Here is the It's a Trap! listening group top 10 artists of the week, unique to our group:

01. Hello Saferide
02. Tiger Lou
03. Anna Ternheim
04. Taken By Trees
05. Glasvegas
06. Frida Hyvönen
07. Shout Out Louds
08. Kent
09. Juvelen
10. Dungen

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Pitchfork on Anna Ternheim's US debut "Halfway to Fivepoints": http://www.pitchforkmedia.com/article/record_review/146209-anna-ternheim-halfway-to-fivepoints

Here is the It's a Trap! listening group top 10 artists of the week, unique to our group:

01. Hello Saferide
02. Håkan Hellström
03. Glasvegas
04. Detektivbyrån
05. The Knife
06. Britta Persson
07. Anna Ternheim
08. Fredrik
09. The Radio Dept.
10. Logh

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Live music with Anna Ternheim at PSL: http://blogg.svt.se/psl/2008/10/03/musik-med-anna-ternheim/

Here is the It's a Trap! listening group top 10 artists of the week, unique to our group:

01. Hello Saferide
02. Vapnet
03. Laakso
04. Those Dancing Days
05. Tiger Lou
06. Juvelen
07. The Tough Alliance
08. Anna Ternheim
09. The Legends
10. Detektivbyrån

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Watch the video for the new Anna Ternheim single "What have I done": http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VwgdFMnkAKE

Here is the It's a Trap! listening group top 10 artists of the week, unique to our group:

01. Hello Saferide
02. Anna Ternheim
03. Håkan Hellström
04. Detektivbyrån
05. Club 8
06. The Radio Dept.
07. Frida Hyvönen
08. Jens Lekman
09. The Tough Alliance
10. Shout Out Louds

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Anna Ternheim is giving away an acoustic version of her new single "What have I done": http://www.annaternheim.com/

Anna Ternheim's new, Björn Yttling-produced album "Leaving on a mayday" will be released on November 12.

Anna Ternheim is currently at Sear Sound in New York mixing her new album with producer Bjorn Yttling.

Swedish artist Anna Ternheim will return to the US/Canada in July for a batch of dates with Joseph Arthur:

07/09 - Paradise Rock Club, Boston, MA
07/10 - World Café Live, Philadelphia, PA
07/11 - Bowery Ballroom, New York, NY
07/12 - Maxwell's, Hoboken, NJ
07/15 - Troubadour, Los Angeles, CA
07/18 - Great American Music Hall, San Francisco, CA
07/20 - WOW Hall, Eugene, OR
07/21 - Doug Fir, Portland, OR
07/22 - Triple Door, Seattle, WA
07/24 - The Media Club, Vancouver, BC

Here's the playlist for this week's radio show:

01. Lögnhalsmottagningen - Bodybuilder
02. TALK 1
03. Svart - Carl du lever i en dröm
04. Majessic Dreams - Beautiful days
05. Antennas - Lies (Oscar Tillman remix)
06. TALK 2
07. The Sound O.E - Universal tourist
08. Kaipa - Nattdjurstid
09. Murmansk - Pale
10. TALK 3
11. On Volcano - Ride the wolf
12. Markus Krunegård - Samma nätter vänter alla
13. Ondo - Mahavishnu
14. TALK 4
15. Popsicle - Hey princess
16. CMX - Tulikiveä
17. Ström i P2/Håkan Lidbo - Strömavbrott (Boeoes Kaelstigen Etsi remix)
18. TALK 5
19. The Goner - Kill them all save Simon Joyner
20. Cult of Luna - Eternal kingdom
21. Montys Loco - Ages ago
22. TALK 6
23. Mattias Alkberg BD - Allting är drömt
24. Masshysteri - Monoton tid
25. Ljudbilden & Piloten - You know you're doing OK
26. Abduktio - Thermador
27. TALK 7
28. Hebosagil - Big sun
29. Anna Ternheim - To be gone
30. Kusowsky - Tjuvar
31. Fredrik - 1986
32. TALK 8
33. Johan Heltne - 16 Avenue de l'Opera
34. Cortex - Arkham
35. Kleerup - Until we bleed (ft. Lykke Li)
36. TALK 9
37. Coldworker - Citizens of the cyclopean maze

Heads-up: my show is moving to a new time next week! Starting on Sunday, June 8 my show will be on at 11pm Eastern / 8pm Pacific with a repeat on Monday at the exact same time. I'm also paring down to an hour of programming a week, so expect all-killer/no-filler from here on out! Also, seeing as how I'm leaving for Sweden on June 9, this week's coming show will be a Hultsfred Festival special so mark your calenders, update your alarm clocks or do whatever it is you need to do to remind yourself to listen in!

Anna Ternheim - Halfway to five pointsAnna Ternheim
Halfway to five points
Decca Records

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Honestly, we will never hear Anna Ternheim sing songs more cheerfully than "Today is a good day" (track 3), but that doesn't matter. Not at all. She can be called Sweden's singer/songwriter queen when it comes to English lyrics and songs, with dark mystifying tunes. This is sloshed high-quality music, this is fragile and fragile is good, fragile is to invite us listeners to participate. You could recently hear her on National Public Radio's World Cafe with David Dye and maybe you have seen her around here and there, and maybe you have caught some of her tunes, which according to some can be abscribed a likeness to PJ Harvey or Nick Cave. Anyhow, her new album, "Halfway to five points", was recorded during this winter when Anna Ternheim successfully merged old handpicked songs from the album "Separation road" with a few fresh ones into this new assemblage, portraying one of those stay-home and stay-inside-days, when you just want to stay in your bed, daydream and let the mind go elsewhere. I would say this is a new dreamier Ternheim sound going more narrative, with an orchestral touch and more experimental acoustic instruments which, for example, make the new version of "Girl laying down" exquisite. The more "Halfway to five points" is played in my stereo, the more it makes sense and the more beautiful it's turning out to be. I just want to stay inside, listen to her fragile tunes, stare up in the ceiling and exist in the music. This album has a good freaking message.
- Therese Buxfäldt

Here's the playlist for this past weekend's radio show:

01. Pluxus - Bootstrap
02. TALK 1
03. Marit Bergman - Straight into my lovers arms
04. Grande Roses - Dead town
05. Mikko Singh - Rauha
06. TALK 2
07. Namur - Draw us near
08. Lapko - Sawyer the brother
09. Paper - To her
10. TALK 3
11. Johnossi - Train song
12. Markus Krunegård - Rocken spelar ingen roll längre
13. Printer - You need to
14. TALK 4
15. Firefox AK - Once I was like you (Boeoes Kaelstigen remix)
16. Aerial - Time is on fire
17. Sahara Hotnights - Visit to Vienna
18. TALK 5
19. Siena Root - Time will tell
20. Kristofer Åström - I collect knives
21. Anna Ternheim - Better be
22. TALK 6
23. Anna Leong - Guollotine
24. Folie - Krogg
25. Hearts of Black Science - Empty city lights
26. TALK 7
27. Inuit - En förlorad generation
28. The Psyke Project - Dark halls red floors
29. Memento Mori - Epilog
30. TALK 8
31. The Bear Quartet - Lights out, sound off
32. Fun - I know Ted Kennedy
33. Johan Heltne - Hjärta. Instinkt. Principer.
34. TALK 9
35. Lama - Bussi
36. Niccokick - Love & neon lights
37. Little Jimmy Reeves - Drowsy dogs
38. C.Aarmé - Visions
39. TALK 10
40. No Privacy - Blood over Denmark

Reminder: my show on Sirius Blog Radio runs Saturdays at 12 noon and midnight ET on channel 26 (Left of Center).

The New York Sun profiles Anna Ternheim: http://www2.nysun.com/article/75917