The electro-pop band has tracks from One Life Stand reworked by house hero Todd Edwards, Caribou's Dan Snaith, and techno hotshot Osborne. [Joe Colly]

Stephen McBean's boogie outfit makes a more concerted effort to reconcile the band's inner darkness and light, leaning as much on pop as psych. [Stuart Berman]

One of Kompakt's cornerstone artists returns to making slow, bleary, moody, spooky sounds just as they find favor in the U.S. electro-pop underground. [Andy Battaglia]

The epic kings of doom and sludge, a huge influence on this century's metal, release their first official live record. [Jess Harvell]

After pre-dating the rise of artists like Emeralds and Oneohtrix Point Never, Arp's drone gets a shot of songcraft and traditional instrumentation. [Larry Fitzmaurice]

Great news: according to Musik enligt Jerry, Martin Molin of Detektivbyrån is working on a solo album.

The Line of Best Fit reviews the new Sad Day for Puppets album "Pale silver and shiny gold": http://www.thelineofbestfit.com/2010/09/sad-day-for-puppets-pale-silver-and-shiny-gold/

Shelflife Records has signed Finnish act Le Futur Pompiste and will be releasing an album from them in November. Preview the track "Five hundred heartbeats" at the label's website: http://www.shelflife.com/

Led Zeppelin bassist John Paul Jones made a live appearance with Supersilent at the Punkt Festival this past weekend and of course it was recorded. Expect an eventual album release...?

Check out Won, a new signing to the Deleted Art spinoff label Psychic Malmö: http://www.myspace.com/wearewon

Preview the new Nina Kinert single "Play the world", due out September 14: http://soundcloud.com/mikael-1/nina-kinert-play-the-world-sample-track
Look for her new "Star Wars"-themed album "Red leader dream" to be released on November 10 via her own, newly-started label NinkinaRecordings.

Novoton Records has signed three new bands: Everyday Mistakes, Riddarna and Katharina Nuttall. No news yet as to any releases, but I'll keep you posted.

Not Enough will be releasing the debut 12" from Stockholm-based punks Sju Svåra År this coming fall in collaboration with Polish label Trujaca Fala. Preview some tracks at myspace: http://www.myspace.com/sjusvaraar

Swedish hard-rockers Mustasch have signed with Gain/Sony Records for the release of their next album, tentatively due in early 2011.

Lazy Acre Records are doing a compilation + zine called "Three doors down doing the Charlestone" featuring 12 tracks along with interview features and other stuff. Preview the cover and tracklist here: http://lazyacrerecords.blogspot.com/2010/09/new-compilation-tracklisting-announced.html

I had no idea that Peter Jöback was now on Razzia Records, but apparently it is so -- look for the new single "Inte redo än" (written by Mauro Scocco and produced by Tobias Fröberg) to be released on September 27: http://razziarecords.se/releases_details.asp?id=941&artist=Peter
More here: http://razziarecords.se/news.asp?id=944

Halifax Collect talks to Reykjavik! and helps them give away their new EP: http://halifaxcollect.blogspot.com/2010/09/reykjavik-new-single-doing-rounds-and.html

Fixe Records has announced that New Found Land's new album "The bell" will be released on October 27. Hear the first single "Human" here: http://soundcloud.com/fixerecords/human