Finnish/Swedish indie act Oriel Joans (feat. singer/songwriter Pekka Pörtfors) have a new single called "Knuckles whiten" and are streaming both it and the b-side "I only wish to lay" at myspace: https://www.myspace.com/orieljoans
RIYL Isolation Years, Anna Leong, melancholy pop.
Under the Radar reviews Danish act Choir of Young Believers live in LA: https://www.undertheradarmag.com/reviews/choir_of_young_believers_at_the_spaceland_los_angeles_ca_october_21st_2009/
Wamer Climes interviews Johan Angergård of The Legends/Club 8/Labrador Records: https://warmer-climes.blogspot.com/2009/10/facts-figures-with-johan-angergard-of.html
It's not even November, but The Genuine Fakes are already offering a preview of their upcoming holiday single "All I want for Christmas": https://music.thegenuinefakes.com/
Penny Century, quite easily my favorite currently unsigned Swedish indiepop act, have posted a video playlist of four songs from their recent live appearance in Östersund, Sweden: https://www.youtube.com/view_play_list?p=4EF8D4B7294809DD
Senza Tensta, the solo alias of Jonas Rosén (ex-Asterisk*/Female Anchor of Sade), has two new releases out now on Kalligrammofon. First is the 7" "Skull of Sade II", a dubbed-out retake of the Female Anchor of Sade track from 2001, and the second is "Big bear small bear", a C30 cassette featuring two long tracks. Full details here: https://www.kalligrammofon.com/
Lydia Laska have a video for their new single "Could I have a go on your girl, please?": https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ja-ZzCNJiIs
Norwegian indierock act Hypertext report that their new album "Astronaut-Kraut" is totally finished and will be released in early 2010. Preview three tracks at myspace: https://www.myspace.com/hypertextband
Fellow Norwegian Susanne Sundfør (who is excellent, btw) provides guest vocals.
MIC Norway talks to keyboardist Ståle Storløkken about Supersilent and their new album "9", as well as a few questions about his other band Elephant9: https://www.mic.no/mic.nsf/doc/art2009102311501020284733
The Nitzer Ebb website talks to Swedish artist Jonna Lee about her lowkey cover of "Violent playground": https://www.nitzer-ebb.de/ebbdotcom/interview_2009_jonnalee.html
Norwegian avant-metal act Virus have started work on their next album, their third overall, and you can read all about it here: https://blogs.myspace.com/index.cfm?fuseaction=blog.view&friendId=37770328&blogId=515872798
Swedish rockers Satan Takes A Holiday will release their self-titled debut album on November 18 via I Made This/End of Comedy. Preview a few tracks at myspace: https://www.myspace.com/satantakesaholiday
El Perro Del Mar has a new video for the song "Change of heart": https://vimeo.com/7086797
She heads out on the road with Peter Bjorn and John in the US next month.
Swedish alt-country act The Lancaster Orchestra is apparently on hold for a bit, along with the release of their new album "The death of an orchestra". They say they'll be back on track in 2010, but we shall see.
IAT favorite Tobias Hellkvist will be making his live solo debut on November 17 at the church Trinitakis Kirke in Copenhagen, together with P Jørgensen and others. Def sounds like something worth checking out.