Absolut Noise talks to Johan Angergård of Labrador Records/Club 8/Acid House Kings/The Legends: http://absolutnoise.blogspot.com/2007/06/interview-johan-angergard-labrador.html

The latest No Love for Ned radio show has an in-studio session from Acid House Kings: http://www.noloveforned.com/

Acid House Kings have a brand new video online: http://www.acidhousekings.com/

The Charade
A real life drama
Skipping Stones Records

The Charade have lineage in a number of well regarded Swedish bands of days past, including Happy Deadmen and Red Sleeping Beauty, so they can at least make some claim to innovating this kind of supertwee relaxed music that brings to mind big fluffy clouds, sunny days, cotton candy, and prozac. Like Club 8, Acid House Kings, or Sambassadeur, they have gorgeous etherial female vocals with some male backgrounds (and occassional leads). The Charade also throw in a lot of background harmonies reminiscent of girl groups of the 60s. If that much fluff weren't enough, they've got happy optimistic lyrics about things going right. There's not a trace of darkness to be found. Were there not so many songs that are catchy, pretty, or both, it'd be excruciating. Instead it's a fine gentle pop record with some strong highlights mixed with mediocre filler.s
- Nancy Baym

Video mix: Acid House Kings, Hello Saferide, The Hives, Meshuggah, Randy, Rough Bunnies, more...

As promised, the live recording of Acid House Kings from TT the Bear's in Cambridge: http://www.bradleysalmanac.com/2006/08/mp3s-acid-house-kings-live-in.htm

Lookee here, a full live set from The Legends in Cambridge, MA: http://www.bradleysalmanac.com/2006/08/mp3s-legends-live-in-cambridge-ma.htm
Note the teaser promising a recording of the Acid House Kings set from the same show in the future.

Pitchfork does the track review thing with the Acid House Kings: http://www.pitchforkmedia.com/page/track_reviews/37239/Acid_House_Kings_Come_Josephine#37239

Live report: Acid House Kings + The Legends @ T.T. The Bear's, Cambridge, MA 07/10/06

Acid House Kings are giving away their cover of the Loveninja's "Keep your love" as a free download on the occasion of their upcoming US tour: http://www.labrador.se/keepyourlove/
Those dates yet again:

07/06 - 40 Watt Club, Athens, GA
07/07 - School Kids Records, Chapel Hill, NC (2pm)
07/07 - Raleigh Music Hall, Raleigh, NC
07/08 - Cake Shop, New York, NY
07/09 - North Six, Brooklyn, NY
07/10 - TT the Bear's, Cambridge, MA
07/11 - DC Nine, Washington, DC
07/12 - Kensington South Forum, Philadelphia, PA

More details for the upcoming Acid House Kings/The Legends US tour:

07/06 - Lakeshore Theatre, Chicago, IL
07/07 - tba, Detroit, MI
07/08 - The Cake Shop, NYC, NY
07/09 - North 6, Brooklyn, NY
07/10 - TT The Bear's, Cambridge, MA
07/11 - DC Nine, Washington DC
07/12 - Kensington South Forum, Philadelphia, PA

[ingenting]
Sommardagboken
Labrador

Forget about the Kent-like live track (which is actually a Radio Dept. cover, sung in Swedish) and the ambient (and "watery") remix, and concentrate on the first three normal tracks on the new EP from [ingenting] (which is Swedish for "nothing"). The two first songs are poppy summer songs and then it slows down with the third track "Så varm, så kall", but it's still good stuff. [ingenting] are labelmates with Acid House Kings and The Radio Dept. but since they sing in Swedish, I doubt their music will travel outside Scandinavia. This is a damn shame, since their songs are as good as aforementioned bands', it's just a bit less twee/shoegazing and more pure indie pop. Try it, you might like it even if you don't speak Swedish.
- Simon Tagestam

Acid House Kings and The Legends will cross the Atlantic to do some select US dates in support of the US release of the latter's album "Public Radio" (out in June?). Details are fuzzy so far, but here's what I have so far:

07/06 - Chicago
07/07 - Detroit
07/08 - Brooklyn
07/09 - Washington DC
07/10 - Philadelphia
07/11 - Boston
07/12 - New York

Various Artists
Everyone sings along with the Acid House Kings
Labrador

Last year Acid House Kings did a nice little promotion when they launched their album "Sing along with..." by putting a karaoke spin on it. Now they've released an EP where five different artists interpret songs from the album. They got Magnus Carlsson (Weeping Willows) doing "Will you love me in the morning?" which isn't that different from the original. Les Trés Bien Ensemble render "My heart is a stone" in French and Lasse Lindh does a cool Swedish version of "That's because you drive me". Montt Mardié and Don Lennon with their own characteristic vocals both manage to make "Do what you wanna do" and "Tonight is forever" into their 'own' songs. Acid House Kings have managed to get a bunch of excellent artists to cover their songs, so if you like "Sing along..." and, like me, love cover versions, I think you have to buy this EP. Hopefully there'll be a volume two!
- Simon Tagestam

First Coast News on the new Acid House Kings EP "Do what you wanna do": http://www.firstcoastnews.com/life/music/news-article.aspx?storyid=53306