This week's It's a trap! Last.fm/Audioscrobbler listening group top 10 albums of the week:

01. Tiger Lou - The Loyal
02. The Arcade Fire - Funeral
03. The Postal Service - Give Up
04. The Knife - Silent Shout
05. Hot Chip - The Warning
06. Neutral Milk Hotel - In the Aeroplane Over the Sea
07. Belle and Sebastian - The Life Pursuit
08. Junior Boys - So This Is Goodbye
09. David & the Citizens - Stop the tape! Stop the tape!
10. The Knife - Deep Cuts

Top 10 tracks for the week:

01. Yo La Tengo – Beanbag Chair
02. David & the Citizens – 48h
03. Peter Bjorn and John – Young Folks
04. Yo La Tengo – I feel like going home
05. I'm From Barcelona – We're From Barcelona
06. The Knife – Silent shout
07. TV on the Radio – Wolf Like Me
08. Junior Boys – Double Shadow
09. Yo La Tengo – Black flowers
10. Marit Bergman – No Party

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Marit Bergman has added a few new songs to myspace: http://www.myspace.com/maritbergman

This week's It's a trap! Last.fm/Audioscrobbler listening group top 10 albums of the week:

01. The Radio Dept. - Pet Grief
02. The Knife - Silent Shout
03. The Knife - Deep Cuts
04. The Arcade Fire - Funeral
05. Mew - And The Glass Handed Kites
06. The Postal Service - Give Up
07. Thom Yorke - The Eraser
08. Of Montreal - The Sunlandic Twins
09. Tiger Lou - The Loyal
10. Hot Chip - The Warning

Top 10 tracks for the week:

01. The Rapture – Pieces Of The People We Love
02. Irene – Little Things (That Tear Us Apart)
03. Peter Bjorn and John – Young Folks
04. Marit Bergman – No Party
05. The Plan – Walk for gold
06. Laakso – High Drama
07. Mando Diao – Killer Kaczynski
08. The Knife – Silent shout
09. The Radio Dept. – It's Personal
10. Isis – Dulcinea

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Consequences will do double-duty on the upcoming Marit Bergman tour, not only performing as her backing band (well, most of em anyway), but also helping to open the show along with Steso Songs.

This week's It's a trap! Last.fm/Audioscrobbler listening group top 10 albums of the week:

01. Thom Yorke - The Eraser
02. Tiger Lou - The Loyal
03. The Arcade Fire - Funeral
04. The Postal Service - Give Up
05. The Knife - Silent Shout
06. Mew - And The Glass Handed Kites
07. Radiohead - Kid A
08. The Radio Dept. - Lesser Matters
09. Bloc Party - Silent Alarm
10. Camera Obscura - Let's Get out of This Country

Top 10 tracks for the week:

01. Marit Bergman – No Party
02. Tiger Lou – Until I'm There
03. Thom Yorke – harrowdown hill
04. Timo Räisänen – Fear no darkness, promised child
05. Kasabian – Empire
06. Tiger Lou – The Loyal
07. Tiger Lou – Nixon
08. Arctic Monkeys – I Bet You Look Good on the Dancefloor
09. The Lovekevins – Happy Happy
10. Mew – Apocalypso

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Download The Field's remix of Marit Bergman's "No party": http://www.zshare.net/audio/marit_bergman-no_partythe_field_remix-mp3-67k.html

Fluxblog follows in my footsteps with a post on the new Marit Bergman single "No party": http://www.fluxblog.org/2006/08/all-demons-recognize-him.html
Don't forget to read my interview with Marit from last week: [click here]

This week's It's a trap! Last.fm/Audioscrobbler listening group top 10 artists of the week:

01. The Knife
02. Radiohead
03. Death Cab for Cutie
04. Tiger Lou
05. Camera Obscura
06. The Beatles
07. Johnny Cash
08. Sufjan Stevens
09. Belle and Sebastian
10. Peter Bjorn and John

Top 10 tracks for the week:

01. Marit Bergman – No Party
02. Kazakstan – Julien
03. Tiger Lou – Until I'm There
04. Camera Obscura – Lloyd, I'm Ready to be Heartbroken
05. I'm From Barcelona – Collection of Stamps
06. I'm From Barcelona – Treehouse
07. I'm From Barcelona – We're From Barcelona
08. The Knife – The captain
09. The Postal Service – Such Great Heights
10. The Knife – Silent shout

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Marit Bergman's new website is up and you can now preview clips from every song on her new album: http://www.maritbergman.net/
Don't forget to check out the interview I did with her last week and also note that her new single "No party" is still available for download on the right.

Interview: Marit Bergman

MP3: Marit Bergman - No party

Not only do I have a new interview with Marit Bergman posted today, but I've also got an mp3 of her latest single for download. You excited? I sure am! I've been a fan of Marit for a long time now, ever since her first solo album "3.00 am serenades" from 2002. As I've reminisced here many times, our paths crossed briefly when I was on tour with KVLR at SXSW in 2003, but I never got the opportunity to see her play. This site was still in its infancy back then, so I was just some nobody trying to play the part of a tour manager. So enough nostalgia - let's talk about "No party", the single. It's a bit more downbeat in tone than I expected, but just as hooky as ever. Even though I might've been looking forward to something more bright and cheery, I suppose this probably works even better for the season as summer is ending and we'll soon be slipping into fall. The annual series of festivals is wrapping up, so it won't be long until there really are no more big parties to go to, right? I can certainly relate - it's been just over a year since I've relocated here to Oly and I still don't know that many people. It's liberating in some ways, but also lonely at times. No doubt most people have been there at one point or another. Let all gather 'round the stereo and sing along with the bittersweet chorus, shall we?

Marit Bergman - No party

Marit Bergman's brand new single "No party" is streaming on myspace: http://www.myspace.com/maritbergman

Swedish indie act Consequences, a band whose members some of you might recognize from Marit Bergman's backing group, will release their first-ever official single "Release me from love" on September 22 via Bow Music. The album will follow in October and samples should be online soon, once it is mastered.

Marit Bergman's new album "I think it's a rainbow" will be released on September 6. The first single "No party" comes out July 31. The record was self-produced by Marit and longtime collaborator Åsa Jacobsson along with the always-fab Björn Yttling (Peter, Bjorn and John, Montys Loco, Caesars, etc.).

Some new livedates for Bobby Baby, including a batch of shows in Germany:

06/30 - Alsters Herrgård, Karlstad w/Thomas Denver Jonsson
07/06 - Norrköping w/Marit Bergman
07/07 - Shemusic festival, Malmö
07/14 - Patsy Soundsystem, Stockholm
07/22 - Kaffe & Konst, Malmö
08/16 - Schokoladen, Berlin (GER)
08/17 - Grüner Jäger, Hamburg (GER)
08/18 - Das Bett, Frankfurt (GER)
08/19 - tbc, Berlin (GER)
08/20 - Salon Elitaer, Kassel (GER)