Here is the It's a Trap! listening group top 10 artists of the week, unique to our group:
01. Tiger Lou
02. Anna Ternheim
03. Hello Saferide
04. The Soundtrack of Our Lives
05. Frida Hyvönen
06. Jens Lekman
07. The Bear Quartet
08. The Tough Alliance
09. Logh
10. The Fine Arts Showcase
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Sincerely Yours (The Tough Alliance, etc.) have a new video posted online: http://www.sincerelyyours.se/yours0094.html
Feel free to post the artist and song if you know it.
Here is the It's a Trap! listening group top 10 artists of the week, unique to our group:
01. Frida Hyvönen
02. Tiger Lou
03. Hello Saferide
04. Håkan Hellström
05. Glasvegas
06. Jens Lekman
07. Detektivbyrån
08. The Tough Alliance
09. The Legends
10. Anna Ternheim
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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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PopMatters on The Tough Alliance's "The new school": http://www.popmatters.com/pm/review/62461/the-tough-alliance-the-new-school/
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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Pitchfork on the international release of The Tough Alliance's first album "The new school": http://www.pitchforkmedia.com/article/record_review/145119-the-tough-alliance-the-new-school
Sincerely Yours is holding a contest to see who can figure out how many copies of the new Nordpolen CD (out September 24) they will sell: http://www.sincerelyyours.se/yours0088.html
Also announced, the The Tough Alliance's "Neo violence" 12" EP will be out later this month: http://www.sincerelyyours.se/yours0089.html
The Tough Alliance are on the cover of the new issue of The Fader. Go here to download the issue as a pdf: http://www.thefader.com/articles/2008/8/19/the-fader-issue-56-free-download
Also look for a short feature on Studio as well.
The Tough Alliance's debut album "The new school" will receive a North American release on September 9 via Summer Lovers Unlimited, the exact same date that Modular releases it worldwide. As mentioned before, the North American release of their latest work "A new chance" has been pushed back to September 25.
The Modular release of The Tough Alliance's album "A new chance" has been pushed back to September 25.
The international rerelease of The Tough Alliance's most recent album "A new chance" will happen on August 25 in the UK, September 9 in North America via Modular Records. I also hear that the label will be doing the same with Familjen in the near future, but I don't have details on that yet.
Said the Gramophone on The Tough Alliance's cover of "Taken too young" by Taken By Trees: http://www.saidthegramophone.com/archives/greenhouses.php
Pitchfork is premiering the new The Tough Alliance video for "Neo violence": http://www.pitchforkmedia.com/article/download/50711-the-tough-alliance-neo-violence-video-premiere
Also note in the footnote that the group has officially signed an international deal with Modular (don't forget they did those shows with them in Australia just after SXSW), who will be giving their most recent album "A new chance" an international release this fall.
This week's entry in our Göteborg spotlight series has been a long time coming - I first sent The Tough Alliance questions back in late February, but it was only this past week that the stars aligned and their responses formulated and delivered. Here goes...
Why Göteborg? Why not Stockholm? Or London? Or Paris? Or anywhere else in the world? What keeps you there and what makes it special?
Gothenburg gives us enough quiet and peace to focus on our expression instead of drowning in impressions. We don't need to be where "it happens", there's enough happening inside of TTA. In addition to that, our families and almost all our friends live here. And it's by the ocean.
Do you think there's any sort of prevailing sound or attitude in Gbg that differentiates it from other cities? If so, how would you describe it?
Yeah, I know there is. I wouldn't try to describe it though. It's not my job as an artist to do those things, the deeper things that I can tell about Gothenburg is told in my art. It's up to journalists to analyze it if they feel a need to.
Are there any ways that the city directly influences your art? The geography? The weather? Or how about the people, or by extension, the labels, venues, publications or other ventures they run? How does it all come together, for better or worse?
Of course, our art is not an island.
Yes, but you also record and release your own records -- in what ways do you collaborate within your community? For example, your work with The Embassy -- how would you characterize that relationship? Is there any artistic competitiveness between you or is it purely inspirational? Furthermore, are there any local visual artists that you work with/are inspired by?
Not because they are from Gothenburg, but because they are our friends and our expressions seem to entwine anyway. Everything is a competition for us though, art especially. We have certain visual bonds with Frida Meuller, Louise Elmén and Johan Düfke.
Is there anything that Gbg lacks? If you could change one thing about the city, what would it be?
I'd like a proper Ralph Lauren store and a nice place to do illegal parties.
Are there any particular TTA songs that you feel are a direct reflection of the city? If so, please explain.
No, not direct.
Okay, so you have no songs that are directly reflective of Gbg, but what about indirectly? Is there a particular piece you feel would be a proper soundtrack to the city?
No, sorry. It may sound high-flown, but I couldn't chain our art to a geographical place like that. It's the soundtrack to a place we dream about, a place where diamonds never fade away. A soundtrack to reality.
The Tough Alliance - Neo violence