Tonight, Swedish pop crooner Jens Lekman is performing in Toronto at The Music Gallery. I'm quite excited to finally get the opportunity to see him perform live. The last time he swung through Canada he performed at Wavelength and also did a Soundscapes instore, but unfortunately I didn't attend either. At the time, he also made a special guest appearance at a Republic of Saftey show(which I did go to) but he only contributed background vocals on one song. Guelph-ites yesterday had the sweet luck of seeing Jens Lekman who had been added, apparently at the last minute, to The Hidden Cameras/Spitfires and Mayflowers bill at Club Vinyl.(Stillepost, how did the show go?) I pondered yesterday afternon and evening about driving down to Guelph but decided not to go. So it comes down to tonight. I will be there no matter what. Mr. Lekman, have a great show. (Yes, he looks a little down in the photo, but I hear he's much happier in person.)[original photo from www.jenslekman.com]Adrian is Rad reviews Jens Lekman's show from October 30, 2005 in San Francisco at Bottom Of The Hill and also has an mp3 of Jens' song "The Opposite of Hallelujah" for your downloading pleasure.
Purely unconfirmed so far, but Ken Taylor says that he's been told by a friend that Jens Lekman is moving from his native Gothenburg, Sweden to San Francisco. I find this interesting if only for the fact that this could mean more frequent North American touring for Jens!
Bradley's Almanac has an mp3 of Ted Leo performing "Sons of Cain" from a live session at KEXP. And yes, Ted Leo does in fact say in the introduction to the song that the name of the song is "Sons of Cain", which confirms my guess back in August.
Here's a torrent(registration required) of Stars' live set from this year's SXSW at Emo's in Austin,Texas on March 17, 2005. [via Arts and Crafts Broken Telephone forum]
(Oh, sorry for the late post. This should have been up earlier in the afternoon, but Blogger was on the fritz(again).)
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