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This week Norwegian Allsang på Grensen has got incredible pop-invasion - two biggest Swedish schlager-divas and two of four Swedish Eurovision winners Carola and Charlotte Perrelli were singing at this popular event.
For now it's only Carola's performances has got to youtube but it would be too much if we could get all of them. I should say that if "Fångad Av En Stormvind" (featuring Charlotte) and "Modersvingen" were just loveable, "Suspicious Minds" with that utterly cool dance gang was absolutely fantastic!
Quality of video is not amazing-amazing but we're thankful for what we get.
UPD: You can check whole show here if you live in Sweden.

This year for Carola is all about recently released tribute-compilation "Elvis Barbra & Jag" on CD and concert in Dalhalla on DVD. Later in July Carola will perform at Princess Victoria day and we can only suggest that she'll be singing something out of this compilation as well.
But now to keep audience warm towards Carola's release official Youtube-channel has got some videos of Carola performing her tracks in the studio and in the club with some biographical comments from Carola herself and they're shot quite well to serve as separate music videos. We really hope that later these videos will appear in its full length but for now you can check what we have.

Few days ago we could see announcement on Carola's facebook page talking about forthcoming single and as it was revealed before that Carola will release her tribute-album to Elvis Presley and Barbra Streisand on March 23rd it was pretty expectable to get some of covers as a single. And now it's official that new tribute-single is "Suspicious Minds" and single is already on sales immediately reaching top of iTunes marking that though Carola doesn't release her original stuff lately she's still beloved in Sweden.
Last year "Suspicious Minds" along with other covers was often performed by singer though in studio it has probably become more interesting with Carola making Aguilera in the beginning and dynamic stylish retro-pop spiced with all expression of Carola's vocal. It's not often when we like this sort of stuff but it's really-really good cover charging strongly with positive energy.
You can also check performance live-performance of this song on concert in Dalhalla here.

Erik Hassle's EP "Taken" is released and I really recommend you to check it as any piece of Erik's music worth your attention if you like his voice and melody masterpieces he usually provides. First leaked new track of it is "If It Takes All Night" - dark atmospherical song, not so sharply emotional like Taken but still quite magic. Another track included into this EP is cover for "Family Affair" by Sly & The Family Stone. It was earlier released on Erik's covers EP "The Hassle Sessions: Volume One" that I ocassionaly have missed out, it was released on Brittish iTunes and contains next tracklist.

Coming back to Taken EP, you can find there 2 previously released singles "Standing Where You Left Me" (with new 2010 mix that you can listen here) and "Taken (Still In My Blood)" (with original version) and another original track "Last Rider" that I'll demonstrate to you a bit later.