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Leif Karate(Audible Actions)
Leif Karate never really knew they were talented musicians and never had a clear musical destination, it all just happened. Great music found them, not the other way around. The special sound, the essence, is squeezed out of the mix from the 5 members battling with melodies. Leif Karate’s songs have been featured on WB’s One Tree Hill(twice), Fox’s Inconvincible and MTV’s The Hills. The debut album “Let’s back the wrong band” was released in early 2005(Scandinavia), it wasn’t that good due to label fuck-ups, but Television’s Richard Lloyd played a crappy guitar solo on one of the songs and that’s something to tell your grandchildren!
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Hägga (Audible Actions)
Mikael Häggqvist AKA Hägga is a really strange dude from northern Sweden who loves to party and write melodies extraordinaire. A lot of wine, unemployment and an eight track tape recorder named Brenda have resulted in two self-released records with great reviews back in Sweden. His live show is a blast and he always manages to get the audience and the press with him. I think he’s got some weird kind of socializing skills because this guy make friends/fans all the time, whether it’s the good looking girl in the corner of the pub or the angry drunk outside 7eleven.

The Soft Eyes (Instant Feelings/Massproduktion)
The Soft Eyes are Linda Hörnqvist, Johan Sigerud and Daniel Värjö, all of them involved in bands like The Concretes, Marit Bergman and my Orchard. Soft Eyes have been around for a couple of years and creates bad-ass minimalistic pop. The debut album was released in 2005(Scandinavia) and includes guest performances from Maria Eriksson(Concretes) and musician/producer Jari Haapalainen(Camera Obscura, Frida Hyvönen, Ed Hardcourt, T(I)NC…).

The Grand Opening (Tapete)
John Roger Olsson recorded an album at various locations in Stockholm during 2005 and 2006. With the help of producer Linus Larsson (Peter, Bjorn and John, Nicolai Dunger, Bear Quartet…) he created songs that hover between melancholy and greatness, songs that Elliott Smith would have loved. German label Tapete Records released "This Is Nowhere To Be Found" in Europe in early 2007 which resulted in a lot of great reviews and a lot of touring, when the band plays live as a 3-piece, magic fills the room.

New Audible Actions-connected stuff from Sweden:

www.myspace.com/sevenfeetfour
www.myspace.com/foldingafirehose
www.myspace.com/willgambolasing
www.myspace.com/yamonyamon
www.myspace.com/leonwalls

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