Are you sitting in your bedroom and wondering about whatever happened to bands like The Cranberries or The Cardigans? If so wonder no longer because the Belljars will provide you that jolt of indie p...
Here’s a couple new songs from The Heart Sick Groans. I like the band’s slightly retro sound as well as their consistently upbeat demeanor. A Bossanova With This Casanova If The Canary St...
I haven’t heard of this electronic pop band Kids yet. Have you? It’s shockingly good. Well produced, hd video, appealing artists etc etc. Sure there a few cheesy moments in the single ...
The guys from The Bland Band emailed me their new song/video today. It seems from the band’s name and their description of themselves (“A modest little band) that they have a self confide...
I got an email from a Swedish artist named Victor Sandström with news of a new song. I wrote about his last project Sandstream about three years ago (here – song called “Teenage Love̶...
Here’s an update to a band I wrote about back in 2009. At the time they were a punk three piece called Tyred Eyes but they seem to have grown to a quartet by adding a female presence. Their sou...
Click the play button icon to listen to individual songs, right-click on the song title to download an mp3, or grab a .zip file of the whole 36-track compilation here. ARGENTINA: Zonaindie Nubes En M...
I like the dudes in Vampyramidan. I don’t know what in the hell they are singing about and from the video they seem a little strange but I like `em. Here’s their new single “Svek...
Tim Schmidt is a favorite of Swedesplease. In fact he’s a bit of an obsession. At the moment he’s preparing a new album titled Dog to be released in Februaury on Just Like Records. This i...
A day late and a Krona short but here is the best music from around the world for the month of December. Click the play button icon to listen to individual songs, right-click on the song title to dow...
**12/14/2011 Update** Here’s another nice version of “Last Christmas. This time by Natalie Sandin, a singer-songwriter who is starting to lean electro/synthy. Last Christmas **12/6/2011 U...
Here’s a digital single released by the label The Snake by the band Seabisquit. The song is called “Psychic Secret”. They’re calling it lofi folk trip hop. It’s a little...
If your idea of Swedish music is something exotic like Lykki Li, First Aid Kit, Little Dragon, and/or Jens Lekman the music of Let’s Say We Did might surprise you. On the whole the new record h...
Pal is Albin Johansson from Mälmo. And his new EP Weeks is one of the better things I’ve heard in a while. On the whole it’s a mellow, dreamy lofi electronic pop. The release date is Dec....
I believe I’m the worldwide expert on Klifton Filente (posts here and here). With that said I really know very little about him. The band is really just Jonas Lundvall from Gothenburg. In the p...
Click the play button icon to listen to individual songs, right-click on the song title to download an mp3, or grab a .zip file of the whole 35-track compilation via MediaFire. ARGENTINA: Zonaindie F...
Loving this Vit Päls video for the song “Loving You Was Crazy Shit”
Halina Larsson is an ex-pat from Sweden who has lived in LA and now resides in Brooklyn. She’s got a diverse sound and a variety of influences including Janis Joplin, Nina Simone, Erykah Badu, ...
A day later and a krona short but here is the October edition of MAP (Music Alliance Pact) Click the play button icon to listen to individual songs, right-click on the song title to download an mp3, ...
I really loved the songs I heard from Johan Hillblom a year ago. And I know a lot of you did as well as the post I wrote on his music is one of the most popular on the site. Well Johan is back, sort ...
Apparently there is a cute little video game called Ilomilo that is all the rage. On top of that apparently there is a soundtrack to the video game that is also all the rage. Well now here comes the ...
Here’s a little indie folk a la Sufjan Stevens courtesy of Gothenburg’s Claes Strängberg. Tomorrow Dear
I went through all my emails and links and bandcamp and soundcloud files and this is the only thing with any energy and any sense of being real that I could post today. Hardcore and punk should be im...
To download all 35 songs in one file click here ARGENTINA: Zonaindie Hernán Martínez y Las Estrellas – Revolución En Verano Hernán Martínez was the man behind Voltura, a magnificent but rather ...
The one man Stockholm based band Teenhäze has a three song ep that has just been released; a full album is in the can and ready to be released should a label sign him. Labels – SIGN HIM! I̵...
More electronica, this time of the space age variety; trippy and interstellar. What begins with a muted Miles Davis solo quickly becomes a diaspora of synthy beats, weird samples, and otherworldly ch...
Summer’s over and everyone’s back to school and back to work. So while Swedesplease has been a little quiet I hope that will end now. Let’s start it with some twisted electronica fr...
John Hawks is back with Tape #2. And that’s not a hipster reference to cassette tapes; this is actually a tape with hiss and a bit of flutter. A Bible In The Thorns P.S. Swedesplease was mentio...
It’s been over a year since I wrote about the band Vampyramiden (here). And they’re still serving up strangely appealing Swedish language indie pop. And what a great EP cover. The new ep ...
Turn Off Your Television haven’t even released their debut self titled record yet and somehow they are already being compared with Grandaddy, Avett Brothers and Belle and Sebastian. I’m n...
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