Fever Ray, the solo project of Karin Dreijer Andersson from The Knife, is streaming a brand new instrumental track at myspace: https://www.myspace.com/feverray
Clever folks who know how to read code can also download the track from her official website: https://feverray.com/

Danish indie/electro act WhoMadeWho will be releasing their new album "The plot" in February 2009.

Saturday night! Hello Saferide @ The Bell House in Brooklyn, NY with Blackstrap and The Seabellies! Doors @ 8pm, $10 cover. Be there!

Speaking of HS in the US, anyone got any pics from either the House of Sweden show on Monday or last night's performance at Bowery Electric to share?

PR company The Musebox is giving away a track from Norwegian act The Royalties as their "featured band of the week": https://www.themusebox.net/featured_artist/the_royalties/02_music%20_for_cooking_with_gass.mp3
Upcoming US dates:

10/25 - Spike Hill (CMJ), Brooklyn, NY
10/26 - DC9, Washington, DC
10/30 - Public Assembly, Brooklyn, NY
11/04 - Viper Room, West Hollywood, CA
11/05 - Tangiers, Los Angeles, CA
11/06 - On The Rox, Los Angeles, CA

Gbg-based experimental pop artist Eric Ramsey has a colorful new website: https://www.ericramsey.se/
I'm always against pure-Flash designs, but at least it's functional.

Norma's forthcoming album "Book of Norma" is streaming at Last.fm: https://www.last.fm/music/Norma/Book%2Bof%2BNorma

Swedish act Nifters will be heading out on the road for a few dates in Northern Europe in late November:

11/28 - Kato, Berlin (GER)
11/29 - De Engel, Den Helde (GER)
12/01 - Subway to Peter, Chemnitz (GER)
12/02 - Kulturrampe, Krefeld (GER)
12/05 - 13eins, Ansbach (GER)
12/06 - Villa K, Bludenz (AUS)

The new Harry's Gym is now streaming in its entirety at myspace: https://www.myspace.com/harrysgym

The Silent Ballet finally gets around to reviewing Tobias Hellkvist's debut album "Transports": Mhttps://thesilentballet.com/dnn/Home/tabid/36/ctl/Details/mid/384/ItemID/1882/Default.aspx

Here's a full report with photos from last night's show at the House of Sweden in Washington DC with Theresa Andersson, Ane Brun and Tobias Fröberg: https://www.expressnightout.com/content/2008/10/swedish_sweets_tobias_froberg_ane_brun_t.php

Tiger Lou has a new website to coincide with the release of his new album "A partial print": https://www.tigerlou.net/
I've listened to it quite a few times already, but am not quite ready to pass final judgment yet. However, I can say this: long-standing fans will certainly not be disappointed.

The 23 Seconds netlabel has revamped their website: https://www.23seconds.org/

Marybell Katastrophy, one of my current favorite artists - her most recent EP "You are the two" is a definite year-end top 10 contender, will finally unveil her debut full-length "The more" on November 24.

Discobelle has a new tracks from Dan Lissvik, probably better known for being half of Gbg-based duo Studio: https://www.discobelle.net/2008/10/22/dan-lissvik/
His solo debut 12" EP will be released via Information on November 24.

Finnish act Medeia are keeping a tour diary: https://blog.myspace.com/index.cfm?fuseaction=blog.view&friendID=45782339&blogID=442939047
Finns always have the most ridiculous antics on the road it seems.