My friends at Lollapalooza

Just wanted to post a few links to all the bands that are playing the Lollapalooza.
I will be playing on friday, August, 1:st.


Radiohead

Kanye West

Love and Rockets
The Black Keys
Mark Ronson
The National
Explosions in the Sky
Stephen Malkmus and the Jicks
Amadou & Mariam
Girl Talk
Jamie Lidell
Spank Rock
Duffy
The Go! Team
Yeasayer
The Weakerthans
Black Kids
Dr. Dog
Kid Sister
What Made Milwaukee Famous
Manchester Orchestra
The Octopus Project
De Novo Dahl
K’naan
Your Vegas
Bang Camaro
White Lies
Innerpartysystem
DJ Bald Eagle
Witchcraft


Rage Against the Machine

Wilco

Gnarls Barkley
Broken Social Scene
Cat Power
G. Love & Special Sauce
Brand New
Dierks Bentley
Blues Traveler
CSS
Butch Walker
Brazilian Girls
The Kills
Mason Jennings
Grizzly Bear
Booka Shade
Black Lips
Nicole Atkins & the Sea
Office
Does It Offend You, Yeah?
Foals
Cadence Weapon
Noah and the Whale
Serena Ryder
Eli “Paperboy” Reed & the True Loves
The Blakes
Magic Wands
The Postelles
Krista
We Go to 11


Nine Inch Nails

The Raconteurs

Bloc Party
Flogging Molly
Lupe Fiasco
Sharon Jones & the Dap-Kings
Gogol Bordello
Okkervil River
The John Butler Trio
Battles
Mates of State
Chromeo
Rogue Wave
The Gutter Twins
MGMT
Santogold
Louis XIV
The Ting Tings
The Cool Kids
The Whigs
Uffie
Ferras
Margot & the Nuclear So and So’s
Newton Faulkner
Steel Train
Tally Hall
Electric Touch
The Parlor Mob
Ha Ha Tonka
Sofia Talvik

Check out http://www.lollapalooza.com/ for tickets and more information.

Beautiful Bass

It’s been a hectic week to say the least. I decided to skip one of the songs for the album (as everybody thought it was horrible except me, haha) and had to choose and record a new one. I decided for yet another song with the word “shoe” in the lyrics and probably will have to rename the entire album to “shoes” now 🙂 .We decided not to put Baby, eeerr I mean Anders, in the corner anymore (as he was forced to be there during the recordings of the last album, that studio simply wasn’t big enough for him and his bass) so we even gave him his own room this time. Check out the video here:

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I’m nothing but truly impressed of the way he nailed all these songs in just six hours. We rehearsed a few of them for the gig at Landet and the radio gig last week but there were several he never heard before and he did brilliantly! Even the song “Holding your hand” which he renamed “the Zappa-song” because of all the half times hidden in it. Being unrehearsed may not be the ultimate way of doing it but I must say it does add a kind of nerv that you don’t get if you know the songs too well.

Anyway, next week we’ll be recording Marcus and his guitars, yep he’ll be doing both acustic and electric this time. And I’ll record the last song for the album (no shoes in that one), which I have to do in the studio where we recorded the bass, because I have to play and sing at the same time.

In the meantime, listen to a sample from “I won the first price tonight”

take care now and I’ll see you all next week.

The studio
Me as the true technician.. press "rec" press "stop"... Jonas, behind the camera, did all the real work.
No wonder we had to give Anders a bigger room, we couldn't even fit him into one frame...
It's a kind of magic: the other halft of Anders
Now here's the big picture! With a bit of a distance we managed to get all of him. Isn't it beautiful, well it sure sounds beautiful!