The Picknick Festival website is now working: https://www.picknicklive.com/

Finland's up-and-coming girl rockers Bitch Alert are doing a slew of UK shows beginning at the end of the month:

06/28 - Barfly, London
06/29 - Barfly, Cardiff
06/30 - Barfly, Liverpool
07/02 - Barfly, Glasgow
07/03 - Newport
07/04 - Stoke on Trent
07/05 - Academy, Birmingham
07/06 - Academy III, Manchester
07/07 - University Academy II
07/08 - Zodiac, Oxford
07/10 - Ifor Bach, Cardiff
07/11 - Fleece, Bristol
07/12 - Cox's Yard, Stratford
07/13 - Roadmender, Northampton
07/15 - The Charlotte, Leicester
07/16 - Leadmill, Sheffield
07/17 - Rock City, Nottingham
07/18 - Cockpit, Leeds
07/20 - Bar Academy, Birmingham
07/21 - Little Civic, Wolwerhampton
07/22 - The Garage, London
07/23 - Chinnerys, Southend
07/25 - Wedgewood, Portsmouth
07/27 - King Tuts, Glasgow
07/29 - The Venue, Edinburgh

Read more about em here: https://www.fimic.fi/fimic/fimic.nsf/mainframe?readform&0D1904F520A147FBC2256EA700437416

Expressen's overview of the summer festivals: https://expressen.se/index.jsp?a=142450

In honor of the upcoming Euro 2004 football championships, Voice of a Generation are having a special contest. Go here: https://www.burningheart.com/voice/frames/euro2004.htm

PopMatters reviews the new Division of Laura Lee: https://popmatters.com/music/reviews/d/divisionoflauralee-dasnot.shtml

Chalksounds is having a special summertime sale and is taking 35% off every single release until July 4. Check it: https://www.chalksounds.com/
Don't forget that people in the US can buy a number of those Chalksounds releases directly from me without having to pay those huge shipping fees. And I'll match those prices, of course.

Lambgoat reviews Swedish hardcore band Path of No Return: https://www.lambgoat.com/albums/view.aspx?id=1151

Kingblind has linked a live bootleg of The Hives playing their new single "Walk Idiot Walk": https://www.kingblind.com

US tourdates for Väsen are starting to come together:

09/15 - venue tba, Lafayette, Indiana
09/16-17 - Lotus World Music & Arts Festival, Bloomington, Indiana
09/19 - Nordic Roots Festival, Minneapolis, Minnesota
09/20 - venue tba, Bellefontaine, Ohio
09/22 - Duke University, Durham, North Carolina
09/23 - Center for Cultural Exchange, Portland, Maine
09/24 - College of the Atlantic, Bar Harbor, Maine
09/25 - The Barnstormers summer theater, Tamworth, New Hampshire

Swedish hard-rockers the Diamond Dogs have a bunch of international tour plans in the works. First of all, they'll be hitting Spain with Atom Rhumba from June 17-21 as part of the Azkena Rock Parties, their equivilent of the Kalas Tour. Next up will be a trip back to England supporting legendary punk-rockers The Damned. Dates are set for July 25-30, but I don't have any more details than that yet. There's also word of another UK tour with Nazareth in September, but that's still in the planning stages. More info when I get it.

Swedish pop label Dead Frog Records has launched a new sub-label called Tadpole for developing bands. So far the label has two acts, Grey and Jeremiha. Read more: https://www.deadfrogrecords.com/tadpole/

Dead Frog has also updated the online info for their own in-house distribution. Go here: https://www.deadfrogrecords.com/distro/

The Luscious Four has posted six new mp3s for download: https://www.thelusciousfour.com/mp3.htm

Swedish grind band Gadget has a new website: https://www.gadgetgrindcore.com/

Check out a trailer for Disco Ensemble's European tour documentary: https://www.cs.helsinki.fi/%7Ehakila/dedivx2.avi