Swedesplease – The Swedish Music Blog

Indie Surfer Blog has a song from Santa Maria. They claim the record is forthcoming. Does that mean a US release for this record, one of the best Swedish releases of the year?

Are you sick of Little Dragon yet? Me neither. Have You Heard has a couple songs.

If:MV has the new remix single/video from Robyn.

The folks behind the rise of Sally Shapiro continue to keep her front and center via remixes, video and tour dates. The latest is a remix and tour dates in NYC and Chicago (hey! I live there!!). How’s The Pie? breaks the news and links to “He Keeps Me Alive” (Brooklyn Vegan has the remix of “I’ll Be By Your Side”).

(This Is Auto Chop by Evah Fan)

5 Acts has some nice tribal electronica from Rigas.

Big Stereo has some rather bland music from The Touch but the discussion in the comments is worth the visit alone (more from The Touch here and here).

I mentioned this earlier in the week but I’m still liking Yellus via Phase 2.

Eardrums has something new from Pascal, as always, I’m impressed with this group.

Filles Sourires, a blog from the Netherlands, sums up Lykke Li quite nicely.

(Happy Birthday by Daniel St. George)

For a very short time Discobelle had a cover of Robyn’s “With Every Heartbeat” performed by Annika Norlin and Anna Järvinen.

Milk Milk Lemonade has the two new songs from the only band toiling away in the sub sub genre known as “vulgar twee” – Strip Squad.

Muzzles Of Bees has news of The Bell, one of the first Swedish releases coming out in 2008.

(Ascension by Ala Ebtekar)

Amidst all the Christmas songs and year-end-best-of-lists a few daring souls actually wrote about music this past week. Here’s a sampling.

Lines Through Lines has three songs from Swedish rock underdogs Surrounded.

Gorilla Vs. Bear wishes us Merry Fucking X-mas with a new song from Air France.

MOKB seconds my belief that Little Dragon is hot. (Look for my own profile on the band Monday)

Eardrums has “Oh Holy Night” by Detektivbyran.

Electro Rash has news/mp3’s of a Love Is All remix album.

My Little Ghost Friend has a song off the new “spacey, melodic, shogazey” Ep from Afraid Of Stairs.

Indie Mp3 has the new single from The Honeydrips.

The Devil Has The Best Tuna has a couple of songs from Stockholm based “glum rockers” The Bell, he says RIYL Echo & The Bunnymen, The Church, The Lemondrops etc.

Sometimes I feel I could start a second Swedish music blog and have it all be death metal except that that’s about the one genre I can’t tolerate. However the band Witchcraft is not quite that heavy; Crustcake has a song from the new record.

Radio Sidekick has a Christmas song from Komon that gracefully combines twee and lofi electonica.

Indie MP3 has the new single from The Honeydrips.

(Mel Kadel, “Up Your Sleeve”)

Raven Sings the Blues confirms my feelings about the new Tenniscoats album, as well as doing a good job of describing the music, something I failed at in my original post.

Eveyone’s writing about Indurain. Here Hits In The Car piles on.

So you want to get linked here, just write something nice about Maia Hirasawa and you’re in like Flynn. Aurgasm throws his hat into the ring this week with a link to the song “Crackers”.

Radio Sidekick has their year in review type thang and since the blog is based in Sweden and the writers do a radio show at the local college it’s pretty chock full of Swedish music tips.

What I said about Maia above holds true for Billie The Vision and Dancers as well. So congrats to This Odd Sock they get the grand prize – linkage for one and my humble thanks for writing about such a cool band.

You Crazy Dreamers has new songs from Christian Kjellvander. Brilliant as always.

Big Stereo has the 8-bit influenced dance music from Tobiah.

Man it’s getting a little old linking to Discobelle every week but it’s hard to avoid with tracks like this from Sumo (feat. Juvelen). (p.s. hey guys, can’t you host the songs yourself instead of using YSI and Zshare?)

What Became Of The Likely Broads has a new song from The Bridal Shop, a tiny indie band that I profiled a while back but one that I can’t get enough of.

Hits In The Car has lovely indie pop from Tellus About The Moon (HITC also featured music by Pet Politics this week).

(”Away From Her” by Brian Gibb)

Some Velvet Blog has a sampling of songs from Bedroom Eyes.

Indie Mp3 – Keeping c86 Alive has a couple of songs from the free ep by Josse (comparable to Hello Saferide, El Perro Del Mare).

Too Much Apple Pie has both The Dreamers and Action Biker.

In case you missed the recent flurry of activity over Lykke Li, Disconap sums things up nicely here.

Radio Sidekick aka Postverket has a nice mashup of Familjen’s “Birds”

(Blaine Fontana’s “Truthkeeper”)

Missing Toof brings the punk rock noise and electronic remixes of Sweden’s greatest punk band – The Refused.

As Montt Mardie’s biggest fan I can’t resist linking to Discobelle who links to a Montt Mardie cover of Rihanna’s “Umbrella”.

A Plague Of Angels discovers the music of Friska Vijor who apparently recently discovered the music of Faith No More.

Speed Of Dark revisits the 90’s act Salt who have aged quite nicely and don’t sound that out of place in the 00’s.

(Oscars Grass by Melanie Pullen)

The buzz is coming fast and furious for the newest Sweden export Lykke Li. She’s impossibly over-hyped at the moment. What Became of the Likely Broads has the video of her first single “Little Bit”.

Trainspotter has more remix goodness from Sweden’s Studio.

Obscure Sound gives us a lengthy and comprehensive review of TTA.

My Little Ghost Friend shares two songs from the indiepop darlings The Margarets.

Arjan Writes shares the group Artymove’s cover of Lo-Fi-Fnk’s song “Steppin’ Out”.

(Qaupen Speider by Heidi Johansen)

Stereogum keeps up their fascination with Robyn with a post on a new remix of her song “Handle Me”.

Idolator finally jumps on The Tough Alliance bandwagon about a year late.

The Catbird Seat discovers a lovely band called Al, Marc, and Sally.

The Finest Kiss gives us his impression of three of my favorites: Timo Raisanen, Ida Marie, and Park Hotell.