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Lykke Li

    Review: Lykke Li at 6th and I Synagogue

    Lykke Li wants to be a rapper.
    I didn’t want to believe it at first. My boy told me about Lykke rapping at dive bars in Brooklyn and I couldn’t even picture it. But after Saturday night’s show it’s more than obvious that this is the case.
    First and foremost, however, Lykke Li is a Swedish [...]

    February 3, 2009 No Comments

    New Music: Peter Bjorn and John – Nothing to Worry About

    Peter Bjorn and John – Nothing to Worry About
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    Most of y’all might know PB&J (er, Peter Bjorn and John), from the track “Young Folks,” off of their album Writer’s Block,  or from the fact that Bjorn produced the top 10 album (IMHO) from Lykke Li. Well, the trio is [...]

    January 9, 2009 2 Comments

    Best of 2008: Top 50 Albums of 2008

    I’m an old soul. I’ve been reading reports about how the album format is dead, and that more and more people are choosing to buy a couple of singles from iTunes than cop a full album from your local mom and pop record store. Times have changed, and I’m sure that writing is on the [...]

    January 5, 2009 14 Comments

    Best of 2008: Best Remixes of 2008

    With falling prices of music production software, more and more people are creating tracks, post it on MySpace or zShare, and calling it a remix. In 2008, the internet was clogged with a variety of “remixes”, ranging from hipster-hoppers rhyming over indie rock beats to apiring DJs and producers trying to put their mark on [...]

    December 23, 2008 4 Comments

    N.A.S.A. ft. Kanye West, Santogold & Lykke Li – Gifted

    N.A.S.A. ft. Kanye West, Santogold & Lykke Li – Gifted
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    Lykke Li is a goddess. I haven’t posted about her (or my love for her) that much on this blog because I thought she would be a little bit to hipster for the hip-hop heads, but today I’m coming [...]

    December 11, 2008 5 Comments

    Video: Lykke Li – I’m Good, I’m Gone

    Lykke Li is yet another artist that proves that Sweden is running things right now. Lykke Li is like a combination of Feist and Bjork and “I’m Good, I’m Gone” is a single off of her Europe-only album, Youth Novels.

    myspace.com/lykkeli
    And yes, MTV needs to make a new category called Weird Ass Videos for the VMAs [...]

    April 23, 2008 No Comments