Aftonbladet reports that The Cardigans have begun work on a new album: https://www.aftonbladet.se/vss/noje/story/0,2789,555686,00.html (in Swedish)

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

01. (01) Bergman Rock - "I'm A Crab"
02. (03) The (International) Noise Conspiracy - "A Small Demand"
03. (02) Phoenix - "You Can't Blame It On. (Anybody)"
04. (05) Sahara Hotnights - "Who Do You Dance For?"
05. (06) Ed Harcourt - "Born In The '70s"
06. (20) Embee - "Not Tonite"
07. (16) Kanye West - "Jesus Walks"
08. (08) Starmarket - "Cologne"
09. (07) The Go! Team - "Ladyflash"
10. (09) [Ingenting] - "Här Kommer Solen"
11. (10) Snoop Dogg Feat. Pharell - "Drop It Like It's Hot"
12. (12) Baby Shambles - "Killamangiro"
13. (13) Deportees - "Not Tonight"
14. (14) Mos Def - "Sex, Love & Money"
15. (15) Destiny's Child - "Lose My Breath"
16. (NY) 22-20s - "Shoot Your Gun"
17. (04) The Mo - "Howl In The Jungle"
18. (NY) Richard Reagh + Wwnb2 - "Outlaw"
19. (17) Doktor Kosmos - "Distance Equals Rate Times Time"
20. (18) The Concretes - "Seems Fine"

Hot tracks outside of the top 20:
Bright Eyes - "Take It Easy"
The Faint - "I Disappear"
Radio 4 - "Absolute Affirmation"

Leaving the chart:
(11) Suburban Kids With Biblical Names - "#1 E.P."
(19) Talib Kweli Feat. Mary J Blige - "I Try"

New Scandinavian music reviews at Musique Machine:

Gåte - Iselilja
Nasum - Shift

Legendary Swedish death-metal act Grave will be touring Europe in January 2005. Dates soon.

The latest issue of Lowcut Webzine is online and features interviews with Viva Vertigo, Gorilla Angreb, The Accidents, El Ray and more: https://www.lowcut.dk/

New pics of Anna Ternheim, Cult of Luna, Fibes, Oh Fibes, Garmarna and Lars Winnerbäack up at Photo Henrik: https://www.photohenrik.com/

German webzine Sellfish reviews the new Starmarket: https://sellfish.inserteffekt.com/_start.php?link=review/11-04.htm%2312

Fellow Americans! Don't forget to vote today!

Yet another new Peter, Bjorn and John track up today in the playlist! Get it now because tomorrow it may be gone!

Chalksounds reports that they are now 100% sold out of the Him Kerosene "No mend no repair" EP and will not be repressing it. However, all is not lost- they are now offering it as a free mp3 download. Head on over to their online store to hook it up: https://www.chalksounds.com/record.php?id=12

The Ariel Kill Him page at Purevolume.com has been updated with a couple new songs, including one unreleased track entitled "So": https://www.purevolume.com/arielkillhim

Updated tour report for St. Thomas: https://www.stthomas1976.net/news.php

Swedish lo-fi pop act 50 Hertz reports that they have a new single out called "Kerstins borstjt med lök", limited to 99 copies and hand-packaged in wallpaper. The tracklist:

01. Kerstins borsjtj med lök (Air cover)
02. Hink och spann i nynäshamn
03. Soltorkade oblater
04. Lådbilslåten II
05. Kondylom konny
06. Du kunde räddat patrik

They want to be sure to remind you that their last release "Lille tangos tjocke" was limited to 500 copies and sold out quick, so act fast if you want this one. Go to their website for ordering info: https://www.50hertz.tk/

Mando Diao's new single "God knows" will include three exclusive bonus tracks: "We're Hit", "The Malevolence" and "Sweet Jesus".

"Sassie Zazy" has been selected as the second single from WE's latest album "Smugglers". A video was shot recently by director KP starring Iranian supermodel Aylar and shot be airing shortly.