Robert Svensson - 1991

The video for the new Robert Svensson single "1991" is now online: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GCE2o0eCCNQ
This is my favorite song from the album.

Top 10s for 2008: It's a Trap! (albums)

Top 10s for 2008: Magnus Öberg (Nomethod)

Robert Svensson has just been confirmed as support for our next It's a Trap! Clubnight on December 19 at Debaser in Malmö! Awesome!

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

01. Tomas Halberstad - Travel as I wait
02. TALK 1
03. Robert Svensson - 1991
04. Auton - El Dorado
05. Parken - Jag har varit vilsen, Lisa
06. TALK 2
07. Tiger Lou - Trust falls
08. Promise and the Monster - Night out
09. Park Hotell - Black hole
10. TALK 3
11. Sort Sol - Excalibur
12. Convoj - The shovel
13. Satyricon - Black crow on a tombstone
14. On Volcano - Out of sight
15. TALK 4
16. Hello Saferide - Anna
17. Him Kerosene - Ventilate
18. Tobias Hellkvist - Ships of the North Atlantic
19. TALK 5
20. Division of Laura Lee - LAX
21. Oskar Schönning - Nino casino
22. Haust - Success
23. TALK 6
24. Passiv Dödshjälp - Helvetet, tur och retur

Reminder: my show airs every week on Sundays and Mondays at 11pm ET on Sirius XM U. That's channel 26 on Sirius, 43 on XM and 831 for DirecTV subscribers.

Look for Robert Svensson's next single "1991" to be released in late November/early December along with a new video and a bunch of b-side remixes.

The video for the excellent new Robert Svensson single "Young enough" (ft. Markus Krunegård) is now online for viewing: http://vids.myspace.com/index.cfm?fuseaction=vids.individual&videoid=43939786

Robert Svensson
Young punks are on the never-never
Nomethod

There is something endearingly vulnerable and honest about Robert Svensson's music, a quality that carries through in waves on even the thinnest guitar sound or simplest of keyboard arrangements. This sincerity attracted me to Svensson's other project Mixtapes & Cellmates and, while elements of that band bleed over into his solo project, "Young punks are on the never-never" is a far more personal collection of songs, thus amplifying the very attribute that attracted me in the first place. Pair that with a stellar lineup of musical guests -- Markus Krunegård of Laakso, Adam Olenius of Shout Out Louds, Jejo Perkovic of The Bear Quartet, and Japan's Cokiyu -- and you have one of the very best albums of the year. Robert Svensson crafts some of the most original music coming out of Sweden, positioning himself as an equal alongside most of the bands one could claim influence him -- a point strongly evidenced by those who appear alongside the young songsmith on his debut solo album. Whether he croons along with Markus Krunegård on "Young enough", a track that opens like a Tom Petty creation before being assaulted with rather Scandinavian assemblage of instrumentation; raises his fantastic voice over the dance floor-ready heights of the appropriately titled "1991"; or whirls about on the choppy, far too short "Young punks", it's as though Robert Svensson can do no wrong. Since I didn't give 10s to either Aerial or Shout Out Louds, the acts who produced my two favorite albums of 2007, I can't very well give Robert Svensson a 10 here... but I am damn tempted to.
- Lars Garvey Laing-Peterson

The new Robert Svensson (Mixtapes & Cellmates) album "Young punks are on the never-never" is streaming at myspace: http://www.myspace.com/robertosvensson
Also check out the new Nomethod Live video series for some clips of him performing acoustic: http://vids.myspace.com/index.cfm?fuseaction=vids.individual&VideoID=43462235

Live music at PSL with Robert Svensson (Mixtapes & Cellmates): http://blogg.svt.se/psl/2008/09/26/musik-med-robert-svensson/

Check out trailer #2 for the upcoming Robert Svensson album "Young punks are on the never-never": http://www.youngpunksareonthenevernever.se/

Despite the forthcoming release of frontman Robert Svensson's solo album ("Young punks are on the never-never", due out October 1 via Nomethod), Mixtapes & Cellmates will be back in the studio, Gröndal to be exact, on January 26 to record their next record.

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

01. Midnight Choir - Will you carry me across the water?
02. TALK 1
03. Anna Maria Espinosa - Everyday
04. I Are Droid - Sevenfold
05. Paavoharju - Kevätrumpu
06. TALK 2
07. I'm From Barcelona - Music killed me
08. Marit Bergman - All that I ask of the morning
09. Ef - Thrills
10. TALK 3
11. Hello Saferide - Anna
12. Freddie Wadling - Running madly backwards
13. Tobias Hellkvist - Vintervarm
14. TALK 4
15. Scraps of Tape - Vibrancy
16. Oskar Schönning - Stoner
17. Elias and the Wizzkids - 24
18. TALK 5
19. Robert Svensson - Young enough (ft. Markus Krunegård)

Reminder: My show on Sirius Left of Center (channel 26) airs Sundays at 11pm ET with repeats on Monday at the same time.

Nomethod has posted an e-card for the new Robert Svensson (Mixtapes & Cellmates) solo album "Young punks are on the never-never": http://www.nomethod.se/
Go there to hear a streaming preview of the whole album.

The new solo album from Mixtapes & Cellmates frontman Robert Svensson "Young punks are on the never-never" is confirmed for release in Scandinavia on October 1 via Nomethod Records with Japan to follow on September 3 and Europe + North America to follow later on. Check out a short trailer: http://www.youngpunksareonthenevernever.se/
Nomethod is also giving away Robert's new single "Young enough", a duet with Markus Krunegård (Laakso). The official release isn't until September 20, but go ahead and grab it now: http://www.nomethod.se/rs_feat_krunegard_youngenough.mp3