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The Swedes continue to invade America as charm-pop specialist Jens Lekman stopped by the Fonda Theater in Hollywood in support of his latest album, I Know What Love Isn’t. Lekman was in good spirits, congratulating the audience on the Obama victory and injecting his usual anecedotes before some songs. Fellow countrywoman Victoria Bergsman provided support [...]
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Jens Lekman: – “Erica America”
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After a long time away, the great Swedish indie-popper Jens Lekman returned last year with his An Argument With Myself EP, but he still hasn’t released an album since 2007′s Night Falls Over Kortedala. He’ll finally follow that one up in September with the just-announced new LP I Know What Love Isn’t. The ...
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Jens Lekman: – “I Don’t Know What To Do With This Information”
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Swedish indie-popper Jens Lekman recently recorded an acoustic in-studio session for BBC Radio 1. During the session, Lekman played three new songs, including recent favorites “Waiting For Kirsten” and “I Want A Pair Of Cowboy Boots.” But the real news is that Lekman led off with a typically pretty new tra...
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Jens Lekman: Watch Jens Lekman Debut A New Song Live
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Last week, Swedish indie-pop wonder Jens Lekman played Chicago’s Lincoln Hall and played a new song, one he didn’t deign to name. It’s a characteristically sparkly number that opens with the line “I’m a 42-year-old woman, 6’1″ with a wooden leg” and he played it as a...
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Jens Lekman: Stream Jens Lekman An Argument With Myself EP
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The Swedish indie-pop truth-teller Jens Lekman has been quiet in the game for altogether too long, and now he’s finally just about ready to release his new EP An Argument With Myself, his follow-up to the 2007 album Night Falls On Kortedala. We’ve already posted the title track, and now the entire EP is streaming [...]
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America: Black Cab Sessions Come To America, Film A Doc
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The most notable of the La Blogotheque-spurred school of highly situational, highly intimate music performance and interview video pieces often came from London’s Black Cab Sessions, which spent a good couple of years being a wellspring of interesting bits with all manner of bands — from Brian Wilson to to Jens Lekman (singin...
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