I'm a terrible procrastinator, but at last here's my report from the ExMS Swedish showcase in LA on March 20: click here.

Ariel Kill Him has hooked up with Lucky Artist Booking and has started to set up dates in the US for June.

Some news from A West Side Fabrication: https://www.cabal.se/westside/news/index.htm
Most importantly, the new single from Heikki (feat. Jari Haapalainen from The Bear Quartet and Maria Eriksson from The Concretes) is called "Former Hero" and will be out March 31. The new album "Heikki 2" comes out soon, too.

Smalltown Supersound act The Thing is coming to the US for a few select dates with Joe McPhee. Details:

04/02 - ACME festival, Athens, GA w/Atomic School Days
04/09 - Atmananda Memorial School Auditorium, Austin, TX
04/10 - Barnevelder Arts, Houston, TX
04/11 - Honey Factory Art Space, Salazar Studio, San Antonio, TX

Their new album "Garage" is set for a fall release and will contain "wild and beautiful cover versions" of songs by The Sonics, Yeah Yeah Yeahs and White Stripes.

Tracklist for Kristofer Åstrõm's new all-acoustic album "Loupita":

01. Loupita #3
02. Devil
03. Idiot talk
04. The wild
05. I am not the case
06. Loupita #2
07. Spinning
08. Well go on
09. I collect knives
10. Walpurgis night
11. Better with the night
12. Loupita #1
13. Just another lovesong

Up-and-coming singer/songwriter Britta Persson guests on two songs and track #9 was written by the talented Mattias Friberg of Logh. Can't wait to hear it.

Eskobar has their new official bio up to go along with the release of the new record: https://www.eskobar.nu/forums/index.php?showtopic=493&st=0&#entry660

Dialog Cet has their new website online: https://www.dialogcet.com/

Stockholm Records has signed Anna Ternheim. They'll be rereleasing her acoustic demo EP in April and issuing the full length "Somebody Outside" sometime around August/September.

Download "You give me hearattacks" from recent Deep Elm signees Sounds Like Violence: https://anfdownloads.abercrombie.com/mp3s/slv.mp3
The tracks comes from the band's debut full length "The Pistol", due out April 27.

A new web diary entry from Sondre Lerche: https://www.sondrelerche.com/diary.asp?id=54

Pictures from Randy's recent US tour: https://www.randytheband.com/?NODE=11&fotoid=10&page=1&van=0&tot=25

Pics of Surferosa (and UK band The Smears) from their show in Nottingham, UK on March 26: https://homepage.ntlworld.com/stevefisher/

Nasum recently added a whole crapload of new pics to their online gallery: https://www.nasum.com/photogalleries.asp
They've also posted an updated itinerary for their summer tour plans:

04/01 - City Sound festival, Sticky Fingers, Göteborg (SWE)
05/20-22 - Fuck The Commerce VII (GER)
06/27 - Fury Fest, Le Mans (FRA)
07/03 - L'Usine, Geneva (SWI)
07/16 - Tuska Metal Fest, Tuska (FIN)
07/17 - Illosaari Festival, Joensuu (FIN)

Backlash has a new website up and running in conjunction with the release of their new album "Heliotrope" on March 29 through Memento Materia: https://www.impetus.nu/

Check out a clip of the song "Moralized" from Finnish death-metal supergroup Chaosbreed: https://www.centurymedia.de/century/mainarea/audio.aspx?id=chaosbreed__moralized.rm
The song comes from the band's upcoming album "Brutal", due out in Europe on April 26 through Century Media.