Via Dagensskiva, here's this week's top 20 Swedish student radio chart:

01. (03) Promoe - "Long Distance Runner"
02. (02) Ison & Fille - "Vill Va Highwon"
03. (09) Faithless - "Miss U Less, See U More"
04. (18) Radio LXMBRG - "L'Indiffirence EP"
05. (04) Bloc Party - "Helicopter"
06. (01) Timo Räisänen - "Lovers Are Lonely"
07. (NY) Beastie Boys - "An Open Letter To NYC"
08. (NY) The Chrysler - "Blue Gold"
09. (05) The Go! Team - "Ladyflash"
10. (NY) The Ark - "One Of Us Is Gonna Die Young"
11. (07) The Tough Alliance - "Holiday"
12. (NY) CDOASS - "Speak To Me"
13. (08) Mando Diao - "God Knows"
14. (ÅT) Keane - "This Is The Last Time"
15. (17) The Streets - "Blinded By The Lights"
16. (06) Björk - "Who Is It?"
17. (12) Snow Patrol - "How To Be Dead"
18. (14) Joanna Newsom - "Sprout And The Bean"
19. (15) Embee - "Not Tonite"
20. (16) David Fridlund - "April & May"

Hot tracks outside the top 20:
Chick Habit - "Bullshit Radio"
The Soundtrack Of Our Lives - "Believe I've Found"
Stellan Wahlström Drift Band - "Ocean Ave"

Leaving the chart:
(10) Ayesha - "Squaffie"
(11) The (International) Noise Conspiracy - "A Small Demand"
(13) Richard Reagh + Wwnb2 - "Outlaw EP"
(19) Dizzee Rascal - "Dream"
(20) Florence Valentin - "Där jag borde va"

Pitchfork reviews the reissue of the Sigur Ros album "Von": https://www.pitchforkmedia.com/record-reviews/s/sigur-ros/von.shtml

Gluecifer has decided to cancel all of their Spanish tourdates due to singer's Biff Malibu ongoing sickness. Biff has already been sick for over a week and his doctors have ordered him to stay in bed for awhile more before hitting the road again.

Singer/songwriter Thomas Denver Jonsson has been selected as one of Sweden's delegates coming over to the US in March for SXSW.

Sweden's Soda Magazine has published an article going over the history of The Soundtrack of Our Lives and you can read it online right here: https://www.sodamagazine.com/ (in Swedish)

How cool is this? The Knife will be doing a remix of the next Stina Nordenstam single "Parliament Square" for release in January or February via V2. They are also doing a remix of "Keep you Kimi" for Swedish electronic artist Hird for release on the lounge label DNM (Dealers of Nordic Music).

The first string of dates for the upcoming Entombed US tour with Crowbar, Pro-Pain and The Mighty Nimbus have been announced:

02/07 - B.B. Kings Blues Club, New York, NY
02/08 - Jaxx Nite Club, Springfield, VA
02/09 - Trocadero Theater, Philadelphia, PA
02/11 - Northern Lights, Clifton Park, NY
02/12 - The Chance, Poughkeepsie, NY
02/14 - House of Blues, Cleveland, OH
02/15 - Joe's, Chicago, IL
02/16 - Ascot Room, Minneapolis, MN
02/17 - Ranch Bowl, Omaha, NE
02/18 - Gothic Theater, Englewood, CO
02/19 - Lo Fi Cafe, Salt Lake City, UT
02/21 - Fat Tuesday's, Spokane, WA
02/22 - Graceland, Seattle, WA
02/23 - Sabala's @ Mt. Tabor Theater, Portland, OR
02/26 - House of Blues, Los Angeles, CA

"Lady December" is the name of the new single from The Concretes that will be released on December 8. The b-sides will include "The warrior" and their acoustic shuffle version of "Seems fine", as heard on the Swedish TV-show "Sen kväll med Luuk". The UK gets all of the songs on the "Warm Night" EP which comes out over there on December 13.

Norwegian singer/songwriter Magnet is doing a string of shows around the LA area along with some TV appearances:

12/02 - KCRW presents Magnet at The Fold @ Tangier w/Jesca Hoop
12/03 - Late Late Show w/guest host Michael Ian on CBS
12/06 - Viper Room w/Foreign Born, On The Speakers (early show)
12/09 - Listen for "Lay lady lay" during episode 5 of "The OC" on Fox
12/12 - KCRW presents Magnet at the Troubador w/Phoenix

Lawnchair Records has just put out a free downloadable EP from young singer/songwriter Pekka Pörtfors. Go here to check it out: https://www.lawnchairrecords.com/releases.php?id=26

Finnish electronic artist Lackluster is heading out on road for a few dates in Germany and the Netherlands:

12/01 - Worm @ Calypso, Rotterdam (NL) w/Machinedrum, Jimmy Edgar, Ove-naxx
12/02 - Scheune, Dresden (GER) w/Machinedrum, Enzym
12/03 - tbc @ Nijmegen/Doornroosje (NL) w/Machinedrum, Ove-naxx
12/04 - Voxxx, Chemnitz (GER) w/Machinedrum, Geroyche
12/05 - Goldener Pudel, Hamburg (GER) w/Machinedrum
12/11 - Theater Kikker, Utrecht (NL) w/Apparat, Owen

MIC Norway spotlights the Kaada/Mike Patton collaboration "Romances": https://www.mic.no/mic.nsf/doc/art2004112913255173036392

Mp3 blog Uncritical has posted a bunch of tracks from Swedish electronic artist Sophie Rimheden, including her cover of "Shout" with Håkan Lidbo: https://uncritical.blogspot.com/2004/11/your-number-needs-to-be-longer.html
Happy Chris? I'm more than happy to link you when you are posting quality material.

Daily Texan editor Tito Belis selects "On your side" by Magnet as his number one album of the year: https://www.dailytexanonline.com/news/2004/11/30/Entertainment/Top-5.Records.Of.2004-816822.shtml
Further down the page you can also find writer Leslie Flynn who selects The Rasmus for number one.

I guess there's now an online petition to get legendary black-metal act Emperor to reform: https://www.bring-emperor-back-to-life-campaign.tk/
Personally, I think they already overstayed their welcome and are better off broken up. I'd much rather hear new music from the member's new bands (Zyklon, Peccatum, etc.) than worry about them being able to reclaim past glory.