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Music for One Apartment and Six Drummers

[youtube]w1UpHUN2PEM[/youtube] The 2001 short film Music for One Apartment and Six Drummers by the Swedish duo Johannes Stjärne Nilsson and Ola Simonsson of Kostr Films. Kind of reminds me of this iconic scene from Jeunet and Caro's Delicatessen. [youtube]Ocf0R4gMJ4I[/youtube] You…

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AKA Firefox AK

Richard SimmonsThis is not a plea to download Mozilla Firefox. If you are still using Interneural Exploder as your main browser you are probably not reading this anyway. (Really, though, download Firefox. It’s good. While you’re there, get DTA to go with it.)

Nah, this is a petition to prepare yourself. A petition to prepare yourself for summer. So find your flip-flops, grab your goggles, and get ready for some euro pop fireworks from sweat-inducing Swedes The Knife and Firefox AK.

We’re going to get messy this summer.

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A Timely Reminder Of All That Runs True

So as my father-in-law would say, I have three days and a wake-up before I fly to Scandinavia. Starting off in Helsinki and then taking a boat across the Baltic to Stockholm, I don't suspect the weather will be any…

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Cuts Like The Knife

So I'm heading to Scandinavia at the end of the month and I'm trying to tease my palate with some tasty Swedish and Finnish pop in preparation. I've been nibbling Nicolai Dunger, chomping on Club 8, and partaking in Pelle…

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Swedish Delight

Sweden has put out some great, reliable, and, yes, often twee, pop music. And for some reason (accessibility?), most bands sing in English better than even the Dutch. Over the past 5 years, some of my favorite artists have come…

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