US tourdates for Jens Lekman:
10/23 - Jake's, Bloomington, IN
10/25 - Black Cat, Washington, DC
10/26 - First Unitarian Church, Philadelphia, PA
10/27 - Webster Hall, New York, NY
10/29 - Paradise, Boston, MA
11/01 - Beachland Ballroom, Cleveland, OH
11/02 - Logan Square Auditorium, Chicago, IL
11/03 - Triple Rock Social Club, Minneapolis, MN
11/06 - Nectar, Seattle, WA
11/07 - Someday Lounge, Portland, OR
11/09 - Bimbo's 365 Club, San Francisco, CA
11/10 - Troubadour, West Hollywood, CA
Pitchfork has some new details on the forthcoming Jens Lekman album "Night falls on Kortedala", due out in Scandinavia on September 5 via Service and elsewhere on October 9 via Secretly Canadian: http://pitchforkmedia.com/article/news/44418-inight-fallsi-on-new-jens-lekman-album
Also note that there's a new Arthur Russel cover EP on the way via Rough Trade on the way in late August.
This week's It's A Trap! Last.fm listening group top 10 albums of the week:
01. Death Cab for Cutie – Plans
02. The Pipettes – We Are the Pipettes
03. The Shins – Wincing the Night Away
04. Patrick Wolf – The Magic Position
05. The Postal Service – Give Up
06. Bloc Party – Silent Alarm
07. Shout Out Louds – Howl Howl Gaff Gaff
08. Arctic Monkeys – Favourite Worst Nightmare
09. Shout Out Louds – Our Ill Wills
10. Jens Lekman – Oh You're So Silent Jens
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This week's It's A Trap! Last.fm listening group top 10 artists of the week:
01. Shout Out Louds
02. Interpol
03. Feist
04. Belle and Sebastian
05. The Smashing Pumpkins
06. Jens Lekman
07. Bloc Party
08. The White Stripes
09. Death Cab for Cutie
10. Laakso
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This week's It's A Trap! Last.fm listening group top 10 artists of the week:
01. Justice
02. Interpol
03. The Arcade Fire
04. Jens Lekman
05. Coldplay
06. Death Cab for Cutie
07. The White Stripes
08. Radiohead
09. Bloc Party
10. Shout Out Louds
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This week's It's A Trap! Last.fm listening group top 10 artists of the week:
01. Shout Out Louds
02. Interpol
03. Justice
04. Feist
05. The White Stripes
06. Jens Lekman
07. The Arcade Fire
08. Death Cab for Cutie
09. Laakso
10. Modest Mouse
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The new Jens Lekman single has hit the mp3 blogs: http://jcoscarelli.blogspot.com/2007/06/you-know-weve-got-your-back-like.html
Service Radio is now up and running: http://www.srvice.com/radio/
The new Jens Lekman track is #3.
The new Jens Lekman single "Friday night at the drive-in bingo" will hit Swedish airwaves soon and will also be available for streaming from Service starting on Wednesday. Look for a 7" in July b/w the exclusive track "Radio NRJ" and a new full-length album on September 5.
VapnetNo rest for the wicked! After giving us the best album of last year ("Jag vet hur man väntar"), Vapnet have now "done an Arctic Monkeys" and released a mini-album (hopefully they will do another "Arctic Monkeys" and release their second full length album this year as well). There are five proper songs on the album - one The Avalanches-like number, and an instrumental outro (which I guess is a version of "Tjernobyl") There is also a song sung by Jens Lekman, which I didn't like at first, but has started to grow on me. The other four songs are of the highest quality. "Tjernobyl" sounds like a song I would consider doing one of those audio tattoos of, in my ear, if those things existed. "Förtjäna mig själv" ("Deserve myself") is another knockout track, with classic Vapnet lyrics and a girl going "baa-ba-ba" in the background during the chorus. I think I love Vapnet more than ice cream.
- Simon Tagestam
The tracklist for Montt Mardié's forthcoming double album "Clocks/Pretender":
Clocks:
01. In which we meet the clocks and a song is reveled (Too many songs unwritten)
02. Set sail tomorrow
03. Birthday boy (drama)
04. I will write a book
05. Let's get away from it all
06. 1969
07. Travelers
08. The windmill turns all the same
09. How I won the war
10. In which a sailor returns and we say good-bye for now (Set sail tomorrow)
Pretender:
01. Surprised (with Andreas Mattsson)
02. Metropolis (with Fredrik Hellström of Le Sport)
03. Once I was so in love that I followed (with Bobby Baby)
04. Castle in the sky (with Jens Lekman)
05. Hurry home (with The Legends)
06. Daughters (with Peder Stenberg of Deportees)
07. Hacienda (with Christian Zellinger)
08. När vi gett dom våld ska vi ge er kärlek (with Vapnet)
09. Grand Prix finals (with Mr Suitcase)
10. Pretenders (with Hello Saferide)
As mentioned before, it comes out April 18 via Hybris. Buy the first single "The windmill turns all the same" and download a free track here: http://tinyurl.com/yoo7nl
Pitchfork on the new Vapnet single with Jens Lekman: http://www.pitchforkmedia.com/page/forkcast/41690
There's a brand new Vapnet song on myspace featuring guest vocals from Jens Lekman: http://www.myspace.com/vapnet
The track will appear on the forthcoming MCD "Något nytt dåligt har hänt" to be released on April 4 via Hybris.
