Check out the video for "They do it" from Swedish electropop act Vacuum: https://www.subspace.se/news/vacuum_video_popup.asp

Here's an e-card for Lazyboy and their new single "Fact of Life": https://www.musicbay.se/jukebox/universal/lazyboy_dk/popup.html
As mentioned here before, Lazyboy is the new project from Sören Rasted of Aqua.

Check out the video for "Speedway VM" from Rallypack: https://www.rallypack.se/speedway.wmv

Randy has started work on writing new material for their next album. No word on when they'll begin recording, but I'll keep you posted.

Denmark's Düreforsög has made their entire new album "Escho Live" available for free download from their website: https://www.dureforsog.com/

Lasse Marhaug (Jazzkammer) has two new releases out. First up is a solo CDR called "Evil Has No Laundry" from Synesthetic Recordings. It consists of a single track from the "Nothing But Sound From Now On" sessions in 2001 and comes on a credit-card size disc. Second is a DVD comp from [ohm] Records called "Nor-Noise" that features interviews with scene luminaries such as Otomo Yoshihide, Tore H. Bøe, Franscisco López, Helge Sten (aka Deathprod), Maja Ratkje, Masami Akita and more. It will also come with a comp of Norwegian noise artists such as Jazzkammer, Crazy River, Norwegian Noise Orchestra, Fe-Mail and more, all totally exclusive tracks. The official release for that one isn't until September, but Lasse is offering it for mailorder now.

Neumu reviews Nanook of the North: https://www.neumu.com/fortyfour/ (top left)

Stockholm-based rock n' rollers Wired for Mono are in need of a new bass player. Check their website for contact info: https://www.wiredformono.com/

Serpentine Music is the name of the a new music label collective being started by singer/songwriter Jenny Lundblad that's set to begin in September. The group plans to help promote up-and-coming artists by getting their music in stores and helping them with accounting, publishing and so forth. They're trying to emulate the success of other Swedish DIY artists such as The Concretes, The Knife and Marit Bergman and eventually they even hope to offer all sorts of related services such as radio promotion, photography, advertising and more - the musical equivilent to Ikea they say. It's obviously a promising idea, considering that indie labels don't appear to be suffering quite as much as the majors these days and the overhead will probably be kept quite low, but my concern is that the group will quickly become watered down with lesser talent. I'm not sure I would trust it, but then again, I barely trust anyone to take care of my business for me. The concept of the musical collectives is certainly viable at least (see Elephant 6 for example). Anyhow, read the whole article from MI: https://www.musikindustrin.nu/mi/smpage.fwx?page=198&NYHETER=4787

The Haunted has been added to the upcoming Shadows Fall/Damageplan US tour set to kick off sometime in October. Dates soon.

Norway's Tønes has a new website: https://www.toenes.com/
Their new Tim Scott-produced album "Grønnare Gras" comes out August 30 via Farmen Records, home of Kaizers Orchestra. Listen to samples here: https://www.farmenas.com/toenes/gronnaregras.htm

Knut of the Euroboys has produced the new album from Tellusalie, due out in October.

MTV has posted a new profile on the Sahara Hotnights and lists all of the band's upcoming US live dates this fall: https://www.mtv.com/news/articles/1490507/20040823/index.jhtml?headlines=true

Once We Were just finished work on an EP for release on A Tenderversion Records sometime around later September/early October. The recording was done at Mission Hall with the esteemed Mathias Oldén of Logh manning the board and lending his Steve Albini-esque sound aesthetic to the proceedings. Check out the song "Em": https://www.oncewewere.net/mp3/oww_ep01_em.mp3

Splendid gives a tepid review to Thomas Denver Jonsson: https://www.splendidezine.com/review.html?reviewid=1092393025176038