that can be downloaded."

Check it out right here: https://www.loveod.com/windex.shtml

Bad Taste Records is offering a bunch of special Christmas deals over at their webstore: https://www.badtasterecords.se/shop.asp

Gullbuy reviews the "La la love you" Swedish indierock Pixies tribute: https://gullbuy.com/buy/2004/11_30/lalaloveyoupixies.cfm

Secretly Canadian is posting a ton of unreleased Jens Lekman material as a special promotion leading up to his debut US tour in February: https://secretlycanadian.com/secretlycanadian/jenslekman/dept.htm

Listen to streams from the new Ane Brun EP "My lover will go" right here: https://se.v2music.com/site/product.asp?ID=922

Norwegian experimental electronic act Jazzkammer has been confirmed for No Fun Fest 2005 to be held March 18-20 at the Hook in Brooklyn, NY. Other acts playing include Whitehouse, Consumer Electronics, Sudden Infant, Metalux, Runzelstirn and Gurgelstock, Pengo, Monotract and tons more. Lasse Marhaug of Jazzkammer will also be making a guest appearance with Peter Rehberg (Pita) as part of the Total Acid Ensemble who will themselves be playing with drone giants SUNN O))). 3-day passes go on sale mid-January, single day tickets will be available in February. More info: https://nofunfest.com

Teddybears STHLM and Promoe are being sent to France by Export Music Sweden to play the Transmusicales in Rennes this weekend. This is the fourth time that ExMS has held showcase events at the annual industry conference.

Henrik Bjornsson from Iceland's Singapore Sling answers 'pointless questions' for Splendid: https://www.splendidezine.com/departments/pq/singaporesling.html

Mates of State (US), The (International) Noise Conspiracy and Isolation Years are the first acts confirmed for next year's Umeå Open.

Keyboardist Calle has left synthpop group Alice in Videoland citing the always-classic "personal reasons" as his explanation. He may still collaborate with the band in the future, but his full-time position will be taken over by long time friend and supporter Dominique Kalamajski.