SubSpace Communications has licensed to release of Universal Poplab's self-titled debut album to Dance Paradise for release in Russia on CD and the almost-totally forgotten format of cassette. It comes out this week and they'll also be releasing Vacuum's newest album over there in early November.

Punk of Country will be posted a new, free websingle on November 24 called "Yes, I go away" to coincide with the release of their album "Leaving the trees behind". That will also be the day that their first websingle "My happy days" will be taken down, so head over to their website to hook it up if you haven't already done so: https://www.punkofcountry.com/

All-star Swedish punkrock sideproject Urkke T & The Midlife Crisis will be releasing a single with three cover tunes on it before the end of the year. The tracklist:

01. Sick Of You (The Users)
02. Centre Of Lies (Warheads)
03. The American In Me (The Avengers)

The full lineup of the band is Urrke (Maryslim) on bass/lead vocals, Dregen (Backyard Babies) on guitar/vocals, Måns Maggot (The Maggots) on guitar/vocals, and Robban E (The Hellacopters) on drums/vocals.

Millencolin frontman Nikola Sarcevic will be taking his solo act on the road with four gigs in Germany this December. Backing him will be various folks from The Peepshows and Bombshell Rocks. Dates:

12/07 - Molotow, Hamburg
12/08 - Mud Club, Berlin
12/09 - Prime Club, Köln
12/10 - Amadeus, Oldenburg

Here's this week's MTV Up North Nordic video chart:

01. HIM - And Love Said No
02. Sugarplum Fairy - Sweet Jackie
03. Bomfunk MC's - No Way In Hell
04. Private Line - 1-800-Out Of Nowhere
05. Annie - Chewing Gum
06. Dhani - Girl Talk
07. Mando Diao - Clean Town
08. Snook - Mister Cool
09. Lazyboy - Facts Of Life
10. Blacknuss - All Your Lovin'
11. Ana - We Are
12. Beats And Styles - Renegades
13. Christian Walz - Wonderchild
14. Blue Foundation - Save This Town
15. Hanna Pakarinen - How Can I Miss You
16. Petter - Tidens tempo/Prolog
17. Tigerbombs - 1000 Sparks
18. Soundtrack of Our Lives - Bigtime
19. Cirera - Fake Vegetarian Ex Girlfriend
20. Masayah - Felicia

Challengers:
01. Nightwish - Wish I Had
02. Suburban Kids With Biblical Names - Rent A Wreck
03. Powersolo - Oak Tree Girl
04. Stephen Simmonds - Mother Mary
05. Mighty 44 / Anna Nordell - This Love Ain't Going On
06. Elin Lanto - I Won't Cry

Go to the MTVE.com site to watch and vote for your favorite.

Mp3 blog Sounds of Sweden is going on vacation to Belgium, but not without leaving us a selection of pop hits to check out while their gone: https://soundsofsweden.blogspot.com/

Here's this week's top 10 Nordic video chart from YLE/Morjen:

01. Steep - Complete lack of ideals and integrity (FIN)
02. Nephew - Superliga (DK)
03. Týr - Regin smidur (DK)
04. The Confusions - Window (SWE)
05. The Rasmus - Guilty (FIN)
06. Nightwish - Wish I had an angel (FIN)
07. Ana Johnsson - Don't cry for pain (SWE)
08. Snook - Mister Cool (SWE)
09. Johnny Deluxe - Drömmer jeg? (DK)
10. Humane - Crucify (FIN)

Challengers:
11. Giant Robot - Get up (FIN)
12. The Knife - Heartbeats (SWE)
13. Virgo - Bubbles (DK)

Aversionline has posted reviews for Swedish crust acts Abductee SD and Imperial Leather and also Thirdimension: https://www.aversionline.com/

Mp3 blog Music (for Robots) posts a track from Kings of Convenience and gives a shout-out to IAT! in the process: https://music.for-robots.com/archives/000593.html

Peep the video for Magnet's cover of "Lay lady lay": https://www.filter-mag.com/media/interior.178.html

Check out the video for "Come on, come on" from The Ackermans: https://www.plugged.se/records/documents/ackermanscomeon1min-hi.mov

Indieworkshop reviews Denmark's Efterklang: https://indieworkshop.com/reviews/1254

Delusions of Adequacy with a better-late-than-never review of the latest Sahara Hotnights: https://www.adequacy.net/review.php?reviewid=4831

Silence will release the debut single "Bullshit Radio" from all-female Swedish trash-rock group Chick Habit on November 22. The video should be hitting airwaves shortly.

Finland's Some Place Else Records will be releasing a special hand-numbered 500 copy limited edition CD of Ovro and Niko Skorpio performing together live at the Placard #7 Headphone Festival in Helsinki on May 22, 2004. The details:

Ovro starts quietly and calmly, gradually raising volume and tension. Her brand of uneasy listening combines digital sound manipulation, creepy soundscapes and ominous(?!?) vocals to invoke a multitude of feelings and a view to a world where not everything is right.
The artists change on the fly, and their sets are welded seamlessly together by an improvised piece performed together as SkorpiOvro.
Niko Skorpio presents his mix of dark ambience, sample-ridden psychedelia and heavy broken rhythms in a dynamic, morphing form. Towards the end Niko invokes his twisted digital-grindcore alter ego Reptiljan that vomits a short, fierce attack of blastbeats and breaks & noise. Reptiljan provided the sounds for what was perhaps the first ever incident of stage-diving in the history of Placard!
Placard is a new kind of festival where people come with their headphones to sit down and actually listen to the music. The venues also provide MP3 or Ogg Vorbis live streams to other listening rooms ("placards") out there. Placard #7 was a three-month, non-stop, self-organising festival of headphones listening taking place across the globe and streamed online. The particular event where this recording was captured, was held in an apartment in Helsinki, with listening slots in France, Belgium and Italy.

Ordering info: https://www.someplaceelse.net/releases/?id=specd04032