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What the hell’s the matter with these kids? Three clean cut neatnicks making completely fuzzed-out fucked up garage punk psychedelic noise of the sort that used to occur when Seeds and Stones listening kids couldn’t get drugs and had to make do with too much pizza and soda pop to get their minds off their raging hormones and boredom. I don’t know what the Tonebenders have been listening too, “Iwannawannawannawanna root beer!?” This sort of derangement usually sounds contrived but these geniuses take their passion and make it happen with fuckin’ style to spare! – Dr. Dante (aka Jello Biafra)/Maximum Rock N Roll 1996
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Real Garage Punk from Sweden 1966!
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Artist: V/A: LSD, Klunk’s Klan, WWH, Staffan & Martin
Label: Subliminal Sounds
We where the bands that played in the shadows of the big local bands ( in this case bands like Beathovens, 14, MT Else, etc). These bands in turn had to settle with playing in the shadows of the bands that where established all over the country, like Tages, Shanes, Namelosers and others. We where the bands that really did practice in basements and garages and whose equipment consisted of all kinds of gathered things, assembled from old radios, speakers and amplifiers. The drum sets would today only be good for display in a museum somewhere. The height of a career could be not having to play as first band in one of the many frequent pop shows that where held almost all weekends at different locations in the province. One important ambition was to get together a repertoire that lasted long enough for a school dance, 25-30 songs. That these never had more than three chords each was a matter of style. If there were more, then it was jazz. To tune the instruments with any sort of precision was considered snobbish. We were mods, and we where the first generation to declare war on the adult world and its values. We have had many followers. The pop shows in Vadstena where magnificent events. The days before the concerts was a very exiting time for us mods and others interested in music. The order in which the bands would play was discussed and there were intense speculations about what new songs could be expected to appear on the repertoires of the featured bands. -If Beathovens a...
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LIFE ON EARTH! BECOME PROVINCIAL! By public demand Life on Earth! releases the live favorite Blomkraftens Frukt (Flower Powers Fruit) as a single! Last year was eventful for Life on Earth! with the release of A Space Water Loop and two trips to the U.S. and fine gigs in cities like Portland, New York and Brooklyn, and odd places like the cowboy/artist town of Marfa, Texas and under the red wood-trees at the classic Henry Miller Library in Big Sur, California. But the stone rolls on, and now we will release a single to chart new directions, for a while, we become Liv på Jorden! Now we release the hedonistic crowd pleaser Blomkraftens Frukt. Digitally, of course, but also as an exclusive vinyl singles in only 499 copies. And since we go from English to our beloved mother tongue; Swedish with this release, we also see it fit to engrave the social realistic self-employed anthem Knegareliv on the flip. But that’s not all! As an extra bonus, we are also add the story of Harald Hårfäste and Hassan-i Sabbah. This triple combo of songs can illuminate the darkest corners of the winter. Perfect both at the late winters party starters as well as the club's dance floor, but also as a comfort for the hung-over afternoons endless brooding or if the week seems too long and boring. Do not miss this unique offer to be happy and feel good for the rest of your life!
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12” E.P. release for the bands 2009 North American tour . The blistering track that stretches out the unique unedited almost 15-minute long "Samtidigt" which originally appeared in a much edited shorter form on last year's 4 album. This opens up a new horizon with mindblower guitar pyrotechnics from Reine Fiske’s ax on fire.
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The Amazing fell far from the tree. Empowered but not defined by the successes of previous output; the various members of Dungen, Anna Jarvinen and Sagor & Swing that make up the group are far too depth-full to be called a side project; much to immediate in their pursuit of ingenuous thoughts to be labelled super. The Amazing, instead, is a natural process: coming together through affection, then slowly crystallizing into a folk-rock- psych-pop- collective slowly pushing, bending then playing with any preconceived notions of pop. Already receiving unanimous critical acclaim in Sweden, their debut album is an all-encompassing sonic soundscape of groovy electric folk rock, psychedelic pop and airy acoustic ballads. The core musicians in The Amazing are - Christoffer Gunrup (Swedish singer/songwriter extraordinaire ex Granada), Reine Fiske (lead guitar wizard in Dungen), Johan Holmegard (drummer in Dungen and Life on Earth!), Fredrik Swahn (prominent Swedish multi-musician in Dreamboy, Anna Jarvinen) - with the intimacy permeating through the collection intensifying itself steadily in the music they produce. Take a track like "Deportation Day," or "The Kirwan Song," swimming idly through the groups twisted melody, yet luminously anchored by Reine’s astral guitar – plucked endlessly higher. Elsewhere the likes of "Dragon" and "Romanian" forgo interstellar for a more bucolic revelry, built upon acoustic laments and a vocal ripple that could only have spread itself outwards from...
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Lisa Isaksson grew up in a small town on the outskirts of Stockholm where she spent most of her time in horse stables dreaming of becoming a riding teacher and owning her own stables. When she wasn’t with the horses she was drawing and spending time on her own in the garden and fantasized about the future. As Lisa grew older and discovered music the drawings and horses soon turned into song lyrics and it wasn’t long before Lisa had rescued her mother’s old guitar from a life in the attic and began experimenting with her voice and songs and began exploring recording techniques with a 4-track recorder. Through the years her love of music continued to grow and she started performing with friends and eventually forming the band Piu together with her school buddies, Lisa’s debut record was a single released in Scotland in 2007. The single got a lot of good reviews and Lisa & Piu gave a couple of concert on the British Isles as well as home in Stockholm. They also came to perform with the British folk musician Roger Wootton who led the legendary acid folk band Comus during the early 1970s. The performances went so well that they were released as a live album. As summer came and turned Sweden into a green and pleasant place again the core of Piu; Lisa, David, Joel and Anders went to a small cottage in the beautiful archipelago north of Stockholm. They arranged and rehearsed the music and also had a lot of fun on the cliffs enjoying the endless sunsets of midsummer. So started the...
