Frequent Timbuktu collaborators Damn! will be releasing an album of their own. Entitled "Let's zoon in", it comes out November 12 via Pope Records, just in time for the two to tour Scandinavia together.

Hear Susanna perform a duet with Bonnie "Prince" Billy on "Jailbreak" by Thin Lizzy: https://cargorecords.blogspot.com/2008/09/incoming-susanna-flowers-of-evil.html
(see the player in the side-column)

Ida Maria is supporting Courteeners in the UK for the next two weeks:

10/03 - Carling Academy, Newcastle
10/04 - Carling Academy, Sheffield
10/06 - Fat Sams, Dundee
10/07 - Barrowlands, Glasgow
10/09 - Apollo, Manchester
10/10 - Apollo, Manchester
10/11 - University, Liverpool
10/13 - University, Hull
10/14 - Rock City, Nottingham
10/15 - UEA, Norwich
10/17 - Academy, Leeds

The new Zeigeist single "Cuffs" will be released as a digital download on October 29 via Imperial Recordings.

Finnish act Damn Seagulls are currently in the studio working on their third album which is due out sometime around February via Fullsteam Records. Jussi Jaakonaho will mix and Miikka Koivisto (Disco Ensemble) will help with vocal production. Expect the first single to surface later this month.

Nö Music reports that a new book about the Quart Festival reveals a hidden drug conspiracy: https://www.nomusicmedia.com/2008/10/03/quart-festival-surrounded-by-drugs-controversy/

Live music with Anna Ternheim at PSL: https://blogg.svt.se/psl/2008/10/03/musik-med-anna-ternheim/

This week's top 20 Swedish album chart:

01. Bo Kaspers Orkester - 8
02. Hello Saferide - More modern short stories from Hello Saferide
03. Christer Sjögren - Mitt sköna sextiotal
04. Steve Dobrogosz & Anna Christoffersson - Rivertime
05. Sophie Zelmani - The ocean and me
06. The Fantastic Four - The Fantastic Four
07. Takida - Bury the lies
08. Smurfarna - Smurfparty
09. Eva Eastwood - Well well well
10. Fatboy - In my bones
11. E.M.D. - A state of mind
12. Roland Cedermark - Pärleporten
13. Flamingokvintetten - Bästa!
14. Christer Sjögren - Jubileum 40 år med Christer Sjögren
15. E.S.T. - Leucocyte
16. Drifters - Tycker om dig - Svängiga låtar från förr
17. Europe - Almost unplugged
18. Patrik Isaksson - 10 år en snäll mans bekännelser
19. Veronica Maggio - Och vinnaren är...
20. ABBA - ABBA gold - Greatest hits

Long-running Swedish act Dag Vag not only celebrates their 30th anniversary this year, they've also reclaimed the rights to their back-catalogue from Silence and have now founded their own label to put out a new box set and remastered versions of their own records. Read more at MI: https://www.musikindustrin.se/artikel/104/Topplistan_v40_Flera_svenska_nykomlingar_DUPE.html (in Swedish)

MIC Norway spotlights Enslaved and their new album "Vertebrae": https://www.mic.no/mic.nsf/doc/art2008100315004170322728

Swedish drone artist Jasper TX does the Listed thing for Dusted: https://www.dustedmagazine.com/features/769

Swedish electro artist CK will be releasing his new single "Ä.G.E.R" on October 8, but you can already preview it at myspace: https://www.myspace.com/ckmusik
Expect a new album in the near future.

Danish act Bode Brixen has another new video online, this time for the song "Keychain": https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HUqpjrmPG4k

A Kid Hereafter is doing a track-by-track breakdown of his new album "Yo!": https://blog.myspace.com/index.cfm?fuseaction=blog.view&friendID=57510878&blogID=437908020

Paddington DC has a new self-released album called "Love is leukemia" released today: https://blog.myspace.com/index.cfm?fuseaction=blog.view&friendID=42904576&blogID=437937173