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First Aid Kit: Swedish Americana

For many, the introduction the Swedish sisters Klara and Johanna Söderberg of First Aid Kit came via their YouTube cover of the Fleet Foxes’ “Tiger Mountain Peasant Song.”  read more

Catching Up With I'm From Barcelona

With their impossibly sunny debut album _Let Me Introduce My Friends_ in 2006, Sweden's I'm From Barcelona burst onto the scene like an army of smiling, handholding purveyors of happiness on unicycles.  read more

Daniel Craig to Star in Girl With The Dragon Tattoo

Sweden may be far ahead of the US in their filmmaking schedule, having already completed the second and third installments of the Millenium trilogy films, but they certainly don’t have James Bond in any of them. Daniel Craig, best known for his lead role in the last two Bond films, has just signed on to play investigative journalist Mikael Blomkvist in the first film of the American version of the Millenium trilogy, the film adaptations of Steig Larsson’s crime novel series....  read more

The Year's Greatest Musical Obscurity

We make no secret about our affection for the music of Sweden. And lately, one artist in particular has been making us giddy. The “band,” or whatever, is called JJ and we know almost nothing about him/it/them, though we prefer to imagine the act as a boy-girl duo like the Eurythmics. In any event, JJ’s 2009 album jj n° 2 (whatever that means!) is probably the year’s greatest obscurity. There are at least nine reasons to buy this album, because there are nine songs, none of them bad. So join us as we go track-by-track in an attempt to...  read more

Sunn O))): Real. Comfortable. Jeans. (And Drone Metal.)

Move over, Brett Favre; there's a new face, er, sound, in jean advertisements. Sunn O))) is being featured in an ad for Norwegian jean company Anti-Sweden. ...  read more