Our December top 10 blowout keeps on going and going - be sure to catch up on the latest:

John Roger Olsson (The Grand Opening)
Emil Johansson (The Giant's Dream)
Daggan (Novoton)
The Goner

Here is the It's a Trap! listening group top 10 artists of the week, unique to our group:

01. Hello Saferide
02. Anna Ternheim
03. Kleerup
04. Moto Boy
05. El Perro del Mar
06. Loney, Dear
07. Club 8
08. Håkan Hellström
09. The Soundtrack of Our Lives
10. Glasvegas

Do you listen to music on your computer or with an iPod? Please join us and make your playlist count! Go here to learn more: https://www.last.fm/help/

Check out the new video for "Mona Lee" from Swedish act The Sweet Serenades: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NWGpbDJlMj8&fmt=18

Sondre Lerche on his favorite albums of the year: https://www.sondrelerche.com/diary.asp?id=644

Shelflife Records will be releasing the debut album "Aboa sleeping" from Finnish act Burning Hearts on February 10. Preview samples at myspace: https://www.myspace.com/burningheartsmusic

Mattias Alkberg (The Bear Quartet, MABD) will be releasing a 7" on Ny Våg early next year called "Jag är en antenn". "Extremt Lo-Fi" he describes it. After that, look for him to record a new full-length around February for release on A West Side Fabrication or maybe again with Ny Våg.

Nö Music reports from playing a show at the prison Oslo Fengsel with The Cables: https://www.nomusicmedia.com/2008/12/05/hot-girls-hot-prisons-part-i-oslo-fengsel/

Hey look, a Finnish advent calendar with a garden gnome flipping the bird and all sorts of seemingly random videos: https://irc-galleria.net/hc-joulu/

Friendly Noise has a new 2-track single from Testbild!, the first taste of what's to come on their upcoming album "Aquatint": https://www.friendlynoise.se/single-from-forthcoming-testbild-album-aquatint/

Powersolo's new album "Bloodskinbones", their first as a pared-down duo since losing drummer JC Benz in October, is confirmed for release on February 23.

Voting is now open for the Rockbjörnen Myspace Prize: https://www.myspace.com/rockbjornensmyspacepris

Global Domination interviews Osku Kähkönen from the excellent Finnish doom/sludge act Hebosagil: https://www.globaldomination.se/interviews/hebosagil-osku-kaehkoenen

PopMatters discusses the so-called world of "post-ironic Swedish rock": https://www.popmatters.com/pm/column/66114-life-after-abba-post-ironic-swedish-rock/

The Figurines DVD documentary "The detour" will be released on December 15 and will include a CDEP in addition to the film which includes four previously unreleased tracks.

Munich are streaming a new live track on their myspace page: https://www.myspace.com/munichdk