TURBONEGRO are busy recording their follow-up to last year’s Scandinavian Leather album in Oslo, Norway with producer Steve McDonald (Beck, Redd Kross). This is the first time the band have worked with a producer. The album, tenatively titled Babylon Forever, is set for an April 2005 release.

On the touring front, TURBONEGRO will be taking some time off to play some quickie shows in California. First, they will be playing the Thrasher Skater Of The Year Awards at the Great American Music Hall in San Francisco on December 18. Then they will head down south to play two gigs at the House of Blues in Hollywood on December 19 and 20.