Daniel Hansson, the CEO and co-founder of Swedish electronic musical instrument company Elektron, passed away last year and now a selection of artists from the Elektron community are giving back with a tribute in his honor: https://www.45tribute.com/
$5 for 30 tracks? Hard to go wrong there, especially when the proceeds go to charity, not to mention some of the big names involved such as Autechre, Dntel, Venetian Snares, Daedelus, Kim Hiorthøy and John Tejada. For a handful of free tracks and more info, go here: https://45tribute.com/node/8

Check out the new video for "Action" from Finnish indierock act Blanket: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NX_ueCwf1Q0

PSL pays tribute to Anders Göthberg (Broder Daniel): https://blogg.svt.se/psl/2008/04/11/minnen-med-anders-gothberg-910-1975-303-2008/

Malmö-based act Housewife Lovers have made it on the Pitchfork Forkcast: https://www.pitchforkmedia.com/page/forkcast/49634-the-housewife-lovers-out-of-school-mp3stream
If you're curious about picking up a copy of the band's 10", I should be getting copies for resale soon.

The new Hellacopters album "Head off" is streaming on myspace: https://www.myspace.com/hellacopters

PSA: I'll be on the road all next week, so if you were thinking of purchasing something from the mailorder, I'd suggest you do it by the end of the day. Otherwise, nothing gets shipped out until I return. As for site updates, they'll continue as usual, but perhaps a bit more sporadically. Thanks for your understanding!

Patrol Mag interviews Mathias Stromberg from The Bell: https://www.patrolmag.com/index.php?id=364

Swedish act The Animation is giving away their new single "Overboard" for free: https://theanimation.se/
Look for their debut album in late May/early June.

Renown author/talking head Ian Christe is publishing a US version of Daniel Ekeroth's revered "Swedish Death Metal" book via his newly started Bazillion Points publishing company. Link: https://bangbangblog.info/2008/02/26/swedish-death-metal-awaits/

Check out the video for the new Hellacopters single "In the sign of the octopus": https://myspacetv.com/index.cfm?fuseaction=vids.individual&videoid=31625298

Germany's Bavarian Radio Symphony Orchestra has refused to perform Swedish-Israeli composer Dror Feiler's piece "Halat Hisar" ("State of Siege") due to concerns about the work's volume: https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/main.jhtml?xml=/news/2008/04/09/worchestra109.xml

Melissa Horn's duet with Lars Winnerbäck "Som jag hade dig förut" is now streaming at myspace: https://www.myspace.com/melissahornmusik
Her debut album "Långa nätter" will be out on April 30.

Finnish avant label Fonal has new high-quality videos from Lau Nau and Risto posted for free download: https://www.fonal.com/news.php

This week's top 20 Norwegian album chart:

01. Motorpsycho - Little Lucid Moments
02. Ingrid Olava - Juliets Wishes
03. Diverse artister - Sorgen og gleden: Matte Marit
04. Ane Brun - Changing Of The Seasons
05. Madrugada - Madrugada
06. Kaizers Orchestra - Maskineri
07. Vassendgutane - Xo
08. Paal Flaata - Old Angel Midnight
09. Secret Garden - Inside I'm singing
10. Vidar Johnsen & Peter Nordberg - Ord & Øgonblick
11. The National Bank - Come On Over To The Other Side
12. Madcon - So Dark the Con of Man
13. Glenn Lyse - Come Closer
14. Farmers Market - Surfin' Ussr
15. Hellbillies - Spissrotgang
16. CC Cowboys - På Svalbard uten strøm
17. Gaute Ormåsen - Drømmesang
18. Valkyrien Allstars - Valkyrien Allstars
19. Susanne Sundfør - Take One
20. Beady Belle - Belvedere

Check out AK-momo's video for "Women to control": https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ccnO487xIAw
The clip was constucted using old Swedish home movie footage and is very much worth seeing.