Steso Songs has four brand new tracks up on myspace: https://www.myspace.com/stesosongs
As mentioned earlier this week, look for a new EP to be released next week.

The May edition of the Music Export Finland newsletter is now online: https://musex.fi/mxf/news?articleId=155

This week's top 20 Norwegian album chart:

01. Kurt Nilsen - Rise To The Occasion
02. Vassendgutane - Xo
03. Ida Maria - Fortress Round My Heart
04. Malin - Pang
05. Maria Haukaas Storeng - Hold On Be Strong
06. Hilde Louise Asbjørnsen - Sound Your Horn
07. Madrugada - Madrugada
08. Ane Brun - Changing Of The Seasons
09. Julian Berntzen - Rocketship Love
10. Eick, Mathias M/Balke/Kleive - The Door
11. Diverse artister - Sorgen og gleden: Matte Marit
12. Elvira Nikolaisen - Indian Summer
13. Hovedøen Social Club - Que Viva Noruega
14. Thom Hell - God If I Saw Her Now
15. Ingrid Olava - Juliets Wishes
16. Ingeborg Selnes - The Zoo
17. Kaizers Orchestra - Maskineri
18. Sondre Bratland - Det er den draumen
19. Roy Lønhøiden - Når dagen demrer blått
20. Motorpsycho - Little Lucid Moments

Download a new Grace Jones edit as done by Norway's Mental Overdrive: https://myblurrywindow.blogspot.com/2008/05/medits-1.html

This week's top 20 Swedish album chart:

01. Amanda Jenssen - Killing my darlings
02. Sanna Nielsen - Stronger
03. Christer Sjögren - Jubileum 40 år med Christer Sjögren
04. Charlotte Perrelli - Hero
05. Brolle - Ett hjärta som glöder som en gång brann
06. Nordman - Djävul eller gud
07. Håkan Hellström - För sent för Edelweiss
08. Peter Lemarc - Lemarc live!
09. Veronica Maggio - Och vinnaren är...
10. BWO - Pandemonium - The singles collection
11. The Hellacopters - Head off
12. Maia Hirasawa - Though, I'm just me (new edition)
13. Melissa Horn - Långa nätter
14. Amy Diamond - Music in motion
15. Linda Bengtzing - Vild & galen
16. In Flames - A sense of purpose
17. Oh Laura - A song inside my head, a demon in my bed
18. Takida - Bury the lies
19. Papa Dee - A little way different
20. Monica Zetterlund - Sakta vi gå genom stan - Det bästa med Monica

Speed of Sound has signed Danish act Le Fiasko, a band that features members from Choir of Young Believers and Under Byen. Listen at myspace: https://www.myspace.com/lefiaskocph

PopMatters pans Norwegian indiepop artist Soda Fountain Rag: https://www.popmatters.com/pm/music/reviews/soda-fountain-rag-its-rag-time/

Stereogum has an mp3 of Danish popsters Alphabeat doing an acoustic Daft Punk cover: https://stereogum.com/archives/mp3/alphabeat-cover-daft-punk_009812.html

Paper Thin Walls on Swedish shoegazers Blackstrap: https://www.paperthinwalls.com/singlefile/item?id=1593

Swedish indiepop act The Carny is streaming their latest single "Where the daffodils grow" at myspace: https://www.myspace.com/thecarnyband
The download-only single also includes the previously unreleased tracks "Let me sleep with you" and "Your life doesn't do your living" as b-sides.

MIC Norway talks to Lars Horntveth (Jaga Jazzist) whose new solo album "Kaleidoscope" will be out in August to coincide with his appearance at Øyafestivalen: https://www.mic.no/mic.nsf/doc/art2008051515504776567177

Jeniferever has added yet another new track from the new EP "Nangijala" on their myspace page: https://www.myspace.com/jeniferever
See 'em on tour next week:

05/22 - Magnet, Berlin (GER) w/The Paper Chase
05/23 - Treibstoff, Beeskow (GER)
05/24 - UT Connewitz, Leipzig (GER) w/Björn Kleinhenz
05/25 - Mozg, Bydgoszcz (POL)
05/26 - Gleis 22, Münster (GER) w/Bishop Allen
05/27 - Prinzenbar, Hamburg (GER)
05/28 - Musikcafeen, Aarhus (DK)

Bad Taste Records (Logh, Looptroop Rockers) has signed Sahara Hotnights and will be releasing their most recent album "What if leaving is a loving thing" all over Europe sometime around September. Expect European tourdates to be confirmed soon as well.

Check out Blända, a new band featuring Magnus Josefsson (Mollgan, Jonny Kock), Johan Lejmark (Varmvatten), Christoffer Schlee and Fredrik Björling (Dungen, The Guild): https://www.myspace.com/blandaband
The band's debut 7" will be released this summer via Fashionpolice Records and features a wide assortment of guest stars such as Ulf Stureson, Mattias "Tiaz" Gustafsson (Dungen, Life On Earth), Tove Leander (Stella Rocket) and more.

Swedish hip-hop producer Prime Skitz (nee-Skitzophrenic, ex-Perfect Combination) is giving away an EP from his latest project Monday Monkey Riot, featuring rapper Shizzywigg. Check it out here: https://www.myspace.com/mondaymonkeyriot