With every other music blog and their brother writing about Swedish music (note this week’s blogasm about the new video from The LK) it’s getting harder to bring you the newest/best/original Swedish music. That’s been the intent of this blog since the beginning. But lately bands like Lykke Li, Sally Shapiro and The LK are getting coverage left, right and center for every (bowel) move(ment) that they make. The bands and the music are by and large the same great stuff but the amount of coverage and the press machine working in the background has really grown out of control.
My answer is to do the same that I’ve always done and that’s focus on Swedish music that is deserving but not overhyped, unusual but not contrived, and experimental but grounded in pop.
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The Beat From Palookaville are a ska, r `n’ b, jump blues, early rock and roll outfit from Stockholm. They’re a band out to have a little fun, a couple of pints and maybe earn enough $$ for gas. I expect that the live show is a sweaty mess of dancing bodies, blurting horns and full of hepcats and greasers from the mean streets of Stockholm.
So here’s an mp3 from rehearsal with the band doing an acapella thing sans instruments:
Plus two live videos of the Skariffic band, The Beat From Palookaville, in action:
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