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I recently obtained the new Elliott Smith “New Moon” cd’s and it probably goes without saying how much this music meant to me and still does. It’s great to hear some ‘new’ songs from him.

Below are not from New Moon but are still pretty hard to find songs…

Elliott Smith (live) - Strung Out Again (early version)

Elliott Smith (live) - Shooting Star

Elliott Smith - Tiny Time Machine (instru.)

PREORDER NEW MOON HERE. BUY OTHER RELEASES HERE. CHECK OUT MORE MUSIC FROM THESE ARTIST HERE. BACK TO HOMEPAGE HERE.

Hello all, good weekend? Mine hasn’t been too bad. Recovering from jetlag and sleeping in all weekend. Mmm, tasty. Here’s a Sunday morning song. Hope you like. Have a great day.

Coldplay - Stop Me If You Think You’ve Heard This One Before (Live - The Smiths Cover).mp3

I haven’t been putting this off. At least, that is what I keep telling myself. I went to Sweden for 10 days, 3 of those days, my friend Mark was there and 6 of those days, Chris Milk was there. While we were there, Milk received only one call from Kanye West. That’s it.!

This post will mostly be about my trip, music and at least, two mentions of hot dog related things.

Below is a picture, Chris took of me and my friend Anna at like 5am while he got ready to pack to go home. This is what I call a cool photo of me looking like hell…

(I’m the tattooed drunk one.)

Like usual, a quick list of some things about Stockholm, (also check out HERE, if you missed the first post from STOCKHOLM):

A. it’s a long flight. you fly over Iceland. Iceland. You can see lil Bjorks running around below you, screaming in Icelandic wearing Swan dresses. it’s a long flight.

B. the H and M’s in Stockholm kick ass. they have shit they’d never have in the US ones.

C. You can buy real Viking killing masks in Stockholm and if you are born with real Viking genes, the mask will fit you and only you, like pulling Excalibur out of the stone. (see below.)

D. There is no reason to prove that you can drink by saying, “Yeah, I can drink anything. Bring on the snakebite, it can’t be that bad.” Wait, it’s vodka and what? Pepper sauce? (see below)

E. If I was in Black Sabbath circa 1972, which I often believe I am, I would have suggested this be our next LP cover, (think of all the groupies you can sacrifice to the Metal gods on this hill!):

F. I was in Stockholm for ten days. I’d say out of those ten days, I had 2 meals that were considered Swedish. Below is an upclose picture of one of those meals. This particular appetizer, includes, eel, an egg, cavier, toast and onions. It was, surprisingly good.

G. If you take one thing away from you from this POST, please whatever you do, don’t buy this late night treat, ever!

H. Stockholm is in short supply of great rock n’ roll bars that are open late, if anyone would like to invest in one with me, please contact me. We would make a fortune.

I. The Swedish love hot dogs. Ok maybe they don’t but they love when Americans get drunk and scream ONE KORV!

J. Sweden has a lot of lovely people and places. Below are a few of those people and places.

K. a few Swedish Songs? Why not.

Konie - Are you OK?

Isolation Years - Landslide

Last Days of April - Whos on the Phone

Jose Gonzalez - Crosses (live)

Feel free to COMMENT below.

BUY THESE RELEASES HERE. CHECK OUT MORE MUSIC FROM THESE ARTISTS HERE. BACK TO HOMEPAGE HERE.

Without further ado, some new music, new love and new things…

A. NEW MUSIC: Check out some dissonant English music here, One more Grain, think James Chance or maybe Gang of Four possibly… One More Grain - Tropical Mother in Law .

B. SEE THIS SHOW TONIGHT? TODD P AT HIS BEST:

====> FRIDAY 4/27 - 10PM @ SILENT BARN <====

:: AFTER PARTY 4 LIGHTNING / ARKESTRA!

:: Deerhunter
:::: Awesome Color
:::::: Dirty Projectors
:::::::: Black Moth Super Rainbow

[ SILENT BARN ] aka Raven’s Den aka Club Krib, 915 Wyckoff Ave @ Hancock | Ridgewood/Bushwick,

QNS/BKLYN L-Halsey or M-Myrtle/Wyckoff | later - 10pm | all ages | $8

C. I recently got back in touch with an old friend, who is now doing well as an Artist in the NW, please check out Tim Dalbow’s art HERE.

D. NEW MUSIC: check out Azeda Booths song: Azeda Booth - Landscape (with Grass), for fans of Eftkerlang and maybe Panda Bear. Very pretty.

E. NEW MUSIC: check out Contramano - TV Reality, this Talking Heads led by a Cello.
Pretty fun stuff…. Contramano - TV Reality .

F. Three new Panthers songs at I HEART MUSIC HERE.

G. LISTEN TO WHY MOST WHITE RAPPERS ARE BETTER THAN SHAMROCK HERE>

H. Justin Timberlake and 50? WHA?>

Swedish updates next. HOW EXCITING!

Swedish psych rockers, Dungen are back off the success of that awesome album that I can’t pronouce (there’s a song called ‘Panda’ which is all I can really translate- it’s about a bear), with another album that I can’t pronouce that typed out looks like this “Tio Bitar”. Seems like he might have been trying to say “Tivo Bit my Guitar”.

Anyway, these guys rule hard. Check out an mp3 from the upcoming album:

MP3 - Familj

Dungen on Myspace

I’m a part of a filmmaking collective called Burn Hollywood Burn. We’re a bunch of friends who are all in the film/video business and decided it’s time to make some fun shorts together. We’ll screening our first film ‘Karl’ this Sunday at Arlene’s Grocery at 7pm. Come check it out. It’s $5 to get in and there will be drink specials. No, not drinks that took the short bus to school, but drinks that are priced more modestly than normal drinks.

To recap:
Burn Hollywood Burn Presents:
‘Karl’
Sunday April 29th - 7pm - $5
Arlene’s Grocery - 95 Stanton btw Ludlow and Orchard

www.bhbcollective.com (coming soon!)
www.myspace.com/bhbcollective

I suck.  Swedish pictures before the end of the weekend.  Ill be back soon.  Miss you all.

For all those HEROES geeks out there.  Check out the fake campaign site for Nathan Petrelli HERE.

Hejsan everyone, I am on my way home from stockholm, (I stayed HERE) and have some great music, pictures and stories to share.

How about we meet up here sometime tomorrow and we’ll catch up?

some quick links till we speak:

Scott CAMEL Campbell gets his moment in the NYTIMES HERE .

music news here and 31knots gets crushed here, take a swim here .

Ok people need to run.   Wish me a safe flight …  more soon.

hej då .

As you may have realized, we freaking love Menomena. The Portland trio has recently finished their first tour of ‘07 and apparently had such a great time they are ready to do it again.

Here are the dates:

April:
28         Walla Walla, WA           Whitman College

June:
1          Seattle, WA                  Neumo’s
2          Vancouver, BC               Red Room

With All Smiles:
6          Eugene, OR                  WOW Hall
7          Sacramento, CA            Blue Lamp
8          San Francisco,              The Independent
10         Visalia, CA                    Cellar Door
12         Los Angeles, CA            Troubadour
13         Pomona, CA                  Glass House
14         San Diego, CA               Casbah
15         Tucson, AZ                    Solar Culture Gallery
16         Phoenix, CA                  The Clubhouse
19         Austin, TX                     The Parish
20         Houston, TX                   Walter’s on Washington
21         Dallas, TX                     Granada
22         Lawrence, KS                The Bottleneck
23         Omaha, NE                   Waiting Room

July:
13         New York, NY                Seaport Music Festival
15         Chicago, IL                    Pitchfork Music Festival
22         Troutdale, OR                Edgefield (w/ The Decemberists)

Then as you may have read on Menomena’s TOUR BLOG they stopped by Juan’s Basement while in New York and taped a live video of their smash hit “The Pelican”.

Check it out HERE!