Artist: Dungen
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This week's top artists for the It's a trap! Last.fm/Audioscrobbler listening group:
01. Kent
02. Death Cab for Cutie
03. I'm from Barcelona
04. Antony and the Johnsons
05. Franz Ferdinand
06. Coldplay
07. Mew
08. Interpol
09. Bright Eyes
Top tracks:
01. I'm from Barcelona - We're From Barcelona
02. I'm from Barcelona - Treehouse
03. Kent - Dom Som Försvann
04. Death Cab for Cutie - Soul Meets Body
05. Loveninjas - Keep Your Love
06. Architecture in Helsinki - Do the Whirlwind
07. Christian Kjellvander - Drunken Hands
08. I'm from Barcelona - The Painter
09. Dungen - Panda
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Sweden's TV 4+ has caved and will now be showing the Dungen guest appearance on Conan O'Brien after all. If you remember, the episode was unable to be transferred for Swedish replay due to a technical error and the station decided to air a rerun instead. Well now it's all going to be made right: the episode has been set to air on December 12 with replays on both December 13 and 17.
I packed up all my stuff and moved across town into my new house last Thursday evening. That meant I had to miss Regulations, but I am very happy to be in my new place. Got my Internet access up and running Friday and spent the weekend unpacking. Good times, right? I've been going pretty much non-stop the entire time and I'm a bit frazzled, so I'm going to let Simon Tagestam handle today's mp3 post:
Being Swedish, it's hard to try and get people to listen to stuff that's sung in Swedish, since I realise that a lot of the appeal for me is usually about understanding what's sung. But now with Avi posting a track with the real king of Sweden (and with the success of the awful Dungen and the boring Sigur Rós) I feel confident enough to share this song with you. It's a track that I've been listening to over and over again everyday, everywhere for the last couple of weeks (I can prove it!). The song has the same impact on me as when I heard aforementioned Håkan Hellström for the first time, that is – it makes me want to go get drunk and go out and smash things up (figuratively speaking, of course), and perhaps dance a little bit. The song got such a dazzling energy that it almost makes me exhausted listening to it. Bom Bom, who made this masterpiece, are currently based in Gothenburg and London, and at the moment there's nothing I want to do more than to catch these boys in concert. Their other songs that I've heard all sound groovy, but "Pop i kras" is the catchiest one of them, and being a sucker for catchy songs, it's the one I like the most. You can download a bunch of their songs on their website (beware, it's all in Swedish, but it's still pretty easy to find the mp3s). Be braver than I am, and listen to some great music sung in a language you don't understand!
I packed up all my stuff and moved across town into my new house last Thursday evening. That meant I had to miss Regulations, but I am very happy to be in my new place. Got my Internet access up and running Friday and spent the weekend unpacking. Good times, right? I've been going pretty much non-stop the entire time and I'm a bit frazzled, so I'm going to let Simon Tagestam handle today's mp3 post:
Being Swedish, it's hard to try and get people to listen to stuff that's sung in Swedish, since I realise that a lot of the appeal for me is usually about understanding what's sung. But now with Avi posting a track with the real king of Sweden (and with the success of the awful Dungen and the boring Sigur Rós) I feel confident enough to share this song with you. It's a track that I've been listening to over and over again everyday, everywhere for the last couple of weeks (I can prove it!). The song has the same impact on me as when I heard aforementioned Håkan Hellström for the first time, that is – it makes me want to go get drunk and go out and smash things up (figuratively speaking, of course), and perhaps dance a little bit. The song got such a dazzling energy that it almost makes me exhausted listening to it. Bom Bom, who made this masterpiece, are currently based in Gothenburg and London, and at the moment there's nothing I want to do more than to catch these boys in concert. Their other songs that I've heard all sound groovy, but "Pop i kras" is the catchiest one of them, and being a sucker for catchy songs, it's the one I like the most. You can download a bunch of their songs on their website (beware, it's all in Swedish, but it's still pretty easy to find the mp3s). Be braver than I am, and listen to some great music sung in a language you don't understand!
Bom Bom - Pop i kras
Scandinavian reviews in the latest High Bias update include Dungen, HIM, Peter, Bjorn and John and Johannes Wallmark: http://www.highbias.com
There's a scandal a-brewin'! Swedish TV station TV 4 +, the channel that shows all episodes of the Conan O'Brien in Sweden, has cancelled the airing of the episode where Dungen performed citing a technical problem with the digital transfer of the master tapes. Instead of attempting to retransfer the program, they've decided to show a rerun instead. Instead of the first time a Swedish band sings in Swedish on US TV. Upset? Email maria.ridbrink.raud@tv4.se your thoughts.
I am shocked that the US loves Dungen so much. Firstly, the album "Stadsvandringar", originally released on Dolores in 2002, will be given a US reissue on October 4 via Astralwerks. I guess the two labels must like each other after working together on Caesars/Caesars Palace. Oh, and Pitchfork has a new live review posted as well: http://www.pitchforkmedia.com/features/live/d/dungen-05/
Splendid reviews the US release of Dungen's acclaimed "Ta det lugnt": http://www.splendidmagazine.com/review.html?reviewid=11241023641118029
Here's a ton of new North American tourdates for Dungen:
09/14 - Maxwell's, Hoboken, NJ
09/15 - Bowery Ballroom, New York, NY
09/16 - First Unitarian Church, Philadelphia, PA
09/18 - Black Cat, Washington, DC
09/19 - Grey Eagle, Asheville, NC
09/20 - Cats Cradle, Carrboro, NC
09/21 - Drunken Unicorn, Atlanta, GA
09/23 - Mary Janes, Houston, TX
09/24 - tba, Dallas, TX
09/25 - Emos (outside), Austin, TX
09/27 - Modified, Phoenix, AZ
09/28 - El Rey Theatre, Los Angeles, CA
09/29 - Casbah, San Diego, CA
09/30 - tba
10/01 - The Independent, San Francisco, CA
10/03 - Doug Fir, Portland, OR
10/04 - Neumo's, Seattle, WA
10/07 - 400 Bar, Minneapolis, MN
10/08 - Empty Bottle (2 shows), Chicago, IL
10/09 - Magic Stick, Detroit, MI
10/10 - Grog Shop, Cleveland, OH
10/11 - Lees Palace, Toronto, ONT
10/12 - La Salla Rossa, Montreal, QUE
10/13 - Middle East (downstairs), Boston, MA
10/14 - tba
10/15 - Bowery Ballroom, New York, NY
10/16 - Bowery Ballroom, New York, NY
Check out Dungen's video for the song "Panda": http://dungen-music.com/flash/